Asatru Folk Assembly - 2⧸12⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 136 - Ásatrú and the AFA

00:00:00.000 Hello, everyone.

00:00:15.200 Welcome to another exciting edition of Victory Never Sleeps.

00:00:20.300 I am glad to be joining you guys again.

00:00:24.400 I know it's been a couple weeks.

00:00:28.460 We had Brandy's episode with the ladies.

00:00:31.880 And then last week, I'm sure you guys are familiar wherever you're at.

00:00:36.680 Whatever has been going around this first couple months of the year finally got me.

00:00:45.000 Mandy was sick. 0.96

00:00:46.240 Couldn't get over it. 0.71

00:00:47.360 And she was sick for a long time.

00:00:48.760 And I was like, all right, all right.

00:00:50.340 I made it.

00:00:51.020 I'm safe.

00:00:51.540 Made it through.

00:00:52.900 As soon as she stopped being sick, Aubrey was sick.

00:00:55.500 Thought I'd be good.

00:00:56.520 but nope finally caught up to me and uh put me down for about a week so this this one's nasty

00:01:05.060 it's going around i'm still not 100 but i'm good enough to be on here with you fine folks this

00:01:11.700 evening um looking forward to talking to you and uh yeah it's good to be back it was really strange

00:01:18.460 to be like present but not be able to be on the show last week because i was so sick that was an

00:01:26.200 odd feeling. Usually if I'm not on the show, it's because I'm actually was odd feeling last two

00:01:30.800 weeks. Usually if I'm not on the show, it's because I'm traveling. So it's, it's strange,

00:01:37.460 but it's definitely good to be back. Um, another issue to bring you up to speed on

00:01:45.880 currently, Witten Clifford Erickson, my good friend and, uh, hopefully guest this evening.

00:01:53.320 his internet is out and he does not have great connectivity on his phone where he lives

00:02:00.020 so if it comes back on during the course of our broadcast he will get on the show and we will

00:02:06.920 go where we were originally going to go if not we will figure out some other stuff

00:02:14.140 so i'm going to maybe get some of our other leadership to pop on and talk to you about

00:02:20.300 a variety of things. As always, you are not only welcome but encouraged to bring any and

00:02:28.060 all questions you have about pretty much whatever you'd like. And I would be very happy to do

00:02:36.240 my best at answering those questions and, you know, enjoying some time with you guys

00:02:42.620 to see me. Start things off. I should mention coming up in about a week, coming up in exactly

00:02:51.780 a week and a half, we have Charming of the Plow at New York's Hoff. That is our beautiful

00:03:00.220 Hoff in White Springs, Florida. There is time. If you can make it, we would love to

00:03:09.760 see you there. It's going to be an amazing

00:03:11.720 event. It's going to be a really special weekend.

00:03:16.620 Mandy and Aubrey will be

00:03:17.860 joining me for this one, which is awesome.

00:03:19.960 I always love when that can happen.

00:03:22.500 And yeah,

00:03:23.620 looking forward to seeing everybody.

00:03:25.520 So if you're listening to this and

00:03:27.040 you're able to do it, we'd love

00:03:29.800 to see you there. If you are not a member,

00:03:32.460 reach out to your local folk builder.

00:03:33.920 We can get you taken care of and figured out.

00:03:36.600 And it'd be

00:03:37.900 nice to meet you there. And maybe this is

00:03:39.760 And not maybe, this is probably the best time if you're near that hof to come and check it out. 0.99

00:03:44.940 If you're thinking about it or that's something you'd like to do, if you are a member, then absolutely get there. 1.00

00:03:51.580 Again, if you need help, talk to your local folk builder, they'll get you all squared away.

00:03:57.640 And following in exactly one month later, we have Ostara at Thor's Hof.

00:04:04.060 thorshoff is our amazing hoff in linden north carolina i will be at that i'll be looking

00:04:15.740 forward to meeting all of you the best time to attend that hoff so give it a shot look forward

00:04:23.140 to seeing you guys there and those are our first two big events of 2025 and they are promising to

00:04:31.220 be amazing. Other things, I believe Go The East talked about this last week, just in case he

00:04:42.940 didn't. Our amazing 30th anniversary AFA t-shirts are on sale at runestone.org. They are a high

00:04:52.740 quality t-shirt with an amazing design by trent's lovely wife madison um these shirts

00:05:01.700 are really something special they're different and they're certainly different than the other

00:05:06.180 shirts that we've had in the past and they are celebrating 30 years of the astro folk assembly

00:05:12.980 and in geologic time 30 years doesn't sound like a whole lot for us certainly in modern

00:05:19.140 also true and in in the spaces we find ourselves groups of people that have been doing something

00:05:26.820 successfully for 30 years is often hard to come by and it knowing our history knowing where we

00:05:34.740 come from knowing all of the different groups that claim to share similarity and watching them

00:05:42.260 you know rise and fall and and be here one day and go on the next it is really a

00:05:49.540 it's a profound testament to the men and women who have devoted their lives to making this work

00:05:55.540 and it's also a example of the blessings of our amazing iser and the

00:06:04.740 The enthusiastic participation in that gift cycle that the Astro Folk Assembly and the gods of Asgard have going on for 30 years now.

00:06:20.460 So it's a special thing. It's a really nice thing to celebrate.

00:06:23.900 They're good shirts. Get yours today while supplies last.

00:06:29.320 It's 30th anniversary, so needless to say, it's not something we're going to stock for eternity.

00:06:34.340 So if you'd like one, go ahead and stop on by and get one.

00:06:37.400 And we would appreciate that most definitely.

00:06:42.360 G.W. Farns worth starting off the show with his typical and exemplary generosity.

00:06:48.700 $25 donation to the B&S fund and $100 towards paying off New York's off.

00:06:56.560 Thank you so much for that.

00:06:58.240 We really appreciate it.

00:07:01.660 We are getting close, guys.

00:07:03.780 I mean, it's still a big number, but we are getting much, much closer.

00:07:09.860 I don't know if you've got the Thermo available or not.

00:07:14.200 We're making amazing progress on that.

00:07:16.460 Yeah, he does.

00:07:17.020 There he goes.

00:07:17.600 Quick draw.

00:07:18.260 77% paid off right now, which is tremendous.

00:07:29.440 With, I don't know if he factored it in.

00:07:32.340 I'm going to assume he didn't.

00:07:33.460 assuming he didn't. I'm not that quick, sir. I'm not that quick. I was going to say,

00:07:36.800 you never know. You're pretty quick. So $56,062 left in paying that off. That means we have paid

00:07:45.540 off 77%. Anybody who's been keeping track, that number keeps going down and it's going down

00:07:52.340 in the thousands. Momentum will pick up on this. You guys have been very generous.

00:08:00.500 We appreciate the continued generosity.

00:08:05.520 Excuse me.

00:08:06.420 Those of you who may not know or be familiar with the plans on that,

00:08:10.760 and I've tried to – it's an article I put in the Rune Stone every month

00:08:16.480 to kind of keep people abreast of how this progress is working.

00:08:21.960 but as soon as we get one of our hoffs paid for we begin conceptualizing setting our sights on that

00:08:37.420 next hoff and working in that process and so with this there's been a couple of things

00:08:44.180 uh york's hoff was our most expensive hoff by far florida real estate is more expensive than the

00:08:50.900 other places we've gotten things um and was particularly you know this is a really nice spot

00:08:57.380 and it's uh yeah it's a good deal but it's more than we've had to fund before so

00:09:05.060 the first steps were to find someone who was willing to loan us money to make this happen

00:09:11.060 we're able to do that with a couple of different people um

00:09:14.100 um we had two loans out we've already paid off one of those loans in full to uh pay off New York's

00:09:23.700 off we're working on the second loan payoff right now and that's you know how tremendously

00:09:33.000 generous you guys have been or why we're that close

00:09:36.000 um that is paying off the hoff is the first step towards us moving towards getting phrase off

00:09:46.200 and i know a lot of people are eagerly awaiting that i certainly am um we're very committed we're

00:09:52.400 very excited about that uh we just got to get the the hoff we got paid off first so in doing that

00:09:59.900 once that's paid off we can begin in earnest the property search for phraseoff anyone who doesn't

00:10:07.820 know the plans for that phraseoff is going to be in either western pennsylvania or eastern ohio

00:10:16.420 we've got kind of a sweet spot triangle in there that we're looking for things

00:10:21.460 um but yeah we would we're excited for that in order to get there we've got to pay off the

00:10:29.080 off we have, and you guys are helping us do that. Ron Boardman bought us three coffees. It's a $15

00:10:35.340 donation. It says, happy 30th, AFA. We appreciate that, Ron. We appreciate you. Angela in New

00:10:43.280 Hampshire just donated $25 to help pay off New York's off. Thank you so much, Angela.

00:10:51.480 Much appreciated. Yeah, so thank you guys for that. You guys have been great.

00:10:59.080 So, keep hoping Cliff's going to pop on here, but I don't know exactly how likely that is with whatever he's got going on there.

00:11:12.260 So, as I said earlier, playing a little bit of an audible on this and figuring some stuff out.

00:11:20.060 Please excuse my coughing.

00:11:21.740 That's been a big part of my sickness this past little bit more than a week.

00:11:26.580 has been a pretty obnoxious cough.

00:11:32.420 So I apologize for that ahead of time.

00:11:46.080 So stuff to do.

00:11:47.480 I'm trying to think of where to come at you guys.

00:11:49.940 And I think what we're going to do...

00:11:56.580 Nick, on the back end, while we are doing this, could you alert the folk builders that

00:12:06.740 we'll be taking some calls from them tonight if they'd like to pop in and pop out, kind

00:12:11.360 of like we did on the 100th, I think 100th episode is when we did that, where we had

00:12:20.820 everybody kind of popping in, popping out.

00:12:23.040 We'll be happy to do that tonight on the show.

00:12:25.360 I think that's a good idea.

00:12:26.360 So if you could kind of prep some folks for that, I think Witten Young may be one of the ones that wants to pop on.

00:12:32.560 So if you could give him an alert to one of the things I've gotten, I've gotten accustomed to having a co-host on here.

00:12:39.340 So when I have these ideas, I can kick it over to Svan or whoever else is the co-host and then I can like send the messages on the phone.

00:12:45.980 But I realize I can't really do that right now.

00:12:49.700 So while we await special guests.

00:12:56.360 So, one thing that I kind of wanted to mention, and I thought a little bit on this, and it's a, it's a compli, no, I'll hold off, I'll hold off, that's something I wanted to talk when Cliff's on here about, because it's part of the subject, I apologize.

