Rest In Peace Cormac McCarthyRest In Peace John SteinbeckRest In Peace Ernest HemingwayThe American canon has its authors who are obvious, stable additions to its pantheon.Fitzgerald.Twain.Poe.Faulkner.Steinbeck.But then there are those who forge their own path who use America as the occasional backdrop, giving life to a new form of writing that can't be integrated into its canon due to their destructive essences.Hemingway wrote with a blank slate and wrote to go far beyond the frontier, far beyond where anyone could help him, writing something truly new, truly authentic.McCarthy wrote with red colored glasses, seeing fire, bloodshed, and vice color every being of all his characters within fictional, American borders. Add these to the open questions rooted in America asked by Steinbeck and you have the mind and style of an author writing new, not so shiny science fiction.The first of these is "Automaton," a story of decay, the war of two ideas for America's future, the ugly truths of the martial way, and rugged individualism for better or for worse. The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 73"Automaton" Featuring: TR HudsonEnjoy.

Rest In Peace Cormac McCarthy Rest In Peace John Steinbeck Rest In Peace Ernest HemingwayThe American canon has its authors who are obvious, stable additions to its pantheon.Fitzgerald. Twain. Poe. Faulkner. Steinbeck.But then there are those who forge their own path who use America as the occasional backdrop, giving life to a new form of writing that can't be integrated into its canon due to their destructive essences.Hemingway wrote with a blank slate and wrote to go far beyond the frontier, far beyond where anyone could help him, writing something truly new, truly authentic.McCarthy wrote with red colored glasses, seeing fire, bloodshed, and vice color every being of all his characters within fictional, American borders. Add these to the open questions rooted in America asked by Steinbeck and you have the mind and style of an author writing new, not so shiny science fiction.The first of these is "Automaton," a story of decay, the war of two ideas for America's future, the ugly truths of the martial way, and rugged individualism for better or for worse. The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 73"Automaton" Featuring: TR HudsonEnjoy.

Blood & Rain Episode 73: "Automaton" Featuring: TR Hudson 

Fitzgerald dethroned Mark Twain as America’s most important writer, for he wrote of the affliction that struck America. The same affliction of a malicious sentient spirit that plagued The British and German empires all the same. It’s intoxicating.It’s alluring. It was personified in Gatsby. The illusion of a higher ideal than God as proposed by Nietzsche under the influence of the same malicious spirit. Now they can all be called the beautiful and damned. The Blood &amp; Rain Late Night Podcast #1:Fitzgerald &amp; False godsEnjoy. 

Fitzgerald dethroned Mark Twain as America’s most important writer, for he wrote of the affliction that struck America. The same affliction of a malicious sentient spirit that plagued The British and German empires all the same. It’s intoxicating.It’s alluring. It was personified in Gatsby. The illusion of a higher ideal than God as proposed by Nietzsche under the influence of the same malicious spirit. Now they can all be called the beautiful and damned. The Blood &amp; Rain Late Night Podcast #1:Fitzgerald &amp; False godsEnjoy.

Blood & Rain Late Night #1: Fitzgerald & False gods

The Southern Gothic ethos is one bathed in blood, melancholy, and an immunity to modernity. It was born in the South’s defeat by their own blood brothers in a war that was both civil and not. This ethos gave America a canon of literature, poetry, and plays that have defined key attributes of not only the South but America entirely: sorrowful decline due to the shortcomings of fallen mankind. The lifespan of this movement is at its end, yet what came before it is what is closest to eternal in America. To move to the South is to inevitably adopt Southern pleasantries, affinities for all things gentile, and a slow, steady way of life the roots of which are traditionally English.The Southern Gothic ethos will die soon, and a founding myth will be required to move forward both as something rooted in the everlasting and something new. Greece: The IliadRome: The AeneidEngland: Paradise LostVirginia: “A Country Squire’s Notebook”The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast: Episode 71“A Country Squire’s Notebook”Featuring: Paul Fahrenheidt 

