00:14:34.300help us to be whole people. And I was actually watching a video from a friend of ours,
00:14:44.040non-member, who talks about Germanic religious practice, and he reiterated something I already
00:14:50.720knew that, you know, about whole, holy, holistic, those all having the same root words.
00:14:57.200So part of the goal of certainly my personal religious practice and other stuff that I do and hopefully a part of the way that the church approaches these things is to make us all whole people that, you know, like, unlike Christianity, we don't think that you can believe the certain thing and be okay.
00:15:25.100you have we are who we we are what we do um to quote oh god who's the guy in um
00:15:34.960the arnold schwarzenegger movie the you are what you do um you know what i'm talking about the
00:15:42.840it's quatto quatto um yes uh you are what you do so uh so i would rather quote swain
00:15:52.880loading that we are our deeds but quato quato wisdom is welcome as well
00:15:59.600i don't have a yoda appropriate quote so quato has to do um so being intact eating well
00:16:11.120but not overdoing it exercising but not overdoing it acting as a good citizen
00:16:18.640without necessarily going to extremes.
00:16:21.460Those are the sorts of things that, it seems to me, make us hold people
00:16:27.360because inside your brain, inside my brain at least,
00:16:34.880I'm not comfortable with myself unless I can damp down the cognitive dissonance.
00:16:44.120Okay. And cognitive dissonance comes about when you say you do one thing or you believe one thing, but you act in a different way from that. So mindfulness then being engaged in all the acts that you do on a day to day basis.
00:17:07.440One of the things, you know, even though we divide the world into the sacred space where we do ritual, the rest of the world is still holy.
00:17:20.460So the way that you act with other people, the way that you act with animals, those are all in their own way an exercise of your whole being, your holy being.
00:17:34.540And so one of the things I try to do with myself and hopefully with all of us now is to engage that whole being in the way that you work in the world and make that more comfortable for yourself and for those around you.
00:17:54.680And some of it, just like the people that you've talked about that were dissuaded from suicide from conversations with Kothar,
00:18:08.820I think it's just a way of validating our worldview, the way that we, as a tour, view the world is, you know, is the proper way.
00:18:25.140We are not the children of Descartes who think that the world is divided into man and not man, that, you know, that we are, you know, the whole world is holy in its own way.
00:18:36.720Which doesn't mean I don't eat animals, but I just think they should be treated with respect.
00:18:44.760So anyway, that's so that's that's part of it.
00:18:49.360And then like to go through the like all a lot of the things we've talked about.
00:18:55.720I would like to think that maybe there are some people who have questions that, you know, and would range on any topic that we've talked about or anything we haven't talked about.
00:19:02.620But, you know, I always I think the thing that has resonated a lot with people is the discussion that I've done here and with several people personally about debt counseling.
00:19:17.260And certainly, for those who don't know, I'm a bankruptcy attorney.
00:19:21.620I practice debtor bankruptcy, file bankruptcies for people and companies.
00:19:25.740um but um because of that i've developed a very skeptical eye toward credit of any type
00:19:39.180in the modern world of course you can't get a mortgage you can't get a house
00:19:44.760without a mortgage unless you're very lucky
00:19:48.020but aside from a mortgage I strongly discourage anyone from taking on debt for any reason
00:21:54.600um who cares what kind of shoes you wear i certainly don't um not that i'm any gauge
00:22:01.380um we also have to recognize the the have to wrong term we should also recognize the value of
00:22:12.160quality over quantity um the um you know it's better to own one nice pair of shoes than 17
00:22:21.640pairs of Payless shoes. It's better to own one nice jacket than seven that are, you know, seven
00:22:31.220cheap ones. And again, that is an indication that, you know, that we, in the modern American
00:22:41.740experience, one of the things that we do to validate ourselves is to go out and buy stuff,
00:22:48.580right that gives us a certain power over our environment that we can take this paper that
00:22:56.560fine we take this piece of plastic we have in our wallet and go out and change
00:23:02.640buy bring in some new stuff it's not healthy that's not a healthy way of interacting with
00:23:10.800reality that you know buying stuff doesn't make you a bigger person or a better person
00:23:17.120It just means you've been trapped in the, you know, in the consumerist trap.
00:23:27.020Rowdy, Roddy Piper, you know, borrow a pair of his glasses and you'll see that commercial advertisements are not doing anything other than trying to ensnare you in a terrible, terrible distortion of our culture.
00:23:47.120And, you know, it still troubles me in one of my many troubles, the fact that it remains one of the biggest growth industries in the United States is these self-storage buildings, right?
00:24:10.280and there are two under construction between my house and my job so you know and they're already
00:24:20.200all over the place and that's because we have all this other junk that we don't need and can't use
00:24:26.440and we're out of space for it so we first of all we have bigger houses bigger apartments than we've
00:24:32.280ever had before and yet that's still not enough room we have all this other crap that we have to
00:24:36.760find somewhere else to put it it's just absurd you know have less have better stuff and spend
00:24:46.040time with your kids spend time with your dog you know do stuff get a get a hobby don't shop
00:24:55.000so that's a big part of that um so a good segue in that vein well that will save you money
00:25:03.720and what can you do with that money you can support the causes of the house of true focus
00:25:09.400so a couple of people started off donating to the show i want to acknowledge them and give kind of
00:25:14.740heads up where we're at on stuff we're raising money for um jeffrey in texas frequent donor
00:25:19.760to the program donated 15 each towards siggerhane pavilion and the baldershoff steeple so we
00:25:27.260appreciate you jeffrey thank you very much gilbert a constant donor on the program and very much
00:25:36.060appreciated donated 150 towards phrase off uh towards paying off the uh phrase off thank you
00:25:43.740for that we appreciate it um and brent in canada gave 60 united states dollars towards uh phrase
00:25:51.500off we appreciate that we appreciate you thank you so much um kind of letting you know where
00:25:57.980we're at on those things could you go ahead and put the pavilion situation up for us wonderful
00:26:05.260um still got twenty six thousand eighty one dollars we're trying to raise on it
00:26:11.500don't let that be discouraging we have already raised eight thousand nine hundred and nineteen
00:26:16.300not including what has been generated through this program today so we're about a third of the
00:26:22.140way there thank you very much everybody who has donated i'm looking forward to uh matter of fact
00:26:27.020i was having a conversation today about getting the earthwork done and then plans on getting the
00:26:34.460cement foundation board so we're making good progress you guys are awesome thank you for that
00:26:41.340and then Nick where we at on paying off phrase off keep in mind we just dedicated phrase off
00:26:49.980on the 6th of December and we are 42.6 percent paid off already so we got seventy one thousand
00:26:59.700six hundred and ninety four dollars remaining comes out to just about ninety eight dollars
00:27:06.420per afa member would pay that off instantly just for digestibility so thank you guys appreciate
00:27:14.100y'all so much uh anybody who's interested in donating to any of the things we raise money for
00:27:20.580runestone.org donate and we appreciate everybody's generosity
00:27:28.420and one way to get there to interrupt your thought um one way to get there is like if your habit is
00:27:36.420You know, you'd go by that green coffee place that I refuse to name and buy a $4 cup of coffee every morning.
