Look for a quote regarding his, "it uniquely lends itself to not being dramatized" or something along those lines.
Also, the Tolkien estate was against the early incarnations of d&d if I remember, and isn't this the reason "hobbit" was removed and replaced with "halfling" in the game. I could be wrong on this last point.
I do know this, Tolkien said a lot of stuff, and if you look long enough you can find him saying about anything. No, wiki is not the best source. There are more reliable sources such as his letters which are published.
In the very least, Tolkien was picky, even arrogant, about his work. It was a book (later split) and a book he felt it should remain.
Does the fact that Christopher (christened to represent) was against the movies even play into counter arguments?
Tolkien was, to say the least, picky about his work. He specifically expressed it should never be dramatized and also made it clear that no one should dare edit the writings besides his son, Christopher.
As an avid fan who knows this, how can you justify, to me, putting the professor's world into a game genre. Why should I play it knowing Tolkien would most likely disapprove?
We had a guy here years ago (and no one really knew what his job really was) went around to all the secretaries' computer, turned on the office assistant and changed it to the dolphin. This seemed to be his sole mission in life. The executive secretary finally said one day, "I don't like it when that guy works on my computer." He went away finally. Not sure what happened....
It was several years ago actually. I can't google it right now (work filters) and am going out of town for the weekend. One of the more fascinating parts was that the german engineering was so good, that many of the magnetos in the panthers and such were still working. I think I made the subject, "How to find tanks with a metal detector." You could tell it was an amature site hosted out of some little isp in russia or some where. It seems half of it was in russian.
Yes. Email, computers and cell phones are all dead....
Yet again, I will shake my head that the editors turned down my ww2 tank find story (you know, where these guys in russia go out with metal detectors and find submerged german and russian tanks around kursk -- I think it was -- and restore them)....
Good points. I find ww2 an extremely fascinating period in history. The grand strategy sealed the deal. Whereas the germans had better tactical strategy -- how to win a specific battle -- they really lost it in the grand strategy. This is where roosevelt and churchill excelled. To me, the two pivotal moments in the war were: pearl harbor and barbarossa. Had japan not bombed pearl harbor, but poured all resources into assisting germany against russia, russia just *may* have capitulated. Or, if japan was going to bomb pearl harbor, had germany instead focused all resources in n. africa and then the oil-rich area of the middle east, things could have been different.
The best strategy, to me, for the axis would have been to forget about america and russia altogether and both go for india/the middle east, taking all holdings non-russian in asia (japan) and holdings, period, in n. africa, middle east (germany). Japan would stop at india and germany at the middle east. From there, they would have been well-poised to finish off russia together.
The retreat at the end of the war was accompanied by systematic recall/slaughter of prisoners, and was given more importance than millitary strategy.
Indeed. Some estimates calculate that one possible reason Germany lost the war in the east was due to none other than their "cleansing" campaign. It took away men and resources as well as solidified the populace in the east against them. Had they done the opposite, and behaved as the liberators from Russian oppression that there were first hailed as, the outcome could have been drastically different....
Well then, as Lewis put it, "There comes a point when the unreasonableness of a person's argument forces me to have nothing else to say to them..." (paraphrased).
The single, best argument to the contrary I have ever heard is that not one defendant at the Nuremburg trials stated, in defense, that the holocaust never happened....
I have seen posts violently modded down on/. for evening mentioning the holocaust or holocaust denial. It is interesting that it is now a full story here. I always felt the global usership of/., and differing opinions, had something to do with it....
But how do you know that they haven't already done this?
At the top of TFA:
"I would call the users to tell them that I'd found their cards on the Internet, and many of them said that the cards were still active and that this was the first they'd heard that the numbers had been compromised."
It's all barney fife crap. No one, yet, has said anything about the cop. Give me a friggin break. Any mature, level-headed police officer -- ok few of those -- would have been cool and blown this off. How many of us have seen them totally turn the other way when a stranded motorist needs help, or there's a blatant traffic violation. I saw a statistic that only 1 in 2,000 crimes are seen by cops, and of those 1 in 2,000 are acted on.
This is beyond ridiculous and it's funny to watch you guys and your analogies.
Truly, nothing to see here. Move along. The judge should have laughed and tossed this out, but I understand there's some moronic law -- that even the cop wasn't sure of!?!
There used to be a dumb law in my town called "public drunkedness." People got arrested for drinking beer on their front porch. Since, the city axed it, but not before a lot of folks were harrassed.
Just because some dolts passed some half-assed law doesn't make it make sense, and this doesn't. I mean, my gosh, the coffe shop manager said it was ok?!? Wtf?!?
