Asatru Folk Assembly - 2⧸25⧸26 Victory Never Sleeps, Ep 190 - Right Action： A Path to Piety

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00:03:00.000 hello and welcome to this week's edition of victory never sleeps tonight we are joined by

00:03:13.680 my friend specklinger daniel young to talk to us about right action a path to piety um

00:03:23.680 Top of the show stuff. Thank you to everybody at New York's Hoff who made Disa thing an amazing

00:03:31.600 event. I was very fortunate to get to go and visit that Hoff and see those folks again.

00:03:37.840 It was a wonderful weekend. I appreciate you guys. Thanks for everybody who came out that

00:03:42.560 I got to meet and share that weekend with. Absolutely fantastic. Next up, we have Austra

00:03:52.880 at Thorshoff. Thorshoff is in Linden, North Carolina, and that's going to be March 20th

00:03:59.380 through the 22nd. If you can make it there, you absolutely should. That is that district's

00:04:05.540 largest event of the year. Amazing people are going to be there. I'm excited to bring my family

00:04:11.920 over for it. So I would love to meet you guys there if I haven't yet, or see you again if it's

00:04:16.920 been a minute. So yeah, make the effort if you can. It's going to be an amazing event and it's

00:04:23.580 going to be real special for you guys. Hope you all can show up. Other stuff on the top of the

00:04:31.140 program. Weekly update on Frazehoff and Frazehoff pay down. We are doing really well. You guys

00:04:41.440 continue to be amazingly generous. We've had a few donations come in in the last

00:04:48.320 hour or so. So this is not entirely accurate, but we're sitting somewhere around

00:04:54.100 35.6% paid off. That comes out to about $109 per member. $109 per member would pay it off today.

00:05:08.260 You guys have been extremely generous and continue to be. Thank you guys for that.

00:05:13.680 Speaking of generosity, as he so often does, so regularly does, GW Farnsworth started off program with $30 towards the heat situation of Thorsthoff and $30 towards our latest folk services effort for one of our members.

00:05:32.520 So thank you for that. We appreciate you.

00:05:34.540 Also, Sarah donated $25 to our Folk Services helping out a member.

00:05:43.540 Wonderful, we appreciate you.

00:05:46.540 Caleb donated $50 towards that same Folk Services campaign.

00:05:51.540 Thank you, Caleb.

00:05:52.540 Another amazing and continuous donor, so we appreciate you.

00:05:56.540 And Nick in Ohio donated $10 each to Frazehoff, Sigurheim, the Astro Academy, and the Folk Services fundraiser.

00:06:06.320 So thank you for that. We really appreciate you.

00:06:09.780 And Stephen in Japan donated $10 each to the Thorshoff Eat and towards paying off Frazehoffs.

00:06:16.820 We appreciate you, Stephen.

00:06:17.920 um other stuff we have somebody that started off with a provocative question tonight and i suppose

00:06:29.600 we get to that before we get to the meat just because it's there and we'll leave it hanging

00:06:33.840 i'd like to really i'd i would really like to hear some sort of a response to the accusations

00:06:40.080 that new york's off was partially paid with a sum of money from convicted child predator

00:06:45.600 The exchange of our virtues for money. I have no knowledge of Njortzhoff being paid off by a sum of money donated by any child predator or anybody sketchy that way.

00:07:01.700 This is news to me. I wasn't aware that those were accusations, but to my knowledge, there's nothing to that. I've never heard that before until right now.

00:07:10.280 daniel are you aware of some sort of child molester paying helping us in a substantial

00:07:20.060 way to pay off and your top no it just sounds like troll stuff as per usual i think see that's

00:07:26.700 the thing there's a lot of that there's a lot of bad actors but i think you know i never know if

00:07:31.060 the people who come here and ask those kind of things if they're well i'm if they're well

00:07:36.540 intention then they just genuinely don't know better and it's a fair question to ask but i

00:07:40.860 don't think the question was a troll move but i think wherever he's getting his information from

00:07:45.100 possibly that that would be yeah i think most certainly um some confusion there um but yeah so

00:07:56.780 this was your idea to come on today and talk about this our uh our law speaker was

00:08:05.180 taking the night off and you had an idea for a show so i'm gonna let you run with it and

00:08:12.620 tell us about right action and how it's a path to piety

00:08:17.260 well first um i appreciate the law speaker having the night off and uh making some room for me to

00:08:22.940 come in and uh use this platform to try to hammer out some concepts that seem to be extremely grand

00:08:32.220 But as is my my way, I like to try to reduce them down to a fairly simple form.

00:08:41.060 So first, before we get into the meat and taters of that particular topic, you know, we've often referred to this concept.

00:08:48.840 And the phrase was coined by our founder, Stephen McNallan, and he refers to this as the soul sickness.

00:08:55.620 So how do we how do we determine what that is?

00:08:58.280 I think that we can take a look at what's going on in the modern world, specifically in the West, and kind of see these things playing out.

00:09:05.540 And I think before we talk about what the cure is, we have to be honest about what the sickness is.

00:09:10.760 And I don't mean it metaphorically, but it's something that we can see.

00:09:14.780 We see it in addiction, an appetite with no order, men and women who are ruled by impulses, no longer in control, alcohol, drugs, pornography.

00:09:28.280 rage even sometimes even attention that's disorder we see this play out like in broken families

00:09:38.040 all right loyalty is treated as uh something that's temporary and something that is disposable

00:09:43.320 uh vows are treated as flexible children grow up without stability

00:09:48.360 because adults lack discipline and we see that broken families this is a misalignment

00:09:53.160 also uh the most tragic of all these uh examples of the soul sickness we see this in suicides

00:10:02.960 uh this is these are souls that have lost their orientation have no sense of purpose or place

00:10:09.160 or no connection to something higher and have no feeling of standing in a line with

00:10:15.520 folks in front of them the folks behind them the folks in front being descendants the folks behind

00:10:20.440 being our ancestors when moon collapses the soul collapses with it and we just

00:10:31.720 see it we see it in something even quieter and something less I guess

00:10:37.320 shocking but it's you know casual betrayal it's the toleration of gossip

00:10:42.580 oaths that get broken without shame all of these have the same root and that

00:10:50.200 root is disorder appetite without discipline pride with no humility and freedom without

00:10:57.560 responsibility the sickness of the soul is living with no alignment

00:11:03.320 and if disorder is the sickness then piety correctly understood is the restoration of that

00:11:12.760 order not emotion not aesthetics it's not a facebook post is complete alignment one of the

00:11:23.260 more trendy words that we'll hear from either you know fitless fitness influencers or quote-unquote

00:11:28.900 life coaches the word that they like to lean on that i'm going to use and i try not to use it

00:11:35.680 cheaply is holistic. When everything

00:11:39.720 in our lives is in perfect alignment with a higher ideal.

00:11:46.480 And that's proven

00:11:47.660 through correct and right action.

00:11:52.560 Now this may sound like some sort of

00:11:54.860 I don't mean this has come off as like a fluffy bunny

00:11:59.600 self-help guru kind of

00:12:03.680 thing, what is right action?

00:12:07.400 It's simply just doing the right thing to begin with.

00:12:14.260 So we have to be in alignment

00:12:15.760 and in reverence with our gods, the I-seer.

00:12:19.440 First and foremost, let me pause and go back a little bit.

00:12:24.480 Everything is downstream from identity.

00:12:29.140 Spirituality and religion comes immediately after identity. 0.95

00:12:32.420 Because if we, you know, see the world through a folkish lens without having that ethnic identity and knowing it, then it's hard to get aligned with what your spirituality and religion should be. 0.90

00:12:43.780 Now, we as white folks, as Caucasians, as Aryans, we are in truth to the Aesir. 0.62

00:12:51.940 This is the first of the steps towards that cure.

00:12:55.300 and how we approach how we see them and how we speak of them

00:13:02.500 is a reflection of that alignment and a reflection of piety

00:13:06.400 and what is piety it's a it's a it's a word that you might hear fairly often here on

00:13:14.720 victory never sleeps you might hear it at your hoffs you might hear it

00:13:18.080 at you know your pub moots but we want to clearly define that it's when your faith

00:13:24.120 is so obvious that it's plain to see and it's seen through your deeds and not just through

00:13:29.800 your words it's not seen through your facebook post your instagram stories it's seen through

00:13:36.040 your actions and those actions have to reflect that reverence to the icer to the icer to the

00:13:46.040 ancestors and to the greater folk.

00:13:52.840 We also have

00:13:54.180 another outward display of piety is

00:13:57.420 we have our troth with the Aesir, and next is our

00:14:01.960 frith to our brothers and sisters that are united

00:14:05.720 in troth, united by frith.

00:14:09.500 This is a symbol of ordered alignment, right?

00:14:12.020 father mcnalen when he when he wrote his book also true a native european spirituality

00:14:18.560 it became something of a catchphrase but it was prominently printed on the back of that book and

00:14:25.100 talked about within that book about how australia is about connections connections with the divine

00:14:30.240 connections with our ancestors connections with those who come after us and connections to each

00:14:34.860 other i'm not going to say that because we don't believe in equality there's not an equal connection

00:14:41.580 but all of them have an extreme importance our obvious you know obvious the connection to our

00:14:48.640 gods is important honoring our ancestors by living in a way that they were recognized as

00:14:54.500 courageous and honorable is important but just as important is that frith that binds us that

00:15:00.780 that links us together now frith isn't just simply like you know peace with no cost like

00:15:07.300 I'm just going to keep the peace and say nothing. It's something totally different than that.

00:15:12.040 And this is one of those examples of what right action is. So if, you know, my brother, you know, brother in the faith, my brother in the clergy, my it could be the altar you're going through.

00:15:25.380 Because of the frith between us and is my duty to protect their reputation.

00:15:30.560 I'm going to use Matt as an example. It's my duty to protect Matt's reputation, especially in his absence.

00:15:37.300 if someone were to sit at my table and you know begin gossiping and you know just saying these

00:15:43.760 outlandish things but true or not true doesn't matter but the gossiping thing that's that is

00:15:47.720 the first drop of like social poison that can get these things spiraling out of control and

00:15:54.180 my duty our duty is to squash that immediately

00:15:58.180 we give someone correction whenever they start this gossiping stuff or and again this is just

00:16:04.980 simple example but you know i try to think of things in the most simple form right so we don't

00:16:10.260 we don't eliminate that and it becomes this infection it becomes something greater than

00:16:15.460 you know just someone whispering and idle chatter we correct that person immediately

00:16:24.260 and that's not done just out of my thrift to matt that's out of the thrift between me and the

00:16:28.100 person that is speaking now i owe them a certain level of accountability

00:16:34.260 so i correct them and if they persist and they correct it again

00:16:37.220 if they refuse the correction they need to get up from my table

00:16:44.260 now piety doesn't necessarily change how you behave it's an example of how you behave

00:16:50.900 you know we correct gossip instead of just enjoying it we speak truth without being cruel to one

00:16:54.980 another. We train our bodies and keep our word. We show up prepared. And I can give you an example

00:17:04.440 of that as well. You know, I, as a clergy member, if I, if I were to show up at my Hoff and I'm

00:17:12.300 wearing, you know, ratty old work clothes, I'm a mechanic by trade. So if I'm coming to work,

00:17:17.080 you know, all oiled up and filthy looking and all that stuff, and I get myself cleaned up and

00:17:22.100 throw on my suit, and now I've stepped in, you know, I'm in priest mode, I have to show

00:17:29.040 up prepared, and that same principle applies, and we show up in a devoted worship, we show

00:17:39.760 up unified by devoted worship to our high seer, we show up ready for that immediately,

00:17:46.100 not like we switch from one mode to the next, because all these things, again, to use that

00:17:50.500 word holistic should be flowing

00:17:53.160 down a highway. The road doesn't change.

00:17:58.420 There's no different lanes here. It's a single road toward the same goal.

00:18:04.480 We lead our household

00:18:05.920 with a steady hand, with fairness

00:18:08.940 and again with accountability in mind because we're all representatives of each other.

