We all choose our screen names for the most part for something that personifies who we are.  This is my name. 

REVELATION 9:11 They have as king over them, the angel of the Abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.

    This is the personification of my name.  I choose this name a long time ago, because in my view it personified my life, and strangely in a way it still does.  When I was younger (13-15) I had an intense fasination with all forms of religion, not to say that I was a believer, but from a scholarly point of view, curiosity.  I studied all forms of belief, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddism, Taoism, the Greek Pantheon, Norse belief systems, Satanism, Indian Mythology, ect ect.  I was curious as to the differences in belief systems in both time and space and why these occured as they did and the similarities between all of them.

     In hebrew Abaddon/Apollyon, means Destroyer, and thats what I am and used to be.  I used to be the type of Man that you wouldn’t want to meet unless you had to.  Usually this involved dealings of an illicit nature, whether someone needed chastisement, or unlicensed pharmaceuticals, or other such things.  I lived in darkness, anger, crime, and violence from an early age.  This is not to say that I didn’t experience the brighter side of life either, however, that period, much like the summers where I live, was short and ended abruptly. 

     Abaddon is also a place.  It is the abyss, or a compartment of Gehenna.  It is personified as a place of death, or absolute cold.  Cold is viewed in a religious context as the absence of God.  I live in such a place both literally and figuratively.  I deal with -10 - -40/50 on a daily basis for a goodly portion of the year and I work in it, hard physical labor for 40-50 hours a week.

      In many religious texts, Abaddon, is viewed as both an ally and enemy of Heaven and Hell.  He is a fallen angel, with one wing flung torwards the heavens and the other steeped in blood and withered by fire.  I identify with that archtype/idea.  That is me.

     Previously I said that I was a destroyer.  In my earlier years, I destroyed the physical.  In the present, I destroy mindsets, and viewpoints, that are in my view, destructive, and pointlessly circular, and harmful to the people that hold them.  I am both your ally and your enemy, I am not your friend. I am the one that holds the Keys to your own personal abyss, and hopefully one day, you will be free of it.

-Strength and Honor-       

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