Asatru Folk Assembly - 6⧸7⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 48 - King Athanaric

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00:03:00.000 hello everyone and welcome again to another exciting edition of victory never sleeps

00:03:19.520 tonight is a very special edition for the first time in front of the camera we've got

00:03:25.840 our producer and folk builder nick rice um those of you in the chat room have gotten to know nick

00:03:33.280 a little bit over the past i don't know almost year now worth of episodes nick uh

00:03:40.800 on this show just on this show he puts everything together runs all the stuff on the back end

00:03:46.720 edits and moderates the chat feeds me the questions so i can find them pops up graphics

00:03:54.800 it does so much to make this thing look as good as it does and we certainly appreciate that um

00:04:03.360 nick being the first time you know officially on this side of the program

00:04:09.520 can you tell people a little bit about yourself and a little bit about uh how you came to

00:04:14.880 to Alistair True and how you came to the Alistair Folk Assembly.

00:04:18.480 Well, that's going to take a while.

00:04:20.500 Okay, we've got time.

00:04:23.240 All righty.

00:04:24.460 So, oh, way back when I was a kiddo, I think I read The Odyssey, like fifth, sixth grade.

00:04:34.400 Always liked, you know, Hercules growing up.

00:04:37.940 It was a great cartoon.

00:04:40.860 All of that was really some of the best stuff.

00:04:43.420 over the years. I know even in fifth grade, we did like a special week where we got to pick our own

00:04:48.900 topics. And I think I picked sign language, Greek mythology, and basketball. And that's all we did

00:04:55.520 all week was those topics. So Greek mythology was awesome. I read it again later on. I think I left,

00:05:02.440 oh, I think I left the church about 15 and bounced back and forth, you know,

00:05:09.380 agnostic atheist i even dabbled a little bit trying to uh learn a little uh what is it buddhism

00:05:15.960 you know bounce back and forth oh settled into uh you know your fluffy bunny wicca 0.96

00:05:22.640 um and i was pretty much a liberal idiot back in college and stuff and you know eventually 0.72

00:05:33.200 figure uh found my way i decided vikings are cool and um that's really what got me started was just 0.73

00:05:40.800 vikings are cool oh man and then um just started working more and more with them less with the

00:05:47.040 greek gods and focused more on the north side of things uh one day i decided um well i like guns

00:05:56.720 let's try that out and so um from there i decided i needed to uh indoctrinate myself intentionally

00:06:07.600 into conservatism because that's the people who like guns right and there with my adventure

00:06:16.000 and you know i heard about the afa i think oh around about 2015 or so but at that time i was

00:06:23.520 down in georgia kind of kicked myself now because i was like 30 minutes from uh goethe east who uh

00:06:30.400 wouldn't have been a goethe at the time but shortly after not too long after that he'd have been uh

00:06:35.840 you know apprenticing and then folk building and all that but uh i had a decent group of people i

00:06:42.560 hung out with and didn't know that i needed uh this moved to illinois spent three years and kind

00:06:52.800 of a lull um didn't really do anything on a personal level spirit tree didn't have any

00:07:00.800 friends because i just moved 400 miles away from where i lived for 17 years and uh

00:07:09.280 you know so one day i decided i'm gonna hit up uh afa i remembered them it'd been

00:07:16.320 six years probably since i'd heard about them but i remembered them

00:07:19.200 saw uh rothma good kindred and it was in illinois so i reached out to the email that was given there

00:07:26.220 happened to be uh folk builder jim cummings and uh he responded back saying but there's not really

00:07:34.420 a whole lot going down in southern illinois but he had just got a couple people in and they were

00:07:39.600 about to have a meeting uh get together he used this strange term i never heard of a moot

00:07:45.820 And by now, I think I know that term pretty good.

00:07:50.480 And so I met up with them.

00:07:53.620 I joined the AFA, met up with them.

00:07:56.300 And I am not somebody to go like halfway on something.

00:08:04.460 So I don't know.

00:08:06.280 It was after the first meeting.

00:08:08.100 I had just met these AFA people.

00:08:09.820 And my brain goes, okay, I need to figure out how I get into leadership.

00:08:12.580 But I gave it a little bit of time.

00:08:14.160 i think i was a member for about a month and a half before i told jim and then jim reached out

00:08:20.240 to you you reached out to me and i officially became a folk builder november or apprentice

00:08:26.400 folk builder november first of uh 21 and then uh just rock and rolled got oath at lc fest last year

00:08:40.080 so uh it's been it was early last year it was in april so it's been about 13 and a half months

00:08:47.360 and you know over the summer of last year brandy i guess found out i knew a thing or two about a

00:08:53.280 thing or two and um once you let brandy know that you know how to do something you done effed up

00:09:00.320 because now i have a 40 hour a week job that i don't get paid for known as the afa you know 0.67

00:09:07.920 that bites both ways i've told brandy that too many times she messed up and was too competent

00:09:12.880 so we put everything on her back um and that's that's no joke when it comes to you i don't think

00:09:18.640 a lot of people on here may well i suppose we got a lot of uh afa leadership in the chat room

00:09:24.960 and paying attention and i appreciate that you guys know how much nick does but i don't think

00:09:29.280 the general audience may um nick handles all our day-to-day tech stuff just lightning quick he's

00:09:38.640 been a huge help with website stuff and everything else in addition to being a a very solid folk

00:09:45.280 builder something else about nick is he's recently relocated to tennessee so that he can be part of

00:09:51.920 siggerheim and so that's that's an exciting adventure that like he said he doesn't halfway

00:09:58.640 do something so he's really throwing himself into it um purpose of tonight's show though is to talk

00:10:08.320 about one of our also true heroes and this one is one that we've recently honored as one of our

00:10:17.280 heroes again a lot of the the original first round were i guess martyrs from the hymn scrangla

00:10:27.040 and this is is different gentlemen from a different time and in a different area geographically

00:10:34.240 can you tell folks as if they have no clue anything about him where he's from his time

00:10:40.160 period can you give people an understanding of uh king of thaneric i definitely can and you know

00:10:51.040 one of the things about having the producer on the show is um he has to pull out a few

00:10:57.200 extra tricks because he can't he can't leave it up to chance so um we got a powerpoint presentation

00:11:04.800 to go through excellent so let's see what we got here king uh thaneric uh folk hero he was

00:11:14.800 the first king of the visigoths from 369 to 381 ce and luckily enough this um this episode falls

00:11:24.080 right online in that his day of remembrance is in two days it'll be friday um the ninth of the

00:11:31.360 month so we're doing good here at that so let's just talk about him he is um he was what's known

00:11:39.520 is the first king of the Visigoths, who are a tribe, obviously, of the Gothic people. Specifically,

00:11:47.180 at this time period, they were right around in the north of Greece, in Romania, in that,

00:11:55.360 what is that, the Baltic region? Or is it the Baltics, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia?

00:12:02.060 I, he was in Romania in that area. And, um, so they focus around in there and that was really

00:12:10.860 a hotbed during his time period. He, um, his, he was, as I said, the first King of the Visigoths,

00:12:17.800 his father was a ruler and, um, his whole life, um, and his, the time period was filled with

00:12:27.100 strife. It was a very important time for his people. And even like his later, one of his

00:12:35.380 later relatives, when they were a king, was known for sacking the Visigoth or the Roman Empire at

00:12:43.660 the time. Because this is towards the end, the decline of the Roman Empire. Rome is now based

00:12:50.480 out of constantinople um the the italian side of the roman empire has really gone downhill something

00:13:00.360 major and um because this is uh what uh 400 years after the uh changing of the time the way we

00:13:09.640 measure time this is a common era so long before most of our other heroes and all of that most of

00:13:17.660 our heroes the original ones as you said based out of the heimskringla a lot of those are all um

00:13:24.700 like plus on the plus side of 1000 ce um so that's this is definitely way before that um

00:13:34.280 off the top of my head he is i think he's the earliest hero actually um i can't think of any

00:13:41.820 that are older so this is definitely an interesting time period and we're going to go into that a

00:13:46.620 bit more of course because he was um the king of the god at this time this is long before the the

00:13:55.100 really the major christian invasion into europe or into germanic europe and uh so at this time

00:14:03.740 of course they were all uh abide by their ancient faith um he i'm gonna have to look at some notes

00:14:10.620 here for some specific names but he was a member of the noble balk's family and this is his tribe

00:14:17.740 was the therovingian tribe and as i said earlier i mentioned the king that sacked rome that was

00:14:24.780 aleric the first um he would have been just a little bit after him uh one or a couple kings

00:14:31.020 in between so um king eric was known as what we would call a judge or in the italian you that

00:14:41.660 and essentially he was the his his responsibility was to protect the uh the faith the religion um

00:14:49.580 the culture of his people bodie's correcting me in the chat that armenius was 300 years before

00:14:55.980 all right thank you bodhi this is why you are awesome um but essentially he was his whole job

00:15:04.360 was um aside from being king and ruler was really it was predominant that he was protecting the

00:15:10.760 culture and the faith of his people and with that he was known to uh basically um execute

00:15:21.480 members of his tribe or other goths that were known to have converted over to christianity

00:15:28.680 and he there's a story saying that he uh told his father that he would he swore to his father that

00:15:37.440 he would never set foot on uh roman soil and would forever be an enemy of rome um i'll say

00:15:45.320 at this point because it'll come up uh a bit later on in that um there are a couple different

00:15:52.580 historical accounts and sometimes the details do get mixed whether it's which one of the ancient

00:15:58.780 historians is uh relaying this information all righty i think um and of course i should have

00:16:06.360 skipped this slide earlier um but this is a little portrait we have of king of thaneric

00:16:11.560 and this is a bit of the area and you can see here all of these arrows showing

00:16:17.400 um entrant uh like movement of troops and peoples and you can see how how much turmoil

00:16:24.960 there was in this area um we'll go through a bit of the details but there's been there's

00:16:30.880 roman attacks from the south from the continental area all over um there ends up being a civil

00:16:37.580 war which uh thanaric takes part in and then later on at the culmination of all these events was the

00:16:43.900 hunting invasion from asia so we want to go through this a bit and we're going to talk about

00:16:52.380 so during his 12-year reign he was um there was a bit of as i said war and such and there was a

00:17:01.020 at one point there was an attempted peace um he he had allied um with um

00:17:11.340 which we call he had allied with another gothic king um and allied against the romans

00:17:18.700 invasions and you can see here this is at one point where a couple pictures where

00:17:24.460 where the Goths met up with the Romans on ship as, I guess, like some kind of peaceful history that did not succeed.

00:17:37.980 Eventually, though, the combination of Fritigern and Xanaric and their peoples, they did fight back the Roman invasion.

00:17:48.540 And so that was very successful. And then it followed up with a gothic civil war in that Fritigern passed Thanaric.

00:18:00.040 And very quickly, Thanaric was winning these engagements, so much so that Fritigern ended up seeking help from the Roman Empire, specifically here.

00:18:19.040 Where can we get the name of that fellow? Valens. The Roman emperor at the time was Valens, and Fritigern and his people converted to Christianity so that they could have the aid of the Roman empire on their side.

00:18:34.360 And sadly, due to that, Athanaric did lose the battle, lose the Civil War.

00:18:42.900 And following that, we find out that the Huns are invading. 0.91

00:18:49.300 They're pushing people in.

00:18:51.700 And the Fritigern and his people seek refuge in the Roman Empire outside of the invasion of the Huns,

00:18:58.280 leaving Athanaric and his people to fend for themselves.

00:19:04.360 And through that, they, um, they ended up like kind of settling or hiding out or seeking refuge in this small area, which is called, where did I put it?

00:19:20.060 Uh, the Lutus, the Lutus Valley, which is a modern day Transylvania. 0.58

00:19:25.240 And they, they sought refuge there, uh, I guess hunkered down through the Hunnic invasion.

00:19:31.220 And then about three, this is where we get some of those differing opinions or differing interpretations, different writings of histories.

00:19:42.540 um a couple of his uh ancient historians have said that um uh fritigern or sorry a fanric

00:19:52.200 uh was exiled from his people uh for unknown reasons and sought refuge in constantinople

00:19:59.820 or in the room of the empire and then other ones don't mention that exile they just say that um

00:20:05.460 he he basically uh was attempting to broker some kind of peace um i think generally our

00:20:12.420 our accepted uh interpretation used on runestone.org is the the portion of it where he was uh

00:20:19.780 kind of kicked out of his tribe and seeking refuge there so we see that um at this time valens is no

00:20:26.740 longer the emperor of rome it is now theodosius the first and uh fritigern nope again a thanaric

00:20:36.900 goes and he meets up with him and actually um is accepted into the roman empire and he's only there

00:20:43.860 for a week week and a half very short period of time and he uh passes away and we we see through

00:20:53.460 this the theodosius actually gives him a state burial um showing appreciation for the gothic

00:21:00.500 culture and um we'll notice um the visigoths are much more well known uh following this in in the

00:21:09.860 next couple generations they make their way across southern europe and actually settle the iberian

00:21:15.780 peninsula forming the visigothic empire that is probably much more well known at the time

00:21:21.540 so um that's definitely a thing but we really want to keep in mind here um the entire time uh

00:21:29.620 thaneric was king he was uh leading his people into battle he was very staunch in his uh pagan

00:21:39.860 roots in his acceptance of his ancient faith he was willing to execute and exile anybody that uh

00:21:48.740 was converting go and doing a civil war with another gothic tribe so throughout all of this we

00:21:58.020 uh we do remember all this and for anybody that's interested there's a few further readings

00:22:04.020 with some more information on fanric and his uh his history and people but that is what i got there

00:22:11.220 pop us back up big so that's that's fantastic that's the best the best presentation we've had

00:22:23.060 so far on one of our heroes uh certainly um and the little extra graphics and stuff i sent you a

00:22:29.620 text but i'd really like to find and look more into that last picture you had up i thought that

00:22:35.460 was really striking looking um hope you guys aren't distracted my daughter's come up here and

00:22:43.780 done a little dance party and now she's down the hall screaming about something three is an

00:22:47.860 emotional age there's there's highs and lows uh but no that was really really well done um

00:22:55.380 um it was important to me to uh recognize athanaric as one of our heroes early on that story really

00:23:06.900 really stuck out to me when I was first coming uh coming home to Alcetru there was a

00:23:17.580 um I think I want to find what the uh book was it wasn't really a book it was a lecture series

00:23:22.920 the roman and the teuton by charles kingsley and that was a uh lecture series from

00:23:30.900 got it pulled up here on the screen i'm trying to get a good date yeah it was uh like 1889

00:23:37.260 and it was really well done that's back when people wrote about history passionately it wasn't

00:23:43.960 just dry scholarship without flavor people wrote passionately about different subjects

00:23:50.660 The first time I had heard about Athanric and, you know, the story that when there were, when large portions of the Visigoths were moving to embrace Christianity and to turn their back on the gods, Athanric had a wagon.

00:24:09.600 And you'll see this a lot in ancient Germanic worship, but they had a wagon pulled through the camp with an idol of Odin on it.

00:24:22.260 And anyone who wouldn't bow before the idol and worship Odin, he had them burnt along with their tents, all their stuff, completely wiped out from the camp. 0.55

00:24:32.660 that was very often the Germanic situation that was done to, 0.72

00:24:39.700 to traitors and people that were completely dishonorable as all remnants of

00:24:44.800 them needed to be, uh, destroyed and washed away and not talked about.

00:24:51.500 Well, I think part of that's a bit of important in that it's not like that

00:24:58.600 they're doing this you know they they understand the importance of all that so much that they're

00:25:05.040 not even willing to profit from it and you know take their supplies or anything like that

00:25:11.760 apparently i have a motorcycle next door starting up if y'all hear that so no and you guys may find

00:25:18.640 this uh familiar to the uh passages in tacitus that we've uh heard about about the germanic tribes

00:25:25.860 three centuries earlier about how um cowardice and homosexuals deviancy cowardice people guilty 0.93

00:25:37.600 of that were stomped into the bog so that they completely disappeared so that they were so 0.98

00:25:43.940 disgusted by treason and cowardice disloyalty and that kind of deviancy that they they didn't want

00:25:53.020 any remnant or any reminder of it. It was so disgusting and shameful to them. And these 0.92

00:25:58.580 people had turned. So another point that I think is really important, it's very, it's

00:26:07.440 much easier to follow our gods when that's just what you do. If you're in a society where

00:26:16.120 that's how you're raised and that's how you're expected to be, and that's where all the social

00:26:20.120 capital is, then it's very easy to embrace our gods. It's much harder in a time where the

00:26:27.920 political wind is moving the other direction. All of the people, including your fellow leaders,

00:26:35.580 are moving that way. The might of Rome and power and influence is on that side.

00:26:41.920 Staying true to our gods, staying loyal to our gods in adverse circumstances

00:26:47.300 says a lot about character.

00:26:50.140 He was a champion of our faith

00:26:51.920 in a time where so many of our people

00:26:53.440 were abandoning it.

00:26:59.220 Well, while we got a little bit of a lull here,

00:27:01.420 let's go through part of this that you skipped.

00:27:04.040 Where are we streaming at today?

00:27:06.240 Oh, yeah.

00:27:07.500 So we're streaming over on Entropy.

