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		<title>Multiracialists Are Crazy, part 1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Alfred Strom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kevin Alfred Strom CRAZY PEOPLE say some really funny things, if you like absurd humor. A crazy person may believe that locomotives are actually made out of marshmallows. Or he may think that the only reason we can&#8217;t drink bleach without harmful effects is because we haven&#8217;t prayed to the right deity in precisely [...]]]></description>
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<p>CRAZY PEOPLE say some really funny things, if you like absurd humor. A  crazy person may believe that locomotives are actually made out of  marshmallows. Or he may think that the only reason we can&#8217;t drink bleach  without harmful effects is because we haven&#8217;t prayed to the right deity  in precisely the right manner. And some lunatics are quite intelligent  in their way, and may be able to produce creative and internally  consistent arguments at some length to justify their positions, even if  their premises are quite nutty. And all that&#8217;s good for a laugh.</p>
<p>For example, one Flat Earth believer insisted that the Earth was  two-dimensional and shaped like a plate. And he could even explain how,  on this plate-shaped Earth, people could apparently travel in a straight  line and eventually end up back at their starting point. &#8220;They simply  fall off the edge,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and since the Earth is two-dimensional  with no thickness whatsoever, they &#8216;fall&#8217; into an area comprising <em>no space at all</em> and reappear instantly on the opposite side of the plate to resume their straight-line journey back to their starting point.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;But,&#8221; someone objected, &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t people <em>notice</em> all this &#8216;falling off&#8217; and being transported across thousands of miles?&#8221;</p>
<p>But the Flat Earther had an answer for that. &#8220;No, they wouldn&#8217;t,&#8221; he  continued. &#8220;Since the area &#8216;off the edge&#8217; of the Earth comprises no  space, it therefore takes <em>no time</em> to traverse it, and the traveller is not even aware of his movement.&#8221;</p>
<p>All very logical, of course, if you accept the man&#8217;s premises. Even ingenious. But still completely insane.</p>
<p>We can laugh at our Flat Earther. And we should laugh at the  multiracialist who believes that all human races are &#8220;equal,&#8221; or that  &#8220;races do not exist,&#8221; for his ideas are equally kooky &#8212; and are even  more at variance with observed reality than the Flat Earther&#8217;s. But  crazy people are funny only at a distance. When they&#8217;re in the same room  with you, you start getting nervous &#8212; and for good reason. If they  ever get the upper hand over the sane people, then it&#8217;s <em>really</em> time to worry.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all well and good for kooks to spout their theories behind  padded walls or in isolated basements. But when they have the power to  hold your wife and children on the railroad track so they can sample the  delights of the rapidly-approaching marshmallow locomotive, then they  become deadly. When they require us all to drink bleach because the  right gods have been propitiated, then they are homicidal. And when they  decide that &#8220;races don&#8217;t exist&#8221; or that &#8220;we&#8217;re all the same&#8221; and then  start opening our borders and making social policy and propaganda to  encourage racial mixing, then they are genocidal &#8212; and they must be  stopped.</p>
<p>Eventually, we&#8217;ll have to remove all such people from positions of  power. For now, I think that one of the best weapons against them is  laughter &#8212; the demonstration that multiracialist ideas are indeed quite  insane. This will help build the consciousness and confidence of Whites  who have remained rational &#8212; and it will jar some of the good but  miseducated folks who accepted multiracialism back into sanity. Let&#8217;s  take a look at some of the multiracialists&#8217; lunacy.</p>
<p><strong>Groupthink: Suppressing Real Thinkers</strong></p>
<p>Much of what passes for writing and education today contains an  implicit assumption that is totally erroneous: the assumption that it is  somehow &#8220;immoral&#8221; to recognize the reality of the inequality of the  human races.</p>
<p>First of all, I see no validity whatsoever in any moral system which  condemns free inquiry, rational thought, or recognition of ascertained  facts. And I am going to question such pernicious nonsense wherever it  appears.</p>
<p>To our shame, there was once a religio-legal system in place in the  West which imprisoned or killed persons who questioned the existence of  transubstantiation or demons (and many other fantastic delusions, too  numerous to list). I have publicly condemned that system, and continue  to do so, and obviously do not want it to return.</p>
<p>But we <em>are</em> returning to it, in a way.</p>
