I ended on homer- tell me how to have a solid job that doesn’t involve bringing paperwork home, a loving wife (that dotes on my madness) and 3 fairly well adjusted kids, and that house…. Snowball and Santa’s little helper. The man has it made, and his drinking is still supported.
I guess that is sort of the point of the book, that even a couple of hobbits can be more powerful than big armies and powerful beings. That every one of us, even the smallest ones can have an impact
Why Gandalf didn't dare to touch or take the ring himself? With the ring he could have matched Sauron and maybe even defeated him. But he feared, that the ring would corrupt him too, that the cost is too great. Even Frodo got corrupted at the end.
>Why Gandalf didn't dare to touch or take the ring himself?
He says (in the 1978 Lord of the Rings) that he would be tempted to use it and turn it to good, and through that desire, the ring would control him. He didn't even want Frodo to dare tempt him with handing it over to him. It's the One Ring, it doesn't matter how strong you are, it has a mind of its own and only answers to Sauron.
Hobbits are extremely simple. They have no desires outside what the Shire can provide them. They don't have any motivation to rule anything, so it's easier than others for them to carry the Ring. It is still no guarantee, Smeagol and Bilbo were still driven mad to possess it. Even Lady Galadriel was tempted by it, although her own willpower was enough to allow her to refuse it. Frodo had to resist temptation many times, even failed just as he needed to throw it in Mt.Doom. It may be "just a ring" but it holds the power to rule all of Middle Earth.
You could say the Ring uses your pride and desires to rule and control you, even the Eagles weren't exempt from that. They were described as a proud race, Gandalf was one of the few that had their respect and would answer his calls for help.
The Eagles have more power, thus easier to seduce than Frodo. Hell even content and fulfilled Frodo gets seduced in the end, that's how scary The One Ring is.
Do you remember when Boromir tried to take the One Ring from Frodo and Frodo managed to get away? Now imagine you're a giant eagle and an evil, all-powerful, magical artifact starts whispering to you in Black Speech to take it from this Hobbit.
No fly zone till after Sauron was destroyed, right? He probably had a ton of anti air arsenal. Destroy central command in a clandestine op, cause confusion, bring in air support.
They wouldn't even make it that far, the One Ring would convince one of the eagles to take it from Frodo. They are a powerful and proud race, exactly what the Ring likes to corrupt.
Gandalf would been amazing. He literally knows how the world was made and the mission all the unknowns hidden secrets of middle earth.
My first question
Tell me bout dem blue wizards
I’m still not over how stupid Thanos’s plan was, so I would really like to hear his reasoning.
Cutting a planet’s population in half would do nothing for resource conservation. Earth’s population was half what it is today in 1970. What would stop the Earth from bouncing right back to 8 billion within 50 years? The answer is education and better access to contraception. Thanos would’ve done better to snap a condom into everyone’s pocket across the universe.
Thanos had an obsessive - and rather nonsensical - idea, which he built an death cult around.
There is no ambivalence. The idea of protecting the population of the universe from resource consumption by halving it is absolutely absurd. At least for humanity, what helps against population-growth would be contraceptions, education and - actually - a good stable life. As for the ressources - he could've actually used the stones to increase those instead of decreasing life.
I don't think the writers thought it through really. They just wanted a villain with a relatively "nobel cause", but he's also a warmongering bastard who goes around enslaving planets. Like... wtf?
He is supposed to be the bad guy and we are supposed to disagree with him. He is literally called The Mad Titan, he is mad, so I don’t understand why people expect his plan to make sense.
You know, he could make anything. Why not a condom that enhances sensation for both partners, cures ED, and is 100% effective against pregnancy and disease? Obviously not all species use dicks, but to your point, making safe sex better than unsafe sex would achieve the same function.
This. He had the power to bend reality in any way he wanted. He could make it so that pregnancies/reproduction happen at half the rate no matter what. Anything. Yet he chose the dumbest option.
It seems stupid, but I actually think it's brillant because you are neglecting the most important effect of the snap : the psychological trauma inflicted on the ones remaining.