00:13:18.020 that was a tease um so something that you guys may or may not be aware of you guys are aware

00:13:28.700 that we have gothar but you guys may not be aware of how that process works so that process works

00:13:34.960 by a period of training for our gothar and that looks a little bit different every year because

00:13:46.480 we're trying to constantly refine it certainly the training our goats are going through right now

00:13:52.320 is different than the course i went through when i was ordained in 2012 um

00:14:02.080 but it's a

00:14:06.960 it's a course of study that covers things that you would obviously think of that are overtly

00:14:14.000 out to true topics like things related to theology or related to the lore

00:14:20.280 but it's a lot more than that a lot of it is and increasingly so is time spent talking about

00:14:30.800 counseling talking about member counseling for a variety of different things that's one of the

00:14:38.080 hardest things about the counseling portion of not just the course but of this job in general

00:14:44.720 no two situations are ever the same and when you think you've seen it all or you think you're

00:14:51.500 prepared for whatever the situations that you tried to pre-game to make sure you had a

00:14:57.060 you had an answer you had something you could do to help come to find out

00:15:02.260 And you will say always, but you will be surprised how often just completely out of left field, crazy things you would not have imagined come about.

00:15:18.360 And I really applaud these folks because they are put in a very stressful situation.

00:15:25.760 They're put in the situation midstream, and they have to do their best to help sort those out.

00:15:32.260 and to help do the best they can to shape something that is chaotic into something that's

00:15:42.100 hopefully healthy and beneficial for our members who are involved and that's a really nice thing

00:15:48.900 so that's a big thing that we do in the course but another big part of that is on the job training

00:15:54.500 stuff and um just going through all of the things that it takes to to be a gothi or give you any

00:16:04.980 astro focus and those things go from like figuring out how to run fundraisers or how to manage

00:16:12.660 hoffs or how to conduct a food pantry to the things that are much more obvious like how to

00:16:19.380 to do bloats how to uh you know properly interpret and understand our lore so there's a lot that goes

00:16:26.980 into it and uh i uh try to get folks to ask questions in there um on things that you know

00:16:43.160 that they wonder one of the things i'd like to and yeah i'm i'm rambling and killing time here

00:16:48.580 Hopefully I get mystery guests popping in.

00:16:52.840 But until we do, I'm just kind of stream of consciousness going on some things.

00:16:57.500 Thank you, Sarah.

00:16:58.340 Sarah just donated $20 to help us pay off your top.

00:17:01.440 We appreciate that.

00:17:03.140 So one of the things I was saying was there's this process trying to get people to ask questions.

00:17:09.640 And that's kind of what this show was based around and evolved out of.

00:17:14.660 and it's not incumbent on you guys to provide the content although it's super duper helps

00:17:20.960 but one thing that I did want to say is I think people think that there is a certain selection of

00:17:29.100 what questions are appropriate to ask and what questions you just don't for whatever reason

00:17:36.640 and yeah if the reason is the question just rude or vulgar or something then sure this is not the

00:17:42.280 time or place for it. But if it's a genuine question about anything, your Gothar and me in

00:17:49.960 specific, we're very happy to answer whatever that question might be. And sometimes we think

00:17:56.700 questions are too simple. Sometimes you think a question is maybe overly personal or maybe

00:18:05.260 somebody might take offense at it. Unless you're trying to be offensive, I don't think that's the

00:18:11.800 case, certainly not in my instance. And we're very happy to answer anything that you might have,

00:18:18.920 anything that might be on your mind that's at all relevant to any of the things we talk about.

00:18:24.640 And without the true being a holistic religion, not just something you do on Sundays, but

00:18:30.520 a way that we live our lives, those questions go into, you know, broad and diverse areas of your

00:18:37.600 life. So please always feel free and encouraged to ask any questions that you might have.

00:18:47.140 We have a question that kind of stacked from last week.

00:18:54.900 My friend told me that there was a V&S episode that addressed this touchy issue.

00:19:00.440 If it was a while ago, could Matt and the guests talk about what we should do about ancestors

00:19:05.920 who have left this world with a reputation of poor deeds.

00:19:13.460 Sure, and I see Nick's got a special guest.

00:19:15.620 He's welcome to bring her on.

00:19:17.340 You can pop in these guests whenever you would like, Nick.

00:19:19.880 Please feel free.

00:19:21.340 So that said, to this question from last week.

00:19:26.080 So, I think that we all, there's kind of two classes of ancestors.

00:19:38.440 Let's say there's three.

00:19:41.560 There are your ancestors who you know or who people maybe still living in your family knew.

00:19:50.060 people who you have a lot more familiar familiarity with depending on your age and

00:19:56.140 you know circumstances of your life and your family's life that's you know

00:20:00.720 aunts uncles parents grandparents if you're really lucky you're great for grandparents

00:20:08.420 um then we have you know if you've done research if you've done genealogy if your family is one of

00:20:18.360 those families that preserves that information tells those stories then you have maybe even a

00:20:25.220 couple of hundred years worth of ancestors that you know a little bit about you may know their

00:20:30.760 name if you're really lucky you may have a picture you may have seen their their tombstone

00:20:37.200 you may if you're super lucky have a story so they're a little bit more known to you but then

00:20:46.060 And all of us have countless generations of ancestors beyond that, that their names and

00:20:55.740 their stories are lost to history.

00:20:59.720 But all of those people and all the three groups I mentioned are instrumental in you

00:21:06.340 getting here.

00:21:08.560 And one thing about that is that, you know, I was going to say the odds are good, but no, I will stipulate every single one of us has at least somebody in the entire long line of their ancestors that was a bad person, that just was not a worthwhile human being.

00:21:32.040 Of course we do. I think that it's way easier to rationalize that when they're lost in the

00:21:39.420 great sea of people that we don't know their names, but know that they must have existed.

00:21:45.200 I think it's interesting and maybe even makes for an interesting story if it's in that second

00:21:52.700 group of people that, you know, we know their name and like a little bit of, you know, they're

00:21:57.620 they're an oddity that we encountered on ancestry.com i think it's much harder when the person

00:22:05.460 who has caused trauma to their family by being a bad person is very close and someone you knew

00:22:14.180 someone your parents knew someone who you know the damage that they caused and you still bear

00:22:21.860 a lot of the negativity and the harsh feelings towards them. So to get a little bit more to the

00:22:28.760 meat of the question, you know, what to, how do we handle them? Or I don't want to put words,

00:22:40.540 what should we do about them? And that's kind of an interesting question, depending on what you

00:22:48.940 mean. It is proper for you to give worship and veneration to your ancestors. No, you don't need

00:23:00.360 to do that to ancestors that are terrible people and that you feel it's not genuine for you to give

00:23:09.540 them that praise or to reach out and interact with them beyond the veil. And I get that. I think that

00:23:16.120 standard should be fairly high, not just because you guys didn't get along, but because they

00:23:21.000 did actions that would be unforgivable in this life. And that's reasonable. But I think it's

00:23:29.980 a broader question of, or I guess a more layered question of what we should do about them.

00:23:37.760 And it's, syncretic this comes up, but it was where one of my meandering things I was going

00:23:44.120 mentioned about the gothar class some questions that i got in various so we all want to protect

00:23:52.360 our luck we want to protect our hymenia by associating with good people by surrounding

00:23:59.320 ourselves with things that elevate our luck and not things that deteriorated or take away from it

00:24:05.160 And I think inherently, we cling to an illusion of purity on that.

00:24:17.180 we our faith doesn't have an erasing function in it there's no concept that you know you're

00:24:32.060 you're washed clean of all your sin if you if you confess or if you you know do the right ritual

00:24:38.740 you don't cleanse yourself of of all the wrongdoing no you're laying layers in the well

00:24:45.380 and those exist, and they never un-exist.

00:24:50.520 But we're also a realistic faith and a practical faith.

00:24:56.860 That's not functional, and it's not a one and done.

00:25:00.040 The two options are not perfection or damnation.

00:25:04.540 That's not how things function in Ausitrim.

00:25:09.040 If your Hymenia is bad because of your own actions, 0.99

00:25:13.260 because you have been a miserable human being 0.98

00:25:15.920 or whatever you've done, 0.98

00:25:18.020 even if you've done that as a lifestyle course

00:25:21.700 for years and years,

00:25:23.560 what should you do about it?

00:25:27.640 Well, you should first stop doing those things

00:25:31.280 that are making it worse.

00:25:33.360 You know, if you're in a hole,

00:25:34.280 first thing you do is you stop digging.

00:25:37.700 And then after that,

00:25:39.940 you try to make up for them.

00:25:42.080 You try to make up for them by writing. You don't wipe clean like it doesn't exist, but you come back to restoring balance with people and with things when you do the best that you can to compensate for what you have taken.

00:26:04.120 you know we talk in the justice system about paying a debt to society that's kind of just

00:26:12.060 words that people say nowadays and it offends me because it used to have it was rich with meaning

00:26:17.540 if you committed a crime against the community

00:26:20.980 the expectation was for you to do things to contribute monetarily or with labor

00:26:28.180 or with whatever else to restoring what you took.

00:26:33.300 If you've damaged people in your life

00:26:35.740 and you have the ability to help compensate them

00:26:39.280 for that in some way and try to make them whole,

00:26:42.240 you start doing those things.

00:26:45.020 And then you try to stack up as much good action,

00:26:53.700 good behavior, right relationship, right action

00:26:57.320 to overpower the negative impact

00:27:03.280 that your poor decisions have had on your hymenia.

00:27:08.380 And that extends to your family's hymenia as well.

00:27:13.360 So, like, you can't fix things that your family has done

00:27:18.360 that were dishonorable or had a bad effect on your hymenia.

00:27:23.880 But one thing to think about is, and again, it's not really on you to spend your whole life

00:27:31.720 enslaved to the idea of paying off your ancestors' debts either. But if there's things you can do to

00:27:39.500 right wrongs that your ancestors did, that helps. That's a service to them and their memory, and

00:27:46.040 it's also a service to yourself and your amenya to put right things that members of your family

00:27:53.420 may be put wrong that's a noble and a good thing to do if you can

00:28:00.780 doing good actions that are objectively good and going to help your hymenia are always a good thing

00:28:07.500 to do so it's hard to ah that's what you should do in this case no that's what you should do in

00:28:14.300 every case but specifically if you are concerned about the detrimental acts of an ancestor

00:28:23.420 then yeah, try to overpower it with making yourself that much better

00:28:29.880 and being hyper-aware of your need to stack up good momentum

00:28:35.760 through good, noble action.

00:28:37.720 But the other thing, and this doesn't sound as theological

00:28:43.140 because it's so common sense, but it absolutely is,

00:28:47.540 learn lessons from what your ancestor did.

00:28:53.420 And use the lessons that their life taught you to shape the person you become and the person you are.

00:29:04.360 If your ancestor was heroic, we want to live up to their memory, we want to be inspired by stuff that they do, we want to be worthy of them and emulate them in some way.

00:29:13.600 If your ancestor was ignorant or if they were bad, then learn that lesson, too.

00:29:20.060 And whatever mistakes you make, don't make those mistakes.

00:29:24.040 You know, whatever things they did in their life that were bad, at least you can be aware of not to do those things.

00:29:30.280 And make sure to teach your children the lessons of not doing those things.

00:29:35.360 Find value where there was no worth, create worth by learning from the lesson of the worthless ancestor and using that as a tool to prevent yourself or your offspring from having a similar fate and going a similar direction.

