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1-B misses 65% threshold by 25 signatures. All signatures still need review and some will be thrown out over waivers, but raw vote shows a pretty strong rejection in all areas. Hope the city takes into consideration will of the people before they take it further with litigation.

Because of several posts I've read here over the past few months, I recently went down the deepest rabbit hole I have ever gone down, regarding Tolkien's work. I was trying to find out the specific powers of The Three Rings of The Elves, and that grew into the powers of all the Great Rings, and magic, in general.

The following is an excerpt of what I've collected regarding magic, in general, and specific uses and instances of magic in LOTR.

What Is Magic

I found the following in Letters written by Tolkien concerning magic in Ea.

Letter #155: I am afraid I have been far too casual about 'magic' and especially the use of the word; though Galadriel and others show by the criticism of the 'mortal' use of the word, that the thought about it is not altogether casual. But it is a v. large question, and difficult; and a story which, as you so rightly say, is largely about motives (choice, temptations etc.) and the intentions for using whatever is found in the world, could hardly be burdened with a pseudo-philosophic disquisition! I do not intend to involve myself in any debate whether 'magic' in any sense is real or really possible in the world. But I suppose that, for the purposes of the tale, some would say that there is a latent distinction such as once was called the distinction between magia and goeteia.1 Galadriel speaks of the 'deceits of the Enemy'. Well enough, but magia could be, was, held good (per se), and goeteia bad. Neither is, in this tale, good or bad (per se), but only by motive or purpose or use. Both sides use both, but with different motives. The supremely bad motive is (for this tale, since it is specially about it) domination of other 'free' wills. The Enemy's operations are by no means all goetic deceits, but 'magic' that produces real effects in the physical world. But his magia he uses to bulldoze both people and things, and his goeteia to terrify and subjugate. Their magia the Elves and Gandalf use (sparingly): a magia, producing real results (like fire in a wet faggot) for specific beneficent purposes. Their goetic effects are entirely artistic and not intended to deceive: they never deceive Elves (but may deceive or bewilder unaware Men) since the difference is to them as clear as the difference to us between fiction, painting, and sculpture, and 'life'.
Both sides live mainly by 'ordinary' means. The Enemy, or those who have become like him, go in for 'machinery' – wi

PART 2: THE LONG AND TUMULTUOUS SHARED HISTORY OF ROMANCE AND GERMANIC NATIONS

This is Part 2-D-ι, the direct continuation of 2-D-θ, which you can find here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AttackOnRetards/comments/s4x1dk/continuation_of_my_previous_posts_about_the/

2-D: THE OTHER ROMANCE AND GERMANIC NATIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

2-D-MEDIEVAL GREAT BRITAIN (THIS PART WILL BE DIVIDED IN SEVERAL SUBPARTS, EACH COVERING A CONSTITUENT COUNTRY)

2-D-ι: MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND (main source of this post)

Political History

EARLY MIDDLE AGES (476-900 AD) [read more here]

In the centuries after the departure of the Romans from Britain, four major circles of influence emerged within the borders of what is now Scotland. In the east were the Picts, whose kingdoms eventually stretched from the river Forth to Shetland. The first identifiable king to have exerted a superior and wide-ranging authority, was Bridei mac Maelchon (r. c. 550–84), whose power was based in the Kingdom of Fidach and his base was at the fort of Craig Phadrig near modern Inverness. After his death leadership seems to have shifted to the Fortriu, whose lands were centred on Strathearn and Menteith and who raided along the eastern coast into modern England. Christian missionaries from Iona appear to have begun the conversion of the Picts to Christianity from 563.

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In the west were the Gaelic (Goidelic)-speaking people of Dál Riata with their royal fortress at Dunadd in Argyll, with close links with the island of Ireland, from which they brought with them the name Scots. In 563 a mission from Ireland under St. Columba

October 1504

Resulting from the Diet of Tübingen is this treaty, designed, deliberated on, and signed by the Duke of Württemberg, the notables of his realm, and the observers to the Diet, granting certain rights to the peoples and Estates of Württemberg and limiting certain rights of the Duke for the Justice of God.

> We, the envoys of the most august and mighty prince and lord, Maximilian I, by the Grace of God Holy Roman Emperor, in addition to his other titles which include the Principality of Swabia and the Archduchy of Austria, Count George of Montfort, lord of Bregenz; Lord Christoph of Limburg, Imperial Hereditary Cupbearer; [...there are a lot of names to add here...] as envoys and selected councilors publicly announce and here witness this letter, and proclaim to all as thus follows:

> In the realm of the most highborn and noble prince and lord Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg and of Teck, Count of Mömpelgard and of Grüningen, etc., our dear and sincere lord and lover of peace and Justice, arose a dispute between His Grace Duke Ulrich, the Regents assigned to guide His Grace and rule in the stead of His Grace until His Grace comes of age in the Year of Our Lord 1508, and the notables of the realm and the larger body of dependents and inhabitants thereof. Thereafter was a violent dissolution of an unlawful action by the latter against the God-given authority of the former in the Year of Our Lord 1503, but thereafter reconciliation has been sought and negotiations held between the notables and unnotables for the reconstitution of the realm after much chaos.