The Southern Gothic ethos is one bathed in blood, melancholy, and an immunity to modernity. It was born in the South’s defeat by their own blood brothers in a war that was both civil and not. This ethos gave America a canon of literature, poetry, and plays that have defined key attributes of not only the South but America entirely: sorrowful decline due to the shortcomings of fallen mankind. The lifespan of this movement is at its end, yet what came before it is what is closest to eternal in America. To move to the South is to inevitably adopt Southern pleasantries, affinities for all things gentile, and a slow, steady way of life the roots of which are traditionally English.The Southern Gothic ethos will die soon, and a founding myth will be required to move forward both as something rooted in the everlasting and something new. Greece: The Iliad Rome: The Aeneid England: Paradise LostVirginia: “A Country Squire’s Notebook”The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast: Episode 71“A Country Squire’s Notebook”Featuring: Paul Fahrenheidt

Blood & Rain Episode 71: “A Country Squire’s Notebook” Featuring: Paul Fahrenheidt 

Virgil foreseeing the Messiah.Semitic terrorists slaughtering Romans en masse. The myth of “Judeo-Christian” values.The origins of Norse Pagan beliefs in Asia Minor.Other tribes being given a promise. The mythology of man is both less and more divisive in relation to the truth of Christendom both before and after it’s creation. The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 70“Old Covenants”Featuring: ÆluthemplarEnjoy. 

Virgil foreseeing the Messiah.Semitic terrorists slaughtering Romans en masse. The myth of “Judeo-Christian” values.The origins of Norse Pagan beliefs in Asia Minor.Other tribes being given a promise. The mythology of man is both less and more divisive in relation to the truth of Christendom both before and after it’s creation. The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 70“Old Covenants”Featuring: ÆluthemplarEnjoy.

Blood & Rain Episode 70: “Old Covenants” Featuring: Æluthemplar

A post-enlightenment worldview bears an inevitability of a neo-chivalric society.This is natural.For 90 years, the current suspension of traditional default settings has subdued many from understanding natural hierarchy.While one can not forecast the details, the metaphysics remain the same.The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 69“Neo-Chivalric Society”Featuring: Principality of SpiritEnjoy.

A post-enlightenment worldview bears an inevitability of a neo-chivalric society.This is natural.For 90 years, the current suspension of traditional default settings has subdued many from understanding natural hierarchy.While one can not forecast the details, the metaphysics remain the same.The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 69“Neo-Chivalric Society”Featuring: Principality of SpiritEnjoy.

Blood & Rain Episode 69: Neo-Chivalric Society Featuring: Principality of Spirit

Michael Butler

There are two states:Ready &amp; Not“May we not be found fallen and idle, but watching and upright in activity ready to accompany him into the joy and divine palace of His Glory…”A man is called to readiness SpirituallyMentally Physically Im that order.The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 67:“Physical and Spiritual Readiness”Featuring: Father Michael ButlerEnjoy. 

There are two states:Ready &amp; Not“May we not be found fallen and idle, but watching and upright in activity ready to accompany him into the joy and divine palace of His Glory…”A man is called to readiness Spiritually Mentally  Physically Im that order.The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 67:“Physical and Spiritual Readiness”Featuring: Father Michael ButlerEnjoy.