00:27:14.240 We're on Entropy if you guys want to get your questions

00:27:16.260 first in the chat please go over there and donate if you guys just want to donate it's a good place

00:27:20.900 to do it and speaking of donations um ronald we appreciate every single week you being out there

00:27:29.440 and donating significantly for for us for our folk um you really do more than your fair share

00:27:37.820 we appreciate you so much um yeah so we're also on twitter live we're on vk live we're on odyssey

00:27:48.860 live so any of those places if you're listening in you can ask questions there as well

00:27:54.460 we appreciate you guys checking in twitter has gotten a much bigger audience past few weeks which

00:28:01.100 is fantastic um hopefully mandy will come corral this child and i can pay a little bit better

00:28:09.420 attention i apologize about that i'm trying well so those are the places i also want to mention

00:28:17.900 um we've got midsummer at odenshoff coming up here in just a little about a week and a half from now

00:28:27.580 so i would love to see anybody who can make it out to brownsville california for that

00:28:34.140 um trying to think if there's any other top of the hour notes that need to be out there and i think

00:28:40.300 that's pretty much what we've got except for a reminder that in the 22nd of july we're gonna 0.92

00:28:47.420 have our first sigger bloat at siggerheim and uh nick's helping set that up it's gonna be fantastic 0.98

00:28:54.860 it's going to be a little bit rustic because we still don't have you know a lot of infrastructure 0.97

00:28:59.100 built out there but it's a very special place and we'd love to see all you guys out there

00:29:04.540 um nick is also a little bit of a deviation because he's the guy that feeds me the questions

00:29:11.020 he is gonna gonna be the one finding the questions and asking them because uh i'm flying

00:29:17.020 blind tonight a little bit so nick will start chipping away at uh at some of these questions

00:29:23.900 We'll chip away.

00:29:25.300 We'll go a little quick.

00:29:26.520 As of right now, I think a lot of these questions are just about me, so it's okay.

00:29:30.540 I'll do a little talking.

00:29:31.220 That's fine.

00:29:32.760 So we're going to start with a question for probably my favorite person in the whole wide world,

00:29:38.120 Ms. Witten Brandi Callahan.

00:29:40.320 Her first question, how did I become so amazing?

00:29:43.480 Ma'am, what is that saying?

00:29:49.720 So that is a real question.

00:29:51.360 That is, in fact, in the chat room.

00:29:53.020 can see it was the actual question nick didn't plant that absolutely it was and um my brain was

00:29:59.020 gonna make a joke about a something what is it some kind of female shampoo or something about

00:30:03.820 you're born with it but i can't remember what it is which is probably a good thing that i can't

00:30:08.540 remember what it is um but uh maybe she's born with it maybe it's maybelline that that see uh 0.94

00:30:17.420 there we go uh i don't know if they're on the tranny bandwagon so we are not officially endorsing 0.88

00:30:22.700 this beautification product oh but realistically no um how did i become so awesome really i just

00:30:31.420 try i think that's the biggest thing is i try and that i actually have a little bit of care in that

00:30:38.940 you know stuff comes out the way it should and it doesn't help it doesn't hurt that i had a drill

00:30:44.940 instructor for a couple years and miss or a couple uh a year or two whatever from sprain

00:30:50.460 Callahan keeping me in line so she did a great job she's one of my favorite

00:30:56.400 people in the whole wide world and I just you know stuff needs done and I'm

00:31:02.700 willing to do it so we're gonna go there oh we're gonna follow that up next

00:31:12.120 question we're actually gonna combine two of them miss Sarah asked what is my

00:31:18.380 favorite part of tennessee so far and cory follows that up with how my life in tennessee

00:31:25.660 so um this is a really hard thing for me because as somebody who lives 17 years in georgia

00:31:31.980 and for a while i was a really big football fan and uh go dogs the one team i hated more

00:31:39.020 than anything was tennessee volunteers and that really uh prejudiced my view of the entire state

00:31:46.940 so it was hard um but really this is some of the most beautiful land um driving through the hills

00:31:56.600 the stone the rocks the woods out this area is amazing here in central tennessee and um it's it's

00:32:06.020 a good area i'm still i'm still settling in i'm still living at a campground here and waiting um

00:32:13.800 i don't really want to call him out but i did have a discussion with the law speaker two or

00:32:18.200 three days ago and was promised some paperwork so i can get a move on that i still don't have yet so

00:32:24.840 let's see if we could get that get that we gotta chase him down oh i know i did speak to him on

00:32:31.400 the phone but uh let the follow up so i can you know get some utilities going we need to get ready

00:32:37.480 for cigarette perseverance is one of our values yes sir it is oh so as we're continuing through

00:32:49.860 these questions oh man sarah follows up with what is my favorite district in the afa

00:32:56.520 and i can't leave out miss brandy callahan saying and why is it baldershoff even though i think she

00:33:02.880 She might have started on the drinks a little bit earlier than we did tonight

00:33:07.360 because that's not Baldrishoff there.

00:33:11.780 But realistically, I just got to Thorisoff.

00:33:16.160 I haven't built that connection yet.

00:33:18.960 That answer is still Baldrishoff at this time.

00:33:23.060 These boys out here are going to have to work hard to win my heart.

00:33:29.200 But I think, considering I'm stuck here for the rest of eternity,

00:33:32.880 I'll give in eventually, I will

00:33:36.340 That's okay

00:33:39.660 Alrighty, and y'all gotta start asking some more questions

00:33:44.160 Because I cannot end this show early after 30 minutes

00:33:48.800 Because the last question in the queue tonight

00:33:51.320 Is, of course, Tony, the king of cheese

00:33:54.400 Tonight we got a peek behind the curtain at the techno wizard

00:33:58.420 Thank you very much, buddy

00:33:59.660 that helps get VNS on the move.

00:34:03.540 Matt, Nick, how are we doing tonight?

00:34:07.340 Let's give you a chance to talk.

00:34:08.840 Come on.

00:34:10.240 All right, so I'm doing fantastic.

00:34:11.880 And there's one more question in there that I see.

00:34:15.520 Tony, I'm doing awesome.

00:34:17.040 I always look forward to this every week.

00:34:21.560 I'm really excited.

00:34:22.760 I'm especially excited with Midsommar coming up.

00:34:25.280 It is not that far away,

00:34:26.820 and it's kind of the event that we host out here.

00:34:29.140 And I'm having Gauthier East and his lovely wife come spend some time with Mandy and I, and I'm looking forward to that.

00:34:36.080 It'll be great to have him out here. I'm a happy guy. How are you doing, Nick?

00:34:43.980 I am really doing good. I am happy to be here.

00:34:49.100 I know some people got a little bit nervous coming on for their first show.

00:34:54.060 but if anybody's ever talked to me, they realize that I never shut up.

00:35:01.440 I can talk to anybody, and it doesn't hurt that I spent a few years doing theater

00:35:06.880 back in high school and college, so this comes pretty easily, and I'm doing great.

00:35:11.820 I am excited to be here.

00:35:15.480 When you're behind the scenes so much, you don't know how often I want to just sneak my face on.

00:35:20.340 I think I accidentally did have my face on VNS one time for about half a second,

00:35:24.060 but, uh, no, we're doing good, Tony. I do appreciate it. And if anybody didn't see

00:35:30.660 Tony, Tony got an article in the Baldur's Hoff issue of the runestone that just was released

00:35:36.100 yesterday. So if anybody's not seen that, go on to a runestone.org slash library and check out the

00:35:43.780 June 2023 issue of the Baldur's Hoff, uh, runestone and, uh, go read his article. Tell

00:35:50.760 what do you think about it so question i saw up um a little bit ago and i'm trying to monitor the

00:36:03.480 chat as well let me see if i can find it all right and this is a fair question given what i

00:36:11.160 what i mentioned earlier where do homosexuals go in the afterlife that is a fine question um

00:36:20.760 And so when we talked about the afterlife, Svon and I a couple weeks ago, yeah, a couple weeks ago.

00:36:31.000 Anyways, when we spoke about that, one of the things that I wanted to put out there, it's the gods have not entrusted me with determining the final location of people in the afterlife.

00:36:47.500 That is above my pay grade. That's something that the gods and the ancestors decide. Svan talked about this, and I think it's a very important thing. Your ancestors decide whether they find you worthy to be amongst them or whether you're isolated in the afterlife, depending.

00:37:05.880 the gods decide whether you can ascend to something higher or not and then ultimately

00:37:13.340 they decide if you are so villainous or so without value that you need to be broken down

00:37:19.220 for component parts and recycled as it were and i don't i don't know there's a lot of factors to

00:37:28.860 be considered. And though in oustertre, we certainly don't approve of homosexuality. And 0.87

00:37:36.180 it is something that we want to keep out of our society and away from our families. 1.00

00:37:42.280 You know, I can't, I can't say what happens in the afterlife for people of that persuasion, but

00:37:48.620 I, I would think that would be a significant detriment to folks moving on. And also one of

00:37:57.920 the big things that is a benefit in the afterlife to your ascension into your standing in the

00:38:06.800 afterlife is your descendants and those who come after you. And for those in a homosexual 1.00

00:38:13.960 lifestyle, they don't have descendants. That was one of the big things that our ancestors 1.00

00:38:21.520 mentioned um and i'm not i'm not quick to quote the quote the sources as well as fawn does but

00:38:30.520 the story of um you know it's thought ill of a man you know if he didn't have sons who was going

00:38:37.280 to raise runestones to him who was going to raise markers to him and remember him after he passed

00:38:42.480 And so having children and passing your heritage through your descendants is such a very special and very important thing.

00:38:53.240 And those people don't don't have that option due to due to those choices.

00:38:59.380 And I've also said along with that lifestyle comes a lot of other things that are.

00:39:06.220 Oftentimes very sinister, and I don't think that reflects well in the afterlife as well.

00:39:12.480 All right. Well, we followed this up with I guess I made the call out and a lot of people have answered. So we built up. Excellent. Very good. We're going to start here. Mr. Josh Rappin, folk builder up in Wisconsin. Question on our hero this evening. Do we know much about the king's chief general murderic during the war against the Huns becoming Rome's Dukes of Arabia for Rome later?

00:39:39.080 and uh i guess this question goes to me and uh my my answer is i do not

00:39:48.100 um so this is definitely interesting information i don't

00:39:55.460 don't quite get the connection between how he how he works for rome but i'm guessing it follows

00:40:03.120 some suit um afterwards so that's some interesting stuff you ever heard of that um no i haven't but i

00:40:12.000 think it'd be easy enough to to look into um no both branches the east and the west empire were

00:40:24.080 employing germanic germanics to do a large part of their mercenary fighting and putting them in

00:40:30.320 far off provinces to uh keep the peace and to govern so that would that's not surprising to me

00:40:37.440 uh but it is something i'd like to look into and read a little bit more about and matter of fact i

00:40:42.080 will do that as soon as we're done with this episode tonight yep and just a quick wikipedia

00:40:47.040 search because we know how great that source is literally that's all the information it gives us

00:40:52.160 is that him and one other guy were generals under uh a fanric and then they later joined the romans

00:40:58.000 to be warriors out in arabia that was a thing at the end of thaneric's life the eastern empire

00:41:07.360 showed him a great deal of respect when he was on his own basically um we saw earlier um wasn't

00:41:14.960 really a full-fledged question but just some commentary that he'd been exiled for you know

00:41:21.440 because people had committed treason and embraced uh embrace roman gods embraced the uh the jewish

00:41:28.160 god and the eastern empire gave him a they let him in he got to see all the amazing things in

00:41:40.160 in constantinople and really appreciate that and they had a moment of you know

00:41:45.600 reproachment there where they uh gave him funeral rights and treated him with respect there so

00:41:52.560 his his lieutenant's finding work there is is uh kind of a cool thing and definitely something i'd

00:41:57.760 like to like to read a little bit more on certainly all righty so the wonderful miss

00:42:06.000 rachel kinsler great lady she's got a question here gentlemen besides this current one what

00:42:14.400 episode of victory never sleeps has been your favorites um i know you like to throw it to the

00:42:23.040 guests first so i will take it and that we're going to throw it back quite a ways um probably

00:42:30.880 one of my favorite episodes actually was um the episode of the four githias with brandy uh

00:42:39.840 witten brandy callahan githias uh katie erickson anna thord and sheila mcnallon it was a really

00:42:48.560 interesting episode um to get all of the ladies together it was the most guests we've ever had

00:42:54.960 and still the most guests we've ever had at one time and uh it was a lot of good back and forth 0.99

00:43:01.680 um in a lot of great conversation and it really shows um those are four strong ladies strong

00:43:10.000 powerhouse ladies in the afa doing great things and serving a very very important role for us

00:43:16.160 you know there have been a lot of really uh episodes that i've really enjoyed doing and

00:43:23.360 being a part of yeah there's been a lot of episodes that we've gotten really good feedback

00:43:27.300 on. One that everybody really likes

00:43:29.360 and that

00:43:30.160 my personal favorite was when I had

00:43:33.200 Mandy on.

00:43:36.620 It was just

00:43:37.340 it was really nice. I'm so proud of my

00:43:39.260 family and it was great to have

00:43:40.780 her on the show with me. We got a lot of

00:43:43.140 really good feedback on that, but

00:43:44.780 I was particularly

00:43:47.080 happy to have her on that night.

00:43:48.940 I also really liked the one that

00:43:51.040 Svon and I did about the soul complex

00:43:53.080 that ran to six and a half

00:43:55.300 hours.

00:43:55.820 it two hours before you get the first question it was it was difficult it was very long but it was

00:44:03.680 it it means a lot to me that we have folks on here that that want to uh to listen to this

00:44:10.520 and to actively participate for for so much of this and having such interest in the uh in the

00:44:17.540 chat room for for the entire time that's a long time and that uh that means a lot to me and

00:44:23.240 Hopefully that was something that benefited a lot of people and we got some

00:44:26.200 really good feedback on it. So I liked that.

00:44:29.120 Absolutely.

00:44:30.680 And don't be looking at the screen when I make stuff pop up that's not

00:44:33.320 supposed to be there. It'll come up later.

00:44:36.780 All right. So the next question is from Goethe Young.

00:44:41.480 Matt, will you plug our upcoming cage match at Teators Hoff Dedication?

00:44:47.420 See, Goethe Young is joking.

00:44:49.700 is either joking or he does not

00:44:54.360 value his health

00:44:55.440 we will not have a cage match

00:44:58.680 were Gauthier Young and I to get in a fight

00:45:00.760 it would not be a fight

00:45:02.360 it would just be me brutalizing Gauthier Young

00:45:04.540 up and down Sigurheim

00:45:06.300 and I will not do that because he's a friend of mine

00:45:08.300 and I think too highly of him

00:45:10.260 and he has a family he has so much to live for

00:45:13.040 I mean yeah

00:45:17.700 don't cash it in yet

00:45:19.640 There's still hope, Daniel. 1.00

00:45:22.300 I mean, there's got to be something said for the little redneck scrappiness. 1.00

00:45:26.720 But you do, you know, you outweigh him by 70 pounds. 1.00

00:45:32.460 And, you know, you're working on getting towards black belt and jiu-jitsu.

00:45:39.620 I don't know.

00:45:40.600 Maybe he's got some run-ins planned.

00:45:42.420 I don't know what he's got.

00:45:43.720 But he better eat his Wheaties.

00:45:45.760 Some outside interference going on?

00:45:48.280 somebody going to pull your leg while the ref ain't looking it better be a few somebodies 0.97

00:45:52.920 i think we're confusing now with a wrestling i think that's that's the reference 0.95

00:46:00.280 all righty so next up we have rot again on the topic of burning traitors alive

00:46:09.800 i would ask about live human sacrifice historically within germanic religion specifically

00:46:15.240 but also other traditional European faiths such as Hellenic and Rome.

00:46:21.600 So, yeah, that was certainly a thing.

00:46:27.460 And it was, it took different forms depending upon the location and the time period.

00:46:33.440 um in sweden and in other parts of europe there was the idea of um

00:46:47.840 sacral kingship where a king might be sacrificed if there was a series of bad seasons for the uh

00:46:55.360 the bounty of the land if there was agricultural problems for a long period of time

00:47:00.240 and that was an idea that maybe you know maybe that ruler was doing a poor job and by making

00:47:07.080 that sacrifice of themselves for the community it would please the gods into into blessing them with

00:47:14.860 more fertility of the land um i think we see something that's kind of similar and you did

00:47:20.480 mention going into other um arian arian religions so in rome they would have what was called the

00:47:27.840 devotio, I believe, where a general is a last ditch attempt to win a battle as an offering to

00:47:33.900 the gods and offering to Mars would ride into the middle of the enemy ranks into the heat of the

00:47:39.540 battle and offer himself up as a sacrifice for victory. And I think that was similar in a lot

00:47:47.340 of aspects to that. As far as sacrificing, so it's, I think there's a fine line, but it's really,

00:47:57.040 I don't know, something to consider. The execution of criminals versus the sacrifice to appease the

00:48:09.520 gods. Execution of criminals was a really different thing. I mentioned the bog stomping of

00:48:18.320 traitors and cowards earlier, and that wasn't a sacrifice. That was to get rid of them because 0.97

00:48:24.740 their existence was a disgrace to the tribe. But in combat, sacrificing high-ranking members of

00:48:36.060 enemies. Specifically, I can think of the sacrifices after the battle of Tudor Burgerwald.

