Redefined and popularised is perhaps fairer to say than invented.
Story structure can be found in classical literature, setting can be found through European mythology.
Tolkien codified all the ingredients into a specific mix and brought the world to life, he didn’t invent the those ingredients
Snow Tighty-Whitey
UK too
£75 for 1600mpbs down and 1000mbps up
Did you know that that painting was the reserve of the rich before the industrial revolution and the invention of synthetic pigments?
Now we let toddlers play with paints at preschool.
You include earth in that?
I guess I’m wondering if you’d agree things would be better if humans didn’t exist.
Ah, the Amish Philosophy.
Pick a time period and stick to it like it’s a moral virtue
Someone has to be. Else the whole world would be just nothing but apes. 🐱
Why’s that?
That’d be great. Love to get a bigger better setup and just leave this one to run the surveillance system
If he turns all his money into gold, how is he going to pay for the yacht?
Looks a lot like the old ones to me
History says this is exactly what it looks like when people treat each other like people.
We’re a sad and violent species at our core.
Been listening to the stories of how people saved, supported and fought for others during the Holocaust, even risking their own lives.
I’m not taking away from the tragedy of the loss suffered by so many. I’m saying we can take some hope that human nature is complex enough and good enough that we must not lose sight of that in the face of evil.
For sure. Done of them likely coming from me taking some fairly mundane risks, like putting myself out there
Yeah, totally.
At 30 I realised I was utterly depressed and had been most of my life. Was so used to it that I didn’t realise I could be any different.
Started a long long journey to sort that. Started trying things. Scary as it was, it was less scary than living the rest of my life without ever having lived.
Tried new relationships, new religions, tried new experiences. Again, pushing myself out of my comfort zone a lot but then if I didn’t, I was heading towards an early grave and what could be worse than dying?
No, it isn’t.
Statistics are not value judgements.
They’re often used to justify racism but they’re still innocent.
The year you were born does not define your views.
But it can serve to predict it.
Whilst any individual within an arbitrary age bracket can be anything, trends and statistics for those age brackets can be measured and proven.
This is true for age with a much stronger effect than hair colour, because of the material impact it has on the cultural, economic and environmental factors which inform a person’s assumptions, experience and perception of norms.
There’s a limit to that with health anxiety for some people, they need to believe in the illness enough that they’ll find the listed symptoms or distort things to fit.
One of those things that can be good or bad, depending on the underlying process.
I can recite the names of the Books of the New Testament in the bible by heart. I’m not even Christian.
No, it’s like three "New"s all stood on top of each other, in a trenchcoat.