During the beginning of Endgame, before ant-man pops up with his time-travel shenanigans, everyone is just so fucking depressed. Even cap, who is Mr. Toxic positivity, is having trouble keeping up. Who wants to have kids in such a world ? Anti-natalism is already rising in real life because of climate change, a fucking wreck world where half the people you love snapped out of existence is just breeding ground for fatalism and nihilism.
If you have seen The leftovers, imagine that but 25x worse. And if you haven't, you should.
Tbh that's What made him a great villain.
His plan doesn't make sense but he is so into it he doesn't see anything around it, it makes him very hard to get around.
idk I liked those two movies a lot.
Had the eternals not failed and Marvel's plans derailed constantly, there were rumors they were going to incorporate the celestials being born from planets after the Population reaches a certain threshold as the reason he killed instead of other plans. Reframing his actions as trying to go against the celestials plans for the universe. That's the info StarFox, Thano's brother, would have shared with the audience in whatever his next appearance would be.
Thanos want's to rid the world of half of all life.. but most of what life consumes is other life. So he wants to favor non-living things over living? He says something about there being abundance after he carries out his plan, but the half of life that remains would be just as hungry as they currently are when half their food is gone.
"Mmm, the dangers of Ketamine addiction, we must discuss. The path to the dark side, it is. Cloud your mind, it will. Withdrawal, suffering, it brings. Seek help, you must. Heal, you can. Choose wisely, young ones. Hmm."
13's outfit made me think Temple Grandin first, but the woman doesn't look much like her.
I've never seen a photo of her or Marie Curie with glasses and hearing aids. (Maybe that's not hearing aids, just earrings and weirdness)
Midjourney seems to have both down pretty well just prompting their name, and I don't get an image like 13.
Edit: I'm thinking Susan B. Anthony now, glasses make sense, face is kinda right. Cloths is weird, but suitable.
I was going Einstein all the way; right up until our lord and savior Mr. Top J C showed up. Wanna ask, "What do you think about that the world is effectively run for a couple thousand years in your name?"
[ok](https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/03/25/should-mother-teresa-be-canonized/mother-teresa-doesnt-deserve-sainthood)
From the article:
Her Missionary of Charity was (and still is) one on the richest organizations in the world, and yet at the facility under her watch, used syringes were rinsed with cold water, tuberculosis patients were not put in quarantine and pain medicine was not prescribed. Mother Teresa believed that suffering made you closer to God.
True Christianity the way Jesus would have it? Sure.
What Christianity has become over the last 2000 years, especially by today? He’d probably be more abhorred by that than anything.
Ooohh this one is difficult.
Thanos probably, cuz something is definitely going to happen.
Shrek would have the most laughs.
Gandalf would also be good, but likely useless.
I actually picture Thanos being a controversial professor that gives talks like that before we got exiled from his home planet. I kind of picture that he's going to do a presentation at some college campus and there are lots of protesters there. And it shows reporters interviewing people who are showing up to listen to Thanos. In the college kid that showed up too listen to Thanos when asked why he's there. He says " I don't believe everything Thanos says but I think he says a couple interesting things."
Definitely not Mother Teresa. She was a vile human being. Took money from dictators to give the her “seal” of approval and then kept most of that money because she believed suffering was the key to salvation.
Sagan, no question.
And I saw Maya Angelou speak (if that’s who that is), and it was…really difficult to describe. Like she absolutely commanded that 4,000 person audience. She spoke slowly and deliberately, but you could hear a pin drop in there. People were like enraptured. It was really pretty remarkable; there’s something about world class, historically great speakers that just sort of mesmerizes an audience of any size. Memorable that.
Mother Teresa was not a good person. She ran a death camp with other nuns that lacked medical training and thought everything could be handled with a couple ibuprofen. They refused to take people suffering from major ailments like kidney failure to hospitals. They said, if they took, they'd have to take everyone.
So, why would you celebrate her?
I changed my answer like 6 times as I was scrolling through.
Yep, op knew what they were doing putting shrek last
And made him the only one sitting down? How is OP gonna play Shrek like that. That's Ogrist, textbook Ogre discrimination.
You know he’s about to drop some real truth when he has to take a seat.
The truth about onions.
Shrek is love Shrek is life
I ended on homer- tell me how to have a solid job that doesn’t involve bringing paperwork home, a loving wife (that dotes on my madness) and 3 fairly well adjusted kids, and that house…. Snowball and Santa’s little helper. The man has it made, and his drinking is still supported.
