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Heathens have long held to the notion that our actions today will altar both our luck and our reputations tomorrow. In Irminenschaft we refer to this phenomenon as Garma, a term coined by Guido von List obviously taken from the Sanskrit word “karma”. How directly do people here believe this process ...

Don't think of it as pestering-- that's what forums like this are for!

Ed Fitch's work is garbage-- essentially it's just Wicca in Heathen drag. For good primers I would recommend Odinism: What is It? (http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos183.htm) By Stubba and, of course, Germanic Heathenry: A Practical Guide by James Hjuka Coulter. A Book of Troth by Edred Thorsson isn...

How do the "thanked" and "been thanked" functions work on this board?

I don't affiliate with any particular party. If I were to label myself I'd call myself a Constitutionalist. I've been heavily influenced by the Libertarian and Jefferson Republican parties; but the latter does not exist where I now reside. Usually I vote Libertarian or Republican but I have been kno...

Some researchers have postulated that this is the case, but it has not been proven one way or another.

Suggesting that the Confederate States of America lost the war because they allowed institutions such as slavery sounds to me like the claim certain christian groups made that Hurricane Katrina wiped out much of the Gulf region because they allowed gays to move there. Personally I don't believe that...

Not getting into the old debate that's been going on since the 1970s, as it's accomplished nothing in all that time but to piss off people on all sides. But I will mention this: you've missed two other perspectives that really go around the whole racial issue-- the völkisch view and the tribalist vi...

I think it's important in a conversation such as this one to consider, too, that the reason(s) a soldier fights are often very different from the reason(s) that the leaders chose to go to war. An outstanding study of this phenominon may be found in a book called What They Fought For 1861-1865 by Pul...

Tsunetomo Yamamoto wrote in The Hagakure , "I have found the essance of the Warrior's Way: to die"! He goes on to explain that, since the warrior's sole funtion is to die for his lord, that he must live every day as if it would be his last. That does not mean to party all night or to make ...