00:27:46.780You know, you could make your own coffee for 50 cents a day and donate us the extra buck 50 for a month.
00:27:54.980And, you know, that'd be $50 a month. We'd be well on our way.
00:27:57.900i think so one thing that i think is really important to the stuff that alan is talking
00:28:06.140about and it relates to this um recognizing
00:28:15.580small consistent goals that you can track and doing them and how big of an impact that they
00:28:22.140do make over time you know one thing I get on the cares kind of car you drive
00:28:30.100kind of thing no some people do I'm not that guy though I care about saving
00:28:34.320money on gas this is my this is my Prius with my rebel flag on the front in our
00:28:41.660current geopolitical times I'm glad that I have not been paying as much gas the
00:28:48.640rest of you guys have been on this last little bit um that shocks me how much money i save in
00:28:55.320gas for what would be the case if i was driving a different vehicle um but like on what alan said
00:29:02.220a dollar a day every month it's 30 bucks that isn't nothing you know a small change
00:29:11.840but added up to the day every day for a year makes a big difference.
00:29:17.480A lot of things that you don't notice make a tremendous impact over time,
00:29:26.480One of the things I've noticed a lot and something that we talk on here a lot about,
00:29:30.620specifically on some of the shows with Alan and I,
00:29:33.800is getting in better shape and physical fitness things.
00:29:38.100Be that you're trying to gain muscle, be that you're trying to lose fat, or if you're trying to reach a performance benchmark, it is daunting to find yourself 30% body fat over where you want to be, and the only thing you see is the finish line, because it's a very long time to get there.
00:30:07.120but if you take measurements and track those things on a scheduled weekly basis or monthly
00:30:12.560or whatever your situation you can notice incremental progress and be encouraged to do
00:30:18.480that next thing or to go to that next month and see where it is finding ways to make small changes
00:30:24.400and small progress and then noting the difference is huge and i think that is a key to most any
00:30:32.080change that we want to make is it comes i think in i think in goal setting and i think that's
00:30:40.320important to our people as a whole we have a lot of people that wait until the perfect
00:30:47.200opportunity to do things and don't do anything until they find it spoiler alert that perfect
00:30:54.000opportunity usually doesn't come and they spend their life adorning couches if you don't wait
00:31:00.640for perfect but you do have an attainable thing once you accomplish it you build a momentum
00:31:05.680towards the next attainable thing i think that most often it's not the huge victory you get
00:31:13.120there by stacking small victory upon smaller until you get closer if you're doing it no matter what
00:31:19.440you're in an optimum position to jump if there's the big victory presents itself but realistically
00:31:25.600success with any of the things we do is stacking small things one on another and i think another
00:31:32.240piece to that is that you have to form habits and i say you have formed habits i don't know if you
00:31:40.080do i have to form habits and i think that most of us have to form habits it is hard to change
00:31:46.800a way of behaving be it a big way or a small way if it deviates from your norm especially the
00:31:53.680older you are the more set in the ways you are the more you have other conflicting habits but
00:32:00.160it takes a little bit when you develop a habit over the course of months you have a pull towards
00:32:07.920that in case you forget you notice something's off you notice you didn't do a thing you were
00:32:13.360supposed to do and you feel compelled to do it because it has become habit um so form habits
00:32:23.680Right. Form good habits. And another thing, and I've been aware of this phenomenon without having a name for it. I still don't remember exactly what the name of it is. But I've got the idea from a talk that I watched recently.
00:33:08.600then it's like you fall all the way off the wagon
00:33:11.080so then you just spend the whole weekend
00:33:13.140binge eating Doritos or Cheetos, which is my personal favorite, but either way.
00:33:24.860The goal here too is to have kind of, like you said, incremental steps, number one, but also
00:33:33.740recognize that you're going to make progress some days and some days you're going to slide back
00:33:39.960And that's okay. You know, you can make coffee four days a week and then once a week you can treat yourself to, well, we have Lucky Goat here in Tallahassee, which is a local brewery.
00:33:53.600So that's where I go on the days I feel like a frozen coffee latte or whatever it is they make.
00:34:02.160You know, I go to a local place because that's what you're supposed to do. That's what you should do.
00:34:05.640um but not very often most of the time you know i'm saving i'm saving that money by brewing coffee
00:34:14.580at home um we cook at home i don't eat we don't eat out a lot we don't eat fast food which is
00:34:23.760terrible for you all the way around so if we want to go out to eat and have a nice meal we go to a
00:34:29.900local place some place that cooks the meat cooks the food on site fast food is terrible idea
00:34:38.620corporations hate you um the food hates you it's bad for you um so you know you're much better off
00:34:51.660making a ham sandwich and taking that to work instead of eating
00:39:09.320And as I tell new people or people who are exploring our faith for the first time or considering, you know, inching their way into the door.
00:39:19.500So, you know, you don't have to understand all these three levels that many of the myths address.
00:39:29.200You don't have to understand, you know, how the staff works as the Axis Mundi and, you know, what it was that the board was trying to pull up when he's fishing Jormungand out from the bottom of the ocean.
00:39:43.880You don't have to really grab all that stuff.0.59
00:39:46.440You know, if you are heterosexual, European, and, you know, believe in religion, then you're already one of us.
00:40:01.800And so you don't have to dig into all the finesse of the religion.
00:40:09.100I mean, you know, if you read, as I used to think I was going to do, like if you read the Apologia of St. Augustine or any of these other long-winded Christian theologians, like they dig down way into what Christianity means or what they think it means.0.90
00:40:32.180Most Christians don't understand any of that stuff and don't care.0.56
00:40:34.800you know and you don't and our practitioners um you know all you have to know is that there is a
00:40:44.720place for you in the shield wall there's a place for you among the folk you are already us and
00:40:51.800you know it is the job of all terrier go thee and um simon harrell to understand all this stuff
00:41:02.140And the rest of us are just helping row the boat.
00:41:06.840Well, so this is kind of a favorite topic of mine and something I would like to add clarity to.
00:41:17.380I think I come off, or some people perceive me as being dismissive of study or education or whatever.
00:41:29.180It is very much what Alan said, and I think that we need to, in our minds, understand what is essential to religion and what is a hobby or what is something fun that we like to learn about.
00:41:55.700studying about our faith is only essentially religious if it enhances your relationship
00:42:07.020with the iser um now that's not i don't specify
00:42:14.080i love to study about alcatru i love studying about history those are fun things that i enjoy
00:42:23.220I don't need those things to be an Ossetruer I do those things because I love them it's
00:42:31.260fascinating and I do think that it deepens my faith and it deepens my relationships but
00:42:37.080fundamentally you don't need all of that to practice Ossetruer there is a generation of
00:42:43.680people that would nerd out about Ossetruer being the religion with homework and I think
00:42:50.520a couple of things went on there. I was having a conversation. Oh, everyone who helped make
00:43:02.180Midsummer at Odin's Off an awesome event, thank you guys so much. I had the pleasure of going
00:43:10.360back out there this last weekend and celebrating Midsummer at Odin's Off. It was amazing. And one
00:43:16.420of the conversations that I had with one of our folk builders up there was about this very thing.
