Asatru Folk Assembly - 10⧸22⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Ep 172 - Mouse Utopia

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00:03:00.000 Hello, and welcome to this week's exciting edition of Victory Never Sleeps.

00:03:12.160 We have a cool and I think a really interesting topic tonight.

00:03:18.660 Um, so as you guys have all been paying attention to, we have recently acquired our fifth Hoff,

00:03:32.680 Fraze Hoff, located in lovely Austintown, Ohio. We will be dedicating this Hoff on the 6th of

00:03:42.000 December. We would like for you to join us for said dedication. So make plans today. It's a

00:03:50.020 lovely Hoff. It's a very convenient location. This should be really great. We've got a lot of

00:03:58.360 folks planning to attend. I believe the law speaker is planning to attend. I will definitely

00:04:04.460 be in attendance. Our founder and his wife, Githya McNallan, will both be in attendance.

00:04:09.660 so yeah this is a once in a once in forever opportunity to be at the dedication of this

00:04:16.280 off so i would highly encourage you to do so if you are able um if you're interested please

00:04:22.080 contact your local folk builder or any of our folk builders for that matter and we can get y'all set

00:04:27.440 up um speaking of phrase off so i appreciate everybody you guys have really been amazingly

00:04:38.360 generous and we are very thankful for it. Just let folks know we are sitting at 25.1% paid off

00:04:48.220 and we have not even dedicated the Hoff yet. So that is a tremendous, tremendous effort.

00:04:54.320 We appreciate you guys. And if you are interested, I think Nick will put up a link here,

00:04:59.000 but you can donate at runestone.org and we would appreciate anything you guys can do.

00:05:07.520 you guys are awesome thank you so much speaking of gw farnsworth started out by donating 25 to

00:05:14.720 this program and also 25 to our current uh folk services fundraiser for a family that is going

00:05:21.680 through some going through some struggles and we appreciate you helping out so thank you very much

00:05:30.000 um trying to think if there's any top of the program news for you guys i don't think that

00:05:35.520 there is other than um it was really cool last week to celebrate our founder's birthday with

00:05:43.440 you guys on here and all of the birthday wishes and appreciation was much appreciated by them

00:05:51.520 i was with him this weekend as we celebrated a veteran niter um did that all of our hoffs

00:05:58.960 and a pretty astounding event across the AFA.

00:06:04.100 So we're riding a good tide here,

00:06:06.620 but I spoke to him and he really appreciated

00:06:09.920 getting the opportunity to speak to you guys

00:06:11.680 and to do the episode.

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00:06:16.900 To set the stage,

00:06:21.620 Law Speaker, can you tell people what Mouse Utopia is?

00:06:26.520 well yes um and this is i'm not really sure um i guess i can stand over the banner the um

00:06:38.280 not really sure how much this has to do with adulting but it is a topic that i like to

00:06:43.840 talk about and so uh we can uh we can just tough it out for one night a couple hours um so mouse

00:06:51.440 utopia. And I had the guy's name, Calhoun. There was a psychiatrist named Calhoun and

00:07:03.960 he, should I be up over, center up over? I think there's a technical difficulty going

00:07:13.520 on on the producer's end. So I'm checking on that.

00:07:15.600 Okay. So there was a psychiatrist named Calhoun. And back in the 60s, he did an experiment where he took a gymnasium sized mouse enclosure, built it, plexiglass and all these layers of stuff that mice need.

00:07:43.280 He filled it with an unlimited supply of space, unlimited bedding, unlimited food, and put six or eight pairs of mice in there and let them start doing what mice do.

00:07:58.540 And so they reproduced exponentially, as you might expect.

00:08:03.900 There was nothing in there but mice and food and space.

00:08:07.520 So for a long time, the mouse population exploded.

00:08:13.280 And at some point then, the mice started displaying a lot of aberrant behavior. 0.85

00:08:23.820 They started turning homosexual, many of them.

00:08:28.820 They started displaying behavior that mice don't usually do.

00:08:32.840 Mice are nocturnal creatures, but many of the mice started coming out during the day

00:08:38.280 when other mice were not around.

00:08:40.760 Some mice were sleeping 22 hours a day.

00:08:45.940 Other mice were having, walking around in gangs and attacking other mice.

00:08:57.200 And it got down to a point where, and Calhoun called these the beautiful mice.

00:09:03.760 um like at some point uh there was a mate selection that that where they were living even

00:09:10.000 in abnormal pairs normally mice are kind of at least during the nesting period they are

00:09:15.840 i guess serially monogamous they you know the the two parents make a little nest and they take care

00:09:23.020 of their own mouselets but what was happening is three four five men male mice were going with one

00:09:29.440 female mice and so it was so the chaos that was created in there uh just disrupted mouse behavior

00:09:40.080 patterns and disrupted obviously something it's hard is it right to say something deep in the mouse

00:09:48.320 psychiat psychology was was fundamentally askew they uh

00:09:56.960 and again it was at a population saturation much less than the uh than the

00:10:05.520 elements would have supported there was still plenty of room there was still plenty of food

00:10:10.080 there's still plenty of bedding but many of the mice just stopped breeding many of the mice were

00:10:16.000 displaying all of these aberrant behaviors where they were not acting like normal mice

00:10:25.760 and long before the food ran out long before the space ran out the mice all stopped breeding and

00:10:31.920 at the end of the experiment there were no mice in the enclosure they all stopped breeding and died

00:10:37.440 out and so the so the question then has been pondered for quite some time then you know what

00:10:46.320 happened to these mice you know what happened in their little brain in there to uh to switch off

00:10:54.080 their all those natural behaviors and it's been way too much time thinking about this analysis but

00:11:02.240 But so what does that have to do with anything?

00:11:05.700 All right. So what I think, and feel free to engage the debate, what I think that is, and the reason that this is important in our analysis of what's going on in Western civilization as a whole,

00:11:24.040 is I think that all of this wokeism, transgenderism, the rampant hope of sexuality, the lack of normal breeding associations is all this kind of this virus.

00:11:42.920 It's a mind virus that is permeating Western civilization, and in the exact same way that the mice were doing it at a more animalistic level, we are susceptible at some upper level, like in our upper function. 0.81

00:12:04.620 We see there are too many people. We see there is too much population of not necessarily of our people, but of like worldwide.

00:12:17.160 There are too many people. There's there's population pressure, even though there's still a lot more resource out there.

00:12:24.260 So I think the abnormalities that we see in a lot of what, for lack of a better term, we might call coupling behavior, I think that a lot of that is the psychology of this phenomenon being played out in Western civilization.

00:12:46.160 so

00:12:48.020 what I

00:12:49.700 so

00:12:50.940 the reason I want to talk about this tonight

00:12:54.740 for us

00:12:56.400 for our people

00:12:57.080 is I think if we identify

00:12:59.960 that as a phenomenon

00:13:02.300 that is out there in

00:13:04.080 civilization at large

00:13:05.820 that we

00:13:07.460 can

00:13:09.740 overcome it internally

00:13:11.960 by being able to name the problem

00:13:14.560 And that we can, sorry, the term that immediately comes to mind is get over ourselves for five minutes, you know, and realize that it is important for us to have little ositur to continue on the worship of the gods.

00:13:39.100 um that also ties in with the other half of the this discussion to me which is um

00:13:49.020 other half like the other third but uh there's a there's another part of this idea that is also a

00:13:58.840 well-known phenomenon in in ecological studies ecology studies and i apologize i got a little

00:14:08.240 bit of a cold. But ecology, ecological professors, sorry, I'm being gifted with a gift of tea.

00:14:20.900 Thank you, baby. So, thank you. So, the RK theory, right? RK theory, and it's, for whatever

00:14:36.020 reason it's a small r and a slash and a capital k rk theory and the and the and what rk theory

00:14:43.620 is about is it's about the idea that some animals have lots and lots of babies and invest very

00:14:56.300 little in their upbringing like mice or rabbits or frogs or alligators to a lesser extent um but

00:15:05.460 But if you have, like if you have during your lifetime, if you have, not you, but like if an animal has 30, 60, 80, 100 young, then they don't, all they need to do is if one or two of them survive, then that animal will continue into the future.

00:15:26.480 And so that's our theory. Like it's where you have lots and lots of babies and don't put very much resource into those, into the raising of any one child.

00:15:41.880 You know, but then K theory is the opposite. K theory, people with, with, I keep saying people, I mean animals, people are animals.

00:15:53.280 But K theory is the opposite. You have very few children, but you invest a lot of resources into their growth and development.

00:16:04.280 And like the classical example in ecology is the elephant. You know, an elephant only reproduces.

00:16:11.280 You know, I think it takes two years for them to come to term and then they have a long childhood and adolescence.

00:16:17.280 adolescence i mean it takes them to be 13 15 20 years old before they are sexually active

00:16:25.120 and so elephants have this long slow reproductive cycle but their young is cared for by

00:16:32.480 all the elephants in the herd and they all invest a lot in teaching the young elephants

00:16:39.760 how to act what to eat what not to eat where to find water all those sorts of things

00:16:44.720 So what does that have to do with anything, right? What it has to do with is that Western civilization has traditionally been KDV, right?

00:16:59.660 We have few children. I mean, as Tacitus, I know everybody says Tacitus, but as Tacitus pointed out, you know, we have, we wait to get married.

00:17:16.820 We wait to have children until we're established. That's always been like the dramatic pattern.

00:17:21.600 We have very few children and invest a lot of resources into their upbringing.

00:17:32.160 There are other tribes, let's say, that reproduce using the opposite theory.

00:17:40.620 They have lots and lots of kids, but they don't put very much resource into the raising of those kids.

00:17:52.200 And so the problem then comes in, right, where you have the mixing of those two types of reproduction theory.

00:18:03.160 Like if you have people who care deeply about their children's education and want to see them get 16 years of education so they can get a college degree or get even just 12 years of decent high school education, middle school education, so that they can, as Jethro Bodine used to say, read and write and cipher some and have some basic ideas.

00:18:33.160 of history and the way that the world works,

00:18:40.020 you can't mix those people with those who are engaging 0.84

00:18:49.740 a different reproductive strategy because it causes friction, right?

00:18:56.560 You can't have mice and wolves living in the same compound. 0.96

00:19:02.080 Not for long.

00:19:03.160 I said, not for long, not for long. Well, and so then you get into this idea. Well, you know, won't the wolves eat the mice? Yes. The wolves will eat the mice until the wolves get infected with a different sort of mind virus that tells them it's wrong to eat mice.

00:19:22.520 and that you should forgive the mice for being lesser beings

00:19:28.540 and you should help the mice

00:19:32.040 because they have just as much right to get in there 0.84

00:19:38.120 and eat some of the moose carcass as the wolves do.

00:19:45.140 And I realize I'm mixing four metaphors into this stew here.

00:19:52.520 But what I'm coming around to saying, right, is a couple of things.

00:19:59.300 One, we, the AFA, are trying to set up a community,

00:20:07.880 something that looks like the start of an intentional community up in Tennessee,

00:20:12.580 near Surahide.

00:20:14.560 I would like to engage that project at a deep and profound level

00:20:20.600 so that we can put the fence up and keep the mice out.

00:20:25.040 If that, you know, to put that metaphor in there.

00:20:30.400 Even if we can get several of us moved up there

00:20:35.600 so that we can scare the mice off,

00:20:42.060 you know, that would be equally as effective as, you know, as raising balls.

00:20:48.040 But those are the sorts of things that we, number one, that we should consider when we're thinking about our long-term prospects.

