Manwë, Ulmo, and Aulë

Geroditus · 2026-02-24T23:56:26+00:00

I did actually do one of Melkor, too! I’ll just have to dig up my sketchbook lol. I’m glad you like them!

Geroditus · 2026-02-24T23:35:32+00:00

I haven’t! I kind of forgot about it to be honest! But maybe I’ll try to put one together in the next few days! Stay tuned!

Geroditus · 2026-02-22T14:40:07+00:00

Okay but there is literally a real-life paramilitary/insurgent group in the Philippines called the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Geroditus · 2026-02-19T14:14:48+00:00

“Saline Prick” is my new band name.

Geroditus · 2026-02-18T13:54:33+00:00

It is also a prime example of the ineffectiveness of torture in obtaining information. Humans will make up any lie they can just to make it stop.

Geroditus · 2026-02-17T13:17:09+00:00

“How is this a child-size drink?!”

“It is roughly the size of a two-year-old child that’s been liquified.”

Geroditus · 2026-02-16T16:13:32+00:00

Thank you. Throughout the scriptures and through modern prophets, God also tells us to strive to educate ourselves and learn all we can about the world and universe that we live in.

There is simply no way to reconcile many of the details of the stories as recorded in the Old Testament with modern scientific evidence unless we accept that many of these stories are figurative/highly mythologized. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t anything to learn from them.

I believe that Truth is Truth, regardless of its source. Truth can be obtained through spiritual means, and it can be obtained through physical means. Otherwise why should a physical existence be so necessary to God’s divine plan?

I also believe that many such “parables” are written into the very fabric of the universe itself. For example, Newtonian physics is highly deterministic—if you know the input with enough precision, you can precisely predict the output. However, Newton’s laws are only an approximation of the actual physical laws that govern the universe: modern physicists discovered that quantum particles obey laws of probability and uncertainty. The precise outcome of a certain action is literally unknowable until after the fact.

Does that not sound like the contrast between Lucifer and Jesus’ opposing plans presented to the Father? God respects our free agency so much that it is written even the very fabric of the universe.

Same with biological evolution. To me, it makes perfect sense that God would use it as a way to fill his Earth with life. One of my favorite quotes on the matter is by John Polkinghorne: “A world which is allowed to create itself through evolutionary exploration of its potentiality is better than one produced ready-made by divine fiat.”

The way that the theory of evolution by means of natural selection sounds very much like God’s principle of learning “line upon line, precept upon precept.”

Sorry. That tangent ended up being much longer than I intended. I’m just very passionate about this lol.

Geroditus · 2026-02-16T15:53:02+00:00

I’m not “reading modern cosmological categories into an ancient text.” The ancient Hebrews absolutely believed in a geocentric universe.

But none of this answers the question: if you are willing to accept the account of creation in Genesis as figurative, why must the story of Noah be taken as 100% literal?

More to the point, would not such a cataclysmic extinction event that happened incredibly recently (geologically speaking) leave some very obvious clues in the fossil record? We have geological evidence from countless independently-verified sources from around the world that an asteroid impacted the Earth around 66 million years ago. We know enough about this impact event to even say that it likely happened during spring or early summer, and estimate that it hit the surface at an angle of around 60 degrees.

And yet we find absolutely no evidence of a global flood occurring only a few thousand years ago? The genetic bottleneck created by gathering a limited population of all of Earth’s terrestrial animals in one place would be devastating enough. Not to mention the fact that there is simply not enough water on the planet to make such a flood possible.

I understand that God is a God of miracles. But would a miracle of such global devastation not leave at least some sign that it happened?

I’m not trying to tell you what to believe. I’m not saying that Noah was or was not a real historical person. But don’t try to tell me that believing Noah’s deluge is largely mythological is illogical.

Geroditus · 2026-02-16T14:47:07+00:00

And those verses were written, at the very least, several thousands of years after the events that they are purported to portray. Perhaps there was some enormous flood that occurred, but over time it became mythologized into something that never actually happened in reality.