00:48:45.820 Roman officers were sacrificed because that was a special offering to the gods. That was somebody

00:48:52.860 of great value. That was an important person that would be an important sacrifice.

00:48:58.300 It wasn't just wholesale slaughter of people. But you would see that other examples,

00:49:04.780 again not sacrifice but was the i guess sacrifice in a way not to appease the gods but um

00:49:13.820 it was mentioned that the the ruse would sacrifice slaves on you know on a noble's pyre to

00:49:21.340 accompany them to the afterlife or sometimes um their wives would go with them dying on the pyre

00:49:30.540 to go with them in the afterlife along with horses and animals of all kinds to go with

00:49:35.980 them so they'd have a retinue on the other side um but i think something is important to remember

00:49:44.380 when we talk about sacrifice and what it literally means yes we all understand that a sacrifice

00:49:52.220 is involves killing when we're talking about a sacrifice of of humans that you mentioned

00:49:59.340 earlier or animals for that matter but the word sacrifice means to make sacred um it's not about

00:50:08.220 giving something up and it's not about the killing per se it's about transmuting the subject of that

00:50:16.780 sacrifice as a vessel to take things from this world to the next world beyond the veil from this

00:50:23.820 world to the world of the gods, the ancestors, and those who've come before. And that's a really

00:50:30.480 important part of sacrifice. All righty. So let's see. Next up, we have John Horn. How is a Norse

00:50:43.700 pagan wedding performed other than two rings, two swords, two feet? Okay, I'm going to press 0.79

00:50:48.580 pause on this. I'll hit this in a second. We've had a number of people ask, and I mentioned this

00:50:52.400 earlier because I mentioned how important it was for people that and how important it was for

00:50:59.180 our ancestors to have children to celebrate them and to raise horns to them after their passing

00:51:04.500 and several people asked questions about you know what about folks that don't have kids

00:51:10.080 and one of the things that is my duty as a gothi is to be honest and not just make everybody feel

00:51:21.440 good. There's other times where it's tempting to come up with something flowery, but I think it's

00:51:29.060 far better to come up with something true. Having kids is better than not having kids.

00:51:33.700 Having a lot of kids is better than just having one. My wife and I were very fortunate. We had

00:51:39.380 Aubrey really late in life. We were both 39. We didn't necessarily think that was going to be

00:51:46.040 something that happened for us. And we were prepared for that as unfortunate as it was.

00:51:53.100 And we're very blessed that we have Aubrey. But yeah, you're better off if you have kids than if

00:51:59.460 you don't. That said, that's not the only thing, but it is a big factor. But what was also mentioned,

00:52:05.180 and I forget who mentioned it in the chat room, is if you don't have kids, you can be there for

00:52:09.500 other people's kids and you can help them out with it. And that's important too. You can be

00:52:14.480 an important part in raising, caring for, and educating the next generation and being

00:52:22.180 significant enough that they remember you, that they celebrate you, that they raise a

00:52:26.760 horn to you. That's the thing. If you have kids, then they're going to remember you and

00:52:37.100 your grandkids are going to remember their grandparents. It's much harder for someone

00:52:41.520 without children, to have a name that's celebrated through the generations. So it's much more

00:52:47.900 incumbent upon those people to do even bigger and even greater deeds so that their name stays

00:52:53.980 on people's lips and in living memory for longer. But yeah, it's certainly better for folks that

00:53:03.220 have kids. It's better for folks to have a whole bunch of kids. But it's not the only thing,

00:53:10.280 but it is something that's better. Uh, it's just like, you know, I, I've never served in the

00:53:16.520 military. I've never done that in my life. Um, there may be some cataclysmic thing where I find

00:53:23.160 myself in battle at some point in the future, but honestly, I'm, I'm in my forties. That's probably

00:53:28.400 not how that's going to work out. It's better if it had worked out that I did see that, that would

00:53:35.100 have been an absolutely and objectively better thing if I were a veteran, but I'm not. So I've

00:53:41.560 got to try hard to earn my fame and other in different ways. So we all can't have everything

00:53:47.200 and there's not an answer that makes everyone happy, but we do have to embrace the truth and

00:53:53.220 celebrate those that have had kids and do what we can to help celebrate them and honor them and

00:53:57.980 help those kids to be successful and speaking of having kids uh our number right now is 12

00:54:05.980 12 kids born to the Austin True Folk Assembly this year that's just beautiful this last event

00:54:13.420 at LC Fest it was we were outnumbered by by the the ladies and the children it was something

00:54:21.080 really beautiful to see so many kids and the kids were just meeting each other and a second later

00:54:27.280 their best friends and playing and having a great time yeah all right so uh we mentioned it earlier

00:54:35.360 i mentioned earlier but the next question how is norse pagan wedding performed other than two

00:54:40.560 rings two swords two keys so i appreciate that i just want to make a note on terminology for a

00:54:50.080 second while that is phonetically absolutely an appropriate thing to say it's one of those things

00:54:56.560 that's important to me. I believe that Alcetruar or practitioners of Alcetru don't ought not

00:55:09.920 describe themselves as Norse pagan. Christians describe themselves as Christians because they

00:55:17.520 love Christ and they follow Christ. They don't describe themselves as Judean monotheists because

00:55:24.960 that's flavorless and without uh zeal and reverence so it's important we try to refer to it as also

00:55:32.640 true because loyalty to the gods is is such an important thing to us and maybe a small note but

00:55:38.880 i the reason i mentioned it is it's a term that i've seen come up mostly in the last 10 years

00:55:45.520 that this this word norse pagan i would encourage people that want to practice our faith to embrace

00:55:52.240 that term alsatree because it really is so much more meaningful i have been very fortunate i've

00:55:57.760 been able to do quite a few um quite a few weddings and perform a number of those for

00:56:06.640 very close friends of mine my wife and i had an ausituse service that was performed by

00:56:15.120 law speaker allen turnage so it's very very similar to you know any other type of wedding

00:56:25.120 some people like to use the term hand fasting and i've done this twice now and i think it's

00:56:30.480 a nice custom to do the tying of the hands um i think that's very special and we incorporate it

00:56:38.240 into an afa wedding we also have a period in the wedding and this was innovated by uh

00:56:44.160 witten brandy callahan where we pour pour water over the hands grasp together and we save that

00:56:52.400 water and and for ritual use later but very similar to a normal wedding in the fact that

00:57:00.240 you're gathered before our gods before your family and your friends if you you know if you choose to

00:57:06.640 have them there and if they want to come and you say your vows just like you do in a normal wedding

00:57:14.960 uh the wedding rings a lot of folks believe those are an evolution of the oath ring that you make

00:57:21.120 oaths on um those are incorporated in an aussiture wedding and it's really important in the afa we

00:57:28.240 only perform real legally binding weddings and that's it frustrates some people that you know

00:57:36.320 have different plans or want to do multiple ceremonies for multiple audiences but we believe

00:57:40.720 really strongly in the afa that you don't halfway do this this is this is your faith and if you want

00:57:47.920 to have an official wedding you have an official afa wedding that's legally binding that the

00:57:53.600 paperwork's all signed out that it's a real deal and if you want to have a you know a show wedding

00:58:00.480 for different people at a different time we say make this your real one you can do something else

00:58:06.720 for them if you want to but we take it really seriously so it's very important to us that

00:58:14.400 we only perform services that are legally binding and people for real for real wedding and not just

00:58:23.520 kind of a separate or a less official thing

00:58:29.680 all right so next up somebody's been pretty active in the chat tonight but first time i'm

00:58:34.560 seeing them in the chat so welcome um i have become a pagan through the music of wardroona

00:58:41.680 danheim and from learning about the runes my understanding is we are not supposed to convert

00:58:47.200 people but gather those seekers it's kind of a statement but i think it needs answered so

00:58:56.480 there was there's a number of you know

00:59:00.960 long-standing Ausitru tropes that we really need to rethink and re-examine. And one of those is

00:59:10.900 this idea that we don't proselytize. This comes from a time where a lot of people came to Ausitru

00:59:17.540 not because of love of the gods, but because of rejection of Christianity.

00:59:24.900 And eventually they developed love of the gods. That's not what I'm saying,

00:59:28.200 But their major impetus was to see how not Christian they were. So they took everything that Christianity did, threw it all away and defined themselves by how opposite of that they could be. And that serves a purpose when there was an initial separation time. But I think anybody who sincerely believes in their faith would want to share that with others.

00:59:52.440 In the AFA, we absolutely believe in proselytizing. We don't believe in harassing people and being

00:59:58.840 obnoxious, but we want to share the things that are meaningful to us and our love of the gods.

01:00:06.820 And our people, heterosexual white people, we want them all to come home to have a relationship

01:00:13.400 with our gods. And I think it's important to bring that up today when we're celebrating this 0.67

01:00:19.280 particular hero. So often today, because of the world that we live in, and I don't think we

01:00:27.800 always realize this, but we're all infected with modernity and the degeneration that comes with

01:00:35.620 that to one degree or another, and we have to be really consciously aware of it. It's become

01:00:39.840 almost virtuous for us to say, well, everybody has their own path. Let's just let everyone do

01:00:44.540 what they want. No, there's a right way and a wrong way to do things. And our folks should

01:00:51.740 worship our gods. If they don't, they're doing something wrong. You don't need to be a jerk.

01:00:58.040 But there's a right way and a wrong way to do this. Everything's not equal. Everything's not 0.99

01:01:03.540 just as good. Following our gods is the right way for our folk. And we need to encourage others to

01:01:10.600 do that the best we can. It's part of the mission of the Ashtore Folk Assembly, to bring our folk

01:01:15.900 home. And I think that's the second point of it, is to talk about the idea of converting people.

01:01:24.540 It's a strange term, and it comes from a different place.

01:01:33.840 So Christianity is an evolution of Judaism, and there wasn't a, let's convert the Jews.

01:01:40.600 The Jews were ethnically the children of their God, Jehovah, and Jews that followed Christ.

01:01:50.320 That was just a progression of that faith.

01:01:53.280 Conversion was when people went out to other groups with their own ethnic faiths and had to reject those and convert to that Jewish Christian faith.

01:02:06.480 What we're doing isn't a conversion away from someone's natural state.

01:02:11.420 What we're doing is bringing people home, bringing them back to their baseline, back to what the faith of their blood is, to their ancestral gods.

01:02:21.560 So the word conversion isn't quite accurate in what we want to do.

01:02:27.560 What we want to do is bring our folk home.

01:02:29.860 And so often, one of the biggest things, it's not strong arming people into being Alcetru.

01:02:35.600 So many people don't know it's a legitimate option.

01:02:38.840 I know that was that was my case before I found out.

01:02:41.500 So true, I didn't I didn't know.

01:02:43.320 I didn't know serious people in this day and age were worshiping our gods.

01:02:48.380 There was a time there I thought I was the only guy doing this just in private.

01:02:52.700 And it meant so much to me when I found the AFA and I found there was others worshiping our gods.

01:02:59.400 One of the biggest things is people need to know that it's an option.

01:03:03.200 So many people just don't know.

01:03:04.480 So don't be obnoxious. Don't go out and, you know, harass people to join our faith.

01:03:11.360 But no, there's right way and wrong way to do things spiritually and the right way for our focus to come to us.

01:03:17.000 It is right there in on our homepage in our motto.

01:03:23.980 It is about roots. It's about connections. It's about where we started.

01:03:28.140 It's about where our connection to the gods and it's about coming home.

01:03:32.880 this isn't um it's waking up it's not changing who you are you are this you just you you may be

01:03:44.960 there may be a little fog in your eyes there may be a little you may not know it yet but this is

01:03:50.080 who you are this is who you were born to be this is who your family and your ancestors were um you

01:03:56.880 just gotta come home. Alrighty. So next up, another one of these that I definitely feel

01:04:08.520 needs addressed. It's not exactly a question. Kind of. He's asking if we know that the FBI

01:04:16.720 has a hate group. Thanks to the idiots from the SPLC. It's a really simple thing. So what? 1.00

01:04:27.600 oh daddy so here's the thing no we're not we're not labeled by the fbi as a hate group that's not

01:04:35.600 so we are labeled by the we are labeled by the splc as one um we've had a number of interactions

01:04:45.600 with the fbi honestly and uh those have most often been with us as the victims of

01:04:56.880 I say say victims of and I think that overplays that as people who have been threatened with hate crimes and hate activities by other groups and other people.

01:05:06.880 And that's been our interaction.

01:05:09.880 I'm certain that the FBI is is very aware of our existence, but they've said to us that, you know, they believe we're much more likely to be the victims of hate crimes than the perpetrators.

01:05:24.880 And that's because we're not. We're not about hate. We're not about criminality. We're not dangerous. We never have been. And honestly, as simple as that may sound or as cheesy as that may sound, it's the truth.

01:05:43.340 Our best defense against those accusations is the truth.

01:05:48.740 And the AFA has always been very open about who we are and what we're up to and very welcoming of the community and of, you know, people to shine a light and see.

01:05:59.640 And we try to be open with all the things we do.

01:06:01.540 I think that's really important.

01:06:02.600 It's one of the reasons that I do this show every week.

01:06:04.820 It's certainly part of the genesis of why I started doing this show was so that anybody who has questions can just ask me.

01:06:11.440 um but we've always been very transparent and continue to do so and that's

01:06:17.180 you know that's the truth of it and that's why we've been able to

01:06:21.580 stay above some of the things that others have not because we are who we say we are we're very

01:06:29.740 open about that we put up half a dozen a dozen pictures every single week to the public showing

01:06:36.820 exactly what we are doing we're not doing anything else um yeah i think what i remember

01:06:47.060 a story i believe you said it on victory never sleeps at some point a story about there was one

01:06:52.020 time when the fbi was doing some investigations and then at some point they're just like

01:06:58.260 we're gonna stop this y'all are a church we don't need to continue this investigation

01:07:02.740 it's um i can't recall that specifically but uh again there's a number of times there was

01:07:12.420 some people that uh were disgruntled at us one year at at winter nights and

01:07:20.900 decided to do a sticker attack on on the camp we were at putting up their little stickers and

01:07:27.140 trying to be threatening and spooky um turns out the fbi was watching them for other reasons

01:07:33.300 and came by to check on us and they were fine they you know because they were watching this

01:07:38.740 other group of people they'd observed us and how we handled situations for a long time

01:07:44.420 and said they weren't concerned about us at all and that we'd handled it very well

01:07:48.340 um yeah that's not a that's not a real thing it's their job to be hyper vigilant and be

01:07:55.460 aware of a lot of things but like i said we're not up to anything nefarious and we're very

01:08:02.260 obvious with who we are what we do and what we're up to um and we invite anybody with questions to

01:08:10.260 just ask us be they law enforcement or not we're very open people speaking about being open and

01:08:19.940 shedding some light on the behind the curtain who's running the background tonight

01:08:25.460 Well, Steve, that's me.

01:08:29.180 Man of many talents, I'm multitasking everything tonight.

01:08:33.140 My daughter is providing the background noise and distraction. 0.88

01:08:37.300 Yeah, that she is. 0.89

01:08:40.400 Not anymore. 0.96

01:08:41.280 She's going to bed.

01:08:42.740 That's okay.

01:08:44.280 It's one of the best parts.

01:08:45.500 Everybody loves it in the chat every time she pops up.

01:08:50.480 So I don't think anybody's going to mind.

01:08:53.620 I appreciate that. 0.93

01:08:54.600 all righty so uh rod again is up again uh i guess a follow-up perhaps rome's human sacrifice of

01:09:05.020 enemies is better documented particularly the ritual strangulation of captured leaders and

01:09:10.320 nobility after wars what would be the religious benefits so to speak of this i know we covered a

01:09:15.820 lot of uh i guess some religious reasonings um and benefits um i know when the people i was gonna

01:09:28.680 say i know one that people talk about um with our people with germanic folk and i say our people

01:09:34.560 the romans were just as arian as anybody else um but with the germanic folk um you know blood eagle

01:09:43.280 Everybody talks about it. 1.00

01:09:44.960 It's been very popular.

01:09:46.240 And I think part of it is the reason it's very popular is because it's very gruesome.

01:09:51.080 But the documented cases of such are few and far between.

01:09:58.160 I don't know how much importance it held.

01:10:02.260 You've mentioned a lot of the ritual sacrifice.

01:10:06.100 And I know somebody else mentioned earlier, when you mentioned criminals, I think it was Monk.

01:10:12.560 mentioned uh criminals and volunteers as far as some of these ritual sacrifice i think

01:10:19.440 again some of that might be uh i know there's a bunch of pop culture about it especially with

01:10:27.080 the idea of what would you say the basically uh manning up to the criminals manning up i guess

01:10:38.900 and volunteering so that they can uh prove their i guess reconciliation

01:10:47.220 by volunteering so that they can be forgiven or whatever you want to call it

01:10:53.300 so i think that there's a number of things that come into play in terms of that um

01:10:59.860 Um, and I'm trying to think of the best way to put this.

