There is an adage often incorrectly attributed to Aristotle that says,

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

I understand this to say that lack of intelligence is the same as lacking the ability to learn. So, let us maintain that learning and eudaimonia (learned wisdom) itself are the means to improve upon the current.

Would the ability to learn then be essential to trust?

If so, then does trust become necessary for forgiveness?

Does this mean that continued improvement, eudaimonia, is the final goal of trust?

What then of trust that accepts the current but holds the goal of that trust being proven in time?

I do not pretend to have the answers to these questions. Now I present them to you. They have circled the confines of my mind for long enough. May you reflect upon them, shed light upon the meaning I cannot uncover myself.

Stand up and fight! May the ancient magic give you strength. May the wolf inside you follow the voice of blood. Follow the northern star to the lands where the spirits of your ancestors are waiting for you.

— Graveland, War Wolf.

WOLF TRIBES

"The ritual initiations in the Wolves brotherhood were passed from Dacia to the Germanic tribes through the Celts' Druids and through the Goths."

"Valhalla or Valhöll, in Norse mythology, was the "hall of the Valks", the wolf warriors, who live there blissfully under the leadership of the god Odin. Their feminine counterparts were the Valkyries also spelled Walkyries, Old Norse Valkyrja, the female wolf warriors, in Norse mythology."

"The Order of the Dragon was a branch of the "Wolves brotherhood" constituted by Slavic rulers and warlords and Sigismund of Luxemburg, the king of Hungary and emperor of the romano-germanic empire."
@battlesandbeauty

"I dream of an heroic Aryan world, a world that began in the forests, strengthened through blood and honor, leading to Valhalla, and finishes with your greatness written in time itself.
It can be that way again, my Aryan children. Wotan calls upon his people to fulfill your noble destiny. You have it in you, one and all. For each of you there is a place in Valhalla.
Courageous deeds are the path to glory. Live as Wotansvolk!
In the spirit of the gods of your ancestors, build this Creed of Iron!"

-Wotansvolk, Creed of Iron.

@Legende_von_Thule

I'm not sorry, even in the slightest

You disagree with the way society's going? Form your own cult surrounding values you hold dear. Hate modern music? Write your own. Trendy clothing these days just not to your taste? (I'd hope not) paint your sigils of strength on a black denim jacket and wear it like a suit of fuckin armor. Fed up of being out of shape? Carve yourself anew in the iron temple, rival the heroic statues of old.

Instead of channeling all that energy into tearing things down, channel it into self actualisation. Harness the power within and watch as your will shapes the world around you. Continue to condense and refine that energy and before long you'll have yourself an inferno that can bear any fuel without consequence. Consuming weakness as it grows brighter each day.

Go now! breathe new life into this otherwise dying world! Order the chaos around you! Like Odin and his brothers, build your world out of the blood and bone of old.

Light a blaze in your heart that's brighter, bolder than anything you've ever seen.

Burn so fucking bright the sun will look on in envy.

𝖇𝖊𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖆 𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖊 𝖗𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖑

“What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak.”

-Friedrich Neitzsche

“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.” -Seneca

Every man should act like this: when he meets a person more qualified than himself, he should be very pleased; when he meets someone less qualified than himself, he should be compassionate toward him; and when he meets someone equal to himself, he should make friendship with him. In this way one is never affected by the threefold miseries of this material world.

Srimad Bhagavatam 4.8.34