J.R.R. TolKee
@Jeremyakee
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Aspiring errant | Books | Psychology | Owner of Keyhole Counseling, PLLC, curator of #doortwitter At your service.
Joined December 2015
There is a concept known as “thin places”, where it is said that the veil between this world and the next is thin. You can sense the numinous around you, even if you cannot describe it. Where have you been that felt ‘thin’?.
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So special was the bond created by the cast and crew of Lord of the Rings that even actors who did not share a single scene together nevertheless formed a connection that decades later still produced this sort of response. The production of The Lord of the Rings was special.
This is deeply moving. The bond from the films were so deep. Life is so much about WHO you get to do it with.
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@TruthinArtwork I felt this a couple of times while I traveled through the region last autumn. One night in particular, alone in a cabin in the mountains on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. Appalachia feels older than most places.
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@amerix You want to know the number of clients I see whose mental health issues are caused by having a father who loves them?: zero. The number caused by having a cold, distant, some might say unattached fathers: ~80% of my caseload.
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Catholic friends, may I ask for your encouragement? I am preparing to tell my parents that I intend to begin the RCIA process beginning in a little over a month, and genuinely have no idea how they will respond.
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*Gets on Twitter and sees Rick Moranis is trending in politics.*
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@rawsalerts Imagine thinking that you are oppressed when you are able to openly disagree with your employer, be in dereliction of duty, still draw a paycheck and incur no repercussions - and in fact be *encouraged and supported* by your employer while doing all of this.
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You're black pilling? George Bailey decided that his life is wonderful and worth living and you're black pilling?
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@DeanAbbott In the immortal words of former Ohio State QB Cardale Jones, "Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play football? We ain't come to play school. Classes are pointless.". He was roasted for this, but there is a lot of reason to the sentiment.
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Forth, and fear no darkness. Requiescat in pace, Bernard Hill.
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@Boomieleaks @jordanbpeterson And if/when Spotify caves to pressure and drops him, he will go back to being everywhere, or will start his own podcast host/network. Rogan is not cancelable. Like Chapelle, to be cancelled you have to care more about what others think of you, than your own integrity.
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“Actually I am a Christian,” Tolkien wrote of himself, “and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though it contains (and in legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory” - JRRT.
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@PrimeVideo Quite literally none of that matches Galadriel as Tolkien wrote her. On a quest for revenge? She served and studied under Melian, who always urged Thingol to practice restraint.
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@jordylancaster @michaelbd God forbid a politician propose a bill that receives genuine bipartisan support.
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“How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”. It has been a very, very long time since I last finished a book and wanted to immediately re-read it. Till We Have Faces occupies a spot on that quite short list. It was beautiful, mysterious, sublime, and moving in ways
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@TolkienWonder You will never convince me that any movie or series has produced so much love and compassion amongst the cast and crew as The Lord of the Rings. Truly a fellowship.
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@Marc_Topaz @CBSNews The Ukraine crisis crucified Christ, caused Rome to collapse, and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, too. It's really quite an impressive crisis.
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@bgcts Though I have never been, I have always got the impression that Japan is filled with thin places. Colorado has its fill. I appreciate that you bookended this with your home and Mass.
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Yesterday I tweeted about 'thin places', and it really struck a chord. So many interesting responses, but more than anything I am encouraged by how sensitive so many are to the numinous. Appalachia seems particularly saturated with echoes and memories.
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@Shresth_ag @jordanbpeterson @h3h3productions Deleted his earlier interviews with Dr. Peterson and made sure all of his Twitter followers knew about it.
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@PrimeVideo The Lady of Light, renowned for her beauty, was expected to be covered in mud? But instead frostbite and troll blood? What are you doing, Amazon?.
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@SpencerGuard I'll play devil's advocate: what if this shot is posed purely to provoke those sorts of thoughts and feelings?.
