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its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.

Thoughts/comments on the recent SSPX excommunication?

I have a theory that if "global warming" and "climate change" really is a thing, it's not because of "carbon emissions", it's because we're turning huge portions of the planet into giant heat sinks.

Maybe I’m just splitting hairs here, but one thing about this that always sticks out to me is how there was this big cultural push to make absolutely sure that minority religions were presented accurately and with care, while all of Christianity gets tossed in a big pile like discarded laundry.

It's a cliché to say that Tolkien's experiences in WWI affected all aspects of his writing, how he wrote about friendship and grief, how he wrote about desolate blasted landscapes. But I wish someone who knows more about Tolkien's military career could help me understand how Tolkien related to retreats. His description of Faramir keeping his people together on the retreat from Osgiliath is one of the best-written sequences in the trilogy, and hardly anyone remembers it. It's about a desperate retreat, and a leader whose presence, whose strength manages to keep it from turning into a rout. There's something very vivid in the descriptions: don't break formation, don't start running or they'll pick you off one by one, keep together, keep moving, hold all of that fear at bay. Tolkien describes that retreat as genuinely heroic, a superhuman act of will, one that exhausts Faramir almost to death, and Denethor still does not accept it as heroic because it's a retreat. It saved men but it lost territory, therefore in his eyes it's a failure.

While I don't know much about WWI, I think it's worth mentioning that Denethor does not regard Faramir's retreat as a failure per se. On the contrary, his entire strategy depends on Faramir leading a slow retreat, and it's Faramir who had reservations.

This is touched on a bit in Bret Devereaux's really good analysis of the whole battle.

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They look like two different guys to me

The thief on the cross gets to paradise. An angel asks him “Why are you here?”

One of my teachers in high school said that technological luxuries become societal necessities over time, and even though he pointed out examples (indoor plumbing, electricity, refrigeration, the automobile, radio, TV) I didn't really get it at the time. I kind of understood on a very surface level, but I didn't really get it.

One of my teachers in high school said that technological luxuries become societal necessities over time, and even though he pointed out examples (indoor plumbing, electricity, refrigeration, the automobile, radio, TV) I didn't really get it at the time. I kind of understood on a very surface level, but I didn't really get it.