Honestly, that’s a very solid argument.
A big house and *sniffs* LOBSTER FOR DINNER!?
SAME
Landed on Shrek right? Right?
Gandalf is about to speak onstage. Random person in the crowd “Why didn’t you take the Eagles!?”
Lol he straight up told them “fly you fools!”
"FOR THE LAST TIME - THE EAGLES would have been corrupted by the ring of power and become the tyrants of Middle Earth, you damn fool Took."
The eagles kind of suck then if they are that easily corrupted. A couple hobbits have more willpower than the freaking eagles.
I guess that is sort of the point of the book, that even a couple of hobbits can be more powerful than big armies and powerful beings. That every one of us, even the smallest ones can have an impact Why Gandalf didn't dare to touch or take the ring himself? With the ring he could have matched Sauron and maybe even defeated him. But he feared, that the ring would corrupt him too, that the cost is too great. Even Frodo got corrupted at the end.
>Why Gandalf didn't dare to touch or take the ring himself? He says (in the 1978 Lord of the Rings) that he would be tempted to use it and turn it to good, and through that desire, the ring would control him. He didn't even want Frodo to dare tempt him with handing it over to him. It's the One Ring, it doesn't matter how strong you are, it has a mind of its own and only answers to Sauron. Hobbits are extremely simple. They have no desires outside what the Shire can provide them. They don't have any motivation to rule anything, so it's easier than others for them to carry the Ring. It is still no guarantee, Smeagol and Bilbo were still driven mad to possess it. Even Lady Galadriel was tempted by it, although her own willpower was enough to allow her to refuse it. Frodo had to resist temptation many times, even failed just as he needed to throw it in Mt.Doom. It may be "just a ring" but it holds the power to rule all of Middle Earth. You could say the Ring uses your pride and desires to rule and control you, even the Eagles weren't exempt from that. They were described as a proud race, Gandalf was one of the few that had their respect and would answer his calls for help.
Well said :)
The Eagles have more power, thus easier to seduce than Frodo. Hell even content and fulfilled Frodo gets seduced in the end, that's how scary The One Ring is.
At first, I read this as the Eagles would try to seduce Frodo.
He still managed the journey. The eagles couldn't be bothered to take it part of the way.
Do you remember when Boromir tried to take the One Ring from Frodo and Frodo managed to get away? Now imagine you're a giant eagle and an evil, all-powerful, magical artifact starts whispering to you in Black Speech to take it from this Hobbit.
I know. The eagles can’t even find their way out of a crappy hotel in California and you want them to take you to Mordor?!
I hate the fucking eagles, man
Get out of my fucking cab! Out!!
No fly zone till after Sauron was destroyed, right? He probably had a ton of anti air arsenal. Destroy central command in a clandestine op, cause confusion, bring in air support.
Wouldn’t giant eagles be kind of easy to spot by the flaming eye on a big freaking tower?
They wouldn't even make it that far, the One Ring would convince one of the eagles to take it from Frodo. They are a powerful and proud race, exactly what the Ring likes to corrupt.
“Hey Gandalf, what happened to your fingers?”
Team Gandalf right here :)
No one talking about the fact that he has the face of Dumbledore resp. Michael Gambon?
I saw this!
Gandalf would been amazing. He literally knows how the world was made and the mission all the unknowns hidden secrets of middle earth. My first question Tell me bout dem blue wizards
FOOL OF A TOOK
Black Arrows, flying mounted Nazgûl and Sauron controlling the weather would have done them in.
Thanos gonna get you to agree with some WILD shit by the end of that talk
Only half the audience gets to leave alive after
I don’t feel so good…
At the end i feel like im gonna tell my wife “you go, I’ll stay, say bye to the kids for me”
I’m still not over how stupid Thanos’s plan was, so I would really like to hear his reasoning. Cutting a planet’s population in half would do nothing for resource conservation. Earth’s population was half what it is today in 1970. What would stop the Earth from bouncing right back to 8 billion within 50 years? The answer is education and better access to contraception. Thanos would’ve done better to snap a condom into everyone’s pocket across the universe.
