Joshua D. Terry

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

Lies have consequences.

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

For the first time yesterday, I experienced the new @alamodrafthouse QR code ordering system and I can tell you it’s truly awful. Rather than making ordering food and drink more efficient, it actually adds steps to the process AND if you want to order additional items during the film you HAVE to open your phone. No, your cute reference to that irony in your How To Alamo video doesn’t negate how ridiculous this is. Please don’t cut corners with your staff and revert back to physical menus and order cards.

[Ethel Braithwaite @Ethelbrait1941]

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

@kakelso @mrdavidrowe The same. It has been an absolute joy. Thank you.

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

@Andrewnsnyder This is right and good, but we have to be careful dismissing any idea of a ‘canon’. If Tolkien wrote it, it’s canon. If not, then it’s adaptation. Were Rings of Power using discarded ideas from Tolkien’s drafts, that would have some legitimacy, but wholesale fabrication has none.

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

@tolkienthoughts And if Rings of Power made Tevildo their S3 villain, I wouldn’t like it, but I would at least respect it more.

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

@tolkienthoughts Absolutely true. In some ways, the discarded ideas are more revealing of Tolkien’s intent than what he published.

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

@tolkienthoughts Although, I do think it should be relevant Tolkien decided against using Tevildo, the Prince of Cats, in his published works.

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

@tolkienthoughts Surely I’m missing something. Shouldn’t we all be able to agree that whatever the Tolkien ‘canon’ is, it’s limited to what he actually wrote. It’s not like the things people dislike in Rings of Power or the films are items pulled from old, discarded drafts.

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

Got a nice little quote and book rec for @holland_tom in today’s Easter sermon. Traditional service FTW.

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Young people inherited a world where nothing is fixed, nothing is stable, and nothing is sacred.

No wonder they’re converting in droves to the ancient Faith.

[silmarillion quotes bot @silmarillionbot]

Thereafter often [Lúthien] came to [Beren], and they went in secret through the woods together from spring to summer; and no others of the Children of Ilúvatar have had joy so great, though the time was brief.

[Tom Ough @tomough]

Hard times create bespoke Chesterfields. Bespoke Chesterfields create good times.
Good times create soulless Ikea benches. Soulless Ikea benches create hard times.

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

The Oxford comma is the only thing standing between us and sheer barbarism.

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

@OAlexanderDK @dcsandbrook

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

@dcsandbrook @TheRestHistory @youngsm1th Doesn’t seem like quite enough beer, if you ask me.

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

@theepicmap Lovecraft Country

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

@mrdavidrowe Everything about this is wonderful. Thank you and merry Christmas!

[Joshua D. Terry @JoshuaDTerry]

O holy night!
the stars are brightly shining;
It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining,
Till He appeared
and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of hope—the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks
a new and glorious morn!