My girlfriend left this morning to travel the mid-west and west coast.  I haven’t taken off my Mjolnir pendant since Fall, but I suppose she needs Thunor’s protection more than I do.

Myself and some others (no one particularly close to me) are going to the mountains.  We are driving in an older 90’s model van (an astro van, not a minivan) and it is at night.  The first scene of this dream is at the downtown tunnel that connects Portsmouth and Norfolk, heading eastbound.  When we get to the tunnel everyone is moving slow, we’re at the head of traffic, and a majority of the people are walking through the tunnel.  We’re driving really slow and notice 3 cars in front of us, two of them are black (in each lane) and there’s a silver car in the middle ahead of them.  We lose sight of them as tunnel workers move forward and flag us out.

As we get out the tunnel we conclude it was the president, but we do not know why.  It then appears as we exit the tunnel we end up at a large festival.  There’s a huge field and a lot of people with tons of tables set up with food.  During this I sense that we have to leave, that something bad suppose to happen.  We gather as much food as possible and get back in the van and leave.

There’s a transition from this to the next scene, the next scene I remember of significance we pull over on the side of the road and talk to some people.  Some kids seem to be messing with some tubes connected to a tree, as if it’s used to measure rain water and precipitation.  While talking to the kids I look around and get a bad feeling, I jump in the van and drive off.  I had a book bag with me, but I do not know what was in it.  When I get in the van I’m the only one in the van.  I drive down the road.

Next we pull up to a beach, there appears to be a gate, but we are at a point where the sand meets the asphalt of the road.  You cannot see past or over the gate, but there’s a fence that extends from both sides that you can see over.  At this point I’m not driving and others are in the van.  Again, I get a bad feeling and want to leave.  I tell them I can hear the sounds of screams, and tell them that people are getting (or going to get) raped and murdered, and that we have to leave now.  When I look out on the beach I only see deer, it appears to be dusk or dawn, but the sun is just enough over the horizon where I cannot see it, but there’s enough light to show the deer.  The antlers on the males are of a great size.  I take over the driving of the van and get out the area.

Again, there’s a transition to the next scene, but I do not remember.  Before I woke it shows us at our campsite in the mountains.  There seemed to be some things that happened here, but nothing that I can recall and nothing of any danger.  Last that I remember was that it was still dark (or night) and we are looking at our tent.

This picture that’s making it’s rounds on Facebook has the following list.

Drink when:

• Someone says “winter is coming”
• A woman is naked
• Jon is called a bastard
• Tyrion drinks
• Daenerys says Khaleesi
• People have sex
• Drink again if it’s incest
• Someone is injured
• Tyrion says something sexual
• Swords are drawn
• Someone says “a Lannister pays his debts”

Finish your drink when someone is beheaded
Bonus: drink whenever Hodor says “Hodor”

My own additions are as follows.

Drink when:

• Daenerys goes on a rant about how she’s dragon blood
• Daenerys goes on a rant about how the throne is hers by right
• Tyrion threatens someone with Bronn
• Someone says “to uphold/protect/serve the realm”
• Someone says “the 7 kingdoms”
• Someone says “what’s dead may never die”
• Someone says “the old gods”
• A wolf appears in scene
• Someone says “my lady”
• Jaime Lannister says he’s not afraid to die

Finish your drink during any gay sex scene

Anon is asking some curious questions. 

I don’t view white privilege on a group or collective level that of which white privilege is applied.  Do I acknowledge or understand the concepts of white privilege?  Yes.  Do I agree or accept the concepts of white privilege?  No.  The difference is merely through perception and methodology.  I don’t base white privilege as a default or as an absolute on the issue, because I could only do so if I view the issue as a group issue, but I do not.  My stance is influenced through methodological individualism, thus I start with the first and smallest and most direct variable, the individual.  One may correct me if I’m wrong, but as I understand it if I accepted the notion of white privilege it would be akin to suggesting “all whites are privileged,” but this is untrue, it’s not absolute.  If I change it to “some whites are privileged” it’s different, it’s not suggesting a collective privilege.  To make the statement that “all whites are privileged” as true is erroneous, because it does not validate the individual.  On an individual level this can change, any form of power can change, it’s not objective. 

Difference in whether or not someone accepts racial privilege is whether one denies the individual sovereign in their own being, or in their own right.  This does not deny various forms of systematic oppression.  To a further extent in various forms of systematic oppression would be that of Western imperialism, which is currently engaged through political endeavors, government policy and control over foreign affairs.

On a question of privilege in general I’m still critical of on a whole (even in regards to my views on feminism), to defining privilege, and whether it holds absolute in the case it’s being applied to.  The term varies from it’s political context to a social and/or cultural one, implying one group is more “privileged” or entitled than another through some means, in this case that one racial or cultural group has achieved privilege, but in this case it’s seen as a self asserted and self promoting privilege while simultaneously oppressing another.  The difference is again whether you view this collectively or individually in this case of racial supremacy.

Does this deny or do I deny that of people who try to affirm and maintain this on a group level?  No, because their are people who do pursue and engage in these means.  Does this make it absolute?  No.  It must be that an individuals pursuits would be that of their own ego and pleasure, to confirm and maintain that of their own concerns, their own concerns as individuals.  It’s not deniable that individuals acts towards pursuits that bring satisfaction or profit in one way or another, but these are obtained through individuals by individuals.

Further in regards to that of privilege, and even that towards rights, I’ve still have not been able to find a solid foundation in either except when one concludes to that of a systematic (or political) manner.  Outside of it’s political context into a cultural one, what is privilege?  That one group benefits over another?  What about the individual?  What is a right?  Who concludes one individual has more rights over another, and who decides these rights?  Where in nature is there a right?  Can someone find and feel a right?  If these forms of privilege and rights are not granted by some governing body claiming authority and negating sovereignty, then these forms of privileges and rights appear to me as abstract on individual levels.

Hope this answers your question.  If still curious ask again.