00:18:14.500 and another example of that is how we present ourselves to our gods and that's not just about

00:18:23.760 the clothes we wear or whether we're well shaved or groomed it's how we approach them

00:18:29.040 in pious action and what do i mean by that we don't show up and immediately go into what we

00:18:38.700 don't do like i'm not going to bend a knee i'm not going to prostrate myself i'm not going to

00:18:43.440 take this you know pious posture so that's wrong think in early generations of also true it was a

00:18:54.060 you know a common theme modern ostrich specifically it was a common theme that you know what we don't

00:19:00.720 do is what defines us and they often would say things like we don't kneel before our gods we

00:19:08.800 stand among them we stand with them and well that's not coming from a place of malice and

00:19:14.560 it's not coming from a place of you know intended disrespect it was more of a separation from what

00:19:20.800 they were used to when it came to dealing with you know the christian church and anything they

00:19:26.880 seen anything that was seen as remotely christian um was cast aside and i want to make a clear

00:19:35.680 distinction here that piety devotion and respect did not originate with christianity

00:19:46.320 we can we could show archaeological evidence and artistic evidence throughout the ages of showing

00:19:51.440 you know men in europe prostrating themselves before their gods

00:19:56.320 but anyway uh so right action doesn't have to be dramatic

00:20:04.560 it's simply in just uh it begins in the mind as does piety

00:20:08.740 so we start creating these habits and these habits reshape our soul

00:20:15.720 you know pride that says i don't kneel or i don't submit or i don't need correction or i

00:20:24.760 know enough, that's, again, that's misguided.

00:20:29.060 Properly ordered pride

00:20:30.280 is what leads to dignity.

00:20:34.320 In the

00:20:34.900 also true faith, we don't shun the idea

00:20:36.860 of ego. We do shun the idea of, you know,

00:20:39.660 fluffery, where we

00:20:44.800 know it's bragging about something

00:20:46.700 simply mundane

00:20:48.780 or something like that.

00:20:50.440 It's not the same as being braggadocious.

00:20:53.600 But having an ego

00:20:54.500 a healthy ego, a well-trained ego, is seen as something good.

00:21:01.900 Because we see ourselves as

00:21:03.940 worthy of the attention of our divine

00:21:08.680 gods and goddesses, and we see ourselves

00:21:12.980 in an elevated position,

00:21:16.760 that's not the same as the negative aspects of ego.

00:21:20.980 Negative aspects of ego are specifically pointing out that

00:21:24.480 Someone else doesn't meet your standard

00:21:27.560 Holding other people to this extremely high standard

00:21:31.800 That you may hold yourself to

00:21:32.920 And not everybody's meant to be uber-mensch

00:21:34.680 Because if we're all excellent, then no one is

00:21:39.360 The key is to be more excellent

00:21:42.720 There's a difference between dignity and defiance

00:21:46.860 One is ordered, another is a reaction

00:21:50.060 so rather than we don't kneel before our gods how about we willingly kneel before our gods

00:21:58.640 or we willingly prostrate ourselves before our gods um there's an example and i can't remember

00:22:05.940 exactly from what age i think it was post iron i mean sorry bronze age um statue that was found

00:22:11.980 either in scandinavia or found somewhere in western or central europe of a man that was

00:22:19.340 on one knee with his hands out almost in the all geese position it's a clear sign

00:22:25.680 that's a clear representation of a pious

00:22:34.720 you know pry a pious way of presenting the self before our gods so these things

00:22:43.940 need to become repetition. Sometimes it's daily things, small things. It can be something

00:22:53.820 seriously unseen. You can't think your way into piety. You have to act your way into

00:22:59.540 piety. So what does this look like in our day-to-day lives? I think one example is this

00:23:09.440 idea that we are the the latest representation in a long line of folk of our ancestors of the

00:23:19.520 people that came before us and that every action that we take is not necessarily mundane seemingly

00:23:26.180 mundane some things are more sacred than others but all of the things all the actions that we take

00:23:30.380 there is at least

00:23:33.180 sacrality involved

00:23:35.500 with even the most minor of things.

00:23:38.660 Am I carrying myself

00:23:39.680 in a way that my grandfather would be proud?

00:23:42.360 Am I carrying myself

00:23:43.400 in a way that my grandmother

00:23:44.460 would be happy that I would carry myself

00:23:47.300 that way? Am I being respectful

00:23:49.300 to my elders?

00:23:51.820 Am I

00:23:52.180 being a good employer?

00:23:55.760 Being a good

00:23:56.420 teammate?

00:24:00.380 So every day we rise with intention. This can be simple. This can be rising every day and going through your normal hygiene stuff, going to your altar and saying your prayers, beginning the day with movement, whether that's doing some calisthenics or going for a brisk walk around the block, using clean speech.

00:24:24.080 um and look i'm super guilty about you know using profanity um at the wrong times because i don't

00:24:35.280 think there's really ever really a right time to do that because we have to present ourselves in

00:24:39.320 a way that reflects the dignity that's expected of not only of uh not just clergy or folk builders

00:24:46.620 that's worthy of Aryans. 0.85

00:24:50.240 Sometimes a well-timed use of profanity 0.99

00:24:53.260 to help deliver emphasis or something like that,

00:24:55.600 that's a different topic.

00:25:01.640 But we refuse sloppiness.

00:25:04.080 Again, it's this idea of rejecting the idea

00:25:07.880 of letting things fall where they may

00:25:10.060 and that everything has some kind of order to it.

00:25:16.620 and i don't use the term humble humble yourself in the way that like i was brought up so i was

00:25:24.760 brought up i'm a child of the south right and uh you know i've had this conversation with tyler

00:25:30.720 he and i are from the same state who grew up in the same culture and you know brought up much

00:25:36.220 the same way you know we would hear this from our fathers and uncles and grandfathers like

00:25:39.840 humble yourself boy you know taking on no heirs that's not the same thing i'm talking about

00:25:44.660 a good way of explaining that is if you know someone were asking mr flavell a question

00:25:54.480 about a certain topic especially when it comes to you know house and tree or just life in general

00:25:59.420 my not only because of my position but because i recognize his spiritual authority

00:26:05.200 i know to sit i know to sit there and be quiet and listen you know speak whenever it's appropriate

00:26:11.500 rather than just kind of like talking over the guy he's the high priest of the icier

00:26:17.500 i don't have a whole lot more to add than than what it is he has to offer

00:26:23.180 um if that makes sense if you know if mr flabel is given if he was talking to a class of clergy

00:26:30.660 students and he was teaching them you know bloat structure and stuff like that interrupting him

00:26:37.880 would be absolutely inappropriate because I'm humble enough to realize that he sits at the top

00:26:43.480 of this pyramid for a reason. That's not to say that I won't share my opinions after he's done

00:26:51.020 speaking or any of those things or share my point of view on a certain topic. That's not the same

00:26:57.320 as just jumping in and interrupting somebody that sits in a high seat.

00:27:02.440 so repetition restores order in our lives and that order restores strength and that strength

00:27:12.460 it restores health

00:27:14.180 alignment produces clarity again clarity does produce that strength and that strength also

00:27:23.660 produces peace it produces frith it knows that that the man sat next to me can count on me to

00:27:29.420 have his back and these are some examples of what right action is let me give some examples of what

00:27:36.520 right action is not so i'm assuming many of the listeners are probably nearly all of them

00:27:44.380 at one point whether it was by choice or you know because that's what their parents did they followed

00:27:49.920 you know the abrahamic faith you know in the west that would be christianity there's a list of

00:27:55.220 don'ts so if i don't do all of these things i'm as seen as a righteous man that's not right action

00:28:05.980 the lack of doing something bad doesn't mean you're doing something good

00:28:11.780 so we instead live our lives by virtues

00:28:17.380 and i don't need to go down the entire list but the chief among them is courage

00:28:24.140 so piety isn't just a feeling it's something that we do if we act rightly long enough the soul can

00:28:38.300 catch up so we see our soul is broken into components and i'm not going to again i'm not

00:28:46.820 going to list them all but you know you have the obvious ones the leak which is the body

00:28:51.080 This is the vehicle in which we are put here in Midgard to be able to work our will,

00:28:55.460 to work the will of our ancestors and the will of the Iseer. 0.84

00:28:59.820 And there's the mental part of this. 0.90

00:29:01.140 There's the many, which is the memory.

00:29:03.240 And then there's cure, which is more the logical mind.

00:29:08.260 Now, through some of this right action, we can begin to cure the soul sickness.

00:29:15.120 What does that right action look like when it comes to the varying parts of our soul?

00:29:18.300 well i just listed three that were pretty obvious the leak the physical body train it take care of

00:29:24.720 it if if my father had given me one car and said this is the only car that you're going to have

00:29:32.800 for the rest of your life i'd have the oil chains transmission fluid done all the filters done all

00:29:38.720 the joints taken care of all the bearings i would care for that car as if it was going to have to

00:29:43.980 last me the entirety of my life. Well, that's what our body is. And then there's the mental

00:29:50.740 aspect of it. There's the many, which is the memory. And what I see a lot with folks when

00:29:59.660 it comes to this particular part of the soul complex that kind of holds them back is that

00:30:03.000 they become, you know, chained to something in the past. It could be past trauma. It could be,

00:30:10.000 you know past experiences and it could also be that you know resting on our laurels like

00:30:15.740 thinking back on like past victories and just you know i did this one real cool thing i don't

00:30:20.080 have to do nothing else also is just wrong thing and of course there's the the humor the the logical

00:30:27.140 mind i think that in a way to repair that is to you know one simple example is stop the group

00:30:36.660 the doom scrolling i'm not suggesting that there's not wrong things going on in the world

00:30:43.220 but but this obsession with um you know trying to find every little problem in the world and

00:30:48.580 thinking that you know you yourself can fix it or just you're complaining about it is going to

00:30:52.420 do anything about it a little boy fell on a well in new hampshire nothing i can do about that but

00:31:01.060 what i can do is take care of what's right in front of me and it's where we put our focus that

00:31:06.020 matters so we don't just drift into piety we have to kind of discipline ourselves into it

00:31:19.060 i don't have to be loud i'd be reactionary but we have to be as restorative

00:31:26.580 it's arriving with the right mindset

00:31:30.900 it's arriving knowing where you fit in the structure of all things

00:31:36.020 Again, we don't see our gods as equals.

00:31:39.900 We don't see ourselves and we each other as human beings are not equals.

00:31:45.720 There is hierarchy that does exist.

00:31:49.200 How you choose to address that hierarchy rests largely on yourself.

00:31:55.800 I've used several examples here.

00:31:59.220 And I'm willing to open the floor up to questions and maybe some conversation with Mr. Flayville.

00:32:06.020 All right. Well, let's get to some of the questions we've gotten. Before we get to that, Gilbert donated $150 towards Folk Services. Thank you for that, Gilbert. And also $150 towards the heat at Thorshoff.

00:32:20.580 Much appreciated.

00:32:25.820 Rachel donated $40 to Folk Services. Thank you, Rachel. And Stephen donated $10 to Folk Services. Thank you. We appreciate that.

00:32:36.020 We got a continuation of the earlier topic on a couple of questions, and we need to get it out of the way so we can move on to other things.

00:32:51.660 So I want to assure people we'll answer any questions that we get, but also not going to derail the whole show and stop people mid-presentation to answer demanding questions.

00:33:06.020 So I finally see what they're talking about, about the New York's off thing.

00:33:12.120 Let me see where they're they're putting it here.

00:33:14.180 I think they've conflated things or there was some confusion.

00:33:17.140 So you both are saying that Jason from No White Guilt didn't send you a guy with a degenerate background that later applied to the AFA.

00:33:26.240 And now you're paying him back with interest.

00:33:30.440 There's a number of things that are kind of mixed up there, but no, that's not what we're saying.

00:33:34.040 What was asked was, did a child predator substantially help us pay off New York's off?

00:33:41.340 That's not true. And I'd never heard that. No. Turns out the guy that was sent to us well after we made the deal with him to borrow the money for New York's off.