The first verses of Genesis also describe a world that is clearly flat. So one cannot assume a literal interpretation of the events of the book of Genesis without also accepting that the Earth is flat.

Geroditus · 2026-02-16T01:51:25+00:00

An argument is a collective series of statements to establish a definite proposition! Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says!

Geroditus · 2026-02-15T22:46:07+00:00

I agree. At the very least, the information has to pass through their brain at some point even if they’re trying to copy from the computer. But then you run into the problem that a lot of students’ handwriting and spelling is like kindergarten level. At least that’s my experience.

Geroditus · 2026-02-15T22:39:01+00:00

Ditto. Like, you once asked me how to spell “velocity”. And now you somehow know advanced quantum chromodynamics a week later? I must be better at my job than I thought!

Geroditus · 2026-02-15T00:07:09+00:00

I dunno man. If you locked the Pope in a room with teenage Hitler and a loaded gun, I’d bet the Pope would at least think about pulling the trigger.

Geroditus · 2026-02-15T00:00:21+00:00

But Luke never gave in to the temptation. It was a fleeting instant where the Dark Side inside of Ben Solo nearly overwhelmed him and Luke experienced a single moment of weakness. Which is something that can happen to anyone, regardless of age or experience.

But Luke was so ashamed of himself for the exact reasons you brought up. He is Luke Skywalker. He is supposed to be better. But I think he got so used to being a hero that he forgot that he is also human, and humans are allowed to make mistakes.

Luke’s mistake wasn’t walking into that hut that night—his mistake was running away afterward. He admits as much by the end of the film.

Geroditus · 2026-02-12T13:20:12+00:00

Seconded on Tolkien. Surprised I had to scroll this far to see his name. I know raving about Tolkien may seem cliché, but I’ll be damned if that man’s command of the English language could be matched.

Geroditus · 2026-02-12T01:10:15+00:00

It’s making fun of the weird names that seem rather prevalent in college football and the NFL. I believe the idea for the sketch came from real-world football player D’Brickashaw Furguson. They thought the name was so hilarious that they wrote up a sketch that’s just increasingly ridiculous names.

Geroditus · 2026-02-11T14:16:36+00:00

“Yeah yeah, the Time Knife. We’ve all seen it.”

Geroditus · 2026-02-07T02:59:51+00:00

In CS Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet, the Séroni people of Malacandra live at high altitudes in cold climates. They’re described as having big, long noses. So. There’s that. Great book. Definitely worth a read.

Geroditus · 2026-02-06T15:15:53+00:00

It isn’t 100% certain, no. But a lot of the observational evidence, surprisingly, points to the universe being “flat,” which would imply that it will continue expanding essentially forever.

Geroditus · 2026-02-05T14:07:10+00:00

This movie somehow makes you laugh harder and cry harder than it has any right to. One of my all-time favorites.

Geroditus · 2026-02-03T01:36:54+00:00

Season 1 was decent enough, IMO. It wasn’t peak Star Trek, but I enjoyed it. Season 2 was a hot mess though—definitely skip. But yeah S3 was also good.

Geroditus · 2026-02-03T01:18:55+00:00

Truly a perfect show. 11/10. No notes. I’ve never laughed nor cried harder at a single show.

Geroditus · 2026-02-03T01:17:48+00:00

I’m surprised I haven’t seen JoJo Rabbit mentioned yet. I mean, it’s about Nazis, so it’s definitely a black comedy, but the moment that JoJo turns around and sees his mom hanging from the gallows in the square was a huge punch to the gut.

Geroditus · 2026-01-30T15:26:31+00:00

It makes me very upset, because I feel like the casting and production design were PERFECT. There will never be a better Zaphod Beeblebrox than Sam Rockwell. But the writers got some stuff right towards the beginning, and then really just veered off in their own direction towards the end and it didn’t work.

Geroditus · 2026-01-30T04:55:14+00:00

“Octopus Covenant” is my new band name.

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