I.L.

Old fashioned gay man.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Tom Bombadil is the most mysterious character in The Lord of the Rings.

He's the oldest being in Middle-earth and completely immune to the Ring's power — but why?

Bombadil is the key to the underlying ethics of the entire story, and to resisting evil yourself...

Tom Bombadil is an enigmatic, merry hermit of the countryside, known as "oldest and fatherless" by the Elves. He is truly ancient, and claims he was "here before the river and the trees." He's so confounding that Peter Jackson left him out of the films entirely.

This is understandable, since he's unimportant to the development of the plot. Tolkien, however, saw fit to include him anyway, because Tom reveals a lot about the underlying ethics of Middle-earth, and how to shield yourself from evil.

The hobbits meet Bombadil early on in their quest, before they reach Bree and the Prancing Pony Inn. He rescues Merry and Pippin from Old Man Willow, and invites the hobbits to stay at his house in the Old Forest.

There, the hobbits realize something strange about him: the Ring has no power over Bombadil whatsoever.

When he wears it, he remains visible. He treats it as a plaything, making it disappear with a magic trick. Indeed, at the Council of Elrond, Gandalf rejects the idea of giving the Ring to Tom, for he would likely misplace it or forget about it entirely.

So just who is he, exactly?

When Frodo asks this very question to Tom's wife Goldberry, she simply responds "He is." It's a cryptic answer that echoes God's famous answer to Moses in the Book of Exodus: "I am who I am."

Thus, many theorize that Bombadil is God, some kind of angelic being, or even the spirit of the Music of the Ainur (due to the fact that he is constantly singing). But Tolkien's letters reveal something considerably more interesting…

In April 1954, Tolkien wrote:

"The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship… but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control.But if you have, as it were, taken a 'vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself… then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless…"

So, Bombadil is a representation of what it means to take pure delight in the world around you — to experience people and things simply as they are, without any thought for what they could be or how you could use them. And this is why the Ring has no power over him.

To Bombadil, the One Ring is simply a ring, and the possibilities of what can be achieved through its power are of no importance. He is able to resist its evil precisely because he is entirely content with the world around him.

At the end of the story, having accomplished what he set out to do in Middle-earth, Gandalf pays Tom a visit before returning to the Undying Lands:

"I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time."

If Bombadil is the epitome of simply enjoying life and being, Gandalf is the epitome of doing. He guides the hobbits, fights the Balrog, and runs up and down Middle-earth to help destroy the One Ring.

But now that he's finally liberated from doing, he immediately heads to Bombadil's. He does so with a sense of relief, as if he's at last able to access a purer and higher mode of being — a sort of innocence that cannot be fully experienced by those consumed by doing.

Of course, by this Tolkien doesn't disparage the value of action. The entirety of LOTR displays the importance of rising up against evil, even in the face of all odds. But with the inclusion of Bombadil, he does remind readers that fighting isn't all there is.

Bombadil reminds us that while it's important to strive and *do*, it is just as important to occasionally step back and *be*. Indeed, your ability to do so plays a crucial role in helping you resist the allure of evil…

Read the full piece here:

https://t.co/aqK2daehIL

The unsung hero of The Lord of the Rings...

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Il faut avoir l'honnêteté de reconnaître le coup de génie de la gauche, parce que c'en est un. Le plus grand hold-up rhétorique du siècle tient en un seul mot : raciste.

Voici le mécanisme.

Après 1945, après les droits civiques, l'Occident a fait du racisme le mal absolu. À juste titre : c'est une de ses plus grandes conquêtes morales. « Raciste » est devenu le mot le plus radioactif de la langue, l'excommunication moderne, la mort sociale instantanée.

Le coup de génie a été de détourner ce capital moral. Pas pour protéger des personnes : pour protéger une idéologie.

L'égalitarisme des résultats ne gagne jamais un débat sur les faits. Il produit l'inverse de ce qu'il promet, partout, à chaque fois. Alors plutôt que de gagner le débat, on a rendu le débat impayable. Tu questionnes les résultats de l'immigration sans assimilation ? Raciste. Tu défends le mérite ? Raciste. Les maths avancées ? Racistes. Les frontières ? Racistes. Le mot a cessé de décrire un comportement pour décrire une position sur l'échiquier.

Et regardez la beauté technique du dispositif. Pas besoin d'arguments : l'accusation suffit. Pas besoin de procès : la dénégation aggrave le cas (votre défensivité prouve votre culpabilité). Pas besoin de police : la peur fait le travail, chacun se surveille lui-même et surveille son voisin gratuitement. Il suffit d'exécuter publiquement quelques exemples par an pour tenir des millions de gens. Une idéologie irréfutable, protégée par un mot imprononçable. Les deux pare-feux du même système : la French Theory avait aboli la vérité, l'accusation a aboli le débat.

Est-ce qu'un comité s'est réuni pour concevoir ça ? Pas besoin. Les idées subissent une sélection darwinienne : celles qui survivent sont celles qui se défendent le mieux. Marcuse avait quand même déposé le brevet dès 1965, noir sur blanc : tolérance pour les mouvements de gauche, intolérance pour ceux de droite. Le reste a évolué tout seul. Il faut l'avouer : c'était génial.

