To all: are you an extremist? If so, why? Do you hold views others would consider extreme? How do you justify them? Do you think someone could change your view?

Yes, a truth is neither repeatable nor absolute, it happens in-the-world as a holistic, temporal and organic experience. It doesn't have the exactness of a monotheistic religious and scientific truth, both of which occur suspended in an eternal present and then correspond with things in the world.

With polytheism you are much more bound and attached with the natural world because we understand we are part of nature, meaning there's a natural order to everything. Women are feminine, nurturing and most of all respected. Men are masculine, honourable and dependable. You don't get the feeling that humans have somehow become detached from nature and have a command over it like a God. That way of being is spiritually dead! That is why everyone values material things so highly today, because they have no spirit in them.

Riches, by definition, are either a being or a having. If I conceive of them as a being, it is obvious that I am rich not because I have much – rather, all having is dependent upon the riches of my nature. So conceived, riches are not something which alight upon man or fly away from him; they are an endowment of nature, subject to neither will nor effort. They are original wealth, an added measure of freedom which blossoms forth in certain human beings. For riches and freedom are inseparably joined together, so intimately that riches of any kind can be appraised by the measure of freedom they contain. Riches in this sense may even be identical with poverty; a rich being is consistent with a not-having, with a lack of material possessions. Homer means just this when he calls the beggar a king. Only such riches as are mine by nature can I fully command and enjoy. Where riches consist in having, the capacity for enjoying them does not necessarily go with them. It may be lacking – a frequent case. Where riches are one with rank, they also have that strength that is subject neither to change nor chance. They are as lasting and stable as are those treasures that cannot be spent nor consumed by time. But riches that are a mere having may be taken from me at any moment. Most men, it is true, believe that riches are created by one's enriching himself – a delusion they have in common with all the rabble on earth.

-- FG Jünger

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