00:20:56.780 Number two, and I know I was lucky and stumbled into, you know, a decent slot where I could parent three fine-strapping young men.

00:21:13.400 But we should all, we should be, because ultimately, evolution and the long-term prospects of our folk are limited by our ability to propagate ourselves.

00:21:39.080 So, I mean, this is another way to say I have great respect for all those who take the time and trouble to have two, three, five children.

00:21:50.940 One is great.

00:21:53.720 Five, six, seven, you know, is that much better?

00:21:57.900 So we, meaning y'all who have not done your duty to the full, need to start pair bonding, realizing.

00:22:07.480 And see, this, too, is part of this mix that comes in here to me is, you know, we have this idea from the entertainment industry, and I think that that idea has been the – I think it has altered people's perception of how relationships work, right?

00:22:35.960 I mean, you could go to a movie, and they have some great big problem, and they solve it all, and everybody lives happily ever after, and it's all done in an hour and a half.

00:22:48.200 You know, that's not how life is.

00:22:49.960 It's not how it works out here in the real world.

00:22:55.000 People are not perfect.

00:22:56.800 I'm not perfect.

00:22:59.820 Got news for you, listener.

00:23:01.800 You're not perfect either, viewer.

00:23:03.480 um so i hate to say it quite this way but this is sort of the right way to say it is that you

00:23:13.240 need to be realistic about your standards right you're not going to marry cheryl teagues or

00:23:21.720 i know i'm aging myself i was going to say if you did you would not be of breeding age

00:23:26.600 Okay, Britney Spears or whoever it is that's the – oh, what's the girl that's in trouble now because she has good genes?

00:23:40.920 You know what I'm talking about. 1.00

00:23:42.380 She's in the ad. 0.95

00:23:45.080 Brie Lark.

00:23:45.840 No, not her.

00:23:47.940 Sydney Sweeney. 1.00

00:23:49.240 Yep.

00:23:49.780 There you go.

00:23:50.440 Sweeney you're not you know that's outside the range

00:23:54.680 of even me probably so

00:23:58.240 even you say it ain't so

00:24:01.180 so you know

00:24:05.500 you know I guess that's what I'm aiming

00:24:10.880 for and what I sort of had in mind when I put you know when I thought of this topic 0.97

00:24:14.840 for the episode is ignore the idiotic pressures around out there that you know where all these 0.97

00:24:22.200 blue-haired freaks are saying there are too many people there are too many people but there are not 0.99

00:24:27.800 enough of the right people so it's all it's not just the absolute number of people it's how it's 0.98

00:24:33.800 the distribution okay so find a woman settle down have some kids

00:24:42.680 solid i'll i'll give you some advice in that vein if it ever helps you can call me there you have it

00:24:50.360 folks so this is a cool topic for a lot of reasons because in a microcosm it

00:25:03.800 points out lots of different paths that we can go down on lessons learned from it or

00:25:12.560 lessons demonstrated in it, I suppose.

00:25:21.720 In, you know, going back to the mouse utopia for a moment,

00:25:26.720 Um, when we've all heard the thing that, you know, good men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create bad times, bad times create good men.

00:25:45.520 in this cycle, you have something very similar at play. When there's no struggle to your life

00:25:52.960 and everything is very easy to accomplish, a nihilism and a pointlessness sets in

00:26:01.260 to where you end up, or I say you, where beings end up in an existential crisis because they

00:26:12.540 don't have the natural forces working on them that would compel them to do the things so they

00:26:22.220 find creative ways to utilize their time and their energy um

00:26:32.620 you know when when we're all hungry and cold we don't have any confusion on whether boys have a 0.99

00:26:38.380 penis and girls have a vagina we all understand that um but when we don't and we've got to like 0.98

00:26:45.360 let's reshuffle the deck let's you know discard everything that we've learned about western 0.99

00:26:51.220 civilization because let's try something new it it really displays in strange ways and we're laughing

00:26:58.840 But as this is something to have laughed about in the 1990s, it is shockingly real in the world around us today.

00:27:12.640 And I think one of the big challenges, because I don't think we want to artificially create, you know, some kind of life or death needs on things.

00:27:23.860 But it challenges us specifically as Aryan noble people to figure out what that means.

00:27:31.420 The world around us has degraded all of the things that were once celebrated as noble and as things one would devote their life to purposes that were worthy of spending your life trying to attain, trying to serve.

00:27:49.240 we you know and when i say we i mean western civilization scoffs at glory or dignity or

00:27:59.560 you know honor or creating you know creating empire creating legacy um serving king and

00:28:09.880 country those things are all you know at best fun historical endeavors for you to read about

00:28:19.500 or you know at worst the the evil sins of the oppressor and

00:28:25.540 it's created an existential struggle for people to where they don't try that hard because they

00:28:35.920 don't have to our challenge is to still try hard even when we don't have to technically

00:28:43.940 to find meaning in the things that we do in life and to restore value to things like glory and

00:28:53.000 honor and dignity and celebration of race and of nation and of of things so that is

00:29:03.540 and i mentioned there's something that we return to on the program um often but with a little bit

00:29:10.680 different guys our people spin out on

00:29:16.280 so if you're an npc you can just go through life and consume the stuff that's there because there's

00:29:26.500 an abundance of stuff to consume there's an abundance of distraction and you can just kind

00:29:31.640 drift along and and you know be an airhead that drifts along on things but once you're aware

00:29:42.360 only the most base people can be aware and then somehow retreat back into ignorance once you're

00:29:48.680 aware of the things that are wrong it becomes oppressive when you don't see outlets to fix

00:29:57.080 the big macro things we see wrong in society and so i think a lot of people spend a lot of time

00:30:06.520 beating themselves up mentally about that or eventually burning themselves out and embracing

00:30:14.040 throwing up their hands and becoming like the strange degenerate mice um

00:30:19.880 Um, the AFA provides a very special and very specific solution to that.

00:30:31.680 We are building, we are rebuilding a community of people who do care about those things,

00:30:39.760 who are spending our lives in pursuit of the things that are noble and things that are good,

00:30:46.180 are doing things that our ancestors would recognize and respect and appreciate.

00:30:52.740 In the AFA, you have the ability to do deeds that gain the notice of the gods

00:31:01.360 and hopefully gain their being proud of you,

00:31:07.620 their acknowledging the work that you've done.

00:31:10.660 You have the opportunity to help hundreds, thousands of our people to live better, to raise themselves up, to accomplish and to succeed.

00:31:24.060 I mentioned about Frazehoff, that's our fifth Hoff. For a relatively small number of people who are engaged in being pious and caring about what we do and sticking around for years and decades dedicated to something, we're able to accomplish really great things.

00:31:46.220 Um, there's a lot that can be done if we put our focus towards it, but it's very easy to be lulled

00:31:54.500 into a, I don't know, to be lulled into a spot where you don't want to risk all of the comforts

00:32:01.460 that you have to try big endeavors. And so instead you waste time doing nothing. An anecdote, um,

00:32:08.320 number of people I went to high school with actually, but very specifically one in particular.

00:32:13.100 it. He suffered from like he was too smart for his own good. One of the smartest people I've ever

00:32:25.380 met didn't have goals or ambitions that he knew how to put a finger on or decide on. And I think

00:32:36.240 that lots of people can be forgiven for not knowing what they want to be when they grow up,

00:32:41.000 quote unquote, when they're in high school. But very shortly after high school, he had

00:32:47.420 some relative pass and he inherited some money. And then he had, you know, something sounds like

00:32:54.120 it's out of a movie, some guy that he met that gave him some really hot stock tip. And he

00:33:01.580 rolled the dice on it. And he hit big. When I say big, not like limousines and jets and,

00:33:08.900 you know whatever but that's the problem he hit the just enough big

00:33:16.500 here you know while we graduated in 99 26 years later

00:33:24.660 still got money off of that that he's existing on he's not living the high life

00:33:32.020 but again with very little ambitions he's got enough to eat enough to have a roof over his head

00:33:37.780 and enough to have an internet subscription or whatever

00:33:43.620 so he didn't really have that thing that forces people to have to make a decision

00:33:49.940 and do something with themselves and so he didn't and there's a lot of time and a lot

00:33:56.900 of years and a lot of missed opportunity because he he lived in a very very comfortable prison

00:34:04.260 of his own of his own situation and the ease of the ease and comfort that he found himself in.

00:34:12.420 That's really unfortunate. No, a lot of people that way. We've got a lot of things that are

00:34:17.120 made tremendously easier. So we don't have the same things pushing us to be successful. I think

00:34:26.400 the same is true. You know, Alan mentioned, you know, go out, find yourself a mate and make some

00:34:32.240 babies, there was a time to where that being a necessity and not having workarounds like,

00:34:39.800 you know, internet dating or pornography or other things to vent natural urges towards

00:34:49.240 that you had to go out and make something of yourself. You had to find a way to be appealing,

00:34:55.300 even if you weren't like the super supermodel guy, you would find stuff to show and demonstrate

00:35:02.420 worth and demonstrate capability. You would have to go do these things. You'd have to get outside

00:35:08.260 of your comfort zone and ascend to something in order to get these things accomplished.

00:35:15.400 Well, now folks don't. One of the things that, you know, is also a modern phenomenon,

00:35:22.040 they've done studies and tried to figure it out with all of the easy access to hookup culture

00:35:27.480 and all these hookup apps you would think that more guys than ever are out there you know engaging

00:35:35.880 in sexual adventures that tends to not be the case statistically it's the same very small

00:35:45.240 percent of naturally high value guys they're just getting more and more and all of the women

00:35:53.320 it doesn't really make that work because guys that would have found they're worth 0.90

00:35:57.080 doing other great things don't try that's why you get other aberrant things like men

00:36:03.720 go their own way or whatever this intentional celibatism is and these other 0.99

00:36:09.480 other gay adjacent things. And that's really unfortunate, but I see that affect a lot of our 0.99

00:36:16.840 people. Necessity really is that thing in life that spurs people on to have to make decisions

00:36:29.000 and have to choose a path and do things. Another person that was a, you know, a one time a friend

00:36:34.820 of mine told me that you know the roads are paved with you know the carcasses of squirrels that

00:36:40.200 couldn't make a decision you have people actually in the middle of the road running wondering which

00:36:44.640 way to go until the car runs them over um so yeah those are any of a number of things that come out

00:36:52.880 of the situation that we find ourselves in in our own you know human utopia in air quotes right

00:37:02.960 No. And you've touched on all the stuff that, you know, why, why I brought this topic up. You know, you're exactly right. High value men sleep managed to bag or whatever you call it, you know, lots and lots of women, because they're all trying to, they're all competing for the same few men.

00:37:24.100 and it devalues both those men and those women and that has a direct parallel with the you know

00:37:31.860 with the beautiful mice who were the last few breeding pairs there in mouse utopia where you

00:37:37.780 know they were breeding together but then eventually even they stopped breeding which

00:37:42.300 is exactly what's happening here you know all these and i'm you know one of the dating phenomena

00:37:48.760 that's been studied is that men in a dating app will there's a rank they rate women as a range

00:37:57.040 like there's twos four sixes eights tens occasionally but women when they're rating

00:38:06.080 guys you're either a nine or a two you know and they don't they don't illustrate anything in

00:38:12.820 between and i think that's that selection culture that that women have this idea that a guy has to

00:38:21.420 be beautiful and wealthy before he's any rates anything over three and they they've lost the 1.00

00:38:31.580 idea and and we can spend a lot of time and many sociologists have pondering why it is that women 0.90

00:38:40.300 have gotten that idea in their heads um so they throw themselves at these uh guys that they think 0.98

00:38:47.580 are high status that are really just good-looking morons and um you know and then engage in behavior 0.98

00:38:57.260 that they deplore when men do it and rightly so so um you know then they end up 1.00

00:39:05.180 in their you know in their middle years living out that desperate loneliness of the career woman 0.81

00:39:15.560 where they you know because a career doesn't hug you tight at night and a you know and a career

00:39:22.840 doesn't need you in the same way that uh you know that a baby does there's just nothing else that

00:39:29.300 takes the place of that strategy that says, you know, I can find a good middleman who's

00:39:37.660 going to make a good middle-class living, and we can have lots and lots of happy little

00:39:43.700 healing kids together.