Blood & Rain Episode 67: Spiritual and Physical Preparedness Featuring: Father Michael Butler

The world was burned, and the bedrock was destroyed. Grass roots movements and new subcultures will likely form out of communal planning and more likely by accident. It is metaphysically demanded. Top down decisions change political structure and the state of the economy. From the bottom comes what is undeniable and identifiable. Portland, Maine.Buffalo, New York.Charleston, South Carolina.El Cajon, California. Indianapolis, Indiana. What is next can come from anywhere. “May you live in interesting times.”The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 66 “New American Bedrock”Featuring: @totallynotanacreon

The world was burned, and the bedrock was destroyed. Grass roots movements and new subcultures will likely form out of communal planning and more likely by accident. It is metaphysically demanded. Top down decisions change political structure and the state of the economy. From the bottom comes what is undeniable and identifiable. Portland, Maine.Buffalo, New York.Charleston, South Carolina.El Cajon, California. Indianapolis, Indiana. What is next can come from anywhere. “May you live in interesting times.”The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 66 “New American Bedrock”Featuring: @totallynotanacreon

Blood & Rain Episode 66: “New American Bedrock” Featuring: Totally Not Anacreon

“I don’t know how things are going to change, I just know they’re going to.”The babbling and rambling and gambling in Washington and Westminster alike have in truth, little to do with the grand scheme of things. There was a false god being chased after off a cliff, and the trauma sustained has left countries in a state of amnesia.Who were we?Who are we?Who were we trying to be when chasing Utopia?Who should we be?How will we get there?“I don’t know, I just know it’s going to happen.” The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 65“Western Amnesia” Featuring: YouTube’s own J. BurdenLink in bio. Enjoy.

“I don’t know how things are going to change, I just know they’re going to.”The babbling and rambling and gambling in Washington and Westminster alike have in truth, little to do with the grand scheme of things. There was a false god being chased after off a cliff, and the trauma sustained has left countries in a state of amnesia.Who were we?Who are we?Who were we trying to be when chasing Utopia?Who should we be?How will we get there?“I don’t know, I just know it’s going to happen.” The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 65“Western Amnesia” Featuring: YouTube’s own J. BurdenLink in bio. Enjoy.

Blood & Rain Episode 65: “Western Amnesia”

Everything is War. (And I’m tired of pretending it’s not.)Whether hot or cold, everything is War.The “Cold War,” as we knew it in the 20th Century is re-emerging in a “close to kinetic war” sense, but a new kind of granularity has emerged along with it.The return of the nation state appears imminent, and localism and nationalism alike will engulf our lives when this return takes place.The prelude to this Cold War that will catch fire in short, allegedly “random” instances is that of a Cold War of Culture.The ground is shift beneath every man’s feet, and the fabricated norms it supports will collapse as the shifts conclude.What will life look like after?Four men take the time to trade predictions in a long-awaited long form panel.What is clear is that great men are needed, identity will become tangible again, and Faith, vitality, and poetry will be in plain sight once more.The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 64:Culture Cold WarFeaturing: @letters_from_the_ruins @thesaxoncross and @zenoviel

Everything is War. (And I’m tired of pretending it’s not.)Whether hot or cold, everything is War.The “Cold War,” as we knew it in the 20th Century is re-emerging in a “close to kinetic war” sense, but a new kind of granularity has emerged along with it.The return of the nation state appears imminent, and localism and nationalism alike will engulf our lives when this return takes place.The prelude to this Cold War that will catch fire in short, allegedly “random” instances is that of a Cold War of Culture.The ground is shift beneath every man’s feet, and the fabricated norms it supports will collapse as the shifts conclude.What will life look like after?Four men take the time to trade predictions in a long-awaited long form panel.What is clear is that great men are needed, identity will become tangible again, and Faith, vitality, and poetry will be in plain sight once more.The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 64:Culture Cold WarFeaturing: @letters_from_the_ruins @thesaxoncross and @zenoviel

Blood & Rain Episode 64: Culture Cold War

Every Era in every field is ushered in by the work of a great man.Populism has nothing to offer in the realm of permanent solutions. Elite classes are replaced with new elites. To know the current elites is to know how to defeat them. To become the Great Men to usher in the New Era, listen to this Podcast. The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 63“Who Rules Us?”Featuring: @Zenoviel

Every Era in every field is ushered in by the work of a great man. Populism has nothing to offer in the realm of permanent solutions. Elite classes are replaced with new elites. To know the current elites is to know how to defeat them. To become the Great Men to usher in the New Era, listen to this Podcast. The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 63 “Who Rules Us?” Featuring: @Zenoviel

Blood & Rain Episode 63: Who Rules Us?

