Jimmy Clark

Writer, dog person, former Co-Master of all Giggities, theology

[Jimmy Clark @JimmyThescribe7]

Fun doesn't need Reason. But Reason calls Fun. Fun is like a date that only thinks of itself. It didn't stop to ask how Reason felt.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Two young French Catholics decided to make a very literal statement about the Christian heritage of France 🇫🇷✝️

Wearing full medieval-style armor, they hiked through the south of France carrying a large wooden Cross they had built themselves, with the goal of bringing it to an iconic medieval castle and placing it there as a public symbol of faith.

They explained to me in private that they wanted to show that Christian France is still alive, and that there remains a younger generation willing to identify openly with the faith, its history and the civilization it helped build.

France may be far more secular today than it once was, but its Christian roots are still everywhere: in its cathedrals, monasteries, pilgrimage routes, saints, monuments and history.

And apparently, in two young men willing to hike in plate armor carrying a Cross up to a medieval castle.

Christian France is alive.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The great mistake of the modern world is the assumption that symbols and stories are not “real,” and therefore have nothing to teach us. If you study the hard sciences but neglect to read myths, folktales, epic poems, your knowledge of reality is distorted at best.

[Jimmy Clark @JimmyThescribe7]

Why America's Foreign Wars Are Worse Than You Thought https://t.co/PXhYBBdYNI via @YouTube

[Pillars of the West @cultrfaith]

@CatholicFQ Our hearts are restless until the rest in thee - St. Augustine

[d4doome @d4doome]

I was never convinced by the “internet as an information superhighway” thing. If you’re really interested in a subject the internet is useful for pointing you in the direction of the right books. And it has made it easier to obtain said books if they happen to be out of print.

But the real informations is to be found in those books, not the internet.

[Jimmy Clark @JimmyThescribe7]

https://t.co/Llq90N3fq7

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

In three hundred years no one will remember anything that’s been posted on social media, but they will continue to read, and enjoy, Homer and Dickens and Jane Austen and George Eliot and the Tale of Genji.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

In an age of idiocy and distraction, anyone who reads epic poetry, memorizes monologues from Shakespeare or learns phrases in Old English is a kindred spirit. It takes courage to keep the love of learning alive when the whole world conspires to snuff it out.

[Magister Iācōbus @latinedisce]

The gaslighting is real

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

Bill Maher: I don't believe in God.
Me: cool.
Bill Maher: Israel was promised to the Jews 3,000 years ago.
Me: by who?
Bill Maher: by God.

[The Mighty Dud Bolt @mightydudbolt]

In the original 1974 rough draft of Star Wars, the young hero's father has become a cyborg, with most of his body literally replaced with android parts. Halfway through the story, he sacrifices himself for the others and reclaims his humanity.

Meanwhile, Prince Valorum, the proud Sith Knight who has been hunting the heroes for the entire film, realizes at the end that he himself has metaphorically become an android by allowing himself to become the lackey of the dishonorable Imperial generals. He decides to switch sides and free the young hero, redeeming himself in the process.

The core themes that Lucas is talking about here did, in fact, exist all the way back in the original script. As the story developed, Lucas combined and changed various characters until he arrived at the version we ultimately got. In interviews like these, he is simplifying things for a general audience that doesn't know the full history of the story's development. But all this other information can be found in "The Making of Star Wars" by J.W. Rinzler, the text of which Lucas personally approved and released.

To an extent, admittedly, there is also an element of mythologization in the way Lucas condenses the history like this. But what's so wrong with that, really? Especially when he himself also put the real, full history out there for anyone interested in it. I think the people who get so bent out of shape about this stuff, despite having never produced anything of comparable artistic value themselves, are the ones who are really "full of it."

[Brian Niemeier @BrianNiemeier]

Every failed Middle-Earth project has tried copying Peter Jackson instead of adapting Tolkien.

[Jimmy Clark @JimmyThescribe7]

@laisofealdwine I see. Very interesting. Are you part of a specific sect?

[Jimmy Clark @JimmyThescribe7]

@laisofealdwine What is a mythic Christian?

[Rick Worley @bloodoftheland]

John Knoll is a legend for what he's done in special effects, but this is such a dumbass way to look at continuity. Back when people cared about Star Wars, the fact that there was an ongoing storyline wasn't "homework," it was the entire reason people wanted to keep coming back to find out what happened next. It wasn't an impediment to new viewers, either, Lucas' entire concept was to start in the middle of an ongoing serial where you had missed the first chapters so you had to figure it out as you went along. The fact that there was more backstory you hadn't learned about yet also wasn't homework, it was something that intrigued and fascinated people and made them want to learn more. The problem now is that Disney can't count on people having watched what they've done recently or being interested in finding out because none of what they're doing is interesting and nobody cares

[Jimmy Clark @JimmyThescribe7]

@bloodoftheland It was a great video, Rick. Keep it up!

[Jimmy Clark @JimmyThescribe7]

Stranger Gays https://t.co/3HTrxFk4Ug via @YouTube

[Phil Ken Sebben @hundsnus]

Re-titling Lucas Star Wars movies in modern Disney star war style:
- Anakin
- Obi-Wan
- Anakin and Obi-Wan
- Luke
- Luke and Yoda
- Wicket

[Robert Meyer Burnett, Viceroy of Verisimilitude @RMBee]

“Safe, disposable, sci-fi slop. I don’t even know who it’s made for.” Jeremy Jahns

A cogent summation of the entire Disney STAR WARS era. In fact, an entire summation of the ENTIRETY of ALL beloved IP now controlled by Corporations. They don’t know who IP is made for either.

[High King Fëanor - Alpha Chad of Middle-earth @LostHistory9]

Amazon waited for Christopher Tolkien to die before they began filming Rings of Slop.

Jackson and Warner waited for Christopher Tolkien to die before contacting the nepo babies at the Tolkien Estate to obtain more rights.

On behalf of the Tolkien Fandom, screw all parties involved, especially Jackson. Dude sounded spiteful when talking about Christopher.