00:39:46.280 Well, and it's so seductive, too, because the proposition in a more natural environment

00:39:56.860 And in an area in society where you begin removing the desperate struggle of life and evolving that into high ideals and high aspirations, things come with that.

00:40:10.480 And we don't realize those things. 1.00

00:40:14.060 so the career you know the the career woman path provides just enough like you can make enough to 1.00

00:40:23.520 where you have a roof over your head and where you got stuff to eat and it doesn't occur until 1.00

00:40:30.880 you're already you know knee deep in it and like oh well then what and i think the same thing with

00:40:38.180 a lot of the things that guys had to do like i'm not i don't want to have to go toil for you know

00:40:44.580 every calorie i get so that i can maybe make it through the winter or whatever of course none of

00:40:49.620 us want that but in doing that generations past had to learn skills that got them there they had

00:40:57.380 to develop competency and confidence they had to develop a wide variety of things that add

00:41:04.340 you know the value to existence that a lot of folks lack today so finding and they got to see

00:41:13.800 the value of honest work you know the where's where so much now is um you know sitting in an

00:41:22.480 office pushing paper around or pushing internet streams around um you know it's it's very different

00:41:28.740 from uh uh you know a physical location where like you can see the barrel maker and what he

00:41:36.420 contributes to the you know to the overall well-being of the community in the exact same way

00:41:42.340 that the uh you know that the farrier does and the milkmaid and all that stuff you know it used

00:41:48.260 to be that there was a very visceral connection between all of these trades and so we've lost that

00:41:56.820 idea that even by doing a little you're doing your part and i was actually thinking about that you

00:42:03.860 know when you you know in relation to us now having phrase off and having paid off

00:42:10.660 the first four you know we own four outright and that's because you know these because all of you

00:42:18.020 all of you and our friends and have contributed a little a little a little and then boom it's a lot

00:42:26.340 and that's the way that civilization works you know each man does his each man holds his part

00:42:31.780 of the shield wall and you know and between all of us we you know we prevail well so something else

00:42:41.620 that another strange path this takes us down is something that i have

00:42:49.220 often thought about as being 0.60

00:42:58.020 one of the reasons that eastern religion is so very self-denying

00:43:06.020 like the goal is to become one with like nothingness or whatever but the the ego death of 0.98

00:43:13.780 your individuality it's coming out of a set of cultures to where people are just stacked

00:43:23.540 up on top of people upon top of people on top of people with sewage running in the streets

00:43:31.060 from their excessive defecations in the drinking water and whatever else and it's not a

00:43:36.660 it's not a great existence and the other thing is there's such a hyper abundance of creatures

00:43:45.380 that the individual worth of a person isn't there you don't run into people that know your name at

00:43:54.360 the store that your kids do go to school together that you have those things because just the odds

00:44:00.860 are you're in an endless sea of and it's helped that those people are very hard to differentiate

00:44:06.620 between um you chuckle but i'm not wrong um it's thing and i don't i think that's something very

00:44:18.460 special about us that we do celebrate the individual as much our concept of salvation

00:44:26.300 in its most obvious i think to the listeners form of the einherjar in the name speaks to

00:44:35.020 individuality um the the singular warrior um someone who's distinguished themselves from the

00:44:43.900 pack and i think that's really important and i think it's a fundamental to ausitru that sets us

00:44:49.900 apart from many other uh many other religions in our world today and and the and western civilization

00:44:57.500 you know we talked last time about the faustian bargain and this western restlessness that we have

00:45:05.180 that had you know to to get out and and be that rugged individual out there on the tip of the

00:45:11.020 sphere and and rightly so and but you know the downside of that in the context of mouse utopia

00:45:21.020 is that you know we have provided the hard men that have come before us have provided you know

00:45:27.900 uh pax anglorum which is you know the english peace um throughout

00:45:33.260 our part of the civilization so we don't know hard times we have a super abundance of everything

00:45:41.120 um and you know so we just have that uh coalesce coalescence of

00:45:50.580 um tracks that have put us where we have you know all this food and no and no enemy in sight

00:45:58.980 But and without the social structure supporting the other things. So if you eliminate the struggle, then you create high ideal, you celebrate artists and theologians and heroes.

00:46:16.980 And, you know, all of us can name any number of useless, you know, actors or quote unquote musical artists or whatever else.

00:46:35.480 And I don't, and again, don't get me wrong.

00:46:38.120 There are some really tremendous actors.

00:46:39.940 There are some other people that just look good and get a bunch of roles.

00:46:43.680 There are some people that are tremendous at making music.

00:46:46.480 There are other people that, you know, just make some one hit wonders that we kind of sing along to.

00:46:51.000 And I have fun with that, too.

00:46:52.560 But none of us know the name of any Medal of Honor winner in the last 80, 90 years.

00:47:05.100 At a different time, we would all know the greatest warriors of our folk.

00:47:10.040 Those people would be celebrated and, you know, parades in their honor and, you know, bestowal of medals and things before the king and before, you know, crowds of adoring peasantry and things.

00:47:26.500 No, we don't celebrate those kind of things, you know, in a different vein. 0.57

00:47:30.860 We don't know the name of scientists unless they're like black science man that has like a show or an entertainment thing that's adjacent.

00:47:38.440 we don't know the names of people who achieve great things unless they are like elon musk and

00:47:44.940 they are so far in their achievement that it's undeniable and they own lots of stuff that you

00:47:50.440 can't avoid it so it's our challenge is to find ways to actualize within the abundance that our

00:48:01.980 ancestors have provided us. And I think the AFA does a very good job of providing that and

00:48:08.540 structuring towards that. You know, I'll mention that none of us are perfect. And the AFA is

00:48:13.960 certainly not perfect, but we're more perfect today than we were two years ago. We were more

00:48:19.180 perfect two years ago than we were 20 years before that. You know, this time next year,

00:48:25.120 when I talk to you guys, hopefully we're even closer towards that goal than we are now. That's

00:48:29.640 always the goal but I think we're making an active stride towards it and this is a very good

00:48:34.980 opportunity for people to be involved in something with a grander purpose something bigger than

00:48:39.800 themselves something to gain the attention of the gods and to make the ancestors proud and to build

00:48:45.820 lasting things for our children and their children and we're absolutely doing that and we'd invite

00:48:52.900 you to be part of doing that with us because and that's actually one of the cornerstones of

00:48:59.760 happiness is to you know is to have purpose um where everything's handed to you you have no

00:49:05.500 purpose um which is why you know there are some millionaires and some of them have been criticized

00:49:11.820 i think it's bill gates who said you know he's his kids are not getting anything um you know

00:49:17.400 And but because he he has recognized, I don't want to give him much morals, although he's right about population.

00:49:24.060 But, you know, the only way that you can recognize that self-worth is to struggle against the, you know, against the forces that we all that every person that every civilization struggles against. 0.91

00:49:44.400 You know, it's the struggle for self-realization, you know, and the struggle against becoming the NPC who just overindulges in the mindless entertainment and the hyperabundance of food that we have and slacks back off.

00:50:05.860 And it's a relentless battle, but that's where discipline comes in, and certainly that's where the AFA can help you and help everyone, help all of us maintain that sense of identity and maintain that sense of purpose.

00:50:23.180 It certainly gives me a sense of purpose to be able to play my part in manifesting the greatness that we have done over the last 20 years.

00:50:35.860 Well, it's a funny kind of accidental turn of phrase or whatever, but yes, it will help you and it will help us. And ideally, we help each other to achieve that. One of the beautiful things I think about the AFA is we have a group of people that are very committed to seeing each other succeed.

00:50:53.860 And I've watched that in so many different ways, both great and small, of AFA members helping one another to be the best they can be, to achieve, to succeed, to break through blockages, to overcome obstacles, and to become more than we were, and to reciprocate that back and forth to where we all rise up because we're all helping each other.

00:51:20.980 Something I was remiss to do. Leroy from Michigan donated $100 to Frazehoff. Thank you very much. We appreciate you. I'm sorry it took me so long to acknowledge your donation, but you're awesome. Thank you so much for that.

00:51:35.140 Um, something that this also, again, this topic, the mouse utopia thing touches on, you know, everything in some, some, it's so much of our life struggle in society and such a poignant microcosm.

00:51:56.420 So the overriding theme of our folk, of our faith, and of this that we do is the struggle against chaos, the chaos that comes from entropy.

00:52:15.140 you have to stay in motion you have to stay strong striving to spiral upwards because the

00:52:22.660 default state is a spiral towards disintegration and chaos and a breakdown of order a breakdown of

00:52:30.660 society a breakdown of everything else that's shown completely in the mouse utopia and the

00:52:36.260 spiral in you know creatures with that short of a lifespan you see that happen real real quick

00:52:44.340 If we are not doing things to push ourselves forward, then we are being pulled backwards.

00:52:55.080 And that pull is not always even.

00:52:57.300 We see it in different facets of life, different facets of society.

00:53:01.220 But it is sure and it is, you know, eternal.

00:53:06.560 So finding ways to get ourselves to move forward because you have to, even on simple things. 0.79

00:53:13.940 So we talk about it's easy to get lost in big historical context, like, oh, we need to go, you know, conquer Russia. 0.96

00:53:22.600 We need to go, you know, bring the Somali land under our subjugation. 0.74

00:53:29.040 We need to go, like, do these great things. 1.00

00:53:33.320 A lot of the time, no, you just need to get up, get your clothes on and get out of the house.

00:53:37.600 Maybe you don't have to get out of the house that day because you don't need to for your job.

00:53:41.940 but it's good for you to get out of the house no you need to go to the gym not because you need to 0.99

00:53:46.880 battle you know wild beasts but because you don't want to be a fat slob um you need to make the 0.77

00:53:54.180 efforts to do good things and to accomplish stuff not because you have to but because you should 0.99

00:54:00.380 because on the other side of it you are better for it and you've gained fame amongst people

00:54:06.300 that appreciate it. And then that comes back to the Sigurheim idea in Tennessee, trying to build

00:54:12.540 community. In the AFA, we have a substantial community. It's separated by miles of my space,

00:54:20.580 but it's much more densely populated than it once was. And that gets better every day.