1) According to the FCC, it's perfectly legal to receive ANY BROADCAST TRANSMISSION. I can set up a radio receiver and pick up whatever happens to be in the air. This includes wifi broadcasts, which are really nothing more than a cordless phone combined with a MODEM.
You need to check/. more often. The RIAA has told us that listening to the radio is now illegal....
It's all good. Lewis and Nietzsche: the one argues for God the other against. I must say, of all dead philosophers and thinkers of old, nietzsche is the best read./digress.
Lewis's point, I believe, is that morality has always consisted of a basic belief in a higher being to which we must answer -- a higher thing if you will. He uses The Tao to emphasize this. Without it, morality, quite simply, doesn't exist. Fire cannot burn without fuel if you will (my analogy). He mentions castration and then a demanding that the gelding bear fruit.
If you will: once God is gone, people design their own morality and/or, no morality. It may be called morality, but it really isn't.
I would like to list examples, but that's risky. I could explain ww2 germany (nietzsche's influence) stalinism or pol pot (sic?), but again, those are risky, and most folks tend to try and label religion as just as bloody and humanless, but I beleive this isn't the case under examination (more than anything, religion has always tended to right itself, whereas godless systems haven't shown that as of yet).
In any event, lewis's book, Abolition of Man, needs to be read in whole. I believe I mislead you by posting only that chapter which is just part of the whole. His emphasis there -- regarding nature -- is, in part, to simply point out the flawed thinking in believing our growing understanding of the universe justifies the death of The Tao, of God....
Good discussion none-the-less, and I always enjoy a mature person on/.....
I would have loved being told I couldn't go to school for 40 days. Back when I was in grade school -- in the 70s! -- if I screwed up, I got a paddling, and it hurt. Then, a note went home to my parents, and my dad would sock it to me. Payment was pure pain. Of course, that's considered child abuse now, and instead, these days, we dope kids up who act up in class and try to change the world so that none of them are left behind. Dunno. The world's a changing. I never spank my kid either....
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Look for a quote regarding his, "it uniquely lends itself to not being dramatized" or something along those lines.
Also, the Tolkien estate was against the early incarnations of d&d if I remember, and isn't this the reason "hobbit" was removed and replaced with "halfling" in the game. I could be wrong on this last point.
I do know this, Tolkien said a lot of stuff, and if you look long enough you can find him saying about anything. No, wiki is not the best source. There are more reliable sources such as his letters which are published.
In the very least, Tolkien was picky, even arrogant, about his work. It was a book (later split) and a book he felt it should remain.
Does the fact that Christopher (christened to represent) was against the movies even play into counter arguments?
Tolkien was, to say the least, picky about his work. He specifically expressed it should never be dramatized and also made it clear that no one should dare edit the writings besides his son, Christopher.
As an avid fan who knows this, how can you justify, to me, putting the professor's world into a game genre. Why should I play it knowing Tolkien would most likely disapprove?
"30 years, wow I'm old"
Age is relative. To put it better, age is different between men and women. Men look as old as they feel. Women look as old as they are....
We had a guy here years ago (and no one really knew what his job really was) went around to all the secretaries' computer, turned on the office assistant and changed it to the dolphin. This seemed to be his sole mission in life. The executive secretary finally said one day, "I don't like it when that guy works on my computer." He went away finally. Not sure what happened....
It's all we have!!! It's George Lucas's fault!!!
Lets forget all the weird flames and just think about what a great adventure Star Wars has been.
[pause]
Now back to bashing the last three -- no, four -- movies....
Someone around here has a drinking problem. I won't say who....
It was several years ago actually. I can't google it right now (work filters) and am going out of town for the weekend. One of the more fascinating parts was that the german engineering was so good, that many of the magnetos in the panthers and such were still working. I think I made the subject, "How to find tanks with a metal detector." You could tell it was an amature site hosted out of some little isp in russia or some where. It seems half of it was in russian.
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The editors hate me
Maybe someone else can google it....
Try: metal dectectors, tanks, magnetos, etc.
Yes. Email, computers and cell phones are all dead....
Yet again, I will shake my head that the editors turned down my ww2 tank find story (you know, where these guys in russia go out with metal detectors and find submerged german and russian tanks around kursk -- I think it was -- and restore them)....
Gah!
"Jobs -- while Gates drinks a glass of water -- may bang on about the benefits of a software-hardware approach."
I believe both hitler and bonaparte attacked russia in the same month and on the same day.... I think I heard this.... Someone google plz....
Good points. I find ww2 an extremely fascinating period in history. The grand strategy sealed the deal. Whereas the germans had better tactical strategy -- how to win a specific battle -- they really lost it in the grand strategy. This is where roosevelt and churchill excelled. To me, the two pivotal moments in the war were: pearl harbor and barbarossa. Had japan not bombed pearl harbor, but poured all resources into assisting germany against russia, russia just *may* have capitulated. Or, if japan was going to bomb pearl harbor, had germany instead focused all resources in n. africa and then the oil-rich area of the middle east, things could have been different.
