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brothermouse · 9 months

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Sunday doodles 7/23/23, Pioneer Edition

Handcarts are much easier to pull when they’re powered by a microscopic black hole and therefore aren’t subject to the forces of gravity

#lds #ldsart #ldsartist #mormon #mormonart #mormonartist #pioneer #pioneerday #aliens #scifi #scifiart #mormonpioneers #handcart #sundaydoodles

#tumblrstake #lds #mormon #mormon art #lds art #lds artist #mormon artist #weird mormon art #sunday doodles #pioneer day #mormon pioneers #pioneer #handcart #my art

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rabbitcruiser · 9 months

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After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young lead 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City on July 24, 1847.

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not-heavenly · 10 months

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The trek fits have got to be banned by the geneva convention

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thegreatzombieartisan · 1 year

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Rings of Power + Tolkien Fusion Meta

“Touching Darkness & Other Mormon Influences

Within the context of Sauron x Galadriel, the whole “touching the darkness” motif is very hot. However, it felt somewhat “off” as a main show theme. To be clear, it’s not bad thing in terms of storytelling for viewer experience. I like it. Just hmm 🧐

Here’s why: Tolkien may write a world where goodness can come from unexpected places, beauty can arise from tragedy, and people achieve great things to combat evil. Since his work is Catholic, he’d never create a world where evil things are necessary for life to change, grow, and thrive. In fact, few characters in lore “touch darkness” and return to the Light.

Case in point, Galadriel’s rejection of Sauron’s proposal. Canon demands it. While positioned as an act of empowerment, declaring him irredeemable actually reflects the darkness, the woundedness within her. She need not personally forgive Sauron. A Tolkien-esque redemption arc requires espousing “pity for the Devil”. To him, not even orcs are beyond forgiveness - should it be sought. To challenge this is to challenge Eru Illuvatar Himself (a Christian God).

Presumably, complicated grief diminished Galadriel’s empathy. It’s restoration, perhaps it’s already planned within her arc. RoP show runners claim they’re incorporating Tolkien’s themes, so we should see her pity Sauron, Adar, and orcs as part of her maturity. But I’m skeptical that show runners will as Tolkien would. We’ll see.

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"Touching darkness" reflects show runner JD Payne's Mormon beliefs

Naturally, a creative’s belief system and biases will influence their work. JD Payne confirms:

The gospel affects you as a person, and that affects everything you do….I feel it’s the same way with being a Mormon screenwriter [source]

In hardcore Mormonism, the Fall of Man had to occur in order for there to be mankind. Mortal life is a test for spirits, the God they believe created us was similarly tested, and so “touching the darkness” is necessary.

Some other notable Mormon-y influences points:

Elves as Mormon Church Elder-like. According to Ex-Mormon/Mormon Haladriels and subredditors: ritualistic disrobing ceremony of the Elf warriors on the ship to Valinor and instrumental music gives strong Mormon temple vibes.

Handcarts of the Harefoots part tells with pioneers are A Thing in Mormonism. Other cart types could’ve been chosen, just an observation.

White robes of the three (likely) Maiar sorceresses who appear to be members of Sauron’s RoP version of Melkorism

All the singing. Mormon founder Joseph Smith said the “the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me”. Thus, singing when Galadriel sails toward Valinor. Nori’s wandering song seemed akin to Tolkien’s wandering song. Disa singing is not a lore dwarf ritual but valid creativity in blank spaces.

@pursuitseternal Thoughts on this?

I’m acceptably versed in Catholicism (not a theologian) —not Mormonism. If you are a Mormon TRoP fan, feel free to weigh in the comment or DM

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#adar #saurondriel #doylist #critique #rings of power #galadriel #Sauron #trop meta #theological

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larkandkatydid · 1 year

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At the airport the day after daylight savings time and it’s snowing. Woe is me! I am like a Mormon Handcart pioneer walking across the Rocky Mountains.

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bookofmormonmemes · 1 year

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in response to this post:

[i.d. @sunshine-fox replies: "Wait are you related to the woman who put sea biscuits in the Dutch oven and had bread? In the Martin Willie handcart company? I think it was Sarah Rowling or something like that? If you are then we are related!" /end i.d.]

Yep, Ann Jewell Rowley! She was my fifth great grandmother (mother of the father of the father of the father of the father of the mother of my father XD) and I grew up feeling very special that my direct ancestor was so well known for the story of that miracle 😇 And I have two fun facts!