<p>We of the West are now veering toward the establishment of the  doctrine of &#8220;equality&#8221; &#8212; racial, and other varieties as well &#8212; as a  kind of secular religion. The &#8220;hate crime&#8221; laws which are now being  imposed by the elites&#8217; hired legislators (with the acquiescence of the  boobs) are part and parcel of the new faith: Like most priesthoods, the  prime movers of the &#8220;equality&#8221; hoax have a yen to punish, imprison, or  kill those who question their profitable racket. In some countries, like  Canada and Germany, they already have that power. (The same thing  applies to belief in &#8220;the Holocaust,&#8221; another faltering styrofoam prop  of the current establishment.)</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Racism&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>A precursor to the legal persecution of those perceptive enough to  realize that neither individuals nor races are, or should be, &#8220;equal&#8221; is  the promotion (only begun in the last few decades, by the way) of the  idea that such &#8220;evil&#8221; thoughts constitute &#8220;racism&#8221; and that &#8220;racism&#8221; is  an awful awful bad thing &#8212; mustn&#8217;t do or Daddy spank. Slowly the idea  is being added that not only is &#8220;racism&#8221; veddy veddy bad, but it is also  somehow illegal.</p>
<p>Preposterous? Well, demons, witches, and transubstantiation are  preposterous, too, but hundreds of thousands have been killed by  &#8220;well-meaning&#8221; folks fired up for blood by an utterly false and insane  belief system. I don&#8217;t want it to happen again.</p>
<p>There is no evidence whatsoever that the human races are equal in  intelligence (or in many other characteristics), and in fact it would be  a bizarre anomaly of Nature if they were. After many thousands of years  of divergent evolution in vastly different environments, it would be  astounding if we found the human races to be &#8220;equal&#8221; in physical  structure or mental conformation. The whole concept of the evolution of  life by branching and speciation depends on the ever-flowering <em>inequality</em> of races or subspecies. This applies to <em>every</em> form of life and, frankly, it&#8217;s not quite sane to believe it doesn&#8217;t apply to human beings.</p>
<p>There should be no moral opprobrium attached to the stating of this obvious fact.</p>
<p>I once had a multiracialist &#8220;explain&#8221; to me the consistent failure of  Blacks and Mestizos to achieve at a level comparable to Whites. He  said: &#8220;The <em>only</em> reason they could possibly fail is if they are discriminated against.&#8221; So, in his mind, &#8220;equality&#8221; of the races is a<em> given</em>, an almost divine law of the universe. The only reason we don&#8217;t have racial equality in the real world &#8212; the <em>only</em> reason &#8212; is &#8220;discrimination&#8221; by Whites. He then went on to demonize  &#8220;discrimination,&#8221; as if it were a Satanic thing practiced by Whites for  the sole purpose of preventing his perfect heaven of &#8220;equality&#8221; from  coming into being.</p>
<p>But racial &#8220;discrimination&#8221; merely means choosing between races for  some purpose. For example, when the founding fathers of this country  instituted the Naturalization Act of 1790 (in effect until treasonously  abrogated in 1952), which explicitly stated that only members of the  European race could become citizens of the United States, they were  certainly <em>choosing</em> in that sense. They were trying to ensure the  practical fulfillment of what had been stated in the Constitution: that  this new nation was for their &#8220;sacred posterity&#8221; &#8212; that is, the actual  lineal descendants and kin of the European men and women making up this  nation. They <em>chose</em> not to give their new nation, purchased at the cost of so much blood and toil, to others.</p>
<p>If you are an American basketball coach engaged in a bidding war to  award &#8220;scholarships&#8221; to some of the lengthier African tribesmen, you too  are engaged in racial &#8220;discrimination,&#8221; though of the crassest  commercial sort.</p>
<p>Discrimination merely means choosing between alternatives. The  expression &#8220;discriminating shoppers,&#8221; meaning &#8220;intelligent shoppers who  care about quality,&#8221; survives in American English as a reminder of the  original meaning of the word in the days before the insanity really got  started.</p>
<p>Racial &#8220;segregation&#8221; &#8212; which multiracialists condemn as even more  terrible than discrimination &#8212; is, of course, the state of affairs  which obtained between the races, wherever they intersected, for  millennia before the advent of multiracialism and the equality cult.  Absent laws forcing their association, the vast majority of the members  of <em>all </em>human races segregate themselves quite naturally. An  examination of high school lunchrooms &#8212; or metro area neighborhoods &#8212;  in &#8220;racially diverse&#8221; areas will easily confirm this.</p>
<p>Before the racial &#8220;equality&#8221; nuttiness came on the scene, people  organized their societies that way naturally without even thinking about  it. Even today, Whites who are as &#8220;liberal&#8221; as you can get without  actually being off your rocker still make housing purchase decisions in a  manner absolutely indistinguishable from <a href="http://nationalvanguard.org/donate/">contributors to National Vanguard</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s unconscious. It&#8217;s biological. And it really has nothing to do  with  &#8220;hate&#8221; &#8212; and everything to do with divergent evolution.</p>
<p>If you are not free to discriminate, you are not free to choose.</p>
<p>If you may only discriminate when an authority says your choice is  based on what the authority says is &#8220;relevant&#8221; (as in &#8220;best qualified  for the job&#8221; or &#8220;able to pay,&#8221; or whatever), then <em>you are a slave to that authority</em>.</p>
<p>I prefer the principles of the founders of my nation, the United  States of America, which give me the freedom to choose and to decide for  myself what is relevant and what is not.</p>
<p><strong>Persecution, Hate, and Conflict: Caused by Multiracialism</strong></p>