00:33:52.080 Turns out that guy's a homosexual. Later, he did apply for membership in the AFA and we rejected his membership because him being a homosexual makes him not eligible to be a member. 0.77

00:34:02.680 that absolutely happened and nobody's denying that was followed up by is it pious to lie about 0.58

00:34:09.360 where the money from yortsov came from nobody's ever lied about that not at all this is the first

00:34:15.360 time that you asked and i gave you an answer um we're not still paying him off though that

00:34:22.840 yortsov has been paid off for quite some time um yes there was interest because it was a

00:34:27.480 a commercial loan um or i don't know if commercial loans the right word for it it was a commercial

00:34:33.920 transaction through loan i think it may again i'm not sure i think there's a legal thing with

00:34:39.560 what a commercial loan is or isn't but uh yeah this person loaned us money um the variety of

00:34:47.260 people at the bank that would loan us money that are any number of things but yeah the guy that 0.83

00:34:54.000 was sent to us turns out that guy was in fact homosexual. And when he applied, we said, 0.70

00:35:01.160 no, you cannot join because you're homosexual. And that was not pleasing to him. And I doubt 0.95

00:35:06.340 he would lend us money in the future because of that circumstance. The other question was

00:35:13.440 to follow up the first one, what would you do if you found out that it was factually correct that

00:35:19.200 the money was given from a convicted sex offender, how would that be handled? And I want to be

00:35:25.600 completely honest. Yes, I realize that the answer that a particular crowd would like would be,

00:35:31.780 ah, we'd just give it all back. But realistically, probably wouldn't do that. Probably wouldn't go

00:35:36.280 back in and take out a loan or whatever to pay back a substantial portion of money that was

00:35:43.140 already paid to purchase a Hoff for us. No, we would never knowingly let those people

00:35:51.840 be involved with us. And we certainly wouldn't seek out a business arrangement with those

00:35:55.860 people. We have no idea the background of many of our donors. That's not really what

00:36:00.300 we check for donation. We accept their donation and say thank you and buy Hoffs and pay off

00:36:06.720 offs. That's a big hypothetical, but no, we don't start looking for where donated money

00:36:13.980 comes on that. That wouldn't be a responsible thing to do in my opinion. We have some other

00:36:24.280 questions unrelated though. I was reading from Caleb. I was reading the book, The Serpent

00:36:35.820 and the eagle and i saw there's a reference to christians wanting the end of the world while

00:36:41.900 european folk religion seeks to postpone it do you think this is correct do you think this applies

00:36:47.580 at all to the accelerationism or to accelerationism and if so how daniel what are your thoughts on that

00:36:55.660 well i i think so i think there's some merit to that and by the way that's a great book um

00:37:00.780 i highly recommend it but i think there's some merit there i don't know about accelerating

00:37:06.140 toward you know the cataclysmic end of all things that we understand and know but i do think there's

00:37:12.700 like a a certain amount of you know it doesn't matter what happens in this life anyway so you

00:37:18.220 know my reward is in heaven whereas you know european religiosity is always trying to stave

00:37:27.020 off the wolf trying to stave off that that which consumes everything i think there's a clear

00:37:33.420 distinction to be made there and i know it wasn't part of the question but i think that this uh this

00:37:40.700 very concept this very thought uh the universal abrahamic religion that that has swept the globe

00:37:48.540 over the last 1500 or more years is part of the root cause of our soul sickness

00:37:57.020 yeah i think it's um real fundamental and something that our founder steve mcdallin

00:38:07.180 uh talked about was how abrahamic faiths and honestly with it um a number of eastern faiths

00:38:15.740 uh like hinduism okay in my understanding of a lot of forms of hinduism and buddhism and

00:38:22.220 in my understanding are world rejecting uh and also true is world

00:38:31.580 life rejecting and life embracing i think or world embracing we're about making the best

00:38:39.820 of the life that we have and using the life in the world the life we have in the world that surrounds

00:38:45.180 us um as a as a medium to to live our values to accomplish to succeed to build reputation to

00:38:59.740 to do things so we're not trying to escape some horrible existence for something better

00:39:06.220 we're trying to make the best out of what we have in this life and

00:39:09.660 And that does become very different.

00:39:13.480 I think it expresses itself differently in the other faiths, but the idea that life is bad, the world is bad, and we need to just endure this horrible slog to get something better, I do think that idea played out in a lot of ways.

00:39:39.660 i think it gives root to accelerationism i think we hear we hear accelerationism in terms of

00:39:45.740 politics a lot and i think that that does i think it builds on one another um

00:39:55.580 like i think in a way there's a number of sects of christianity that practice a

00:40:02.140 spiritual accelerationism but not really in that kind of a negative sense but more

00:40:07.340 where they have to accomplish certain things before their end times scenario starts to play out.

00:40:16.320 Those witnesses, for example, they're really big on the idea that before the new system and before Jesus can come back,

00:40:25.540 that the gospel needs to be preached in all the corners of the world.

00:40:28.640 So that's a big thing that's behind their extensive preaching mission.

00:40:33.340 There's other Christian sects that we've seen throughout time, especially when you get around points, points where they're expecting the end times that came around, you know, the millennium, it came around the, you know, the first millennium.

00:40:50.840 It comes around a number of those dates. When that starts to happen, you do have certain people that feel like they need to put things in place to hasten that or to hurry up and facilitate their end time scenario.

00:41:04.260 And I think that absolutely plays in. And I think that concept expresses itself politically by some people as well.

00:41:11.360 i think further to expand on that is that a lot of the uh concept of you know this life and the

00:41:20.600 next when it comes to the uh you know the christian idea is that everything is everything

00:41:28.280 that we do now doesn't matter up until the moment of death up until the moment of everything that

00:41:34.140 you did up until that moment where your body stops breathing is erased or is it with the

00:41:39.600 aryan spirituality and aryan religiosity we're thinking ahead we're thinking about generations

00:41:44.800 that follow us and i i think that's a lot of what you see going on in the west is like

00:41:51.440 this idea of you know let's just ruin the planet for the sake of profit because

00:41:55.280 we're not going to inherit it anyway we're going to heaven and who cares who comes behind us

00:42:03.120 that's funny because i see that different now i see a lot of that is people who are genuinely

00:42:08.000 atheists and when you find a certain a certain segment of modern nihilistic atheists that don't

00:42:17.360 have children and really have no investment in the future yeah they're out to just get whatever they

00:42:22.800 can get whoever they hurt be damned um but i think we do see that at different times of not really

00:42:30.560 giving a lot of thought about the damage done to the world around them or future generations

00:42:35.360 because you know their their salvation is coming and then they don't got to worry about it and i

00:42:43.120 noticed again not in a sinister way but well in the time that i was with jehovah's witnesses that

00:42:49.600 was a thing like they fully expected they have a thing where their end time scenario started

00:42:58.640 at least this was what they were preaching in the 90s that it started in 1914 and that some

00:43:05.120 segment of people who were alive then would be alive for you know for the second coming basically

00:43:12.240 and so i can remember in like 99 2000 they were having people take out loans they couldn't pay

00:43:18.560 back and make real irresponsible decisions because hey they're not gonna have to pay

00:43:23.520 back because jesus is coming like next week so you know and and that was you know i think

00:43:31.920 with with the distance of time we can see how that was real erroneous um

00:43:41.440 nick in washington donated fifty dollars towards the heat at thorsoff thank you nick

00:43:46.080 much appreciated appreciate that guys thank you you guys have been particularly generous

00:43:51.040 on the thorsoff uh heating situation um that's much appreciated and uh gonna go a long way so

00:43:58.720 So thank you guys for that.

00:44:09.640 Must all donors or lenders go through an application process?

00:44:13.360 Would these people demand that we background check an entire bank branch?

00:44:17.920 Probably.

00:44:19.180 And again, I don't necessarily fault whoever's asking on the show tonight.

00:44:22.480 They may not know any better.

00:44:23.520 But I think the people that are stirring the misinformation or the partial information plot on that, sure, they would ask us to do any of those things as long as it could potentially embarrass or damage us, because I think that's really kind of the goal.

00:44:39.900 But no, nobody needs to go through some kind of a vetting process to donate money.

00:44:45.120 That's absurd and counterproductive.

00:44:47.700 um hey there question for the show tonight what are some good ways to cultivate faith

00:44:57.600 and piety particularly in someone who tends to be more inclined towards skepticism due to bad

00:45:04.780 past experiences with other religions thanks what are your thoughts well i think i think one of the

00:45:12.900 most direct ways to do that and let me frame this a little bit in my answer i can see how someone

00:45:18.960 you know came from you know some negative experiences in their previous expression of

00:45:23.200 religiosity or perhaps coming at this from a atheistic standpoint that they can see our gods

00:45:30.020 as something abstract and something that's you know intangible is something that can't be touched

00:45:34.520 and to and to a degree they're not incorrect in that but they're not they're not abstract

00:45:40.740 And our interactions with them don't work the same way as they would with Christ or Yahweh or whatever.

00:45:50.600 But I think the most tangible way to be able to learn to approach this religion with an overarching piety is our ancestors.

00:46:02.040 um i think you know in the household specifically uh that daily ancestor veneration

00:46:11.100 at least regular ancestor veneration should kind of take the forefront

00:46:16.600 and that's something that's tangible that's you know people that you knew you were looking at the

00:46:22.140 result of their life's effort they survived thrived loved reproduced so you you look in

00:46:32.380 the mirror every day and you were looking at their you know like the the pages of a book

00:46:36.360 it's the story of your ancestral line it's kind of like i was talking about before is that you

00:46:42.520 know even like the seemingly mundane you know how we carry ourselves how we present ourselves how

00:46:47.180 we interact with others does that does that play out in a way that reflects the values that your

00:46:53.100 ancestors would have held dear so rather than just seeing the gods as something abstract i think

00:47:02.120 another way of looking at is our gods are our eldest ancestors and we see that in the story

00:47:08.100 of creation and a lot of the story of creation too is you know spoken in metaphors but there

00:47:15.920 clues within the metaphors odin and his brothers found you know two trees ask an embla ash and elm

00:47:26.080 and they were without soul they were without root and then they were given consciousness they were

00:47:31.840 given breath they were given spirit they were given goodly hue they were given sacrality

00:47:37.600 That's telling a story there

00:47:40.500 That when the first man and woman

00:47:43.560 Whether they're allegory or not

00:47:46.520 It could be the first generation of people of our race

00:47:50.140 Came to be aware of and conscious of the gods

00:47:53.780 They began to take root

00:47:55.700 They began to blossom

00:47:58.400 They began to become who they are

00:48:01.100 Who they were intended to be

00:48:02.900 so that's how we can kind of tie in with our our gods being specifically odin and his brothers

00:48:12.220 being our most ancient ancestors and there's there's examples of this that play out play

00:48:16.120 throughout play out throughout uh etic lore and we see that in the lay of rig when again

00:48:25.040 there's metaphors here somewhat allegories where you know it's great grandmother and

00:48:32.100 great-grandfather and i don't see that as two couples i see that as a generation you know they

00:48:36.980 they were didn't have a lot of bread they didn't have much more than just some warm soup to offer

00:48:43.640 rig heimdall in his human form but what happened was they invited them into their home they invited

00:48:51.060 the divine into their home and then the next generation was a little bit further along

00:48:55.980 became, you know, much more like the warrior class of our folk.

00:49:01.840 And then that class invited the Aesir, the divine, into their home.

00:49:07.380 And then there was this steady march toward nobility.

00:49:15.140 So anyway, to answer your question in its simplest forms,

00:49:19.060 I think everything begins with ancestor worship.

00:49:22.040 And then that which seemingly is abstract starts to become less and less abstract.

00:49:38.660 Sorry about that. I was muted there. Yeah, I think there's a variety of right answers to that question, depending on the person.

00:49:44.820 And I think Daniel hit on most of them, but his first point, and I think this is true, especially for somebody starting from atheism or from kind of a clean slate but skeptical.

00:50:14.820 is just what he said ancestor veneration your ancestors are real you knew them probably some

00:50:24.520 of them that you are would be venerating you know factually the other ones of them existed at one

00:50:30.800 time that positions you a little bit better and a little bit closer to build that relationship

00:50:36.860 and to work on that slowly over time as far as piety and relationship with the gods though

00:50:43.980 So the biggest, this isn't so much a roadmap as kind of a prerequisites to have in mind to facilitate meaningful experience that way.

00:51:01.560 You need to have a certain openness.

00:51:03.200 I think that when you, first, you're not going to fool the gods by pretending that you are more pious than you are, or by claiming a greater level of belief than you have.

00:51:19.460 But I think there's a value in approaching your altar or bloat with others or whatever you're doing, understanding that you're skeptical and you haven't developed the piety yet, but knowing and genuinely meaning that you honestly want to.

00:51:37.100 one of the, you know, opening things I'd suggest someone does at their altar is just going there

00:51:45.140 with an open heart, an open mind and making an offering and saying that, you know, Hey,

00:51:53.100 I'm here. I don't, I don't know if you exist or not. I don't know if you hear me, but I hope that

00:52:00.340 you do. And if you do hear and I'm listening and I'm open, I think a long, lots done by being

00:52:08.400 open-handed that way and open-hearted and just seeing. But if you're so skeptical when you go

00:52:15.480 in and you don't consciously suspend your skepticism, you make it much, much harder for

00:52:22.160 subtle influences to take hold and for you to really get a meaningful experience. And I think

00:52:30.040 also going in without, part of that openness is not having particular expectation. If you go in

00:52:37.140 demanding, I'm going to make this offering, I'm going to offer up some mead, and then the heavens

00:52:41.120 are going to open, and the gods are going to speak to me, and that's a big ask, and that's

00:52:46.960 probably not going to be what happens. So I think going in there without expectation, but just with

00:52:53.900 openness and being hopeful that goes a long way but also something that we've talked about tonight

00:53:01.280 quite a bit is building the habit of it like anything else if it's not something that comes

00:53:08.960 natural to you and you're naturally acquainted with it's something that you need to make a point

00:53:13.260 of doing you make a pattern and habit of doing going before your altar saying a prayer making

00:53:21.900 an offering do that and give it some time give it an honest shot to uh see what happens and i like

00:53:30.860 i said i think one of the the freeing things for a lot of people is you don't have to be dishonest

00:53:35.580 you don't have to you don't your opening your opening offering isn't complete and total devotion

00:53:43.180 and belief in these gods no you can start from where you are you can admit that you're skeptical

00:53:51.900 and you can work from there in an honest way.