> In Tübingen learned men, holy men, ennobled men, and lawful men gathered to debate and arbitrate the woes of His Grace Duke Ulrich's realm and a vacuum of legitimate authority by the sought-after command of His Majesty's Vice Chancellor, His Excellency Leonhard von Keutschach, Prince and Archbishop of Salzburg, and together with His Majesty's blessing established for all these articles:

> *1. Namely and in the first place that the Duchy of Württemberg shall be ruled until His Grace Duke Ulrich comes of age as per the Treaty of Esslingen in the Year of Our Lord 1508 at the age of 20 winters by a Regency of seven men, that being three free and notable men of the cities, two noble men, and two prelates. If God decrees that a Regency should again be required in His Grace's realm, it shall fol

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I think it is courtesy here to apologize for lengthy posts. I can tell you that there's no tl;dr; I hope that scrolling down something would catch your eye, and if I'm lucky, having read a paragraph enticed you to read more. I have very roughly tried to progress from the general to the particular; we know that the devil is in the details but it is the context that imbues it with significance. Words can only do so much to give a sense of a person, and I can hardly imagine a more anonymous place than a personals subreddit. If I may quote from a writer reflecting on his time as a drafted Vietnam war soldier,

>I confess that a large number of Americans I met in the Army amazed me by their differentness. I had not known their like before, nor have I met them since. Nothing else could have made me realize how narrow the circle in which we move in peacetime is. Most of us hardly get an inkling of how ninety per cent of our fellows live or think. Naively we assume that they must be like us or not very different.

And what is true about the American draft might be yet truer to the vast internet? Or is the variance narrower in Berlin?

My intention here is to give you as much sense of my person without you yet having met me. To read this fully will take you longer than reading other here ads, but less than riding the bike or U-Bahn to meet me, a ride that can be spared if you find something off in here lines from the comfort of your home or phone. If both of us are lucky, perhaps, on the contrary, it would give rise to that ride at the end of which two people, who did not know they missed each other, find each other and share a pleasant evening. And if we are very lucky, perhaps share many days thereafter.

=Introduction=

I'm a Russia-born, Israel-raised, 33 y/o (since two days!) who came to Berlin in 2014 for a master's and stayed here for work. A bit of an over-thinker, I love musing about and discussing the little and big things: how expectations shape our perception, how perception shapes our understanding of ourselves and the world; how attitudes are formed and how a given culture arises. The human mind, animal behaviour, culture, language, our political and economic system & its history have fascinated me since many years.

For my bachelor's I studied math and physics. The reason I chose that major was admittedly rather hoity-toity: I can't say it was the subject I was most interested in, but it was among the subject I was interested in and the on

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They were cooked in Greece.

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

#1504

Even from where he was sitting in the castle in Stuttgart, Ulrich could hear the drums, flutes, and chatter of the armies assembling around the Empire. He could hear them sing,

> Trum, trum, terum tum tum,

> Die Landsknecht zieh'n in Land herum.

> Trum, trum, trum tum tum,

> Mit Trommeldröhnen und Gebrumm.

from faraway Italy, where Maximilian once again gathered a force to do battle with the French. He could hear it to the north, in the Palatinates as armies gathered there, and to the east, where cannon began to roar in the War of Landshut.

In time, he would come to hear it from everywhere around him and, increasingly, from within. There was no possibility of Württemberg's being uninvolved in all the affairs of the Empire, as one of its great and powerful names. Ulrich, donning armor that was for now metaphorical, wondered if the long year of 1503 would ever end and if he could ever escape the shadow of 1501.

##The Council of Esslingen

(December 1503 - January 1504)

This was perhaps always destined to be "Short" Council of Esslingen.

The death of the Duke of Bavaria-Landshut and the resulting succession crisis and war sent Swabia, so recently plagued by peasant rebellion, into a panic. Calls for a meeting of the Swabian League were immediate, first by single worried knights or burghers but in quick succession by entire Rats of member City States and the Sankt Jörgenschild, beckoning all members who could to meet as soon as possible in the Free Imperial City of Esslingen am Neckar, as close to presently neutral but paralyzed Stuttgart as possible.

There, the small collection of Princes and army of burghers, knights, and observers, recognizing clearly that Württemberg was in a bad way, would beg Duke Ulrich to set the Duchy's affa

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

A play on words.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

Why

After all his first name is No-vac

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

When I got home, they were still there.

There hasn't been a post all year!