00:54:26.040 What we would like to see people do to the best of everybody's ability,

00:54:30.060 get closer to your fellow AFA members. We mentioned our five HOFs. If you're able and you want to have

00:54:39.780 community that you don't have, move to one of the spaces that we have a HOF and are building a

00:54:47.020 community around it. I would encourage everyone who can to move to Jackson County, Tennessee,

00:54:53.620 where we are deeply engaged and invested in building community my family will be out there

00:55:03.460 as soon as possible hopefully many of our leadership and many of our membership will

00:55:10.100 follow that and come out there and be part of it but if you can't you got five other options

00:55:15.380 of places that you can move towards to be closer to people in your area and as we continue as your

00:55:24.020 generosity continues as our faith continues these centers of community these hofs will occur in more

00:55:33.460 and more places closer and closer to our members that find themselves alone the you know creation 0.63

00:55:40.180 of community. And gathering ourselves together and vanishing the idea of alienation is part of

00:55:49.180 our declaration. It's part of what we're all engaged in. And it's what we're doing. And we

00:55:54.760 invite you again to be part of it. Well, and, you know, I thought that Michigan was pretty close to

00:56:00.580 Ohio. Although, since I rarely venture north of the line, I was not really sure how exactly close

00:56:08.460 was but the other but leroy can come on december 6th and come down and see because it looks like

00:56:16.060 he's pretty close unless he's a yupa uh up there you know just yeah the ferry ride short

00:56:23.740 exactly exactly and they're uh and and they're as everyone knows when they come to a hawk i mean

00:56:32.060 that's how you that's how you build community irl as the kids say you know it's it's being together

00:56:40.300 in meat space um with uh you know with with with other people other right thinking people and i

00:56:49.580 you know it really shocks me anymore if i spend much time in out there in npc culture i

00:57:02.060 Realize how magnificent a community that we've built with the people who have dug through these questions of society and civilization and religion and come to all the right answers about what the problems are and how to solve it.

00:57:26.880 So the other part, in addition to being online and chatting with each other on Rumble or TikTok or whatever, is coming out to the Hoffs on each third Saturday and seeing and meeting and talking with some of the greatest people that you'll ever meet.

00:57:56.880 because it really is it's you know it's like a homecoming and then once you've integrated into

00:58:03.160 the culture you know it's you know it it does it really does feel like home the you know a lot of

00:58:11.520 my the rest of my time is spent waiting to get back to the off because that's the you know that's

00:58:18.100 where the real is.

00:58:21.120 Family first.

00:58:24.080 Off.

00:58:28.400 So the one can lead to the other.

00:58:31.740 And that's, I suppose,

00:58:32.680 a worthwhile thing to mention.

00:58:38.340 So this is kind of the conundrum

00:58:40.800 earlier. Yes, you need

00:58:42.880 to mate and make children. 1.00

00:58:45.580 But you need to make children

00:58:47.020 that look like the rest of us, and it's ideal for you to make those children with people

00:58:53.960 who share your values at a fundamental level. I have watched too many people that I know

00:59:01.680 go through hellish circumstances because they made poor choices and compromises on the people

00:59:09.520 they chose to start a family with.

00:59:12.340 If you come to the Hoffs,

00:59:14.140 it is absolutely a thing.

00:59:18.000 You know, I've watched lots,

00:59:19.860 yeah, I've watched lots of families

00:59:21.720 built within the

00:59:25.160 Ouse-True Folk Assembly.

00:59:28.180 Doesn't mean 0.97

00:59:29.140 if you make your way out of the Hoff,

00:59:31.060 you're going to necessarily find the love of your life,

00:59:34.060 but you could,

00:59:35.780 and some have.

00:59:39.520 And, you know, that may be a time like we could suggest to our lady folk out there to start bringing some of their friends, you know, because there are many more women in Ossetru than there used to be.

00:59:55.380 I started doing it in 2005. You know, we have had a welcome influx of families and ladies. But, you know, you're still outnumbered.

01:00:08.380 And so for, you know, if for no other reason than to bring yourself back into parity, you know, where there are more women to have a voice and, you know, so that you have other ladies to talk to, you know, bring some friends.

01:00:27.960 So I have a hard time meeting and I, you know, I would find myself in that same spot if I wasn't, you know, an old dude that, you know, that late in life. 0.91

01:00:44.960 I mean, it's a tough go to meet normal women out there now because they've all been they've been sucked into the mind to the trifecta of mind virus. 0.91

01:00:56.300 pyri is that the right word the viruses out there that are afflicting western civilization are 1.00

01:01:02.460 accelerated in the minds of women and they are so you know please find some normal women and 1.00

01:01:09.820 bring them absolutely and what i'm saying you can do that women are doing that they're bringing

01:01:18.380 their friends it gains a momentum um women when they see other women and families at afa events

01:01:28.460 and they show those pictures to their friends the friends see that they're much like more likely to 0.54

01:01:33.260 come around and so they have it gets better all the time and numerous families that i know were

01:01:42.140 started in the outstreet folk assembly in just such a just such a situation so i would encourage

01:01:49.340 everybody to to do that um that is a place where the internet is a tremendous tool to

01:01:57.580 reach across distance to maintain relationships to locate people at distance that share your values

01:02:07.980 and then to adjust your your meat space pun intended i suppose um to work out the way it

01:02:17.660 needs to be and and i okay and i say that but i say that as someone who lived in alaska mandy

01:02:24.300 lived in florida we met at winter nights in pennsylvania a month and a half later i'd

01:02:30.300 packed everything and moved down to florida to make that happen it can absolutely happen and

01:02:37.980 know here we are i've got a math unfortunately mandy's not grumpy about that kind of thing

01:02:47.740 eight years married and uh got a beautiful five-year-old daughter and and we're so blessed

01:02:55.100 because of it so it absolutely happens um so we got some questions tonight uh first one

01:03:03.340 why do you use stoles for your priests it's a weird choice for a nordic religion to use a garment

01:03:11.340 synonymous with roman catholicism why not use something more appropriate um so i

01:03:18.060 first i don't stipulate that it's inappropriate um i think that it's quite appropriate secondly

01:03:24.940 there's a couple reasons i want to i want to throw those reasons out as wise i'm the guy that made

01:03:29.620 that call. And a couple of few things. I get that we all have seen Catholic priests that

01:03:39.920 have stoles on. I will stipulate that. But like so much of Catholicism, that's not a

01:03:48.580 biblical thing. It's not a Jewish thing. It is absolutely a pagan European thing. It traces 0.93

01:03:55.220 its roots to latin paganism and it's something that was worn to show

01:04:02.580 wisdom and like accumulated knowledge now that was accumulated within the priesthood but we

01:04:08.580 see kind of dual traditions of that to where ecclesiastical use through the catholic church

01:04:16.100 happens but also academic use in you know it's why everyone at graduation wears stoles it's from

01:04:22.500 that same root and that root has nothing to do with the middle east or uh christianity but i

01:04:29.700 it's also something to know it has become what men of the cloth wear to where it's something

01:04:38.820 that is recognizable as a religious vestment hindus also wear stoles that's something that

01:04:47.780 that the hindus notably do as a non-abrahamic thing again it comes from aryan roots um

01:04:57.380 but it means something to the people that see it it means that oh this person is a priest

01:05:04.340 what they're doing is priest stuff and people take that seriously i'm not sure what costuming

01:05:12.980 or you know to be more generous what wardrobing you'd think would be more appropriate

01:05:19.040 but I doubt that it would get the same reaction when you're going into a hospital to minister to

01:05:25.300 someone who's at the end of their life or when you're going in to do prison ministry or when

01:05:30.480 you're interacting with society at large they know that that means you are a religious person

01:05:37.600 doing a religious function, and there is a value to that that's afforded you. I'm not opposed to

01:05:46.260 other things that also accomplish that, but a stole is a European religious thing, and because

01:05:55.300 the religion of Europe for a thousand years was Christianity, I can see why there's mental

01:06:00.620 overlap there, but it's, you know, it's not a biblical garment, and it is one that comes from

01:06:05.800 european paganism alan do you have any thoughts on that um i agree with you wholeheartedly what

01:06:13.500 you said about the vestment um the troll the but and there's also the parallel to us making the

01:06:20.580 hammer sign you know where um i haven't heard about it lately but you know it uh in a long time

01:06:28.060 ago the you know the hammer sign that we make in the four uh gods that we name but uh you know

01:06:38.040 some you know there used to be a range of criticism about that being a copy or a knockoff

01:06:46.160 of the catholics making the sign of the cross um but it is tested you know there is

01:06:52.560 testimony in the lore that, you know, that, and I'm not the lore guy, you know, but I know one

01:07:00.120 of the sagas mentioned that one of the great leaders made the sign of the hammer over the

01:07:05.260 food. And so it could just as easily be, just like with the stole, it could just as easily be that

01:07:10.960 the Catholics stole the, making the sign of the cross from the heathens who were making the sign

01:07:17.680 a hammer and i see absolutely no uh downside to repurposing those things you know i mean we could

01:07:28.240 say the same thing why do you why do you worship in a church because you know that's the you know

01:07:34.000 that's the ex it's the expected thing to do i you know some things are normal for a reason and you

01:07:43.280 You know, and I'm always careful about using that word and that and that concept.

01:07:49.280 But, you know, some things are just because it's normal doesn't mean it's not OK.

01:07:55.420 You know, yeah, the fact is a good thing.

01:07:59.520 Well, and we should. It's very.

01:08:02.460 And I think, you know, we've all had those kind of concepts, especially when we come from something else and find this anew.

01:08:10.880 if you leave, and I'm not suggesting that the one asking the question feels this way or doesn't,

01:08:16.340 this is kind of for everybody out there listening. In the early days of modern Ausitru,

01:08:22.880 also in the early days of, you know, a great many of us who came to Ausitru from something else,

01:08:29.220 there is a tendency to rebel against whatever that something else is, and in doing so,

01:08:36.540 throw the baby out with the bathwater the problem with christianity isn't the stole or the cathedral

01:08:45.500 or the priesthood or the whatever it's jesus it's the doctrine it's that um

01:08:56.940 something that you notice when people accuse us of being too christian

01:09:01.580 i think they mean we're too serious because serious white people practicing serious religion

01:09:10.000 tend to look a certain way and i don't think any of that is a biblical thing i don't think any of

01:09:16.400 the elements that you find in that are biblical i think what you find as a point of commonality

01:09:21.700 is pious white people engaged in worship looks a certain way and i think you know that's as it

01:09:30.280 should be and i think i would also encourage everybody to read the germanization of early

01:09:36.300 medieval christianity and you know who would have thunk it but it's about the germanization

01:09:43.840 of early medieval christianity it's about how much the uh early church in europe um

01:09:51.860 appropriated, adopted practice and tradition from the various branches of Arian paganism they found

01:10:02.440 in order to facilitate very proud people in doing something that's so very different from their folk

01:10:12.100 custom, they painted it in the customs of our folk to make it appealing. And that's still with

01:10:19.380 us today in more ways than I think many people would realize. We also have, coming from not

01:10:28.880 being religious for years and new to Ausitru, what are some suggestions on becoming more

01:10:35.120 pious within Ausitru? What would you suggest, law speaker?

01:10:38.820 the one thing i always suggest to individuals seeking to

01:10:47.060 um increase their feeling of uh kinship with the gods is is to create an altar at home um

01:10:59.780 i can see mud from here but it's uh you know i have

01:11:06.660 I have a hammer, I have, you know, a couple of bells, I have pictures of my ancestors, you know, and candles. And every morning I light a candle and do a little devotional to my ancestors. And in doing so, that honors the gods.