Mais ce dispositif génial avait un coût, et le coût a un bilan. À Rotherham, le rapport officiel Jay a établi que des fonctionnaires britanniques ont laissé plus de 1 400 gamines se faire exploiter pendant seize ans, en partie par peur d'être traités de racistes s'ils nommaient les faits. Relisez cette phrase. Des enfants ont été sacrifiées à un mot. Voilà ce que veut dire idéologie mortifère : pas une métaphore, un bilan.

Et maintenant, regardez ce qui s'effondre sous nos yeux.

Une insulte ne fonctionne que si elle fait peur, et une monnaie ne fonctionne que si elle est rare. Ils ont imprimé le mot comme Weimar imprimait le mark. Quand tout est raciste, plus rien ne l'est. Résultat : des tweets qui commencent par « traitez-moi de raciste si vous voulez » récoltent des dizaines de milliers de likes et l'approbation de l'homme le plus riche du monde. Il y a dix ans, cette phrase était un suicide professionnel. Aujourd'hui, c'est un haussement d'épaules. L'hyperinflation a tué la monnaie.

Et voilà la vraie tragédie, que les faussaires devront porter : en imprimant le mot sans limite, ils l'ont brûlé pour tout le monde. Y compris pour nommer le vrai racisme quand il existe, car il existe. Les faux-monnayeurs ne détruisent pas que leur arme. Ils détruisent le mot dont une société honnête a besoin.

Privée de son mot magique, l'idéologie va maintenant devoir faire ce qu'elle n'a jamais su faire : gagner un débat sur les faits.

Elle ne le gagnera pas. Au travail.

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

Most radical queer activists have no real moral principles. They are primarily driven by civilizational self-loathing, and will reflexively excuse violence against homosexuals if the perpetrators are associated with the developing world.

When faced with clear proof that radical Islamist youth are beating gay men, their first impulse is to condemn “Islamophobia” — because, in the end, they hate the West more than they love themselves. Spiritually impoverished, they would welcome their own destruction so long as the fists beating their faces are dark-skinned.

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

“The greatest threat to LGBT rights in the West is not the “far right,” as some claim, but rather Islamism and insufficient emphasis on shared values.

Yet, many progressives, including “queer” activists, refuse to acknowledge this reality and are inadvertently throwing gender and sexual minorities under the bus.”

My latest for @nationalpost 🌈

https://t.co/TuIshWTZt0

[I.L. @leglos24]

@WesleyHuntTX So you call out obsession with race, yet you capitalize yourself as Black and lower case your wife as ’white’ 🤔

[Keean Bexte @TheRealKeean]

Justin Trudeau, and nearly every single Indian-origin MP use today to LIE about Canadian history and the Komagata Maru. They spin a tale that defames the dignity of our nation. Here is the TRUTH about the scamship:

[Buck Sexton @BuckSexton]

For example: Never, ever forget this banger from a 5 time Pulitzer nominee...

[Prometheus @CaribbeanRythms]

The Rosetta Stone was used a piece of cement on a fortification before the French found it and realized the magnitude of their discovery. The Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs went untranslated for 1400 before a Frenchman deciphered them.

The modern day “Egyptians” wouldn’t even know half of the ancient Egyptian history they pretend is theirs if it wasn’t for British and French historians who documented and translated it. Thanks to them they now marvel at being inheritors of a great and ancient civilization.

Now ask yourself, how many more artifacts of ancient civilizations we’ve lost to time because the supposed “descendants” couldn’t be fucked to see their inherent value and preserve them?

If it wasn’t for the British museum we’d probably see Tutankhamens cock hanging off a rack in some carpet merchants stall. Thank God for it and may not a single artifact ever be returned to Egypt.

[Raw Milk Chad (NEET ARC) @Rawmilkchad]

I went to Africa on a "mission trip" in my teenage years and it was the most blackpilling thing imaginable.

The IQ chart floating around showing that the average African IQ is "mentally retarded" is completely true. It's not a problem of education, it's a problem of capability. Most of these people can't think 15 seconds beyond the present. They struggle to understand basic concepts, even those involving safety and self-preservation. They often can't understand simple mathematical or scientific concepts. Modern science may as well be witchcraft to them.

They constantly misallocate resources -- after being gifted something like a tractor, and taught for months on how it works, they will simply strip it for parts the minute you leave and starve at harvest season. They have fantastical ideas about the power of witchcraft and some enduring folk superstition, believing things like bald men have gold in their heads. They think putting a condom on a stick in their house will magically protect them from getting AIDS, and they think having sex with a child will cure them. They constantly steal from each other, even those closest to them.

I think it would be cheaper to send all libtards to some impoverished part of Africa and have them learn this the hard way than it would be to continue sending African countries aid. It's untenable. We have thrown money at them and babysat them for a century and they are no better off than a hundred years ago. It would be best to simply pack up and leave them to their own devices.

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🚨🇨🇦 Meanwhile in Canada

Listen to @ZacharyMcR28365 explain what is happening with the Canadian government all of a sudden importing thousands of migrants to join their army, fast tracking visas in the process.

