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Senior consultant with a zest for inventiveness and a brain for the challenges we face. Avid ethics professional.
Real Name: Peter Eduard
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In these dark times, where I feel forced to deal with issues I find basically wrong, and having to engage at levels I find to be beneath me or am loathe to use;

I take some solace in the thoughts of Tolkien, as he describes a person that chooses to sort of “stay out” in dire times:
Tom Bombadil
“Tom Bombadil is not an important person – to the narrative. I suppose he has some importance as a 'comment'. I mean, I do not really write like that: he is just an invention (who first appeared in the Oxford Magazine about 1933), and he represents something that I feel important, though I would not be prepared to analyze the feeling precisely. I would not, however, have left him in, if he did not have some kind of function. I might put it this way. The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship, moderated freedom with consent against compulsion that has long lost any object save mere power, and so on; but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control. But if you have, as it were taken 'a vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself, watching, observing, and to some extent knowing, then the question of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless. It is a natural pacifist view, which always arises in the mind when there is a war. But the view of Rivendell seems to be that it is an excellent thing to have represented, but that there are in fact things with which it cannot cope; and upon which its existence nonetheless depends. Ultimately only the victory of the West will allow Bombadil to continue, or even to survive. Nothing would be left for him in the world of Sauron.”
January 17, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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Aftensstemning i #Downtown #Faaborg
November 29, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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This years October party - Bavarian style.
November 16, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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Visited a 250 yo school museum with my daughter.

Back then school was free and compulsory for children aged 6 and up. No gender differences.

No litany practices but a focus on understanding the world and its people and natur (farming).

The teachers were not allowed to strike or punish the kids
November 16, 2024 at 8:49 AM