00:53:55.180 And I think that's the best way to go.

00:53:57.680 I think, too, acknowledging our place in the structure of things.

00:54:04.360 If you hadn't already taken that step,

00:54:07.180 at least you wouldn't even be open to the idea of worship,

00:54:12.240 the idea of faith.

00:54:15.940 Building that habit where we approach divinity,

00:54:20.780 with that open heart is also an act of sacrality and an act of

00:54:25.640 devotion. Even if you haven't established that relationship,

00:54:29.640 you establish that relationship through experience.

00:54:33.460 Be that at your home altar or be that joining other folk

00:54:37.440 in reverent devotion to the Iseer, whether that's through bloat, through samba.

00:54:44.240 And some of these things

00:54:45.360 begin to look very familiar to you.

00:54:47.280 and

00:54:48.580 I experienced this

00:54:52.540 in 2019

00:54:54.300 the first event that I ever met

00:54:58.360 Mr. Flabel at

00:54:59.320 up to that point

00:55:02.040 the gods hadn't revealed

00:55:04.460 themselves to me

00:55:05.440 but whenever I got

00:55:07.580 I was in the bloat circle

00:55:10.260 experiencing that gift cycle

00:55:14.220 in a very powerful

00:55:16.200 and palpable tangible way and and the light bulb kind of came on i can't promise that's exactly how

00:55:24.340 it happens for everybody but it is an increasingly common story um i've discussed this with mr

00:55:31.060 flabel several times you know as a gothy uh there are few things more rewarding than seeing that

00:55:37.000 aha moment happen when when like you know again the light bulb kind of comes on and like whoa

00:55:43.900 this is real. And that happens with varying degrees of

00:55:47.820 I don't want to say severity, but I can't think of another word at the moment, but

00:55:51.540 varying degrees of palatable

00:55:56.080 awesomeness. But it does happen if you open

00:55:59.840 yourself up to it. It won't happen if you don't.

00:56:08.000 Yeah, and that looks different for everybody.

00:56:09.880 Like I said at the outside of the question, there's no one size fits all answer

00:56:13.820 but I think those things will lead you in the right direction.

00:56:19.020 Tyler in New Hampshire donated $100 towards the Thor's Hoffie.

00:56:23.440 Thank you, Tyler. We appreciate you.

00:56:29.180 Speaking of Jason and no white guilt,

00:56:32.240 what are your thoughts on his go free methods and his use of the terms

00:56:37.960 anti-white and anti-white-ism as a way to combat the injustices happening to our race.

00:56:45.660 Daniel, what are your thoughts on the no-white guilt concept and language?

00:56:53.880 I don't have any thoughts, really. I don't follow Jason's stuff. I'm aware of it.

00:57:01.880 But I think that there's certainly some merit in using terminology like anti-white. 0.99

00:57:07.960 And let's call things what they are. Again, you know, this truth is one of our virtues. 0.96

00:57:14.180 You know, we're talking about virtues that we live our lives by.

00:57:16.360 But I think seeing treachery and calling it out and calling it for what it is, is, you know, another example of, you know, right action. 1.00

00:57:25.320 I think that's something that should be expected of anybody who's Caucasian and is traditionally minded.

00:57:31.740 You know, we see the we see the world. We see what's going on.

00:57:35.040 And no one on this program is going to tell you to just totally turn a blind eye to it.

00:57:39.800 We got here because of a severance, you know, a severing of that invisible tissue between us and our gods and goddesses.

00:57:51.480 We got here because we accepted universalist poison millennia ago.

00:57:59.060 And that's that's permeated throughout the West.

00:58:01.460 And so what we've been seeing in the world playing out the way it is, whether it's, you know, random people getting killed on train cars and stuff like that, all that is a result because of this idea that we can all live as one, that we accept this doctrine of equality or we accept this doctrine of your race doesn't even matter.

00:58:24.920 And I was pointing out earlier about the, you know, the idea of Christianity, you know, being like, you know, a form of universalism that has permeated and affected the soul of, I would say, every man and woman on the earth, you know, not just our own people.

00:58:42.700 but uh it's played out a lot in our in our own uh in our own bloodlines uh i think it was in the

00:58:49.500 book of galatians where christ is i'm sorry not christ but i believe it was uh either peter or

00:58:55.020 paul so there'll come a point where it won't matter if you're if you're jew or if you're

00:59:01.260 a gentile that you'll all be you know united as you know a child of god or a child of christ

00:59:07.260 think about the language behind that that's literally the erasure of culture the erasure

00:59:16.200 of ethnic identity and it's being encouraged in our holy book um so i i again i think using those

00:59:23.640 words like anti-white and and calling that out when you see it i think is expected of uh our folk 0.95

00:59:31.860 um yeah uh so i'm not really up on his latest stuff i think the

00:59:43.260 there are things about the no white guilt go free deal that i that i like and i think that um

00:59:54.240 being being very intentional about the words we use is also really important so i think that's

01:00:05.400 i think that's good insofar as he's trying to reframe the argument by not buying into their

01:00:14.980 words and by utilizing words that he feels are independently

01:00:20.640 um like independently meaningful and something that he came up with instead of falling into

01:00:29.520 like name calling or what the their preconceptions of words mean i think that's really important and

01:00:36.240 something we should all think about more than than i think we do one thing that i i

01:00:44.240 I hate to put this on Jason because I have no idea if this is something that's directly

01:00:52.140 his doing or just something that I found very, very common with the followers of his that

01:00:59.940 we've interacted with.

01:01:03.580 Going around demanding that other grown people use your very, very specific set of terms

01:01:11.640 that you came up with, I don't think has the effect that they want. I think it pushes people

01:01:19.700 away and irritates people and causes a resentment and a backlash. I know that some of the people

01:01:24.900 that I've known that were really involved in that or really interested in that a number of years ago

01:01:32.220 were just completely off-putting socially with their demands that everyone use their special

01:01:39.920 terminology but i think you know being very cautious and rejecting the buy-in to their

01:01:46.000 existing terminology is real important uh so so yeah being cautious what we say i think

01:01:54.160 labeling things that are clearly anti-white as anti-white is a legitimate thing to do um

01:02:01.440 yeah i think there's a lot of good concepts it's more with the like extreme trying to push those

01:02:08.800 concepts on all the rest of us that i've seen with some of his followers that was kind of

01:02:12.880 disturbing other than that i think i think the concept's a really good one from what i know of it

01:02:19.360 um is there a uniform bloat structure for all hoffs currently in use by the afa

01:02:25.520 or is it up to each hoff to decide how bloat is offered um yes there's

01:02:30.880 so yes there's a unified bloat structure i think that certain bloats and certain things there's

01:02:40.000 there's room for for customization and different hafs i'd say more so than different hafs different

01:02:48.000 occasions call for for alterations to that structure but there is a standard bloat structure

01:02:55.920 throughout the astro folk assembly and there's also very specific things that make it count as

01:03:01.680 a bloat or not beyond those we do absolutely encourage people to add to that structure or to

01:03:11.120 flesh it out with things that are very specific to the occasion

01:03:15.280 but there is a basic bloat structure that's that's held in common throughout the afa

01:03:20.000 um lords france has a reputation as a place of healing do you think this is accurate if so

01:03:30.800 do you think this is yahweh or a land spirit doing the healing what are your thoughts on that

01:03:36.860 that's the first i'm hearing of that um without knowing any real detail on it i would probably

01:03:45.560 ascribe that more to uh spirit of the land uh gods of the folk that live there uh our gods

01:03:55.780 aren't necessarily locked into one geographical area but our gods certainly you know follow their

01:04:00.800 people or their people follow them or wherever we are they are um it very well could be that

01:04:08.480 acts of sacrality have been occurring there for millennia and that that energy is palpable and

01:04:17.200 it can pass on from generation to generation and perhaps that is a place where people have flocked

01:04:21.520 to for as long as there have been people in that area um for ritual healing

01:04:26.000 um yeah it's it's an interesting question so yes i think that you know most of these mystical

01:04:41.440 places i don't suggest that nothing happens um and i'll extend that i think that places of

01:04:49.120 a lot of different religions pilgrimages where they claim to have miraculous people

01:04:54.840 or they claim to have any number of blessings there.

01:05:00.060 I'm not out to suggest those things don't exist or don't happen.

01:05:05.760 The legitimacy of Al-Satru is not built on other religions being illegitimate. 0.90

01:05:15.100 Now, a certain animosity towards Abrahamism is inherent 0.66

01:05:19.180 because the premise of that religion is to deny the divinity of our gods

01:05:24.500 and to very punitively go against the practice of our faith.

01:05:33.560 So we have to have a certain stance towards that in a general way, at least towards those doctrines.

01:05:40.020 But I'm not saying that there's no healing that goes on there.

01:05:43.880 That could very well be those saints from beyond the veil having the ability to affect their worshipers.

01:05:53.560 could very well be land spirits. We don't preclude that there's other spiritual forces

01:06:00.640 in the world that aren't our gods. But yeah, I don't think we need to disprove or invalidate

01:06:11.080 that. And I think it would kind of be foolish to do so. Those things are well attested that 0.96

01:06:15.040 something special does happen there. And like I said, there are lots of spiritual powers at play

01:06:21.460 in the world around us and in the realms beyond our sight.

01:06:28.440 I think a good modern example that we could see play out

01:06:32.440 through the lens of Alcetree is if you haven't ever been

01:06:37.780 to Odenshof in California.

01:06:42.320 So that Hof was open in 2015,

01:06:47.080 and there had been ritual action taking place there

01:06:50.700 on at least on a monthly basis probably more uh you know for the last over a decade now

01:06:59.000 and i and i would bet you the minute that you set foot on that property that the energy there is

01:07:05.100 palpable it just feels different and and i do think certain places get imbued with that kind

01:07:11.960 energy through the acts of sacred ritual action that that occur there on a regular basis now and

01:07:21.320 again i'm not proposing that's the case with this uh this place in france but i'd be willing to bet

01:07:26.760 you it probably has something to do with that because if you look at like where stave churches

01:07:32.280 and stuff are now like in norway those places were intentionally placed there there was at least at

01:07:37.400 one time uh a place sacred to the pre-christian civilization that lived there and they would

01:07:44.600 black without planet church there

01:07:51.160 and i think that all of those things factor in um

01:07:57.240 again like i say i the efficacy of ouster true doesn't depend on other faiths being

01:08:03.160 ineffective or not being real this is just the right faith for our folk

01:08:11.960 another question and i don't this is an odd question it's a good rhetorical but i don't know

01:08:22.360 where we go as an answer but i'll go ahead and throw it to you first daniel if our folk were

01:08:28.360 judged not by what we say we believe, but by our daily

01:08:32.320 actions, what would the gods see?

01:08:37.220 It's interesting you should ask that, because that's quite literally

01:08:40.320 the premise of my talk today.

01:08:44.600 Words are just wind without action, right? That's where the

01:08:47.720 Hoff motto, words are wind, deeds are iron, comes from.

01:08:52.220 If we preach strength, but we live in a way that's sluggardly.

01:08:55.860 well what we said don't really mean much or if we you know we preach you know we preach friff but

01:09:03.040 we tolerate gossip our actions don't match our words so i i think that's the best way to look

01:09:10.880 at this and i think we could quite literally close the conversation on that very question

01:09:16.520 you know if our words say one thing but our deeds say another how would our ancestors judge us and

01:09:23.060 That should be a daily question for the individual, for us as a collective.

01:09:30.060 Yeah, a million percent.

01:09:32.060 Like, there's no answer to that question because with the individual, it would, any specific answer, you know, would vary with the individual.

01:09:40.720 But that's one thing that I make a point of whenever I'm giving gloat is I invite the gods, the ancestors, and the Lanveteer to hear us, to know us, to hear our words, and to judge our needs.

01:10:04.700 And I invite that.

01:10:06.400 um i don't as i said earlier we're not going to fool the gods um i think that it is

01:10:18.680 certainly disrespectful to think that we could but it's of such a scale that it's almost comical

01:10:25.520 to think that we can't fool the gods gods know better i think that we are and again the gods

01:10:35.240 can judge us however they like by whatever metric they choose to use. But I have to believe that

01:10:44.080 it's better to be honest and to actually be the people we say we are than to knowingly

01:10:53.340 be dishonest about the people we claim to be and then not have the actions to back up those claims.

01:11:00.140 I also think that something we all know is it's way easier to say a thing or claim a hypothetical or to claim to believe something than to act in a way in the real world where there is consequence that demonstrates the seriousness of the thing you say.

