MONDAY MUSINGS :THE SUBLIMINAL/THE OBVIOUS?

This week's Monday Musings have me musing about how many subliminal messages we receive. You know marketing employs this technique to get us to crave a particular product when we didn't even know we wanted it/ maybe it was just to remind us that we did.  We could call it brainwashing when something is repeatedly said over and over again so whether it is true / not, we believe it is. Images can work that way too. Some are more obvious than others...

Do you remember those images where you are asked to state what you see first? 

Did you see the couple facing each other/ the apple core?

When the following photo appeared of the upcoming CPAC stage, my jaw dropped in disbelief as I immediately saw the nazi symbolism . 

Trust me this was no unintentional design of using the Odal rune. 

 If you're not familiar with nazi/ neo nazi symbols below is a collection from Wikipedia followed by their brief descriptions.

Most of us are most familiar with the swastika.  (Not to be confused with the manji symbol swastika in Japan – which usually points counterclockwise, the reverse of the Nazi symbol and has been used for centuries in Buddhist decorations and to denote Buddhist temples on maps. )

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  The Reichsadler of Nazi Germany (1933–1945); the Parteiadler, the emblem of the Nazi Party, was very similar

 
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  SS death's headinsignia^[27]

 
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  Horizontally aligned Wolfsangel, used by the 2nd SS Panzer Division^[28]

 
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  Vertical Wolfsangel

 
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  Odal rune^[18][19] (also used by the American-based "National Socialist Movement"since November 2016)^[29]

 
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  Sig runes

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  Algiz rune

 
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  A simplified version of the Celtic cross is used by various neo-Nazi groups

 
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  The broken sun crossused by the German Faith Movement and the 5th SS Panzer Division, also used by the Thule Society^[30][31]

 
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  The Hammer and Sword utilized by adherents of Strasserism

 
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The eagle atop swastika (German: Parteiadler), the formal symbol of the Nazi Party

The SS bolts, the runic insignia of the Schutzstaffel[11][12]

Various runes from the runic script, such as the Odal/Othala, Algiz/Leben, Tyr/Tiwaz runes and other rune-like symbols[13][14] such as the Wolfsangel[15]

The black SS uniform

The brown shirts of the Sturmabteilung

The death's head insignia of the SS-Totenkopfverbände and concentration camp units[16]

The Black Sun (German: Schwarze Sonne/Sonnenrad) used by Heinrich Himmler of the SS.

The crossed hammer and sword of Strasserism, a strand of Nazism that has an anti-capitalist and socialist ideology.

The broken sun cross swastika.

Neo-Nazis however also employ various number symbols such as:

• 18, code for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1, H = 8.^[21]
• 88, code for 88 Precepts. A manifesto written by David Lane, a late 20th-century American white supremacist, on the proper organization of a white nationalist nation, 88 Precepts is a treatise on natural law, religion and politics.^[22] However, according to the Anti-Defamation League, it is code for Heil Hitler. Again, the number comes from the position of the letter H in the Latin alphabet.^[23]
• 14, from the Fourteen Words coined by David Lane: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."^[24]
• 14 and 88 are sometimes combined with each other (i.e. 14/88, 8814, 1488).^[25] They are also sometimes depicted on dice.^[26]
• Celtic Cross, originally a symbol used to represent pre-Christian and Christian European groups such as the Irish post-World War II it has been used by many neo-Nazi groups.

It would be prudent to be familiar with these symbols and to understand the real presence of evil and hatred.

I'd say it is a lot more obvious than subliminal, wouldn't you? And do you know as I listened to the words said on that stage they also matched the evil and hatred.