01:11:08.600 So, and I've said this about more mundane sacrifices, if you will, when we do bloat

01:11:16.500 and we offer mead or we offer food and things, we, when we go around the circle, we, from

01:11:24.480 heart to hand to horn we imbue that that we're offering with our energy i've said before the

01:11:30.960 gods don't have any shortage of me in asgard the point is that it's a fluid that is carrying our

01:11:40.400 energy to them um and and that's symbolized by the the alu formula the idea of the gods the fluid

01:11:51.120 and and the primal or the folk us um but the idea being we're putting energy into that horn

01:12:00.560 ritually we are pouring out that horn and offering it beyond the veil to our gods or to

01:12:06.720 our ancestors depending upon the bloat but the idea is we're conveying that message to them

01:12:12.640 if you are sacrificing a high-ranking member of the enemy you are sending a you know a big deal

01:12:24.100 emissary to the gods on your behalf to speak of your deeds ways that you want to honor them

01:12:31.340 you're sending them a you know you you're sending and this is something about sacrifice and when

01:12:38.080 you see this with, I think most often in the sources, you see it with the yule boar, but the

01:12:43.980 idea before the sacrifice, people go around and imbue this boar with their energy. They put their

01:12:52.540 hands on this boar and they put their blessings that they want to go into the other world, into

01:12:57.620 it. And in a moment, at the moment of sacrifice, this being takes that from the world of the living

01:13:06.460 and through the blood being liquid like the mead takes that to the other side to the gods and

01:13:13.240 ancestors the same thing happens with a sacrificial um captive as a spoil as a spoiled war uh those

01:13:26.680 things you're sending a top-notch emissary and a really fancy package for your blessings to the

01:13:34.260 gods through into the other side. In the case of volunteerism, when you have chieftains and

01:13:41.020 leaders and kings that would offer themselves up for the benefit of the land because things

01:13:44.920 weren't working right, again, you're sending a high status emissary that they are giving up

01:13:51.300 their life that has greater value than someone else's as that offering to go beyond and to make

01:13:59.260 that entreaty to the gods personally beyond the veil. And I think that's, you know, I don't claim

01:14:06.900 that I know the be all and end all of all of our ancestors' sacrificial practices, but I think

01:14:11.920 that's a really important thing. Nick, technical question. If I see stuff that's lit up all white

01:14:22.840 over here on entropy, does that mean it's an entropy question? Yeah. Okay. If it's on the

01:14:28.020 question section or if it's uh on the chat it's just in uh bold whereas the other ones are in gray

01:14:34.900 it's in all white it's from our folk builder jace cameron joining us over on entropy yeah he uh just

01:14:40.260 wanted to say hey nick and matt just wanted to show support appreciate everything you both do

01:14:44.820 well i appreciate you saying so thank you jace yep um one of those odd situations where um

01:14:52.020 um entropy can see youtube's chat but youtube can't see entropy's chat

01:14:59.140 all righty so uh mr king of cheese tony tacking on to the question i understand in some circles

01:15:09.660 uh some pagan circles forgiveness is a dirty word due to christianity but is it possible to redeem

01:15:17.260 one's self or is a permanent or is a mark permanent no matter what you do so tony it's

01:15:23.920 under the heading of what i talked about earlier this originated back when not if the christians

01:15:29.340 do it it must be wrong christians take a shower so i should just stink um no forgiveness is fine

01:15:37.340 but unconditional forgiveness isn't a virtue to our ancestors it's not something people are entitled 0.94

01:15:44.300 to. Certainly our gods are capable of forgiving things. Just as you as an individual, you're

01:15:52.360 capable of forgiving someone that you want to. But what Christians do that just disgusts me to 1.00

01:16:00.760 my very core and hurts to see is because their God says they need to forgive everyone. 0.96

01:16:10.840 they'll have parents and you'll see this on the news somebody will murder their child

01:16:17.220 and the parents rush to see how fast they can be the ones to forgive them

01:16:22.040 and that's certainly alien to anything that uh that our people stand for and are about

01:16:28.180 now when you ask if if you can redeem yourself the idea of redemption and forgiveness are really

01:16:33.440 different again in christianity the forgiveness is unconditional uh and their god's forgiveness

01:16:39.980 is conditional on the, if you accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, then he'll forgive

01:16:44.860 you of your sins. It's not the way it works here. The idea, but you talked about redemption and

01:16:52.240 that and forgiveness are different. We have conditional forgiveness and that comes with

01:16:56.460 making things right. The concept of our justice was always to fix what you broke. And that's the

01:17:06.060 source of the the vengeance feuding culture in iceland uh later evolved to um paying wereguild

01:17:15.940 but the idea was if i kill your brother i am taking something of value from you and your family

01:17:22.780 to balance those scales you would then come after me but often if i had a brother to make it 0.95

01:17:29.700 completely even you would take my brother instead of me if the value was more even

01:17:34.820 um they eventually when they did the were guild system the idea was okay your brother had a value

01:17:44.300 let's put a price on that what have i taken from your family and then i would uh owe that much of

01:17:54.100 value, be it of merchandise or of gold or of service or whatever that was to make that right.

01:18:01.080 Now, this isn't all about murdering people, but when you've done wrong to someone,

01:18:08.760 the first step in redemption is fixing what you broke, evening the scales. So if you've taken

01:18:17.800 from someone and there's there's stuff that you can't erase but you can try to the best of your

01:18:25.000 ability to repair what you broke if you insult and embarrass somebody publicly in a public forum and

01:18:31.320 you've taken that piece of their reputation from them you can't just will it back to them but what

01:18:37.640 you can do is go in the same place amongst the same people that you did that and you know tell

01:18:44.920 them that you were inaccurate or praise that person and in that context there's ways that you

01:18:52.520 can try to find things to make those scales right and just as i talked about this is a theme on the

01:19:01.080 program but i think it's very important the least that we owe our gods is to consider them the very

01:19:08.120 very best of people they are infinitely more than that but that is the beginning of how we come to

01:19:13.880 know them if you're capable of forgiving somebody and you're capable of recognizing that somebody's

01:19:21.000 doing the best they can to try to make something right surely our gods are capable of doing that as

01:19:26.520 well um and there is it is noble for you to grant people a certain amount of grace and to be

01:19:36.840 generous with things to be generous with gifts to be generous with your time

01:19:42.920 to be generous with your money but also to be generous with your forgiveness of people if they're

01:19:50.200 acting appropriately and if they're trying the best they can to make it right

01:19:54.760 it's just much much more conditional in house of truth the idea is it's up to you whether you

01:20:01.400 choose to forgive or you don't it's up to the victim to be made whole we talk a lot

01:20:06.840 and it's something that we forgot any meaning for but in the criminal justice system in the

01:20:12.280 united states we say pay your debt to society well that's not really how our criminal justice system

01:20:17.640 works but that's the concept is to pay your debt to society if that's who you've done wrong against

01:20:27.400 to an individual if that's what you've done wrong against or to the gods if that's who you've done

01:20:32.840 running against and uh i mean i'll take this opportunity make another plug um we do at the

01:20:44.520 afa awesome true we understand that obviously people good people can do wrong at times and

01:20:53.960 there's no reason to condemn somebody holy we definitely work with we have the uh prison

01:21:00.200 ministry reaching out to prisoners and um trying to get them materials to help them

01:21:08.200 and i know we we have uh we had sarah on the other week talking about uh elsie christensen

01:21:15.080 one of her big things was her prison outreach is a very big thing um but i definitely it's it's

01:21:22.520 something that's important um understanding that not everybody is going to be a good uh come out

01:21:29.320 a great person but some of them are going to come out awesome human beings and we have some plenty

01:21:36.200 of them in the afa so we we definitely want to work with that and make sure we can help our uh

01:21:43.720 our folk whether they're behind bars or not

01:21:51.720 all righty next up question bob guy is there anything in norse or germanic mist that suggests

01:21:58.840 that reincarnation might be real yes so yes but the idea of um first yes there's lots of things

01:22:12.760 and a lot of that comes into naming practices i believe one of the sagas that's very seldom

01:22:20.600 talked about that speaks about that a little bit because a person is named after one of his

01:22:25.400 ancestors and he has you know some he shares memories that that ancestor had and that's i

01:22:31.240 believe the saga of home gang bercy um but that's not a very well you know frequently talked about

01:22:40.040 saga that's the one that comes to mind where it's the most apparent but uh witness fawn and i spoke

01:22:47.480 about this a couple of weeks ago. There are pieces of the soul that can be passed down

01:22:55.640 and imbued upon someone as an inheritance. Things have to do with luck, perhaps with your philgia.

01:23:03.320 Also, you can share memory that way. Now we all tap into a certain amount of ancestral memory,

01:23:11.000 but there's something special that happens if during your naming you are bestowed the name of

01:23:16.760 one of your ancestors or of a great hero that attracts that inheritance to that person

01:23:25.320 and so you can inherit things from them hopefully you know they're they're good attributes

01:23:32.280 and you know pieces of the soul will reflect through you but it's not a one for one you know

01:23:39.560 i was joan of arc in a previous life kind of um reincarnation now that's not impossible we see

01:23:47.720 that in different um arian myth cycles in avatars or in bodhisattvas in the eastern branches the idea

01:23:58.760 of of coming back in the form of someone else for a specific mission for the folk or for the gods

01:24:05.960 um but no typically that was the idea of getting an inheritance of memory of blessing of hymenia

01:24:14.280 of philia from that uh that ancestor that hero from beyond and we see that one of the times a

01:24:21.880 lot of this is talked about in the heimskringla in various of the different sagas within that book

01:24:29.320 but that was the reason and this was in christian times but that was they still carried the folk

01:24:34.280 belief that's why the name magnus became a scandinavian name because it's a roman name

01:24:42.040 and it means the great but it was a memory of charlemagne carlos magnus and i forget which king

01:24:51.640 but um when he was born his father was away uh i think might even be harold hardrada's son but

01:24:59.880 don't quote me on that when his father was away he came back and and they had decided to name the

01:25:05.560 child magnus as a you know as their best attempt to they thought surely the father would want this

01:25:13.480 child named after this great you know emperor of the holy roman empire and that's the same

01:25:20.120 thought process is naming after a hero and having the blessing of some of that person's attributes

01:25:29.880 All righty. Dale Sin asks, do y'all have settlements where we can all live and work within our own community?

01:25:38.900 so as of december yes as far as live um so and it's it's apropos that you asked that on this

01:25:54.180 uh particular broadcast that was our first this has been something that people have talked about

01:25:59.780 in aussitrew since the very beginning the idea of intentional community um

01:26:05.220 um no one's really been able to make that work out until now uh there were some folks very early on

01:26:13.380 uh Yost Turner had a for a time had an intentional community with with other Alcetruar uh but that

01:26:21.780 was was short-lived I say short-lived it's not around anymore and it was for you know historically

01:26:28.620 speaking a relatively short period of time what was really important to us and the AFA

01:26:33.180 acquired in December was a piece of land,

01:26:36.840 about 70 acres in Tennessee called Sigurheim.

01:26:40.860 We're gonna have a number of people

01:26:42.240 and families living on the land.

01:26:44.540 We're gonna have a Hoff to tear on the land,

01:26:49.340 and we're going to have a great hall

01:26:51.580 where we can celebrate, gather together,

01:26:54.420 has a commercial kitchen,

01:26:55.960 has office space to be the AFA headquarters.

01:26:59.360 The idea is that other people will move

01:27:01.300 the same county in the same area to be part of this the ones that don't have a space on the

01:27:07.220 actual land itself and will have a community of our folk within driving distance of one another

01:27:14.260 being that community for one another employing each other if we can in whatever industries we

01:27:20.100 find there as far as a you know one-stop shop that's completely self-sufficient no we're not

01:27:25.700 we're not there yet and i don't know if that's desirable at this time but a place where we can

01:27:30.660 all come together have our own special place to meet to live have an afa neighborhood absolutely

01:27:37.300 we have that it's called sigerheim and nick moved down there for that very purpose about a month ago

01:27:44.660 what can you tell them about i don't know anything relating to that all right well yeah um let's see

01:27:52.820 I want to say tomorrow, actually, marks one month since I officially, I guess, moved to Tennessee.

01:28:07.120 So Sigurheim is pretty cool, but it does – people have different ideas when they think of intentional communities.

01:28:14.340 And I know, as this question says, a lot of people in our circles and in Ossetru want that or think they want that self-sustaining community.

01:28:29.100 But that's not where we're at at this point.

01:28:32.220 That's not what Sigurheim is set up to be.

01:28:36.020 Um, at 70 acres and maybe what, uh, 10% of it is buildable field land and the rest is

01:28:46.680 Yeah. So, um, essentially if we want to get any amount of people actually on the land,

01:28:56.440 it's, it's all houses. It's all buildings and infrastructure. Um, gardens, people have

01:29:02.900 lot plots of land a little guard little home garden some chickens something like that but

01:29:08.000 that's not what it that's not what this land um is but um it doesn't as matt mentioned that's if

01:29:16.100 that's what you want but you still want to be uh you know associated connected to with community

01:29:22.820 with our folk we can we can definitely accomplish that and i promise you it's it won't be that hard

01:29:29.320 to find you somewhere. Um, I had a member come out last weekend. Uh, he drove over from Missouri

01:29:35.180 and we went land shopping. So we spent eight hours driving around. He picked out five or six,

01:29:42.180 uh, pieces of land in the area, all within, you know, 25 minutes of the Hoff. Um, so,

01:29:50.520 or of not the hoth of siggerheim and um we we looked at all of them um 1.00

01:29:58.520 really three or four of them would be okay for certain people depending on what they want and

01:30:03.800 there are plenty of other pieces of land too and if you want something of a price range for this

01:30:09.800 area i'm gonna be i'm gonna be realtor in this area for you um we were looking at anywhere from

01:30:15.800 six to 10 acres in the $40,000 to $60,000 range. It's not the cheapest thing, but those give you

01:30:27.480 some ideas of some of the options out here. We did find the last property we looked at was

01:30:34.380 actually probably the best. He said it was a consideration, but I think he's going to come

01:30:40.500 back and we're going to do a few more uh shops and look around so we've got other full we've got

01:30:47.000 other members who have been talking about it they want their own land so they can do farms and

01:30:52.660 animals and stuff like that and that's awesome get close build connections that way you know

01:30:59.740 we can hang out all the darn time and it's it's it's not any less not living on the property

01:31:08.120 um just get close come jackson county tennessee i'm gonna be the biggest spokesperson for that

01:31:14.040 now because i just uh uprooted my entire life to uh do it here's the thing it's so easy it's

01:31:21.720 it's very hard to be the first one once people are doing it it's much easier to be part of a

01:31:28.040 wave of people doing it and fortunately for us we have a woman that moved out there a couple

01:31:33.640 months previous and we have nick that's moved out there and we have another gentleman that moved out

01:31:38.120 in the general area there um i think like in january or february so you're not the first if

01:31:44.440 you want to move out and be part of what we're doing the thing is too so we're building an afa

01:31:48.840 neighborhood on that property yeah but we're also we're getting people in the general area if you

01:31:55.000 want to come there and you want a homestead and you want to you know raise cattle and do whatever

01:31:59.080 you want to do fine do that there's tons of places you can get out there and as nick said a lot of

01:32:04.200 people are going out there uh searching for properties and building their dream and that's

01:32:09.480 that's what this is about and that's what we're trying really hard to do and i don't want to leave

01:32:13.400 out the rest of the hoffs um it's still sigerheim is one thing and it's in tennessee and it's going

01:32:19.480 to be the future home of tears off but it's not a bad idea if tennessee is for some reason not your

01:32:25.080 cup of tea um brownsville california murdoch minnesota uh white springs florida and linden

01:32:33.960 north carolina we have four places all over the country and um aside from florida all three of

01:32:43.080 the other ones have somebody in the afa living really close so you're not going to be the only

01:32:48.520 ones in the area and even florida i don't think we have anybody super close no and you know that's the

01:32:53.800 that's you're not the only person there there's

01:32:59.320 everyone um i think often conceives of what's the answer the perfect solution or the

01:33:07.160 thing that's going to fix it it's not one thing it's all the things

01:33:11.560 if you can move out to segerheim great we would love it my family and i are moving out there um

01:33:17.080 Gauthier Young and his wife are moving out there. We've got a number of people who are actively

01:33:24.080 engaged in that. And if you want to and you can, come on, be part of it. That's great.

01:33:28.340 But as Nick said, building that dream means getting closer to other AFA members around you.