01:11:18.640 It's always much harder in real life.

01:11:22.180 And I think that gods see that and know that.

01:11:24.240 So, yeah, gods are watching and the ancestors are watching.

01:11:30.140 And just as importantly, just as importantly, our children are watching.

01:11:35.480 Yes.

01:11:38.620 And we're all at various stages in that in that continual process.

01:11:44.240 If anyone were to profess to you that they are at the end stages of that process of becoming that, you know, that complete version of themselves, you know, through piety,

01:11:56.680 through doing the right thing every single time no matter what if they tell you that they are done

01:12:02.520 with that they are lying to you and those are charlatans because that is an ongoing lifelong

01:12:07.720 process so you mentioned something earlier and to harken back to it you talked about the people

01:12:16.360 that you know chest thump about how they wouldn't kneel before the gods right this is one of those

01:12:23.640 things. Yeah, you would. Like if you, if a real, one of our real existent gods manifested before

01:12:36.720 you and you were in his presence, you wouldn't take a knee. You think that you would stand

01:12:43.480 toe to toe with a God. I don't think you genuinely think that if you actually believe in the gods,

01:12:51.860 I think you say that if you're trying to impress your homies at the bar or whatever you're doing, but that doesn't wash out with somebody who genuinely believes in the gods.

01:13:05.980 A lot of the flakiness that we so often see, a lot of those people wouldn't act that way if they had a sincere belief in the gods.

01:13:15.900 And again, don't pretend that you have belief in the gods if you don't.

01:13:21.860 But know where you are, know who you are, know where you're starting from and be honest, be honest with yourself, with those around you and with the gods.

01:13:31.280 And if you're honest and you're open and willing to work on yourself, there's room for improvements.

01:13:37.040 If you can't be honest with yourself, then you don't have the opportunity to grow and to seize chances for growth because you're busy, you know, trying to live a fantasy.

01:13:52.700 So it's real different when actions come into play.

01:13:55.400 That's why in Alcetru, it's always been such an important refrain that we are our deeds.

01:14:04.140 I think, too, and again, I don't mean to go off on a tangent, Mr. Flavel, but I think there are certain ways that have been commonly, there are certain ways people have commonly viewed our gods, specifically in modern Alcatraz.

01:14:25.000 um some as matt you know just said that they you know view it as something abstract something

01:14:33.760 that's not real intangible then you have another sect of people that like to view this specifically

01:14:38.000 through a historical lens that's still not the same as believing in the existence of real gods

01:14:43.660 that if it specifically is if a god is just a uh a character in your in your history

01:14:51.140 book that's not really a god that's just a character but i instead of just freezing them

01:14:59.440 in a particular time in a specific space and only viewing them through that one lens i think

01:15:07.600 is i don't think it's intentional impiety uh but it's still impiety you know our gods are real

01:15:15.240 they are living they exist now they're not just locked in a place in the past they're not just

01:15:19.520 locked in that book that you read indeed um are there there are any particular rules to how an

01:15:34.160 ausitru altar should be set up should the altar be facing a certain direction should there be a main

01:15:40.640 statue of odin um no there are no

01:15:48.800 yes it should be pious and respectful um outside of it being respectful and pious

01:15:57.920 there's no specific um orientation or specific rules to it i'll talk a little bit more about it

01:16:06.560 but daniel do you have any any insights in astro altar setup um all the things you just said but i

01:16:15.200 think set up with intention also matters if having them face to the north means something to you or

01:16:22.800 have it where it's oriented where you're facing in the north that if that adds meaning to you

01:16:26.480 then do it that way um but i think doing so in a devotional and reverent way it is chief among

01:16:33.040 what the requirements are um some people use incense some people use candles all those things

01:16:42.160 are not wrong answers but doing so in a way that's like meaningful and and with intention

01:16:49.120 i think that matters more than anything else yes intentionality is everything um

01:16:57.360 so

01:17:01.700 i know that traditionally a lot of people will try to orient them to where they're facing north

01:17:10.160 um again it depends on why you're doing that i think originally that was done

01:17:20.640 to reference that we are we are a northern we are a polar tradition coming out of coming out

01:17:32.620 of that coming out of the pole some people orient north as a reference to staying true being

01:17:39.180 oriented towards the pole star there are other people that will orient an altar you know if

01:17:46.460 If you're specifically erecting an altar for the Austra that's coming up, the goddess of the east, the dawn, maybe you orient it to the east and to the sunrise.

01:17:58.460 I know that at funerals often it will be facing the west and the setting sun. 0.92

01:18:07.460 That's how we orient gravestones in the Astro Folk Assemblies.

01:18:14.140 We typically orient those to where when you're facing the stone, you're facing the setting stone.

01:18:20.700 The intention behind it, and that was a lot.

01:18:23.880 So everybody's altar is pretty unique on the things that they put on it.

01:18:27.300 Very often you have statues or idols of the gods.

01:18:33.300 Sometimes people have those like little framed pictures.

01:18:37.460 Other times are little statues. Candles are often there. A spot to burn incense, something to make, you know, a drink offering to, to pour out mead or a shot or whatever else.

01:18:59.720 i think those are also very common to have there um depends whether you have you do your ancestor

01:19:07.720 veneration at the same place you venerate the gods if so pictures of your ancestors or

01:19:15.800 maybe heirlooms and things that remind you of your ancestors are also good things put there

01:19:21.400 there's a whole lot of right ways to do that and that's gonna have to do with you the intention

01:19:26.360 of why you're doing the things you're doing and also you know just kind of the setup of

01:19:31.160 your house and what the logistics are of the spot that you choose

01:19:37.960 ah question i see all these attacks are and you are very transparent in your removal of degenerate

01:19:46.360 individuals what was the nature of the reason you removed the person who funded the down payment

01:19:51.320 on york's off why was he removed so um just a couple of clarifications he wasn't removed he

01:19:59.000 was never a member there was a guy that loaned us the initial money to make the payment on the hof 0.52

01:20:06.200 and then we repaid that loan but he was denied membership altogether because he was a homosexual 0.88

01:20:16.280 so it was he still is as far as i know 0.61

01:20:18.760 I noticed almost all the focus out to organizations and circles seem to hate the AFA and make

01:20:29.600 accusations against the AFA. Why do you think that is? Jealousy because the AFA is successful?

01:20:36.940 Daniel, go ahead and take a swing at that first. 0.70

01:20:39.820 yes um i've heard some some ridiculous things in in my time not only as a member in the afa but

01:20:50.600 you know my time is leadership like uh matt's a fed why because he's combs his hair and wears a

01:20:57.960 tie anything successful has to be something nefarious to some of these some of these people

01:21:03.820 this is an example of that that soul sickness that you know success is viewed as something negative

01:21:08.860 and it's something to be jealous or envious of.

01:21:14.380 There's a healthy jealousy.

01:21:15.800 There's a healthy envy.

01:21:17.260 But this type of jealousy and envy is just unhealthy.

01:21:20.840 And I think it's a clear-cut example of the kind of thing

01:21:24.180 that we're talking about when we're addressing soul sickness.

01:21:27.060 Anything successful has to be nefarious.

01:21:31.020 Yeah, there's a couple things.

01:21:32.600 there's this um i think we get multiple doses of it i think amongst quote unquote paganism

01:21:44.440 there's a big crab in the bucket effect and i think in you know white positive or

01:21:56.200 racially aware white people space there's also a tremendous amount of crab in the bucketism

01:22:02.600 there is so much failure that people are used to and so much trauma i think that they're used to

01:22:11.160 by being let down that anything that succeeds or any amount of success is immediately must be

01:22:19.640 nefarious must be you know must be a scam must be something um and i think there is a

01:22:29.960 very strong drive by often very damaged people to consistently pull everyone back down to their

01:22:39.880 level so that nobody's able to succeed and i do think that's what a lot of it's about one

01:22:45.720 of the other things that i think is a big point is in the world of focus house are true

01:22:51.480 anything that was originally parallel to the afa in some way like had their own origin their own

01:23:02.040 independent existence those things either merged with the afa over time or fell by the wayside

01:23:09.640 so in the world of focus house to true now you almost exclusively have people who are you know

01:23:16.440 disgruntled former members and they get very upset when they see the afa is continuously successful

01:23:26.040 and they're not something else i've noticed is um a lot of those people when they leave or

01:23:34.680 they get angry or whatever their deal is they immediately think and again starting the day they

01:23:42.520 decide to quit because up till then they'll be big supporters of the afa but once they've decided

01:23:47.960 that they need to quit for whatever reason or if they were to get removed which happens so rarely

01:23:56.440 all of a sudden they build up a bunch of grievances as to why the afa is doing it wrong

01:24:03.720 and how you know they could all do it so much better and we don't really see that play out

01:24:10.920 and i think it does i think so i do think there's a lot of jealousy there the other thing that i

01:24:17.720 thinks in play is the afa are the ones doing things so they become like a

01:24:27.000 like a class of critics to where they're their focus and the easy thing for them to have

01:24:33.640 something to discuss is to criticize what the afa is doing as opposed to come up with

01:24:40.680 their own projects their own things to do and in doing so i think that they realize there's not a

01:24:48.680 lot like we we are in some of the same circles so in order for them to grow if they don't know how

01:24:58.840 to get um new people then their only way to grow is if they can break off people from the afa they

01:25:06.920 can spook them by you know talking about things that are embarrassing or scary or whatever to

01:25:13.160 make them leave the afa and then maybe you know the hope is that they'll join these other smaller

01:25:19.560 groups and that's unfortunate because all that holds us back and all that you know chips away

01:25:26.440 at momentum towards successful things for our gods and our folk and we can't win if we keep

01:25:32.680 breaking ourselves down into smaller and smaller groups i mean we can but it takes a whole lot

01:25:38.200 longer and it's a whole lot harder if all the people that were former members were truly honest

01:25:45.960 about why they're former members i think a lot of them would come back and i think that

01:25:52.920 if that happened and everybody who really should come back to the AFA did think we'd be so much

01:26:02.040 stronger and we could do really good things together and I hope that folks that suffer from

01:26:06.100 the soul sickness can find that healing and do that it's always it's always really special when

01:26:13.100 people come back and they do a lot actually recently so it's a nice thing myself being one

01:26:20.020 of them um you know again we were talking earlier about uh you know the the many being the memory

01:26:27.540 and the huger being the the rational mind uh another example of that that soul sickness is

01:26:34.780 irrational thinking um i hear this thing i don't like well you know what we're we're just done

01:26:41.580 you know uh and if you were to ask me why i quit as a matter of fact i called mr flavel

01:26:47.580 when i decided i wanted to come back and i was and we were only gone for six eight weeks something

01:26:53.420 like that called mr flavel at home and and this man didn't know me and you know asked him if it

01:27:00.540 was okay if i if i came back he graciously and you know obviously let me come back daniel what was

01:27:08.140 the problem i didn't even remember there was something that dumb apparently and to this day

01:27:15.500 i still don't remember what it was no some guy said that this guy said that and blah

01:27:20.620 instead of doing instead of going to the source and trying to figure out whatever the uh the

01:27:24.780 grievance was i just reacted and again a flaw a flaw of my own that uh you know i've since worked

01:27:35.260 on i'm not saying i'm perfect about it now but i but i think a lot of people just react and and

01:27:42.300 And they don't take time to, you know, go through these, you know, go through these thought processes in order to try to get to the source of the problem.

01:27:51.580 And Matt, I'm sorry if I'm hijacking.

01:27:53.980 I don't mean to.

01:27:55.720 You are our special guest.

01:27:57.160 You are the specialist of guests.

01:27:58.980 You can do whatever you want.

01:28:00.000 We're good.

01:28:00.280 Thank you, sir.

01:28:01.000 I think a lot of these things, too, stem down to, this is going to sound really dumb, but it just is what it is.

01:28:08.720 it's this not just reactionary stuff, 0.74

01:28:12.660 but a lot of times the grievances will build up out of politeness.

01:28:16.900 How many times have we seen that, Mr. Mack?

01:28:20.100 You know what?

01:28:20.780 I'm just going to be super polite about it,

01:28:22.580 and I'm not even going to worry about it.

01:28:23.700 And these things start to build.

01:28:24.660 So a lot, and it's funny that you mentioned.

01:28:27.220 So a lot, and that is kind of the origin story of this very show,

01:28:37.600 was people would get stirred up over whatever, you know, whatever perceived grievance they'd have,

01:28:46.260 but they were too polite to address it or too polite to ask a question.

01:28:51.820 So instead they would, you know, get mad and blow up or rage quit over something.

01:28:58.740 Often that was just a misunderstanding that they wouldn't ask a question about.

01:29:02.820 So it's like, it's not comfortable when people ask some of these questions.