Both my paternal grandmother and my paternal grandfather are directly descended from pioneers in the same company! The Rowleys came from England and grandpa's side came from Denmark, and once they each joined the Martin Willie company they traveled together to Salt Lake. I always thought it was so crazy that these families have kind of been intertwined since the 1850s, but as far as I know didn't marry any of their kids together for over a hundred years XD

Ann Jewell Rowley is one of the favorite historical figures of a service missionary tour guide at one of the first Church buildings ever built in the UK! In 2019 I did a British Literature & Landscape study abroad with BYU, and we visited a number of Church history sites while we were there. At this building, the sister missionary was incredibly excited to tell the story of this particular pioneer and how her family first heard the gospel in this very chapel. And I got incredibly excited when she said the pioneer's name! It was such a wonderful experience to be standing in the spot where everything changed for the people who would become my family; the place that shaped so much of who I would become.

[i.d. a selfie of a white enby with short brown hair, wearing a black suit and yellow tie, standing in the Gadfield Elm Chapel. The chapel is made of pale mismatched bricks and filled with light brown wooden pews, with a large wooden door in the background. There are small stacks of hymnbooks on each pew. end i.d.]

#led #sunshine-fox #this is way late but yeah!#🥰

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cats-inthe-cradle · 2 years

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Hey all! Starting tomorrow I'm gonna be doing a 3 day media fast (which means no tumblr, its sad i know). I'm doing it to kind of start preparing for trek (a thing my church does every 5 years or so where all the youth go on a pioneer handcart trek for a week) which is in a little under a month. So I'm temporarily deleting tumblr off my phone so there's no temptation! (Or so I don't open it on habit when I'm bored 😅). Anyways, thought I'd just let ya'll know I'm gonna be unavailable for a few days, but I'll be back wednesday! Feel free to still tag me in stuff and I'll check it out when I get back!

#hope you all have a wonderful week!#cradle talks #cradle's stuff #im gonna have lots of uninterrupted time to work on the yaypril requests >:D

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cassettetapecryptid · 2 years

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Why did you wear pioneer garb for a week? 👀👀👀 (Just curious, but you don't have to answer if you don't want to!)

The church I was in did a weeklong hike in pioneer clothes and pushing handcarts so we could "experience the hardships the Early Saints went through" etc etc whatever.

I enjoy hiking and being out in nature so I would say that overall it was a pleasant experience for me despite the casual sexism and becoming lost with our handcarts down a ravine.

The clothes were definitely fun. We were wearing sneakers (thank goodness) but most everything else was as close to actual pioneer clothes as possible. I even sewed my skirts and apron!

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followjacobbarlow · 1 year

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Pioneer Handcart

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mediaronity · 2 years

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How mkototeni idea birthed an e-mobility firm

Kenneth Guantai pioneered an electric handcart and his company Auto Truck was recently given motor vehicle assembly status by the government. Source link

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divinum-pacis · 2 years

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A couple rides on a float with a handcart during the parade for Pioneer Day, an annual Utah holiday, on July 24, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

#religion #mormonism #the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints #mormons #pioneer day #utah #united states #north america #divinum-pacis

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brothermouse · 2 years

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Pioneer Day is coming up, and we're all familiar with the usual handcarts and covered wagon type pioneers. So this year, let's branch out a bit.

Tell me your nontraditional pioneer stories, either your own or someone in your family (friends count as family, obviously).

#tumblrstake #lds #mormon #lds church #ldschurch #just mormon things #queerstake #mormon church #ldslife #pioneer Day #pioneer #Mormon pioneers

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rabbitcruiser · 2 years

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After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young lead 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City on July 24, 1847.

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backfromvenus · 2 years

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Note #2611

on the oregon trail, many people starved or died from exposure. the bodies stayed, but the handcarts went on, buffeted forwards by the indomitable will of the pioneers. the westernmost territories are owned by skeletons, and their crowning achievement is salt lake city, a dead city neighboring its eponymous dead lake. tension grows between the living and the dead as the government moves to join the two halves of the interncontinental railroad at promontory point in 1869.

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blog-karl · 3 years

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Children's Biographies & Co-authoring with Dead Writers

Children’s Biographies & Co-authoring with Dead Writers

I’ve completed my third collaborative work and—again—I didn’t have any drama with my co-author, never have (probably doesn’t hurt that I’ve only worked with dead writers!). Last month I released the third title in my Young American Immigrants nonfiction picture book series for kids, Agnes’s Rescue: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl. It’s about my Scottish-Irish great-great-grandmother Agnes…

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companion-cube-76 · 5 years

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1 Corinthians 10

1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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Here's what I think is often forgotten when reading to these verses: basically no one he was writing to acknowledged a Jewish history and yet Paul tells them that as Christians they have inherited this legacy.

The same is true for us today: we also inherited this legacy and the legacy of faith from the pioneers in the 1800s that traveled to the Salt Lake Valley and other settlements.

#you don't have to push a handcart #pioneers #children of Israel #follow in faith #true to the faith #leap of faith #faith #faith in God #tumb1rstake #tumblrstake

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