"One of the more moving stories I find myself returning to is an account of the lives of Sauron and Saruman, who were both defeated in the third age 3019.
Though many still celebrate Saruman’s death (and Sauron’s physical death) and believe the Last Alliance of Elves and Men to be heroes, Sauron was the real working class hero, creating a multicultural army with creatures who’ve had a long history of being ostracised and discriminated against.
We’re inclined to believe that orcs and Uruk hai are evil, unintelligent creatures, but has one stopped to consider that maybe they have chosen darkness as they’ve been forced to live in abhorrent living situations, whilst elves, humans and hobbits prospered?
That maybe Sauron wanted to coat the world in darkness because orcs cannot tolerate the sun, and he’s simply looking out for his bros?
And they too, were both technically fathers, with Saruman learning of Sauron’s secret IVF methods through the Palantir.
Imagine if the Uruk hai were able to read, and could see your memes (though they do seem to know what a menu is??)
And then you have Frodo Baggins, a privileged hobbit whose uncle not only just left him a house but priceless jewellery as well. Are we to expect that he is somehow the hero in this story?
Those details are worth bearing in mind as some people seek to cast his killing as a tale of justified, or at least understandable, fury against faceless greed.
Pictures of Frodo, who played an integral part in Sauron’s demise, have also elicited a fair amount of oohing and ahhing on social media over his obscenely large blue eyes and propensity to wear wigs.
Sauron may no longer exist in a physical form but it will remain a model for how a talented and determined Maia with humble roots as a servant to a dark lord can still rise to the top without the benefit of a generous uncle."
Some links to show how modern circumcision differs in regards to ancient circumcision:
Circumcision: Then and Now https://www.cirp.org/library/history/peron2/
Circumcision in Reverse: https://www.cirp.org/library/restoration/hall1/
In sum: In ancient times, only the bit of foreskin beyond the tip of the glans was removed. The added procedures of "Periah" (which removes the entire foreskin) and of "Metzitzeh" (the sucking of blood from the wound) are rightfully seen as heinous and are in no way commanded in the Bible.
This also brings up the fact that circumcision should not have continued anyway after the second covenant, hence why the apostles did not encourage new converts to be circumcised. Even if it was only the original form of circumcision from ancient times that endured, the simple fact remains that the Bible encourages rather the "circumcising of the heart," thus nullifying whatever religious argument people use today in favor of circumcision.
Considering that Arnold "Screw your freedoms" Schwarzenegger and Madonna are listed there, I wouldn't lend much, if any, credence to that list.
They're reflecting, sure, but instead of thinking to themselves, "Are we the ones in the wrong?," or something along those lines, they're going on about what the dems should have done differently. The bulk of these users admitted that they voted for Cackles knowing full well she was inept only because she wasn't OrangeMan, and they probably still would have voted for Biden knowing full well that the guy was senile. Oh sure, some of them have just realized that reddit was an echo chamber, but they're not going to connect the dots and realize that the media and whatnot has also been doing the same thing. They're not going to take that step and really reflect on themselves; that would destroy their whole worldview. Instead, their whole reasoning is that the left should have been nicer and appealed to more people instead of focusing on Trump and antagonizing anyone who had any semblance of agreement with him. These people still voted for clown world; they still absolutely believe in furthering immorality; and if the election was miraculously held again today, they'd still vote for Cackles. Regardless of their current mood at the moment, I guarantee they'll revert back to screeching and whatnot by the time Trump comes into power come January.
Pretty much this. By all means go out and vote if you want to, but we need to realize that the actual issue at hand is our morally corrupt society; our corrupt government and institutions are merely a reflection of this greater issue. Even if it turns out that Trump was playing his cards close to his chest and merely pretending to go along with certain political and moral compromises to ensure a maximum amount of votes (which brings up the whole question of whether we should appease the godless for votes), that still doesn't change the fact that half of the country actually believes in all the degeneracy and godlessness. The tenets of democracy hold that the voice of the majority and the commons is supreme, so what do we see when that same majority is made up of child-murderers and degenerates, especially when everyone else isn't willing to directly oppose them lest they lose votes? I do hope I am merely over-blowing this issue and that all these concerns will be proven wrong should Trump get elected, but considering that we have seen the major players of the right make political concessions on basic moral questions like abortion, child mutilation, and sexual degeneracy, I do think there is a majority in the nation (outside of the typical screeching leftists) that do sincerely hold to these immoral practices or at the very least tolerate them. If this wasn't the case, then why would these politicians have made concessions in the first place instead of doubling down on their virtues and values?
But then again...
"Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity."
-- Bullet Tooth Tony
And what makes all this sadder is that the majority of the country will still be stuck on the "picking the lesser evil" and "playing the political game" mentality. It's either "BuT soCiaLism" and our "GrEateSt AlLy" from the right or leftists screeching on about "faScisM" and "UkRaIne." Two sides of this same coin. Uniparty. One side promotes abortion while the other side remains silent so as to not lose votes, thus making that side complicit through cowardice. One side condoned the jab while the other (shocker) also condoned the jab, making both guilty of the countless that died because of it. They both support sexual degeneracy, just go over to TheDonald and see how they support Scott Presler and silence anyone who points out one shouldn't associate with degenerates. They both go on about foreign affairs (again either Ukraine or our greatest ally) instead of putting it in stone that our country will come first before anything else, and then proceed to silence anyone that points this issue out (looking at posts like this one for example: https://unscored.arete.network/c/TheDonald/p/1995LqvS4p/).
