The Adventurous GIT

In my last post , I raised the alarm about Stephen McNallen's latest endeavor, which appears to not only involve partnering with out-lout-n-proud AltRight Red Ice Media, but utilizing Apocalyptic Rhetoric in order to push a racist agenda under a Heathen veneer. Now I'm sure everyone's curious about my closing statement from part 1, so let's get to the action. "[...]where I try to figure out just why McNallen's somehow willing to throw Wotan under the bus to achieve his goals." Transcript to follow - Video queued to begin in line with transcript (02:29 - 03:16) "Now, I happen to have been a follower of Wotan, under his name of Odin, for some 45 years, and my personal experience is that He is utterly real, if inherently mysterious. But I don't expect my Christian, or Atheist, or Agnostic, or Other friends to agree on that. Instead, I invite them to think of Wotan as Carl Jung, the famous psychologist, did: Namely, as an inherited ...

Recently on Facebook, a popular (and very good)  Mythology Page  shared two sets of pictures, and the reactions to both sets were extremely telling, with one picture in particular completely blowing up in terms of reaction and comments. The first set of pictures was from an amusing calendar (which you can, and should, pick up from the original artist HERE ) playing on a punny pin-up theme using the Norse Gods entitled "Dat Às." It's technically pronounced like "ace," and it means "God" or "Deity" in Norse, but you get the joke... So we have a series of beefcake images poking fun at the Norse Gods in a lighthearted way, and the biggest push-back I can find on this page is for the following image: Do you want me to put the hammer down?! The push-back involved a simple error on the artist's part: Using the "Ð" character for the "Th" in Thor, when it should have been "Þ". The difference is "Ð...

When our Adventure into Racism left off, we had not only  destroyed the underlying premise of race  in Point Number One, but the pseudoscientific premise of the argument was put out of it's pitiable misery with  a coup de grace  for Points Two and Three. All of that, a bag of crisps, and we're only halfway through the video! In all honesty, I felt compelled to write all of this specifically to address the content in the last half of the video. The goundwork has been done, the appetizers consumed, and the main course lies before us. Let's dig in and finish this in style, because if you're to wade into the racist pigpen for a rhetorical slaughtering, might as well do it with a smile. Going only a little  mad. I'm fine , really... Fair warning, kids: This will be the longest post yet, because we're going to rip the bandage off all at once and just get this finished. (Cued to line up with the topics discussed in this post) (06:23 - 06:30) "Poi...

No one has said life is easy or perfect. In fact, Heathenry is drowning in struggles and failures, and even winning can look like losing at times. If life were simple, Round One would be a TKO to the entire premise of Stephen McNallen's terrible, no-good, awful video and all the views contained therein. Remove the very basis of all his arguments about race and one should see the rest of the fragile, ego-stuffed Tower of Racism doing exactly what should've happened decades ago... We can let him do it gracefully, but he's still going to fall. But life isn't that simple, and I'm a glutton for punishment (and arguments!). So let's get back into it, shall we? (Cued to line up with the topics discussed in this post) (03:41 - 03:43) "Point Number Two: Race is Important." I'm going to take this opportunity to make some observations in general about racism and how it warps and twists itself to fit within the worldview that the racists an...