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That tweet going around from the anon trying to use Pierce Brosnan and his wife as an example of why one should avoid marriage is far and away the saddest and most angry thing I have seen on this platform in a very long time. Pitiful in the sense that the user should be pitied.
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@CamTuff_ @BloombergTV 34 y/o here, same exact sentiment. Graduated college at the very bottom of the last recession, clawed my way out over the next decade only to be dragged back down along with everyone else not in Mr Sumners' contacts list.
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@Variety "Politics are killing people." And the answer is to be *more* political? This is akin to saying, "Heroin is killing people, so we need to all do heroin.".
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Sincerity vs. cynicism. Which will be remembered?. Choose well.
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Til We Have Faces update: I get it. This book is sublime.
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@big_business_ What shocked me the most about Chalamet’s performance was his voice. He is so soft spoken, but when he needs to he can absolutely roar. You look at the dude and would not expect that ferocity to be in there. He proved he is more than a pretty face and excellent hair.
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@EricRWeinstein Math time: of the 39 listed R guests, 11 openly identify at the least as being L-leaning centrists (28%). Remove them to the L, and the R list becomes 28 names, and the L becomes 24. This makes the R/L split 52%/48% - almost the smallest possible majority. The bias is a lie.
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@stephaniejedd Unsolicited advice: don’t blame the fans for not watching your show. Create a show that fans want to watch.
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@RitersOfRohan @sw_holocron Counterpoint: the fan base is responding to bad writing, as it has in the past.
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@zero2beach The lore of the Appalachians is so fascinating. Some of the oldest mountains on earth. Driving through them, one is driving through the remnants of Pangea.
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@MiddleearthMixr The “look what was taken from us” thing is trite and overused but here it is 100% appropriate. This was done without public consent, and we have lost so much - though seemingly little by the cynics - as a result.
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Your last saved celebrity picture is your therapist. Who is it?. I’m going to make it.
your last saved celebrity picture is your therapist, who is it?. I’ll take it. I bet Jeremy would be way better than my old therapists…
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@Mr_Red18k @spideyupdated That is what I’m trying to figure out. Wouldn’t Strange have just been fighting a drone projecting an illusion? Kind of undermines his abilities as the sorcerer Supreme.
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@mariashriver "Women have long been viewed as a threat in the Catholic Church. They are viewed as a threat.". No parish anywhere in the world is without several statues venerating The Virgin Mary, Theotokos, the Mother of God. But sure, it's Catholics that view women as a threat.
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@spencer_vail Sounds like how Tolkien describes Lothlorien in the books: time passes differently there, and it's not by chance.
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@aIIegoricaI Missed opportunity to imitate the black/white checkered pattern. Instead she went for the middle school gym flooring style. Why.
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I am rereading the Harry Potter books and have to say it is funny to think that these books ever became anything like a rallying point for those of progressive or otherwise liberal ideals. I’ll leave it at that.
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For all her faults, I still love her and always will. To be clear, I am talking about England.
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@DeclouxJ I remember the day I heard John Candy died. I was only 5 or 6, old enough to read and understand the headline. I turned to ask my mom how they were going to squeeze him into his coffin. It was, perhaps, not the most respectful comment on a beloved movie star's death.
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@FirstClassCG_ @CFBRep Eh. He left his high school team a year early to enroll at OSU, and he left them after a year. Leaving teams for better offers is Ewers' MO.
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Perelandra update: man, “Weston”, what a bastard. And I had forgotten how horrifying this book is.
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@POTUS Cool! How many Americans are still in Afghanistan? How are we going to recoup the billions in suck costs via military equipment now in the hands of our enemies?.
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“We have come from God and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God.” - JRRT
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Is it ever worth it to be 'the guy' who points out when a popular quote by a beloved inkling is fake?.
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I expect this will turn the tide in the discussion: I stand behind @PillarCatholic. @jdflynn and @canonlawyered - keep doing what you do.