00:29:55.500 Hey, Sierra, how are you doing?

00:29:58.000 I am doing well. I got off work and looked kind of lonely, so I'd come give you some company.

00:30:05.080 I appreciate that. It's good to see you on program. Just in case people are just joining us and not

00:30:11.480 familiar, but they should be, just in case they're not familiar with you, who are you,

00:30:17.400 what do you do, and where are you? Oh, tell me who you are and where you're from.

00:30:22.920 So those of you who don't know me, you will probably get to know me pretty quick if you're

00:30:27.400 you're in the Aussie True Folk Assembly. My name is Sierra Chapman. I am a folk builder and a

00:30:33.780 gothling student for the Aussie True Folk Assembly. I have been with the AFA for this is my fourth year

00:30:42.040 now and my fourth year as a folk builder. I am currently in Sacramento, California. My role

00:30:49.520 within the AFA. I am the Odenshof historian. I am, when I'm present, the Hof chef. I am the

00:30:57.820 Adopt-A-Highway coordinator. I am currently running the Odenshof monthly membership meetings

00:31:03.100 as of this month, as well as of a whole slew of other things that I do. I am the one who contacts

00:31:11.640 a lot of you and pushes you to talk to me. I'm very good at making people who don't want to

00:31:17.240 have conversations, have conversations. Yeah, I've been at this for a while, and this is a topic I'm

00:31:25.280 very interested in with the Living Asa True, because it's definitely something that I have

00:31:31.420 incorporated into my life very well. Most members know that they can reach me at any point of the

00:31:37.200 day, at any time of the day, because this has definitely become a big part of my life.

00:31:42.320 If it's appropriate, I'd like to comment on the question that we got, Mr. Flavel.

00:31:51.940 Which question?

00:31:53.520 About the noble ancestors.

00:31:56.500 Please.

00:31:57.540 Because I feel like this is one that I can kind of give a little bit of, like a little bit of a personal touch to.

00:32:04.360 because I do have an ancestor who is not one that's very noble by any means and is a very

00:32:11.660 close ancestor. My father is an ancestor that I really choose not to honor in a lot of regards

00:32:19.500 because he was not a noble person in a lot of ways. And unfortunately, he met a very untimely

00:32:25.000 death by his own hands. But I spend my life not trying to make up for the misdeeds that he has

00:32:33.780 done per se, but by creating my own path. Yes, he is my father, but I am not him. My actions are not

00:32:43.420 his actions. And so by leading a life that is one of nobility and piety, I am kind of disproving

00:32:52.040 that I am my ancestor. His group luck is tied into me and I do reap the repercussions of it at times

00:32:58.540 when people come across me and realize that he was my father. But I'd say about 75% of the people

00:33:05.340 that you talk to who know me have nothing but mostly good things to say about me. And so that

00:33:12.240 turns into, I am repairing the Hemenya within me and my family and starting our own legacy. 0.91

00:33:21.360 So when my kids, when I eventually pass on and my kids have to talk about me as an ancestor, 0.94

00:33:28.580 they're going to be able to say, like, that was my mom.

00:33:31.500 My mom was the one who you guys all knew who did these great things instead of my mom was

00:33:37.300 just like her dad.

00:33:38.640 So he, I recognize that without him, I wouldn't be here.

00:33:42.360 But in the same regard, that's about where the story ends.

00:33:45.780 he helped create me as a living being, but he did not help create me as a person because he was not

00:33:53.220 around. So I do recognize him, but I don't give him honor. He doesn't have a place on my ancestor's

00:34:01.780 wall. I don't speak his name hardly ever. My children don't know that he was my father. They

00:34:07.060 only know my stepdad as my father. So I think realizing that you are not your ancestor and

00:34:12.620 you're not responsible for their misdeeds, you're responsible for you and your own deeds 0.99

00:34:16.180 is kind of paramount to repairing the Hemenya within yourself. 0.92

00:34:21.560 So something else to think about. 0.60

00:34:26.880 And this is one of the really important takeaways.

00:34:32.780 If you have a recent ancestor, maybe one that's still even alive, that has affected

00:34:41.000 your upbringing and traumatized you in some way i think we've all heard the expression that hurt

00:34:49.620 people hurt people but one of the things that is particularly

00:34:55.360 tragic is that people who suffer abuse especially at an early age when they're still

00:35:05.000 formulating kind of how their brain works and how they process society

00:35:10.240 very often end up abusing others in the same way and inflicting the same trauma on

00:35:23.660 their families, on their children, on their people, because it has become a heavily ingrained

00:35:31.140 part of their hymenia and part of their momentum in life. Being conscious of that and making the

00:35:44.800 very intentional choice to not continue that behavior is also extremely important.

00:35:53.440 We see these cycles played out in families a lot. I think all of us do in different ways.

00:36:00.160 And some of those ways are, you know, fun, happy things that you notice that you do, that your dad used to do, that your grandpa used to do, that are, you know, innocuous, no big deal.

00:36:13.680 But when they involve addiction, when they involve abuse and other things, it's a lot less funny.

00:36:24.040 And so making the conscious choice to act against those things that are woven into your nature to kind of forge a new orlog for yourself and your family is a challenge, but certainly something worth doing.

00:36:45.820 And I don't know if that's the initial intention of the question, but I think it's something worth saying and something that people contemplate. 0.67

00:36:57.480 Angela asks, what kind of interactions have you had with the whites, like the house whites, land whites, et cetera?

00:37:10.380 So that's a good question, Angela. 0.95

00:37:12.020 I'm glad that you asked.

00:37:14.700 It puts me on the spot because I am, that has never been, it's not that it's unimportant

00:37:34.080 to me, that's not the case, but it's never been a heavy focus of mine or one that is

00:37:43.200 one of my go-tos on things that way, or a way that I perceive stuff that often. And that's not

00:37:51.240 to take anything away from it or to delegitimize it in any way, not at all. Typically, when

00:37:59.720 transcendent experience happens to me in my life and my experience, it's something that

00:38:10.960 I attribute to the gods

00:38:13.720 or something that I

00:38:14.980 attribute maybe to an ancestor

00:38:17.940 I'm very

00:38:19.740 often or I'm not very

00:38:21.640 often in a situation where

00:38:23.320 I

00:38:27.340 feel like the

00:38:29.360 experience is attributable

00:38:33.820 to

00:38:35.280 land

00:38:37.820 or house

00:38:39.360 But I know that's not everybody's case. I know a lot of people have those interactions. That's never really been. I'm certain it's been something I've experienced, but it's not been something that I've perceived in that way. I think that may be different for other folks.

00:39:00.460 um yeah i don't know sierra is still with us um

00:39:07.140 but she is not she's not on the camera so we're going to act as if she has

00:39:15.200 disappeared for the moment which is fine um

00:39:18.500 uh thank you sierra and you're welcome back when when you pop back on if you do uh eric asks does

00:39:28.440 Does Ausatru have objective morality?

00:39:32.480 A friend of mine is a hardcore Christian, and that is one of his talking points lately.

00:39:37.480 I think that's because of prescribed punishments on Nostrand.

00:39:43.020 So I don't...

00:39:47.220 Sure.

00:39:51.000 But I think that when people use those terms, they mean different things to different people.

00:39:58.440 Or people certainly have different preconceptions on what those mean.

00:40:10.840 Like, there's obviously things, this is the trouble.

00:40:16.580 Yes, we do.

00:40:18.380 But being realistic, a great deal of the way we would phrase our morality is very situational because we're not removed from situation.

00:40:38.780 We exist within time and within circumstance.

00:40:47.380 There are many things that are just clearly objectively wrong, and there are many things that are clearly objectively right.

00:40:58.000 But there's a lot of things that are balancing your circumstance and picking the best of imperfect options.

00:41:06.960 there is also

00:41:09.760 conflicting interests because we're not

00:41:16.100 okay so i'll say this something that is objectively wrong is neutrality

00:41:24.160 we exist within a context and not taking aside being aloof from life and being being neutral all

00:41:35.520 the time, that is objectively wrong and ignoble. It is an abdication of your responsibility as an

00:41:45.240 Aryan man or woman to make a choice of who to stand with and then to apply yourself to the 0.88

00:41:54.180 consequences of that choice. You know, when you look at things that are objectively negative, 0.99

00:42:02.580 Yeah, there's some things like cruelty, where the motive is cruelty itself to just cause suffering for its own sake is objectively wrong.

00:42:16.940 um betraying and abusing things that place their trust in you especially when those things

00:42:30.680 do not rival you in some way is objectively wrong like there's a lot of things but it becomes much

00:42:37.740 more nuanced. We get silly when we express our morality outside of subjectivity because the more

00:42:49.540 we do that, the more we remove it from real situations. There's principles that are just

00:42:56.000 the right thing to do. Our noble virtues are that. A lot of things are just general. These

00:43:02.520 are good things but again as i was mentioning earlier in life you often have to balance

00:43:09.880 two unfavorable things or you have to choose between two conflicting sets of interest

00:43:18.040 to where it's a lot more there's a lot more agency to making those decisions

00:43:23.640 and i think in some other systems of belief they act as if those very real circumstances don't exist

00:43:33.960 and their expectations

00:43:39.000 so words are hard tonight because i'm getting over what i'm getting over but one of the things that i

00:43:49.160 wanted to kind of illustrate what you see in a lot of Christian congregations is you see

00:43:58.860 a lot of well-intentioned people that want to do right by their God and want to follow the

00:44:05.440 tenets of their faith, but they find that the tenets of their faith are not compatible with

00:44:13.000 the struggles of life so they have to build in a system of well do what you got to do and then go

00:44:20.280 to confession and then it's all good or on more strict sex that don't have that in there

00:44:27.180 they've got okay cool well you know about 16 they break away from their faith

00:44:33.640 and then they come back once they've settled down have a family and they're not in the maelstrom of

00:44:42.820 you know puberty and young adulthood and getting their life figured out

00:44:48.580 there's something inherently wrong with a religious system that that has to be a built-in

00:44:55.720 thing because their objective morality is so divorced from the real existence of their people

00:45:04.120 and so that's the long and convoluted answer I got to that we're joined by my good friend

00:45:11.040 Witten Brandy. Hi, Brandy. Hello, sir. How are we today?

00:45:18.880 A lot better than we've been the past seven days, but we're not at 100%. We're not at a

00:45:24.800 post 40% either. How are you doing? I'm glad that you're feeling better. You sound better.