01:29:08.480 but it is always very much encouraged and the reason i started doing this show is i want people

01:29:13.520 to you know ask the gen the genuine questions they have um i can accept if we end up disagreeing

01:29:22.480 but it's much harder to accept when i know that it would have worked out real different if we

01:29:26.960 just would have talked about it somebody would have just asked the question maybe got some

01:29:31.120 insight into why things were the way they are right and and i think out of that also out of

01:29:37.200 of that abundance of politeness and maybe not just including that but you know people will have a

01:29:43.200 conversation in their own head you know i heard matt said this thing and i'm gonna confront him

01:29:49.200 about it and i know what he's gonna say back to me and i'm gonna i'm gonna come back with this

01:29:52.800 and all of a sudden you've got this fight happening in your own head and it could be just as simple as

01:29:59.040 no that's not what happened oh okay i i've had those same conversations with this man

01:30:06.960 multiple times you know matt tell me about this or that and before i could react and you know and

01:30:13.760 again building up a narrative in my head and and reacting out of you know impulse and all that we

01:30:19.280 just you know like two adult men had a conversation and don't always like the explanation that's i

01:30:26.880 i don't think that's a requirement but i but i think at least accepting and understanding it

01:30:33.200 yeah absolutely and uh yeah so i continue to encourage questions here absolutely

01:30:39.520 uh joe in ohio donated ten dollars towards folk services thank you joe thank you and

01:30:46.160 tyler in new hampshire again donated an additional hundred dollars this time folk

01:30:52.720 services thank you tyler we appreciate you smooth tyler smooth tyler um

01:31:03.840 i saw the documentary made about your organization in murdoch uh that went viral

01:31:10.240 does that murdoch area against hate groups still harass your members no matter of fact doesn't um

01:31:18.240 um it's funny uh the lady who initially did a lot of the reporting there was quoted as saying

01:31:28.320 I've got a lot of people worked up about this so we had a reporter going around actively trying

01:31:35.340 to stir people up and um you know there was this Murdoch alliance against hate developed or whatever

01:31:44.460 and i never really saw a lot of that materialize i think there was a photo op with a small handful

01:31:50.620 of people at one point um but no one of the founders of that group came by as a matter of

01:31:58.060 fact and apologized to us and said you know they believed the hype and that were great people and

01:32:03.580 they were ashamed that that was something that they were part of um the community there's been

01:32:08.460 awesome they regularly will um you know make donations of of supplies and things to us

01:32:18.300 they'll leave nice little notes about what a blessing we are to have in the community

01:32:23.340 uh community members will come by and have coffee and uh and meet with us there uh it's it's been

01:32:31.660 really nice, and I would say it's been nice, especially in Murdoch, as far as the local

01:32:38.160 community members go on that.

01:32:45.340 Yeah, so that's really not a thing.

01:32:47.240 We actually had, it was the sweetest protest in the world.

01:32:53.540 So we had this thing. 0.61

01:32:54.680 I got an email from someone and so this is a female that said, you know, hey, I just want to let you know that I'm coming out there this weekend to protest you guys.

01:33:07.960 But I'm nonviolent. I don't wish you guys any harm. And I'm not trying to hurt anybody, but I want to go protest there.

01:33:14.240 I'm just letting you know. And, you know, I'll be there with my class. So I assume this was a college thing.

01:33:22.460 i assumed whatever when i asked like your class yeah it was her high school class and you know

01:33:32.460 it was cold and i said all right well if you guys get cold you know come on inside we'll get you

01:33:37.180 some hot chocolate we'll warm you guys up and you can go back out and it was you know we really

01:33:42.460 haven't had a problem in that community outside of you know the initial reporter trying to trying

01:33:48.460 to stir up issues honestly that uh that piece that you mentioned by the guardian that's

01:33:56.140 may have been the singus biggest single biggest recruitment tool for the afa that we've had so

01:34:01.820 far we've gotten many many members from that so that worked out very well for us in the end yes

01:34:09.980 it did um that's an interesting question can someone be devout in ritual but lacking in right

01:34:19.100 action what does that mean for their piety daniel the short answer is yes um again you know our

01:34:29.420 it's our actions that that count and it's not just our actions in in the ritual space it's not just

01:34:34.940 our actions and you know in a sacred enclosure um it's our daily stuff um

01:34:45.180 does that mean that somebody is not devout during ritual no but it also means they're not they're

01:34:52.380 not carrying that home with them they're not carrying that flame of uh nobility and piety

01:34:57.340 home with them and that that looks different from person to person and again you know assuming that

01:35:02.780 that people are at various stages of the process or regularly attending bloats.

01:35:09.640 You know, we see this a lot.

01:35:11.360 You know, some guys and girls show up thinking that it's, you know, something that it's not.

01:35:16.900 You know, this is a place to party and, you know, it's a place to bitch about everything that's wrong in the world

01:35:23.480 and we're going to go hail Thor.

01:35:26.820 Not really.

01:35:28.160 We are just here to give worship and exchange gifts with our gods.

01:35:32.160 and also fellowship together um and you know again look i i can only i can use myself as as

01:35:40.800 an example you know i was the guy that that showed up at uh that first austro where i met

01:35:45.020 mr flavell you know i'm wearing like a slayer shirt and some jeans and i saw how all the folks

01:35:51.560 were dressed and i was wow you know i need to do something about this and heather and i split went

01:35:57.460 walmart and went and grabbed you know a shirt and a tie and and stuff like that so these things become

01:36:02.420 contagious and a lot of times they don't have to be said they have to be spoken no one told me to

01:36:06.660 go change my clothes and again it's a small example i'm not suggesting that you just change your

01:36:11.860 clothes then you're pious it's not what i mean but it's an example of you know treating this with

01:36:17.380 the seriousness that it deserves and and again that wasn't done like matt didn't pull me to the

01:36:23.140 side or spawned it and pulled me to the side and told me I didn't go, you know, get myself cleaned

01:36:27.000 up or whatever. I just, the

01:36:30.140 influence of the social situation and the seriousness with which

01:36:34.900 the proceedings were taken, that rubs off.

01:36:39.560 But short answer to your question is

01:36:41.800 that you can show up and be devoted and still go home and be impious.

01:36:47.100 Yes, that is possible. But I think learning how

01:36:50.860 to have to carry that flame of piety and dignity home with you and applying it in your everyday

01:36:57.100 life i think is what matters so specifically lacking in right action was the prerequisite

01:37:02.940 okay i apologize well no i was just gonna say like

01:37:06.860 i think that all of us are this to varying degrees because we can all

01:37:23.580 do right or with our action i think one of the things to keep in mind though is yes you can

01:37:30.800 have somebody and this is a beautiful place to start it's just not where you should finish

01:37:36.460 but yeah you can have a lot of people that are extremely pious they show up and they practice

01:37:42.100 you know overt religiosity like bloat and ritual very piously but they're still don't have their

01:37:51.060 life right and we see these people a lot and you this isn't a steady state of that person

01:37:57.080 it's very often you know seasons in people's lives we have people that suffer from addiction

01:38:05.040 You know, I think all of us suffer to some degree from our soul sickness and we have people that, you know, come through and maybe they'll be super pious and they are very genuine in their devotion to the gods, but they don't know how to maintain their personal life or to break their addiction or to act right.

01:38:26.040 And the hope is that through continued piety, you can build the strength of character and engender the good graces of the gods and ancestors to help you work through that.

01:38:38.780 And also, the more time you're around your folk and the more you genuinely take part in your faith community in the AFA, you have people that can help you through those parts of your life.

01:38:52.660 You can have people that kind of can hold your hand through some of those hard times and help lift you up and get you to a better spot.

01:39:01.560 So you certainly can be pious and also not be acting right.

01:39:06.320 But at some point, genuine piety ought to lead you to making those changes in your life.

01:39:15.880 That's what we were talking about earlier.

01:39:17.520 when we're talking about the the idea of uh alignment you know this holistic view of uh

01:39:25.200 of being piety i'm sorry being pious um

01:39:33.040 mr flabel can account for this too that uh a lot of our duties as a clergy and uh

01:39:40.720 at varying stages of our, our time as clergy, we,

01:39:46.740 we spend a lot of time counseling members and

01:39:50.520 through that counsel and through that mentorship that,

01:39:55.160 that we are providing people is with that goal in mind is to,

01:40:00.800 is to get that alignment, you know,

01:40:02.880 take what we do home and apply it in our, in our day-to-day lives.

01:40:07.740 And when we're talking about like right action,

01:40:09.540 it could be just as simple as just doing the right thing um you know your mom doesn't have

01:40:17.320 have enough food in the cupboard put some food in her cupboard that's doing the right thing that's

01:40:21.480 being you know an honorable and and uh and right oriented person it could be something just that

01:40:28.600 simple it could be as simple as uh i don't know helping a young man tie his first tie

01:40:34.740 is just doing the right thing in the right moment at the right time with the right intention

01:40:41.940 i think is it's really the overarching thing how many of you have seen a starving animal

01:40:48.620 on a street corner and pulled over and you know poured out some water and you know throwing out

01:40:54.280 some food for that for the animal that's again it's not the same thing as when we're talking

01:40:59.080 about these grand ideas but that is a simple act of right action that's just doing the right thing

01:41:03.360 It's just being a good human being.

01:41:13.560 Yeah, and that, so I think that's real important because it's, you know, one of the themes tonight.

01:41:19.020 And it's, the reason we use the Rhydo rune to advertise tonight, and it's the rune of Argothar, is to be consciously aware of right action at the right time moving us forward.

01:41:40.780 um like daniel mentioned there's with so many things there are big sweeping things and yes

01:41:50.920 in the moment of crisis we want to do the big heroic super right action but living a life

01:41:59.840 of right action is built on the collection of all the small things so

01:42:08.720 you know it's something as simple as you know picking up trash if you walk by especially you're

01:42:16.960 at a hoff you walk by and there's trash on the ground somewhere pick it up you see you know you 0.92

01:42:24.320 see ladies lifting and carrying stuff go take it from them and help it help them out help them carry

01:42:29.960 something somewhere you're on a bus or on the subway or something and you're sitting down and 1.00

01:42:37.020 some lady comes in, doesn't have a place to sit, 0.99

01:42:39.200 offer her your seat, do those things, hold the door open, 1.00

01:42:43.580 say sir, say ma'am, be polite,

01:42:48.400 do simple, simple things.

01:42:53.400 Take the opportunity when somebody asks you about your hammer,

01:42:57.800 instead of blowing them off because you're in a hurry,

01:43:00.520 stop and have a little conversation about Ausitru.

01:43:03.780 um it's a collection of all those things that gets you in sync to where when the big things come

01:43:12.040 you're primed you're ready those muscles of right action are you know trained to where you're ready

01:43:20.620 for the big the big right action that you need when those come about so i gave i gave a sermon

01:43:27.060 on this topic at uh at thorshoth uh it's back in the oh specifically it was during uh i'm harry

01:43:34.260 upload and the whole purpose of us celebrating the iron harry are is a celebrating heroes

01:43:43.460 and heroic action is often done in a flash it's it's the guy this is it's the soldier on the

01:43:50.500 battlefield that dives on the grenade to take the impact save his brothers a regular run-of-the-mill

01:43:58.420 guy might say he would do those things but sets on the couch and watches football and binge

01:44:05.300 watches netflix and does nothing right with his life not through the not not necessarily through

01:44:11.700 the inaction of wrong i just don't do wrong things but i'm just sitting on the couch and vegging out

01:44:17.860 that guy will never be in a position to take heroic action because he hasn't built the foundation in

01:44:23.780 his life that creates right action so that that that flash decision is second nature and it

01:44:30.020 becomes an instinct you know the guy uh the guy that you know shields his children from an attacker

01:44:37.220 and sacrifice himself or the uh the guy that protects his family from you know a wild animal

01:44:43.940 or whatever by offering himself up instead if he didn't live if he didn't live a life of courage

01:44:50.660 or of right action or at least have the mindset of you know living in the right way he'd never

01:44:55.220 be in that situation to begin with he'd tuck tail and run um all right i've heard the icer versus

01:45:06.820 vanir in in hinduism uh vedanta is the deva versus assuras i think uh assura isir are

01:45:18.340 etymologically related is hinduism a myth inversion i find parallels to concepts like

01:45:25.700 karma and aminia daniel do you have thoughts on that well i'm not i'm not an expert on you know

01:45:33.540 vedic hinduism but i do know it has its roots in the area religiosity so you'll often see those

01:45:39.700 those parallels and overlaps throughout the course of you know arian history whether that's through

01:45:45.460 the uh you know reconstructed proto-indo-european religion that we've read about quite extensively

01:45:52.100 that shows up in vedic hinduism and it also shows up in ausitry um so are those things

01:45:59.460 etymologically the same i don't know because i have not looked into it um but i now that you

01:46:05.860 brought it up i will certainly look into that whenever we're done here so i find that kind of

01:46:10.900 stuff fascinating yeah i've always been kind of curious about that and even more so when it comes

01:46:17.460 to um zoroastrianism because it it flips things around when you look at cognate gods as close as

01:46:28.260 we can figure out in how they play out in hinduism or not um i think who is in which of those camp

01:46:40.580 looks a little bit different but i think it starts to take on a a good guy versus

01:46:47.220 bad guy form much different than it does in our lore um the most ancient

01:46:55.060 beginnings of Hinduism um come from a shared you know a shared ancient Arian origin um they've

01:47:08.200 developed radically different as the the people have become less and less us in the the Indian 0.86

01:47:15.500 subcontinent there and as just time and space have separated us so I do think that there's some

01:47:22.780 inversion going on there i also i'm not sure that ashura and isere have an etymological connection

01:47:30.140 i'd like to look it up um i understand that ashura means like not shura um and isere the

01:47:39.660 reason it's got the a like beginning is is is more of an integral part of the word as opposed to like

01:47:44.860 a prefix so it's hard because you want to look and find exact parallels in the east and they're

01:47:53.020 very hard to find there but there there are definitely points of relation that i think we

01:47:58.380 can see and i think you know hymenia and karma as you mentioned is one example of things that

01:48:05.020 have quite a bit of overlap um are all your hops eventually going to uh have statues of the

01:48:18.060 mcdallens or is it exclusively for thor's off so those statues are actually um at sigerheim

01:48:26.300 and they're you know on the property that's going to have tears off um i think it'd be awesome if

01:48:34.300 eventually all our Hoffs had statues of McNallens, but that's not a plan in the works. These are

01:48:41.180 our only two statues at this point. Shannon donated $10 to BNS and $10 to Frazehoff. Thank you, Shannon.

