Timely. I thought that I was listening to a description of many corporate CEOs and founders.; ambition and control without thought of the wider consequences that their actions have upon the earth and men. Corruption in the pursuit of power (and money). Tolkien, of course, was very aware of these things.
If Mairon was flawed in that he hungered for power to enforce the order he so loved, and Mairon was more powerful than those he interacted with, shouldn't it have been up Eru Illuvitar to repair him, to prevent him from torturing, maiming and murdering possibly millions of the peoples of Arda? As much as it should have been Eru's responsibility to repair Morgoth?
@@davidperkoski1132 Eru agrees “… no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.”
Morgoth: individuality, disagreement, competition - bluntly visible. Sauron: craft opposing nature; order and control opposing freedom - insidious, working "in the shadow". Rings: science, knowledge giving power of influence over innocent belief. The One Ring: theory of everything - generalised understanding. Ring bearers: science changes those it convinces, making them impervious to blissful belief and disdainful of it. Morgoth and Sauron are concepts retroactively used to explain the missing of desired harmony in human interaction as a clashing of wills. This is why they cannot die. Science is unbelief. It takes away from the flock of the blissfully believing, frees individuals to own thoughts and motives. This is how "Sauron corrupts the Numenoreans to worship Morgoth", away from the fantasised, irrational wish of a created harmony. Science is the root of craft and ability to improve, which supports ambition to free oneself of limits ("mortality") and "defy nature". Desire for a benevolently created harmony portrays doubt or reality as malicious and interprets setbacks as punishment for straying off the path of nature. It considers belief as light and knowledge (science) as the absence of it. "Sauron" has fallen a few more times in history: with the fall of Mesopotamian cities, with the collapse of the Bronze Age, with the end of the Roman Empire, but he's always returned and things are not going too badly.
Eh... you can't have it both ways. If the world was created without evil then no evil should be in it. If you make a being that desires power and control then you made evil.
Timely. I thought that I was listening to a description of many corporate CEOs and founders.; ambition and control without thought of the wider consequences that their actions have upon the earth and men. Corruption in the pursuit of power (and money). Tolkien, of course, was very aware of these things.
If Mairon was flawed in that he hungered for power to enforce the order he so loved, and Mairon was more powerful than those he interacted with, shouldn't it have been up Eru Illuvitar to repair him, to prevent him from torturing, maiming and murdering possibly millions of the peoples of Arda? As much as it should have been Eru's responsibility to repair Morgoth?
Where’s the ongoing drama in that version?
@@davidperkoski1132 Eru agrees “… no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.”
😂😂😂😂😂
Old McEru had a farm e r u r u
Did the Elves wage war on Sauron so the could wear their rings again?
It's SOW-RON. That's how it sounds.
this is very interesting!
Morgoth: individuality, disagreement, competition - bluntly visible.
Sauron: craft opposing nature; order and control opposing freedom - insidious, working "in the shadow".
Rings: science, knowledge giving power of influence over innocent belief.
The One Ring: theory of everything - generalised understanding.
Ring bearers: science changes those it convinces, making them impervious to blissful belief and disdainful of it.
Morgoth and Sauron are concepts retroactively used to explain the missing of desired harmony in human interaction as a clashing of wills. This is why they cannot die.
Science is unbelief. It takes away from the flock of the blissfully believing, frees individuals to own thoughts and motives. This is how "Sauron corrupts the Numenoreans to worship Morgoth", away from the fantasised, irrational wish of a created harmony.
Science is the root of craft and ability to improve, which supports ambition to free oneself of limits ("mortality") and "defy nature".
Desire for a benevolently created harmony portrays doubt or reality as malicious and interprets setbacks as punishment for straying off the path of nature. It considers belief as light and knowledge (science) as the absence of it.
"Sauron" has fallen a few more times in history: with the fall of Mesopotamian cities, with the collapse of the Bronze Age, with the end of the Roman Empire, but he's always returned and things are not going too badly.
Eh... you can't have it both ways. If the world was created without evil then no evil should be in it. If you make a being that desires power and control then you made evil.