I'm assuming the level just below Sauron is the Nazgul and they are afforded enough autonomy and insight into Sauron's plans and preferred methods to manage things even in Sauron's absence. Additionally, I'm assuming the next level down for men in Sauron's army are chieftains with a hierarchy of officers down to the lowest soldiers.
I'm unclear how it would work for orcs, given that it doesn't seem that they have leadership other than a captain for a small band of orcs. It seems unpractical for the Nazgul to have to terrorize thousands of independent bands of orcs into submission and then micromanage them all on the battlefield. How does Sauron efficiently impose his will on large groups of orcs and then efficiently command them on the battlefield? Does he have humans in intermediate positions between Nazgul and orc captain?
As for trolls, are they subject to Sauron's will and fully incorporated into Sauron's military or just treated as captured non-sapient creatures and just released in the general direction of the enemy?
>Rats are the lowliest and most despised of all creatures.
What does "lowliest" mean here?
I'm starting to become a bit worried about my psyche. For as long as I can remember, I have had feelings of compassion even for the worst of the worst of people (you can probably figure out that this includes some truly reprehensible people). I don't know why. There's a big part of me that wishes their lives had not gone the way they'd gone and that they'd made better choices. Of course, I'm afraid to talk about these feelings, because typically that means these are people that society has shunned/will shun indefinitely. I don't have the same kind of compassion for them as people that I view as "innocent" or "good," but a certain level nonetheless. Why do I have these feelings? I've been taught all my life that bad people do not deserve my compassion, so why do I still feel it and is this a bad thing? Do not mistake this for me saying that I love these people, only that I pity them and wished they had done better, and still recognize them as human beings.
When we tell the story of the woman who touched Christ's garment, we can fail to explain the broader context: Christ pausing an exceedingly important task to care for even the lowliest person.
In verse 41 of Luke 8 we learn the daughter of Jarius is about to die. If Christ does not get there immediately, she will die. Could anything be more important or urgent? Christ and His companions therefore go quickly.
It was amidst this distress the woman touched Christ's garment. Christ had every valid reason in the world to not stop and comfort this unnamed stranger. Instead, despite the disciples' skepticism, He did pause to comfort her. He called her "Daughter". He told her, who had struggled with health problems for twelve years, "thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace".
In the midst of this delay, in verse 49 we learn it is now too late. The daughter of Jarius had died. Talk about a tragic situation for that family! However, Christ in complete confidence reminds them "Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole". Just a few moments latter and Christ brings her back from the dead.
This teaches me two remarkable lessons:
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There is nothing of such great importance or urgency on the eternal agenda, not even a life-or-death situation, that prevents Christ from showing love and compassion to even the lowliest person.
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Even if such compassion allows a life-or-death situation to play out, Christ is stronger than even death. If we believe, Christ has a way to overcome any tragedy.
I am very grateful for that woman showing such faith. It lets me know that I, as one of God's lowliest creatures, still matter to our Savior no matter how busy His agenda may be.
All livestreamed from Palestine. Once again we watch beautiful Palestinian children torn to pieces by Colonial American/Israeli munitions, turned in to scorched bundles of dirt, till you make out their teeth and eyes.
And in the Americas, the ongoing Colonial Dystopian Horror. Unprotected children will always feel the full weight of their racist words made into actions somewhere. You should have the measure of those who say 'oh well' to these things by now. The true meaning of their ideals needs to be screamed out and faced by all.
The Well Mannered Canadian Colonials child raping, murdering, land thieving reality alongside their made up Christianist, Catholicist criminal cults. Where Colonial NZ Founder the pedo Wakefield ran his cons. Same thing in America, South America, Australia, NZ where it all gets leapt over in favour of bullshit 'pioneer' myths or tech consumer pioneer myths of endless entitlement and no responsibility and no real history. Their 'Founding Fathers' didn't create anything out of thin air, they mass murdered and mass stole everything and got massive funding from European Empires rich of centuries of murdering and looting.
The Royal Mounted Colonials Police keep attacking tribes for well mannered Canadian Colonials. Their mining/gas companies continue thieving, abusing the tribes which have endured their criminality. Canadians export their racist exploitation around the world hiding behind corporate entities in teams with other Colonial State Scumbags.
America has just mass murdered untold Iraqis & Afghanis, Funded and incited white supremacist terror attacks globally through their criminal President Trump, joined in the turkey shoot of children (not a fucking 'war') & other innocents in the Palestinian Ghetto's they prop up in Trumpsville aka Israel. Still hoping for Tech Wonder Weapons for a super corporatism to allow them to run away from responsibility to Mars. Endlessly juvenile. When they ought to just turn to the tribes they live off and start repairing their foundations with all that energy as best they can. Then start undoing all the other damage.
https://twitter.com/AndreaLandry1/status/1398636336815476746
"Stop saying it’s a “dark chapter” in Canada’s history. Genocide is the main fucking plot in Canada’s history. And it continues today. "
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Feudalism is not Capitalism; why is it in modern fiction do we always hear about money being used by even the lowliest peasant?
If I look up "The history of money" there will be examples going back thousands of years, yet capitalism has not always been our principal economic model. I understand that the presence of money is not capitalism. What I'm struggling to understand is how money interfaced with feudalism. Somehow there exists a barter system, but also a money system underneath?
In modern fiction (video games, movies, books) the champion enters a tavern and slips the barkeep a few coins, and out comes the ale. A busy market is filled with shop-keeps hocking wares. A group of farmers is beset by bandits who raid them for their silver. Where is the barter system that supposedly prevails during this time period? If an enterprising peasant could buy his way to land ownership, or operate a business, how is this different from capitalism?
From the examples, I am interested primarily in how money functioned for the common man. What use did a peasant have for it?
I was just thinking of a game set in a RTS fantasy universe similar to Warcraft but you begin play as a guy who just popped into existence and is being yelled at to hurry up and collect wood for the town before "the Dark One" comes to kill you all!
You get a lumber axe and are pushed out the door to find wood. This part is more of an adventure game where you have to fight wolves and goblins with your axe and try to carry wood back to town, putting the wood down to fight now and then.
Someone in the field notices how good you are at fighting and is about to promote you but then suddenly you are turned into a cook and have to cook for the town's populace including the horses and harpies that come in through the lunch line (so its a meal preperation sort of thing). You get to be a builder and fight again, once again almost getting promoted.
I like the idea of the game breaking you away to do mini games of mundane things like fishing and cooking every time you almost get promoted to a higher type of unit kind of for laughs. Then the thing is to decide if you get further in the game by completing the mini games, eventually fighting enough to get promoted, or both?
I'm assuming the level just below Sauron is the Nazgul and they are afforded enough autonomy and insight into Sauron's plans and preferred methods to manage things even in Sauron's absence. Additionally, I'm assuming the next level down for men in Sauron's army are chieftains with a hierarchy of officers down to the lowest soldiers.
I'm unclear how it would work for orcs, given that it doesn't seem that they have leadership other than a captain for a small band of orcs. It seems unpractical for the Nazgul to have to terrorize thousands of independent bands of orcs into submission and then micromanage them all on the battlefield. How does Sauron efficiently impose his will on large groups of orcs and then efficiently command them on the battlefield? Does he have humans in intermediate positions between Nazgul and orc captain?
As for trolls, are they subject to Sauron's will and fully incorporated into Sauron's military or just treated as captured non-sapient creatures and just released in the general direction of the enemy?
