Showing posts with label heinrich himmler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heinrich himmler. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Hitler Was A Vegetarian

 

This is Emily Kohrs, the NewAge Jury Foreman for Trump's Georgia indictment. She doesn't look like much, but she is a reminder, even waifs are a mixture of good and evil: no different than the Nazis. If that seems like an extreme turn to take, I'll remind you it's one of the main lessons of World War II: humans accept what's not true (usually without challenge). They ignore or dismiss evidence, many times for mysticism. They're weak to dogma, mythology, and propaganda. And they act on what beliefs they form from terrible sources. Myself included. So, it's not a stretch for me to picture this young lady like this.


As someone who doesn't fit the ideal they purport to represent, but appreciates New Thought, Madame Blavatsky, and studying all the world's belief systems, and maybe even creating something of their own for today. A power in a fallen land, now under the influence of the NewAge movement, becoming so unethical, and so illogical, other citizens are rendered immobile. We feel little need to comment on it. We feel little need to do anything. Why demand anything of evil people who don't understand the concept of Do The Right Thing? They've already got what they wanted, as no one's punishing them for anything, and that's all that matters (to them) so there's nothing to be gained from wasting words. Especially when we'll be dead soon enough, anyway. Let them have what they've created. We know where this leads.


Putting distance between us, and allowing the fanatics as little opportunity to get near as possible, seems to be the only way to live out our later years, that are now, solitary, brutish, and - despite few trusting science anymore - longer than expected. 


An extension to this, so someone can exploit and abuse us - holistically - what a concept.


The U.S. is now MLK's American Dream, experienced as food poisoning.
 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Making A Fight For Survival (More Than A Show Again)


Yes, of course - for me - that was it. That made it all better:


The jingle they play over The Ricky Gervais Show's closing credits is one of the most whimsical little things I've heard in a long time. Not quite magical, but definitely great - especially for kids. 

I still wonder why parents let their kids listen to adult music, or garbage. Actually, no I don't. I flashed on Frank Zappa just now - a pretty successful parent by any standard - he told 'em: 

 So intellectually lazy, they can't search out more compelling art than "Sugar Walls" themselves, the hysterical mob (Frank referred to them as a possible "cult") always blames, and then tries to control, artistic output simply for the sin of making it.


But truth tellers still tell it, and it ain't always nothing nice.


Oh, we do nice. I woke up to Gospel this morning, sitting bolt upright, with a pain in my chest (the ulcer) but a three-day depression lifted. 

It was sweet.


The chest pains became stomach cramps after I whirled out of bed - snatching the sheets with me for the laundry - before hitting three days of dishes so I have nothing but a few errands, and then music, for the rest of the day. 

I'm talking sharp, organized, knowing exactly what I have to do - even what order to do it in - after depression's forced march through God's blessed "Valley of Death" again.


Dragging my ass through a world that barely registered as a distraction. "Babylon" meaning more like "babble on". I looked for distractions, which is how I found the Ricky Gervais song. 

Since I expect intelligence to be insulted, that soundtrack became one tiny dark vacation.


And now - in technicolor - it's all coming back.


And so am I - in *ahem* mind and body - it's a good feeling. 

Nothing about Jesus' (or Himmler's) beloved "spirit" about it:


I'm their primitive man, alright - the both of 'em - but in The Age Of Wonder:

And heading straight back to the future,...

Monday, March 22, 2010

Short Memories (But With A Long, Long History)

"An £8million exhibition chronicling the empire of the SS within the Nazi state opens next month in Germany at the Rennaissance castle that was once its spiritual home.

Organisers of the exhibition say its principal aim is educational and to ensure that nothing like it can ever occur again. The display will be the largest in the world devoted to telling the story of the Third Reich's murderous elite.

Wewelsburg Castle opens to visitors on April 15 and is where SS leader Heinrich Himmler brought together his senior officers.

He even installed a round table, coats of arms for his SS 'knights' and pagan ceremonies exalting his movement above all other world religions.

For the first time since the SS used the place the room where Himmler met with underlings to plot such things as the murder of the Jews in Russia and later in the extermination camps built in Poland, visitors will be allowed into the 'knights' room' where torchlit hocus-pocus rituals went on as the Second World War raged outside.

‘We regard this as an insurance for the future, hoping that comprehensive knowledge of such a criminal group will help preserve lives spent in peace and freedom, thus preventing such a force from ever being used against people again,’ said Manfred Mueller, the district adminstrator for Wewelsburg.

‘Although there was so much more to Wewelsburg than just the SS during its long history, this will be the first permanent exhibition in the world to address not just the crimes of the SS but its idealogical basis and involvement with science, art and its political and cultural ambitions.’

Wewelsburg, uniquely built into the shape of a triangle, was intended to be the ‘spiritual mecca’ of his SS order and Himmler constructed a concentration camp with slave labourers next to it to provide the manpower necessary to carry out extensive renovations on the centuries-old structure.

It will draw on hitherto unseen SS plans, schematic drawings, photographs, archive material, uniforms, letters and diaries and the testimony of servants and SS flunkies who attended his quack ceremonies both before and during the war.

Himmler was the epitome of the Nazi dichotomy: a killer with a romantic side whose time-travels into a dubious Germanic past made even his patron Hitler think he was a pfennig short of a Reichsmark.

In his capacity as supreme leader of the SS he consulted seers, fortune tellers, amassed the biggest private library of witchcraft books outside of the Berlin University - and immersed himself in the legends of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table."
-- Alan Hall, with more proof of the already-clear connection between NewAge and Nazism - two groups that have always been really, really concerned about healthcare and quackery - which no one "smart" pays any mind, besides me and The Daily Mail.

