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12 years ago
One of my favorite shirts to wear is a Burzum tee shirt with the Algiz rune directly underneath it. While I don't really enjoy that white supremacists and such people have hijacked runic symbols for their own means, I can certainly see why they have in this case, and that's because life is a really powerful, wonderful symbol.
I'd contrast the Algiz rune with the crucifix: the former is a symbol of life, and the latter is a symbol of tortuous death. Now, this journal isn't intended to be an attack against Christianity, simply because I'd like to fry that fish some other time, but I think it's really great that even today, even in this world, there are a few things out there that we can use to symbolize our unyielding desire to seize life and extract every last pleasure we can out of it.
Life is one of the very few things that unquestionably gives us all a sense of power, and wonder. I'm not really sure how to describe it, but I'd like to discuss something I experienced some months ago in Central America. I was on a beautiful beach just before sunset and myself and my colleagues had decided to go swimming. We left our stuff with this older American (well, I say American, but I mean white American) couple who we had met at our hotel some times before.
I noticed that the husband was reading Three Cups of Tea, and although I am not intimately familiar with the book itself, I had seen an interview with the author, and as you all know, I fancy myself as a bit of a south/central Asia enthusiast. So, me and this older guy shared a nice conversation about the future of the region and what it means for the US going into the future, before I joined my colleagues in the crystal clear, pleasantly warm waters of the Pacific Ocean, as the tangerine-colored Sun set in the distance behind us.
Afterwards, we dried ourselves off, nastily put clothes on over our bathing suits, and went to eat absolutely delicious meat and vegetables cooked over an open fire. Our tables were made of wood slabs and we kicked it with some other expats/tourists. Since this wasn't the US, there were a couple friendly dogs wandering around and hanging out at our feet, and in the darkness, we same a small group of horses waltz along on the beach, after having been let out for a while by their owners.
It was then that I felt like the biggest one percenter of my life, but that's besides the point.
This feeling of prosperity, beauty, achievement, friendship, internal strength, pride, and glory, is the greatest form of life as far as I am concerned, and a lot of who I am and what I do is based on attempts to seize that feeling and to raise it to even higher extremes.
This is why I wear the Algiz, and this is why, no matter how bad things get, I will never stop.
Hail Victory
Hail Freedom
Hail Satan
I'd contrast the Algiz rune with the crucifix: the former is a symbol of life, and the latter is a symbol of tortuous death. Now, this journal isn't intended to be an attack against Christianity, simply because I'd like to fry that fish some other time, but I think it's really great that even today, even in this world, there are a few things out there that we can use to symbolize our unyielding desire to seize life and extract every last pleasure we can out of it.
Life is one of the very few things that unquestionably gives us all a sense of power, and wonder. I'm not really sure how to describe it, but I'd like to discuss something I experienced some months ago in Central America. I was on a beautiful beach just before sunset and myself and my colleagues had decided to go swimming. We left our stuff with this older American (well, I say American, but I mean white American) couple who we had met at our hotel some times before.
I noticed that the husband was reading Three Cups of Tea, and although I am not intimately familiar with the book itself, I had seen an interview with the author, and as you all know, I fancy myself as a bit of a south/central Asia enthusiast. So, me and this older guy shared a nice conversation about the future of the region and what it means for the US going into the future, before I joined my colleagues in the crystal clear, pleasantly warm waters of the Pacific Ocean, as the tangerine-colored Sun set in the distance behind us.
Afterwards, we dried ourselves off, nastily put clothes on over our bathing suits, and went to eat absolutely delicious meat and vegetables cooked over an open fire. Our tables were made of wood slabs and we kicked it with some other expats/tourists. Since this wasn't the US, there were a couple friendly dogs wandering around and hanging out at our feet, and in the darkness, we same a small group of horses waltz along on the beach, after having been let out for a while by their owners.
It was then that I felt like the biggest one percenter of my life, but that's besides the point.
This feeling of prosperity, beauty, achievement, friendship, internal strength, pride, and glory, is the greatest form of life as far as I am concerned, and a lot of who I am and what I do is based on attempts to seize that feeling and to raise it to even higher extremes.
This is why I wear the Algiz, and this is why, no matter how bad things get, I will never stop.
Hail Victory
Hail Freedom
Hail Satan
