Antidepressant or Tolkien Character? – IOTW Report

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  3. Too easy.

    I’m familiar with both.

    That in and of itself is depressing.

    But not depressing enough to get addicted to a suicidal pharmacopeia personally.

    I find it easier to believe Sauron meant well than to believe Big Pharma is actually interested in making genuinely safe and effective medicines.

    But that’s just me…

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  7. “This Ring, no other, is made by the elves,
    Who’d pawn their own mother to grab it themselves.
    Ruler of creeper, mortal, and scallop,
    This is a sleeper that packs quite a wallop.
    The Power almighty rests in this Lone Ring.
    The Power, alrighty, for doing your Own Thing.
    If broken or busted, it cannot be remade.
    If found, send to Sorhed (the postage is prepaid).”
    “Bored of the Rings”, National Lampoon

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  11. The real FICTION is the lie that pulls can address serious mental health issues that can ONLY be properly addressed by identifying and transcending the root cause. Pulls are simply band aids to mask symptoms…just like every other pharmaceutical.

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  12. 16 out of 24 …. & half of the correct answers were guesses

    … don’t know my ‘Silmarillion’ as well as I should …. I guess …. or not ….

    Back to the Red Book of the Westmarch!

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  20. Tolkien kind of IS an antidepressant if used correctly. It’s a tale of courage in gathering darkness, it’s about good refusing to surrender to evil no matter the odds, it’s about how there is always a hope to be found in the darkest of gloom, of stout men who rise to the occasion in defense of all they hold dear, and ultimately about how God is always present and nothing is so evil it will prevail against His will no matter how powerful evil may make itself seem.

    All evil could do in this story was counterfeit and corrupt, it could create nothing. All its power was stolen and it had few servants but many slaves. And men (and hobbits) who sucked it up and did their duty ultimately broke evil with the help of an evil character that God planned to use for that very purpose all along, tho none including he himself knew that was his purpose.

    “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
    “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

    “It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden,’ answered Éowyn. ‘And those who have not swords can still die upon them.”

    “That is a chapter of ancient history which it might be good to recall: for there was sorrow then too, and gathering dark, but great valour, and great deeds that were not wholly vain.”

    “Together we will take the road that leads into the West,
    And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.”

    …and, of course, The Return Of The King. Indeed something men and women greatly desire even to this day.

    Not A king.

    THE King.

    Which was Tolkien’s TRUE meaning.

    …take one trilogy instead of a bottle of dubious chemicals and take heart.

    Surely a tale for our times.

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  21. “It’s a tale of courage in gathering darkness, it’s about good refusing to surrender to evil no matter the odds, it’s about how there is always a hope to be found in the darkest of gloom, of stout men who rise to the occasion in defense of all they hold dear”

    SNS, excellent! That describes what’s happening now. I keep looking for the stout men and feel sad to hear defeat in their words. I pray that God will raise up the Noahs, Davids, and Daniels to bring hope to our nation and world. Whatever his plan is, I trust God.

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