“We are a People.”Wherever we are in this world,“We are a People”Blood &amp; RainEpisode 62“Rising from Ruin”Featuring: @Letters_from_the_Ruins

“We are a People.” Wherever we are in this world, “We are a People” Blood &amp; Rain Episode 62 “Rising from Ruin” Featuring: @Letters_from_the_Ruins

Blood & Rain Episode 62: “Rising from Ruin”

“The Wanderer”“Dixie” Pieces of dying cultures undying. Culture is a strange word.No one knows exactly what it is in the mind, but it is fully understood in a visceral way. It is both existential and by choice. It changes with war in the total sense.CombatFamineImmigration Adding to culture without destroying it is a tricky thing, and many are asking how this can be possible with each passing minute. The preservation of culture is a tricky thing, and murder of culture is impossible.How diverse can a culture become before two separate aspects of it are recognizably different?What is foreign, and what is welcome? What is diversity, and what is death?The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 61“Death &amp; Diversity”Featuring: The Saxon Cross Enjoy.

“The Wanderer” “Dixie” Pieces of dying cultures undying. Culture is a strange word. No one knows exactly what it is in the mind, but it is fully understood in a visceral way. It is both existential and by choice. It changes with war in the total sense. Combat Famine Immigration Adding to culture without destroying it is a tricky thing, and many are asking how this can be possible with each passing minute. The preservation of culture is a tricky thing, and murder of culture is impossible. How diverse can a culture become before two separate aspects of it are recognizably different? What is foreign, and what is welcome? What is diversity, and what is death? The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 61 “Death &amp; Diversity” Featuring: The Saxon Cross Enjoy.

Blood & Rain Episode 61: Death & Diversity 

Anti-Fragile: To grow stronger with the addition of hardship or pressure. Faith: Can not grow without hardship or pressure. To believe that we are abandoned by God in hard times is to have a moment of fragility in our Faith. For our Faith to be perfect is to be impossible. But it is something we must strive for. A habit of Faith that is necessary is to strive to turn to God in prayer when presented with hardship and pressure for what it is: an opportunity to grow closer to God.In the physical realm of things, men are called to be Anti-Fragile in every way as God created them to be.Effective protectors are Anti-Fragile.Effective providers are Anti-Fragile.Effective husband are Anti-Fragile.Effective fathers are Anti-Fragile.The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 60: “True Faith is Anti-Fragile”Featuring @naturep1lled Enjoy.

Anti-Fragile: To grow stronger with the addition of hardship or pressure. Faith: Can not grow without hardship or pressure. To believe that we are abandoned by God in hard times is to have a moment of fragility in our Faith. For our Faith to be perfect is to be impossible. But it is something we must strive for. A habit of Faith that is necessary is to strive to turn to God in prayer when presented with hardship and pressure for what it is: an opportunity to grow closer to God. In the physical realm of things, men are called to be Anti-Fragile in every way as God created them to be. Effective protectors are Anti-Fragile. Effective providers are Anti-Fragile. Effective husband are Anti-Fragile. Effective fathers are Anti-Fragile. The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 60: “True Faith is Anti-Fragile” Featuring @naturep1lled Enjoy.

Blood & Rain Episode 60: True Faith is Anti-Fragile

The Story before the Story.The Prelude Chapter of “Sleepless”Read aloud.The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 59“Sleepless”Enjoy.

The Story before the Story. The Prelude Chapter of “Sleepless” Read aloud. The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 59 “Sleepless” Enjoy.

