My first thought was to make your ring and all sounds on the phone into various tribble sounds.

Yeah. My girlfriend called it too. "No matter what happens, she isn't coming back."

I had not seen that. Quite risible.

Heh Gollum is Judas. What he did was malicious, but it enabled the savior to carry out his mission.

Yeah. Tolkien didn't put in as cut-and dried allegory as Lewis. They were, however, both close friends and Christians. Frankly, I think that Aragorn draws from Jesus as well.

Needs more Donald Glover.

I may have to rethink my position on liturgical dance.

I would like to have read your whole post, but I am not sure that I can invest that kind of time.

I never even knew that Timothy Leary and Lawrence Welk collaborated on anything.

I guess that you don't want to hear that Gandalf is also a Jesus allegorical figure.

You can't go walking through Mordor in naught but your skin.

And that means comfort.

Does he need a minion? I am perfect for that! I am large, strong and nowhere near as smart as he is. I can pretend to be actually dumb if he desires it. Also, I could wear a fake hump.

My biology and geology profs had very different definitions of a species. Bio held to the one that you laid out, while Geo used a definition that separated them if they had morphological differences, were perfectly capable of interbreeding, but they did not do so because of geography or other reasons.

So, it was both an acoustical structure AND matches up with heavenly movements? That is quite an achievement. Do the other stone circles around Europe do the same thing, or is it just the charmingly half-demolished one that happens to dramatically contrast with its surroundings while also being easily accessible?

Well, we have mastery of electricity, and we got the tools to do so via evolution, so in a way I guess we do need it, in that it increases our advantage over other species.

I didn't say that evolution would perfect us. I said that it will give us everything that we really should have. That is the way that evolution works: if you lose something (like chimp strength) or never gain it (like Himalayan duck lungs), but you also don't go extinct, you have what you need.

And defense, entitlements, the postal service etc. are just hobbies?

I would take out Social Security, since reducing spending there doesn't increase the general fund. I mean that social security taxes pay social security and would not necessarily still be collected at all if it disappeared tomorrow.

Yeah, cut everything except the thing that I like! The thing that I like is the most important thing, and only a fool would cut it! The things that other people like are inefficient/immoral/stupid and the things that I like are great in every way.