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@DeanAbbott Kentucky been rocketing up my list lately, perhaps more into the eastern reaches of the state, but I am still exploring. But yes, Kentucky does seem thin to me.
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@hubermanlab I was really hoping you would say it's incredibly bad for you and to not do it anymore.
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@Philosophi_Cat Reading the responses, I was struck by this too. The obtuseness is almost admirable for its depth, kind of like looking at that really deep hole your dog dug in the yard.
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'Is it a good?' said the Lady. 'No,' said Ransom. 'How can you find out without trying?' said the Un-Man. 'If you try it and it is not good, said Ransom, 'how do you know whether you will be able to stop doing it?'. Lewis cuts right to the bone.
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@NPR "What will their approach to politics be?". It will start with, "I guess I just feel like. " and wander on from there.
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The world is not near as bad or ugly as your twitter feed may suggest.
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@overrhypocrissy @MrAndyNgo It’s hard to turn around when traffic is gridlocked due to an intersection being shut down for some reason.
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@USATODAY So, rather than making 25 individuals conform to one mode of learning, one person is going to implement 25 different modes of learning? And this is supposed to make things better? . We have lost our minds.
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Saint Charbel Makhlouf, patron of Lebanon, pray for Lebanon. Kyrie eleison.
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@coldxman "In our commitment to abolition, we can never believe police. " They give away the game in the first sentence of the 2nd paragraph. Doesn't matter the truth - they can never believe police. This immediately puts them in league with a lot of really bad things.
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@OU_Football @CoachBobStoops I've never seen a coach departure that caused such an effect that the University had to bring in a previous coach to publicly reassure fans, donors, parents, and prospects that all is well.
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The West is a sort of impossible Beauty that everyone needs to experience at least once.
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For Christmas my parents gave me some money and told me to buy something nice, so I bought my first Barbour jacket. This ain't no Texas jacket.
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“A conservative, as I understand it, are people who are aware of the fact that they have inherited something good - a social order, a political system, a culture, a legal tradition - and they want to hold onto it… to *conserve* things.” @Scruton_Quotes.
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@AuronMacintyre Intensive behavioral therapy coupled with powerful medication? No. Child sex dolls that reinforce the neural pathways that are already warped? Yeah! As we all know, addictive and compulsive behaviors are lessened the more we do them. 🙈🙉🙊.
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@Eternal11th Disney handling this scene would have been like:.- "I have been following you.".- "Why were you following me?".- "I have been sent by the Bene Gesserit to seduce you.".- [Insert forced joke that completely breaks immersion].
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@jakenbake59 @sw_holocron @sariahwilson You forgot to mention Mayfield being suddenly force sensitive and flying through space somehow.
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@CaseyBHead When I was young the only direction I ever considered was west - majestic mountains. As I have gotten older, though, eastward has looked the more appealing. One day I will ramble there.
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Just finished book #22 for the year. YTD I have read:.1-7.) Narnia.8-14.) Harry Potter.15.) Mere Christianity.16.) Screwtape.17.) Problem of Pain.18.) Great Divorce.19.) Till We have Faces.20.) The Intellectual Life.21.) Lifting the Veil.22.) Out of the Silent Planet. On pace for.
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@JoeKoffee One of my favorite Zelda games opens with the following: ."Do you ever feel a strange sadness as dusk falls? They say it’s the only time when our world intersects with theirs. The only time we can feel the lingering regrets of spirits who have left our world. ".
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@VicBergerIV @jordanbpeterson @joerogan @BretWeinstein Are you suggesting that being a "secure man" and crying are mutually exclusive?.
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Everything is broken but books and nature. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
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Re-enchant the world. Start by saying “Near at hand” instead of “nearby.”.
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@mariashriver We have tenfeast days venerating the Virgin Mary. The entire months of May and October are dedicated to Mary. Approximately 21% of our saints are women. A not so careful reading of Scripture shows that women play an integral role in our religion.
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