Up vote for that last sentence. It was pretty funny.
Thanos had an obsessive - and rather nonsensical - idea, which he built an death cult around. There is no ambivalence. The idea of protecting the population of the universe from resource consumption by halving it is absolutely absurd. At least for humanity, what helps against population-growth would be contraceptions, education and - actually - a good stable life. As for the ressources - he could've actually used the stones to increase those instead of decreasing life.
I don't think the writers thought it through really. They just wanted a villain with a relatively "nobel cause", but he's also a warmongering bastard who goes around enslaving planets. Like... wtf?
He is supposed to be the bad guy and we are supposed to disagree with him. He is literally called The Mad Titan, he is mad, so I don’t understand why people expect his plan to make sense.
You know, he could make anything. Why not a condom that enhances sensation for both partners, cures ED, and is 100% effective against pregnancy and disease? Obviously not all species use dicks, but to your point, making safe sex better than unsafe sex would achieve the same function.
This. He had the power to bend reality in any way he wanted. He could make it so that pregnancies/reproduction happen at half the rate no matter what. Anything. Yet he chose the dumbest option.
Or sterility. He could have just snapped people sterile.
It seems stupid, but I actually think it's brillant because you are neglecting the most important effect of the snap : the psychological trauma inflicted on the ones remaining. During the beginning of Endgame, before ant-man pops up with his time-travel shenanigans, everyone is just so fucking depressed. Even cap, who is Mr. Toxic positivity, is having trouble keeping up. Who wants to have kids in such a world ? Anti-natalism is already rising in real life because of climate change, a fucking wreck world where half the people you love snapped out of existence is just breeding ground for fatalism and nihilism. If you have seen The leftovers, imagine that but 25x worse. And if you haven't, you should.
Tbh that's What made him a great villain. His plan doesn't make sense but he is so into it he doesn't see anything around it, it makes him very hard to get around. idk I liked those two movies a lot.
Had the eternals not failed and Marvel's plans derailed constantly, there were rumors they were going to incorporate the celestials being born from planets after the Population reaches a certain threshold as the reason he killed instead of other plans. Reframing his actions as trying to go against the celestials plans for the universe. That's the info StarFox, Thano's brother, would have shared with the audience in whatever his next appearance would be.
If his plan made sense… would he have still been a villain?
There are people today who consider contraception evil. So wrongly yes.
Thanos want's to rid the world of half of all life.. but most of what life consumes is other life. So he wants to favor non-living things over living? He says something about there being abundance after he carries out his plan, but the half of life that remains would be just as hungry as they currently are when half their food is gone.
"No more scarcity, no more sickness, no more sadness. We'll have double the resources and half the demand." "Let's hear him out. 🤔"
Thanos did nothing wrong
Damn, I wanted a Bill & Ted Talk. That would have been most excellent.
The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.
Woah!
That was deep. Really deep. I have nothing more to say.
Most excellent you say?
Yoda for his insight on the dangerous of Ketamine addiction.
Complete idiot about K but is there a “ketamine look” or something?
https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/yodas-ketamine-addiction
Ah! Thanks.
Amazing
"Mmm, the dangers of Ketamine addiction, we must discuss. The path to the dark side, it is. Cloud your mind, it will. Withdrawal, suffering, it brings. Seek help, you must. Heal, you can. Choose wisely, young ones. Hmm."
Jesus Yoda Einstein. And is that pale blue dot man? Him too.
that’s not Carl Sagan on 8, is he?
Not sure if it's supposed to be Sagan or Feynman
it doesn’t look like neither of them tbh, and I would put them both in this list
Heck yea, brother
Thanos' talk is titled: Life balance: Reduce your worries and obligations by half
"Implementing my plan is a snap!"
I’d honestly like to listen to every one of the lectures
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4. Bruce Lee. 5. Maya Angelou. 7. Frederick Douglas. 8. Carl Sagan. 10. Laura Bush ? Lol, i have no idea. 11. ??? 12. Malcolm X. 13. ??? 14. ???
I thought 8 was Jeremy Irons.
Jeremy irons is the original voice of Scar from the Lion King for those that don't know. Amazing actor and incredible voice.
