I'm in wonder, how we cannot agree on the fact that this 'o9a' is actually obsolete.
Please allow me to be serious for a moment. This is a general response to nobody in particular.
What you guys are now dealing with are ideas and semantics, when you speak about and view something like o9a as being "obsolete," or "real," or whatever.
1. The word to "exist," means basically to have suchness in the real world in some way.
2. It can be argued that "ideas," simple "ideations," or thoughts, may not "exist" in the real world.
3. Things like o9a, Islam, Wicca, Satanism, any -ism, any -ology, any culture, the scientific method, have a suchness beyond mere ideas.
4. Even if there was only one single human being on the whole earth who identified as a Muslim, read the Holy Quran, and put the Way/Methodology/System of Islam into living practice: Islam EXISTS with observable and verifiable suchness in the world of experience and phenomena.
This principle goes for any evolved "system" that is a combination of ideas and practice. A combination of the human Mind/Thought/belief, the human Emotion/Psyche, and human Action/Deed/Praxis.
If every Cherokee Indian were to go extinct, except one Cherokee who identified as a Cherokee, kept the tradition, and put the culture into living practice, his Native American culture can be said to still "exist," because it has an observable and verifiable suchness in the every day world.
If every speaker of Chinese were to be extinct, and Chinese existed only as writing in books, if one person still spoke it, used it, expressed it somehow in the human world of experience and natural phenomena, the language still exists because it has a verifiable and observable suchness in said world.
5. It can be said semantically and on the level of working with ideas that the ONA does not exist, is not real, is obsolete; whatever. But if even one person believes in the Order of Nine Angles, identifies as being ONA, is inspired and influenced by ONA, studies the material, and puts ONA into practice as best as he/she can: then the ONA exists as an observable and verifiable suchness in the every day world of human experience and natural phenomena.
6. Regardless of how anybody views, opines, thinks of, defines, word juggles ONA: it unfortunately "exists." Exist here meaning that the Order of Nine Angles as a philosophy, world-view, tradition, coherent set of practices can be observed and verified to have suchness in the real world.
Even if some dislike the word "exist," and say that it is obsolete, or it is just the ideas and system of practice codified by Anton Long, it nevertheless has suchness in the real world, via a "nexion." Where nexion here means a person willing to believe in it, study its philosophy, and put its coherent set of practices into practice. The ONA's suchness being verifiable and observable.
The words we use are meaningless. Even without words and definitions, I can easily point at the suchness of the Order of Nine Angles as an observable and verifiable "thing" in the world of experience and natural phenomena.
AL/DM is needed... DM more than AL I would say. For the same reasons stated in this thread. DM/AL serves as an anchor to root the ONA as a system of philosophy and practice in the world and mind of its "adherent." He sets an example, or he is an example to those few who may vibe with ONA. The thing is, being human, we are better able to relate with other humans, or characters. Characters as in for example "gods" in mythology.
For instance, we are better able to relate with the god Mars, as opposed to a bunch of ideas of fighting and war etc. It's just in our nature as human beings that we learn by the example of others. If you deny this, I dare anybody to show me that a human child - and any young intelligent animal - does not learn by example of its elders/parents. I dare anybody to prove to me that a young cheetah does not learn how to be a cheetah and how to hunt from the long-time example of its mother.
Even to be "human" requires the child to be exposed to humans as an example to forge itself into. I dare anybody to prove me wrong. Go study the cases of Feral Children who did not have the example of a human to follow at a very young age.
If being HUMAN requires a new homo sapiens person to follow the example of a human, than that principle also applies to being anything else in human life: a plumber, a police officer, a priest, a soldier, a rapist, a thief, a Satanist, a Christian, an ONA person. AL/DM is a needed example for those who vibes with ONA.