Blood & Rain Episode 59: “Sleepless”

Ryan King

Christian. Husband. Father. Entrepreneur. Writer. (Ryan)King.Vocal advocate for true masculinity in an age when masculinity is either distorted or feminized.Ryan King has taken Instagram by storm with his precise, nuances writing about true masculinity, marriage, fatherhood, male and female polarity, confidence, and intensity with the name, @thewisdomofkingsIn a time when young boys are given the false ultimatum of feminization or Andrew Tate and his nonsense, Ryan King is laying out the path for them to become true men.The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 58Ryan King &amp; The Wisdom of Kings

Christian. Husband. Father. Entrepreneur. Writer. (Ryan)King. Vocal advocate for true masculinity in an age when masculinity is either distorted or feminized. Ryan King has taken Instagram by storm with his precise, nuances writing about true masculinity, marriage, fatherhood, male and female polarity, confidence, and intensity with the name, @thewisdomofkings In a time when young boys are given the false ultimatum of feminization or Andrew Tate and his nonsense, Ryan King is laying out the path for them to become true men. The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 58 Ryan King &amp; The Wisdom of Kings

Blood & Rain Episode 58: Ryan King & The Wisdom of Kings 

“A Withdrawal is needed in order to Return”

Blood & Rain Episode 57: New Covenant

Six Weeks agoI drove to Oklahoma on my way North. I met @nature.pilled2.0 @evolacademy and @thesteadfastalliance for the first time. That weekend, the largest assembly of satanists in human history, and the spiritual warfare was evident then and is still evident now.I had received notice of nightmares and attacks from many. Prayer however, is more powerful, My journey North from Texas was something that bore more prayers and more spiritual strengthening than any other point in my life. This stop along the way was a conversation amongst brothers that was worth its weight in gold to each of us. We hope it serves you as well.The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 55At Long LastLink in bio.

Six Weeks ago I drove to Oklahoma on my way North. I met @nature.pilled2.0 @evolacademy and @thesteadfastalliance for the first time. That weekend, the largest assembly of satanists in human history, and the spiritual warfare was evident then and is still evident now. I had received notice of nightmares and attacks from many. Prayer however, is more powerful, My journey North from Texas was something that bore more prayers and more spiritual strengthening than any other point in my life. This stop along the way was a conversation amongst brothers that was worth its weight in gold to each of us. We hope it serves you as well. The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 55 At Long Last Link in bio.

Blood & Rain Episode 55: At Long Last 

Blood &amp; (T)Rain Podcast Episode 1 Text“I don’t care how I get there, but I’m going to get there.”You’re the young aspiring lifter walking into a gym having no clue what you’re doing. You take a machine for a spin for a set of 20.You do Dumbell curls for 10 sets. You do the Stephen Amell “Arrow” workout from a 2014 issue of Muscle &amp; Fitness and assume you’ll have that body in six weeks despite already making a habit of going to your breaking point in a Muay Thai gym on top of a noodle shop or in a high school swim team setting in the chilled waters of Wisconsin.You go harder than anyone in the gym, especially when your body is telling you that you shouldn’t. But then, you meet a mentor. You meet a high school coach with a default setting of investing in young men. Or you meet a sage of strength in an unlikely setting of [insert sanitized commercial chain gym here] and ask to be taught. You walk into a strongman gym and get taught how to Turkish getup by a Bellator middleweight. Or you start a podcast on YouTube and interview some of those that chose the path of strength before you.You start learning the why of programming through lessons of elders and the research of your own accord.Suddenly, you’re not that confused, skinny kid making up for his ignorance with pure fury anymore. Suddenly, you’re a mentor.Suddenly, it’s your turn to pass on the knowledge and to be kind. “To teach a man to be strong is to be kind.” The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Presents:The Blood &amp; (T)Rain Podcast Episode 1Colin Zastrow Enjoy.

