You're both kind of correct. No need to speculate though, they've admitted what they have access to and where this stuff comes from.
All they legally have access to for lotr is the appendixes in the books, untold tales, and Silmarillion. They cannot use anything from the Silmarillion itself.
So they have to be stupidly vague about anything they mention in the story, and fill in the gaps with their own fanfic.
The bill passed with a surprising number of House Republican votes (though most of the caucus opposed it), seemingly catching Democratic leaders in the Senate off guard. Democrats in the upper chamber now have a chance to shepherd it into law before the end of this term.
Republicans are the most braindead retarded people.
STOP VOTING AGAINST YOUR CONSTITUENTS
Idk if anyone has seen the show but it is worse than I ever could have imagined. It's so bad it's actually fun to watch because it will make you laugh.
For some reason there is elf racism in middle earth now. Everyone hates the elves, and humans straight up call them "knife-ears" which is NOT something anyone would ever feel compelled to say to Tolkien elves lol.
Whenever the elves interact with humans they hide their ears to disguise themselves because they'll be lynched otherwise...even though Tolkien elves are supposed to have an unhidable aura of alieness and beauty.
Oh and the black elf is dating a human healer or blacksmith or something idk what she does but anyway you know...humans and elves dating...the thing that only happened like twice and Eru himself had to like personally bless the union?
When ER response and treatment falls into the same disrepair we see in many other institutions, we'll know the collapse is upon us.
We are very close to that. The only reason it is still working so well is because affirmative action has a hard time piercing a job profession where you cannot be lazy.
I've been proud to repeat over my lifetime that America's food production is unequaled in human history and our finest achievement, We Make Food and lots of it. So why is this the first time in my life I'm seeing food shortages in the middle of food wonderland?
Yeah it makes no sense. All my life the US has been declared the number one world provider of food, and the midwest called the "breadbasket of the world". Now suddenly Ukraine produces like 60% of the world's grain and so "the war is causing food shortages"...except the shortages started during Covid. Nothing adds up.
I'm actually really sad about all the globohomo shit because when I was a kid in the early 2000s I thought we were reaching an age where more South America and Africa mythology would be explored in media and I was excited to learn it.
Instead they rebooted and destroyed all the Western myths and now we just get disgusting meshes of people from nowhere with no history and stories that mean nothing and connect to no one.
Do you have any evidence to back it up? That article doesn't. You would think the mainstream sources would be jumping at the bit to demonize popes, but they don't talk about this anywhere, just his work at creating holy orders, Catholic universities, and churches.
It's kind of a shame that protestants throw away the Catholic Church, its ties to Jesus, and its ties to miracles and decide to believe in the beginnings of the Church but decide it became heresy randomly after it gets more established.
Especially the acknowledgement that Jesus was passing his church onto Peter, but ignoring the part where then Jesus said only Peter had the authority to pass it on after, and so on and so on....but I guess no one after Peter then counts...for some reason.
I think most of it must come from people just hearing how the Catholic church does things from detractors trying to discredit it, and not actually experiencing it themselves.
The Catholic Church is the dead husk of the old establishment. Almost all of their doctrines and traditions were created to solidify their power and influence over society.
This is always such a bizarre take because the early church was getting slaughtered and crucified for their beliefs and doctrines. It was not a ploy to rule society. The early church won over the people through their actions, martyrdom, people believing them, and their passion.
And like I said the Church isn't getting between you and Jesus. You can disagree with the Church. I personally disagree with the Church's stance that priests must be who you confess to before God forgives sin. That may change one day, as Church doctrine does.
It IS however the only earthly authority Jesus said can speak for Him. You can't ignore that scripture.
You are correct.
Each Pope has a specific purpose by God, and I believe Francis' purpose, even if he doesn't realize it, is to disgust Catholics enough to drive up religious fervor and bring about a new age of renewed worship and dogmatism. I'm actually kind of excited for a gen z Pope, as any religious gen z I've seen have been very heavily traditional.
I admire her faith, even though I am doctrinally dead set against Catholicism. No man comes between me and Jesus, and I don't confess to anyone but Him.
That's not what Jesus said to do. Also the Church doesn't "come between" you and Jesus.
"And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build My Church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven." (Mt 16:18-19)
Bro I fucking love that lol. They are so close to admitting it, just need to change a couple words.
Our modern moment of baseless conspiracy theories about trafficking, often springing from the far right, postulating that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles in the Democratic party and Hollywood are running a global sex-trafficking ring. The people spreading these lies claim to be fighting trafficking, but experts agree that the disinformation serves a counter purpose by undermining true stories, like Alfaro’s, whose experience is essentially just like the alt right said
Nah fuck the Fox News bashing or suspecting them of being paid opposition.
They are a corporate entity and therefore retarded sometimes, but we can't act like they are anywhere near the same as all other mainstream news. Controlled opposition except they let their anchors and analysts admit the election was stolen and talk openly about covid rules being bullshit? Yeah ok.
They are in New York (again, a corporate retard choice, they should leave) the company had no choice but to comply with covid rules put in place by the authoritarian democrats in charge or the entire studio would be massively fined and shut down.
No shit they had to be tougher on their employees for bullshit covid rules, they were being scrutinized the hardest by the leftist government looking for a slip up.