Post AbOU9Lz13bOv42luym by AT1ST@mstdn.ca
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(DIR) Post #AbORoKkGGUItEdigDY by kaia@brotka.st
2023-11-02T10:35:10.532584Z
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professor just explained if Tolkien was alive today, he'd be member of the Green party.:blobcatgooglytrash:
(DIR) Post #AbOS6XhSpztkcu5t6O by grillchen@brotka.st
2023-11-02T10:38:29.634033Z
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@kaia why would he be a member of a german party? tbf afaik he was a plant nerd, but tbh i stopped associating greens with ecological foo....
(DIR) Post #AbOSj4Ia5KUojXpFUe by Jens_Rasmussen@gleasonator.com
2023-11-02T10:45:27.692306Z
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@kaia Maybe if the Green Party's only issue was environmentalism.
(DIR) Post #AbOT4inqgatsR8mAXw by kaia@brotka.st
2023-11-02T10:48:28.559075Z
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@grillchen I don't think professor meant the German greens.but claiming a pre-Vatican-2 Catholic would vote Green in any country is quite the stretch.
(DIR) Post #AbOTEcW0uzShpd9azY by AT1ST@mstdn.ca
2023-11-02T10:50:50Z
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@grillchen @kaia I'd need a citation that he was a plant nerd - I've heard him described as a language nerd instead.He'd probably be all-in on cryptocurrencies, best as I can tell.
(DIR) Post #AbOTInKyclWiYOywFM by Granwalder@poa.st
2023-11-02T10:51:53.660467Z
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@Jens_Rasmussen @kaia >yes, i care deeply for nature and God's creation
(DIR) Post #AbOTifEjMhbCxWObCa by grillchen@brotka.st
2023-11-02T10:56:35.304916Z
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@AT1ST @kaia here are all kind of quotes from his personal letters “There are of certain things and themes that move me specially. The inter-relations between the ‘noble’’and the ‘simple’ (or common, vulgar) for instance. The ennoblement of the ignoble I find specially moving. I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals”“I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats” (The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, pp. 288-89).https://voegelinview.com/gardening-and-nobility-in-tolkien/
(DIR) Post #AbOU5IfVRHefcqiIDo by grillchen@brotka.st
2023-11-02T11:00:40.867107Z
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@kaia mhh early cdu was quite green in the catholic parts of germany in the 50s/60s afaik.green party uk was only becoming bigger in recent years. i always forget they even exist
(DIR) Post #AbOU9Lz13bOv42luym by AT1ST@mstdn.ca
2023-11-02T11:00:49Z
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@grillchen @kaia "And then Telefomo said 'Well, if we're decentralizing the power among 3 rings for the elves, we should make 7 for the dwarves to HODL, and 9 for men to keep them spreading FUD.', but they were all deceived - for Sauron had a ring that could Moon over all the rest."
(DIR) Post #AbOUKWTmNBBOnqUG0G by lain@lain.com
2023-11-02T11:02:36.991941Z
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@kaia @grillchen voting is for chumps anyway.“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) — or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inaminate real of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could go back to personal names, it would do a lot of good.Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so to refer to people … The most improper job of any many, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”– J.R.R. Tolkien, letter to his son, 1943 (from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien)
(DIR) Post #AbOUSr81U3yLA5HgMy by grillchen@brotka.st
2023-11-02T11:04:56.714119Z
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@lain @kaia i vote, therefore i am
(DIR) Post #AbOWoyLjW4ddpwN2wa by Dicer@poa.st
2023-11-02T11:31:21.404003Z
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@kaia Tolkien would like Uncle Ted more than the Greens
(DIR) Post #AbOrfcQPlAXsGowR16 by lain@lain.com
2023-11-02T15:22:36.414041Z
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@ageha @grillchen @kaia wonder what the IP laws in middle earth are like
(DIR) Post #AbOrfdIIWpeAxw9T0K by grillchen@brotka.st
2023-11-02T15:24:56.761486Z
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@lain @kaia @ageha DRM=Sauron