<p>Multiracialists often claim that racial realists like us want to  persecute and dominate other races. As far as persecution and domination  are concerned, I&#8217;m absolutely against them. <em>They implicitly assume a multiracial society</em>.  Wherever two or more races are required to live under the same  government, there is always racial conflict and claims of domination or  &#8220;unfairness.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once every race has its independence and freedom, and its own  territory, such things will be as rare as racial conflict is in Iceland  or Japan today. The <a href="http://nationalvanguard.org/about/">Maxim of Self-Determination</a> <em>eliminates</em> and <em>makes impossible</em> persecution and domination of one people by another to the same extent  that it facilitates racial separation. It&#8217;s in the forced multiracialist  states &#8212; which sadly includes most of the White world these days &#8212;  where racial conflicts erupt. <em>The multiracialist belief is the precise opposite of the truth.</em></p>
<p><strong>The Law</strong><em><br />
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<p>Multiracialists condemn the former American laws which, until quite  recently, prevented marriage between members of different races. Laws  forbidding racial intermarriage were, as Jefferson stated, an  unfortunate necessity because of the proximity of the races &#8212; unless  one was willing, as the Founding Fathers and most Americans throughout  history were not, to accept the genocide, by mixing, of one&#8217;s own race.</p>
<p>Jefferson, along with many other founders and also Abraham Lincoln,  thought that the best answer was racial separation on a continental  scale: that is, repatriation of Africans to the land of their ancestors,  or, in the interest of economy, their transportation to the island of  Santo Domingo in the Caribbean.</p>
<p>Multiracialists reject the rational and humane vision of the  Founders. They dream of racial mixing as an ideal &#8212; they dream of  racial mixing like some people dream of the Second Coming or winning the  Publisher&#8217;s Clearinghouse sweepstakes. They dream of racial mixing as  if it will usher in a new, ideal world of good and virtue. They are  dangerous, crazy people. One actually told me once: &#8220;When we have mixed  our gene pools enough, probably 10 or 20 generations from now, we will  all be pretty close to the same color. End of the race issue.  Interbreeding between races improves genetic vigor and dilutes  race-specific defects&#8230; I am doing my part, as often as is practical.&#8221;</p>
<p>I am glad that such multiracialists forthrightly admit that they want  the genocide and extinction of our race &#8212; most of their ilk are not so  honest.</p>
<p><strong>Fantasy Future</strong></p>
<p>But I am afraid that their dream of the one happy mixed race of the future is a hopeless fantasy.</p>
<p>Wherever racial mixing has occurred on a large scale, the result has  not been one harmonious mixed race, but exactly the opposite. New racial  combinations come into being, with multiple layers of stratification,  and there is a tremendous increase in racial conflict. (Spike Lee&#8217;s <em>School Daze</em> dealt with this process of race-formation and stratification among Mulattos and Blacks.)</p>
<p>India, which has now spun off into four separate nations, with at  least another two about to be born in blood, is a good example; as is  Brazil, where they are now <a href="http://nationalvanguard.org/2010/10/google-street-view-brazil-random-corpses/">shooting unwanted Mulatto children like mad dogs in the streets</a>,  with the apparent approval of many in all social classes, who are now  so degraded that they only wish to see life go on with a minimum of  trouble.</p>
<p>Those are not futures I would wish on my children. The only way to  prevent them is to preserve the European racial character of our nation.</p>
<p><strong>&#8216;Race Does Not Exist&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>Multiracialists like to claim that since many racial traits have no  hard-edged geographic boundaries, that therefore &#8220;race does not exist.&#8221;</p>
<p>I am sure that few would assert, because the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere  possesses no hard-edged boundary with the emptiness of interplanetary  space, that the atmosphere does not exist or that it is identical to a  vacuum.</p>
<p>The boundaries between pre-man and man were also not hard-edged when  we were diverging from our pre-human ancestors. That racial division led  to a <em>very</em> significant speciation indeed.</p>
<p>There is also an infinite series of gradations and no hard-edged  boundaries between Lake Itasca, the Mississippi River, the Gulf of  Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean. I think we shall have to agree, though,  that it is not wicked to regard the Atlantic Ocean as different in many  most significant ways from Lake Itasca. And there are special rooms for  people who seriously believe that these gradations somehow prove that  the Mississippi River doesn&#8217;t exist.</p>
<p>And, further, there is a very long series of gradations of life forms  between pond scum and the Queen of England, and the precise divisions  we make between all of these life forms are to some degree &#8220;social&#8221; and  arbitrary. But they are also useful; they describe real hereditary  distinctions of structure and behavior; and they have greatly increased  our understanding of the Life processes which allowed something not too  dissimilar from pond scum to eventually<em> become</em> the Queen of England.</p>
