It's funny how you see history repeat itself time and time again. Further proof of the linear vs. cyclical argument. My wife and I, along with another gentleman, left the Odinic Rite for several reasons. The main reason was because, as previously stated, we wanted to allow non-Odinic Rite members to be a part of our Hearth. Since leaving the OR I have seen a number of assinine attacks and theories as to why I left, along with outright lies by 'online-only' Heathens. One of these is that my good friend Larry Camp somehow coerced me into leaving the OR. This particular attack is an old one as the OR has a history of attacking those who leave the Rite. The list includes Stephen Flowers, members of Woden's Folk, and Larry Camp. Each of these has made numerous contributions to the Heathen community. Moreso than those who have started this juvenile rants. Another online piece of garbage has me at odds with Stephen McNallen. Oddly enough, Mr McNallen is another gentleman slandered quite a bit at the OR bulletin board. The gentleman who started this lie, Todd Keyser, has never spoken with me in person, so I'll consider the source. If any of you feel there is a riff of any kind between myself and Mr McNallen, email him and ask him yourself, instead of believing some 'MySpace' Odinist. The following is an example of the garbage started by some f*cktard. I enjoyed sifting through the lies and I hope you do as well:



" It appears that Brian Hoostal has a bit of a bee in his bonnet about 
the fact 
that the OR leadership are less than complimentary about one of his 
friends and 
the leaders of some other orgs.

This friend, who actually appears to be pulling Brians strings, has 
gone by 
many names, Osferth, Larry Camp, Grandmeister Dietrich etc, and was 
once the 
leader of Odinic Rite Vinland. 

That was until he began trying to turn it into his own private group 
for the 
promotion of his own views. He attempted to lead the ORV in a 
completely 
different direction and was supported in this by leaders of other orgs 
who 
smiled nicely at Heimgest CG whilst preparing to stab him in the back.

Brian claims that there is a lack of honor in speaking badly about this 
traitor. 

No Brian, if we pretended in public to like him and then spoke ill of 
him in 
private then that would show a lack of honor, I bit like when you 
deleted all 
the people you wanted to speak about before writing your rants. But we 
do not 
pretend to all be getting along just for the sake of image. If people 
attempt 
to harm us then we will not pretend to be allies.

The main reason I am writing this is that Mr "I am so much more bloody 
honorable than you" Hoostal has started to launch personal attacks on 
people 
that are totally unfounded.

I don't care what he says about me, many of you know me better than he 
did. But 
he has been talking shit about some of the former members of his hearth 
purely 
because they stayed loyal to the OR and not to whatever new vehicle for 
his ego 
he was planning. The guy is delusional, claiming to have taken many OR 
members 
with him when all he took was 1!

Many of you know Clif and Kell. They are now among the founding members 
of 
Anscestral Heritage Hearth AOR. 

When Brian had his hissy fit and left the OR, Clif and Kell made it 
clear that 
they would not be cutting ties with him because they valued the 
friendship 
between their families. 

Brian has now thrown this loyalty in their faces making half baked 
accusations 
about them, whilst ranting about how others fail to abide by the NNV. 
He is 
spitting out venom like some deranged dictator who can not get his own 
way.

I am writing this to give Clif, Kell and the rest of their hearth, my 
public 
support and I know that the Court of Gothar are fully behind them and 
their 
efforts in the Great Lakes area. 

I hope that anyone with Brian or his North Coast Odinists page in their 
friends 
consider whether they really want him there. The way he has behaved and 
things 
he has written about decent folk just because they won't follow him are 
a 
disgrace.
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Now I know this maybe him trying to justify you leaving, but what is 
your side?
There has been alot of attacks on you. I think it may be they are 
angry. I 
don't know the full story on the situation. You seem like a great guy 
from our 
conversations"