01:33:36.060 And ideally, we have these rallying points now over Hoffs. They're all in little towns that we

01:33:42.700 could be a very significant piece of that community if we had our members move there

01:33:48.400 and move close. Each of those communities and those towns would benefit from us being

01:33:53.400 there and we would benefit from being close to our AFA family. So we've got a lot of options

01:33:59.300 and in the years to come we'll have even more. We're fixing to have Freyshof. Between now

01:34:05.320 tier or in tears off we're going to establish phrase off that will either be in uh western

01:34:12.520 very far western pennsylvania or eastern ohio uh anybody that wants to help make that happen

01:34:19.560 if nick's quick draw on this he'll throw up the link to that we first have to pay off the loan

01:34:25.640 that we have for new york's off and then we can move on to phrase off and i mentioned that'll be

01:34:30.120 in western pennsylvania very far western pennsylvania or eastern ohio and there's a trick

01:34:37.320 we have uh the locations for phrasehoff and tearshoff decided but uh broggieshoff comes

01:34:43.880 after that and if you want if you want to determine where it goes build a community

01:34:49.880 somewhere become become a folk builder get it get get people in the area leadership get some

01:34:56.440 gothard your area that's how we do it so here's something else that i think needs to be said on

01:35:02.680 this um if every place that we have afa activity every place that we have a hof every place that

01:35:16.280 we have an active community that we have a kindred that we have anything great with the afa

01:35:20.760 is because somebody, when there was no one else around, stepped up and said, hey, I want something

01:35:31.720 here. What can I do? And we said, hey, how about you folk build? How about you be a folk builder?

01:35:38.800 And when people apply, we'll direct them to you. And if you know people that want to,

01:35:42.420 and if you can find folks that want to be involved in this, bring them in and see what you can do.

01:35:48.220 and some faster some slower but through consistency and through blood sweat and tears they built a

01:35:54.700 community there um that's how all of this has happened uh you know maybe one day we'll be so

01:36:03.340 well off economically that we can just send out missionaries different places and the afa can

01:36:08.620 make stuff happen but when people want afa things happening near them i can't cast a spell

01:36:17.180 from here in reno to to make afa sprout up there what happens and i'm happy to help any way i can

01:36:24.940 but what happens is somebody steps up and says hey i looked around for hero and it wasn't anybody else

01:36:32.060 so guess what it's me i want to build something and then we back them 100 and they build something

01:36:37.980 beautiful and that's how every instance of the afa being successful has happened the other thing

01:36:44.540 that i'll say um i originally was folk building in alaska and i tried really hard i got some great

01:36:52.460 group people up there matter of fact one of those people is just on the side here messaged me he's

01:36:58.780 coming down to california for midsummer so i'm very excited about that but i wanted to be part

01:37:04.060 of something bigger and i wanted to be close to where the afa was happening at that time we had

01:37:08.540 a lot of stuff going on in florida and my wife my future wife at that point lived in florida

01:37:16.380 so i packed up my life moved all the way across the country to go there and be part of that there

01:37:21.500 was actually a community we were going to start making happen that didn't work out so moved all

01:37:28.140 the way across the country to florida then about two years later packed up her whole life packed

01:37:35.500 up mine again we moved all the way out to california because that's where odenshoff was

01:37:42.220 we ended up settling over here in reno which actually ironically is an hour closer to the

01:37:49.340 hoff than we were when we lived in california but now because that's where the dream is going

01:37:54.860 and that's where our future is we're gonna pack all the way up again and move to tennessee so

01:37:59.820 it's not always easy it's not always something that'll come to you sometimes you have to go to

01:38:03.900 it but if you want that dream you can make it happen i promise you no when i uh joined the afa

01:38:12.140 um the closest member to me was two hours um i made drives up there when i started folk building

01:38:22.300 i found out very quickly that unfortunately if i held a a moot or something close to me

01:38:28.860 nobody showed up so i went where the people were uh held all my moots up there very successful

01:38:35.980 one of the members who frequented my moots is now uh folk building and uh keeping everything

01:38:42.140 strong up there so uh i didn't leave them in any uh turmoil and then uh what do i do

01:38:49.900 i mean similar thing i i was in a fortunate situation where i owed my house outright no

01:38:54.940 rent no mortgage sold it and moved to tennessee um there are sometimes there are things worth doing

01:39:05.660 and uh sometimes you have to determine what those things are for yourself but when you do

01:39:12.780 uh don't don't let anything hold you back absolutely and i see over in the chat that

01:39:18.140 monk is thinking about uh packing up and him and his wife heading out to sigerheim and to

01:39:23.900 the tennessee there's plenty of acreage out there for whatever you want to do that gets you close

01:39:29.100 and gets you within the county with us we would love to have you and your wife out there and

01:39:34.300 that's awesome i'm glad to hear that i hope that works out all right i see somebody else on the

01:39:42.220 same on the same topic uh are there afa communities or plans to have communities in europe we would

01:39:48.220 love to so um we were getting a really really healthy so okay the afa has certainly our most

01:39:57.340 members are in the united states but we have members in 14 i haven't done the math it could

01:40:03.820 be 15 now we have members in at least 14 countries we have as far as europe goes

01:40:11.100 uh we have members in switzerland italy france the netherlands england ireland

01:40:21.300 denmark sweden and norway right now i believe that's it um we had a very very healthy uh thing

01:40:33.480 going on in sweden and we were very much considering early on perhaps one of our

01:40:39.480 first couple of Hoffs being over in Sweden. Very big community over there. It was working great.

01:40:48.040 All of the different government's reactions to COVID-19 made that much more challenging.

01:40:57.140 Lost a lot of international momentum that way. And I think a lot of folks did.

01:41:02.580 But we're trying to build things over there. Sweden is where we have our most members,

01:41:09.080 but we need some consistency we need some frequency of afa get-togethers and things

01:41:14.440 but we would love to build something in sweden we've always dreamed of having a half in sweden

01:41:21.400 myself and a few other members of afa leadership traveled to sweden in

01:41:28.680 2018 i want to say 2018 and it was awesome so we would love to see something happen there and i i

01:41:36.920 believe that we will one day um how far away i couldn't tell you but that is that's probably

01:41:41.240 the most likely candidate at this point for us to have something like that in sweden or in europe

01:41:47.160 and i'll just say if you're in europe uh we got three fine folks over there to reach out to

01:41:52.680 um steve uh stefan uh popin yak uh jacqueline verway and eric lugnit reach out to any of them

01:42:04.040 hit us up in the chat if you need their emails um they're pretty simple or go to uh thorsoff.com

01:42:12.360 and go to contact us and uh you can find all the information for all three of them there

01:42:19.640 yep you sure can as the way our districts are our districts look kind of squirrely when you

01:42:26.440 get international because we got to put people somewhere and we loop everybody into one of the

01:42:31.240 hoffs but as it stands now thor's hoff is handling potato europe and uh njords hoff no okay thor's

01:42:39.720 i'm sorry thor's hoff is handling both of them we're a little bit of prior planning i was ahead

01:42:44.280 of myself when we get phrase hoff we'll split i'm sorry yep yep um definitely uh and as of right now

01:42:55.480 we don't have very many members in tomato europe but uh parlo italiano so if you're over there in

01:43:02.840 italy reach out tomato europeans let's let's see you guys come out and join the afa we'd love to

01:43:08.440 have you and just for administrative purposes i think we're going to end up putting france

01:43:13.560 in tomato europe oh okay france is one of those countries it's about 50 50. and if we have any

01:43:21.800 frenchmen listening uh no offense the the tomato europe potato europe is a it's a funny inside

01:43:27.640 joke to us americans um it may be less funny to you guys all right so next up we have uh miss sarah

01:43:42.280 nick working on both the runestone and the websites why should people take the time to

01:43:47.480 read them so i feel like this is some kind of inside joke because you also work on the runestone

01:43:53.800 and the websites but why should people take the time to read them really there is a plethora of

01:44:00.520 information i can tell you i just um the websites in and of themselves have tons of information of

01:44:06.440 course every single one well the runestone.org has all has our store has our our base documents

01:44:14.360 uh declaration of purpose statement of ethics law of the hall and it has our store it has basic

01:44:19.880 information on our gothar our hoffs and all kinds of fun stuff like that and then when you go over

01:44:25.880 to our hoff websites that's where a lot of the great information is um odenshoff.org thorshoff.com

01:44:33.000 baldershoff.org and njordshoff.org really all four of them have um the contact us page is really

01:44:42.680 important because that is where you can find out um who the local leadership are the goth are the

01:44:49.320 folk builders and all of that and i'll say if you don't know which district you are in probably the

01:44:56.320 quickest and easiest way to find that out is go over to runestone.org click on hoffs and that

01:45:02.120 lists all four of them and it has little maps and descriptions of what states what prop canadian

01:45:08.680 provinces and what other countries are in each district just so you know and i'll tell you

01:45:16.120 you could talk to anybody it's perfectly fine it's mostly just for organization district

01:45:23.160 and you know keeping track of things and that sort of thing

01:45:27.240 talk to anybody you need to um but contact us page on all four of the hoff websites

01:45:32.280 There's also the our events page, which has a calendar with all of the events happening, all of the moots that are scheduled, what the dates are for the Hoff events and any virtual events that are going on, whether they be lore studies or sister chats, book studies, Victory Never Sleeps, our virtue recovery group, lots of great information in there.

01:45:59.020 and then we come to the the rune stone and matt did you want to cut in on me

01:46:04.800 um yes all right

01:46:11.100 so a number of different reasons um first because people spend a lot of time and effort to put it

01:46:24.380 together and it takes you know it doesn't necessarily take that long to look through

01:46:27.620 read and show appreciation but in a very in a very serious way when you

01:46:35.940 and this specifically not for anybody for anybody interested in what we're doing

01:46:40.660 they showcase individually we've had to break it up now because it was just

01:46:46.020 too big we used to have one for all of the afa now you can find all of them in the library at

01:46:53.220 at runestone.org. But it shows all of the amazing and

01:47:00.760 beautiful things that we have going on. And if you're not in

01:47:07.520 the AFA, I want you to see those things, see what we're doing.

01:47:12.160 And hopefully decide you want to be a part of that. Because

01:47:16.440 we're doing amazing things. If you are in the AFA, you are a

01:47:20.600 part of it. We, we have members over the entire surface of the world, the sun never sets on the

01:47:33.500 Austria focusing. We have done amazing strides in building communities, we still have a lot of

01:47:43.400 people that are far away from other folks. It means and this

01:47:49.400 meant a lot to me when I lived in Alaska. When I was first

01:47:53.660 starting out, I was a folk builder in Alaska. Sometimes

01:47:56.900 we'd have stuff going on. Sometimes it was a you know, we

01:47:59.660 wouldn't have any activity. But it meant so much to me seeing

01:48:04.880 all of my AFA family across the country and across the world

01:48:09.080 doing things and knowing that I was a part of that and getting

01:48:12.260 share in that joy being able to share and just seeing pictures of our afa family and their kids

01:48:20.900 and our hoffs and all the beautiful things going on is such a nice thing we all need that in the

01:48:27.860 world today it is easy to get weighed down by our stress by and this is the thing all the kali yuga

01:48:36.660 the world sucks things those are real and i get it but even if it wasn't the stresses of regular 0.92

01:48:44.980 everyday life it is such a beautiful thing to take a moment and just see the really amazing

01:48:51.780 things that are going on in the afa and i would encourage you guys to do that it's got pictures of

01:48:56.660 you know stuff from all the states we have things going on in every month

01:49:00.580 those that the folk builder remembers to get their articles in on um

01:49:06.660 It's really nice to just be able to get that breath of fresh air and see what these people, what we together are doing and to know that you're a part of that.

01:49:16.560 You're a part of our AFA family. And that's the thing. I love seeing pictures and hearing about achievements of my family.

01:49:25.760 I love seeing pictures and achievements of my AFA family, and that's what's in those rooms.

01:49:30.700 and i'll throw in on top of that now on top of all of the amazing articles that all everybody posts

01:49:39.980 about the moots and the meetups um people always want you know some of the best episodes are the

01:49:48.720 episodes with sivan and some of our uh busiest episodes are the best questions are really are

01:49:55.480 the ones where we get deep into lore or some kind of spiritual thing um all of the runestones have

01:50:05.400 articles written by our gothar about asatru about the lore um this past issue had an article by

01:50:15.980 Wynton Brandy Callahan on Choices. I had one by Gauthier Daniel Young on Leak, the first part of

01:50:25.880 the soul that we were discussing. Gauthier Trent East wrote an article, and Gauthier Joe Rosanick

01:50:35.400 wrote an article. His was on The Runes as Mysteries. And aside from that, a lot of the

01:50:43.540 folk builders whether they be in the gothar program or just really interested in our faith

01:50:51.440 and devoted to it they take a lot of time to also research and write articles um of of merit a lot

01:50:59.420 of history and a lot of uh other things uh topical things so there is a lot of meat to those runestone

01:51:08.580 articles and those rune tone issues uh i wish i had got the number um but if you if you add up

01:51:16.600 every page of all four issues the afa published over 500 pages just in june's issue and we've

01:51:29.320 doing this for years go to runestone.org go to the library and there is so much there

01:51:39.800 and apparently your lighting it just got dark so we got some good lightings now finally

01:51:45.400 yeah mandy had to help me out last week as the seasons come and go

01:51:49.160 it's real different everybody you know usually gets this pretty late all throughout the year

01:51:53.160 when they're over on the east coast but out here on the west coast i'm kind of at a

01:51:57.160 sunset time that show overlaps throughout the years so i gotta have folks help me with my

01:52:03.740 lighting um but yeah people put a lot of time in uh we had to stop when the runestone was regularly

01:52:10.200 over you know 80 pages per per issue we had to start breaking it up and uh it's

01:52:17.820 hell we're over 100 for all each one of them yeah that's crazy

01:52:21.580 all righty so next up is uh speaking of

01:52:27.940 gothi trent east asks nick what's your favorite part of the of my afa duties um we're gonna

01:52:37.100 be honest here and i i'm going to say having my hand in a little bit of everything

01:52:46.280 um one of the things about me is i like middle management uh i don't want to be

01:52:56.860 in charge of everything but i don't want to be at the bottom either i like

01:53:01.420 getting to know all the little things and the one fortunate part of being on the it side and

01:53:08.160 the tech side and being in 1200 projects is i hear a lot of stuff but i i i i'm nosy but um

01:53:19.620 we're gonna go we're gonna go with a follow-up and uh i had an amazing moment in the other day

01:53:26.480 just in that um i just moved to tennessee a month ago and i ran into a member in uh

01:53:37.660 cookville which is like 30 minutes south here i was down there shopping it's 30 000 people it's a

01:53:42.860 big town running into a member just walking into a store and being able to go hey and and come over

01:53:52.540 and talk to them it it's really making me um like it was one of my favorite things and it's making

01:54:01.900 me happy for what we got coming up with sigurheim getting to see folk uh on the regular basis and

01:54:11.500 not and not having to wait for another couple weeks or a month or for those folks who if you

01:54:21.500 don't get to the hof too often a couple months a year even um being hanging out with our folk

01:54:29.580 Really, it's some of the best times, and people talk about it every time.

01:54:32.300 The hardest part of being in the AFA is when it's time to leave the moot

01:54:37.980 or leave the Hoth event.

01:54:41.600 It's really – it stinks.

01:54:44.360 And there's some major event hangover afterwards.

01:54:48.660 There's the event high that you ride for a little while,

01:54:51.160 but there's also that hangover that comes with it.

01:54:53.140 and knowing that I'm going to get to live around all these folk

01:55:00.220 and not have to ever go through that again.

01:55:03.740 You know, that was a thing for me.

01:55:05.960 When I first got very active in the AFA, I think my first event was in 2010.

01:55:18.260 I went down to Midsommar.

01:55:19.420 At that time, it was at Camp Nourga in Alta, California.

01:55:25.320 And I went down there and I just got hooked on events.

01:55:29.920 And I, you know, very soon after that, we had our first winter nights in Poconos.

01:55:35.460 And I would, you know, I found myself after a couple of years, I was spending my whole year looking forward to those two events.

01:55:44.880 I was spending, you know, three hundred and fifty five days so that 10 days out of the year I could live the life the way it should be, the way I wanted it to be around my people.

01:55:57.320 And that that realization has motivated so much of what I've done that I want to have that every day, to have that all the time.

01:56:09.120 and uh Sigurheim Sigurheim is going to get me there uh I've gotten to where now I'm so fortunate

01:56:16.360 just about once a month I get to first once a month regardless I get to be at a hof celebrating

01:56:24.520 my gods with my folk at Odenshof you got a busy summer though assuming that assuming that the

01:56:32.800 pass isn't closed. But almost once a month, every month, I get to go to a big event somewhere where

01:56:41.800 I get to see the rest of my AFA family. And I love it. I want more of it all the time. I want

01:56:49.080 that to be my life. That's how we're meant to live is in a community. And I say this, and people,

01:56:56.880 I think, especially if they don't have that community, maybe off put when I talk about how

01:57:03.840 Alcintree is meant to be practiced as a community and not as an individual, but it is. And I think

01:57:10.060 it's easy when we don't have that to grumble and I'm just as good as everybody else as a solo

01:57:14.620 practitioner. But yeah, it's not, that's not as good as everything else. It's better than nothing.

01:57:20.880 it's great if that's all you can do but this is meant to be celebrated with our community

01:57:28.960 and with our afa family and the more you can do that the better i've seen a couple of things over

01:57:34.720 in the chat and i hope that you're getting all these questions got faith in you but i'm not

01:57:38.880 seeing them over on the side where i see them every every time we do these so it's a little

01:57:42.800 bit different for me um i've got 17 on the queue right now good so monk i'm reading the things that

01:57:52.000 you post over there and i want you to know that i see you and i appreciate you and it means a lot

01:58:00.320 that you're saying what you're saying and i just want you to know that i know um and i'll call out

01:58:07.760 uh robert over here he said when he built when we build the old folks home he'll be there

01:58:12.800 I mean, that's, to be fair, that is part of the goal.