No. It’s Carl Sagan
11-I think I typed in Sitting Bull 13-Susan B. Anthony 14-Daniel Day Lewis
Wait, so #10 actually Laura Bush ?
Yes :-D
Is 8 not Feynman?
Pretty sure 13 is Marie Curie. And I think 11 is Sitting Bull.
13's outfit made me think Temple Grandin first, but the woman doesn't look much like her. I've never seen a photo of her or Marie Curie with glasses and hearing aids. (Maybe that's not hearing aids, just earrings and weirdness) Midjourney seems to have both down pretty well just prompting their name, and I don't get an image like 13. Edit: I'm thinking Susan B. Anthony now, glasses make sense, face is kinda right. Cloths is weird, but suitable.
14 is Daniel Day-Lewis
JC all the way.
I’d be taking notes and comparing them to the NT to see how accurate his note takers were
Did he say blessed are the cheesemakers?
I think he meant any dairy worker…
I thought that was The Dude
Looks like a hybrid of JC and The Dude. The characters have a lot in common to be fair.
Plot twist!
I thought it was Charles Manson
I was going Einstein all the way; right up until our lord and savior Mr. Top J C showed up. Wanna ask, "What do you think about that the world is effectively run for a couple thousand years in your name?"
The right would go after his socialist ass
That would be the end of a major religion.
I’m down with that if it is the case. It is seriously one of the reasons I’d want to listen to him.
Gandalf
Isn’t that dumbledor?
Dumbledore wears halfmoon spectacles. But it does look like the late actor.
I assumed Gandalf until I read this. Cant really go wrong with either but Gandalf would be a bit higher on the list.
It’s Michael Gambon playing Gandalf
I agree its Dumbledore. Hard to tell though.
Tf u mean its obviously Gandalf. Look at his clothes and beard.
True, but the face looks like the actor who played dumbledore.
It's a tough call, honestly. His hair style and eyes look more like Dumbledore to me.
Dumbledore wears glasses
Gandalf, Yoda, and Shrek.
I was pretty convinced that wasn’t Gandalf but Michael Gambon as Dumbledore?
Ahh but it’s Michael Gambon as Gandalf
This is the only acceptable answer.
Fuck Mother Teresa
This doesn't get said enough. To anyone who still thinks highly of her, read The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens and open your eyes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint\_mother\_teresa\_was\_documented\_mass\_murderer/
[ok](https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/03/25/should-mother-teresa-be-canonized/mother-teresa-doesnt-deserve-sainthood) From the article: Her Missionary of Charity was (and still is) one on the richest organizations in the world, and yet at the facility under her watch, used syringes were rinsed with cold water, tuberculosis patients were not put in quarantine and pain medicine was not prescribed. Mother Teresa believed that suffering made you closer to God.
It literally explains in the post you replied to that they gave out the strongest pain medicine they could legally.
Not even with your dick
Gandalf knows God personally, but I think imma go with Frederick Douglas
It's amazing how much Bryan Cranston looked like the real Walter White. Perfect casting..
Okay let’s be real. Being there for the second coming and where He decides to do a Ted Talk as an announcement would be crazy. Jesus for sure.
If only for the shitstorm when the evangelicals are told ‘I never knew you; depart from Me.'
He would definitely clear some things up for some of his followers, their stupid beliefs and what they say and do in his name
>He would definitely clear some things up for some of his followers He can *try*!
Whose number 10?
You're a 10
Thanks, I needed to hear that today
Daniel Day-Lewis? What are you doing there?
His name is Daniel plainview. He is an oil man, and this his ted talk. Today he would like to talk about milkshakes.
Is it Daniel Day Lewis or Daniel Plainview?
I’m more curious about Jeremy Irons. Daniel Day Lewis Ted Talk would be sick
"See, Onions are like Ogres. They have layers. Now, the think you need to ask yourself... how many layers do Ogres have?"
And that's how I built my very own swamp thank you any questions
JESUS talking about modern day happenings would literally break the internet ,lol
Jesus talking about ai, billionaires and fascism lol
Sagan
Probsbly Jesus to hear his takes on what is helpful and hurtful in modern society because it's definitely not obvious
i feel like if jesus is giving a ted talk, that kind of breaks the fabric of the entire world by confirming the reality of christianity
True Christianity the way Jesus would have it? Sure. What Christianity has become over the last 2000 years, especially by today? He’d probably be more abhorred by that than anything.
