The Lord of the Rings Challenge

Keep going bro!! 4 more days to Ithilien

 

well, there you go

see when you started fishing and why. ponder upon those reasons and find alternatives to it. Onward my brother, you´re doing great!!

 

yeah sis, don´t expect to change all at once because that´s not possible. in the beginning we don´t have the energy or the motivation to do it. so let´s us just change one habit at a time. do one task at a time, no pressure, just go with the flow

 

Checking in Fellowship

Wonderful day today . Not feeling very energetic, but i have more energy and motivation than yesterday, and my social anxiety has suffered a big blow . i´m feeling very peaceful around people, awesome!! and this is only day 3! in which i should be feeling like a hopeless zombie

Let´s keep going!!! The following members are making J.R.R. Tolkien proud

@Thomas3 - Hobbit / Hobbiton (your journey has started bro!! Godspeed!!!! )


@rotten_tomato - Buckleberry Ferry / Shire


@ksie - Bree / Eriador


@eagle rising - Elf-King / Minas Morgul


Let´s welcome back our brother @KingWhalers and our new member @freewilly !!

So today, after the bold post of yesterday, let us be more conservative. From the book "the coiled serpent", chapter 2 - Ignorance

Have a great day mighty Fellowship!!!


"Humanity is like a child that is hiding away from its
elders, who call to it because they know that it should make
an effort to develop its abeyant faculties. It is like a child
that wishes to continue to play with distorted images of
real things instead of becoming acquainted with everlasting
realities. It is like a child that persists in remaining igno
rant of the deeper verities of the science of life.

Humanity plays with life. It plays with sex. It wants
to perpetuate that playing rather than understand nature's
eternal laws, rather than unfold its latent spiritual powers.
It would play on until these very powers became stunted for
ever — until, otherwise matured, it would become an
imbecile in regard to spirit. If the clinging to toys persists, and if ignorance is
claimed as an excuse where there is only flagrant and
purposeful ignoring, there is imminent danger of incurable
idiocy on the spiritual level.

Already mankind is subnormal
for its age because it engrosses itself in precarious material
diversions; because it is absorbed in frivolous emotional
games; because it does far too little real thinking, and
remains obstinately ignorant of facts and laws concerning
its own true nature.

"Men err in their choice of pleasures . . . from defect
of knowledge"; they "are content with the little goods they
have and adhere desperately to these in ignorance of the
greater blessings to which they could attain did they but
open their spiritual eyes."

Mental development makes a child gradually set aside its
infantile toys. After a while it does not want them again,
and would not at any price wish to exchange its arduously
acquired mental enjoyments for a return to the foolish
playthings which amused it when it was ignorant.

So will spiritual unfoldment make man gradually leave
his playing, particularly with such things as were never
meant for play. It will make him rise above the customary
sexual games. After a little while he will not want these
again, will not want to forsake the far greater glorious
joys gained in his spiritual growth for a return to the
unwisely chosen playthings of his period of sensuous
amusements.

But through sheer wilfulness and cherished ignorance
humanity seems to prefer to go on with its playing, even
with the most sacred treasures on nature's altar. Childlike,
it moans if it scorches its fingers when grasping the sac
rosanct vessel in which burns the sacred flame. It groans
when sickness follows the quaffing of the holy wine. It
whines when it is taken from its ungodly perilous game. It
rages when it is threatened with retributary action of
nature's exacting laws. And it will not see that all its
misery and suffering result from its own stubborn persistence
in remaining ignorant of spiritual principles.

Such ignorance is unavoidable in the infancy and early
youth of a race. But the large portion of humanity that has
racially arrived at the advanced adolescent stage should
now overcome that ignorance. It should know its own
dormant spiritual powers, awaken them, and make them
dominant. It should drop the unsanctioned toying and stop
its wasteful playing with the life force, which is the most
sacred force in nature."