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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien

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An old man was driving it all alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf. He had a long white beard and bushy eyebrows that stuck out beyond the brim of his hat.

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“Histories themselves become history before they reach the shelves.”
― John Keay

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“To be naive is to be unaware of how foolish and cruel other people are; but, by some definitions, ignorance is nearly the opposite of naivety in being a kind of cynicism, in being unaware of their intelligence and humanity. It seems to be a normal although unfortunate case that the great many of us consciously abhor ignorance in others yet subconsciously practice it ourselves: as naivety is apparent and well-known to inflict its damage upon oneself; whereas the alternative and the easier, ignorance, its damage upon others.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: cruel, cruelty, cynicism, foolish, humanity, ignorance, intelligence, naivety, stupid, stupidity

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“You're wondering if I really would slit your throat. To tell the truth, I don't know either, but think of the fun we could have finding out.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

tags: fun, knife, magrat

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“We mostly see what we have learned to expect to see.”
― Betty Edwards, Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors

tags: seeing-things-in-a-different-way

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“Una religión vaga —el hecho de sentir a Dios en la naturaleza, etc., — resulta tan atractiva porque es todo emociones y ningún trabajo, como mirar las olas desde la playa. Pero jamás llegaréis a Terranova disfrutando de ese modo del Atlántico, y no conseguiréis la vida eterna simplemente sintiendo la presencia de Dios en las flores o en la música. Tampoco llegaréis a ningún sitio estudiando los mapas sin echaros al mar. Y tampoco estaréis muy seguros echándoos al mar sin un mapa. En otras palabras: la teología es práctica, especialmente ahora.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: cristianismo, dios, espiritualidad, eternidad, mapas, naturaleza, paganismo, religión, sentimientos, teología

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The Towel Hitchhikers — 140 members — last activity Nov 07, 2022 02:12PM
This group is about honouring the one and only Douglas Adams! Every 25th of May is the Towel Day, where all true Hitchhikers or faithful readers of Do This group is about honouring the one and only Douglas Adams! Every 25th of May is the Towel Day, where all true Hitchhikers or faithful readers of Douglas walk around with towels! Douglas Adams wrote himself in The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with." Join The Towel Hitchhikers if you wanna pay the tribute to Douglas Adams by wearing towels May 25th! ...more

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