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@DanSme14 ай бұрын
“intense”? How so? “high effort” Again, explain. I do appreciate what you’ve accomplished, but it seems like you’re having too much fun to classify the effort as “toil.” 🤣
@JW_______4 ай бұрын
@@DanSme1I think it's because a great deal of time, reading and study goes into being able speak on philosophical and theological topics in an organized and intelligent way and to be able to substantivley interview some of the brightest minds on their written work. There's a good reason why these subjects are called specializations.
@Jess_of_the_Shire4 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for having me on the podcast! It was a ton of fun
4 ай бұрын
🙌🙌🪱🏜🌋🐉 Can't wait to run it back!
4 ай бұрын
@@sebastianevangelista4921 🙌🙌
@davidalan5284 ай бұрын
Re: power corrupting versus ‘it’s the corrupt who seek power,’ I’m from the Adams school. “Those who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it…on no account should anyone capable of getting themselves made President be allowed to do the job.” Power does corrupt, but it also attracts the corrupt. So your ideal leader is the reluctant one. Paul starts that way. Ender Wiggin starts that way. But both ultimately do get wrapped up in the system built around the rule into which they stepped. And the system, mind, always outlasts any one ruler. (Even the one who overthrows the system - because whatever change they bring, their immediate successors will without fail revise.)
4 ай бұрын
I think this is spot on
@stephenferguson97563 ай бұрын
A good example of this is the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his religious reforms.
@Balcamion794 ай бұрын
This is a really fun conversation! I found Jess through a cloak making video, and I've appreciated the theological and philosophical content of this channel.
4 ай бұрын
That's awesome! She's so talented
@Chris_Traylor4 ай бұрын
Ruocchio and Jess of the Shire in the same week! Keep it up man, I love your conversations. God speed
4 ай бұрын
Thank you!! I get to talk with some of the coolest people out there. Glad to have you here man🫡
@ZephyrOptional4 ай бұрын
Highly recommend Jess’s vid on Tom Bombadil. She’s a great scholar!
4 ай бұрын
Totally! I ran outta time to ask her about Tom and her work on him. Looks like she's gotta come back
@CoranceLChandler4 ай бұрын
This was positively fantastic, it is not often we are treated to the philosophical and practical implications of literature. I feel that the best authors often have a profound insight into ideas and human nature and are able to embody them into a believable, historical, sociological framework. It's hard for me to say for sure but I may have learned as much or more about life from reading good fiction as I have through any other means.
4 ай бұрын
I always look forward to your comments!! Some of the best encouragement I get. Thank you 🙌
@CoranceLChandler4 ай бұрын
@ 😎👍🏾and thank you!
@iWizard4 ай бұрын
Hey, man. Just coming across your channel now. Subbed! My friend Christopher Ruocchio was just telling me he went on your channel and his Discord group has recommended that we collab at some point. We have a similar background---philosophy, fantasy, SF, classics, etc. Just wanted to say hi and that I'm glad I've found your channel. :) Cheers!
4 ай бұрын
Bro we're either going to love or hate eachother lol I hope it's love! Shoot me and email at parkerspensees[at]gmail[dot]com (hopefully that saves me from the bots)
@iWizard4 ай бұрын
@ From what I hear, it's going to be love, haha. We'll see. I'll shoot you an email.
4 ай бұрын
@@iWizard 🙌🙌
@Nineteen1900Hundred4 ай бұрын
An interesting comparison would be Game Of Thrones, and maybe Star Wars, both Georges stole a lot!
4 ай бұрын
Dang, great point!!
@billyalarie9294 ай бұрын
God your guests are nothing but bangers. Jess is AMAZING.
4 ай бұрын
🙌🙌 I love my guests, so glad to share them with you too. So glad to get to know Jess. Can't wait to get her back on again
@boris_bulletdodger91094 ай бұрын
Positive comment
4 ай бұрын
🙌 Best one yet
@adriang.fuentes76493 ай бұрын
Loved it! You are the man! I am now a Jess subscriber.
3 ай бұрын
She's the best! 🙌
@Marqui914 ай бұрын
If Paul was a warning to people to be wary of the institutions people create and to be cautious of people in power, then what the heck is leto II meant to represent or warn against? Stagnation? Is he also a warning to watch against people in power?
