{"id":2634,"date":"2022-04-12T11:09:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2022-04-12T11:09:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:09:25","slug":"valhalla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/12\/valhalla\/","title":{"rendered":"VALHALLA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-mythology-net wp-block-embed-mythology-net\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"vESoEGt70P\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mythology.net\/norse\/norse-concepts\/valhalla\/\">Valhalla<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Valhalla&#8221; &#8212; Mythology.net\" src=\"https:\/\/mythology.net\/norse\/norse-concepts\/valhalla\/embed\/#?secret=7ZksUELUBP#?secret=vESoEGt70P\" data-secret=\"vESoEGt70P\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, for you violence-mongers who claim constantly on the Interweb to not be able to wait to get to Valhalla (because you&#8217;re a &#8220;warrior&#8221; of some repute), some things that you might consider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. You will actually have to fight&#8230;consistently, violently, and forevermore upon arrival&#8230;unlike your real perceived LARPing life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. You have to die violently, murdered or killed barbarically in this life to get there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. There will most likely be few women, pacifists, or calm rational people there so you&#8217;ll be surrounded by other Neanderthalic boneheads that will trying to bludgeon, dismember, and mutilate you for the rest of eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. You will be sent there at the whim of some all-powerful being&#8217;s whimsical gameplaying and entertainment before he gets tired and obliterates you out of boredom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. You have to be chosen to go there by being one of the bravest and most talented \u2013 not just anybody who considers themselves a \u201cwarrior\u201d or alpha male is admitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Your fate was thought to have been decided long before the battle even commenced at the hands of Odin and the Valkyries. Chess pieces on a moving board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. Valhalla was in a constant state of war where violence, conflict, damage, and aggression were the norm. After a life filled with said traits, I think I want to rest peacefully in my afterlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with real violence, I don\u00b4t think people that talk about &#8220;meeting others in Valhalla&#8221; in the afterlife really know of what they insinuate. As much as I try to avoid real-time violence in my current life, of which I have only one, so to is it prudent to avoid talking about the same in some kind of spiritual haven for <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u00b4t know where I\u00b4m going in any afterlife, if anywhere, but I do know that if I have to spend eternity with a demographic of people, it\u00b4ll be with loved ones in a peaceful non-glorified setting, not a battlefield where Neanderthals, violence-mongers, fetishists, keyboard-warriors, predators, and shit-talkers correlate. Had enough of that in real-life, thanks very much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have at &#8216;er, not in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, for you violence-mongers who claim constantly on the Interweb to not be able to wait to get to Valhalla (because you&#8217;re a &#8220;warrior&#8221; of some repute), some things that you might consider: 1. You will actually have to fight&#8230;consistently, violently, and forevermore upon arrival&#8230;unlike your real perceived LARPing life. 2. You have to die &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/12\/valhalla\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VALHALLA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}