<p>It is also true that chemical waste dumps blend to some extent with  ground water, and that without extensive tests you cannot be sure that  your well water is <em>absolutely pure</em>. But that is no excuse for  pouring in a quart of dioxin, or for claiming that dioxin is &#8220;the same&#8221;  as water. That&#8217;s essentially what the multiracialists are doing to our  gene pool.</p>
<p>Everyone who acknowledges the evolutionary process acknowledges that  races exist. (It&#8217;s only when we come to the ever-so-sensitive topic of <em>human</em> races that religious and political delusions make some avert their eyes from reality.)</p>
<p><strong>The Engine of Evolution</strong></p>
<p>Race-formation is the very engine of evolution itself. Without it, Life as we know it would be impossible.</p>
<p>Due to mutations and the actions of natural selection on existing  variations, new types develop. When these varieties become significantly  distinct, we call them<em> races</em> or <em>subspecies</em>. When they  become even more distinct, diverging to the point where interbreeding is  the exception rather than the rule, or even becomes impossible, then we  call them a new species.</p>
<p>All mammals had a common ancestor (now extinct), and there are now many species of mammal. Therefore <em>all existing mammal species must have gone through a race-divergence process</em>, evolving into many different subspecies and eventually new species.</p>
<p>Note that we are applying hard-edged concepts (species, subspecies) upon what is really a continuous <em>process</em>, the <em>branching process</em> of divergence and speciation.</p>
<p>This divergence has certainly happened to the human races, and indeed  it would be a biological wonder approaching the fantastic if it hadn&#8217;t.  In fact, <em>it is still happening</em>.</p>
<p><strong>The Most Significant Question</strong></p>
<p>The really interesting question isn&#8217;t where we hang the precise labels of race and species, though.</p>
<p>The question of greatest significance is this:</p>
<p><em>Will we, through our social policies and our popular mythologies,  allow this branching process to continue; or will we attempt to  terminate it?</em></p>
<p>Speciation is a gradual process which could not happen without race-formation. It&#8217;s absurd to deny this.</p>
<p>Race-formation occurs even in beings not possessing a consciousness,  such as plants, and in fact took place for many millennia before the  development of consciousness in any form. Astoundingly, all of this  happened despite the fact that the big-brained multiracialists weren&#8217;t  provided with a definition of race that suited them.</p>
<p>To claim that we must precisely or genetically define races before we  acknowledge their existence is equivalent to claiming that Amazonian  tribesmen may not distinguish between food and offal because they  haven&#8217;t studied the chemical structures thereof.</p>
<p>Actually, it&#8217;s even more ridiculous than that: it is equivalent to  claiming, because the tribesmen can&#8217;t make the requisite molecular  diagrams, that there actually<em> is</em> no difference between the waste products of a chicken and its eggs.</p>
<p>So multiracialism is an absurd and dangerous body of ideas, bound to  be  ultimately fatal to any people that embraces it for long.</p>
<p><strong>Cui bono?</strong></p>
<p>The Jewish supremacists who dominate our media have promoted  multiracialism 24 hours a day for two generations at least. Yet,  clearly, from their opposition to Jewish intermarriage and their support  of the racial-nationalist-supremacist state of Israel, we can see that  they clearly do not believe in such insanity themselves.</p>
<p>So why do they promote it to <em>us</em>? Their culture is one of infiltrating and altering the other cultures within which they live. What they promote for <em>us</em> is based on what they <em>want us to do. </em>And what they want us to do is <em>not</em> what is best for us, but whatever they believe is best for <em>them</em>.  That &#8212; like their talent for haggling over the price of a carpet in a   Levantine market, or for getting the rubes to think the pea is   definitely under the third shell &#8212; may ultimately be genetic.</p>
<p><em>To be continued</em></p>
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		<title>Edgar Allan Poe: Cosmotheist?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kevin Alfred Strom A READER recently wrote: &#8220;I share your enthusiasm for Poe, but I do not understand how he is a Cosmotheist.&#8221; I regard Poe as an instinctive, intuitive Cosmotheist thinker, though he did not construct or expound a religion or philosophy based upon his ideas as did William Pierce and others. Consider [...]]]></description>
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<p>A READER recently wrote: &#8220;I share your enthusiasm for <a href="http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2009/01/edgar-allan-poe-cosmotheist-thinker-white-racialist/">Poe</a>, but I do not understand how he is a Cosmotheist.&#8221;</p>
<p>I regard Poe as an instinctive, intuitive Cosmotheist thinker, though he did not construct or expound a religion or philosophy based upon his ideas as did <a href="http://www.solargeneral.com/eugenics.htm">William Pierce</a> and others.</p>
<p>Consider Poe&#8217;s words from his &#8216;prose poem&#8217; <em>Eureka</em>, which he held to be one of his most important works, though it is among his most ignored today. Poe makes many errors in <em>Eureka</em>, but few that cannot be excused by the limited scientific knowledge of his day. He didn&#8217;t have the facts available to Pierce, <a href="http://home.mindspring.com/~logosecho/">Romer</a>, Dawkins, Cattell, or even Shaw and Nietzsche; but he did see far more deeply than most writers of his time. Some of his intuitive insights are astounding.</p>