01:11:27.300 um you know i i think that we honor the gods also and primarily by remembering our folk by

01:11:37.940 remembering our own people um your own grandparents are you know your direct

01:11:44.760 lineage that lead you uh to the all father and so by remembering them and giving them fealty

01:11:51.680 and honor um you also honor the gods and by having an altar

01:11:57.080 it it makes it more real you know there's just there's a physical manifestation

01:12:05.660 on items that you care about and items that that represent and and therefore manifest your

01:12:13.640 you're fealty and you're and give you that ability to um

01:12:20.600 recollect you know how how you are every time you walk by that altar

01:12:28.760 so that's you know that that's a start is to have an altar and to

01:12:32.280 and to do some form of worship there every day i mean that's um there have been several

01:12:40.840 movies that i've seen where just as a you know just as an aside like the roman legionnaire when

01:12:49.100 he's like every morning he he's got a little role and he unrolls and he's got his little idols that

01:12:55.500 he does you know that he does stuff with and and so he's practicing his ancestral faith which

01:13:04.500 helps to integrate him into the you know into the whole of of that religious practice and we

01:13:11.700 and that that i think is is an important first step um and you know that along with having a

01:13:17.920 morning prayer um a morning devotional a morning meditation ideally that uh that again helps you

01:13:25.640 manifest that real um i know that mr founder mcdowell says the secret driven wall every

01:13:33.860 morning you know um and when you hail the day and realize that this reality is a gift from the gods

01:13:43.460 that our consciousness is odin's gift to us then then you are bringing that realness that reality

01:13:52.600 of that practice into yourself every day

01:13:54.780 yeah what Alan said I think altar work is a big step I think something else that's very important

01:14:07.800 is trying to think the best way to phrase it

01:14:15.720 you have to approach it with a certain level of openness

01:14:23.680 it's difficult when people who are not used to um faith spirituality in general

01:14:37.260 approach these things because there's an intellectual bias there like you have to

01:14:43.360 empirically prove certain things or not i would ask you to reject that premise and just be open

01:14:50.780 and see what happens. You asking the question tells me that you want to fully engage in

01:14:58.180 Ausitru. If you're dishonest and pretend you have a sincerity of faith that you don't

01:15:05.100 have, I think that dishonesty is also a blockage. But what I think is really important to do

01:15:11.780 is to open yourself up, open your mind, open your heart when you approach your altar, or

01:15:18.040 you're able to be in ritual with other people and see what happens you don't need to pretend that

01:15:24.840 you have a greater faith than you have but you also need to be open to wanting to have that faith

01:15:31.560 you need to give it you can't go in saying oh this is silly i guess i'll do this silly thing

01:15:37.960 we're going in with the wrong attitude you have to go into it saying i really want this to be a

01:15:44.520 thing i really want to develop a relationship with the gods here i am this is where i'm at

01:15:52.440 here is an offering i hope that you accept it i want to build relationship with you gods

01:15:59.400 and see where that goes and it really can start out just that simple that was something that

01:16:05.880 helped me a lot when i came to house the truth but i had been you know acquainted with religion

01:16:13.400 before that so it wasn't i don't think as difficult of a transition as perhaps it is

01:16:19.160 for somebody who's not a person of faith or who hasn't been in the past to becoming one

01:16:25.160 but i would also advise you from day one to focus your mindset towards the gods in ritual

01:16:38.040 speak to the gods not about the gods but to the gods leave an offering as a gift

01:16:48.280 to a living sentient entity that is receiving your gifts don't just go through the motions

01:16:56.920 go through them with an intent of interacting with something that is real that is conscious

01:17:02.680 and that interacts with you that's very important and i would also refocus your

01:17:12.680 way of seeing things not to be an academic pursuit pursuing academics is fine but the focus

01:17:20.680 in your mind should be am i making the gods proud or not are the gods pleased with what i'm doing

01:17:28.280 or are they not what would the gods want me to do those kind of thoughts are pious too many people

01:17:37.960 get overwhelmed with the study of history or the study of whatever else and they focus on some

01:17:44.440 kind of an authentic replica replication of ancient practices that's not the point the reason

01:17:51.720 that ancient people did those practices was because of the things just mentioned to make

01:17:57.320 the gods proud of them to get the god's attention to please the gods that should be your focus all

01:18:03.880 the rest of it can inform that and enhance that but it should never ever supplant that that always

01:18:09.800 needs to be the second thought not the first thought if you build it they will come

01:18:17.960 and that's the thing if you're open and i've seen this happen and you know i will say it this

01:18:24.440 miraculous thing happen time and time again where people give it a good shot they're honest about

01:18:32.760 where they're at they go in to bloat wanting to build a relationship and very open to one

01:18:42.840 and you know every now and again something amazing happens you see their eyes light up to where

01:18:49.160 they thought it was real they wanted it to be real oh wow this is real it hit me in the face

01:18:55.420 and I hope that you're lucky enough to have that kind of an experience I hope you're lucky enough

01:19:01.760 to have many of those experiences but you can't force them you do have to be open to them and

01:19:08.020 able to recognize them when they come your way. Oh, so something I wanted to mention, too, that

01:19:19.800 I saw over in side chat. Silver cellulose hood. Awesome. I'm glad that you joined. I'm glad that

01:19:29.260 you joined the AFA, and I'm very excited that you're going to attend your first moot here in

01:19:35.140 tomorrow, I guess, in Eastern Pennsylvania. That's awesome. I wish you the very best in that.

01:19:43.420 I'm excited that you took that step and that you're a member. Welcome to the family. We are

01:19:49.840 glad to have you. So question coming in from Jill. Matt and Alan, could the AFA host socials?

01:20:04.200 So our teens and young adults can meet like a modern day cotillion.

01:20:09.420 Yes, we absolutely could.

01:20:11.080 The problem has been and remains distance.

01:20:17.120 Something as a matter of fact, in talking about the new off that Witten Erickson and myself were just talking about, you know, a little over a week ago.

01:20:25.040 We definitely want to do that.

01:20:27.480 We want to do that at big events.

01:20:29.200 we certainly want to do that at Sigurheim in Tennessee when we can get you know a certain

01:20:35.680 critical mass of our folks together even if they come from little ways around we absolutely want

01:20:41.360 to do that and it's exciting because we're starting to get enough kids of similar age

01:20:48.560 in similar areas where that's a viable thing to start thinking about so yes I absolutely

01:20:54.640 do you have any thoughts on that no i think that's a great idea um you know but like you said it's

01:21:07.520 geography is a challenge you know if um if we were all closer together you know we'll just be

01:21:15.200 it would be so super easy.

01:21:20.160 And, you know, I'd be interested to hear whether that's the same Jill,

01:21:25.820 if her 11-year-old managed to punch that dude out that was giving him a hard time in scouts.

01:21:33.920 You know, because I've actually thought about that,

01:21:36.000 and I hope that that worked out well for him and for, you know, for them,

01:21:41.460 because that's the kind of stuff that can really improve a young man's standing in his own eyes.

01:21:49.800 Even taking an ass-whooping is better than standing down all the time. 0.84

01:22:01.080 Gold Maple. I came to see Matt. How's Matt doing? 0.98

01:22:04.980 Thank you for that. Matt's doing all right. I'm doing pretty good.

01:22:09.240 I look forward to Wednesday nights every week.

01:22:14.640 I get to be here with some of my very best friends, and that certainly includes our law speaker here.

01:22:20.440 And I get to talk about something that I truly love.

01:22:24.560 So I am doing great.

01:22:26.660 I hope you're doing well also.

01:22:31.140 Speaking of alters, has the AFA considered selling idols or shrine pieces on their store? 0.96

01:22:39.240 Oftentimes, when looking for idols, I find stuff made in China, or even worse, by traitorous pagans. 0.59

01:22:51.800 Yes, we're revamping our store. 0.96

01:22:57.100 Finding and sourcing those kind of things is really difficult.

01:23:01.660 Having membership that makes some of those things is really difficult.

01:23:09.240 We do have a member in Sweden that makes some really nice idols with shipping and things internationally.

01:23:17.400 It is a very difficult prospect to stock his items in our store.

01:23:24.240 Currently, Witten Erickson is running our store and restocking it.

01:23:27.620 For anybody who is curious, our AFA store is up and running with flags and some books and some items that we currently have.

01:23:36.260 But we're working on getting that figured out.

01:23:38.320 The other thing that has been a big problem with the store is figuring out shipping.

01:23:46.080 Shipping costs have drastically increased, so we are trying to figure out how best to navigate that.

01:23:52.580 But that's certainly something we're very, very open to.

01:23:56.420 And the other thing about idols in particular or store items in general,

01:24:02.580 you know it's just like what we've talked about with our hoffs or with any sacred space

01:24:08.800 the source of it is a lot less important i mean believe me i wish we had you know some afa

01:24:18.140 craftsmen that were you know doing these castings or carvings if they were you know if there are

01:24:25.240 people that were capable of that with their there's certainly plenty of market for it obviously

01:24:29.580 But regardless of the source, when you get it home and put it in your altar and wash it and bless it and endow it to your use,

01:24:43.680 the source of it is a lot less important than how you treat it and how you interact with it.

01:24:51.020 Realizing that ultimately it is a symbol.

01:24:53.180 I mean, that's not Thor on your altar.

01:24:55.300 That is a means of you tuning in to the manifestation.

01:25:05.500 Absolutely that.

01:25:09.700 So Jackson, Tennessee is where we are building the AFA town.

01:25:14.280 So as I saw a little bit in the chat, but I think anybody who might be confused, do not be misled.

01:25:19.020 There is a city in Tennessee called Jackson.

01:25:21.680 That is not where we are at.

01:25:23.880 we're in the county of jackson we're in jackson county tennessee uh closest

01:25:30.600 place you find is whitleyville but whitleyville is like a tire shop and a post office i think

01:25:39.240 it's not a lot of general and a dollar general there's a dollar general is it in fact in

01:25:44.440 whitleyville that's the thing it's kind of deceptive the closest town that i think you

01:25:48.680 would recognize as a town is uh gainesboro and it's a beautiful little town um

01:25:58.040 but yeah jackson county tennessee is where we have property uh building a town there's existing

01:26:03.480 town there but establishing a community absolutely many of us are trying to move there and

01:26:11.560 really be a presence there and be fully engaged in the community and you know active and support

01:26:18.520 one another, engage in, you know, engage in life with our fellow AFA members outside of just,

01:26:27.160 you know, the once a month at the Hoff. When we get there, we'd like to do stuff together

01:26:30.900 often. And the closer we are to something, you know, where there will be a Hoff and a Hall,

01:26:36.580 we can gather at that weekly. We can gather at that however many times we want. That's one of

01:26:40.720 the beauties of fixing the proximity problem. But it does mean many of us picking up and

01:26:46.140 moving into, you know, uncertain territory and, and making, making our way. And I want you guys

01:26:52.940 to understand, I get that. And I am not, you know, we're not creating this in Reno, Nevada.

01:26:59.160 I too am, am packing up something that's working pretty good to go and pursue this dream because

01:27:05.960 it's very important and it's essential that we do so and that we make it happen. And I think that if

01:27:10.900 If we are putting forth all the right effort on our end, then I think trusting in the ICER, they will, you know, align for some really beautiful things to happen in our way.

01:27:26.680 And I think we'll be very well rewarded for that.

01:27:29.620 So I'm very excited about it.

01:27:31.340 And yes, that's where many of us are heading that way.

01:27:35.000 And it's where the producer of this program, Nick Rice, has already made the effort.

01:27:40.200 and, you know, put it all on faith and on fate

01:27:46.720 and packed up and headed down there

01:27:49.440 and established a beachhead for us.

01:27:51.340 So we're very appreciative of that as well.

01:27:54.200 And if rural Tennessee is not your cup of tea,

01:27:56.780 then you could move to Youngstown, Ohio

01:28:00.040 and be within walking distance of Frazehoff.

