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janiebelle -> RE: "Revealing" backgrounds in pics (6/26/2009 9:56:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MarsBonfire
janibelle,
Well, that is what the thread is about, after all. We see these things in people's profile pics, and we get the impression that these things are indicators of what their passions are in life... yet none of us know the whole story. For all I know, the comic books and action figures are their kids, who are away at college... the nazi hate books might have been for some research, The guns and knives might just be because they are sportsmen... (other might like that sort of thing, but I've always found hunting to be a crashing bore.)
And yes, I know what the Turner Diaries is. I read it after a friend of mine named Allen Berg got gunned down by some neo-nazis over twenty hears ago. The two SOB's responsible cited that book as one of their big inspirations. I read it just to see what kind of crap was spinning spiderwebs inside their heads.
Oh, and I left one out: If they have copies of Gor on the shelves, I know we have nothing at all to talk about.
The Berg murder (I can't believe it was really 25 years ago!) was a only one of many times the Pierce/MacDonald books have been cast into the light. Which I see as good and bad. After all, it is as important to study your opponent as it is to develop your own craft. And those who would base a philosophy on it would be stunned to hear that Pierce was not an impressive role model- he wrote the books for kicks and cash, and late in life admitted as much. Those Order/Bruder-Schweigen boys were tools of Lane and his ilk, who had a deep grudge against your friend.
I agree with your statement about the "snapshot" which is often innaccurate IRT the whole story. For example, on the same shelves as my Piece/MacDonald books and Mein Kampf sit a Qu'raan, a bible, novels and non-fiction by J Neil Schulman ,and the works of Gerry Spence. The Meat We Eat is next to Rifkin's Beyond Beef, and the hunting tomes are part of a good library on self-reliance. The Gun Digest books, the AFM for the M16, etc., they are no different from the Chilton manuals about my vehicles. No sport to any of that- it's about knowledge.
And the Gor thing, I won't even go there...that's hotter controversy around here than gun control, Christian Identity and the new National Socialism combined.
So, yes, I have to agree. That brief snapshot may make a very complex thing look distastefully simple. Or vice versa.
j
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