00:43:20.520It is surprising how little knowledge our people had about our lore or the history of our ancestors or any of those things when the first generation of our elders started doing this in the 1970s and 1980s.
00:43:44.320And they had to do the homework so they could have things to build upon and context to practice within and to figure those things. To them, it needed to be the religion with homework because they were blazing a new trail and they were having to sometimes work towards getting these things out there.
00:44:09.600There was a time that the Austro Free Assembly, our predecessor organization, had to do a write-in campaign to get the Hollander translation of the Poetic Edda republished, because you couldn't get a good English translation of the Edda at the time.
00:44:26.740Their efforts, you know, in early editions of that Hollander Edda, they were noted in the acknowledgments at the beginning that the write-in campaign was part of what got that re-release.
00:45:32.260But don't let the study get in the way of the practice.
00:45:36.560And it ultimately, too, is a, you know, it is a tribal practice.
00:45:40.860So, yes, you can do devotionals on your own.
00:45:46.940But the modern condition is eons away from where, you know, certainly where it would have been even 200 years ago, much less 2000 years ago.
00:46:01.320So, you know, for some kind of say I'm a sole practitioner of whatever faith it is that they're practicing would have been not only unknown, but like unknowable to, you know, I mean, there are there were a vanishingly few ascetic monks who lived by themselves or even then most of the time they were living in a community of monks.
00:46:27.820So to say, you know, I'm going to go out here and do this religion by myself is a contradiction in terms.
00:46:35.820You know, people need people, as corny as that sounds, and folk need folk.
00:46:46.700And that's how we prevent despair and we prevent those, the feeling of loneliness that so many of us have struggled with because when we come together, we recognize each other as like we're the same ones.
00:47:05.260the rest of the world, Disney World and CNN, that's the insanity. For those of us who are
00:47:17.700together with a right understanding of history, with a right understanding of interpersonal
00:55:43.040scandinavians find it odd sometimes that we wear a tie to be blowed but a scandinavian wears a tie
00:55:52.440to a wedding or to a funeral or to a job interview or to um the opera or to a you know
00:56:02.720fancy holiday party for their work or to you know any special occasion
00:56:08.900to me them not doing that when approaching the gods
00:56:14.600is problematic because it says that they're not treating that as a special event
00:56:22.360we are accused of wearing church clothes and doing church things and i think that's another
00:56:32.040thing that often causes confusion and i know that we have an international audience on the show and
00:56:36.220don't presume that every scandinavian thinks this way but swedes that i've known and talked to about
00:56:42.940this their parents didn't go to church their grandparents didn't go to church their great
00:56:53.900grandparents didn't go to church so they're several generations removed from people who
00:57:02.380had a sincere faith whatever that faith might be religion looks a certain way and one of the ways
00:57:11.340it looks is you treat it as something special not something casual you treat it literally we talk
00:57:19.340about the sacred versus the profane you treat it as something special now that can look different
00:57:25.900and certainly it looks different when indians practice religion or when
00:57:32.940japanese practice religion or when native americans practice religion but in any of those cases
00:57:41.180you dress ceremonially for something that's special that's all we're doing is wearing western
00:57:48.140clothes that you would wear to something that is semi-formal something that's elevated in what you
00:57:54.060do so that's why we do that and I you know respect that looks different to different people
00:57:59.180you certainly don't berate people and demand they dress a certain way on it but that's the reason
00:58:05.160we do what we do and I don't find that odd it's odd to me that others would find that odd and so
00:58:12.560that kind of goes once you get in that mindset where you know I am in a formal it again it's
00:58:20.300It's that you're elevating your mentation.
00:58:25.380You know, you're elevating your mindset.
00:58:27.600I am putting on my church clothes, if that's the way you want to say it.
00:58:31.540I'm putting on my bloke clothes to go and meet the gods.
00:58:35.340Like, you wouldn't go to meet the governor in a hoodie and flip-flops.
00:58:42.600So you shouldn't go to meet your gods in a hoodie and flip-flops.
00:58:46.120Now, and I know I see a lot of this stuff in being through this lens, but all of this attitude would have been fundamentally understood even 100 years ago.
00:59:05.180What has happened is we've been overwhelmed by the communist ideology that the common people are the only thing that is worth celebrating.
00:59:23.820And so that's where all this dressing down comes from, is from this anti-traditionalist, anti-elitist framework that has been foisted on Western civilization for the last 150 years or so.
00:59:44.980um look at the pictures of like street pictures um from america probably sweden too like in the
00:59:57.060you know in the 1910s the 1920s when cameras were first being developed see what i did there
01:00:03.380developing cameras um so uh when photography was first coming into vogue like the street scenes
01:00:11.860Even the 8, 10, 15-year-old kids have on suits and ties and hats.
01:00:19.640So to even appear in public at all without a jacket on would have been anathema to a gentleman of any standing at all.
01:00:33.280So to think that that you should go to your gods dressed in common garb is to portray and embody that lie that has been the underlying cause of the decay of Western civilization for the last 150 years.
01:01:01.160there's comment over in the thing dress clothes are ceremonial attire loads of ceremony why
01:01:06.440wouldn't we wear a ceremony no okay so no they're following what we're saying that's fine i misread
01:01:11.240the thing that i want to say that this kind of came down to is them kind of mutually agreeing
01:01:19.640amongst that camp that well well that's because americans are still struggling with the christian
01:01:24.920mindset but as opposed to what i couldn't deny that a lot of the way that we approach religion
01:01:34.920does go through a certain amount of christian lens because that's the lens that any of us have
01:01:40.920a familiarity with but the other side isn't approaching it through a you know some kind of
01:01:47.720authentic pagan lens they're approaching it through an atheistic secular humanist lens
01:01:56.040and i would argue at least one is done through like faith and religion whereas the other is
01:02:03.400inherently anti-faith anti-piety and anti-religion um church culture and we said it a lot on your
01:02:12.520western the western church whatever that looks like to you be it you know roman catholicism be it
01:02:19.320you know american protestantism whatever it looks like it looks extremely different than
01:02:26.680middle eastern christianity and it looks extremely different than african christianity
01:02:32.920when christianity developed you know again before the 20th century before
01:02:37.720everything was was mixed up and cross-pollinated all the time you would see it take a very
01:02:45.640different expression i would argue that any of the things that they would say are christian that we
01:02:52.120do don't have any middle eastern components to them whatsoever they don't have a bible a biblical
01:02:59.640point of reference they have this is how white people practice religion for the last you know
01:03:08.120hundreds and hundreds of years and so that same level of piety and seriousness is something that
01:03:16.760we want to apply to a religion that we find serious um i'm sure that if our house of true
01:03:26.680ancestors were in a different part of the world in a different place in a different climate
01:03:32.200the stuff they did would probably look different depending on the place but the attitude and the
01:03:38.040reasoning behind it would be very very similar and i think it's very authentic the way we practice
01:03:46.360i think it is a greater challenge for scandinavians to
01:03:49.320rediscover what piety is because their society has lacked piety for generations longer than ours
01:03:58.680and ours certainly has as well you see that regionally within the united states
01:04:03.640i think southerners in areas where there is till much more recently very stronger in this presence
01:04:13.000they access piety much easier than people that are a few generations further removed. They've
01:04:20.280never seen it modeled. They've never been around pious people. But I would say that piety is not
01:04:27.720a solely Christian thing. It's a people who genuinely believe the things they say thing.