00:45:31.840 i'm trying i'm pretending i'm i'm trying i would definitely get there um

00:45:40.800 ah mike donated fifty dollars uh to pay off new york's off and 15 to vns and he bought a shirt

00:45:55.840 thank you mike we appreciate you well done thank you mike

00:45:59.980 what you got going on is anything you want to share with people this evening

00:46:05.020 i'm just here for the party sir um a little bit of party i got a beer and when i go off screen i'm

00:46:14.760 i'm eating some costco shrimp cocktail so i will i will celebrate that but that's kind of the party

00:46:21.820 we've got going on not partying at the erickson's because they got no internet oh no our it guru

00:46:29.200 doesn't have internet that's suspicious indeed we got brandy there or we've got uh sierra there 0.95

00:46:36.640 sitting in her car hey sierra i don't partying with a c4 okay if you're if you're behind the

00:46:49.680 wheel of vehicle c4 is a better option than what i'm consuming um be safe out there folks

00:46:59.040 oh i am not driving disclaimer i am not driving just just posting up in the vehicle all right

00:47:06.240 that's fine you do you um from a rumble chat a new member here just chiming in i met some of the guys

00:47:18.240 and was very surprised that there's an AFA building in my small town of Indiana. I really

00:47:24.660 appreciate all of the hard work that goes into this. So clarification on that, there is a building

00:47:33.440 owned by AFA members that is in Indiana. It's not really an official AFA building, but our people

00:47:41.420 are are the ones that are that are running it we got some great people there um i'm really glad

00:47:48.300 that was the case i am glad you decided to join and be part of the family and uh yeah those of

00:47:55.820 you who don't know uh jonathan rock our folk builder in the area he is doing great things

00:48:03.340 with our folk in that part of the world and he's got a whole bunch of guys there with him that are

00:48:08.940 helping accomplish some really cool things in indiana so you find yourself in that part of the

00:48:15.180 world uh he is a great guy to know and they're a good group of people to get together with and

00:48:23.340 be be part of some of the cool things they have happening

00:48:27.100 if you send him a corn meme when you mess with him he'll let you in his secret group

00:48:30.860 He is a fan of corn.

00:48:40.000 The vegetable, not the band, maybe the band too, I don't know.

00:48:45.680 But corn is delicious, even if it might not be that nutritious.

00:48:53.100 What are your beliefs on tribalism and building tribal communities?

00:49:00.860 So, the devil's in the details on all these things. I apologize for stealing the Judeo-Christian reference, but it really matters what you mean when you say tribalism.

00:49:16.140 think specifically within an house of true context there was a thing called tribalism in the early

00:49:22.300 2000s that was lazy people being fence centers and wanting to not choose a side so they pretended that

00:49:34.220 their fence sitting position was called tribalism i don't think that's what you're asking here

00:49:40.220 so brandy what do you think about tribalism and building tribal communities

00:49:45.580 building tribal communities i'm going to use better terminology for that

00:49:50.220 what do i feel about building the attitude folk assembly how i feel about building the attitude

00:49:54.700 folk assembly is that we are more than an organization we are a legitimate church

00:50:02.940 worshiping the Aesir. We are full of men and women that you can lean on, that you can put

00:50:09.920 your trust in, that you can worship the gods with, that you can grow emotionally, physically,

00:50:16.140 spiritually, and mentally with. We are a family, we are a church, and we are the folk.

00:50:25.580 so when people always talk talk about tribalism sure build that build that first in your home

00:50:34.320 build that with your family your children your parents your husband and wife your brothers and

00:50:41.660 sisters bring all those people home join in the same spirituality join in the same core values

00:50:48.180 your same traditions and culture start there and from there you bring in those that are closest

00:50:55.340 to your friends your extended family and bring all those people home to the ace here so when

00:51:01.820 we talk about building tribalism and how important that is let's talk about building the afa let's

00:51:06.460 talk about building the truth of the ace here because that's what i think we should be doing

00:51:10.780 and concentrating on so when people talk about tribalism and one of the reasons that you know

00:51:17.500 gave me the bitter beer face is uh

00:51:25.500 it has for a very long time been used as a

00:51:34.460 as like a code word for non-participation in bigger things and a let's just we don't

00:51:42.540 need anybody else let's just do it me and three dudes in my backyard

00:51:47.500 we can dust off the camp chairs and we can see what kind of deal they've got on the rotisserie

00:51:52.140 chicken and we can go back to comfort and that's that's not a worthy goal um

00:52:04.620 when you talk about tribes there's no three-person tribe that's not real

00:52:10.940 when people like oh me and my tribe and it's like four people that's not a tribe tribes are

00:52:17.020 thousands tens of thousands of people and that's a pretty big concern that kind of

00:52:23.500 forces all the things that people who are not quote unquote tribalism

00:52:29.580 don't really want to be involved with um so that said if you're when you look at tribe if you look

00:52:37.660 at the afa as your tribe and that's what you're doing cool there's nothing wrong with finding a

00:52:43.820 group of people that share fundamental commonality with you on your core beliefs on your blood or

00:52:52.780 where you come from on the things that matter to you and building community around that i think

00:52:58.940 that's really important and i think so many of us live in artificially structured communities

00:53:07.100 where you don't have anything in common with your neighbors you don't have anything in common with

00:53:12.140 your city or your state or wherever you just happen to live there and some of the loneliest

00:53:18.540 people in the world are surrounded by perhaps millions of people within just a few you know

00:53:25.900 just a few hundred miles of them but you can be surrounded by people shoulder to shoulder and

00:53:33.100 still be very lonely if those people have no commonality so in that sense yeah get on board

00:53:40.380 build the afa be part of our tribe this tribe's doing really cool things we would love to have

00:53:45.420 you with us and this tribe is dedicated to worshiping the ic um can i can i comment no

00:53:56.540 yes of course you can can i comment if i say my opinion is not the also true folk assemblies

00:54:01.900 no no no uh my what i was gonna say is when it comes to tribalism like nail on the head

00:54:09.820 with saying the afa is the tribe i have definitely built my tribe within the afa to the point where

00:54:17.180 every aspect of my life is afa i plan where i'm moving based on where there's a hof and where

00:54:23.180 there's a concentration of membership and leadership that i get along with um like on

00:54:28.620 this call itself i'm surrounded by three people who i consider one of the strongest members of

00:54:32.940 my tribe matt daniel and brandy they've been mentors to me the through my entire life within

00:54:38.940 the AFA I have grown not just spiritually but mentally and emotionally and physically as a

00:54:47.900 person within the AFA because of the people in the AFA never giving up on me constantly having

00:54:54.940 my back pushing me to do better celebrating my small victories and lifting me up when I had my

00:54:59.340 downfalls if that's not what a tribe is I would be I would challenge you to tell me what a tribe is

00:55:06.620 if not that. So when you talk about building a tribe, the best thing you can do to build a tribe

00:55:11.420 is build the AFA 100%. Absolutely. Okay. So in the spot on the side where Nick throws questions

00:55:27.340 for me is also a whole bunch of crosstalk on guests and stuff I'm sorting through. So I apologize.

00:55:36.620 No, that's like almost exclusively that. Goodness, guys. All right, here we go.

00:55:42.880 Matt, have you noticed an increase of criticism of Christianity and its kosher origins among the right wing on social media these days?

00:55:55.200 Yeah, first, yes, absolutely. That's that's trending now.

00:55:59.840 um it's funny to me that that's a hot take that the king of the jews was a jewish man

00:56:13.380 and that christianity is an evolution of the jewish faith that's that hot take is 2 000 years

00:56:21.840 old so um but yeah some guys are just getting the memo i guess um better late than never but

00:56:31.280 yes i have noticed that uptick daniel have you noticed that uptick and welcome

00:56:41.600 i think because the the um the poster was asking about on social media and of course

00:56:46.480 you i see that but i've actually seen it playing out in real life um with um you know colleagues

00:56:52.560 and uh you know friends outside the afa i've seen that i've seen that uptick a bunch here in the last

00:57:00.240 let's say 12 months that the uh the idea that uh universalism is good is just shocking to a lot

00:57:11.440 lot of people now especially when you start looking at like the uh you know the current

00:57:16.660 political climate where there is a universalist thinking and everything and you know some of

00:57:21.880 these folks are just now connecting the dots when it comes to universalism and religion

00:57:25.800 and stuff and i think they find that yeah like matt said it's old news but it's uh but it's real

00:57:32.680 anyway you know i'm kind of for it because uh i reject universalism in all its forms so i'm glad

00:57:40.500 to see it happening um the growth of the mega churches especially in the you know where i live

00:57:51.380 at small congregations are are falling down and closing up and all that and everybody's moving

00:57:56.580 into these like mega churches where the pastor doesn't know a third of the people in the in the

00:58:01.860 room and they're just passing the collection plate and it's like half smackdown half rock concert and

00:58:07.620 all that stuff and there's like zero uh personal or spiritual connection there so that's that's sad

00:58:14.100 to see all right well welcome we are also joined by another guest uh he's joining us from somewhere

00:58:22.820 in the in the alps um welcome go through rob stam

00:58:33.860 howdy y'all

00:58:36.740 i don't know what daniel's three was indicating but okay class of 21 brother okay

00:58:46.020 daniel's on here flashing signs

00:58:47.780 That's, so Scott Thatcher says, Matt, are there still ceremonies that we practice animal sacrifices?

00:59:05.860 Who on the call has been involved in animal sacrifice?

00:59:09.680 and i suppose i think a lot of things need to be clarified on what that means yes there are still

00:59:22.760 people that sacrifice um in a traditional way most of those times those people are involved in some

00:59:31.960 way in

00:59:33.180 the raising and processing

00:59:40.040 of animals, I think

00:59:41.580 people have a really

00:59:43.780 strange idea in their head

00:59:46.040 of what that means

00:59:47.960 to different people, and it's a very important

00:59:50.020 clarification.

00:59:51.760 There are some faiths

00:59:54.080 to where an animal sacrifice

00:59:55.800 is

00:59:56.620 the ritual slaughter

00:59:59.800 of an animal, and then

01:00:01.660 perhaps leaving it out or perhaps offering all of it onto an altar into a fire um and it's about

01:00:12.120 the killing of the animal and there's some uh religions around the world that

01:00:16.760 will do very elaborate animal sacrifices of of large large numbers of animals

01:00:23.120 and um

01:00:26.800 lack of better i i don't i don't want to say waste it because that's not the point the point

01:00:34.840 is a is a spiritual exchange but um not make temporal use of the meat so

01:00:43.160 So, the animal sacrifices within Ausatru have always been about the communal sharing of a meal with our folk and our gods amongst the participants.

01:01:03.640 There's nothing, you know, I understand the idea of an animal sacrifice sounds very odd to a modern audience.

01:01:13.160 but a lot of things come with with weighted language that we're used to um the slaughtering

01:01:20.120 of an animal and the respectful processing of that animal and consumption of that animal

01:01:28.920 by a family or a group of families is you know what everyone has done since the dawn of time

01:01:36.120 to eat every day if they are in any way carnivorous or omnivorous that's a big part of life but it's

01:01:44.600 a part of life that so many people are very far removed from but um yeah in the sense of of an

01:01:53.840 animal being slaughtered and the the meat being used for sacrificial feast um you know that's

01:02:01.320 I would say it's fairly rarely done, but that's something that does on occasion still happen and is a special thing.

01:02:11.000 When done right, if you have the time and the place, there's something about the process of processing an animal or animals for that purpose that kind of brings the whole folk together in doing that.