Blood &amp; (T)Rain Podcast Episode 1 Text “I don’t care how I get there, but I’m going to get there.” You’re the young aspiring lifter walking into a gym having no clue what you’re doing. You take a machine for a spin for a set of 20. You do Dumbell curls for 10 sets. You do the Stephen Amell “Arrow” workout from a 2014 issue of Muscle &amp; Fitness and assume you’ll have that body in six weeks despite already making a habit of going to your breaking point in a Muay Thai gym on top of a noodle shop or in a high school swim team setting in the chilled waters of Wisconsin. You go harder than anyone in the gym, especially when your body is telling you that you shouldn’t. But then, you meet a mentor. You meet a high school coach with a default setting of investing in young men. Or you meet a sage of strength in an unlikely setting of [insert sanitized commercial chain gym here] and ask to be taught. You walk into a strongman gym and get taught how to Turkish getup by a Bellator middleweight. Or you start a podcast on YouTube and interview some of those that chose the path of strength before you. You start learning the why of programming through lessons of elders and the research of your own accord. Suddenly, you’re not that confused, skinny kid making up for his ignorance with pure fury anymore. Suddenly, you’re a mentor. Suddenly, it’s your turn to pass on the knowledge and to be kind. “To teach a man to be strong is to be kind.” The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Presents: The Blood &amp; (T)Rain Podcast Episode 1 Colin Zastrow Enjoy.

Blood & (T)Rain Episode 1: Colin Zastrow

How can you trailblaze, if no one has shown you where the wilderness begins?Why would you go through what is known without a mentor?“I needed to learn it the hard way.”How would you know if there was no one to tell you whether that mantra was truth or illusion in your latest use of it?To the self-deprecating, they feel unworthy of such a service. Yet mentoring served the mentor as much as the student. To the loner, the prospect of a mentor can be terrifying, as a distorted view of autonomy can be shattered. Some have a will to carry them on their own to where they aim to go, but much of that energy could have been channeled to go even further had it been guided by a mentor. Every man needs that mentor. The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 54Every man must be Mentored.

How can you trailblaze, if no one has shown you where the wilderness begins? Why would you go through what is known without a mentor? “I needed to learn it the hard way.” How would you know if there was no one to tell you whether that mantra was truth or illusion in your latest use of it? To the self-deprecating, they feel unworthy of such a service. Yet mentoring served the mentor as much as the student. To the loner, the prospect of a mentor can be terrifying, as a distorted view of autonomy can be shattered. Some have a will to carry them on their own to where they aim to go, but much of that energy could have been channeled to go even further had it been guided by a mentor. Every man needs that mentor. The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 54 Every man must be Mentored.

Blood & Rain Episode 54: “Every man must be mentored.”

Blessed is this TheophanyAs is every TheophanyTo try to place faith into words is impossible. To try to quantify the goodness of a God who blesses beyond measure is fruitless.To contemplate the grandeur of His plan is an endless pursuit. It is a war being on this Earth. God grants us many comforts and times of peace. But there is a constant struggle of word, and deed, and thought we must engage in at all times. Every word, deed, or though is either a victory for death and dust.Or a victory for life and God.Whether voluntary or involuntary. We can speak on this in thousands of ways.Here are a few of them in humility from two brothers in Christ.The Blood &amp; Rain PodcastEpisode 53God is beyond words. @prismatic.orthodox Enjoy.

Blessed is this Theophany As is every Theophany To try to place faith into words is impossible. To try to quantify the goodness of a God who blesses beyond measure is fruitless. To contemplate the grandeur of His plan is an endless pursuit. It is a war being on this Earth. God grants us many comforts and times of peace. But there is a constant struggle of word, and deed, and thought we must engage in at all times. Every word, deed, or though is either a victory for death and dust. Or a victory for life and God. Whether voluntary or involuntary. We can speak on this in thousands of ways. Here are a few of them in humility from two brothers in Christ. The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast Episode 53 God is beyond words. @prismatic.orthodox Enjoy.

Blood & Rain Episode 53: God is Beyond Words

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