<p>One of the central ideas of Cosmotheism is that Man&#8217;s consciousness is but part of the emerging self-consciousness of the universe. Poe, who also seems to anticipate the idea of entropy in this passage, said:</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8216;Now the very definition of Attraction implies particularity &#8212; the existence of parts, particles, or atoms; for we define it as the tendency of &#8220;each atom &amp;c. to every other atom,&#8221; &amp;c. according to a certain law. Of course where there are no parts &#8212; where there is absolute Unity &#8212; where the tendency to oneness is satisfied &#8212; there can be no Attraction: &#8212; this has been fully shown, and all Philosophy admits it. When, on fulfilment of its purposes, then, Matter shall have returned into its original condition of One &#8212; a condition which presupposes the expulsion of the separative ether, whose province and whose capacity are limited to keeping the atoms apart until that great day when, this ether being no longer needed, the overwhelming pressure of the finally collective Attraction shall at length just sufficiently predominate&#8230; and expel it: &#8212; when, I say, Matter, finally, expelling the Ether, shall have returned into absolute Unity, &#8212; it will then (to speak paradoxically for the moment) be Matter without Attraction and without Repulsion &#8212; in other words, Matter without Matter &#8212; in other words, again, Matter no more. In sinking into Unity, it will sink at once into that Nothingness which, to all Finite Perception, Unity must be &#8212; into that Material Nihility from which alone we can conceive it to have been evoked &#8212; to have been created by the Volition of God.</p>
<p>&#8216;I repeat then &#8212; Let us endeavor to comprehend that the final globe of globes will instantaneously disappear, and that God will remain all in all.</p>
<p>&#8216;But are we here to pause? Not so. On the Universal agglomeration and dissolution, we can readily conceive that a new and perhaps totally different series of conditions may ensue &#8212; another creation and irradiation, returning into itself &#8212; another action and reaction of the Divine Will. Guiding our imaginations by that omniprevalent law of laws, the law of periodicity, are we not, indeed, more than justified in entertaining a belief &#8212; let us say, rather, in indulging a hope &#8212; that the processes we have here ventured to contemplate will be renewed forever, and forever, and forever; a novel Universe swelling into existence, and then subsiding into nothingness, at every throb of the Heart Divine?</p>
<p>&#8216;And now &#8212; this Heart Divine &#8212; what is it? <em>It is our own</em>. Let not the merely seeming irreverence of this idea frighten our souls from that cool exercise of consciousness &#8212; from that deep tranquillity of self-inspection &#8212; through which alone we can hope to attain the presence of this, the most sublime of truths, and look it leisurely in the face.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>Poe explicitly rejects the idea of an anthropomorphic God, and ridicules the idea of a God with a human-like body:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8216;The force which carries a stellar body around its primary they assert to have originated in an impulse given immediately by the finger -– this is the childish phraseology employed -– by the finger of Deity itself. In this view, the planets, fully formed, are conceived to have been hurled from the Divine hand, to a position in the vicinity of the suns, with an impetus mathematically adapted to the masses, or attractive capacities, of the suns themselves. An idea so grossly unphilosophical, although so supinely adopted, could have arisen only from the difficulty of otherwise accounting for the absolutely accurate adaptation, each to each, of two forces so seemingly independent, one of the other, as are the gravitating and tangential.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>Poe refers to God repeatedly as the God of Nature &#8212; not of scripture &#8212; though he differs from Cosmotheists and Pantheists when he suggests that Nature and God are distinct:</p>
<blockquote><p>For my part, I have no patience with fantasies at once so timorous, so idle, and so awkward. They belong to the veriest <em>cowardice </em>of thought. That Nature and the God of Nature are distinct, no thinking being can long doubt. By the former we imply merely the laws of the latter.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>However, he posits a universe in which God and the divine stand outside of time (an idea that Savitri Devi was to elaborate) and in which all natural laws and all occurrences within time are connected by a chain of what I would call crystalline inevitability and can one and all be subsumed under the word &#8220;Law.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8216;But with the very idea of God, omnipotent, omniscient, we entertain, also, the idea of <em>the infallibility </em>of his laws. With Him there being neither Past nor Future -– with Him all being <em>Now </em>–- do we not insult him in supposing his laws so contrived as not to provide for every possible contingency? -– or, rather, what idea <em>can </em>we have of <em>any </em>possible contingency, except that it is at once a result and a manifestation of his laws? He who, divesting himself of prejudice, shall have the rare courage to think absolutely for himself, cannot fail to arrive, in the end, at the condensation of <em>laws </em>into <em>Law </em>-– cannot fail of reaching the conclusion that <em>each law of Nature is dependent at all points upon all other laws, </em>and that all are but consequences of one primary exercise of the Divine Volition. Such is the principle of the Cosmogony which, with all necessary deference, I here venture to suggest and to maintain.</p>
