Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I agree, this whole thing is a waste of time and energy. Free Republic is a sole proprietorship. If you don't like the was the proriotor is running the show, and you can't change his mind, than decide either to accept things the way they are, or leave.
Probably! But you have to be careful wearing it when you take a bath... it tends to slip off, and then you get shot full of arrows...
Those are my feelings as well. And I really took up for the moderators over on the religion threads. Some thought they were above the law.
At the same time, it's just discouraging that we fight over such petty issues.
Hillary! is running for President and we're concerned about vanity posts...
Don't think so. I believe that my name means 'person who lives on land with stumps on it', which is I guess either a lazy farmer or a frontiersman. I prefer to think it is the latter.
But just wait until we get RoadRunner...
Agreed. Look at the big pictutre, like your previous post about federal prisons being filled up with fans of J.R.R. Tolkien!
Is too! Just who was it who stood with Isildur at the Cracks of Doom (probably with his hands on his hips) and said "Isildur if you don't throw it away I'm going to tell Gandalf..."
A dwarf would've tackled him...
Let's put it this way. She has released this statement, "I have no plans to run for President."
What do you think?
Elrond didn't force Isildur to get rid of the Ring because it would have destroyed Isildur's mind, right? The Ring must be given up of the holder's free will, or else, right? So, Elrond took pity on Isildur, tried to persuade him to give up the Ring rather than force him, and started the whole mess! And then, get this, and then... it was Bilbo's (and later Frodo's) acts of pity on Gollum/Smeagol that wound up fixing the mess that Elrond's pity started!
An act of pity started it, and an act of pity led to finishing it!
Did I just make a brilliant observation, or was it blindingly obvious all along and I just didn't see it?
Have faith little sister. Surely that is just a matter of time...
So, you're saying that Elrond and Bilbo (and later Frodo) were all liberals? I mean, they couldn't be compassionate and conservative too you know.
But seriously, do you think it was pity that kept Elrond from forcing Isildur to toss the ring?
Last night a thunderstorm was coming and the boys were a little scared. I sat up with Steve to monitor the situation (he was on call to collect samples) and so I put the boys in our bed together. I went to check on them and this is how they were. So cute! (Mind you, it was very dark in the room...the flash lit it up this bright.)
Matthew still sleeps with a "Humpty Dumpty" type toy he's had since birth...it's name is Huevo!
It is not the kind of accommodations I had pictured for Entmoot!
That's probably closer to it. In reality, Elrond had two choices 1) Toss Isildur into the Cracks of Doom wearing the ring or 2) Take the ring from Isildur by force, at which point he knew he would be tempted by the power of the ring...
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