01:28:04.940 Better than better.

01:28:05.920 Yeah, move to Austintown, Ohio. 1.00

01:28:10.200 Because that's where the white folks live. 0.97

01:28:13.000 Right. 0.93

01:28:13.880 I know.

01:28:14.800 Or you can move to White Springs, Florida, where Yortsoff is.

01:28:21.640 A beautiful town.

01:28:23.140 It is a beautiful town and a beautiful hall with some beautiful people.

01:28:27.700 And I'm there, too.

01:28:28.940 But maybe Florida's not your taste.

01:28:32.380 Well, you're in for a treat.

01:28:34.100 You could also move to Brownsville, California.

01:28:36.760 You could move to Linden, North Carolina.

01:28:42.480 Another beautiful town.

01:28:44.580 Also, absolutely.

01:28:46.220 Or if you want to enjoy the ice and the snow, you can move to Baldursoff in lovely Murdoch, Minnesota.

01:28:56.120 That's right.

01:28:56.560 Um, so, you know, it, we kid, but it's not, it's not out of the realm of, of something to do. It's something that everybody absolutely should do. The closer we have people there, we have seen something really special happen when we have Hoffs.

01:29:17.880 the community really does start to take root and it provides a context to live out our values in

01:29:27.520 a way supported by our brothers and sisters in this faith it's a very special thing and if you

01:29:33.380 haven't gotten to experience it it's well worth doing you know people regularly travel three

01:29:40.100 hours to our hoffs to just be part of that for one day a month closer in you are the more more

01:29:46.440 often you get that interaction and it's uh it's well worth it

01:29:53.720 so we got a couple of things we have some emails coming in um

01:30:00.200 good evening i'll hear you go through matt law speaker allen and folk builder nick

01:30:05.480 how are you all doing tonight doing well

01:30:08.280 my question is what's the essence of being a man and then a second question what's the essence of

01:30:18.560 being a woman alan what is the essence of being male and what is the essence of being female

01:30:25.540 i can't speak to the latter as i am not one um and um would tend to reply to that in

01:30:37.680 uh, you know, in, in ways that would sound flippant, but are merely mice crackery.

01:30:44.260 I think the essence of being a man is in, in many ways is just to be able to stand your

01:30:55.160 ground and make your way.

01:30:56.940 I mean, uh, um, you know, when I think of that, you know, and there's no one thing,

01:31:04.720 But, you know, to be fully a man, I think you have to have some wherewithal to defend yourself in a physical altercation.

01:31:15.460 I think you have to have the wherewithal to, you know, pay your rent every month, keep a roof over your head.

01:31:24.620 And I think you have to have a sense of nobility, maintaining the idea that you keep your word, that you live a life of virtue and honor.

01:31:42.040 And I think all of those things, you know, and snips and snails and puppy dog tails are, you know, combined in the mix to make you a man.

01:31:54.620 so i have got a couple of simple thematic answers the truth is something very very

01:32:07.340 complex and i think we all know that to be true it's

01:32:13.420 it is fashionable to just throw up our hands who's to say there's lots of different definitions of

01:32:20.620 what one person might find manly and that's nonsense we all know what it means putting it

01:32:27.900 into words that we all agree upon doesn't negate the truth that is self-evident that we all realize

01:32:38.460 so there's a very complex matrix of things that displays in very different and beautiful ways

01:32:48.620 about what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman but i would think if it boils down to

01:32:54.940 you know singular word or concept in both things i think uh the essence of being a man is mastery

01:33:06.060 and i would say that in a lot of different contexts i think it is a fundamental of manhood

01:33:12.460 that you find ways to master your circumstance your environment yourself your

01:33:23.180 your impulses your emotions your wants your dreams your person finding a way to shape order

01:33:32.860 out of the chaos you find yourself in that you find yourself and be able to provide that order

01:33:40.380 through your mastery to the women and children in your orbit however that manifests most often

01:33:49.020 in a in a spouse and in in your your offspring but also in for the community at large you being

01:33:56.860 able to be that source of strength and of order in a chaotic world is a fundamental of masculinity

01:34:04.220 that i think you know that i would choose as the way to encapsulate that and i think in the essence

01:34:11.420 of women again i'm not a woman but i think that i would say devotion i think women find their

01:34:22.060 great ascendancy in their devotion to their families to their husband to caring for it

01:34:33.100 because it's one of the ways that we see our Giphyas perform their function a little bit 0.97

01:34:37.860 different than the Gothar, I would say, in their like tending of the community, their devotion to

01:34:47.040 that, that congregation, their devotion to the God of their temple in a very particular

01:34:55.940 taking care of the Hoff, taking care of the Hoff community way.

01:35:01.740 I think you see that mothering, that tending of things, that devotion in the raising of

01:35:08.960 children, in the supporting of husbands, in the supporting of community. 0.99

01:35:13.920 We've talked a lot on this program about how women have a very special ability to manipulate 1.00

01:35:20.080 social circumstances by showing by deciding who to show favor to who to not show favor to

01:35:27.720 how to weave frith between you know men that might have a have a a grievance amongst them

01:35:36.500 being able to weave together that family because they are devoted to the success of a family

01:35:44.220 of a congregation of a people. I think that's

01:35:48.220 a fundamental term to womanhood. 0.98

01:35:55.540 Also, just because it's the same

01:35:57.500 Austin emailing us,

01:36:02.420 are Antifa members white? 1.00

01:36:05.680 This is a theme. He picks out a 0.93

01:36:08.500 group of folks,

01:36:12.360 sometimes people, sometimes earth fauna, to ask if they are white or not.

01:36:20.060 Alan, are Antifa members white?

01:36:29.220 In the broadest definition, I guess, you know, you'd have to say by all the televised

01:36:35.280 filming that I've seen of them.

01:36:39.200 I think the vast majority of them are of white descent. 1.00

01:36:44.120 I would say they are traitors 1.00

01:36:46.880 to their race and to their nation 0.98

01:36:50.760 by the way that they conduct themselves.

01:37:00.280 So

01:37:00.760 they are

01:37:01.760 they are the essence of the chaos

01:37:09.300 that we stand against.

01:37:14.440 So I

01:37:15.360 and I know that the question itself

01:37:17.300 was a joke but

01:37:18.660 it illustrates some things

01:37:21.520 that I think are worth mentioning.

01:37:24.600 Yes

01:37:25.280 Antifa members are overwhelmingly

01:37:27.240 white.

01:37:29.800 They are however 1.00

01:37:30.980 not arian yet they have the the building blocks of genetic arianness there's nothing noble about 1.00

01:37:41.780 them but they are a in in our faith there's a concept of murk and leos there's light and dark 1.00

01:37:55.760 And that's describing natures of things.

01:37:59.780 There'll be, you know, like the wolf displayed, you know, Ulther in a noble, this noble beast that we respect its awesome attributes and its ingenuity and its ability as a hunter and all these things.

01:38:17.320 and there's the varger which is the murk side of the wolf to where they're uh kenning for a

01:38:24.680 bandit or a criminal and they scavenge things and they they poach your your hard tended to crop

01:38:33.160 or uh herd rather and

01:38:34.920 And you see Antifa as the antithesis of what we want to be and of like the kind of full evolution of chaos taking hold.

01:38:55.060 When you allow entropy to take hold and you become at the sway of whatever popular social current, you find these very, very sickly, disgusting, profoundly unhappy people that spew that unhappiness onto the rest of society.

01:39:17.980 and very often destroy their life 0.68

01:39:21.920 and everyone else's life around them

01:39:23.700 until eventually they often end up taking their life

01:39:27.240 because they're very, very broken

01:39:29.760 and malignant creatures at that point.

01:39:34.420 I think in a way it's like Lord of the Rings

01:39:36.880 when Gollum mutates into this creepy creature

01:39:41.420 when you let the worst side of yourself take hold

01:39:45.700 and become the dominant portion of you, it leads in a really sad and gross direction. 0.96

01:39:55.200 Anecdotally, one of our members a number of years back, there is a globo homo universalist pagan organization called The Troth. 0.92

01:40:05.200 and because they were so scared of of the covids that they you know as far as i know to this day 0.71

01:40:14.740 host virtual moots where they're in mom's basement but still wearing masks and such

01:40:20.460 he you know paid the minimal entrance fee to be part of this virtual meeting

01:40:28.560 and took a screenshot of like the the brady bunch screen with the people in the different

01:40:34.760 little corners or whatever. And it was, it was exactly the caricature of what you think it might

01:40:45.040 be. Everyone on there was a picture of illness and dysfunction. They were all obese. They were

01:40:56.160 almost all gender ambiguous to the point of where you're just guessing. They all had the like 1.00

01:41:03.480 faded out pink green not vibrant because not well taken care of dyed hair and the you know

01:41:14.040 crazy facial piercings and they all look but not only were they all dysfunctional they all shared

01:41:23.300 the same like flavor of that and that's kind of what you see with the antifa crowd

01:41:30.200 So, yeah, they're a shining example of what happens when you let chaos rule your person and where this heads.

01:41:41.620 And I think it is a chilling dystopia that none of us want to find ourselves in.

01:41:46.180 I think that, you know, in a certain way, I feel sorry for them.

01:41:51.780 You know, they've certainly been misled by they've been miseducated.

01:41:56.380 They've been misled by popular culture.

01:42:00.420 They've just fallen victim to the trap that is modern civilization that just leads you away from all of that.

01:42:11.960 And I just think it's because they can't concentrate.

01:42:14.380 I think they've lost their ability to focus.

01:42:17.080 They can't hold one thought in their head for more than a couple of seconds. 0.95

01:42:20.940 That's why they can't frame context to these big pictures, like why we shouldn't let illegal immigrants into the country or whatever the fight this week is about. 0.94

01:42:29.440 You know, I think we would do them all a favor if we could organize like some kind of retreat somewhere, maybe out in the country, like, you know, a camp where we could teach them how to concentrate. 0.62

01:42:45.460 I will let you host that particular retreat.

01:42:48.300 um i uh yeah i there is something absolutely to be pitied uh and i don't think as much

01:43:03.100 with the older people that find themselves involved in that but i think a lot of young people

01:43:08.700 had this

01:43:10.880 put into them by

01:43:16.100 abusive means

01:43:18.100 pun kind of

01:43:20.360 intended

01:43:20.820 that's

01:43:24.440 led to where they find themselves

01:43:26.180 and I think that's really really sad

01:43:27.940 I think it'd be interesting to find out how many

01:43:32.440 of them are from broken homes

01:43:33.840 I think the

01:43:35.700 all

01:43:36.580 Right. In some form or another of that definition. But, you know, I think if you haven't had a father figure in the home that you can look up to see what right thinking and, you know, right and right control and honor and discipline looks like.

01:43:53.660 I think that can lead to that sort of. So something that's a really unfortunate truth.

01:44:04.800 And I, and I meant this a little bit ago, and this is kind of the nature of chaos.

01:44:09.640 I think anecdotally, we've all heard the, you know, hurt people, hurt people, or misery loves company, both of which are true.

01:44:18.520 The Antifa crowd and that woke, the woke crowd take to their, the furthest limits.

01:44:30.400 They are very, very unhappy people.

01:44:34.800 And it's as if they are waging a war against happiness itself.