01:02:30.160 there's the initial uh skinning and butchering of the animal uh there's depending on how it's

01:02:36.720 prepared often the ladies in the kitchen cooking the meal together or the men gathered around the

01:02:41.840 grill uh preparing the animal there's a there's a really cool and special and spiritual process

01:02:49.600 involved in that i think everyone who is a hunter understands that i think you know many people are

01:02:55.680 involved in in farming or or you know even hobby farming on a small level are aware of the

01:03:01.920 sacrality of that so it's not something i want to treat flippantly or freak people out about because

01:03:07.360 it's it's not about that and it's certainly not about killing stuff or like being macabre

01:03:16.960 it's a it's a really sacred um it's really sacred occurrence when it's happened

01:03:22.080 um so i used to have a farm and i would butcher my animals frequently because i raised my animals

01:03:30.340 for food and every time i butchered my animals in my eyes that was a sacrifice and so i used

01:03:37.160 every part of the animal when i drained the blood it got put back into my soil the entrails got

01:03:42.120 given to my pigs the carcass got used to make soup with later and the meat got used for eating

01:03:47.960 and the feathers got used for art projects every part of the animal had some sort of purpose and

01:03:55.940 so i think sacrifice is kind of treated as if i'm not it's a naughty word but it's not that animal

01:04:01.180 was sacrificing its life so i could gain something from it and i in turn made sure that every part

01:04:06.340 of the animal was used in a respectful way it's because silly popular tv and movies of the last

01:04:14.460 40 years have i don't know um socially incompatible uh angsty kids torturing pets as a sacrifice

01:04:29.740 motif and i think it's really instilled that negativity in a uh in a cultural context and

01:04:37.420 that's really unfortunate because that's not how it's supposed to die you know like the animal

01:04:42.540 its life is going to end at some point so instead of it instead of it ending because it got eaten by

01:04:48.300 a snake or something and it's unusable i think using it in a sacrificial way to provide for

01:04:53.100 your family is much more honorable for that animal than just letting it kind of rot away essentially

01:04:59.500 well absolutely but we do need to be aware that people we've got a lot of words in our society

01:05:06.460 today that people that are emotionally charged and people just react to and the more we go on

01:05:13.840 about that kind of stuff the more people if they don't really want to investigate or think more

01:05:21.860 about it they're reacting to a word or a concept and you lose them very quickly so it's important

01:05:27.740 that we are really clear on what we mean when we say certain words or what it implies because it

01:05:33.020 may mean a very different thing to a lot of different folks that are listening or paying

01:05:37.440 attention. So here's his question. Has anybody seen any good movies recently? If not, what was

01:05:46.680 the last movie that you watched? Brandy, you seen anything good lately? If so, what was the last

01:05:51.040 movie you watched? The last movie I watched was Flight Risk, and I'm not going to call it good.

01:05:56.880 i'm gonna call it like 90 minutes of absolute angst and anxiety and you're screaming at the

01:06:03.760 movie screen the entire time like if she would have just shot the guy to begin with

01:06:08.960 we would have not have had all these issues on the plane

01:06:13.520 so flight risk with marky mark she should have shot him from the beginning it wouldn't have been 0.99

01:06:19.840 No problem. 0.93

01:06:20.760 There you go.

01:06:27.320 Don't help me.

01:06:28.980 Don't tell mama.

01:06:30.120 I'm going to hide you.

01:06:32.220 All right, Sierra.

01:06:34.220 Have you seen anything good lately?

01:06:35.660 Whether you have or you haven't seen anything good lately,

01:06:37.980 what was the last movie you watched?

01:06:40.400 Me and my grandpa watched 13 Hours Again.

01:06:43.780 It's the movie about the Benghazi soldiers.

01:06:46.880 It was the first movie my grandpa took me to see in the theaters

01:06:49.680 and so like every once in a while when we're together we'll watch it uh i'd say it was a good

01:06:54.480 movie um i mean i think it really just depends on where you kind of lean but i think it was a

01:06:59.760 very eye-opening movie and it was done pretty well so there you go daniel see anything good

01:07:08.000 Whether you see anything good or not, what was the last thing you saw?

01:07:22.880 Okay, we're going to try again.

01:07:24.160 Daniel, what did you see lately?

01:07:26.400 Anything good?

01:07:27.260 If not, what was the last thing you saw?

01:07:34.560 Once, twice.

01:07:35.500 Never mind.

01:07:35.940 Nobody cares.

01:07:36.540 Rob, have you seen anything good lately?

01:07:40.280 And whether you have or haven't, what was the last movie you saw?

01:07:44.440 The last movie I saw was the latest Indiana Jones movie.

01:07:50.500 It was on streaming.

01:07:53.760 Maybe it's my age, but Indiana Jones was very popular when I was a kid.

01:07:59.220 I still love it.

01:08:00.320 So, yeah, it was all right.

01:08:02.160 uh the cgi uh to make harrison ford young was a little goofy but

01:08:07.300 um you know it's still good good fun time

01:08:11.160 so it's an odd question for me i

01:08:17.600 i i watch a lot of movies to have them on when i'm in the background or when i'm trying to go

01:08:28.400 sleep or when i'm just relaxing and whatever at the end of the night so i start a lot of movies

01:08:35.600 and i don't finish a lot of movies because that's just how that works um also i've exhausted

01:08:42.280 most of the movies with any kind of reasonable star rating on amazon prime so

01:08:48.900 i'm in the you know like 3.5 to 4 star range on a lot of the things i watch

01:08:57.040 So, no, I haven't watched anything good lately.

01:08:59.220 I was watching, because I watched them in sequence, and it's one thing, so I think it counts.

01:09:05.180 I was watching the subspecies movies that I didn't know existed until the other day.

01:09:11.880 And they're like early 90s, low-budget vampire films that are kind of interesting.

01:09:22.440 I did appreciate.

01:09:23.880 So, they're a low-budget that won't blow you away.

01:09:25.880 But they had the like creepy dwells in the shadows with the long fingers kind of vampires and not the like sparkly ones or the, you know, hyper sexualized ones, but like more creepy creature ones than that.

01:09:42.760 So that was kind of interesting for what it's worth.

01:09:55.880 okay so from twitter we have how are you doing there i have no idea the context of what was

01:10:08.320 going on when this was asked so it seems like a very broad question but we're just gonna throw

01:10:13.860 it out hey i'm doing all right i think i've said this already i am uh enjoying talking with you

01:10:19.440 guys i was off the show for the last two weeks one was playing and the other was just because

01:10:24.700 was sick so i'm happy to be here randy how you doing i am doing good enjoying the fact that i'm

01:10:31.900 not getting a mountain of snow right now so hang in there all the rest of the people who are

01:10:37.820 sierra how you doing i'm dealing with all the people that are getting the snow

01:10:43.420 no i'm doing i'm doing really well uh life is great i've got my healthy kids i'm in good health

01:10:49.100 and i've got a great folk around me so i really couldn't be happier life's in a really good spot

01:10:53.100 cool daniel how are you doing doing great doing great when you called on sierra just now all of

01:11:01.020 my uh apple stuff alerted like you just called siri in my room so i thought that was kind of fun

01:11:06.220 uh no doing good it is a frigid 41 degrees here in south carolina so people are literally dying

01:11:14.060 so it's uh it's tough but i think we'll we'll power through it good deal rob how you doing

01:11:20.940 Keep going.

01:11:22.940 I'm well. It is currently a balmy zero degrees in Iowa and snowing.

01:11:34.940 All right. Question for Matt. Are you aware of a group called the OMTO, the Occidental Templars?

01:11:46.940 flowers? If so, what are your thoughts on the religion of Arianity and its goals?

01:11:56.120 I found their book trilogy wonderful, really.

01:12:01.560 So I feel bad because, no, I am not familiar with that, nor that religion or book trilogy.

01:12:12.180 no idea anybody else on the call familiar with that

01:12:17.240 so i do not know i appreciate you asking the question i will definitely google it when i'm

01:12:25.220 off here just out of curiosity and uh maybe have a better answer for you next week

01:12:30.540 but i really appreciate you asking i'm sorry came came up with uh no real meaty responses for you

01:12:38.880 um okay from chris lucott uh what is the best home-cooked food you guys have had recently

01:12:50.460 brandy well tonight i made stuffed acorn sauce uh stuffed acorn squash stuffed with rosemary

01:13:01.720 beef and carrots and onions and peppers and Worcester sauce and garlic it was

01:13:08.800 really really good I made that tonight awesome um Sierra I'm gonna use this

01:13:19.040 real quick as an opportunity to plug the folk cookbook that I have started to

01:13:23.200 revive I love to cook I love to cook home-cooked meals especially when I'm at

01:13:27.520 the hot. So send in your recipes to me, schapman at runestone.org, and I will cook your home-cooked

01:13:34.400 recipes and see if I like them. The best thing that I have made recently, though, has not been

01:13:40.620 technically, it's not European, but I have been a really big fan of naan bread with basil pesto,

01:13:50.380 butter chicken, and mozzarella cheese. And you pop it in the air fryer for a little bit so the

01:13:55.300 cheese gets crispy and it is like the best thing I have ever tasted in my entire life. I have just

01:14:00.100 discovered the beauty of Indian food. Well, congratulations. It is an amazing journey and

01:14:07.520 I wish you well on it. Indian food can be fantastic. It can be disgusting, but it can

01:14:13.360 also be fantastic. Naan is delicious, pretty much whatever you put on it. It's awesome.

01:14:19.400 Um, um, pro tip, anything that the Indians suggest that you make with chicken is way better with beef. 0.53

01:14:29.040 I don't say that to be edgy. 0.75

01:14:31.060 I realize the, you know, the irony of it or whatever, but we had these dark chocolate Indians here. 0.56

01:14:39.680 And I don't know if in their region of the subcontinent that that's not the same rules or just what,

01:14:47.300 But they had a special beef curry and they had like a beef korma that some of the best Indian food I ever had.

01:15:04.140 And I mean, these guys, these are some dark chocolate Indians.

01:15:09.380 So I'm sure there's something regionally there where they're cooler about eating the cows, but it was awesome. 0.85

01:15:18.000 I digress, though. Daniel, what's the best home-cooked thing you had recently?

01:15:23.780 I had a 16-ounce ribeye two days ago. It was pan-fried and butter. That doesn't get any better than that.

01:15:30.720 beef curry, I think it was beef curry

01:15:34.920 at that Indian place that we all stopped at in Minneapolis

01:15:38.540 when it was you and Mandy and Heather and I. I think it was

01:15:42.660 beef curry. It might have been the beef whatever. I'm not schooled in Indian food, but that was

01:15:46.720 absolutely delicious.

01:15:51.460 Good deal. Rob, what's the best home-cooked meal you had lately?

01:15:57.640 My mom makes

01:15:58.740 a killer runs a casserole. It's like a German dish. Most Midwesterners should probably be

01:16:07.460 familiar with it, but it's amazing. Love it. Excellent. Speaking of Midwestern things,

01:16:16.920 I'm going to throw in a bonus that I have not had in a long time, but it's awesome.