01:58:17.460 That's okay. So, and I get ahead of myself on some things and I don't want to be the guy that

01:58:25.540 promises and doesn't deliver. So I tend to not mention things until they're in the works. And

01:58:32.120 this is still a long ways off. Honestly, if I had several million dollars, I would get to this right

01:58:38.720 now, but it don't. So I'm going to have to work with the timetable that we have. But that's part

01:58:45.920 of the big vision of Sigurheim is eventually we're going to have either some either cabins,

01:58:55.640 cottages, or dormitory area set up to where we can house our elders or people who have illness

01:59:05.960 and, you know, cripples, various things, so that they can be with our AFA family. I've seen, 1.00

01:59:15.640 and every one of these things has a face, and that face may not be the person that's actually

01:59:20.460 going to take me up on it, but especially in that first generation of Alcitru, we have a lot of

01:59:27.720 of older people that haven't lived um a very conventional 20th century 21st century life when

01:59:36.600 it comes to you know planning for retirement and things like that we've got people whose values 0.98

01:59:45.960 and religious things separate are very different from their families and cause a lot of problems

01:59:52.680 we have a number of elders that find themselves too old or too you know old and broke down to work

02:00:03.300 in their golden years but who don't have stuff saved up who don't have who are economically

02:00:11.180 struggling now we're not in a position where we can make everything perfect for them but we can

02:00:18.940 help them have a place to stay with their AFA family. And, you know, they can raid the kitchen 0.99

02:00:25.900 at the hall we're going to build and we can eat together and celebrate together. And they can be

02:00:30.680 in a community of people who love them and that they can be part of worshiping our gods there.

02:00:36.400 Other than having to be somewhere where they can't. Now, stuff where you need a medical staff

02:00:41.020 or whatever else, we don't have that, obviously. But if the thing is, you just can't get around,

02:00:46.040 you need somebody to drive you around, somebody to check in on you, and somebody to make sure

02:00:49.480 you're taken care of, we can do some of that. Same with people that have various

02:00:53.980 things where they can't, you know, can't drive on their own, can't live completely on their own.

02:01:02.520 We want them to be able to have their faith, have their AFA family around them, have access to what

02:01:09.200 we do, and be part of our community. And we can have that, and we'll have that at Sigrun.

02:01:14.260 And that's a big part of why we're doing it.

02:01:19.260 Absolutely.

02:01:21.260 All right.

02:01:22.260 So Miss Sarah asks, sometimes people seem to get caught up in the fact that we dress our best for our rituals.

02:01:30.260 Can you expound on how we are showing love and respect to our gods by doing that?

02:01:40.260 So Sarah's right.

02:01:42.260 Sarah's right. This is a real thing that we find ourselves having to answer questions on, is the nice way to put it.

02:01:51.660 Defend ourself, I think, is another accurate way to put it.

02:01:56.840 Who would have thunk that you had to defend yourself for wanting to look nice?

02:02:04.300 Just break that down in your head for a second.

02:02:06.520 man you guys look too nice dressing up all nice and stuff for your worship services

02:02:14.060 what are people thinking what why has the self-esteem of our folk gotten so low

02:02:23.700 that we're going to be mad at other people for trying to look their best

02:02:28.900 when presenting themselves before our gods

02:02:31.520 We don't turn people away or shun people or look down our nose at them if they show up in, you know, whatever they feel comfortable in.

02:02:48.620 We do if you're wearing something that's intentionally offensive, that has, you know, curse words and just, you know, obnoxious, vulgar slogans on it or something.

02:03:01.520 But nobody gives anybody a hard time if they don't come wearing a shirt and tie.

02:03:07.740 But we do encourage people to present their very best selves before our gods and our ancestors.

02:03:15.500 If you would wear a certain, you know, level of dress for a wedding that you went to because it's your sister's wedding.

02:03:24.580 why shouldn't you dress up to approach the gods of our race if you would dress up to go to a court

02:03:35.360 appearance why wouldn't you dress up to stand before the all father if you would dress up for

02:03:44.040 any special occasion in your life why wouldn't you put your best forward and treat it as just

02:03:50.560 is special when you go to the to the half of one of our gods and stand before their altar in their

02:03:58.400 temple and worship them why would you not present your very best self and i don't think it requires

02:04:06.960 any more than that i'm not into criticizing people if they they don't dress as nice as i might at

02:04:15.200 some occasions but i am into celebrating people who do and it's so backward in

02:04:25.600 a sad statement of where we are as a folk and on our soul sickness

02:04:29.600 that we have people that would criticize us for trying to dress our best for our gods

02:04:37.440 and that is uh one of the important things i know you said

02:04:41.760 um if you dress up or at least night uh you know clean up a little bit to go see your grandma do

02:04:47.760 it for your guys all righty so next up uh mr don ricardo asks thoughts on the alien info leaked by

02:04:59.520 the af whistleblower i'm gonna start off by saying i don't know the afr i don't listen to conspiracies

02:05:06.240 i don't know anything about any of this all right so i know that the air force has recently

02:05:13.040 declassified and admitted to a number of ufo sightings or i what do they call them now they

02:05:20.640 don't ufo is not the cool term anymore there's some other term that means ufo um

02:05:26.800 Um, here's what I think. And I don't have any, you know, that's not my thing. But

02:05:35.680 when the government covers things up and tells you this is not true, don't look over here.

02:05:44.760 it leaves it wide open for speculation our people our mind is built to make order out of chaos

02:05:57.780 to take chaotic information and to put it into order and catalog catalog it make sense make

02:06:06.540 connections find patterns. When we ask the folk that are it's their job to tell us things

02:06:14.740 or to keep us informed. And they lied to us and tell us things that are obviously not

02:06:21.300 true. Then our only recourse is to well, then what is true. And we come up with wildly

02:06:28.320 different ideas on that. And it's really unfortunate. I wish that we had more transparency

02:06:37.000 and more openness on some of these things. And then we would all have a much better

02:06:42.900 basis to make decisions on. But again, when you get, you know, when the government and the media

02:06:50.780 tell you something that you know is not true, then it leaves you scrambling and flailing for

02:06:57.300 things that might be true and that's the unfortunate part about that

02:07:04.660 um one thing i can think of is the fact that we had questions for like three weeks in a

02:07:09.300 row about have you seen the bigfoot people that's the only thing i think of when i think of conspiracies

02:07:16.020 so all right the wolf throne for us solo asatru practitioners what are some blots that can be

02:07:27.140 done without the guide of a gothi any ideas for offerings to wilton thor balder etc all right so

02:07:35.780 here's the thing don't overthink that your best bloats go to where there's a gothi or a githy and

02:07:44.980 be part of the group because it's a big deal if you can't or even if you can and you want to do

02:07:50.660 things on your own privately don't overthink like i said earlier our gods this isn't house true

02:07:59.940 isn't a science project it's not like you have to have the right secret code and do the macarena

02:08:09.220 in front of your altar and get all the movements right and somehow you unlock this communication

02:08:13.940 with the gods it's about relationships our gods are at the very least the very best of people

02:08:23.460 and they're much much more than that they see into your heart

02:08:29.780 go before your altar make an offering an idea is pour them a shot of something

02:08:37.860 burn some incense light a candle

02:08:42.960 and speak from your heart words of love and worship or just openness saying here i am

02:08:54.300 i'm i'm coming before you in respect and i'm listening it can be as simple as that if you're

02:09:01.900 just starting out. Come before your altar, speak to your gods from your heart and give them some

02:09:10.700 kind of token of appreciation. It's really that simple. As an example, when I first started out

02:09:20.680 and didn't know exactly what to do, I remember very seriously I made an offering to Freya

02:09:31.380 because she had cats that pulled her chariot, and because Freya liked gold, because she cries

02:09:38.900 tears of gold. I got a shot of Goldschlager and a can of Fancy Feast with the shrimp in it.

02:09:49.860 And that was my offering. And I just said, hey, here I am. I'm listening. I want to have a

02:09:57.560 relationship with you. I want to know more. And I sat there and I meditated in front of my altar

02:10:03.640 and I made an offering. And I felt like it was well received. I felt like Freya listened.

02:10:11.000 And it was really special to me. And it was that cheesy and simple and whatever, but

02:10:16.160 it was from the heart. It was meaningful. And I think it was really good. It can literally be

02:10:21.780 that simple so please don't overthink it it's not the best bloat you've created in your head

02:10:29.860 is worthless if it doesn't actually happen going with something simple and something from your

02:10:37.220 heart and doing that tonight when you're done listening to this program and i'm not more

02:10:42.980 important from the gods cut the program off now if you're going to go in front of your altar please

02:10:47.220 but just doing that is the biggest thing the biggest distance is from your couch to your feet

02:10:55.820 that's the biggest distance everything from there is easy getting breaking that initial resistance

02:11:01.240 and doing something that's what counts

02:11:04.620 all right so the princess travis botish over in uh colorado said he's sorry he's late to the show

02:11:18.540 not sure if this was asked and kind of sort of not holy how is sigerheim nick

02:11:24.220 um sigerheim's okay sigerheim's doing good sigerheim will be doing better as we advance

02:11:32.940 It's one of those things, it's a slow process, and it's going to get built, and it's going to get easier as it goes, and right now the big step is getting the utilities all squared away and making sure everything's good to go from there, but I think once that initial step is done, and we have all those steps in place, and we know exactly how the process goes, it's going to smooth out.

02:12:01.120 So Sigurheim is a jungle right now.

02:12:04.140 That's something that we're working on is to get a guy out there to brush hog it.

02:12:10.960 Sigurheim right now is some tall grass.

02:12:13.940 We got lions lurking around in there.

02:12:15.840 I don't know what else we got going on, but we've got grass that's, you know, what, four foot high or something right now?

02:12:24.040 Me high, yeah.

02:12:25.400 Well, so we're going to get that knocked down.

02:12:29.140 we've got a couple of guys we're calling next week because we're getting all set up

02:12:33.220 for july 22nd having cigarette out there i'm going to be out there on wednesday so i can help

02:12:41.060 do some setup get stuff squared away um it's going to be a really beautiful thing and i hope you guys

02:12:47.140 can join us it will be awesome oh i see something my wife is telling lies over inside she says that

02:12:55.860 but I do, in fact, do the Macarena before the altar.

02:12:58.740 First, I don't.

02:13:01.120 Secondly, I think that I can stand completely innocent of it

02:13:04.660 because I have no clue the steps of Macarena.

02:13:07.700 I cannot dance normally, much less ridiculously.

02:13:11.080 I couldn't do that if I wanted to,

02:13:13.480 but no, that's not what I would do in front of the gods.

02:13:16.580 Well, I will say, come out to an event.

02:13:20.300 And on Friday, Saturday night, when we start dancing,

02:13:24.720 it's a sight to see him dance

02:13:26.360 especially a line dance with some people

02:13:28.740 the seriousness and the concentration

02:13:30.960 on this man's face

02:13:32.340 well I don't, first I don't want to fall down

02:13:35.540 yeah

02:13:40.980 oh it's okay, it's okay

02:13:45.040 alright

02:13:47.200 Sat Sotanar

02:13:50.060 what are your thoughts on the studies of the runes

02:13:52.820 by people like Guido von Liszt and others.

02:13:55.900 They're pretty cool.

02:13:57.200 So, okay.

02:14:00.860 What, when you say and others,

02:14:05.100 I don't know what all goes into that,

02:14:07.440 but I'm going to assume from the question,

02:14:09.260 we're talking about people around that era

02:14:12.040 of Roenig development in the Romantic period

02:14:15.960 and then into, you know, the early 20th century.

02:14:19.000 Honestly, a lot of it, okay, so here's the thing. The fact that they were rediscovering

02:14:33.220 the runes and interpreting them and putting them into their lives and putting them out there into

02:14:39.180 the world and practicing, that's huge. We celebrate Meister Von List as one of our heroes.

02:14:46.800 He is our hero for October the 9th, I believe.

02:14:53.740 Correct.

02:14:54.060 And we celebrate him because of starting that,

02:14:57.860 reigniting that flame for our folk.

02:15:01.280 And he was clearly blessed by Odin with the Armin and runes

02:15:07.600 and the understanding of those rune spells.

02:15:10.120 um they had much less complete source material than we do now they were coming from a time where

02:15:24.760 ceremonial magic and things were much more well known in elite circles but actual

02:15:33.820 So scholarly studies of our runes were very small. And they had to, you know, do the best they can with what they had. I think that, you know, in the past hundred and, you know, hundred and fifty years, we have advanced quite a bit in our understanding of the runes.

02:15:55.560 i would hope that 150 years from now they've advanced much further beyond what we have

02:16:04.040 um i think it's very easy to look back at a time previous and point out all the things that

02:16:13.140 you know hindsight's always 2020 all the things that we know that sound kind of hokey or we would

02:16:19.180 have done different but would we be here doing that at all if those people hadn't laid the

02:16:24.760 foundations for us. And so I respect those early runologists tremendously. I don't take all of

02:16:34.080 their stuff as gospel truth because I think we have some different resources and different

02:16:38.960 better understanding now. But as far as people, I revere them. Meister von List and

02:16:48.320 And a lot of those early runemasters.

02:16:57.940 Yeah, their stuff was, some of it was kind of strange.

02:17:02.460 And I don't think all of it stands the test of time, but some of it absolutely does.

02:17:06.780 And they reawoken that and opened up our folk soul to the reemergence of our gods amongst our folk. And that's huge. And we're indebted to them and always will be for that.

02:17:24.440 absolutely and with others it gets broad but it gets a little too broad

02:17:35.040 to uh probably go into everybody who's ever talked or wrote about the rooms

02:17:39.460 give us some specifics and if you had anybody else in mind from another time period absolutely

02:17:46.420 all right um miss sarah again i think she's on question number five or six tonight i do

02:17:54.180 appreciate it keeping me busy just remember i have to sleep at some point i am not svon

02:17:59.240 we're only two hours and 15 in it's one one third of our our epic one one that's 10 15 my bedtime's

02:18:09.880 at 11 i don't ever make it on a wednesday night because of y'all but it's okay you're welcome

02:18:16.700 uh king of theatric story happened a long time ago and it is hard to remember that he is a human

02:18:23.160 rather than a story in a book like a lot of our heroes um why is it important to remember his name

02:18:30.920 and story i'm gonna fix the stress on that real quick and uh the story in a book like a lot of

02:18:38.860 our heroes makes me think that's not that's not what she means he's they're all human they all lived

02:18:45.740 so

02:18:48.340 this is

02:18:52.740 it's certainly common sense but it's something we don't stop and think about enough

02:19:03.500 but Sarah's a thousand percent right these people are actual human beings with the same

02:19:14.040 feelings that you and I have the same adversity to hardship and difficulty the same need to feel

02:19:23.080 love the same fears the same. There are people like you and I.

02:19:34.920 A fan Eric was a man of this tribe that was bestowed a responsibility

02:19:42.120 to look after the well being of his folk and to guide them in the right way.

02:19:47.160 way. He was born into a world where all of his people worshiped Odin, worshiped our gods.

02:20:02.120 And as he grew to manhood and became the leader of his people, he watched a foreign cult, 0.68

02:20:10.140 the foreign God that wasn't ours, take that away from our folk. And he watched his friends 0.94

02:20:17.420 and his neighbors, other noble children that he grew up with, abandon their faith, abandon their

02:20:25.940 gods and embrace this foreign gods or this foreign God. He watched that happen. He watched his people

02:20:37.140 become weak through the division and the treason of these people, literally selling their soul to

02:20:46.020 Rome for trinkets and booze and military support and prestige. While he's worshiping the Allfather

02:21:00.100 and these people have betrayed him. 0.93

02:21:04.900 Athaneric was Ausatru, he was loyal to the Aesir

02:21:09.540 and he used everything in his power as a leader, as a king

02:21:15.100 to stand against the treason against our gods

02:21:20.020 up to and including slaughtering friends and people that he knew

02:21:27.680 because they betrayed our folk and our gods.

02:21:33.220 He recognized these people

02:21:35.920 and consigned them to the flames.

02:21:39.740 And he spent his life an outlaw of his own folk

02:21:44.080 because they'd abandoned their gods and their traditions. 1.00

02:21:49.280 He found more honor amongst his enemy in Constantinople 0.97

02:21:54.600 than amongst what at the end of his life was the Visigoths 0.62

02:22:01.160 because they had embraced the white Christ and he stayed loyal to our gods. 0.59

02:22:08.040 The isolation, the fear, the pressure this man must have been under to do this,

02:22:16.280 but his loyalty and his courage to stand against it,

02:22:20.600 That is a lesson to all of us. And this man was made of sterner stuff than most any of us are.

02:22:29.460 And it's very important that we remember him. All of our heroes, it's important that none of these

02:22:37.320 things came easy. These aren't video game characters that you press a button and it's so.

02:22:43.640 These are people that make decisions that alienate them from friends, from family.