01:04:34.840And it's not, you know, oh, Christians are pious, so let's be crass and impious.1.00
01:04:40.680I would argue that any people of faith in the world, if their faith is sincere, they act piously.1.00
01:04:49.440You would see that with, you know, Hindus.
01:04:52.860You would see it with practitioners of native faiths on all continents.
01:04:57.960You would see that amongst any group of people that's not Abrahamist.
01:05:02.600Once they're out of that rebellious phase and practicing sincere religion.
01:05:07.920And one of the other, and I'll get off the topic here in a second, but one of the things that was also said, and again, much like the picture, it's funny because I 100% agree, but I think the implications are real different between the two people.
01:05:26.800So the person who was bringing this conversation up was like, yeah, I think their problem is that, see, we're spiritual and they're religious.
01:09:30.600And I don't mean this just in the sense of political discourse, although certainly the political discourse in this country has devolved markedly for a number of reasons and in any number of ways.
01:09:54.620But, you know, when you, you know, people can't, if you can't follow a three-minute video, you're certainly not going to follow a 45-minute argument.
01:10:04.040If you can't read two pages of explanation of the distinction between the sacred and the profane, you're not going to dig into the, you know, the, you know, the 300-page argument of why one is, you know, worthier than the other.
01:10:24.020So, you know, I've got the anti-cell phone thing going on.
01:10:28.500It's not just the, and it's not, I mean, it's like every time I hear or read something about it,
01:11:11.980I don't call it doom scrolling anymore in the present connotations.
01:11:16.280But I do try to keep abreast of the news and the pivots that are working for us, some of them, and some ones that are working against us.
01:11:31.840Not that it has all that much impact on my daily life, but I like to know, you know, I like to have my finger on the pulse of how bad we're losing the war.
01:11:40.940So those sorts of things, though, interestingly, perhaps, I actually watched in the background over the last couple of days.
01:11:55.520I somehow came across the video is titled something like, you know, everything that they're teaching in history is wrong.
01:12:04.100So I thought, hey, to myself, this is, you know, this is something I'd be interested in.
01:12:10.940What it is, it's this writer who's an avowed communist who's talking about the way that they teach history and even other topics in universities and high schools is, you know, is incorrect.
01:12:27.960and i'm like they got you know all they teach you know the entire methodology and curriculum in
01:12:37.240these universities and colleges now is is all far left if not about communism it's certainly
01:12:46.840more social activism than it is any real history and of course students
01:12:51.640consume whatever the professors throw at them because they can't read a book that challenges
01:13:07.820the, you know, the, the shared wisdom that they're being force fed. I mean, the, you know,
01:13:19.860that's, that's what I, and the commenters in that video are talking, you know, over and over again,
01:13:25.980man, this is great. This is, you know, I've never thought of it this way before. And it's like,
01:13:30.900yeah, because you haven't read a book since you were seven years old. So this guy can get up there
01:13:37.020and tell you anything you don't have any groundwork to prevent that from
01:13:44.900polluting your brain stem because the because history is complicated and
01:13:50.900intricate and if you don't understand the order of events and why things happen
01:13:58.820certain and the way things happen sure you're not understanding why they
01:14:02.460happen or why we're in this hand basket in the final stage of the Kali Yuga. That's one thing,
01:14:09.760right, that you read a map, do sums in your head, blah, blah, blah, do all that sort of thing so
01:14:23.920that, you know, to keep your brain sharp because that's what it's here for, right? One of the
01:21:15.620have to remember that our gods fight for us to the same extent that we fight for them
01:21:21.300and so as we manifest our way into the future they can clear the way but it's up to us to
01:21:29.700to do the grunt work and, you know, and dig the trenches and pave roads and fuel the rockets and
01:21:42.160all that stuff that reach into the sky. You know, because if we don't, we will go the way of the
01:21:49.600Sumerians and Hittites and the Phoenicians and be remembered as an ancient civilization that used
01:21:57.520to be. But that's not what I want for my descendants. I want my grandparents to be0.96
01:22:07.440remembered. I want to be remembered. And the only way we do that is, you know, is to forge
01:22:12.700a future that is friendly to the folk. How's that for some alliteration? Forge a folk-friendly
01:22:21.860future. There you go. So before I get to it, GW Farmsworth donated $25 each to paying off
01:22:35.680Sigurheim itself and toward the pavilion at Sigurheim. So thank you. He's late today. He's
01:22:41.960usually first. Ah, we changed the time on him. That's not his fault. He's about 40 minutes
01:22:48.540earlier than our previous start time so we appreciate you very much as always um
01:22:55.580it's an interesting question there's a couple of things kind of packed in there um
01:23:03.660does it mean the gods don't care about other species of gone extinct i don't know i don't
01:23:11.580presume that our gods have some deep caring for all of the species on the earth i don't presume
01:23:18.140to say that they don't care about particular species or whatnot what i do is they do care about
01:23:25.740us they chose out of their benevolence and out of their far seeing that there is something special
01:23:33.340there is a potential within our most distant ancestors they imbued those most distant ancestors
01:23:41.500with the sacred elements of what makes us arian men and women they gave us that divine spark
01:23:49.580that breath that animating force that goodly hue they gave that to us
01:23:57.900for us to develop and become they saw through cultivating our ancestors
01:24:03.660uh came with you know generations of our ancestors teaching them the steps to become more than they
01:24:16.060were you know the potentiality raising from thrall to king they taught our people how to be
01:24:25.260noble and how to be better they have taken an interest in us and our success
01:24:33.660But yes, I think ultimately it is up to us to prove ourselves worthy.
01:24:39.300I don't think that they cease to exist if we cease to exist.
01:24:44.840But I do think they are empowered by our worship.
01:24:50.060And I think that we are definitely empowered by our, you know, the benevolence they've bestowed on us.
01:24:58.720I think that, you know, hopefully they would figure something out if we allowed ourselves to go extinct.
01:25:07.780But I don't know how that works in that grand of a galactic context.
01:25:13.020What I do know is it's incumbent upon us to do our part and not go extinct to the best of our ability so that we can be there to hold up our end of our relationship with God's.
01:25:27.720Yeah, it's always uncomfortable to ponder extinction, and I think that we are specially enabled by our gods with abilities and faculties that give us the ability to stave off extinction and to overcome obstacles that we might otherwise not be able to overcome.
01:25:49.100I think it's incumbent upon us to be good stewards of the intellect and the ability that we've been blessed with so that we don't find ourselves in that predicament.
01:26:00.240But, you know, I don't apply that to other species of, you know, be it mammal or reptile or fungus for that matter that have gone extinct.
