Posted on 07/04/2006 4:53:09 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
When have hippie a$$holes (and leftists) NOT been freakin' hypocrites?
There are a lot of links about the origins of the "peace symbol" on the net, and one can choose to believe whatever they want about the sign. The bottom line for me is that liberals, leftists and peace weenies rarely actually stand for what they purport to stand for. They are all for their own agendas and anti-American. It does not surprise me to find that while they claim to stand for peace, they really stand for the death of America and the sign they wave stands for nothing America stands for.
I apoligise for the knee-jerk reaction. I run into a lot of anti-pagan bias on FR, and I tend to bristle a bit.
I use the Norse runes a lot, and so tend to focus on the meanings I'm familiar with. I had run across several sources linking the peace symbol with the rune Algiz.
Now, if it's actually the Tyr rune, or the "broken cross" (with which I am not familiar) that's a whole different ball game. Although I feel if it were the Tyr rune ("up" arrow) the arms would meet at one end of the vertical line and slope up, the opposite of the way they do.
I think I better do some research into Teutonic mysticism. I have always avoided that previously, as that nonsense is what led eventually to the Thule Society, who supposedly backed Hitler's early political career.
http://www.crystalinks.com/thule.html
That particular cesspool I would rather avoid, but I guess I better hold my nose and wade into it.
I would suggest that the sellers of those peace symbols you linked to are catering to left-wing "hippie-dippy" new agers, who love their peace symbols and rainbow flags. These are the same folks that think that paganism was and is all sweetness and light. (Believe me, I speak from experience, and it ain't so.) Most of these folks don't believe in the existence of evil- which belief, mixed with dabbling in the occult, is worse than suicidal.
Ah, no. Dining on crow at present- see my #122.
Been there. The good ones always apologize ;)
As do I, apologize that is, my first post was not intended to be a "Right-wing" religious rant. Whereas all conservatives are not Christians, remember that all Christians are not zealots.
I myself was turned on tho the peace sign being paganistic recently and have done some surfing on the subject, and as I said, many of the links on the net are contradictory so anyone can find whatever meaning suits their purpose. Personally I think while the sign may have been borne from any number of mystic symbols, it stands for nothing American as applied today.
I also agree that many of the "new-age" mysticysim sites are indeed catering(pandering) to the hippie left and aren't truly interested in any type of real mysticism or naturalism. I've always been interested in the occult and in the mystic realms of thought although not a student of it as you appear to be, so again no insult was intended.
I am a Christian by birth and belief, but I have no idea if what I believe is true, it's a matter of faith I suppose. I could not say that what someone else believes is right or wrong, just different (as long as that belief doesn't include lopping people's heads off) and the belief in something greater is what is really important.
Sorry for the lengthy post, nice chatting with you as it were.
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