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Bledsoe Said So

18: One Episode To Rule Them All

Bledsoe Said So

Bledsoe Said So

Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week Nick and Ryan go down the hobbit hole and discuss the gnostic symbolism hidden in The Lord of the Rings.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In a hole in the ground, they lived a crystal. Are we?

0:26.7

Yeah, we're in.

0:27.6

We're doing it.

0:28.2

I never know.

0:29.3

For the record, I am just going to relish in this moment for a second because I, this is

0:35.5

like the pinnacle of episode themes for me personally what don't laugh at me

0:41.2

don't you laugh at me because the next episode is your favorite stuff no this this one's mine okay

0:47.3

and I'm just going to relish in it because guys today you probably seen by the title and

0:52.6

I'm sure we've at this point tweeted I'm

0:55.4

referencing us in the future we're doing a Lord of the Rings episode my favorite thing

1:01.7

of all time we're doing Lord of the Rings dude yeah honestly I never really thought it was that

1:08.8

esoteric I thought it was more like kind of Catholic

1:11.3

whatever. But after Nick sat me down, he was like, yo, this shit is so Gnostic. I'm pretty

1:17.4

excited to dive into it. Yeah, I've been particularly interested in Gnosticism lately. I don't

1:23.8

know. We kind of skip hop between like a bunch of different topics, a bunch of different. I mean, dude, we talk about so many, you know, new age concepts in this show. And we just jump from one to the other. But for some reason, like, Gnosticism, when I really started, because I, you know, one of our earliest. That was first episode. Yeah. Like literally.

1:45.2

Exactly.

1:45.7

Literally.

1:46.0

Um, shout out us in the past. Shout out us in the past. You guys are doing great. Keep it up. Yeah. Nah, but I, you know, we, we kind of breezed over it in the past and like it was really cool. recently uh just you know from researching for episodes or

2:03.4

whatever we we actually do a lot of research for the show um we try to make sure the stuff that

2:08.0

you know we we talk about is accurate um but but something about gnosticism just like really

2:14.5

grabbed me it's because it's true bro well yeah but, yeah, but I mean, more specifically for me, it's because, like, you know,

2:22.2

what I literally did was, I first I read the definition of Gnosticism, and then I started

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