01:26:12.740And in that context, and again, in like some of the idea of all these things working together
01:26:22.380in a seamless way, one of the things that we talked about last month at Midsummer Bloat,
01:26:32.480So one of the great things that came up for discussion is RK theory, and those two different theories of child rearing, of offspring rearing, not just for children, but, you know, but there are two species, sorry, there are two distinct ways of doing things when you're raising your progeny, right?
01:27:06.220I keep saying kids as if that's the only thing.
01:27:08.440One is to have lots of offspring and invest very little in their rearing
01:27:16.880and just hope that enough of them survive into the future
01:27:22.020so that they can continue to reproduce, our theory.
01:27:25.740And then there's K-theory, that is having very few children and investing a lot in their manifestations so that they are, so that you have a, you know, so that you have a very few offspring, but you have embodied strong survival stuff in them so that they can live, you know.
01:27:53.740And, you know, like the shorthand that one of the guys said is, you know, it's run versus kill.
01:28:01.560You know, like you think about mice, right?0.96
01:28:05.440Mice mothers don't teach their kids anything.0.99
01:28:08.080They just, they nurse them until they can kick them out of the nest, and then they go and spread out.
01:28:12.840Whereas wolves, only the alphas reproduce or maybe the betas, and then like a whole pack raises the kids,
01:28:21.080and they have few wolves, but they invest a lot in their training and their upbringing.
01:28:28.780And that's the way our civilization, that's the way Western civilization is manifested
01:29:14.020And those fundamental distinctions in the way that we approach the way we promulgate descendancy into the world, those sorts of innate characteristics are the fundamental distinctions between folk and non-folk.
01:29:38.980And those sorts of folkways are inherent in our being, and so we have to hew closely to that folkish tradition in order to continue to have and manifest our descendants so that we can live into the future as the gods want us to do.
01:30:02.580And yeah, as far as other species, we should be concerned about that, but only to the extent that, you know, I mean, there's a thing of reasonableness, right?
01:30:13.700You don't, you know, I am, I actually have a history in deep ecology.
01:30:27.480I think nature has the right to exist for its own, in its own sake.
01:30:31.480But if a small species goes extinct, I don't think the gods are as concerned about that as they are if, you know, if one of our bloodlines dies out.
01:30:43.700alan have you checked have any of you well okay presupposes hey alan have you checked out
01:30:54.260conrad rosenberg's translation of the poetic edit it is a diglottic critical edition with
01:31:02.640very good commentary and a translation with focus on meaning it's a working progress but he's gotten
01:31:09.720a lot of work done on it i really appreciate that it's translate translated into anglish
01:31:15.640with the proper noun or even the proper nouns it's open source too are you familiar with this
01:31:22.280do you have thoughts i am not um but spell that name for me and i will go scout it out
01:31:28.120conrad with k rosenberg common spelling okay i will check that out um i am always open for
01:31:38.120for a new translation. My particular one that I like to go to is the Chisholm Poetic Etta,
01:31:48.960which I keep here on the desk, because Dave Chisholm was a practitioner and not just a translator.
01:31:58.180But I will definitely check out Rosenberg's Etta, and hopefully I will be versed on that.
01:32:07.240see what i did there hopefully i'll be better versed on that next time i'm along here
01:32:14.280yeah i haven't um heard of it myself it is always a
01:32:21.960tricky balance on whether you're going for word accuracy whether you're going on conveying the
01:32:28.760same message or whether you're going on fitting the right poetic meter all of those things were
01:32:34.920important to the original authors but you can't do all of those things equally good simultaneously
01:32:43.800so that's always a that's always a challenge i like that it's the dual facing text i always
01:32:49.880appreciate that because that lets you go back and check and examine your work one of my favorite
01:32:55.960translations is bellows but going through that was fun we catch things every now and again that
01:33:01.880that are just obviously mistakes now that we have you know an additional hundred years of
01:33:07.480understanding um full north and the grammar and stuff there's just obvious root words that aren't
01:33:13.160what he chose to translate here and here so it's really beneficial to have that dual facing text
01:33:19.480or a diglotic which is the first time i've ever encountered that word thank you for
01:33:23.800bringing it up in the chat i'll learn something today uh how many members are we at now 730 as
01:33:31.800of a few minutes ago what other literature is also good alan what literature is good
01:33:42.280what other literature is also good um first of all so a couple things right
01:38:21.140How much time do we have? I've got, I have 600 books still on the shelf. Oh, you know, and another thing, sorry, because since we are ostensibly on a religious program, what are the other authors that I can't not mention?
01:38:35.280find two authors. One is Alain de Benoit. His book on being pagan was very influential in my
01:38:48.520understanding of, in the early years of my paganism, and actually it's interesting that you
01:38:53.920sort of mentioned it, you know, one of his overarching ideas in that book is that pagans
01:39:00.080have tried to find themselves as everything Christians are not, which is why a lot, so many
01:39:04.780pagan ideas manifest as anti-christianity and as anti-family and as anti-traditionalist
01:39:12.060you know that's just a wrong-headed view of what paganism what traditionalism
01:39:17.580which we're trying to do you know or approach this from a traditional viewpoint
01:39:24.460that that is you know that that's wrong-headed to do it any other way Colin Cleary again
01:39:33.500um we could quibble about some of the some of the stuff that that he likes um but i
01:39:40.060got a lot of understanding from his essays and i know you don't but we you know i think so and fine
01:39:47.660and and i'm cycling back around to say marcia eliotta because he's one of the founders of the
01:39:53.420idea of comparative religiosity um i may not be saying his name right but i have like i've read
01:40:01.900at least 10 of his books including the three-volume history and it's literally this one
01:40:08.220and why this is that's you know his three-volume history of religious ideas
01:40:13.100you know he goes back to the paleolithic age and thinks you know what and he's and he talks about
01:40:20.940what were what were they trying to do when religion when when man was first becoming
01:40:26.300what were they doing and you know how has that uh shaped and ebbed and flowed over the
01:40:34.620millennia that have followed that um in his book the sacred and the profane i have bought and given
01:40:41.500away many times i think that defines a lot of the it helped it helped me define a lot of the ideas
01:40:48.540in the way that I approach practice, you know, and that's why we can, like, that's why, like,
01:40:56.220when you put on church clothes, you're entering the sacred, and there isn't, and although
01:41:01.180much is holy, few things are sacred, and that, and his writing helped me understand that.
01:41:08.860okay so that was a selection um again i don't know that the initial thing was intended to be
01:41:21.000that wide open but that's where we're going with it because it entertains us to do so
01:41:24.620first up mr t an autobiography by mr t from 1984
01:41:32.040so my friend got that for me in high school as a joke but i got bored and i forget like
01:41:41.920what the circumstance was but i was really impressed it was a very good well-written
01:41:49.100thoughtful book and it was not about our folk but it was folkish i would encourage you if you have
01:41:57.660any ebon-hued friends to encourage them to read Mr. T, an autobiography by Mr. T.
01:42:08.280Also, other thing, not really related to the topic, but a book I thought was really cool
01:42:14.380when I read it, The Perfect King, The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation.