If you don’t think your own country is doing this already, then you’re not paying attention.

[govt.exe is corrupt @govt_corrupt]

Tim Hortons is the worst. Long wait times, 17 people working, nobody knows what's going on, food is shit, coffee is even worse and nobody speaks English.

It actually represent s Canada's decline perfectly.

Overpriced, and poor quality with a bunch of clueless morons runing things.

[Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio @LeoKearse]

How did "racism" become seen as worse than "letting little girls get stabbed to death"?

Also, what even is racism? We've got the concept of "diversity", which means people have different cultures and backgrounds - but those differences are only ever positive?

It's perfectly acceptable for Amal Rajan to mention his children's Indian “civilisation that’s in their blood”. But if someone suggests a lack of civilisation could be in someone's blood, they're committing a racist hate crime.

Well, which is it? Are traits carried in people's blood or not?

We've seen fear of "racism" lead to young people's deaths:
- At the Manchester Arena bombing ,where a security guard didn't stop the killer because he was afraid of being called racist;
- In Nottingham, where authorities released Valdo Calocane to kill because they thought that detaining a black man would be racist;
- In Southport, where a teacher who raised Axel Rudakubana as a risk was accused of being racist.

Our society has been captured by communists. They enforce a fanatic religious belief in diversity and multiculturalism. This is reinforced through culture and legislation.

If diversity and multiculturalism is such a strength, why didn't it increase societal harmony in Lebanon, the Balkans, Syria?

Diversity isn't a strength. It's a weapon used by communists to weaken the nation state so that communists can implement their communist utopia.

The communists don't want harmony.

Anyone who genuinely wanted to improve social harmony would want Axel Rudakubana's parents to be dealt with swiftly and harshly, to simmer down the righteous fury of British people. They'd want grooming gangs to be deported. They'd want border controls to be enforced.

They'd want people like Valdo Calocane to be detained, and they'd want security guards to question Muslim men with big backpacks when they walk into a pop concert full of little girls.

But they don't. The left use accusations of "racism" to ensure such crimes happen. Killing and raping British children is a feature, not a bug. They want it to happen. It demoralises the British people and weakens our country, and brings their communist utopia a step closer.

Question the motives of anyone who accuses anyone of "racism".

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

A group of guys, an Englishman, two Scots, and a Welshman aren’t allowed to have a dog according to their landlord. They spot a neighbor walking a dog and decide to email, offering to walk it whenever needed. The neighbor responds… with a handwritten letter from the dog.

[The Carney Files 🇨🇦 | Sourced @TheCarneyFiles]

The UK already figured this out 👀

The Telegraph called him the "reverse Midas touch."

UK inflation hit 11.1% after his tenure. France hit 5.2%. Italy hit 8%.

He left England. Came home. And did the same thing to Canada 📄

Since he became governor of the Banks of Canada in 2009 —

Canadian dollar lost 30% of its value. Groceries up 25%. Rent doubled. Household debt hit $1.75 for every dollar earned — the worst in the G7.

Same playbook. Different country.

Share this with someone who hasn't seen it yet 🇨🇦

[I.L. @leglos24]

@gaytimes Looks like this was written by an FTM trans person who thinks she's a man. She takes full advantage of having access to (formerly) gay spaces to keep pushing gay men out. The exclusion inherent to "inclusivity" at full display.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 FAFO IN REAL TIME

Bike rider plows into an innocent woman on the sidewalk… then gets ABSOLUTELY STOMPED by four off-duty firefighters who sprinted after him.

He tried to run. They didn’t let him.

Straight to the ground, then straight to the cops.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

“Is it a little bit homophobic to focus on the straights of Hormuz rather than the gays of Hormuz?”

No Kings protester, completely serious: “Yes, absolutely, I agree.”

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

🚨 BREAKING

It’s a very dark day in Canada today.

The Liberals just voted down ALL FOUR Conservative public safety bills.

Bill C-246: consecutive sentences for sexual predators. So they serve time for EACH offence. Not a bulk discount.

VOTED DOWN.

Bill C-220: stop judges from giving lighter sentences to rapists and child predators because deportation might be a consequence.

VOTED DOWN.

Bill C-243: end the cycle that forces victims to relive their trauma at parole hearings year after year. Victims begged for this.

VOTED DOWN.

Bill C-242: the Jail Not Bail Act. Repeal catch and release for repeat violent offenders.

VOTED DOWN.

Tougher sentences for sex offenders? No.

Accountability for foreign criminals? No.

Mercy for victims? No.

Keeping dangerous people locked up? No.

Four bills.
Four chances to protect Canadians.

They said NO to all of them.

This is what they stand for.
NOTHING.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

PS. What they will do tonight, is vote in favour of their own hate bill.

Because words matter more.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEW DATA SHOWS WHITE BOYS ARE FALLING OFF MASSIVELY IN UK

63% of black students and 67% of Asian students enter higher education

Just 14% of White working class boys do the same

Diversity schemes mean racism against white boys is not just accepted, it's now the norm

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Before technology advanced, everything was art and elegance…