01:44:42.760 Every choice that they make is almost intentionally a choice of the most degeneracy and the least satisfaction and the least happiness. 1.00

01:44:54.620 And this very much crosses the boundary of the transsexual mental illness that we find 1.00

01:45:07.300 so forced upon us lately in recent years. 1.00

01:45:13.000 These people, and I don't just mean the trainees, I mean, people who are that hyper woke that

01:45:19.600 that's become their identity are a very, very high percentage of suicides because something

01:45:28.420 is very deeply broken. And I think a lot of those people try to outpace the broken by

01:45:35.820 their activism, but tearing down everything that we like doesn't fix what's broken internally

01:45:45.740 within them when they find themselves in the the stillness of their own thoughts or whatever when

01:45:52.380 they they try to go to bed at night or whatever they do they are they can't escape the dysfunction

01:46:00.620 that's rotted them out from the inside and it's a very i mean it's a very cautionary tale to the

01:46:07.180 the rest of us to avoid that. What else we got? If it's not too long of a story, what led to

01:46:17.900 Jackson County being picked? How many places did y'all scope out first? Alan, tell your part of

01:46:26.840 that story or what the story is from your perspective on that, if you would.

01:46:32.940 Dude, that's your story. Daniel's not here to tell it, but I mean, I think Tennessee was on your short list.

01:46:40.860 It was on the short list because it's, I think there's still a lot of old time tradition there. It has very lenient land use laws and the people are still very traditionalist minded.

01:47:02.940 You know, just for an example, I mean, this certainly didn't come into us picking Tennessee, but, you know, one time the last ceremony we were up there for, maybe not the last one before, but there was a, you know, one of the bars in Cookville, which is the nearest town of any size, meaning like 50,000 people.

01:47:23.600 One of the bars tried to have a drag show and the cops, instead of coming down and, you know, defending the people who were having the drag show like would happen in most of the cities, they shut the bar down.

01:47:36.920 They found a reason to shut the bar down because their paperwork button didn't work.

01:47:40.640 So it's so however we ended up there, it has it is definitely the right it is definitely the right spot.

01:47:48.120 So, a number of things go into play. On a decision like that, and I meant this earlier, I always want to make sure we are doing our best, and also asking for the gods to give us guidance.

01:48:15.240 and I think about that when we get Hoffs or when there's any major AFA decision

01:48:22.400 I don't want to you know let Jesus take the wheel and abdicate my responsibility to make a good 0.99

01:48:29.780 choice but I also want to while doing my best to make a good choice ask that the Isir show me the 1.00

01:48:41.820 way to what would bring them glory, or what they approve of, and to dissuade me if I'm going to 0.98

01:48:49.120 take a path they don't approve of. And I think that that is very helpful. I think anytime something

01:48:59.120 works out, it's because the ice here have provided their their guidance to us. And I think anytime

01:49:05.800 something doesn't work out, it's because I screwed up. Tennessee as a general rule,

01:49:15.480 it's a couple of things. No sales tax, or not sales tax, no state income tax rather,

01:49:22.880 is a big thing. I didn't want to be in a state with state income tax for all kind of practical

01:49:27.480 reasons. Finding it was important to a number of us who plan on being some of the root population

01:49:38.380 there, and myself in particular, I want to be, you know, I'd like to be in Dixie. I think that's

01:49:44.940 important culturally and values-wise. Being in Dixie that's less humid, arguably, is nice,

01:49:59.140 even though it gets real humid in the summer. Having topography matters. There's a lot of

01:50:09.080 places down south that are very, very flat. I need hills and topography. I think those

01:50:15.160 are good for our people. I think they're good in general. So that was part of it. I

01:50:24.580 think the laws in Tennessee were very favorable. It was... One second. All right. So the laws

01:50:37.900 very favorable and good there uh they're consistently very solidly conservative i don't

01:50:46.220 think that you can bank on that but you gotta pick a good place to start i think it's a real

01:50:50.380 good starting point we've seen a lot of places that that doesn't last forever or whatever but

01:50:57.020 you gotta choose something and i think that's a strong indicator of it being a relatively safe

01:51:02.860 place for families for us to build a future with people that have a sense of tradition a sense of

01:51:08.300 traditional values um demographics looked nice also so that all of that kind of put us in

01:51:15.500 tennessee not jackson county in specific and then we started you know just pricing out places seeing

01:51:21.820 what we get for our money what stuff is for sale where are they where are their things as that

01:51:27.500 progressed, we, with our Hoffs or with Sigurheim, this is a difficult thing for me, because I'm

01:51:37.520 sitting out here in Reno, thousands, you know, thousands of miles away, and so I got to have

01:51:44.980 other people go do a lot of the look into these spots, and I'm trying to scout them from distance

01:51:49.940 and Google Maps and Google Earth and, you know, look up all the stuff, but we have to have somebody

01:51:55.460 boots on the ground doing these things. So Witten Daniel Young was my point guy on going out and

01:52:03.460 looking at properties and getting this figured out. And we had the help of a wonderful realtor

01:52:11.960 in the area and she has been very helpful to us. And so, you know, if anybody is seriously

01:52:17.460 considering getting something out there, talk to us and we'll try to get you connected because

01:52:22.100 love to you know give as much business her way as we can um but yeah we were led to a number of

01:52:29.380 spots there and we've actually there were a couple of different properties in uh jackson county and

01:52:37.140 that we looked at and we wanted to send our our man daniel out there to check him out

01:52:43.140 this is the spot that kind of came up that had all of the optimal things i remember he

01:52:50.260 while he was there walking it with whoever the the listing agent was he was you know amazing we

01:52:57.800 could get the signal on top of the different ridge lines trying to get you know FaceTime with

01:53:03.920 me so I'd see it he was he was so nervous um trying to make the call because he was you know

01:53:10.620 he was the guy on point making the call and then he's like oh they're gonna be mad at me and

01:53:14.940 whatever no it's beautiful it's wonderful it's the perfect spot i'm very very happy about it

01:53:21.740 and we've got amazing things that we're gonna we're gonna build from there so i'm it's

01:53:28.380 things turn out good when you when you do the work but you also trust in the gods

01:53:35.100 um oh and you asked how many places i'd say that we had

01:53:40.140 I can remember five or six different properties that were on our short list of him like driving

01:53:46.640 out and walking and kind of taking a look at. What would your, oh, Gilbert. Thank you, Gilbert.

01:53:57.480 Gilbert donated $150 towards Frazehoff. Much appreciated. It's always much appreciated.

01:54:05.580 you are awesome thank you so much um what would be your advice for someone who was raised around 0.99

01:54:14.940 the troth the troth like people and are struggling to maintain a more noble existence while not 1.00

01:54:21.740 passing on while not passing on these poisoning tendencies to their kids

01:54:28.060 so question and we'll we'll answer it in the meantime but if you're over in the chat asking it

01:54:36.500 if you could tell us your age i think that would help too but alan what say you well i think the

01:54:45.080 easy first step of course is just to um to thank the cots that you have found your way to uh to

01:54:56.540 the afa um the you know as we say sometimes you know to say folk is also true is redundant

01:55:06.380 you know whatever it is that the truth is doing it's not also true some made up stuff that uh

01:55:14.460 that to try to help themselves feel better about their lives which won't ever work um

01:55:21.640 And the other part of it, I think, is you can just realize, you know, thank your ancestors, thank your desire for steering you out of that. 0.96

01:55:36.360 And, you know, thank your, you know, your odinic consciousness for giving you the perception to see that that is the wrong path. 0.99

01:55:48.680 to hold them up as a 0.98

01:55:52.400 to hold the troth 0.99

01:55:55.380 as a negative example of

01:55:59.620 this is what we are not

01:56:01.660 that's a good way to make a nice clean

01:56:07.800 break from that poisonous existence

01:56:11.760 but at the same time I don't think you should dwell

01:56:15.140 very much on that

01:56:17.100 we've all

01:56:21.040 made mistakes. You've recovered

01:56:22.980 from yours. You have found your way

01:56:25.100 to the

01:56:26.560 honest place

01:56:29.100 of veneration of your gods

01:56:31.060 and

01:56:32.080 live in joy and

01:56:34.860 gratitude for having found your

01:56:36.940 way home.

01:56:38.380 Those other people,

01:56:41.140 who cares?

01:56:45.060 Yeah, so

01:56:45.640 i think that you are uniquely positioned in a way to see what that is and where that goes

01:56:57.100 and you can also recognize its creep when you see it

01:57:02.120 i think you speak with a certain authority because you've seen that up close and you've

01:57:09.460 experienced that when you talk about not wanting to pass that on to your kids

01:57:13.080 you have a point of reference that a lot of the rest of us may not have now there's some of us

01:57:20.100 that are very very strong in our beliefs but there's a lot of I hate to say it um ladies I 0.99

01:57:28.400 apologize but there's a lot of specifically women out there that are fairly easily manipulated out 0.98

01:57:33.760 of compassion to compromise on some core values and I think you have seen where that leads in a

01:57:42.580 way that is authentic and it's not you projecting what you think it's like but you being raised

01:57:52.440 around that can know this is how this starts let's not do that I think you're able to speak

01:57:58.820 with an authenticity earned by experience that some of the rest of us don't have when trying to

01:58:04.600 make that case to our children or children in general I think that's valuable I think you're

01:58:11.140 able to, you know, hearken to a lived experience that gives power to your words, right? That's

01:58:23.520 very important. Again, I think it's not, because some people ask this about, you know,

01:58:31.940 coming to Ausatru as if they need to okay well I've had to embrace all of this

01:58:40.840 foreign different stuff in Christianity okay what foreign different stuff do I need to embrace for

01:58:47.440 Ausatru and it's really different in the sense that there's things to learn in Ausatru but it's

01:58:55.240 a it's a restoration of the default settings of your soul you're going back to what's natural

01:59:02.160 and what makes sense so you don't have to force things you don't have to try to you know forcibly

01:59:09.740 mold yourself into the the ausitru mold as as a white man that mold is within you it's within

01:59:16.900 your very dna you just have to feel confident reverting back to your natural state with those 0.67

01:59:26.500 things and working from there and in a way that's the if you allow it to be that's the easiest thing

01:59:32.660 in the world what would you know what's the normal thing to do without the brainwashing

01:59:39.140 by anybody else including me and alan what's you the natural thing that makes sense

01:59:46.260 and i think when you go down that road it leads you towards authentic outs of true practice

01:59:52.900 and there's all kind of ways to tighten it up and to evolve it and to learn and to grow

01:59:59.620 but those very basic fundamentals that you want to pass on to your children

02:00:04.580 are so very natural and very inherent that i think everything is in your favor to cultivate and

02:00:11.140 instilled um so uh yeah thank you for you know thank you for asking and yeah you've seen where

02:00:28.100 it leads and you're in a spot to see that coming and to stave it off so i'm very confident you're

02:00:33.620 that you'll be able to do that um

02:00:46.980 okay and i think this is an add-on to the question it's not quite the same

02:00:50.500 the who cares part is hard because they are my parents and aunts etc um

02:00:58.500 um Alan do you have anything I was gonna say do you have anything to add when it's uh when

02:01:05.460 it's family members like that yikes um you know you just have to

02:01:16.740 i think you just have to keep a healthy distance from all that stuff you know it sort of reminds me

02:01:28.840 of um when my boys were really young and i mean like infant age and my mother-in-law

02:01:39.200 my ex-wife's mother now you know we'd come over there and she's you must just hate the way that

02:01:45.160 raised you because it was so different and you just say no i'm just you know we i we're i'm not

02:01:51.720 it's not about you this is about me this is about me and my kids and i've looked at the

02:01:59.160 civilization that is brought about by those people and i and i and i'm going to do something

02:02:06.600 different i mean you just can't make it about being reflexively opposed to them you just say i

02:02:13.480 I look over here and I see something that I think is better.