01:42:20.860That was by Ian Mortimer, and he did a series on a sequence of English kings, I think, from Edward I through Henry V.
01:42:35.740But it was really good, and I learned a lot reading that, and I found that fascinating.
01:42:40.940Goering, a biography by David Irving was a really good book
01:42:47.840that's my favorite of Irving's books that I've read
01:42:49.980but I like a lot of the stuff that he's written
01:58:55.820I think the Brothers Grimm are a good source.0.79
01:59:01.840In fact, I keep meaning to make my way back through the, this is the complete Brothers
01:59:09.260Grimm, which lives here untouched for quite a while.
01:59:12.860But I think that the Grimm's, first of all, they, I mean, a big part of their work was comparative mythology.
01:59:22.860They were collecting these folktales as an understanding of the folk soul.
01:59:31.800Now, that's not the word that they used, but that's the way that I understand it,
01:59:36.120like the way that our folk have manifested into the world are through their stories.
01:59:41.860So, you know, these legends and tales taken in context are definitely a way of helping us fill out our understanding of the way that our people have understood the world and have operated within the world.
02:00:11.860I would take that over Diana Paxson's and made up and bolted crap, except for the Thor-lighting dark beer, which actually sounds pretty right.0.61
02:00:28.100Woe to you if you're trying to set a table for the gods and you don't know the proper setting and proper preferences.
02:00:34.220um as far as Grimm's so no I don't think the Grimm's are good source and I say that you know0.97
02:00:45.280please hear the rest of it I have never gotten a lot out of it I think that their intentions
02:00:55.320were awesome I appreciate the work that they put in
02:00:59.580i don't think they're horrible i would not like discourage anyone from reading them absolutely
02:01:07.320i think that there is a um reverence people have because it was such a pioneering work
02:01:18.380and it was such a unique thing and again i i don't i don't hate that at all i just
02:01:23.980don't think it was all that accurate and i think they were working you know blindfolded with one
02:01:33.920hand tied behind their back just because of the scarcity of material um but i think what they did
02:01:39.160was really um pioneering and a noble endeavor of theirs and i don't want to say i don't want to be
02:01:48.420negative i'm just answering the question honestly i don't think that's a particularly fruitful use
02:01:53.800of your time digging into a lot but again i certainly wouldn't discourage it i think it is
02:01:59.000all very well intentioned um alan what is your favorite level of stone age material culture
02:02:07.720paleolithic the neolithic the mesolithic what say you i'm really a mesolithic kind of guy because i
02:02:17.160think that's the right level of technology you know by the time we were uh by the time we moved past
02:02:23.800sharpened flint and got into metallurgy.
02:02:29.600I think we were getting, you know, then we were past the point.
02:02:32.800We should have tapped the brakes right about then and, you know,
02:06:43.280I also am not going to, you know, presume to overstep.
02:06:50.100It's not what they want of us as a community of people who follow them.
02:06:54.880And I think some of those people would be accepted by whatever else they are in that community.
02:07:06.060I don't know if maybe they form their own community of, you know, folks that don't fit in other spaces.
02:07:16.460And I truly don't know. And I think that it's very selfish of us and not us probably on this broadcast, but on people who are the parents of these folks to put them in that kind of spot.
02:07:37.760i think an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure on that and it's unfortunate that their
02:07:44.960parents didn't follow the teachings that we would all advise on that and it really i wish that i
02:07:51.760had a really eloquent answer on that and i don't and i genuinely feel bad for those people that
02:07:58.680they truly don't fit in in the scheme of things alan that's another that's another one of those
02:08:05.460things where i think that the the practice of we can look at the
02:08:13.780um the the practice civilizational practice of the tribes um during the time that the romans
02:08:21.700were interacting with them like they wouldn't even marry between tribes so like an alamani
02:08:28.340wouldn't marry an Ostrogoth you know much less someone who looked as far different you know0.92
02:08:36.260as far different as one of the other0.51
02:08:43.620any term that you want to use you know any other race like the
02:08:47.620you know so like the tribes wouldn't even intermarry so you know that they would0.97
02:08:51.060they would not approve of inter, I had it, interracial marriage, and, you know, but neither
02:09:08.460does any other, you know, until like the extremely recent past, that was not a thing.
02:09:36.000depending on how you want to define those terms yes um you know there's only so much niche
02:09:48.540available for religious manifestation in Western European folk.
02:09:57.060And so, yes, that's one of the reasons why other non-Native religions have been so active0.88
02:10:07.660in proselytizing and converting our folk.1.00
02:10:12.740You know, certainly a thousand years ago, a hundred years ago, a hundred hours ago,0.81
02:10:16.860So, you know, they are, they have the zealotry to change all of our people so that we will have the mindset of the foreign deities that permeate modern culture.0.82
02:10:38.200And yes, we are at war with them in the sense that, you know, you can only be one or the other.0.96
02:10:48.500And so we are trying to bring as many of our people home by any means necessary so that we can supplant the parasitic faith that has been seeded into our garden.0.92
02:11:12.300And, you know, this is, I mean, speaking of books, I mean, if you want to read a book that is, that says that in a, that explains all of that in a much more eloquent way than I can off the cuff tonight, the Dharma Manifesto talks about the idea that we are at war, but we didn't start it.
02:11:42.300yeah i would say that we are depending on what that means but it's
02:11:55.100funny because i don't necessarily think that
02:12:01.900that means that we individually are at war with the practitioners of other faiths
02:12:08.620and it sounds like those two are incongruent and and i don't mean that they are but i think that0.97
02:12:21.020there are other folk religions that don't seek to convert our people to their
02:12:31.100faith and that don't seek to stomp out our faith they're about their people and their advancement
02:12:37.660and about you know dealing with others on a you know certain letting circumstance determine that
02:12:45.820as opposed to having some inherent aversion and i think that's our position too in general there
02:12:51.180are certain faiths that their fundamental tenet is that our faith is bad and must be wiped out0.74
02:12:58.660That is an avowed truth in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.0.99
02:13:05.840Therefore, those faiths are absolutely in spiritual warfare with Alcetree.0.90
02:13:12.580But I think a lot of the people that claim to practice those faiths kind of have a live and let live attitude about it or don't really care that much or, you know, whatever else the case might be.
02:13:22.400So I don't think that implies a certain level of behavior towards other practitioners of other faiths, but it certainly does on a spiritual level between our gods and their god, and between our religion as a big-picture concept and theirs, absolutely.
02:13:41.820and again we didn't start it i don't think that's inherent to our faith but it is inherent to our
02:13:49.800faith that we stand against people that would wipe out our faith or take our people and rip
02:13:57.680them from trough to our gods um another question if appropriate does the afa have an official
02:14:08.260mead producer do you guys have an official producer of ceremonial grade mead um no we don't
02:14:16.900people use a lot of different kind of needs we have a number of people that make their own needs
02:14:20.900but alan you might want to say more on this because of our people um within the afa that
02:14:26.820produce their own mead i think our law speaker here is probably the most prolific in doing so
02:14:31.940Yeah, and I, you know, whatever, at St. John, whatever is to hand is the best mead.