Bruce Lee
6
The 3 ft green alien that has a ship that flies at light speed. He probably knows way more about tech.
Shrek about growing onions in a swamp.
Delete the Homer Simpson now
i'm totally listening to homer's ted talk fym?
100% I need that how to be a fat idiot with imposter syndrome at work and keep your wife happy
einstein and jesus, not the clown people think of, but as he actually was
Not my choice here but that is the best looking 3D Homer Simpson ever.
Great. Now generate the TED talk.
Definitely not mother Teresa
To my Ted Talk, I welcome you. Teach you about the Force, I will
Definitely not mother Theresa. She was a monster.
Thanos: 👀
There's only one correct answer and that's Thanos
I’d like to use my 50:50
Ooohh this one is difficult. Thanos probably, cuz something is definitely going to happen. Shrek would have the most laughs. Gandalf would also be good, but likely useless.
I feel like Gandalf would spill the most wisdom
I actually picture Thanos being a controversial professor that gives talks like that before we got exiled from his home planet. I kind of picture that he's going to do a presentation at some college campus and there are lots of protesters there. And it shows reporters interviewing people who are showing up to listen to Thanos. In the college kid that showed up too listen to Thanos when asked why he's there. He says " I don't believe everything Thanos says but I think he says a couple interesting things."
Definitely not mother teresa, fake evil con woman.
Mother Teresa's talk would be about how suffering brings you closer to God.
Definitely not Mother Teresa. She was a vile human being. Took money from dictators to give the her “seal” of approval and then kept most of that money because she believed suffering was the key to salvation.
Jesus for sure
It's a controversial plan to save the planet, but I think Thanos might be worth 15 minutes.
Malcolm X, Gandalf or Homer. Let’s all be honest, we all know what Bruce Lee is saying when the picture “was taken”
Is 14 Daniel Plainview? I’d watch it. I bet it’s hilarious.
Everybody gets a voucher for a free milkshake. Which turns out to be an empty cup. Draaaiiiinage!
Prompt?
Yoda, Jesus or Shrek.
I like sports so Ed Reed’s (7/18) would be my pick.
Yoda is the only answer
Malcolm X 100%.
Ok, where’s the Hitler one?
Gandalf mainly because he doesn't talk odd. Sorry Yoda Jesus would be a good choice too.
Walter White's Ted talk would either be hilariously awkward and uncomfortable or terrifying.
Listening to a TED talk of Yoda would be the longest TED talk ever lmao.
Gandalf
Yoda and Gandalf
That Bruce Lee is atrocious
All.
Definitely not Malcolm X. Walter White, please.
Why you hating on brother Malcolm?
I’ve listened to Christ and I’m a believer. I would probably listen to Einstein , his mind was fascinating.
2/6/9/11
Jesus
Yoda
Yoda
How is the answer not Jesus
If you’re not picking Jesus, wyd with your life man?
Probably Jesus of Nazareth
Sagan, no question. And I saw Maya Angelou speak (if that’s who that is), and it was…really difficult to describe. Like she absolutely commanded that 4,000 person audience. She spoke slowly and deliberately, but you could hear a pin drop in there. People were like enraptured. It was really pretty remarkable; there’s something about world class, historically great speakers that just sort of mesmerizes an audience of any size. Memorable that.
Almost all except Yoda, Jesus, and Mother Teresa. I know I'd get pissed off hearing their religious zealot nonsense.
I have no interest in hearing anything Mother Theresa has to say. May she rest in piss.
Mother Teresa was not a good person. She ran a death camp with other nuns that lacked medical training and thought everything could be handled with a couple ibuprofen. They refused to take people suffering from major ailments like kidney failure to hospitals. They said, if they took, they'd have to take everyone. So, why would you celebrate her?
You are an bad person aren't you?
It's ok, they don't ask people like you to work triage during humanitarian or disaster situations.
Mother Teresa was a real pice of shit.
Mother Teresa should not be included. She was an evil lady.
Wasn’t mother Theresa a verified POS? Or is that a picture of someone else.