01:16:20.380 Tater tot hot dish is amazing. Everyone should eat tater tot hot dish. I'm kind of upset that

01:16:27.140 i just thought of it because i want to eat tater tot hot dish and have none in front of me um but

01:16:33.740 yeah it's absolutely amazing it's not something my people are were raised on so it was really cool

01:16:39.360 when i found it and i love it and it's amazing uh best home cooking note for a record the recipe

01:16:47.320 that i gave mandy is probably is the one that she cooks i gave her that recipe it's my tater tot

01:16:52.980 hot dish okay i brought tater tots to the hof i think two months ago to make a casserole and we

01:16:59.380 have somebody at our at our hof that's a midwesterner they thought i was making tater

01:17:03.380 tot hot dish and they got so excited and i had to break it to their heart that i unfortunately

01:17:07.220 am a california girl and have no idea what tater okay so pause for a sec sierra make that at the

01:17:16.180 Hoff. Give me a recipe and I'll make it. Okay. So you figure that out. It's not an expensive 0.98

01:17:22.960 thing. It's a good budget thing. It's a good Hoff thing and it's delicious. But if you make it,

01:17:30.480 I got to eat last. So keep that in mind. I will be genuinely sad.

01:17:39.080 I've had a couple of good things lately. So around here, we eat a lot for utility.

01:17:46.180 it's funny i try to you know keep my stuff on on my macros diet of where i'm at and so does mandy

01:17:53.360 so we don't really sit down and eat a lot of home-cooked meals a lot so we do that when we

01:17:59.440 have people over for any of my once a month we have a ulterior gothic dinner over at my house

01:18:04.380 and i just invite any of our afa folk that can can come over and we try different stuff and i

01:18:09.840 like trying to cook something different um had a really good uh like chicken bacon alfredo pasta 0.92

01:18:19.360 thing we did this last time uh mandy because of she has a um anyways she doesn't have celiacs

01:18:29.120 she's got a thing where she can't have gluten so i am really surprised how good gluten-free pasta 0.93

01:18:36.560 it turns out to be. I would have thought that would have been a big problem. And it substitutes

01:18:42.300 just fine. And it's not bad at all. It's just as good as anything else, as far as I can tell.

01:18:49.100 But yeah, we had this. I was inspired by something, I think, on a Facebook recipe that

01:18:59.040 ended up in my feed. And then I just Googled it. Turned out awesome. It was really good.

01:19:04.740 um it was bacon and chicken thighs and cheese and noodles couldn't be couldn't be too bad but it was

01:19:12.440 awesome that was really good so that's what i got those are fun but just make sure you look at the

01:19:17.920 menu before you go otherwise matt will try to serve you ground beef sauerkraut mashed potatoes

01:19:22.100 and banana okay so stop that is a that is a an ancient cultural dish uh from freesia

01:19:28.420 they're they're traditional bananas that they they grow there um no but i did look it up actually

01:19:36.880 that comes so bringing it back to house a troop one of the things that i used to like to do

01:19:42.160 and i say used to it's still a fun thing to do if you remember it but often our

01:19:47.180 our heroes that we celebrate with our days of remembrance often they're from the same cultures

01:19:54.140 so it gets kind of it's not as unique to do the one-off um but king radbod specifically was from

01:20:04.280 a different location than most of our than all of our other heroes at this point and so one of the

01:20:10.200 things we were trying to do when i was having people over for dinner at the time was you know

01:20:14.320 cook something culturally from that area and yes i realized they did not you know the ancient

01:20:20.480 frisians did not have uh bananas but the modern ones do and seem to like this recipe so i was

01:20:26.720 looking up you know those kind of recipes and i found this and i wish i had it with me still

01:20:31.680 because i can't pronounce the name but it basically translates to sauerkraut and bananas

01:20:37.920 but it's a it's cottage pie because ground beef you could make the shepherd's pie if you had

01:20:42.080 ground land um but it's basically that with a layer of sauerkraut and a layer of bananas

01:20:50.480 just try it. I promise. Just, just try it. I know what it's, I know, but just try it. It's

01:20:58.120 awesome. I really, really enjoy it. There you go, Nick, with the quick draw with the, with the,

01:21:06.800 with the translation on there or with the, the original term. I don't know how you pronounce

01:21:11.600 the U with a little arrow over top of it, but there you go. These are your people, Daniel.

01:21:17.540 How do you pronounce that?

01:21:25.580 Sauerkraut and bananas.

01:21:29.860 Sad.

01:21:32.020 The Van Sickles weep.

01:21:36.480 Yeah, but it's a good dish.

01:21:37.860 So that's something that I stumbled on by surprise.

01:21:40.240 It was really good.

01:21:41.500 Ah.

01:21:45.520 He also served pig face. 0.88

01:21:47.540 oh i served pig face pig face that's a blame that one on spawn it's a really good idea but

01:21:54.280 it's way fatter than i would think it would be i thought it was delicious but i could only eat a

01:22:01.120 few bites before i was just overloaded it was just too much fat in one place it was awesome though

01:22:07.620 um looking over here i don't see other questions anyone who has joined us this evening do you guys

01:22:14.700 have anything that you want to talk to our folk about while you are here because some of you are

01:22:20.220 not here as often as others so if you got something you want hey rob tell us stuff

01:22:25.420 you know what rob give us an update on the austro academy if you would

01:22:31.900 it's going well we're hard at work uh we just started putting together like middle school

01:22:40.040 So 7th grade, which will be out this fall. So we'll be enrolling K through 7 for the next school year.

01:22:53.860 Nick probably can tell you the exact amount of students. He's kind of my go-to with the tech and the admin.

01:23:01.260 um or sarah but sarah's not on um we've got over 30 students though uh things are going well

01:23:10.420 uh we're coming you know towards spring so that that gets exciting and um you know uh getting

01:23:18.620 the kids all ready to move on to the next stage so we're going a lot faster than we had originally

01:23:24.300 anticipated um now that we're kind of getting into the higher level grades though we'll we'll

01:23:30.220 slowing down and probably putting out one grade more a year instead of three just because there's

01:23:35.660 a whole lot more work that goes into it but things are going well we always add to the grades we

01:23:42.220 already have as well we never stop trying to improve and add programs or curriculum that we

01:23:50.380 find that you know are going to benefit our students and as Nick put up there we got 39

01:23:58.060 current students so yeah the academy is doing great uh when we started we you know had less

01:24:04.300 than a dozen and now we're up to 39 so that's good and we always encourage parents if you have

01:24:09.980 any questions uh reach out to us um we'd be more than happy to answer that and the big thing that

01:24:17.180 we tell uh parents especially if you're kind of on the fence about it if you've never homeschooled

01:24:22.780 before can really be kind of scary uh to start homeschooling um you know myself included uh it

01:24:33.020 was oh i don't want to fail my child or i i don't want to screw them up i'm not a professional teacher

01:24:43.020 et cetera. We have education coaches. We have, you know, folks that really are experienced in

01:24:54.560 homeschool. Our education coach, Rachel, she's been homeschooling her children for many, many

01:25:02.080 years. She's very versed in it. She's there to help you and kind of get you over those fears,

01:25:06.560 but you don't have to be a professional teacher to successfully homeschool your child. And

01:25:13.020 you also don't have to dedicate and this is where a lot of parents i think also fear you know six

01:25:19.740 to seven hours a day of instruction um you know i think that's a hurdle that a lot of parents

01:25:25.820 uh have they think oh no i don't have seven hours a day you know 8 a.m to 3 p.m that i can dedicate

01:25:32.540 to this um but that's really not the case with home school and when you think about it you know

01:25:40.460 in public school, they're there eight to three, but not nearly that much time is spent on actual

01:25:47.600 real instruction. A lot of it is social education, which we don't want. A lot of it is learning to

01:25:57.180 follow rules or walking from class to class or recess or learning to sit upright, things that

01:26:04.340 we don't really need to do um in a homeschool setting so and a lot of parents also don't

01:26:10.760 realize that everything you would normally do with your kid is an opportunity to learn if you

01:26:16.440 go to the grocery store there's an opportunity to learn and you can log that as educational hours

01:26:22.060 you know if while you're in the grocery store you talk about nutrition um you do addition and

01:26:26.940 subtraction that's math um there's all kinds of opportunities in just normal everyday life to

01:26:32.540 actually learn and you can count that as educational time so i think that's a big hurdle for

01:26:39.740 new um homeschool parents or parents that are on the fence is they're worried about time that they

01:26:45.100 might have to dedicate to it and they're worried that they don't have the expertise the knowledge

01:26:49.980 like a professional teacher would to teach their child but um with our our handbooks and our

01:26:57.660 our activity books and all of our curriculum, you know, we help you with that. And it's not

01:27:04.040 as scary as it seems, I promise. And if you do have questions or fears, reach out to one of us.

01:27:09.880 We'll be happy to talk to you and be happy to put you in touch with our very experienced

01:27:15.280 education coach who can really help you get over some of those fears that a lot of new

01:27:20.860 homeschool parents have. And we're doing an Austin True Academy field trip.

01:27:27.660 I don't know if Rob's talking, but his microphone is muted, so I'm going to talk.

01:27:32.940 We're doing an Ossetree Academy field trip Sunday, February 23rd in St. Augustine.

01:27:39.780 We are going to an alligator exhibit, and it's going to be really fun learning about

01:27:44.220 alligators and their life cycle, their eating habits, and how we can kind of focus on our

01:27:49.740 animal husbandry with them.

01:27:51.620 And we're going to have two native Floridians, at least with us, who can tell us cool little

01:27:54.780 gator facts.

