It's probably a really good idea to open up the endlessly raging Bombadil controversy. Well so what, Tolkienian cosmology is fascinating. To some extent he's a deliberate enigma. Personally I favour the idea, if he's explicable at all, that he's the spirit of Arda itself or at least the foremost of a number of more provincial spirits. There are competing theories, but it's not really possible that he's a Maia.

Certainly there were any number of Maiar still knocking around at the time of the Fellowship: Gandalf, Saruman, et al; Sauron; Durin's Bane; Gwaihir; arguably Shelob (half-Maia at best); and depending on how widely you want to define 'in Middle Earth', Arien & Tilion (the bearers of the sun & moon), presumably Osse & Uinen, etc.

Bombadil calls himself, and the elves agree, 'eldest', and he claims to have been around before Melkor, who was definitively the first of the Ainur to descend into the circles of the world. He's unaffected by, and not really interested in, the Ring, unlike the Maiar who come into contact with it in the course of the story.

Ilúvatar set the Secret Fire, which gives sentient creatures their fëar or souls, burning at the heart of the world. I can't see an origin for Tom that doesn't derive directly from that, given that at the point he appears in the chronology there's very little else in existence.

I don't know what all this makes Goldberry.

Not entirely true, there is evidence of localised flooding around the arabian peninsula, however it pre-dates the chronology of the 'noah' period by thousands of years.

I cant recall the exact region, but it occured when the ice sheets that used to cover that area receded, it might have something to do with how the dead sea was formed? My memory is shaky on the specifics to be honest, but a giant flood did happen, albeit localised . Nothing to do with spooky sky ghosts or anything like that, just the end of the last ice age around the time that man and mammoth both walked the lands.

I'm not a fan of Shyamalans work anymore, especially after the Happening (and I didn't even bother to see The Last Airbender), but the guy definitely had something special about his work. It's something that would make me a fan of his again if he returned to making films with that certain something.
I really didn't have a problem with The Village, Unbreakable, or even Lady in the Water, even though that last one I really had to try to get through. If you look at his films chronologically, that spark of different imagination slowly dwindles out until he did Airbender (the first film by someone other than himself).
Even The Happening, being the final straw for me, was still based around a topic that was insanely imaginative and interesting if it had been done in the right way. Lady in the Water had a cast of, like, 5 people, and took place entirely in one shitty apartment complex, but it was still insanely weird in that Shyamalan-way.
That aspect of his work is what made his pre-Airbender films truly unique. I guess if you're going to fail, might as well fail by doing something no one else will.

looks like cdimetry may have also done a mass upvote of ps videos today as they are all in a chronological order by date. Looks awfully suspect.

http://videosift.com/member/cdimetry/votedup

Tremendous amount of ignorance in here; not the faggoty liberal 'being a meanie' ignorance, but the dictionary definition 'you don't know what the fuck you're talking about' ignorance.

There's very little room for multiple interpretations of Islam. The Qur'an was written by a single (insane) author; with clear instructions on how to interpret it - literally; and how to resolve any inconsistencies within the text - the chronologically later passage supercedes the earlier.

The various Islamic sects differ over the authenticity of the Hadith, accounts of Momo's opinions and behaviour, which they are expected to emulate. None of them dispute the authority or the text of the Qur'an, which they imagine to be the infallible word of god.

There are peaceful, conciliatory passages in the Qur'an; which generally date from early in Muhammad's career, when he wasn't so secure in his position that he could afford to be a total cunt to non-believers. There are violent, xenophobic passages in the Qur'an; which generally date from later in Muhammad's career, when his success as a warlord left him far better placed to be a total cunt to non-believers. The chronologically later passages supercede the earlier.

The favorite example is At-Tawbah 5, the 'Verse of the Sword'; from the chronologically penultimate surah of the Qur'an it scrubs out any earlier peaceful passages by commanding that Muslims:

"fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)"

THIS IS WHAT ALL MUSLIMS BELIEVE

There's a peculiar general tendency to conflate the violent historical practice of other religions, like Christianity, with the actual scriptural commandment to violence of Islam. These are not equivalent. In any case the big M positioned Islam as a continuation and successor of Christianity and Judaism, admitting the validity of their prophets and texts, so it has to inherit their crimes as well.

Ultimately, all the religious are criminals. In abandoning reason and responsibility for their own actions, in turning over their volition to the dictates of invisible spirits, they have disposed of ethics and their own humanity.

"Than" is the word you were looking for. "Then" is chronological, than is comparative.

I wanted to see this going forward.. backwards is better

Chronological version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJK2E5emZQ

I wonder what it's called. Kinda like how tiltshift really isn't just sped up.

"Compressed Chronological Reality" maybe.

>> ^bareboards2:

As if. Insurance rates for male drivers under age 25 dispute that notion.

Incorrect. While one may be able to argue that attention seeking behavior contributes to this phenomenon, it would be incorrect to state it is the cause. If you would like to state that it is the sole cause of increased insurance prices, you would be required to cite your data.

In reality, the need for increased aggressive and competitive tendencies in males, particularly in those in a prime stage chronologically, is a result of the need to assure that the most physically ideal male is granted reproductive precedence in a biological capacity. This is the primary reasoning behind said insurance rates.

You dumb piece of shit.

what order do you take commands in ? doesn't seem chronological. Twat bot.

*length=40:12

I bet that wont go. get an upgrade

>> ^Yogi:

I hate that kids tried as adults thing. That line has to be stricter or something, it absolute bullshit how 18 is the line and we just ignore it.

It needs to be not at all strict. That's the whole problem. Kids are tried as adults based on the severity of the crime committed, instead of the mental capacity of the individual (usually). The legal notion of "adultness" defined at some arbitrary chronological age is insanity given what we (as a scientifically informed society) know about human development.

Chronological order? I am skeptical.

There is another view, including outside views, referenced from the article @eric3579 links to. This one was posted by Pavel Belyaev, with description googletranslated as follows:

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To avoid any rumors or speculation on the fact of the events which occurred in our showroom April 7, 2012, we decided to provide full information about the incident, the chronology of events and make videos taken by surveillance cameras inside the cabin, and on the street.

The application and the timing of events http://www.pelican.ru/uploads/smi/smi2.pdf
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq-Tqf_UnFo

The pdf describes the driver as a regular customer, Kustov Michael A., born in 1971, an obstetrician-gynecologist. It also says that before the incident he had been kept waiting for his car, but not excessively. If you don't read Russian, put the URL of the pdf into google translate and it will convert it.
>> ^harpom:

source please.

>> ^PHJF:

Are you forgetting that GRRM himself said the books are not in chronological order, and that events written as if separate (and indeed in separate books) are often happening simultaneously? It's a side effect of following five thousands characters that don't share each and every scene with one another.


That's true, but it doesn't really start happening until after the second book and becomes full-blown in the fourth and fifth.

Are you forgetting that GRRM himself said the books are not in chronological order, and that events written as if separate (and indeed in separate books) are often happening simultaneously? It's a side effect of following five thousands characters that don't share each and every scene with one another.