02:22:49.120 from power, from riches, from various things. They choose to make those sacrifices to stand

02:22:58.340 strong for our faith. It's very easy to be quote unquote courageous. And you see that now. You see

02:23:10.980 that now in the liberal left in modern times all the time. They're taking such courageous stands

02:23:17.100 that the medias and big corporations all support.

02:23:20.860 No, it takes real courage to stand against the flow of civilization

02:23:27.680 when it's flowing the wrong way.

02:23:30.680 And it's telling.

02:23:32.060 So the Gothic royal families were of two major families.

02:23:40.540 The Ostrogoths were the Amalungs, and the Visigoths were the Balthongs, and the Balthongs

02:23:52.620 translated into the bold or the valiant race.

02:23:57.640 And a Thenerick stood for being bold and valiant in defense of his faith as a real

02:24:06.340 man who lived a real life, and we should celebrate that and remember it.

02:24:10.540 and hope that one day we can be worthy of seeing him on the other side of the other side of the veil and looking him in the eye.

02:24:22.140 I hope one day I'm worthy of that.

02:24:29.120 Obsidian Skull asks, speaking of forgiveness, what do you think about the recurring topic in the sagas

02:24:36.500 about the ancestors and their fascination for the outlaws and their stories

02:24:42.120 so

02:24:48.380 I mean again our ancestors are humans just like us I think there's something that is always

02:25:03.980 fun and interesting as a form of escapism to hear stories of of that it's sexy and interesting

02:25:14.840 what you don't see though is our folk celebrating that you see them being entertained by stories of

02:25:25.020 of certain outlaws but almost all of those stories come around to the outlaws being

02:25:32.000 reintegrated into society or constructing their own order you don't see those people sticking

02:25:37.280 with chaos hired in chaos honestly of the sagas that we have very few are about outlaws

02:25:47.840 um but yeah i think that you know when when people read bodice ripper novels today

02:25:57.040 it's about pirates and bandits and and outlawry uh and i think it's a psychological

02:26:05.040 purge and escape valve but i don't think that's what was celebrated and it wasn't

02:26:11.360 not on a large scale i think it was certainly entertaining and you see some sagas for that

02:26:16.720 but the sagas that become truly epic that are celebrated are from heroes within society and

02:26:24.320 people who upheld the social order versus chaos and not the other way around

02:26:34.160 on our hero what makes a king worthy to rule and how can a leader in general

02:26:41.120 do to know the difference between hard rule and unjust rule rod again asks again

02:26:50.160 so

02:26:50.400 So that's, those are important and valuable questions and I think that any leader should

02:27:03.340 ponder those.

02:27:05.560 But what's dangerous and unfortunate about those, people often ponder those as an excuse

02:27:13.460 to not lead.

02:27:14.760 um it's just like we hear all the time when somebody when somebody stands up and calls a

02:27:20.980 spade a spade and says hey this is right and this is wrong well who are you to say what's right and

02:27:26.700 wrong and people throw up their hands honestly who are you to say what's right and wrong the one who

02:27:34.380 had the courage to stand up and do it we see that with a lot of leaders what makes a leader worthy

02:27:40.180 to rule. Certainly our ancestors felt that it was important that a leader be from a noble bloodline,

02:27:49.380 but it wasn't the only thing that mattered. And you could find people that established their own

02:27:54.920 noble bloodline by taking that lead themselves. It's a combination of people who had the courage,

02:28:02.780 the strength of self, and the blessing of the gods to be victorious. That's one of the reasons that

02:28:09.700 victory was made our tenth noble virtue. Victory meant so much to our ancestors because it implied

02:28:17.060 a blessing from the gods. Somebody who is capable of standing up, of achieving, of leading, and being

02:28:25.620 followed, that's one of the prime ways to determine somebody who's worthy of leading and being a king.

02:28:33.980 but that was done and it was very often seen by acts of valor and acts of being out there and

02:28:44.840 doing it wasn't just handed off to our ancestors it was a responsibility passed on to be the first

02:28:55.480 and the best of all things and this is something that's important within the AFA we encourage

02:29:01.620 people to be ambitious. There's nothing wrong with being ambitious. But be worthy of it. If you want

02:29:09.400 to lead, that's great. That's noble and I respect it. Be worthy of it. And to our ancestors, yeah,

02:29:18.520 there was huge responsibility. So many people don't want to actually be the king. The king has

02:29:26.700 to carry a huge burden, but somebody who shows the desire, the commitment, and the ability to

02:29:34.160 be successful and a successful leader of men, that means a lot of things. You know, who's to

02:29:40.360 determine what's, you know, how do we determine what's hard rule versus what's unjust tyranny?

02:29:46.960 um you don't there's overlap what ideally a king or a ruler does is consult the gods

02:30:01.000 consult people that he trusts and endeavor to always check back in with those things

02:30:09.780 to make sure that they're doing the right thing one of the biggest things is not

02:30:16.960 And I would say this, I think one of the things that's most important to a leader that wants to be a just ruler as opposed to a tyrant is to have people around him that will tell him the truth. 0.94

02:30:36.940 It's awesome to have people just kiss your butt and praise you and talk about how great you are. 0.97

02:30:42.560 No, seriously, that's amazing. But it's so much more valuable to have people that will tell you when you're doing something wrong, give you a heads up, give you a perspective, give you intelligence of what other people see and think and feel so you can make informed decisions. 0.87

02:31:04.940 And I mean, I think that's the delicate balance. The question itself is hard. There's no clear answer on what the perfect list of 10 things you got to check the boxes are on who's worthy of kingship.

02:31:23.980 And you check these other boxes on what equals just but strict rule and what equals tyranny.

02:31:32.420 It doesn't work like that.

02:31:34.220 There's all kind of overlap and there's all kind of ambiguity.

02:31:38.840 And the circumstance and the context means everything.

02:31:43.260 But I think the key is that touchstone of going back to your advisors that are able to talk to you,

02:31:50.180 back to the gods and checking back in, making sure you're doing the right thing.

02:31:56.600 It should never be easy. You should never not feel the weight of ruling on your shoulders.

02:32:06.620 It should be heavy all of the time. When it's no longer heavy, that's when you need to check back

02:32:14.240 in um but again these aren't perfect answers i don't think there's a way to answer the question

02:32:20.000 perfectly that's what i'll circle back though um and you mentioned i mean really

02:32:29.600 in my mind a lot of being the the right person being in charge the way you know

02:32:36.240 the way you know that what they're doing is the right is by the results uh how how are things

02:32:42.480 going and it it's very much the same as what uh viran groenbeck says in the culture of the tutens

02:32:51.200 in the chapters on luck and luck and the tribe he discusses time and time again

02:32:59.520 that the strength of a king's luck is known by the how how fertile the fields are how how much

02:33:09.520 uh grain that his his people grow by how how many cows they have and how how fertile their cows are

02:33:18.720 by their not by their success in battle absolutely yes um there are stories of of the kings showing

02:33:27.200 their luck um and having luck in the fishing fields um especially the ones that are near the

02:33:34.560 coast um how fertile their how fertile their inlets their oceans are and the amazing things

02:33:42.080 that they can do um with uh like the uh the the king who could uh like the winds

02:33:51.600 what well it's actually one of our heroes why can i not remember which one it is

02:33:55.760 um the one who's the who was being chased and the winds turned against uh the person that was chasing

02:34:02.480 him and um on a boat on a um so there's all kinds of ways you can see this and um

02:34:12.800 as a sign of modesty i'm going to assume that our that our al-shiragothi is not uh

02:34:17.520 throwing out numbers but i'm here to throw out numbers we are 59 people away from doubling our

02:34:24.560 membership since you took over 59 people and um the afa founded in 96 and um so that you took over

02:34:38.640 in 2016 so that's 20 years versus uh the last seven 59 people away from doubling our membership

02:34:46.240 we've added three hoffs the siger heim we have 70 acres of land we've added uh

02:34:53.040 us true academy um we had nine kindergartners this year and we've got 13 14 15 students signed

02:35:03.600 up just to start next year with k through third we have victory after victory and um

02:35:11.920 things are not slowing down they're growing we we keep we keep doing it good what we

02:35:19.520 um so that's how you know a leader is uh the the worthy to rule and the difference between

02:35:30.400 hard rule and unjust rule um it just comes down to results if if they're if it's practicing if

02:35:37.880 it's if the results are there then it's it's probably the right thing the gods i know you say

02:35:44.760 we have a lineage straight back to the gods with our with our gothar and um even our some of our

02:35:51.240 detractors said that odin was willing to work through and with uh steve uh founder mcnalen

02:36:00.040 um that's how you know well even the people who don't like you acknowledge it that's how you know

02:36:07.880 Well said, Nick. Thanks. Thanks for pointing those things out. The other thing that I'll say is

02:36:16.120 nobody is perfect. So it's a, those lines fluctuate and even the best of leaders find

02:36:30.960 themselves on the wrong side of those lines every now and again. It's an art and not a science.

02:36:39.660 And I think that the kings of the past, it's one of the reasons that King Athaneric is such a

02:36:46.880 standout, is it wasn't just about him and his power. And I have no reason to think that he

02:36:54.060 wasn't extremely ambitious, good, a leader should be. But it

02:36:59.700 was about loyalty to our gods. It was checking in with

02:37:07.620 something that's higher and bigger than himself as well.

02:37:12.540 And I think that was a really valuable, valuable lesson.

02:37:20.160 Absolutely. Oh, nope.

02:37:24.060 That's the same question that just popped that we just talked about.

02:37:26.760 Next up is John Horn.

02:37:28.580 Is the biggest group platform for the AFA MeWe is or something bigger?

02:37:34.380 Depends.

02:37:36.160 As far as in-group stuff, yes, MeWe is where the most of our members talk to other members.

02:37:44.700 As far as outreach things that reach people who are not in the AFA, YouTube is our biggest.

02:37:51.680 And I think Twitter is our second biggest.

02:37:57.820 All righty.

02:38:00.300 Igor Kunigaz, will there be another book release similar to Asatruh Book of Bloat and Rituals?

02:38:10.800 Yes, similar to I don't know.

02:38:13.400 So AFA Book of Bloat and Rituals is terrible.

02:38:17.700 Anybody who has purchased that, I'm sorry.

02:38:20.040 anybody who uh is thinking about purchasing it please don't thing was the AFA when they produced

02:38:29.960 that didn't produce that as um well as they should have and this has been admitted this isn't

02:38:40.200 talking out of class it was an effort that was done wrongly because so many people different

02:38:47.560 people were authors of it each individual person that wrote an article in there counts as an author

02:38:52.440 on it and it was done through create space so we are unable to get it pulled and get it no longer

02:39:00.200 sold but it also had very little if any supervision on it and a number of those people wrote things

02:39:09.720 that were completely outside of the acceptable practice the astrofolks at that time certainly

02:39:16.280 they're outside of the acceptable practice of the Austro Folk Assembly at this time.

02:39:22.460 As far as writing up a bunch of specific rituals, no, I don't think that will occur. A book that

02:39:29.860 gives basic AFA, who we are, what we believe, these are our gods, these are our heroes,

02:39:36.380 this is how, you know, these are some AFA basics. We're actually working on that right now.

02:39:42.040 again, we've been working on that for a very long time. I'm hopeful. I was just talking to

02:39:49.340 Whit and Brandy about that yesterday, or I think day before rather on Monday.

02:39:56.680 We're working on that. We've got a really cool idea for what we're doing, and we put some time

02:40:02.340 and effort into it. And I think you'll like it when it comes out, but I'm not sure when that will be.

02:40:06.480 all righty so next up uh wolf throne speaking of blots uh thoughts on mcvan ron mcvann's

02:40:20.440 waltons or votons holy rites and rituals book of blotard is this book outdated or is it still

02:40:27.480 relevant today yes so yes uh well okay is it outdated sure what all does that mean um it depends

02:40:49.560 it's not bad it's certainly written at a different time in a different place

02:40:54.440 and um ron mcvann's ritual structure is different than how the afa currently

02:41:03.320 practices stuff but that doesn't mean it's bad um it's much more theatrical um

02:41:11.480 but again that's okay so for an example of those kind of bloats you can look and we posted a

02:41:19.240 a Ron McVann ritual from 1994 on the same YouTube channel.

02:41:30.620 And you can see what that was like.

02:41:32.680 And it was very much an encapsulation

02:41:35.440 of a certain space and time that Alice True was practicing.

02:41:41.720 Nick mentioned earlier that we were in 96.

02:41:44.180 No, we were founded in January of 95.

02:41:47.620 Between December 94 and January 95, the, again, it's more theatrical, and it's less,

02:42:04.400 I don't even want to say that, because I don't, I don't, I, it's genuine, I have a lot of respect

02:42:10.040 for Ron McVean, and so I don't mean to denigrate anything that he's written or that he's done. 0.96

02:42:16.340 the modern afa style of bloat is much more from the heart

02:42:22.340 much more spontaneous whereas his is much more choreographed and much more of a ritual drama

02:42:31.860 it is outdated but that doesn't mean it's bad it's certainly still relevant but it is very much

02:42:38.420 much a glimpse of how bloat was practiced in the early 90s and not how it's most often practiced

02:42:46.340 today. And I'll throw out, if you want a bit of an idea on some modern bloat, go to

02:42:56.580 baldershoff.org and go to the section at the top that says Brandy's bloats. Brandy Callahan has

02:43:02.300 been nice enough to write up uh four different bloats that we've used that we've put in the

02:43:09.400 runestone issues and um they're copied over there so you can find out i think uh charming the plow

02:43:18.920 ostara hexanoc and mayday bloats are all listed there unfortunately she didn't give me a uh

02:43:27.160 midsummer bloat this month so i might have to fight her and get a midsummer and uh

02:43:35.240 sigger bloats one for next issue so we don't skip it

02:43:41.640 um next question is a bit of a longer one uh anglo mick uh just got mr mcnallan's book in

02:43:47.800 the mail and trying to read it through working lots of hours the feeling i'm getting is that

02:43:53.560 i'm actually on board with most everything but was raised christian it is part of my psyche part of

02:44:00.360 who i am though i've thought of myself as a half breed for a number of years half christian half

02:44:06.040 pagan very eclectic beliefs i'm not sure if i could see myself praying to odin or thor

02:44:13.960 but i'm still extremely interested any suggestions or should i just be a fan

02:44:19.400 so the easiest thing for you to do is to just be a fan

02:44:27.380 and you can keep being mainly christian and being really comfortable

02:44:34.040 and you can kind of be a fan of of cool stuff that we do

02:44:38.640 but that would be missing so much of the richness of what we do

02:44:48.140 that's not what I advise you to do that's just the easy thing to do

02:44:55.380 what you should do or what I advise you to do

02:45:00.320 is to step up and try and open yourself so it's hard you can't you cannot be

02:45:12.120 a Christian and an aussituer at the same time

02:45:17.000 you know as as well as i do that the christian god forbids other gods and the worship of other gods

02:45:28.860 so it's important that you're able to make that mental separation first

02:45:35.380 if you can break away from christianity first then

02:45:42.360 what I suggest is opening yourself.

02:45:50.840 Just give it a shot.

02:45:53.060 I don't, it's always such a tall order

02:45:56.000 and I don't ask for anyone to just go out

02:46:01.780 and devote themselves wholly to our God's sight unseen.

02:46:06.280 That's a lot.

02:46:07.740 You can't develop that kind of relationship

02:46:10.260 with anyone sight unseen like that but in order for it to happen

02:46:17.640 you have to approach it with the openness of allowing it to happen so one thing that i think

02:46:25.360 is really important is come out to something for the and you don't you don't have to join

02:46:33.760 you can reach out to the person close to the folk builder closest to you and just come out

02:46:39.560 to something and see what it's like. Approach ritual as if you want to believe. You don't have

02:46:49.860 to have a profound belief in the gods to participate. You have to want to though. And that's the

02:46:58.780 thing. If you go into any of our rituals expecting something or demanding something or trying

02:47:09.480 to prove something. It's very hard to get what you're after. But if you go in with an open mind

02:47:17.440 and an open heart, and you literally just say a little prayer saying, Hey, I'm here. I'm listening

02:47:23.640 and you participate and see what happens. That's when the magic can happen. I've said many times

02:47:33.580 on this show, the coolest, best, most special things at Goethe is

02:47:40.900 when you see this become real in someone else's eyes.

02:47:46.100 And oftentimes this is people that already say they believe,

02:47:51.220 but something happens when all of a sudden

02:47:55.940 their eyes dilate and they this is real.

02:48:00.980 It's unmistakably real.

02:48:02.440 And I've used the analogy before, but if you've ever been hunting, every dark spot in the woods is an animal that you're hunting.

02:48:11.240 Every noise, every stump, every anything that is that it?