02:02:18.540 You just have to make it not about them, which they will.

02:02:23.040 They will make it all about them because they're going to be hurt by the fact

02:02:30.660 that you've made a different decision, but you just can't let them try to tag you

02:02:38.960 with that sympathy that you can't make it about that.

02:02:42.620 It's not about them. It's about you and the decisions that you've made.

02:02:50.000 I think all of that, that Alan said, the respectful, you know, keeping a distance and.

02:03:02.920 It's very hard and I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea that we're suggesting it's not.

02:03:09.220 Um, I am dealing with a similar kind of thing. I wouldn't say quite that far, but my dad and my stepmom are pretty far left. My stepmom's pretty far left and my dad pretends he's not, but he's drifted pretty far left.

02:03:28.000 And it's hard to find commonality to talk about or to build relationship off of.

02:03:43.080 What I think is really important is that you guard your children against undue influence from their grandparents along those lines.

02:03:55.100 but judiciously to where you will allow them to have as much of a relationship with the ground

02:04:02.900 um but also figuring out if there is any where your points of commonality are

02:04:14.380 and even if they're superficial for the sake of maintaining familial um loyalties and you know

02:04:25.100 appropriate relations.

02:04:32.760 It's funny, me and my dad will end up talking about, hey, you know, how's the weather up

02:04:37.800 there?

02:04:38.260 It's good.

02:04:38.960 We got a lot of rain this time this year.

02:04:41.440 Yep.

02:04:42.480 Been raining a little bit down here too.

02:04:44.640 Yeah, I'm growing some roses.

02:04:46.200 Yeah, my roses did pretty good this year.

02:04:49.000 Mine didn't bloom so much.

02:04:50.400 We got some rodents up here. 0.76

02:04:52.040 That sucks.

02:04:53.040 We don't have a lot of rodents down here. 0.96

02:04:55.100 Anyways, good talking to you. Love you, Dad. Talk to you later. It's something and it counts. It's not the best answer, but it's what we got, and I do think it's better than nothing if we can.

02:05:09.620 And I think demonstrating that you care about family, even and perhaps especially when it's difficult, role models something important to your kids.

02:05:25.160 So there's that.

02:05:31.640 All right.

02:05:33.480 So last question for tonight.

02:05:36.780 All right. What are your thoughts on living with parents as an adult? I recently moved in with some friends, but I'm having second thoughts to move in with my girlfriend's family to help their family pay bills. Alan, I think you might have an interesting perspective.

02:05:55.480 Yes, as my third, my youngest son lingers on the property, you know, but first of all, I'll say that it is, you know, that it was absolutely the case.

02:06:15.020 And one of the things that I've read about, even into the medieval era, that, you know, that the kids would live with their parents until well into adulthood for exactly that reason, because they wanted to be established and be able to keep their home and not, you know, not leave too soon.

02:06:43.800 I think the, I think this modern idea of, you know, getting out when you're 18, you know, you know, making a place for yourself is, you know, although admirable, if you're able to do it and can do it comfortably, I, you know, there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.

02:06:59.240 um but i think it is very much a modern phenomenon um if you look like one of the things that i used

02:07:08.680 to marvel at if you go down in some of these old southern towns and probably in the north too and

02:07:14.920 i don't imagine it's uniquely a southern phenomenon sorry for using that word twice in the same

02:07:21.060 sentence um but the where you you know you see these giant houses you know four five six thousand

02:07:28.560 square feet but then like what i learned more about those homes later there would be three

02:07:35.560 generations of people living in there you know the grandparents were you know where the bunch

02:07:41.140 maybe who may have maybe had the house built to begin with and their kids were still there and

02:07:45.460 their kids were there so there is absolutely no we're not going to clip a corner out of your man

02:07:53.640 card for um doing the right thing to go and help your girlfriend's parents keep a roof over their

02:08:01.040 head there's a lot of nobility in that um you know as long as you're if you're working doing

02:08:07.040 your part and she's cleaning and cooking and you're uh working and paying part of the bills

02:08:12.840 You know, have a couple of kids, you've got grandparents right there to watch them.

02:08:21.080 So, Alan, do you remember that Ebenhue fella that ran on, the rent is too damn high, a number of years ago?

02:08:31.580 And he had the gloves.

02:08:34.920 I do not.

02:08:36.040 There was a white haired Negro that was, I believe, running for president. And his whole single issue campaign, I think, was just to draw attention to it. The rent is too damn high. The rent is, in fact, too damn high.

02:08:51.540 I think one of the things that details matter, if you are diluting yourself to, and this is not, okay, so first, to the person asking the question, no, you helping your girlfriend's family out through whatever they're dealing with, sounds like a real noble thing to do.

02:09:18.520 Be very careful that you don't allow that to build a resentment in you, especially if and when you start your own family with this woman.

02:09:34.160 It's very important that you be the father of your family and not have the in-laws dictate to you how you raise your kid.

02:09:46.340 and i see the previous question yeah that's that's a thing so

02:09:53.720 some of the traditional multiple families living on the same property i think in a roman villa

02:10:01.180 example sure but you have your own house and your own acreage in your own space and you live on this

02:10:07.620 vast property that there's a lot of ways it can work there's a lot of other ways where

02:10:15.320 people are living on top of one another and the proximity ends up breeding a certain amount of

02:10:21.800 contempt and resentment. And I would hate to see that happen. There's all kinds of situations

02:10:29.320 and each of us as noble Aryan men and women have the responsibility to make the best decisions we

02:10:39.160 can in given circumstances. Nothing is perfect, and it's not always a binary, you know, good

02:10:45.860 decision versus bad decision. There's a lot of different factors to consider. And I think that

02:10:55.960 we also need to be honest. There are some people that pretend they're helping out their family by

02:11:04.020 living at home to cloud the reality of no they just never moved out of mom's basement don't be

02:11:11.140 that guy but there's other people you're genuinely helping sometimes you're helping um family or or

02:11:18.880 in-laws that are struggling for a variety of reasons sometimes there's there's medical issues

02:11:26.120 sometimes there's a lot of stuff going on and helping out helping your family is a good thing

02:11:32.820 Helping the woman that you love's family is a good thing.

02:11:38.460 Family being close together and spending time under one roof and together is a good thing,

02:11:45.660 as long as you can maintain that in a way that's healthy for everybody.

02:11:49.820 So I don't think there's a simple answer to it.

02:11:52.660 But there's a difference between feeling resentful and trapped by something

02:12:00.620 and genuinely making a choice to pursue something.

02:12:05.220 And I think that that's the really important factor.

02:12:12.900 Okay, so take that as the answer, and this is kind of an addendum to that.

02:12:18.080 That's a strange segue.

02:12:21.420 We've heard the thing about good men versus nice guys. 1.00

02:12:26.040 if you're nice to people because that's your only choice or else you're going to get your ass kicked 0.99

02:12:33.700 it's not really a kindness it's a survival mechanism if you are capable of laying waste 0.98

02:12:41.220 to all before you but you extend kindness to weaker people that's a nice choice that you are

02:12:49.160 making a lot of people in the first group confuse and pretend they're in the second group and the

02:12:57.220 dishonesty between them is what breeds a whole lot of resentment and contempt and internal struggle

02:13:05.120 so yeah if you're capable of living on your own and you're choosing to live with your your in-laws

02:13:13.600 your your girlfriend's family or whatever to help them out then that's a noble and a nice thing to

02:13:18.760 do. If you're not capable of it, and it's what you're doing to get by, and again, this is not

02:13:23.260 aimed at the guy asking the question. This is to all of the iterations of this situation listening.

02:13:31.300 Recognize that, have the humility to understand and appreciate that, and work to fixing it to

02:13:36.720 where you have the option. Because if you have the option, and you make the choice to stay in your

02:13:41.260 spot, that's a lot easier to live with at the end of the day than if you don't have the option,

02:13:45.820 and you're kind of deluding yourself on it.

02:13:48.200 So that's an advice I would have on that.

02:13:53.340 No, and all of that is well said,

02:13:56.000 and so which caused me to think of, you know,

02:14:00.700 this add to my answer to play off what you've said

02:14:04.540 is that once you decide to do that,

02:14:08.480 do it joyfully and, you know,

02:14:11.220 without that lingering sense of resentment.

02:14:13.560 because if you you know but if you make the decision you know do it in you know in good humor

02:14:21.240 because because the worst the worst of all worlds is that you do it because you know and then sit

02:14:28.920 and fume about it and you know do it with regret because they will pick up on it the girlfriend

02:14:35.560 to pick up on it and um no but you know it's absolutely if it works out for all concern and

02:14:43.560 you can do it in a place where everybody respects everybody else's boundaries and you you know and

02:14:49.640 you can live a nice healthy lifestyle there that can be a really great way to uh you know to catch

02:14:58.040 to get ahead in your life you know save up some money to buy a house save up some money buy a car

02:15:03.800 Get out of debt.

02:15:05.720 Don't get out of debt.

02:15:08.100 Save up for your, you know, save up for the first baby, the third or fifth baby.

02:15:13.960 And you can do all that while, you know, while living in place, hopefully where they also respect the contribution that you're making.

02:15:22.720 You know, that's because that's one of the things that, you know, you can't let them.

02:15:26.140 book, you know, like if, if it, you can't let them feel like it's something where now they owe you

02:15:33.320 and, you know, that too can breed resentment on their part. You know, you can't let that fester

02:15:38.240 either. It's a, it's a delicate balance, it sounds like, but if it works out well, it can really help

02:15:43.860 everybody. Family's always tricky. There's, there's a lot of things to consider, being mindful

02:15:53.220 of that and i'd say it most or at uh always you are always best served being honest with yourself

02:16:05.540 about your circumstances about your motivations about evaluating where you are and i want to add

02:16:12.820 to this this may not seem you know connected but it really is when i say be honest with yourself

02:16:18.740 I don't. It's often coupled with, you know, or I guess amended by being brutally honest with yourself.

02:16:29.160 There are a lot of people that think that they are way better than they are. 0.99

02:16:33.600 And yet they need to get knocked down a few pigs.

02:16:35.800 But I think sometimes we don't realize it also means being honest about your strengths, being honest about where you're successful. 0.92

02:16:45.180 not having to worry about people looking at you strange by you know puffing up your chest on the

02:16:52.080 things you have to be proud of so being actually honest with yourself and where you're at with

02:16:57.940 circumstances it's going to help you navigate a lot through life at least that's been my experience

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02:18:59.000 you. I'd love to make your acquaintance. Let's see you there. Law Speaker, thank you so much

02:19:04.520 for joining us tonight and bringing up a really interesting topic. Always great to talk to you.

02:19:12.840 Do you have any parting commentary for the folk?

02:19:15.720 do right and fear no one

02:19:24.200 always

02:19:26.120 solid advice and the motto

02:19:28.320 of Odenshoff District

02:19:30.140 that said

02:19:33.280 next week will be a special

02:19:35.940 Brandy episode

02:19:37.240 she will continue to talk about

02:19:40.240 spooky happenings

02:19:42.340 in theme with

02:19:44.300 the season

02:19:44.860 I look forward to talking to you in two weeks.

02:19:50.380 Until then, hail the Iseer, hail the folk, hail the AFA, and remember, victory never sleeps.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - October 23, 2025

10⧸22⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Ep 172 - Mouse Utopia

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