<p>&#8216;In this view, it will be seen that, dismissing as frivolous, and even impious, the fancy of the tangential force having been imparted to the planets immediately by &#8220;the finger of God,&#8221; I consider this force as originating in the rotation of the stars: -– this rotation as brought about by the in-rushing of the primary atoms, towards their respective centres of aggregation: –- this in-rushing as the consequence of the law of Gravity: –- this law as but the mode in which is necessarily manifested the tendency of the atoms to return into imparticularity: -– this tendency to return as but the inevitable rëaction of the first and most sublime of Acts -– that act by which a God, selfexisting and alone existing, became all things at once, through dint of his volition, while all things were thus constituted a portion of God.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>And <em>that</em> I would call an early and distinct intimation of <a href="http://cosmotheism.net/">Cosmotheism</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[NIETZSCHE QUOTE BANNED: At Temple College in Texas the philosopher Nietzsche&#8217;s words — Gott ist tot (&#8220;God is dead&#8221;) — have been ordered removed from literature Professor’s Kerry Laird&#8217;s office door because they were called &#8220;offensive&#8221; by a complainant. As Inside Higher Ed comments, &#8220;If quotes that some find offensive can’t be displayed, how many [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>NIETZSCHE QUOTE BANNED:</strong> At Temple College in Texas the philosopher Nietzsche&#8217;s words — <em>Gott ist tot</em> (&#8220;God is dead&#8221;) — have been ordered removed from literature Professor’s Kerry Laird&#8217;s office door because they were called &#8220;offensive&#8221; by a complainant. As <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/11/04/nietzsche">Inside Higher Ed</a> comments, &#8220;If quotes that some find offensive can’t be displayed, how many philosophers would be safe to quote on a door at Temple?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Toward the Stars</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Alfred Strom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by  Kevin Alfred Strom  (American Dissident Voices radio program, October 5, 1992) TODAY I WILL step back from the minutiae of social and political issues, and attempt to answer what are really the ultimate questions. Why should we or anyone else make sacrifices for our nation or our race? Why is it important for our [...]]]></description>
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<p>TODAY I WILL step back from the minutiae of social and political issues, and attempt to answer what are really the ultimate questions. <em>Why </em>should we or anyone else make sacrifices for our nation or our race? <em>Why</em> is it important for our race to survive? What is our basis for saying that some acts are <em>right</em> and <em>good</em> and others are <em>wrong</em>?</p>
<p>I can think of no better way to introduce this subject than with an essay written by Mr. Martin Kerr entitled, “White and Proud&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p><span id="more-89"></span>&#8220;There is a lot of talk these days about Black pride, Jewish pride, Hispanic pride, even gay pride. In fact, there is only one major segment of the population which is not encouraged to take pride in its heritage and in the achievements of its ancestors. That group is the White race.</p>
<p>&#8220;The lack of White pride is truly a sad and strange thing because no group has more to be rightfully proud of than the White people of the world. The glories and greatness that the men and women of our race have won over the centuries should serve as a source of eternal pride and inspiration to White people everywhere.</p>
<p>&#8220;Since the dawn of history we have been a mighty race of builders, explorers, artists, warriors, inventors, philosophers, and cultivators. We have sailed the seas, tamed vast wildernesses, scaled towering mountains and journeyed to the depths of the ocean and into the cold void of outer space. We have built great civilizations, created breathtaking works of beauty, and made the deserts bloom. The technological achievements of our people &#8212; from the megalithic calendar of Stonehenge to the moonwalk of the Apollo astronauts &#8212; are unequaled. We have devised sublime philosophies, conquered deadly diseases, and performed soul-stirring acts of heroism and self-sacrifice.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are the race of Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Beethoven, and Homer. We are the sons and daughters of Leif Erikson, Christopher Columbus, Sir Francis Drake, and Magellan. We are the folk of Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Washington, and Robert E. Lee. We are the descendants of Pythagoras, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, and Darwin. Just to list the great accomplishments of our race would require the work of a lifetime. No one has more to be proud of than we do.</p>
<p>&#8220;In order for an individual to be psychologically healthy, he or she must have a clear-cut sense of identity and self-worth. And for our race as a whole to be strong and healthy, White people everywhere must develop a sense of racial identity and racial worth. There is no better way to obtain this very necessary level of racial awareness than in having pride in your people and their accomplishments.</p>