01:27:57.660 there you have it no all that sounds amazing rob and i'm really

01:28:01.260 proud that you're doing that and that so many so many families and so many kids are getting involved

01:28:06.540 in it um for folks that may not be aware with the concept of the austral academy

01:28:16.300 um our members you know people have come to us and wanted some sort of a homeschool

01:28:25.020 alternative for their children for a lot of years and getting the right folks in place

01:28:30.620 who are willing to take that on has been um it's been a challenge we've got some great people doing

01:28:36.540 that now uh headed up by the dean of the astro academy go to rob stam here um

01:28:45.660 and you know i i knew the importance of this before i had children certainly this has been a

01:28:54.380 i don't know probably at least a decade that people have really wanted this but

01:28:58.260 especially as a father i'm very very glad that there's this option here what rob talked about

01:29:07.120 as far as like the the biggest hurdle is parents being uncomfortable or like just unsure like is

01:29:14.980 this going to be legit can i do this is going to count is going to be a real thing what if i don't

01:29:21.180 know what i'm doing i just i don't want to mess up nobody wants to mess up where their kids are

01:29:25.040 concerned and especially the same people who are very worried about things that have gone on in

01:29:33.740 the american education system and are the same people that are very worried about missteps with

01:29:40.280 their children and you know not following some rule of the governments and having horrible things

01:29:46.600 happen um this is a really nice thing to have some people able to hold your hand through it

01:29:55.740 and to help you figure out what the requirements are in your state how to meet those properly

01:30:02.340 and how to do this process because you can do this and as parents if you're able i would

01:30:09.700 really strongly encourage you to do it. There was a time where the concerns were about quality of

01:30:18.620 education or concerns about socialization or concerns about a lot of things. We are now at

01:30:25.960 a point where there's very real concerns about the things being taught to your children in schools,

01:30:32.000 about the values that you've worked very hard to try to instill in those children

01:30:37.920 being intentionally eroded in those schools and oftentimes very real danger in those schools

01:30:46.800 because of

01:30:51.200 variety of issues but

01:30:57.120 yeah i think we all know there's a lot going wrong in public schools

01:31:01.280 in the united states and you may find yourself an awesome public school and i'm not trying to bash

01:31:06.000 on public schools public school teachers my mom was a teacher uh she taught first grade for about

01:31:11.200 30 years she taught a couple of other grades in between there but it was mostly first and again

01:31:16.320 she had a very long career in it public education was really important to my family but things have

01:31:21.920 taken a very dramatic turn in some really negative ways and if you're in a good spot where it works

01:31:27.120 for you it's your family you're going to make the best choice for them and that's great but

01:31:34.000 if you want to homeschool your children if you feel that that's important and something you

01:31:41.280 want to take on we want to do our very best to be here for you to help you do that

01:31:46.080 and that's what the astro academy is all about

01:31:50.480 if you've got something that's working for you great if the astro academy can help that or

01:31:56.320 you know fortify that or add to that fantastic we're not trying to twist your arm to make you

01:32:01.600 you do in a certain way we're trying to help you to be able to have the confidence and the support

01:32:07.600 to be able to homeschool your children if that's what you want to do so that we can look out for

01:32:12.880 our kids and our our afa members of the future um aiden asks how to cook pig face matt uh we have 0.56

01:32:27.660 pig head we have a pig's head we don't need um so when i get off here i will ask mandy to see

01:32:35.420 if we got the same recipe there's a lot of i think it's filipinos that do a lot with the pig face

01:32:41.900 and so you'll come up with a lot of those recipes um our recipe worked really good we made like a

01:32:48.060 uh pork katsu sauce for it that was really good the katsu sauce was awesome

01:32:55.660 um so those are the options but you if you look you'll find a bunch of different recipes

01:33:02.040 as far as just stuff and it's not a lot of recipe it's just kind of on

01:33:07.020 how long to cook it and you know if you want to season it beforehand or brine it or what you want

01:33:14.540 to do i cook two frozen heads like i said it was really good it was not the texture was awesome

01:33:23.140 it crisped up great. It was a really cool thing, but man, it was just so much fat so quick. But

01:33:29.660 yeah, give it a shot and then get back on here and tell us how it goes. And like I said, if I

01:33:33.640 find the recipe I used, I'll certainly send that your way, but no guarantee on that.

01:33:41.080 Sarah says, Witten Brandy, what do you do on Wednesdays to strengthen your outstrew practice?

01:33:47.460 on wednesdays i have uh wednesday devotions and those are set aside for each one of the owls

01:33:56.860 or one of their wives um so today is the 12th so today is a day that is a devotion to see if i give

01:34:07.100 offerings uh read lore about her give her flowers that's what i was about to do before i popped on

01:34:13.180 here and what I'm doing as soon as I go. So I actually have a specific prayer that I do on that

01:34:19.200 day to whichever one, whoever we're doing that to, but I do that on Wednesdays. So that's always

01:34:26.020 been one of our family traditions that we did. Wednesdays were for devotion and spirituality.

01:34:32.320 Yeah, that's something that I've always done. There's a schedule that we've been posting on

01:34:37.200 there that if you want to follow along with us and get all of those days of devotion in,

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01:38:00.360 join us and be with us as we march on into the next 30 years of the afa uh alexander casto

01:38:08.200 an amazing folk builder of ours in florida just bought us a coffee that's a five dollar donation

01:38:13.560 we appreciate that a lot um apparently some people even guests on the show have not been here for the

01:38:21.100 entirety of the show and did not get our update earlier so i will take advantage of that and

01:38:25.340 update you now sierra asked how much left to pay on the new york's off fundraiser per per oh i

01:38:31.340 didn't do a per person breakdown it's my fault so how much left to pay overall is

01:38:39.580 i believe 56 2022 judging by tonight's donations we're just about there on that

01:38:50.940 actually it's even less than that um we've had three donations to new york's off fun tonight

01:38:56.540 actually so our current number is 55 967 and if we divide that by our current membership

01:39:07.500 76.4 all right so 77 per person gets that off today uh so does 76.50 i was just rounding it up

01:39:19.580 um but yeah that's where we're at and that's uh that's a lot of progress really fast for

01:39:26.060 anybody who's watched this show for an amount of time um it wasn't very long ago where that number

01:39:31.660 number was triple digits i mean i think we're stuck at 120 per person for a long time

01:39:37.580 um it's going down and down and down we appreciate every one of you who's been generous and helped us

01:39:44.780 with that um we appreciate everyone who has been generous and everyone who will be generous

01:39:49.500 in the future folks that have made donations over time or maybe even one big donation

01:39:55.980 people that donate um five hundred dollars or more either at once or cumulatively

01:40:03.180 get their name on the hoff plaque to you know forever acknowledge their contribution

01:40:08.540 um matter of fact we just got some new ones up on the new york's hof plaque uh i think just last

01:40:15.860 weekend um rob we appreciate you joining us rob has signed off thank you rob it was good to have

01:40:23.100 you on the show um sierra you're awesome i'm heading out too sir fine then i'm still here

01:40:30.260 i'm just off on the side for a minute because i'm checking out at walmart my daughter is potty

01:40:34.380 training i had to buy her a potty mom thing there you go well i wish her the best of luck with that

01:40:40.220 for you and your family no thank you guys everybody for joining me this evening

01:40:44.620 um if we get a couple more questions we'll answer them but it's probably going to be an early one

01:40:49.740 tonight and honestly because i'm not all the way recovered i'm not going to complain about that too

01:40:54.060 much it's been really nice getting back on here and talking to everybody um

01:40:59.340 this was randomly recommended to me. What is this? Wow, maybe somebody just

01:41:06.920 instantly did what I asked them to do. So, if you are just joining us because it was

01:41:14.180 randomly recommended to you, this is Victory Never Sleeps. It is the official podcast of

01:41:19.820 the Ausatru Folk Assembly. The Ausatru Folk Assembly is a church that is just, this year

01:41:27.980 we are celebrating our 30th anniversary of being the church devoted to the Aesir.

01:41:35.940 The Aesir are the gods of the Aryan people as named and described by our Old Norse ancestors.

01:41:48.620 They're the gods of our entire race of people. We choose to use the stories and the depiction

01:41:55.280 and the nomenclature of the Old Norse, because that's where so much of our lore comes from.

01:42:02.020 Modern practice of Ausatru predates the Ausatru Folk Assembly and has been around

01:42:07.860 in this current iteration of it since the late 1960s. And the Ausatru Folk Assembly has members

01:42:19.280 in 14 different nations around the world and across the United States.

01:42:24.460 And this is our weekly live broadcast where we take everybody's questions.

01:42:31.400 Often we'll have a topic and a speaker.

01:42:33.660 Sometimes we'll do shows on lore, sometimes other topics.

01:42:38.000 Tonight our speaker had technical difficulties.

01:42:40.440 The internet was out.

01:42:41.600 So we kind of had a number of our leaders come on here

01:42:44.020 and just kind of talk with our folk and share some good times.

01:42:49.920 So that's what we're doing tonight.

01:42:51.700 But thank you for joining us.

01:42:57.840 Question, Matt, why don't you do more interviews and debates?

01:43:07.000 So I think things go in spurts.

01:43:09.340 I tick all comers.

01:43:10.340 So people aren't inviting me to interviews that I turn down.

01:43:14.020 if some anyone who wants to do an interview with me or i say that i feel awkward even saying it

01:43:21.380 sounds pretentious anybody who would like me to be on their program or to talk to me about anything

01:43:26.980 um i'd love to do that as long as it's you know a genuine request and the people are respectful

01:43:32.740 uh they don't have to be also true they don't have to be you know on the team the dude just

01:43:38.980 have to be you know fair-minded and at least present the pretext treating me fairly but yeah

01:43:46.180 i'm open for any any interviews that are out there i think that there's kind of a boom of

01:43:51.700 that for a time to where a whole bunch of people in some connected circles were doing interviews

01:43:58.580 with uh guests and i have not gotten an invite in a while but i would love to go on any anything

01:44:05.460 that i'm invited on and uh look for those opportunities know anybody let them know i'd

01:44:10.340 love to be on this show on alex jones so if any of you have uh connections i'll i'll talk to alex

01:44:20.020 jones um but the other part of the question was why i don't need debates because that cheapens

01:44:28.900 what we do um i like debating i made it to nationals in high school debate i won numerous

01:44:41.300 tournaments in the city that i grew up in in anchorage um i did lincoln douglas style debating

01:44:48.260 in high school i really like debating and that's cool but this isn't that um

01:44:55.620 Um, I've had a number of people invite me for an interview and evolve the interview into a debate or try to, and I've, I've rejected that because it's, I'm trying to think the best way to put this to where it's.

01:45:15.280 it's not my job to score points in front of a judge or an audience

01:45:29.080 over an opponent it's my job to present the truth of our eye seer and our faith

01:45:39.520 to people who ask or to people who want that.

01:45:45.020 It is absolutely my job to defend our faith

01:45:47.780 to people that would malign it.

01:45:50.280 But it's not a competition where we're scoring points

01:45:55.400 and you don't evaluate truth by that.

01:45:59.740 And I think we mistakenly find ourselves in that space a lot

01:46:04.480 where we think that truth is arbitrated by sound bites or by my ability to convince you of something

01:46:15.780 or your ability to convince me of something. Truth doesn't work that way. It's not incumbent

01:46:25.800 upon anyone to present a bunch of evidence for their truth if they're trying to present that

01:46:33.400 to you or for their faith if they're trying to present it to you. Things are either true or

01:46:37.660 they're not. A discussion, an interview helps us examine truth and it helps us make sense of it.

01:46:45.740 It helps us acclimate ourselves and our way of thinking toward it. But the validity of

01:46:57.160 Lousetreau is not based on my ability to win a debate with an internet opponent.

01:47:03.680 And I don't want to cheapen it to that.

01:47:06.120 But I'm happy to have a discussion with people of all faiths about it.

01:47:09.680 And if that discussion becomes contentious and they're going to have a point, I'm going to have a counterpoint, that's fine.

01:47:16.880 But I refuse to have it somehow moderated or judged in a debate format.

01:47:24.280 This is higher than that.

01:47:27.160 Okay, Daniel, we have a question from Odyssey.

01:47:38.260 So we're getting questions from a lot of different sources tonight.

01:47:40.620 That's cool to see.

01:47:42.660 What does an Ausitru mass typically look like?

01:47:49.340 What kind of prayers, rituals, or whatnot do you folks do?

