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    [–]Jacinda[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    That was the saddest statement in the entire article. I often wonder what level of self dislike would cause a person to think like that.

    I liked the hang gliding part.

    [–]Jacinda[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    To Mariame Pierce, her dad’s bookshelf told the story. When she was little, it held volumes about Kelvin’s hobbies – mountain climbing, for instance. Over time, new titles appeared, ones about self-discovery and philosophy, written by Eckhart Tolle and Deepak Chopra

    Yikes...

    He and Susan, who already ran a successful construction business together, started a charitable foundation to support orphanages in Georgia.

    I'm impressed at his altruism. The Guardian could have at least linked to his organisation.

    The article reads like a synopsis for a particulary syrupy movie – I can picture the Hollywood biopic now.

    [–]Jacinda[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    SS: Thought the sub might enjoy this.

    I'm having computer problems at the moment so will comment later.

    Edit: Counter Currents has a collection of writings on William Pierce. I appreciated this account by Kevin Strom which details the difficulty he had both with setting up his community and also the problems with its succession after he died:

    I Remember Dr Pierce – Kevin Alfred Strom

    William Pierce had a never-give-up spirit that was almost beyond understanding. It served him well. Its source, I think, was his deep belief that he was one of a very few men who fully understood the cosmic stakes of the fight for White survival, and that he had an absolute responsibility to strive without ending, no matter what the odds, to do his considerable part — a task that no one else could do for him — to win that fight.

    Those stakes went far beyond the concerns to which he often appealed in his writings and broadcasts. Far more important than safe neighborhoods and lower VD rates and decent schools was the evolving consciousness of the Universe, of which a small but inseparable subset of our race was the vanguard, and which might be snuffed out in an instant of cosmic time if organized Jewry had its way. [Cont...]

    Edit II: I'm sorry that for what ever reason Pierce was unable to be an adequate father. In a slightly different universe growing up in a community in a natural environment with intelligent and capable parents is ideal; being beaten and ignored by your father – less so.

    Off topic but the best short piece I have read on raising children was also something I found on Counter Currents.

    Counter Currents:

    I am now a few years into fatherhood, and I find that my ideas of childrearing, like most other subjects, have been shaped by this youthful Nietzscheanism. With many on the Right, I’ve pondered the best means of insulating my children from the degeneracy of contemporary society while inculcating the virtues and mindset of the heroic, traditional world. It is clear that the True Right must develop a distinctive culture that sets it apart from the corrupt mainstream, and this includes the education of our young. [Cont...]

    Anyone who has kids (or is thinking of having them) would probably enjoy it.