<p>&#8220;So take pride in your race, pride in what we have achieved in days gone by &#8212; and pride in what we will yet accomplish as we reach for the stars.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>There is something about our race which makes us indisposed to brag or talk very much about our accomplishments. We feel it is &#8220;bad form,&#8221; or bad manners, and furthermore we see it as a sign of weakness. Our instinct tells us that the inferior man will flap his gums and tell the world how &#8220;great&#8221; he is to cover up his lack of real achievement and character. The superior man has no such need. And we often apply this principle to our race and our nation as well as to individuals. We see excessive chauvinism or nationalism as ungentlemanly and somehow suspect.</p>
<p>This reticence, which may be allied to our race’s inborn tendency to seek out objective truth and discount subjective feelings, seems a fine and noble thing, and it has served us well and made life more tolerable during the millennia that our people lived almost exclusively among our own kind. But in the distinctly unnatural environment in which White Americans now find themselves, where we are mixed with and jostled by a thousand different tribes and peoples in what used to be our country, this reluctance to &#8220;blow our own horn&#8221; can work against us. An <em>unspoken</em>, instinctive acknowledgment of our own preeminence is no longer enough. Our instinctive pride of race and nation is now attacked on all sides by peoples who have no such reticence and among whom the virtue of humility is unknown.</p>
<p>An entire generation of Americans has grown up in an environment in which the news media, the entertainment and music industries, the major publishing houses, and the public school system have all spoken with one voice and that voice has said: “White people are the cancer of the Earth. They have enslaved and killed and polluted and destroyed everything they have touched. There are no differences between the races except skin color. White people have no right to keep their nations White. White people have no right to live and work among their own kind. There is no reason for the White race to survive. Racial mixing is the inevitable wave of the future. White racial feelings are a manifestation of ultimate evil. It would be better if all the races mixed so there would be an end to the White race and thus to White racism.”</p>
<p>It is vital that our young people be given an antidote to this alien poison. It is vital that they be given back a pride in their people, and the will to survive <em>as</em> a people in the dangerous, hostile world into which they were born. That is the mission of this program.</p>
<p>I know that Americans are reluctant to speak about race. I know that they look over their shoulders and lower their voices when about to utter an unapproved opinion. But we must overcome this reluctance. In our present situation it can only be described as suicidal.</p>
<p>We must succeed in the mission of this program because we <em>must</em> survive as a people. In ages past no one needed to explain that. We knew it in our hearts, in our souls. We knew we must survive. It was the unspoken assumption that made our work worthwhile, our cooperation necessary, and our patriotism vital and alive.</p>
<p>In today’s urbanized, globalized, money-oriented, multiracial society, though, we have lost touch with our souls, with our true inner spirit, with our instincts. We are more… &#8220;rational.&#8221; We demand answers and reasons for everything.</p>
<p>Western man stands at a point of crisis brought on partly by his own spirit of reason and partly by the aliens and traitors who have purposely shaken his will to live. For today we ask ourselves, “<em>Why </em>should we survive?”</p>
<p>And the answers given to that question, even by the most sincere, are usually incomplete and unsatisfactory. Often they depend on an interpretation of ancient religious writings, the relevance and meaning of which are subject to endless debate and disagreement.</p>
<p>There must be an answer to that question which does not contradict our true spiritual feelings and which also does not contradict the observed facts of Nature.</p>
<p>“Why should we survive?” implies another deeper question –- “Why are we here?” In a way, that latter question answers itself, as I&#8217;ll show.</p>
<p>Why <em>are</em> we here? Why are we alive in this incomprehensibly vast universe, on this mote of dust that we call Earth that hangs suspended near the trailing edge of one among billions of galaxies which each contains a billion suns? What is it all about?</p>
<p>I said that, in a way, the question answers itself. Now I am not saying that we have complete and specific answers to every aspect of that question. Many gaps remain in our knowledge of the evolution of matter and of life, for example. But we <em>have</em> achieved, through uncounted eons of upward development and struggle, the ability to understand ourselves and to understand the processes of life and of the universe to an almost infinitely greater degree than any other creature on this planet.</p>
<p>For all of our hard won knowledge, however, the best men among us know all too well that we cannot at this time <em>fully</em> answer the question which I posed a moment ago &#8212; &#8220;Why are we here? What is it all about?&#8221; Our quest to understand the majesty and the meaning of creation has left us with a profound realization of our own limitations. If they are honest, our most advanced scientists will admit this, as will our profoundest philosophers and theologians.</p>