/digress
The best strategy, to me, for the axis would have been to forget about america and russia altogether and both go for india/the middle east, taking all holdings non-russian in asia (japan) and holdings, period, in n. africa, middle east (germany). Japan would stop at india and germany at the middle east. From there, they would have been well-poised to finish off russia together.
Ok
The retreat at the end of the war was accompanied by systematic recall/slaughter of prisoners, and was given more importance than millitary strategy.
Indeed. Some estimates calculate that one possible reason Germany lost the war in the east was due to none other than their "cleansing" campaign. It took away men and resources as well as solidified the populace in the east against them. Had they done the opposite, and behaved as the liberators from Russian oppression that there were first hailed as, the outcome could have been drastically different....
I'm British.
Impossible. You never once said, "smashing."
A belief that positive /. modding sticks to topical posts... quaint....
Well then, as Lewis put it, "There comes a point when the unreasonableness of a person's argument forces me to have nothing else to say to them..." (paraphrased).
The single, best argument to the contrary I have ever heard is that not one defendant at the Nuremburg trials stated, in defense, that the holocaust never happened....
I have seen posts violently modded down on /. for evening mentioning the holocaust or holocaust denial. It is interesting that it is now a full story here. I always felt the global usership of /., and differing opinions, had something to do with it....
But how do you know that they haven't already done this?
At the top of TFA:
"I would call the users to tell them that I'd found their cards on the Internet, and many of them said that the cards were still active and that this was the first they'd heard that the numbers had been compromised."
Didn't the japanese know this with the first godzilla movie?
You entirely failed to mention that keith richards is radiation resistant too and would continue to exist along side the fungi....
It's all barney fife crap. No one, yet, has said anything about the cop. Give me a friggin break. Any mature, level-headed police officer -- ok few of those -- would have been cool and blown this off. How many of us have seen them totally turn the other way when a stranded motorist needs help, or there's a blatant traffic violation. I saw a statistic that only 1 in 2,000 crimes are seen by cops, and of those 1 in 2,000 are acted on.
This is beyond ridiculous and it's funny to watch you guys and your analogies.
Truly, nothing to see here. Move along. The judge should have laughed and tossed this out, but I understand there's some moronic law -- that even the cop wasn't sure of!?!
There used to be a dumb law in my town called "public drunkedness." People got arrested for drinking beer on their front porch. Since, the city axed it, but not before a lot of folks were harrassed.
Just because some dolts passed some half-assed law doesn't make it make sense, and this doesn't. I mean, my gosh, the coffe shop manager said it was ok?!? Wtf?!?
1) According to the FCC, it's perfectly legal to receive ANY BROADCAST TRANSMISSION. I can set up a radio receiver and pick up whatever happens to be in the air. This includes wifi broadcasts, which are really nothing more than a cordless phone combined with a MODEM.
/. more often. The RIAA has told us that listening to the radio is now illegal....
You need to check
It's all good. Lewis and Nietzsche: the one argues for God the other against. I must say, of all dead philosophers and thinkers of old, nietzsche is the best read. /digress.
/.....
Lewis's point, I believe, is that morality has always consisted of a basic belief in a higher being to which we must answer -- a higher thing if you will. He uses The Tao to emphasize this. Without it, morality, quite simply, doesn't exist. Fire cannot burn without fuel if you will (my analogy). He mentions castration and then a demanding that the gelding bear fruit.
If you will: once God is gone, people design their own morality and/or, no morality. It may be called morality, but it really isn't.
I would like to list examples, but that's risky. I could explain ww2 germany (nietzsche's influence) stalinism or pol pot (sic?), but again, those are risky, and most folks tend to try and label religion as just as bloody and humanless, but I beleive this isn't the case under examination (more than anything, religion has always tended to right itself, whereas godless systems haven't shown that as of yet).
In any event, lewis's book, Abolition of Man, needs to be read in whole. I believe I mislead you by posting only that chapter which is just part of the whole. His emphasis there -- regarding nature -- is, in part, to simply point out the flawed thinking in believing our growing understanding of the universe justifies the death of The Tao, of God....
Good discussion none-the-less, and I always enjoy a mature person on
I would have loved being told I couldn't go to school for 40 days. Back when I was in grade school -- in the 70s! -- if I screwed up, I got a paddling, and it hurt. Then, a note went home to my parents, and my dad would sock it to me. Payment was pure pain. Of course, that's considered child abuse now, and instead, these days, we dope kids up who act up in class and try to change the world so that none of them are left behind. Dunno. The world's a changing. I never spank my kid either....