4 ай бұрын
He's a warning not to play with sand trout
@chocolatemonk4 ай бұрын
thank you, great coversation
4 ай бұрын
🤝🤝🤝
@sayerslayer18544 ай бұрын
Subscribed for the mustache
4 ай бұрын
🙌🤝
@kevinh23454 ай бұрын
Herbert's use of sandworms is not necessarily subversive, its how eastern cultures have used dragon imagery forever. Addtionally Tolkien seems to be the last story teller who understood the concept of authority. You know, a legitimate form of power in it's rightful place. However the post-hegelian real politik types see power as only capable of abuse. Tolkein believes that there is a place for people to be powerful without being tyrants inherently.
4 ай бұрын
Another insightful take! Thank you!!
@Friday.S2 ай бұрын
I think that the believer antitheist kind of covertly exists in the form of people that stay in their religion not because they think that it is good but instead because they are afraid of going to hell. (Of course most such people will probably never admit that they wish that their god didn't exist - that would be blasphemy after all - but that's why I called them _covert_ believer antitheists)
@NR-rv8rz4 ай бұрын
The link to Jess's video channel doesn't work.
4 ай бұрын
Thanks, I fixed it but you can also click her link in the title too
@johnrussell-bk7lv4 ай бұрын
This is fun stuff to think about, but if I'm being totally honest I don't really see the point. The books couldn't be more different in terms of how they're written and what their authors were trying to convey. It's a little bit apples and oranges. J.R.R. Tolkein in fact hated reading Dune and refused to write a review on it because he didn't want to damage a fellow author's reputation.
4 ай бұрын
The point is that it's fun to think about lol you just answered it. And yeah Jess and I talked about Tolkien's disdain for Dune in this episode
@johnrussell-bk7lv4 ай бұрын
@ Oop! You caught me having not watched it. That's embarassing 😂. I get it though. Carl Jung would approve. Collective unconscious and all that. I'll make it up to you by actually watching the video.
4 ай бұрын
@@johnrussell-bk7lv 😆 your honesty had made up for it already 👏🤝
@IdolKiller4 ай бұрын
I definitely prefer Dune over LotR, as I generally prefer scifi over fantasy.
4 ай бұрын
Such a tough call on these two, but generally speaking I'm 100% with you. SF is king.
@jeffp13704 ай бұрын
Same here !
@acuerdox3 ай бұрын
dragons are not animals
3 ай бұрын
What are they?
@acuerdox3 ай бұрын
they're an archetype, archetypes are akin to titles, you can call someone a boss but there's no species of bosses, or a boss reproductive ritual. In this case they're the monster of chaos, that's why their bodies are made up of parts from different animals, body of a snake, wings of a bird, head of a lion, back-feet of a bird. Nowadays people don't draw dragons like that, because they're thinking that dragons are darwinian evolved animals , but that stuff has nothing to do with the things from myth, look up old drawings of dragons and you'll find them in all kinds of shapes. For a good example, look at Elron and Elros, they're the kids of an elf and a human, did they mix the elf-DNA and human-DNA and come out half-elves? no, of course not, there's no elf-DNA, they just were given the choice by the Valar to choose who's fate would they share, and Elron made the choice to be an elf and just like that *pop* he became an elf.
@godkingcthulhu1384 ай бұрын
🦑
4 ай бұрын
🫡🫡🫡
@godkingcthulhu1384 ай бұрын
@ i love solar punk too
@DanSme14 ай бұрын
She shows her face because she’s attractive…Duh!
@sayerslayer18544 ай бұрын
I feel like most youtube video makers who put themselves in the video do so out of a narcissistic tendency. Not the personality disorder but the pride and validation one gets from others finding them beautiful or attractive. Its not a bad thing per se, but often can be. If it gets you more subscribers it is just taking advantage of the way momma nature made you
4 ай бұрын
Idk, there are a lot of homely KZbinrs showing our faces out here 😅
@lordcyberlafont4 ай бұрын
Tolkien would have said : Trump 2024
@raskolnikov64434 ай бұрын
No doubt
@bluebitproductions28364 ай бұрын
Absolutely not. Trump didn’t like America, first of all. More importantly, he would have hated the fact that Trump is not a humble man by any means.
@ZephyrOptional4 ай бұрын
Tolkien was a self described anarchist (look it up) and believe he would have been disgusted and disturbed with both trump & Biden and their ilk.