01:48:54.740 uh head west asks what is your response to michael sessoms

01:49:00.820 on pagan revivalism saying atonement is due for falling asleep on guard duty

01:49:06.820 i'm not really sure what atonement that mike and those guys fairly think is due

01:49:20.700 I am really sorry that almost five years ago now, there was a guy who shouldn't have been let in

01:49:35.840 and he slipped through the cracks. And we were trying to look into his past criminal convictions

01:49:44.440 and didn't get back around to it and he slept through or he uh um he snuck through

01:49:54.300 and when it was brought to our attention the moment it was brought to our attention and we

01:50:03.340 were showed that was the case we immediately got rid of the guy

01:50:06.160 I really wish I could go back in time and not have had the guy slip through to my knowledge

01:50:15.160 he didn't hurt anyone within the AFA or do anything in his time with us that damaged anyone

01:50:21.200 I'm real sorry I wish there was something I could do to make certain people feel better about it

01:50:30.220 But I'm not really sure what atonement that he wants other than my personal destruction and the AFA's destruction.

01:50:39.900 And I think that's kind of absurd and a whole lot of overkill.

01:50:45.900 I hope that our gods and ancestors don't share his opinion.

01:50:53.500 I don't believe that they do.

01:50:55.080 Um, you know, if they do, I suppose they'll let me know, but I'm not really sure what kind of fair atonement he makes sense or, you know, thinks makes sense in this scenario, other than to immediately burn down any of those things that he doesn't like, including me.

01:51:18.140 I know he's working real hard to try to consistently damage the AFA in my reputation.

01:51:26.600 I've never tried to be dishonest or lie to anybody about any of these things or cover anything up.

01:51:32.760 I'll answer any question anybody has about any of these things.

01:51:37.500 And I suppose that you all can make the decision on whether you'd like to be part of the Astro Folk Assembly or not.

01:51:43.960 Other than that, I don't really, not really sure what the fair demand is or seems at this point like that's just a way to stir strife and cause problems amongst Alcetruar and potential Alcetruar to, for whatever nefarious means might be there, but I don't think it's genuine.

01:52:10.220 so i'm glad that you answered that question before i did because

01:52:15.080 i had some like not not kind things to say about mike sessings but but i'll say this

01:52:22.220 yes all the things matt just said but this is a good example of us learning from a mistake

01:52:30.120 matt how often do we run criminal background checks on our membership

01:52:34.320 um minimum of once a year we were running them there twice a year till we got

01:52:41.000 you know the swing of of how to do that efficiently how many registered sex offenders

01:52:47.620 have been found since that process began um in the first week of it we found one that was

01:52:54.020 immediately removed since then we've found zero i don't know what else more we can do

01:52:59.860 I can't think of anything we can do right now to fix that whole situation

01:53:05.820 for the people that have been detractors and continue to slander our name

01:53:10.000 based on that particular mistake.

01:53:12.640 But can't do anything about what happened,

01:53:14.860 but we've got control over what happens now going forward.

01:53:19.640 Best we can do when a problem arises is acknowledge it,

01:53:24.140 figure out what we could have, should have, would have done different,

01:53:28.440 and then implement those things as soon as we can again as soon as the guy was brought to our

01:53:33.800 attention we got rid of them immediately um and we implemented a plan starting like that week to

01:53:44.280 check every single one to make sure there was no additional problems and to handle you know

01:53:51.080 handle it regularly just in case something you know just in case somebody does something we

01:53:56.120 we don't know about in the time that they're a member. All we can do is our best. I know that

01:54:04.520 it falls short to say that, hey, we're not perfect, or hey, that I'm not perfect. I'm not.

01:54:11.520 Mistakes happen. I'm really sorry that this particular mistake happened.

01:54:17.200 I'm very thankful that he didn't harm anybody in the AFA or during his time in the AFA.

01:54:23.800 um but yeah i wish i could go back in time and you know him not have slipped through the cracks

01:54:28.920 i'm sorry that he did uh but that's that's what we can do that's the only thing that makes sense

01:54:38.840 and i think the continued cry for atonement is i don't think it's well intentioned and i don't

01:54:46.040 think it's honest um is there a way to volunteer for volunteer work during a hoff work weekend

01:54:59.560 yes do do that volunteer to help out at off work weekends um that may that means really different

01:55:07.800 things and each off there's a lot of different kinds of things that need to be done in a variety

01:55:14.920 of different ways the afa's always got a lot of volunteer opportunities you know for a long time

01:55:21.800 they were very um distance oriented or computer based or whatever now that we have hoffs now that

01:55:30.280 we have five hoffs and the property here that tears off will go on there are a lot of different

01:55:37.400 uh things that need to be done both you know all those things that we needed to do digitally

01:55:42.520 uh beforehand but now also all the property and property maintenance and upkeep as well as you

01:55:53.260 know countless other things so yes ask your folk builder ask folks excuse me ask folks at the hof

01:55:59.680 there are there's always room for volunteerism and we deeply appreciate it when you guys step up

01:56:04.840 to help out that spirit of volunteerism is the very foundation upon which all of this is built

01:56:10.840 None of this happens without that spirit of volunteerism.

01:56:15.000 If you're ever in North Carolina, I've got some stuff for you to do at Thorsoff.

01:56:19.420 The work is underway right this minute at Thorsoff.

01:56:33.640 What else do you have that you would like to tell us about tonight's topic or anything else while we have you here?

01:56:40.840 I mean, we kind of just touched on it. A very practical application of the concept of right action is just what we talked about, that spirit of volunteerism.

01:56:53.380 um we've had

01:56:56.540 more than a dozen men and and ladies show up at thor's hall over the last uh last month or so

01:57:05.600 to uh to sand and and uh prime and and begin the painting process of uh thor's glorious temple in

01:57:12.440 linden north carolina that's an example of right action um and that's the kind of stuff that that

01:57:20.600 mean something it's tangible it gets us somewhere it isn't just speaking a belief into existence

01:57:25.480 it's you know the belief playing out and playing out through your deeds

01:57:34.840 very often we we hear that you know i do this thing that is sacred and this thing that is mundane and i

01:57:41.640 I think the lines between those things can be, can be blurred.

01:57:48.720 The, the,

01:57:49.940 the six and a half hour drive from central Tennessee to Eastern North Carolina

01:57:55.940 to attend a bloat at the Hoff. That's an act of sacrifice.

01:57:59.540 That's a sacrifice of your time, your money,

01:58:03.020 of your comfort. I mean, you could just stay at home, but instead,

01:58:09.540 Instead, you know, you decide to hop in the vehicle and make that trek.

01:58:13.820 You refer to that as bloat fury.

01:58:17.260 That in itself is an act of sacrality.

01:58:20.180 Showing up at the Hof and volunteering to help out with the food pantry or volunteering to help clean up after the event.

01:58:28.420 Those are all acts of devotion.

01:58:30.020 and it isn't

01:58:33.800 it isn't always about you know that what you can't see playing out sometimes these things

01:58:41.700 play out in ways that you can see um your mother may look at you and say you know wow

01:58:49.400 there's something different about you what is it it could be just in the way that you

01:58:54.380 present yourself the way you carry yourself the language that you speak

01:58:57.540 all of that's a reflection of that of that pious mind of that of that right action that starts

01:59:06.520 within it isn't always something grand but we talked a little bit earlier in the conversation

01:59:13.600 about you know stacking these little things up that and and then they become and they have

01:59:17.820 potential to become something grand one of the things that i found that was very apparent during

01:59:25.620 in my initial joining of the Austria Folk Assembly

01:59:30.120 was how many successful people that I was surrounded by

01:59:33.500 and continue to be surrounded by.

01:59:36.640 And success is married.

01:59:37.920 I mean, I'm sorry.

01:59:38.800 Success varies in the way that it presents.

01:59:43.300 What one person is successful at

01:59:45.200 is not the same as what the next guy is.

01:59:48.260 You spend any amount of time around Mr. Flayvell,

01:59:51.020 he's a big, strong guy.

01:59:52.760 Wasn't always that way.

01:59:55.620 but he worked toward it that's that's the element of success you know i uh the the folk builder that

02:00:03.680 that onboarded me in uh 2018 you know lived in a very very nice place and financially a successful

02:00:13.140 guy and i and i remember thinking like not in an envious way like i don't want him to have this

02:00:18.960 because i don't i just kept thinking to myself man i want a piece of that

02:00:23.060 and one one little step leads to another and you know one word leads to another one deed leads to

02:00:32.080 another deed and wonderful bountiful things happen in the process if we live our life through our

02:00:41.740 through our noble virtues and through that lens instead of a list of don'ts thou shalt nots

02:00:47.780 you'll arrive eventually at that 10th noble virtue.

02:00:53.720 And that virtue is victory.

02:00:57.620 If we take every,

02:00:59.400 if every step we take is oriented toward that singular goal,

02:01:03.200 that singular goal of winning,

02:01:04.960 then it's contagious.

02:01:08.200 The next guy sees you win.

02:01:09.520 I want some of that.

02:01:12.260 And that is how we all win.

02:01:16.200 is by sharing those victories because, you know, again,

02:01:20.500 we don't see these things as abstract concepts.

02:01:24.800 If I'm successful, that success is carried over into Mr. Matt,

02:01:29.240 is carried over into Trent, is carried into Svon, Allen, so on and so forth.

02:01:35.480 So our own victories are not just our own.

02:01:37.780 They're the victories of our folk.

02:01:39.620 Those victories are for our gods, and those victories are for our children.

02:01:43.220 now i know gods can be abstract concepts

02:01:46.940 ancestors are not and our children are darn sure not and if you can't do if you can't do better for

02:01:55.140 yourself for them i'm not sure we can help you so win for each other win for our gods win for

02:02:04.920 your forebears and win for your children our children the future of our race

02:02:10.980 um quick question what was the reasoning behind picking

02:02:19.620 jackson county tennessee fort sigraham um there's

02:02:24.900 there's a variety of a variety of things that went into that as with any of the properties

02:02:33.800 we've gotten there's there's kind of a a journey there that involves prayer and

02:02:41.640 you know deep thought on stuff and meditation um

02:02:48.280 tennessee is advantageous for a variety of reasons it's

02:02:55.640 i think it's appealing to a lot of us because it's in the south and i think there's a lot of

02:03:00.760 a lot of us have history in the south and tradition and values that harken back to that history

02:03:10.840 so i think that makes it appealing for a lot of us uh tennessee doesn't have the state income tax

02:03:17.160 which makes it economically advantageous for a lot of our folk it tends to be a state and you can't

02:03:23.640 i mean political shifts in states can happen you can flip red states blue these things happen

02:03:31.560 but tennessee seems pretty solidly with more traditional values than a great deal of other

02:03:38.040 states which is a nice thing for local laws and local local rules that way other thing is it is

02:03:47.160 very central to the AFA operations. There was a time where the center of gravity of AFA membership

02:03:57.480 and AFA activity was all, you know, Northern California, and it's very much not the case now.