01:47:53.220 uh those of you who don't know this is uh daniel young he is a gothe he has been an ordained gothe

01:48:01.260 in the australia uh folk assembly for four years this year four years this year all right

01:48:10.900 sure so australia is broken down into a couple of rituals um well also true ritual is broken down

01:48:19.740 into two categories. We have bloat, which is the gift exchange between us and the divine.

01:48:28.100 And what that typically looks like is the AFA uses a horn of mead most often. And there are

01:48:36.680 other forms. Some people, you know, offer flowers. Some people offer food. Some people offer,

01:48:43.980 we talked about animal sacrifice earlier. I personally haven't participated in one of those,

01:48:48.920 but I know that those exist. But the standard AFA bloat would look like this. We would

01:48:56.680 process into a ritual circle, sometimes inside of a holy temple, sometimes not, sometimes it's

01:49:05.700 outdoors. We would process in, and it usually begins with a session of a galder, and that's

01:49:13.160 where we chant the name of the runes, a particular rune for that particular holiday or that

01:49:18.740 particular ritual. We ask our ladies to bless the horn of meat because our women are receptacles 0.91

01:49:27.340 of those blessings, both naturally and spiritually. And once that is done, we will call upon one of

01:49:37.060 our divine beings, whether it's a god or goddess. Sometimes we call upon our ancestors. Other times

01:49:44.100 we call upon the land veteer and then we pass that horn around and uh ritually put your good

01:49:51.940 intentions into that horn and what if you're if you ever participate in a bloat that i'm conducting

01:49:58.020 i'll always uh not always but typically will tell you that offer the very best of yourself

01:50:03.460 into that into that horn in a spiritual and ritual way uh all of your victory

01:50:09.380 in the past year, past month, past week.

01:50:12.920 All of that goes into that horn

01:50:15.020 because we don't just win for us.

01:50:19.140 We win for them too.

01:50:21.920 And then that horn will go around

01:50:23.980 all the folk in the circle,

01:50:25.340 come back to the gothi,

01:50:26.980 and we'll pour that horn of mead into a bowl

01:50:30.540 and offer that bowl to one of our gods or goddesses.

01:50:34.040 And typically that will go something like,

01:50:37.440 if you find this gift acceptable,

01:50:39.380 and you find us worthy we ask for your blessings in return so for instance if

01:50:43.140 I'm conducting a bloat to Thor or mostly known for his strength and courage so

01:50:49.340 that's something that I'll ask for from him on behalf of the folk and then if

01:50:54.200 he finds us worthy he will fill that bowl with that blessing of strength

01:50:57.500 courage and the will and the will to fight and then that will be a spurged

01:51:01.520 out to the folk so I will use like a like an evergreen twine or tine I'm

01:51:08.000 sorry, and the splashing on the folk. That's just the way that that ritual looks, and that's a very

01:51:15.280 basic breakdown. And then we also have a ritual, toasting ritual called sambal, and it is my

01:51:24.220 favorite ostry ritual that we do. Sometimes they can go on for a little while, and, you know,

01:51:29.600 it can last a couple of hours. Sometimes it lasts, you know, 30 minutes, depending on how size the

01:51:34.200 group but so we'll do one round to our gods in the first round I'll pass that

01:51:40.860 horn to Matt Matt will stand up and speak poetically over that horn about his

01:51:46.020 relationship with whatever god or goddess he wishes to and hail to that god

01:51:50.820 or goddess and then we'll have a lady of high status will actually carry the

01:51:57.300 horn around the circle that is known as a horn bearer and so yeah we'll do a

01:52:03.580 round of that to the gods or goddesses and then round two goes to our ancestors

01:52:07.900 and there's a couple of caveats to that is that whenever we speak over that horn

01:52:14.500 and we want to hail you know an ancestor of our lineage it's best to speak that

01:52:19.900 person's whole name over that horn rather than just saying hail papa you

01:52:26.560 know there's a bajillion pawpaws on the other side of the veil and we want our

01:52:31.700 ancestors be remembered and the best way to have them remembered is by remembering that name and

01:52:36.340 carrying it on so if i were to receive the horn and ask to uh ask to toast one of my ancestors i

01:52:43.940 would stand up and recognize my grandfather hail colonel daniel van sickle the united states air

01:52:49.220 force and then the folks will chime in and then round three is the uh the round of the heroes and

01:52:54.500 And that's kind of a kind of a free round. Sometimes folks recite poetry.

01:53:01.220 Sometimes folks will sing a song. It's a that's a time to boast on yourself.

01:53:07.280 You know, if you've accomplished something and, you know, personally that you want to share with the folk, because we share in those victories together.

01:53:14.800 When when you win, we win and it works the other way.

01:53:18.040 Um, and sometimes it can be something as simple as a, you know, uh, somebody who just, uh, you know, got their certification for, you know, a new position on their job or whatever. It could be, I just bought my first house or I finally asked her to marry me and she accepted. That's a good time to do that.

01:53:35.640 um it's also a good time and it's most most often practiced this way where you know you might toast

01:53:41.820 someone uh alive or past that's why we call it the round of the heroes uh you know if you wanted

01:53:48.320 to recognize one of our also true heroes or someone that's you know a hero to you that would

01:53:53.160 be a time to do that um a lot of times it's us you know it could be folks in the room it could

01:53:58.080 be you know folks that have made a direct impact on your life um but it's also a time for oath

01:54:05.340 making and one of the things that we can put a caveat on that so if you are to if

01:54:14.040 you intend to go to an austria sambal and you want to speak an oath in the

01:54:18.240 third round you need to clear it out what your both are ahead of time and why

01:54:23.880 is that but we want to make sure that it's a it's an oath that we want our

01:54:28.320 luck tied into if Matt says I'm gonna round three I'm gonna swear an oath to

01:54:34.400 climb mount kilimanjaro and and if he doesn't complete that and you know it would also have

01:54:42.240 a caveat i'm sorry i'm speaking sporadically i don't intend to he would say i'm going to climb

01:54:48.160 this mountain by april of 2026. and if he does not do that then it affects all of our luck and all of

01:54:57.440 our homingia was tied into that so he takes a hit and everybody in that sumble circle would take that

01:55:02.480 hit too um so we always ask people to make sure they clear it with uh specifically our law speaker 0.98

01:55:09.040 would be best or the gothar present at that particular event um so that's those are the two

01:55:15.760 uh basic uh australia rituals that that you would run into uh with the australia folk assembly and

01:55:21.440 there are others um you know sometimes folks will do a special offering to the spiritual land

01:55:27.040 And, you know, some folks do, you know, spiritual meditative practice, but that's not quite the same as practicing religion.

01:55:36.080 That's, you know, more practicing spirituality.

01:55:38.160 But that's stuff that you would typically see within the focused community of Austria.

01:55:48.340 There you have it.

01:55:49.280 I think that was a really good answer, a really thorough answer.

01:55:51.720 and you mentioned that you wanted okay so i mentioned top of the show coming up in a week

01:56:02.360 and a half we have uh charming of the plow at new york's off in white springs florida

01:56:08.880 make it there if you can i will be there sierra will be there it will be a spectacular event i'm

01:56:16.820 looking forward to it. It'll be awesome. We would love to see you guys there. Followed up one month

01:56:21.780 later, we have Ostara at Thorshof. And the man in the center will be hosting that, or he'll

01:56:31.440 certainly be one of the hosts, Gothar, at that event. Daniel, you want to tell us a little bit

01:56:37.080 about Ostara at Thorshoff? Sure. We started hosting that beginning in 2021. It was the

01:56:47.120 first Ostara after the purchase of Thorshoff in 2020. So it is the crown jewel event for

01:56:55.520 Thorshoff and its district. Before it came to Thorshoff, it kind of floated around the

01:57:01.480 southeast. And, yeah, it was the first AFA event, major AFA event I ever attended. It's the first

01:57:08.960 time I ever met Mr. Flavell and Svan and Rob and Cliff and Katie and, you know, numerous other

01:57:15.060 people. What you can expect to see is the celebration of the coming of the dawn, the coming

01:57:22.560 of spring, the arrival of Ostara. And it's a three-day event. On Friday, we will, you know,

01:57:30.760 begin registration just after lunch around 12 or 1 o'clock, and that will be culminated at the end

01:57:41.900 of the night. Around 7 p.m., we will host Thor Bloat, which will be performed by the Ulterior

01:57:47.920 Dothi Matflabel, and then, you know, we'll have various activities going forward after that to

01:57:55.020 kind of close the evening out on saturday is when we star upload itself and that is when we do our

01:58:03.100 auction there will be numerous talks we'll have a folk lover nick rock going to give a talk on

01:58:07.800 alexander rudd mills um law speaker alan turnage will give a talk on financial uh excellence

01:58:15.080 um the force off auction will be at that same time and then um we'll close out saturday with

01:58:23.020 which will be obviously provided over by our high priest, the Osherio Gothi Matt.

01:58:28.620 And then on Sunday, you know, kind of a half day, we'll do breakfast in Wayfarer's Bloke.

01:58:37.620 All right. Well, we hope to see you guys there.

01:58:40.420 Frith exists everywhere, but it was really, I'm sorry,

01:58:43.860 Frith is really expressed in Southern hospitality, and you'll experience a lot of that.

01:58:51.060 when you're dealing with my wife and you're dealing with, you know,

01:58:54.940 most of our ladies, you'll experience that Southern hospitality.

01:58:59.300 And it's not forced and put on. So it's, it's my favorite event.

01:59:02.800 Super looking forward to it. And I hope to see you guys there.

01:59:06.900 Yep. We would love to see all of you guys there.

01:59:09.360 And if you can make it a week prior in White Springs, Florida,

01:59:12.720 we will reschedule the originally planned episode between myself and cliff because it's an important

01:59:22.220 topic and i want us to talk about it i think we'll probably try for that sometime next month

01:59:28.380 um i will be i will not be joined by anything i will be on my way to white springs florida next

01:59:35.000 week but we have uh once again go the trent east will be joining wit and spawn as you guys go over

01:59:44.600 some more of our lore and uh yeah i will be back on the program the following week so uh

01:59:53.800 look forward to seeing you guys then um hope everybody's doing well i hope everybody is

01:59:59.640 staying healthy during this time where many of us are getting stricken by stuff.

02:00:07.420 Yeah, it's been great to be able to talk to you guys this evening. Thank you to all of my guests

02:00:11.280 that came in and joined. There's Sierra. Thank you so much, Sierra. Thank you, Daniel. We

02:00:16.940 appreciate you guys. Yeah, I'll see you guys in a couple of weeks. Till then, hail the Iseer,

02:00:23.880 hail the folk, hail the AFA. Remember, victory never sleeps.

02:00:29.640 Thank you.

02:00:59.640 Thank you.

02:01:29.640 We'll be right back.

02:01:59.640 Thank you.

02:02:29.640 We'll be right back.

02:02:59.640 We'll be right back.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - February 13, 2025

2⧸12⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 136 - Ásatrú and the AFA

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