Nick of Time

Words, words, words… creeping in this Petty Pace from day to day.

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@AubreyWitch @the_culturist_ I thought we were just two monkeys talking.... why get that dude involved?

You're not going extinct. I'm not going extinct. We will suffer what others will call death. And yet... I will see you again

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@AubreyWitch @koppensteiner_t @the_culturist_ Did you catch that?

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@AubreyWitch @the_culturist_ No one's going extinct my dear

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@NightSkyToday We don't talk about these things... shush

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@elonmusk Bruh no one knows what these charts mean. We are such simps for data no matter how it's gathered. Line graphs bar charts and a few color codes. Tell me a tale and make it a picture book

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@jlager @the_culturist_ F*k... I'm going to be in Vegas. At first light of the 5th day, look to the south west

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@GilbertBrissen @the_culturist_ We all return to it

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@CarloHistory23 @the_culturist_ I wouldn't say they do this Knowingly. These are simple men of the Westfold. Relatively few a philosopher or poet sat in those stirrups to hear their king shouting death. But a man who refuses to die for something will find himself without a reason for living -Carl Jung

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@joekanyou @the_culturist_ Wow what an example of someone taking a line of scripture too seriously: "and lo behold, for there dogma lieth before you. And all know it be best to let sleeping dogma lieth" -Corinthians 69:69

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@ClaraCla8675309 @the_culturist_ Thank you

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@WylERium @the_culturist_ But should we disparage the words just because they seem to be so set in stone, unlike our changeable washy selves? Honest question

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@SofiaArewyn @the_culturist_ Good luck with that 😅🤫

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@AubreyWitch @the_culturist_ I respect the counter. I think it might be worth exfoliating: death is a gift, though not as a desire to be in anticipation of, or as a reward, or as an escape... but a gift in that IT is what makes LIFE ITSELF the gift. Death unlocks the gift of life.... what say you, boromir?

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@JamieBell116 @the_culturist_ @warriors_mom Forever Jung

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@JoePannu119738 @the_culturist_ This makes me actually sick.

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@the_culturist_ Oh my god, thank you. Get this reposted by @elonmusk

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Why did Tolkien call death a gift?

In The Silmarillion, he writes death is an exclusive gift given to mankind by God. All other creatures envy this gift, including the immortal elves:

Mankind alone, through death, is granted union with the divine.

Tolkien's point is that immortality in a fallen world is not a blessing, nor man's actual purpose. To live forever in a world marred by corruption, vice, and decay is to be trapped with no escape.

Death, then, is not a tragic ending, but a release — a return of creation to its creator. The humility of mortal man leads to a glory far greater than immortality.

In other words, man was made for something greater than earthly pleasure. Death is the preparation for eternity.

Today we tend to see this backwards. We treat death as the ultimate evil, and endless life as the ultimate good, no matter the cost. We try to preserve life indefinitely, and in doing so, lose sight of what life is actually for.

Tolkien's final insight is simple:

A man who refuses to die for anything will one day find he has nothing worth living for.

A world that fears death above all else will never reach the highest good, for life truly begins when you discover a love greater than life itself.

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@D162Michele This is just the filter face epidemic from the new generation. All the surgeries to look like how the pre installed filters on Chinese phones make you look.... poor ladies out there

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@elonmusk In reality Robin hood is a legend

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@elonmusk How many of those letters does China care about, Canada?