02:04:05.220 There's still tons of activity in Northern California, but the vast,

02:04:09.500 The significant majority of AFA members are east of the Mississippi.

02:04:17.860 And, yeah, Sigurheim is exactly within the realm of five minutes different.

02:04:28.400 Seven hours and 50 X minutes to, well, at the time between Thorshoff and Njordshoff, and also where we were looking and where we ended up getting Freysoff.

02:04:44.120 So it's just about within five-minute margin of error, exactly the same travel time between all three of those Hoffs, which makes it a really good spot for the AFA capital in the center of the AFA.

02:05:02.440 And, you know, I think that there's a lot of things for Tennessee, for Jackson County in specific.

02:05:07.180 well okay another thing about the location it's in the south but it's not in the most

02:05:15.220 the most gnarly all the time humid part of the south it's still very humid but it also has

02:05:21.600 topography it's got hills and ridges and and texture to the land which is important for many

02:05:28.240 of us and it uh looking at tennessee as a state we were looking at where we could find where we

02:05:37.040 could find properties that met our needs where we could find the space where we got the best deal

02:05:42.160 and just kind of where it all worked out and daniel was actually part of that on scouting some

02:05:47.440 properties for us and he was the guy that went out and scouted and decided on this uh cigarette

02:05:54.320 property for us so that that all worked out really well and we're pretty happy with it

02:06:01.360 do you have anything to add on your your scouting of the property or things of that nature yeah um

02:06:09.760 so we had we had gone up i believe we found that property on our second or third trip up there

02:06:17.040 and um we went up there with a couple other properties in mind matt had us uh looking at

02:06:24.320 shoot minimum of eight properties were on the list i think it may have been more than that

02:06:29.840 and it kind of began with uh that particular area of jackson county was one of the places

02:06:35.600 that was really appealing and uh you know did what did what you do whenever you're looking for

02:06:41.920 stuff you google realtors and i had one realtor call me back one and she pointed us toward that

02:06:50.240 particular property uh that exists there on hunting creek now and um we had taken a look

02:06:56.240 at some other properties that just didn't fit i you know i didn't think fit our needs you know

02:07:01.600 some of it was like the topography was so extreme like we'd have to dynamite our way into it

02:07:06.720 to just cut a driveway in and things like that just didn't make sense uh but the minute that

02:07:12.880 heather and i pulled up to the uh to the property that that would eventually become

02:07:17.520 the Sagerheim property. We knew when we pulled in that that was the one. It was kind of

02:07:23.600 there's two large fields down at the very base of the property. There's a nice ridge that runs

02:07:31.240 along the backside of the property and we circumvented that entire place and it's just

02:07:36.660 under 70 acres. And a few things sold me on besides just like the practicality of the property itself

02:07:44.440 but just the uh uh the layout of the uh the area um had that really like small town like mountain

02:07:53.560 town feel to it um there's a couple a handful of restaurants you know no major shopping area you

02:08:02.040 know the shopping center which i know is decidedly inconvenient i think it's what 45 minutes to the

02:08:06.440 nearest walmart or something like that but um i it checked a lot of boxes and um

02:08:12.600 Um, I, I don't think I've, out of all the stuff that I have done for that,

02:08:17.600 focus assembly, nothing made me as nervous as that process did.

02:08:21.860 Matt said, here's X amount of dollars, go find some property.

02:08:26.380 And we pulled the trigger on that property without,

02:08:28.800 and I'm the only person at the time that ever set foot on it from the AFA.

02:08:32.920 So that was, it was a gamble on my part, but I'm glad it paid off.

02:08:38.820 Me too.

02:08:40.140 I love that place.

02:08:41.660 I absolutely love it.

02:08:42.600 but also you take into account something like for the folks moving to the county

02:08:50.560 to have cigarette in their backyard we can live anywhere in the county and still be part of the

02:08:56.480 county so you don't have to be 45 50 minutes from cookville you can literally be 20 minutes 25

02:09:03.100 if that's important to you for work or you just don't like rural life you can be basically what's

02:09:11.260 really interesting is that um you know we've held a cigarette bloat there uh the last

02:09:20.300 this will be the third year fourth year fourth fourth year um

02:09:26.300 some of the most powerful bloats i've been a part of i've been at that place

02:09:32.220 something really awe-inspiring about you know being there in person and seeing the the statues

02:09:37.020 of our founders the mcmallans uh the way your voice carries in that valley um you know even

02:09:44.860 when it was like hot and sticky and all of that it's just kind of like you endure that because

02:09:51.500 it's it's just so worth being there um we've camped on that property um myself uh nick rice

02:10:00.140 local members

02:10:02.900 other folk builders have put a lot

02:10:05.220 of actual sweat equity into that

02:10:07.180 place and

02:10:08.920 if I'm remembered for one

02:10:13.080 thing I hope

02:10:15.140 it's something greater than Sigurhane but

02:10:17.040 if it turns out that's what I'm remembered for

02:10:18.820 I'd feel

02:10:21.260 very accomplished as a go-thee

02:10:22.660 yeah it's it's a very special place and i hope everybody gets a chance to see it i notice people

02:10:35.620 in the chat room are excited about the idea of it get out here let's make it happen i'm excited that

02:10:41.300 i am sitting you know 20 minutes from it right now so uh yeah this is an exciting time we've

02:10:48.900 We've got a lot of people very interested in moving out and getting in the area.

02:10:52.740 Something that Nick pointed out that I think is really worthwhile to remember.

02:10:57.520 Yeah, getting in the county is the dream.

02:10:59.100 You're in the county.

02:10:59.880 There's no place in the county that's more than 30 minutes from it.

02:11:02.920 You're part of everything if you're in the county.

02:11:05.480 And you can be in the suburbs of Cookville and be in the county and be right next to, you know, a good-sized little city there with, you know, anything you can need if that's what you want.

02:11:16.280 If you want small towns, there's a number of small towns in Jackson County, Gainesboro being where I'm at, and the small town in Jackson County that's closest, but also tons of rural property, tons of hunting properties that you can build a home on and live on.

02:11:40.720 If you're looking to raise livestock or farm or do any number of things, you've got the opportunity to do pretty much whatever you want here in the county.

02:11:53.420 It's got all of the benefits of being rural, but being close enough to cities and stuff that you need.

02:12:00.180 It's really ideal, and we would encourage you all to get out here.

02:12:04.960 if you're an outdoorsy kind of person, it's, it's, uh, it's, it's perfect. There's bodies of water

02:12:14.160 there. There's plenty of places to hide, to hunt. I mean, we've seen the first thing I saw whenever

02:12:19.600 we walked onto the fields was, you know, whitetails bouncing through the fields and

02:12:23.840 yeah. Yes. Love that place. Wild Turkey out there. We've got, you know, the Cumberland

02:12:31.520 river runs right through the county it's beautiful it's beautiful beautiful country out here so it is

02:12:38.240 um another question how does one rid themselves of their self-hatred that was imposed on them

02:12:44.880 through christianity daniel it's a short question but uh answers are big and consequential um

02:12:57.280 Um, so if, if this person were to call me and, and ask for my, my spiritual counsel,

02:13:04.640 the, you know, the first thing that we would have to find out is why, you know, why do

02:13:10.200 we hate ourselves and kind of attack it from that root and, you know, getting down to the

02:13:17.300 root of that problem and, and trying to, you know, do some repair there will permeate

02:13:24.380 throughout the rest of the uh the person's life um and we had talked earlier about you know trying

02:13:30.620 to find like where it was that that the soul sickness as we know it now kind of began and

02:13:36.700 you know we can trace a lot of that almost all of that back to the you know the breaking of truth

02:13:42.380 that that occurred in our in our distant past um somebody in every one of our bloodlines was part

02:13:48.540 of that and i and i think us you know being in the condition that we're in now as a folk in

02:13:54.060 a society okay all that can be traced back to that um so to answer the answer the question

02:14:01.260 though we'd have to find out why and what is you know what do we hate about ourselves and and try

02:14:06.700 to attack that and you know if this person were to call me i'm not going to fill you up with uh

02:14:14.060 you know fluffy bunny stuff i'm not going to blow smoke or whatever you know we'll get right to the

02:14:17.820 meet and takers of it you know why do we hate ourselves why why are we enduring the self-hatred

02:14:23.180 and and trying to repair that and you know try to build ourselves into something worthy

02:14:28.620 and build ourselves into something to be admired and you know to build a house that people want

02:14:34.620 to feel comfortable in to be a man that people feel good standing next to in circle or one

02:14:40.460 yeah it's a

02:14:45.880 the answer really depends on what

02:14:51.180 how that self-hatred took shape in you

02:14:55.340 I think the biggest

02:15:03.040 thing to try to overcome

02:15:05.440 is the overall

02:15:09.300 concept of

02:15:11.140 we don't

02:15:17.380 celebrate worthlessness.

02:15:20.620 Like all of the 1.00

02:15:22.020 the part in Christianity 0.96

02:15:27.120 where that man is saved

02:15:29.500 not

02:15:30.060 by faith and not by

02:15:33.400 works that none might boast.

02:15:36.700 And all of the beatitudes 0.97

02:15:39.280 about basically blessed are the losers.

02:15:43.320 In Ausitru, that's not the case.

02:15:46.920 Blessed are the heroes.

02:15:49.540 And we are elevated through works

02:15:54.260 that we might be able to boast

02:15:57.060 and that our gods might be proud of us.

02:16:00.580 So removing the brakes put on yourself

02:16:05.480 to where you need to, you know,

02:16:08.340 to where the least will be made greatest no feel free and unleashed to go out and make something

02:16:15.140 of yourself to accomplish things to be proud of yourself our gods we want them to be proud of us

02:16:25.380 and we worship them in large part through deed and through accomplishment

02:16:30.420 so you start rebuilding self-worth by accomplishment by doing and by being proud of

02:16:39.300 yourself when you do and when you accomplish things we want to earn the pride of our gods

02:16:45.660 and our ancestors we do that by doing our best to be winners in our lives and uh yeah you you

02:16:55.700 begin to stop hating yourself when you give yourself something to be proud of so i mean

02:17:02.020 literally start tomorrow finding things to do and take pride in them things to achieve ways to win

02:17:10.340 and take pride in your victories you know again you uh we've been told now for centuries that

02:17:20.180 that pride is something that pride is the absence of, you know,

02:17:24.540 it's the opposite of a virtue. And that's, that's not something we teach.

02:17:30.080 That's not something that we preach. That's not something that we practice.

02:17:34.580 And we celebrate men and women who do great things in the face of adversity.

02:17:40.780 And so many people get chained to stuff and they're like their past.

02:17:45.440 Cause I can imagine that someone is feeling real self-hatred.

02:17:49.420 There's probably an event in their past that they're chained to.

02:17:53.020 And, you know, I would tell them, cut those chains.

02:17:57.120 That, you know, our memories are supposed to be a well of wisdom.

02:18:03.380 We learn from our victories, sure, but we don't rest on them.

02:18:08.300 When it comes to, like, you know, traumatic experiences and things like that,

02:18:11.700 rather than looking at it as, like, because of this thing, I can't move forward.

02:18:16.000 That's the wrong way to look at it.

02:18:17.420 I'm still here in spite of that which happened to me.

02:18:24.440 Again, the way we think, the way we speak, these things have a way of working themselves out in the mind and in the soul.

02:18:33.900 There's that phrase, and it takes on a cheap meaning, but I don't mean it cheaply.

02:18:38.380 It's that you fake it until you make it kind of thing.

02:18:42.000 Stacking those little victories on top of themselves.

02:18:44.080 And, you know, again, not letting not letting things in the past hold you back and to keep that first and forefront in your mind is that you're here in spite of those things and you're still kicking.

02:18:55.440 You're still fighting.

02:19:01.260 All right. Well, thank you for joining us tonight, Daniel.

02:19:05.560 I appreciate you. Thank you for all of the people with their great questions in the chat room.

02:19:10.280 and thank you for our very generous donors

02:19:13.200 for helping us out.

02:19:14.940 We appreciate y'all.

02:19:19.060 Go out there and act right and become more pious.

02:19:22.980 I think it was a really good topic

02:19:27.900 and I'm glad it's something we got to discuss

02:19:30.520 on that this evening.

02:19:32.320 Do right and fear no one.

02:19:34.500 Absolutely.

02:19:36.060 All right, well, I will talk to you guys next week 0.98

02:19:38.880 when Svan will be back for us to continue our working through the gilfaginning. 0.91

02:19:46.020 Until then, hail the Aesir, hail the folk, hail the AFA. 0.97

02:19:50.800 Remember, victory never sleeps.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - February 26, 2026

2⧸25⧸26 Victory Never Sleeps, Ep 190 - Right Action： A Path to Piety

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