02:14:41.740And I do like, first of all, like the small meaderies that have started to manifest in, you know, now that I know Gilbert has brought some bottles from like one of the local Georgia meaderies.
02:15:11.740it's always very good um the i can't remember what it's called but like there's the the beatery
02:15:18.060that makes odin's skull and some other um you know viking themed beets which they're all pretty good
02:15:25.260they're a little um heavy really for my taste um chaucer's is actually not bad i mean it you know
02:15:35.180chaucer's perfectly fine um uh you know that's the most commercial everywhere mead but ratty
02:15:41.740is not mead don't i mean if that's all you got that's fine but bun ratty is not mead
02:15:50.460great grill mead side note it's completely appropriate to do ritual with different kind
02:15:59.020of alcohol and you can but know what you're doing and be intentional about what you're doing
02:16:05.020it kind of goes back to our previous conversation if you want to blow it with wine or with uh
02:16:11.500ale or with whatever just make sure that you know what you're doing there's reasoning and
02:16:15.900it's tricky when some products say they're one thing and they're really something else
02:16:21.740like bun ratty's good but it's like white wine with honey added i think
02:16:28.060i mean that's that is what it is right that that is what it is i was i started to disagree that it
02:16:41.760is but fun ready's not good i mean it's tolerable you know it's like mc ultra right if you if that's
02:16:50.360the only beer in the cooler i'll drink one but so i like a lot of quarters like so don't bring
02:16:57.820that i went to bunratty castle and i have been there and walked the halls and seen the thing
02:17:05.020and smelled the peak and it just brings me back i don't know if it's it's like i really like um
02:17:15.820why is it uh uh the the uh the champagne of beers miller miller highlife
02:17:24.060high life there you go i don't even think it's that great but it's what i drank when i first
02:17:29.980started drinking with my friends and it takes me back to a time and a place so i'm not saying it's
02:17:35.180good i'm just saying i have a special connection to it and you know know what you're getting if you
02:17:39.500want to bloat with white wine with honey in it then bun ratty is get you there and i've even had
02:17:46.940some heathens that i used to practice with you know they did what they called quick mead which
02:17:54.540was they would just take some vodka and stir some honey in it and maybe dilute it with either juice
02:18:02.700or water and they called it quick mead which it's you know it's not quite profane but it's the right
02:18:11.340it's right next to it and i'm you know and somebody made a quick mead with um
02:18:20.380pink lemonade powder at a winter nights i was at
02:18:26.620it was intriguing it was very very alcoholic it would get you there quick
02:18:33.100i would not prefer to do bloat with it
02:20:27.160If society is the person that you broke trough with, the idea of repaying what you broke is a fundamental to our system of justice and fixing things.
02:20:41.780It's kind of a first step towards repentance. If you're able to fix the things that you damaged, that's a big step.
02:20:49.440now there's more to it a lot of stuff becomes kind of nuanced depending on the situation but
02:20:56.120i think that as a concept needs to be kind of internalized by everybody it's not just like
02:21:00.920hey i'm sorry i messed up it was thought you know every infraction like that is you're taking
02:21:09.900something from something and it's interpersonal even in an interpersonal thing if i got on here
02:21:17.520and I cursed out Alan about something.
02:21:20.100It's not just, hey, Alan, I was having a bad night,0.99
02:21:22.500had too much of my mimosa, I'm sorry, I'm a jerk.0.94
02:21:26.640It would also be, hey, everyone on the show0.97
02:21:30.020that listened to me do that, I was really wrong.
02:21:33.460I'm dumb and I'm sorry and I was incorrect.
02:21:35.880And doing something to restore the reputation
02:24:23.180You know, I make this offering to restore my growth with the gods and ask for your help in fulfilling the oath that I took and to keep my feet on the path.
02:24:43.720The other thing is be more careful about the oaths that you take.
02:34:10.980of the mother, sorry, the mother figure, I think is the right manifestation for, I think it's the
02:34:18.740right remedy for what we've seen of, you know, too much maiden and not enough mother here lately,
02:34:27.560but, you know, she would certainly be the, at this age, you know, I mean, you know, nearly 40,
02:34:35.440So, you know, it's time to start acting a little mature and, you know, less Freya and more Frigg.
02:34:51.220So I don't like to, I like to give people good answers on here.
02:34:56.760And these are the questions that are hard.
02:35:00.000And I think some of this comes into play.
02:35:08.500We've had a lot of questions lately about full truies or people who have like a, they're specifically devoted to one of the gods over the others.
02:39:47.060whatever it is that you're doing, but it's also
02:39:53.060a way of strengthening your relationship with the gods.
02:39:59.080And, you know, absolutely, you should, you know, it is perfectly legitimate to do whatever it is, fix yourself without calling on the help of the gods.
02:40:13.380But there's nothing inappropriate about, you know, if you feel like you need help.
02:40:19.080I mean, it's, I think it's pat and simple and lacks understanding to say, why don't you just do whatever, okay?
02:40:38.880If you need external help, if you need help from the gods, if you need help from a counselor, if you need help from the go-thar, if you need help from a nine-step group or whatever, use those tools.
02:40:54.220I mean, there's nothing inappropriate about using a cable to winch yourself out of the canyon, right?
02:41:09.800If you're struggling and need help, use whatever tool is out there, and an oath is an absolutely legitimate way of doing that.
02:41:19.220so there's two kind of oaths like oaths between people formalize an agreement in a specific way
02:41:32.580they build trust and they build consequence if trust isn't maintained and they solidify loyalty
02:41:41.700in the face of hardship like you wouldn't need an oath between people if it was guaranteed to have
02:41:48.980you know happy good times all the time the oath is there for those difficult circumstances so
02:41:56.260there is a formalized way in a particular ritualized and in some cases enforceable
02:42:03.780commitment to stick through things even when it's difficult but oaths to the gods about certain
02:42:11.300things there is a ritual aspect about an oath that makes it worth more than the sum of its parts
02:42:18.980doing difficult things and doing the right thing is good like nobody's going to argue that like
02:42:27.860yeah it's awesome if you can just beat your addiction by yourself that's great but there's
02:42:32.160something special about coming before the gods and formalizing a commitment to do a thing
02:42:37.980and then accomplishing that that you've oathed to do that ability to make that commitment in a
02:42:47.520formal and ritualized way and then complete it builds reputation and builds spiritual might
02:42:57.000in a greater way than doing it without doing that. It builds your reputation, builds your
02:43:04.160reputation on this side of the veil and beyond. And I think that's very important. There is a
02:43:10.820pride in your ability to accomplish and your ability to follow through goes a little bit to
02:43:19.100some of the previous conversation we had tonight about goal setting you know why set goals why
02:43:24.380don't you just do the right stuff anyway and don't set a goal you just get there because you're doing
02:43:28.640the right stuff well you can but there's an enhanced value about setting a goal on a timetable
02:44:29.660And I do think they think more of you if you're somebody who follows through on your oath.
02:44:36.420You want your actions, but our people have always been verbal.