And now, just for the comic relief, here's another NewAge fool (and ObamaCare supporter) justa mixing-and-a-matching history and quackery with some real whoppers:



BTW - despite that it easily could be - this is not a continuation of my last post, or the answer to it, which will come up soon,...

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

NewAgers: Those Who Don't Think (Because It Takes Too Much Thought - And A Mirror)

"...Just as the Nazi attack on Christianity was part of a larger war on the idea of universal truth, whole postmodern cosmologies have been created to prove that traditional religious morality is a scam, that there are no fixed truths or 'natural' categories, and that all knowledge is socially constructed. Or as the line goes in The Da Vinci Code, 'So Dark, the Con of Man.'



The 'con' in question is, in effect, a conspiracy by the Catholic Church to deceive the world about Jesus’ true nature and his marriage to Mary Magdalene. The book has sold some sixty million copies worldwide. The novel, and movie, have generated debates, documentaries, companion books, and the like. But few have called attention to the ominous roots and parallels with Nazi thought.


Dan Brown should have dedicated his book to 'Madame' Helena Blavatsky, the theosophist guru who is widely considered the 'mother' of New Age spirituality as well as a touchstone in the development of Nazi paganism and the chief popularizer of the swastika as a mystical symbol. Her theosophy included a grab bag of cultish notions, from astrology to the belief that Christianity was a grand conspiracy designed to conceal the true meaning and history of the supernatural. Her 1888 book, The Secret Doctrine, attempted to prove the full extent of the grotesque Western conspiracy that The Da Vinci Code only partially illuminates. Christianity was to blame for all the modern horrors of capitalism and inauthentic living, not to mention the destruction of Atlantis.
 

Alfred Rosenberg’s Myth of the Twentieth Century, the second most important book in the Nazi canon, borrowed ideas wholesale from Blavatsky. Rosenberg lays out one Christian conspiracy after another. 'Before it could fully blossom, the joyous message of German mysticism was strangled by the anti-European church with all the means in its power,' he insists. Like Blavatsky and Brown, he suggests the existence of secret Gospels, which, had they not been concealed by the Church, would debunk the 'counterfeit of the great image of Christ' found in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

'Christianity,' writes Hitler in Mein Kampf, 'was not content with erecting an altar of its own. It had first to destroy the pagan altars.' It was 'the advent of Christianity' that first unleashed the 'spiritual terror' upon 'the much freer ancient world.'

Large segments of the cultural left today subscribe to similar notions.
For example, Wicca and paganism constitute the fastest growing religion and religious category in America, with adherents numbering anywhere from 500,000 to 5 million depending on whose numbers you accept. If you add 'New Age spirituality,' the number of Americans involved in such avocations reaches 20 million and growing. Feminists in particular have co-opted Wicca as a religion perfectly suited to their politics. Gloria Steinem is rhapsodic about the superior political and spiritual qualities of 'pre-Christian' and 'matriarchal' paganism. In Revolution from Within she laments in all earnestness the 'killing of nine million women healers and other pagan or nonconforming women during the centuries of change-over to Christianity.


The SS chief, Heinrich Himmler, was convinced that the antiwitch craze was an anti-German plot concocted in large part by the Catholic Church: 'The witch-hunting cost the German people hundreds of thousands of mothers and women, cruelly tortured and executed. He dedicated considerable resources for the SS to investigate the witch hunts and prove they were attempts to crush Aryan civilization and the true German faith. The SS put together what amounted to their own X-Files unit—dubbed Special Unit H (for Hexen, or 'witches')—to ferret out the truth of over thirty-three thousand cases of witch burning, in countries as far away as India and Mexico.


Indeed, most of the founders of National Socialism would be far more comfortable talking witchcraft and astrology with a bunch of crystal-worshipping vegans than attending a church social. Consider the Thule Society, named after a supposed lost race of northern peoples hinted at in ancient Greek texts. The society was founded as the Munich chapter of the German Order, and while its occult and theosophical doctrines were nominally central to its charter, the glue that held it together was racist anti-Semitism. Anton Drexler was encouraged by his mentor Dr. Paul Tafel, a leader of the Thule Society, to found the German Workers’ Party, which would soon become the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Its membership was a veritable Who’s Who of founding Nazis, according to Hitler’s biographer Ian Kershaw."
-- Jonah Goldberg, quoting from his own book, Liberal Fascism, in The National Review Online.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Occult Family Values

"So what kind of family produces a mass murderer? Answer: anyone’s family,...[Heinrich Himmler] was something of a prig,...homeopathy, spiritualism and the occult replaced Catholicism as his creed in adult life,...Living with a mistress as well as a wife (though he was so busy he saw very little of either) he advocated institutional bigamy for the "racially pure" SS."

From a review of the book, The Himmler Brothers.

This couldn't help but remind me of today's hipster hatred toward organized religion, while they also embrace the madness of NewAge spirituality, and the dangers of nonsense - any ol' lousy thing really - except boring ol' common sense and reason. "Homeopathy, spiritualism and the occult" - plus cheating and lying - don't sound like "anyone’s family" to me,...except The Addam's Family (above) The Royal Family, and the family of my french ex-wife (Really.)

O.K., O.K. - I'm joking:

The Addam's Family was far more grounded than The Royal Family, or my ex's,...and they also had stronger chins.