This has already been said before by many users but votes won't get us out of this situation when you consider that it isn't just the state of the government but also how immoral the country in general has become. We can go on about the uniparty working against our interests, but we must remember that half of the country actually believes in furthering degeneracy and the globohomo agenda. Have we really won when we had to appease the baby-killers, the sexual degenerates, and literally everyone else that is godless under the sun just to get elected? Consider also, as you noted, that all that effort and moral compromises would have been done just for everyone else in power (along with half of the brain-dead populace) making it a thing to sabotage any attempt to get things fixed.
Edit: Lol, this whole topic reminded me of this thread in c/christianity: https://communities.win/c/Christianity/p/199OB3TlKt/50-of-christians-dont-vote-if-we/c/4ZFBMwkFuHI.
One point was whether the 50% of christians that don't vote are lukewarm and cowardly for not voting for a candidate that they don't 100% agree with. But consider this: say someone like Trump doubled down on his stances and completely condemned abortion (instead of dismissing it as a state issue) and made it his thing to return to the nation to its biblically moral roots. He for sure would have gotten more, if not all, christians to vote for him. But he didn't, because he knew doing so would have lost him the votes of everyone else in the country (again bringing up that the real issue at hand is not a question of voting but rather our immoral and subverted country). Let me ask, who is really the lukewarm one here, the person that remains unwavering in his convictions and morals, or the person that will compromise his morals so as to get ahead in the political game? There's a reason a born-again christian, or even simply a moral person, can't get ahead in the political game without making moral compromises. The political game has always been rigged in favor of the morally corrupt; plus, there are other ways to make change in the world that don't revolve on one sacrificing his morals and appeasing the godless.
There's nothing smug about having a basic sense of morals. The fact that many still see it as a matter of politics and "compromising" to make sure the other side doesn't "win" is why we're still in this mess (especially when the only real solution that will fix things on a general level is the type of thing that would get one banned on the internet). What the user you're replying to has been saying is that the real issue is between right and wrong.
The whole voting for the lesser evil thing in politics is a false dichotomy; they are both sides of the same coin. Yes yes, let us see our political choices: the candidate who approves of the murder of the unborn, or the one who stayed silent on it by delegating it as a state issue, knowing full well that addressing it would have lost him votes. The candidate who approves of genital mutilation, or the candidate who approves of genital mutilation (but only as long as the parents approve!). The candidate who supported the poison jab, or the candidate who supported the poison jab. The side that approves of sexual degeneracy, or the side that approves of sexual degeneracy (I'm always seeing posts and comments approving of Scott Presler and his "orientation" on TheDonald nowadays).
The fact that we need to appease the millions of people that approve of the murder of the unborn and all the other degenerate stuff shows that the root issue at hand clearly isn't a matter of politics. I have no doubt that Trump doesn't agree with all the degeneracy, but is only conceding for the sake of votes. But that's the thing; the country is already lost morally speaking when we have to "compromise" and concede to basic moral issues just to obtain a semblance of power, moral issues that our ancestors would have unhesitatingly gone to war over. And what's worse is that these compromises are done for the mere hope of some future greater good, a greater good mind you that will never be permanently assured. I'm not sure about you, but I don't think I could sacrifice on basic moral issues like this knowing full well that God is going to start asking me questions on this stuff one day.
This probably explains why many mirror instances like Invidious and Piped haven't been able to load videos recently.
Exactly. Somehow the vote excuse is worse than every other argument used by raging leftists in favor of abortion. Like that's going to hold up when God starts asking people why they tolerated and voted for the murder of the unborn. "bUt hOw ElsE wEre wE sUpPoSeD to vOte in PaTrioTs?"
Ignorance is one thing, but willingly voting for people who'll keep silent on such an issue is not only cowardice but complicity. Doing so is ceding ground to the immoral leeches in power today only for them to take back what they "allowed" (and more) tomorrow.
It probably is knowing CNN...
"Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you"
Achilles and Patroclus were basically battle buddies in the Iliad, hence their close brotherly connection and the reason Achilles goes berserk when Patroclus dies. The people today that claim they were lovers are simply projecting as per usual. These type of people have clearly never experienced an actual brotherly connection (or even friendship) with someone so all they can think of is "tHeY mUsT hAvE bEeN GaY!" This also reminds me that they also pulled these wacky reasonings with Frodo and Sam in LOTR.
It's the bots again. However, for once they are spamming the same thing under different titles and in different times. The give away that they are bots is that nearly all the posts are made by handshakes as per usual.
This time it's like 20 different posts by different handshakes. Search the titles in the search bar.
Just search the title of these posts in the search bar and see how there's like 8 posts by completely different handshake accounts in the span of like 10 minutes.
Yea, the formatting gets better as the comic progresses. Zooming out on my browser helped with this a bit.
Add .compact at the end of the url to see any pages that give that notification.
More like parasites
I know mate, just posting for fun.