02:44:41.840Verbal is one of the keys to magic for our folk and always has been.
02:44:47.060You have an idea or a commitment or something you want to do and you utter that out.
02:44:53.140You're removing it from the world of imagination and you're manifesting it into the world of reality.
02:44:58.320We have always been ones to make boasts or to make proclamations or to make poetry, to make these statements.
02:45:08.680That use of making verbal commitment to call your shot and do a thing is fundamental to our folk and to our culture, and it always has been.
02:45:19.100And doing that draws the eye of judgment to you, and you're enhanced if under that scrutiny you accomplish great things.
02:45:30.520And that's really what we want. We want our gods to be proud of us.
02:45:34.240One thing that I often do when I'm inviting the gods, the ancestors, and the land spirits to be with us during blow is I invite them to hear our words and to see our deeds.
02:45:50.820Because ideally you want those things, you want both of those things so that they match up.
02:46:45.220And I mean that in almost every sense of the word.
02:46:51.460I mean, part of the way that we build community is by judging each other.
02:47:00.220That's the I mean, that's the harshest way to say that. But, you know, that's, you know, by treating each other with fairness and tenderness and love and maturity.
02:47:12.640You know, that is absolutely a way of building the community.
02:47:19.620That's both the duty and the benefit of being in the community.
02:47:25.300You have an obligation to your folk to treat everyone with fairness and love, but also dignity and all those sorts of things.
02:47:41.080them with honesty, you know, that way people will be able to correct themselves if that's
02:47:51.260the right idea to try to express in this context, you know, because, you know, that this relationship
02:47:58.340that we have with each other, this horizontal relationship is the right manifestation of
02:48:09.060the folk soul. We see each other in each other, and by being able to hold each other to a decent
02:48:19.920standard of behavior, a decent standard of action, then we all understand that we are
02:48:31.300accountable to each other, we're accountable to our ancestors, and ultimately accountable to the
02:48:37.200odds, and by judging each other, and there's no, I can't think of a different word, but, you know,
02:48:48.520by holding each other to accountability, then that does help build community, because,
02:48:57.440you know, if your close friend, if your brother, if your spiritual companion won't tell you the
02:49:06.460truth, won't correct you when you're starting to veer off the path, then who's going to do that?
02:49:13.560You know, and that's been, that I think is a big problem in current society and why we're so far0.84
02:49:21.660off the rails in so many ways is, first of all, we have manifested a Christian ideology that no one
02:50:00.520And so to hold each other accountable is a way of, you know, turning, keeping someone's drinking problem from becoming alcoholism, keeping someone's spending problem from turning into bankruptcy, keeping someone's abuse of their mate from turning into, you know, from turning from bad to worse.
02:50:24.960and understanding that we are that we all owe each other this duty of care that that that's
02:50:33.080what community is and if you know actually one of the things that i
02:50:37.560on my youtube subscriptions is to the medieval mindset and he talks about the idea that like
02:50:46.040you know we think about that those guys were miserable you know just you know stuck in the
02:50:52.020same place all the time, but just, you know, like you were around the 200 people that you knew the
02:50:56.780best and the 200 people who knew you the best. And so you were in constant companionship. You
02:51:02.560were in constant growth with the people who would help you when you needed help and you would help
02:51:09.860when they needed help. So that sort of accountability is what, you know, in a lot of
02:51:17.480ways is what we're trying to build in the AFA by having COFs, for the most part, online
02:51:25.680communities, but also kindreds and local groups that can do this with and for each other,
02:51:34.920encourage each other when we're down, build each other up, hold each other accountable.
02:51:40.820yes that is the purpose of community and that's the that's a lot of the good part of being part
02:51:47.720of the full is being part of that community and that's why i always tell people like you know
02:51:52.400being online is fine and interacting online with other afa members is great
02:51:57.640but go to the hof i mean yeah it's you know and you think about you know that it's some giant
02:52:07.300burden to go two three hours to drive two three hours but you know like in the not that long ago
02:52:14.740it would have taken you two hours to get the team hooked up to buggy so you could
02:52:21.140clock another hour to you know go just over the order to be able to um to to go to to go to church
02:52:30.260so we're just spoiled but we shouldn't but it's worth it to come in and manifest yourself as part
02:52:38.980of the whole all right so um the stuff alan said also it community provides context that we live
02:52:50.980out all of our values that you know one of the biggest problems we have in modern societies
02:52:57.620or in our modern existence i mean i think modern society might even be a myth we don't have
02:53:05.420connectivity connectivity you don't know your neighbors you don't know the people in your town
02:53:10.520for the most of us and we're all atomized having people that you know that know you some of it's
02:53:19.680reflected in um our ancestors use of patronymics oh matt matt who matt geraldson oh i know gerald
02:53:30.680he's awesome cool you're his kid we'll take care of you or hey who's that screwing up oh all right
02:53:37.680cool i know your dad come with me we're gonna you know get this handled you have a set of eyes
02:53:42.400looking out for your people and you have a reputation that you build in your community
02:53:50.380you're somebody you have a value people know you you know people and that's how we're meant to be
02:53:57.260and it's how all the other values of ours are played out they're not internal values they're
02:54:02.000external values they're things that your community recognizes that you are part of something and
02:54:09.600we're certainly all meant for that and uh nick can you read for me the last question because
02:54:16.800my private chat um reset when i got booted are you referring to alan austin's yes good evening
02:54:30.400i'll see you go through matt law speaker alan and folk builder nick what is to be done with
02:54:34.640all the whites out there who don't seem to have a problem with other races asserting themselves
02:57:08.740Like all these people for thousands of generations had the right idea about the right approach to what we call folkishness.
02:57:24.820I think it's a delicate negotiation to get there.
02:57:30.440And if I may, you know, I'll give you, like, one of the things we talked about last month was the elevator speech.
02:57:36.900And one of the things that I sometimes think about is trying to convince an audience of people that we are the ones who hold the correct way of thinking, right?
02:57:57.140And so the way that the anti-white rhetoric has gone goes sort of like this.
02:58:06.900Right. I would ask you, like, Matt, do you love your mother?
02:58:16.400Okay. And you said, why do you hate my mother? Why do you hate my mother, Matt?
02:58:22.220You know, you just, you hate, if you love your mother, you must hate my mother, right?
02:58:27.520I mean, and that's the false dichotomy, that these anti-racists have shoved down our throat, and it's the blood libel, which is also built on a stack of lies and mendacity, but we can love each other.
02:58:53.680We can love our race. We can love our people and be completely neutral toward everything else, right?
02:59:05.340I don't hate anybody. I wish they'd stop hating us.
02:59:10.220But to think that we can't love ourselves and love our people without hating other people is just wrong.1.00
02:59:25.780It's stupid. It's not, you know, it's illogical.0.99
02:59:30.220And we're finally starting to break through that barrier where people are beginning to see the fallacy of that straw man argument.
02:59:40.220High school males are trending conservative, you know, and I think it's going to, I think we're just going to hit that pivot point in the great cycle where it's just going to, you know, it's going to tip back in our direction and we're going to be back okay.