<p>Therefore, if we are to understand the purpose of our lives, if we are to answer my question “Why are we here?” <em>then we most urgently need to surpass ourselves</em>, to increase our understanding and our knowledge a hundred fold, a thousand fold, a million fold. Merely because the best men of our race represent the highest development of consciousness on this planet at this time is <em>no reason to believe that a higher development is not possible.</em></p>
<p>Aware of our limitations and of our inability to honestly and completely and certainly answer the ultimate question of meaning and purpose, we can see now with unblinking eyes the certainty that at our present stage of development, our mission, our purpose, must be to do <em>whatever is necessary</em> to continue this process of increasing knowledge, of increasing consciousness, of upward development. Our purpose must be to <em>make possible</em> the answering of those ultimate questions. By laying the groundwork for a higher humanity, a higher consciousness, which <em>will</em> be able to answer those questions, we are fulfilling the highest purpose that Man can conceive at  his present stage of development.</p>
<p>To successfully pursue this mission we will need better scientists, more profound philosophers, more creative inventors, and more responsible leaders than have ever existed before on planet Earth.</p>
<p>I ask you, ladies and gentleman, is that the direction that America is taking today? Are we still advancing, still heading for the stars?</p>
<p>Or are we headed for the gutter?</p>
<p>At the beginning of this program I asked another important question: What is our basis for saying that some acts are <em>right</em> and <em>good</em> and others are wrong? In other words: What is the basis of morality? Our answer to this question must not be at variance with our inborn moral sense nor must it be based on any absolutist dogma which cannot be carried out in the real world. For morality to have any meaning at all it must be a realistic guide to action. If you believe, as we do, that our purpose on this Earth is to continue on the upward path, to advance, insofar as it is in our abilities to do so, in our struggle for a higher, nobler consciousness &#8212; then the answer to that moral question becomes obvious.</p>
<p>First, we must realize that, despite all its imperfections and shortcomings, the gene pool of our race represents the highest development that Nature has yet produced on Earth. It is our most precious possession. Our present stage of development was reached by countless generations of struggle and natural selection &#8212; but it can be destroyed beyond any hope of repair or restoration by a single thoughtless and selfish generation. We must never allow our gene pool to be corrupted. Nature&#8217;s gift to our people must be jealously guarded.</p>
<p>Secondly, we must recognize that these gifts of mind and spirit and beauty which mark us as a race apart from the rest of mankind were obtained only as a result of a relentless winnowing of our people over hundreds of thousands of years in accord with Nature&#8217;s unalterable law of survival of the fittest.</p>
<p>We must also recognize that our civilization and our technology have over the last few millennia largely shielded us from a continuation of this winnowing process, thus slowing or even reversing our upward development at the genetic level.</p>
<p>Armed with a love for our people, with the will to fulfill our destiny, and with our scientific knowledge, we can return our people to the upward path and become conscious agents of our own evolution.</p>
<p>In short, the answer to our moral question is this: Whatever is good for our people, for our race, in the long term, <em>is</em> good. Whatever will advance our race toward ever higher levels of physical and spiritual development, whatever brings us closer to that destiny which our Creator intends for us, <em>is</em> good. And whatever threatens the survival of our people, or which puts us on the downward path, is evil.</p>
<p>This moral standard must be relentlessly applied to every individual, to every institution, to every organization, to every religion, to every proposed program or course of action, and to every expenditure of money in our entire society.</p>
<p>When seen through the lens of a true morality the scales fall from the observer&#8217;s eyes and the hypocrisy and treason and criminal waste of our time and our inheritance become painfully, almost unbearably, obvious.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure that you&#8217;ve said to yourself, &#8220;White Americans don&#8217;t stick together anymore.&#8221; We are a divided people and the enemy&#8217;s strategy of divide and conquer is working very well. Our people think of themselves as Democrats or Republicans, conservatives or liberals, Christians or free thinkers, Baptists or Catholics. The fallacy of that line of thinking is that it gives primacy to what a person <em>believes</em>. If a person shares our beliefs, it is thought that he is &#8220;one of us&#8221; &#8212; if a Hottentot or Jew professes a love for the Bible or the Constitution then he magically becomes a Christian or an American.</p>
<p>Rather than giving primacy to what a person <em>believes</em>, however, we ought to give primacy to what a person <em>actually is</em>. Our race and our nation are one, and every member of our people, regardless of the brainwashing to which he has been subjected and the alien belief system which has been stuffed down his throat, is one of us. And within our souls lie the same spiritual urges which motivated the greatest men of our race to give their all so that our world could be born.</p>
<p>Let us not shirk our responsibility to pass on that heritage increased, not diminished, to the next generation of our people.</p>
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