Are hobbits vegetarian ? - Page 3

Wayfarer · 01-15-2002, 09:31 PM

What's with that?
I mean, even if they are wrong, you can still be a friend.

I.E. I consider inoldonil to be a g0ood friend, and He's wrong all the time!

Of course, being such a good friend as I am, I'm more than happy to tell him.

But, how do you feel (Mrs. Starr polish) about the fact that, if what you believe is true, your friends are on thier way to a eternity of suffering? That would (and does) make me feel awful.

Starr Polish · 01-15-2002, 10:15 PM

It does pain me greatly, and I've talked to all of them about it. I've even written a poem directed at one of my closest and most preciousss

friends about how I feel about that very subject! I pray about and for them, but if I come off as I'm trying to 'convert' them, I'll just push them farther away.

It's Miss Starr Polish

luinilwen · 01-15-2002, 10:48 PM

my brother became a raelian after several years of practising wicca, which has made me fairly tolerant to other peoples beliefs.

but anyway - how did a discussion on the diets of hobbits and elves (and gollum! blech!) turn into a religious discussion?

i don't think my diet's very elvish - i just had a big bowl of cocopops *burp*

Starr Polish · 01-15-2002, 11:01 PM

I was thinking the same thing! Hehe.

bropous · 01-16-2002, 11:23 AM

you know, afro-elf, I'm not familiar with any claim that the Magyar language(s) is/are branched off from Finno-Ugaric. Interesting, considering their ancestral home....

bropous · 01-16-2002, 11:25 AM

Okay, okay, no unending suffering discussion, folks, back to the subject at hand.....

Hobbits eat bacon!

01-15-2002, 09:31 PM	#41
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	What's with that? I mean, even if they are wrong, you can still be a friend. I.E. I consider inoldonil to be a g0ood friend, and He's wrong all the time! Of course, being such a good friend as I am, I'm more than happy to tell him. But, how do you feel (Mrs. Starr polish) about the fact that, if what you believe is true, your friends are on thier way to a eternity of suffering? That would (and does) make me feel awful. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

01-15-2002, 10:15 PM	#42
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	It does pain me greatly, and I've talked to all of them about it. I've even written a poem directed at one of my closest and most preciousss friends about how I feel about that very subject! I pray about and for them, but if I come off as I'm trying to 'convert' them, I'll just push them farther away. It's Miss Starr Polish __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

01-15-2002, 11:01 PM	#44
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	I was thinking the same thing! Hehe. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

01-16-2002, 11:23 AM	#45
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	you know, afro-elf, I'm not familiar with any claim that the Magyar language(s) is/are branched off from Finno-Ugaric. Interesting, considering their ancestral home.... __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-16-2002, 11:25 AM	#46
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Okay, okay, no unending suffering discussion, folks, back to the subject at hand..... Hobbits eat bacon! __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-15-2002, 10:48 PM	#43
luinilwen Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sydney AUSTRALIA Posts: 368	my brother became a raelian after several years of practising wicca, which has made me fairly tolerant to other peoples beliefs. but anyway - how did a discussion on the diets of hobbits and elves (and gollum! blech!) turn into a religious discussion? i don't think my diet's very elvish - i just had a big bowl of cocopops burp

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