02:48:16.260 Is that it? Is that until you see the animal and then how could you have been so stupid? 1.00

02:48:21.560 All these other things. No, this is clearly it. 1.00

02:48:24.760 a lot of people want to believe in our gods, but there's a moment when, oh, wow, no, this is what

02:48:32.400 it is. How could I have ever thought before? No, this. And then you can't go back. So I suggest

02:48:38.840 participating with openness, opening yourself up and not just once, but a few times and seeing what

02:48:46.740 happens. And I think that it's very likely something really special will happen, but you

02:48:54.040 have to open yourself to yeah come reach out um matt told matt mentioned that uh specifically as

02:49:05.000 i mentioned earlier just go on to one of the hoff sites go to contact us find somebody reach out to

02:49:13.800 them it doesn't matter who we'll get you connected with the right person whoever's closest and uh

02:49:19.320 come to a moot you'll realize really quick we're not like normal people it's

02:49:25.300 because we're awesome people and come to a moot Wynton Clifford Erickson said a

02:49:33.660 couple times don't necessarily have to believe in the gods first but you have

02:49:39.660 to believe in the ability to believe in the gods so you've already you know you

02:49:46.020 already halfway there come out come see us we got cookies it depends if you go see if you're down

02:49:57.700 in florida and you see anna uh go see anna plurred she's got cookies and they're amazing she she bakes

02:50:05.300 and they're awesome honestly to be fair she's also gonna have a baby any second now she may

02:50:12.500 have had a baby while we're having this conversation i don't i haven't heard about it yet um but very

02:50:18.740 seriously give it a shot if you don't you're always going to wonder and you know how much

02:50:30.660 time you have left is not uh not guaranteed to you so don't waste time if it's something you

02:50:41.380 want to pursue give it a shot and see but you don't want to have the regrets of wondering what if

02:50:51.620 this next one's a bit personal because i could say yep that was me that caused this one

02:50:57.220 got banned from discord for following in the afa group will runestone ever be made a social media

02:51:03.380 platform i'm guessing he means runestone.org and kind of thinking about the old forum days

02:51:11.380 No, because time has moved past that.

02:51:18.640 It just is.

02:51:19.960 Honestly, we wouldn't have the participation, and we looked into ways of doing that, and it just wasn't efficient.

02:51:27.440 It wasn't working out.

02:51:28.400 We did look into it as an idea.

02:51:32.660 Those days have come and gone, and it's been supplanted by social media.

02:51:36.420 Social media is what we have.

02:51:37.760 If you're a member of the AFA, MeWe is where we do all of our chatting amongst each other as far as social media goes.

02:51:45.920 And that's going to be your best bet.

02:51:48.000 We do use the social function on YouTube.

02:51:52.980 I check that every day and I post all of our stuff over there.

02:51:56.740 I use YouTube as if it's an alternative social media.

02:52:00.380 It's not really meant that way necessarily, but I do.

02:52:03.620 And we have conversations there sometimes.

02:52:08.640 Yeah, the old message board forum days, that was cool.

02:52:14.020 It's just not what people do anymore.

02:52:15.880 And that's more trouble than it's worth at this point, unfortunately.

02:52:24.380 And I do apologize about the ban for Discord.

02:52:27.100 I got that too.

02:52:28.120 Don't worry.

02:52:29.720 But such is life.

02:52:31.840 It's not that important.

02:52:33.040 It's just Discord.

02:52:36.260 All righty.

02:52:37.260 uh mr alt james alt says offhand do either of you know how many specific programs groups or

02:52:45.820 specialized insert word thing have for folk and as outreach thank you

02:52:57.100 i don't understand the question okay so i've been thinking about it for a while and i've

02:53:02.220 actually been looking some stuff up i think he's just meaning like how many outreach programs

02:53:09.340 and stuff we have and i've got a number for us as far as like just like outreach and like

02:53:19.020 helping people uh one two three four five six seven eight nine ten i can count let me know

02:53:28.060 know if i missed any well we've got the elderly group to connect the the old folks the academy

02:53:35.500 the baby blanket program our gothard do tons of counseling and religious practices

02:53:41.060 heirs blessings folk services our south africa fund prison ministry food pantry victory recovery

02:53:51.300 group or virtue recovery group um on top of that you said groups there's a dozen groups on me we

02:53:59.220 that we're a part of and all kinds of other stuff but i don't think that's what that's really it

02:54:04.340 we got men's groups we got women's groups we've got groups for each of our hofs we've got our

02:54:12.500 homeschool program which we're so very proud of we're about to graduate our first class of

02:54:18.420 kindergarteners and you know i promised that we'd have first grade ready for next year

02:54:24.580 no screw that we got up to third grade so kindergarten through third grade to register

02:54:30.500 for this next upcoming school year uh go through rob stamm and uh rachel johnson are doing amazing

02:54:38.420 work over there we've got that going on we've got the prison uh prison outreach that we're

02:54:47.140 working on the prison ministry that we're working on we're doing things in south africa we've got

02:54:54.500 stuff going on in 14 different countries

02:55:03.300 for hoffs sigerheim

02:55:09.140 um we've got a group for our active duty and veterans

02:55:17.140 And we've got groups on fun topics, outdoors, homesteading, genealogy.

02:55:27.020 So there's all kinds of stuff.

02:55:29.600 Absolutely.

02:55:31.420 There is all kinds.

02:55:33.940 And there's a little something else you had in mind, James.

02:55:37.100 Of course, ask another question, buddy.

02:55:39.720 All right.

02:55:41.260 I mean, that's what you get when you ask a vague question.

02:55:47.140 rod again asks again question on the subject of governments using aliens as distractions

02:55:56.500 to be clear oh well this isn't a question oh no it is uh aliens have uh to be clear aliens have

02:56:04.340 never visited earth but somewhere in the vast cosmos you know life certainly exists do you think

02:56:10.740 that our cosmic struggle between beauty and ugliness friendliness and sadism honor and

02:56:17.300 corruption is also experienced across the universe so this is a really

02:56:26.740 i think it's a fun question to try to ponder and answer because it

02:56:32.820 takes you out of the paradigms that you usually are confined to um

02:56:40.740 As I've said earlier on these, all of these broadcasts, our way of relating to other people, to other entities, to the world, to animals, to just anything is by empathy based on ourselves and our understanding of ourselves.

02:57:03.000 i can't conceive of a situation to where the same um eternal struggles between

02:57:18.120 good things and bad things aren't experienced by them but again i don't know i have no context

02:57:28.280 and that's what i think is so fascinating about aliens

02:57:33.000 So their context would be completely different from ours. I have no idea what that would look like. And their starting point, I have no points to relate with them on other than to assume they're just like us and try to go from there.

02:57:53.500 But I don't think it works like that. So that's what's truly fascinating. I have to think that the concept of order versus chaos is universal, that darkness versus light, you know, honorable behavior versus dishonorable behavior, beauty versus ugliness.

02:58:16.260 though those standards may be different depending on context I have to think that those themes

02:58:23.060 are universal but that's me coming from you know my prejudices and my you know the context that

02:58:33.800 I've experienced the 41 almost 42 years of my life in so I think it's a fascinating question

02:58:41.720 what do you think nick um the main thing that makes me think of is our declaration of purpose

02:58:50.200 um i i know back in the day when we had uh some of the prior rune stones and all that we had some

02:59:00.760 different fun things in the afa we had guilds and one of the guilds was like a space guild

02:59:07.720 and uh our founder mcnellan he's got a bit of a fascination with uh outer space and the universe

02:59:14.760 and stuff number eight on our declaration of purpose is literally the exploration of the

02:59:19.280 universe in keeping with the faustine instinct of our kind so if we can't answer those questions

02:59:24.840 um hopefully one day we can and it's simple in that

02:59:29.360 our i mean our people you and you could say the vikings went exploring and raiding and all of

02:59:37.260 that. But it's not just that. Our people all the way back from the Pontic Steps, they traveled all

02:59:45.760 over. They literally domesticated horses and invented the wheel and the chariot so that they

02:59:53.660 could move. They carried their peoples into Europe. And from there, the British and the

03:00:04.240 portuguese and the spanish and the french colonize the rest of the world our people 0.99

03:00:10.720 cannot sit still so at some point one day we're going to end up in the stars

03:00:17.900 looking to see what else is out there and

03:00:20.800 it'll be fun but the the big questions

03:00:27.980 it's interesting um but i definitely believe it's all contextual i think because everybody's

03:00:38.200 got a different experience in life and there's something to say about

03:00:43.260 i don't if unless there's some carbon-based life form that originated on a planet very

03:00:52.020 much like ours they may not be so their experience their outlook their thought process culture all of

03:01:02.640 that is going to be wholly different so I see something over on the side another question

03:01:09.340 about the whole can the AFA write us religious exemptions for having beards absolutely not

03:01:16.460 The AFA has no position on beards or not beards.

03:01:25.460 As you can see, I am clean shaven.

03:01:28.460 But, you know, every winter I grow my beard.

03:01:31.460 It's a fashion choice.

03:01:37.460 There is absolutely not now, not ever been some kind of religious requirement for Alcetru that you need to have a beard.

03:01:47.340 Please don't use our faith as a reason for you to be different or special or not have to follow the standards at your place of business that other people do.

03:01:59.780 Um, one of the reasons that we don't do that is so when we do face an actual issue that is

03:02:08.520 also true related, that our integrity is intact when we want to take a stand against it and we

03:02:15.640 want to provide an exemption. You're not wanting to shave your beard is not something that you need

03:02:23.480 to bring our holy gods and our church into. If you don't want to shave your beard, get a different

03:02:29.180 job. But that's not a relevant issue to our faith. It's a fashion choice. At various times

03:02:39.520 throughout our history, there's been fashions for mustaches and no beards, beards and no

03:02:44.760 mustaches, big beards, full beards, no beards, all of those things, because fashions change

03:02:52.860 over time but it's really important to me as the person who safeguards the reputation of the afa

03:03:02.300 that we don't use our position as a recognized 501c3 as a church to make exemptions on things

03:03:13.340 that are frivolous we save that up so that we can use it when there are real issues that affect our

03:03:19.660 faith and i'll say um it's important to remember that even if the stereotype of our norse viking

03:03:30.220 germanic ancestors had beards this is 2023 not 1070 um we this is modern we are modern people

03:03:41.900 we don't necessarily have to have a beard now it's it undoubtedly probably looks cooler

03:03:48.140 and stuff but it's not it's not important

03:03:54.300 the wolf throne asks in a two-parter can you explain your reasoning as to why ositru

03:04:03.740 is pan-arian religion as opposed to only being for northern european tectonic peoples

03:04:11.360 Also, if Asatru is Pan-Aryan, wouldn't that make Hellenism, Celtic and Slavic, Paganism Pan-Aryan as well?

03:04:21.720 So, this isn't a theory, it's a fact. 0.62

03:04:28.880 In theory, sure, but they aren't.

03:04:34.680 They're not successful, they're not doing anything.

03:04:37.780 We are. 0.92

03:04:38.200 Um, I don't think that those are illegitimate faith structures, but also true is the most recent, the most complete, and the best access we have to Aryan religiosity. 0.77

03:04:55.200 The source material and things that we have for authentic Hellenism before it became a joke and a literary device to make ridiculous are very few.

03:05:10.080 The sources that we have for Celtic belief are relatively few in the authentic period that it was practiced.

03:05:21.400 We have the best opportunity to put into frame, into names and context, Aryan spirituality as expressed by Norse practitioners.

03:05:37.680 That's the best thing that we have, and it's the only thing that we have that is moving forward and being successful today.

03:05:45.740 by virtue of, as we talked about earlier, it's what's winning. We invite people to get on the

03:05:53.540 team. It is born of the same Aryan spirituality as the other things you mentioned, yet it is the

03:06:02.280 one that has been shown favor by the divine. It is the one that has caused success and victory,

03:06:08.600 So it's the one that we are attaching to and moving forward with.

03:06:14.020 But this is all Aryan religion from Aryan gods that go back to the very beginning of our folk.

03:06:24.600 Certainly. All right. The hardest question of the day. 0.93

03:06:28.000 and funnily enough

03:06:30.560 every new

03:06:32.580 person to come on this show

03:06:34.600 when they ask me

03:06:36.400 what tips or what they need to do

03:06:38.760 to prepare, I tell them to

03:06:40.760 prepare for this question

03:06:42.020 I didn't prepare for this question

03:06:44.500 so

03:06:46.020 yeah, I know

03:06:48.500 EuropaTheLastBattle.net

03:06:52.620 asks, Mr. Rice

03:06:54.300 good to see you on the screen finally

03:06:56.580 Five favorite books, not lore-related, and favorite saga.

03:07:02.660 Please, thank you.

03:07:04.900 All right, this is hard.

03:07:06.820 For the simple fact of, I don't know if I have read a book that is non-lore-related in probably 10 years.

03:07:21.560 so yeah and this is coming from somebody that probably owns 250 to 300 books

03:07:33.260 and i just i haven't picked them up now when i was a kid i read a lot i i even got wrote up and

03:07:43.040 expelled because i was taking we had computerized reading tests based on books we read on our free

03:07:49.680 time we got points and we could spend those points on stuff and i was the nerdy kid who had read all

03:07:55.920 the harry potter and all that fun stuff and i got my but my friends uh student ids and i took the

03:08:02.780 test for myself then i took the test for them to get them points i read all kinds but i don't know

03:08:10.520 if i've read something for fun since like high school i've just read stuff because i have to

03:08:19.540 because I need to

03:08:21.740 whether it be

03:08:24.760 I need you to produce this program

03:08:27.400 so I've got to keep civil

03:08:29.680 but you need to open some of those books

03:08:31.580 I know

03:08:32.860 I can name

03:08:33.760 a few books that I did enjoy

03:08:37.460 can you name

03:08:39.580 five

03:08:40.180 Harry Potter 1, 2, 3

03:08:43.660 4, 5

03:08:44.520 I count I guess

03:08:47.320 No, but we're going to include some others.

03:08:51.140 And the problem is, though, I'm going to include kids books.

03:08:55.760 But to be fair, I mean, you know, I think Wynton Callahan or somebody's mentioned Little Woman.

03:09:03.040 So Little House on the Prairie, one of those.

03:09:05.800 So those are kids books.

03:09:09.200 Witch Child was kind of cool back in the day.

03:09:11.840 It got really annoying in the second book, but the first book was fun.

03:09:17.320 um there's a there's kinds of all kinds of books lord of the rings is good of course that's

03:09:23.860 undeniable um a lot of the books i read recently were in college that were um

03:09:32.980 academic in nature um there was a couple books i read um on irish history that i still have

03:09:43.580 unfortunately i can't remember them but a lot because i took a book uh class on modern irish

03:09:48.580 and um so that was really fun uh i can't name them off the top of my head but if you really

03:09:56.920 want to know about some books on belfast and the potato famine i'll send you a couple books

03:10:02.480 um yeah i'm a horrible person i really don't read and it's really and

03:10:08.620 for 15 years i probably would have said reading was part of my identity

03:10:13.320 tea. And I was lying to myself. I really wish I wasn't, but it's so hard to pick up a book.

03:10:21.480 So but yeah, picking up a book is not difficult. It is it is not. I would encourage all of our

03:10:28.680 listeners to read books because reading books is awesome. As a we're putting it all out there

03:10:36.340 today um i know i i disappointed a lot of people i know myself included um

03:10:45.540 no we're playing with you but here's the thing we answer these questions honestly

03:10:50.580 um that cuts both ways so fair enough i can't tell i was not asked but i'll throw out there

03:10:57.860 because i'm reading a two-part um two-part deal right now uh on it's a it's a biography about

03:11:08.820 uh jeb stewart general jeb stewart in american civil war and i'm reading it the first one is

03:11:14.420 year of glory and the second one is year of desperate struggle but it's really cool because

03:11:19.460 it breaks down these two years in his life during the civil war um in really great detail and i'm

03:11:27.220 really enjoying that right now and i actually had a thought um do audiobooks count as reading books

03:11:36.180 yes all right well then i can definitely throw in one we're gonna thank go the uh go through

03:11:42.420 rob stam for the horse the wheel and language um it's a really good book if you um are a very

03:11:50.420 boring person because it is a dry read and you have to skip through half of it if you want

03:11:57.380 anything interesting because a lot of it is just this tribe had this piece of pottery and it shows

03:12:02.580 this little bit of thing it's an academic read but i really enjoyed it it's very it has nuanced

03:12:09.060 interests some of the best things i've read have been just hard to read because they were so so

03:12:16.500 very dry but if you mine for those things are really good lady with the meat cup comes to mind

03:12:23.700 it's very good but it's super repetitive it's very dry and it's not fun but it's very very

03:12:31.860 well done and there's a number of those um the germanization of early medieval christianity is

03:12:38.180 also very good but very boring and not fun in the way that it's written that's why i love biographies

03:12:46.340 is they're written in a telling a story way and i like that a lot so i'm a big fan of

03:12:52.820 a biographical literature or history from i'd say pre-1950 to where people were writing it

03:13:01.380 with a lot of enthusiasm enthusiasm and it wasn't um trying to be it's not that the facts weren't

03:13:10.020 objective but it was clearly in support of their subject and they were clearly excited about

03:13:15.220 writing a positive thing about what they were writing about and i think that bleeds through

03:13:20.420 and tells a story so i i always prefer biographical literature to just uh history and another really

03:13:28.260 good book with more than a a few great tidbits is the culture of the teutons it's another difficult

03:13:36.420 read but it has a lot in it culture the two times i will always recommend that it is the single most

03:13:46.340 profound book related to alsatru i've ever read not an easy read but it's one of the only books

03:13:54.580 that often i would read have to set it down and just absorb what i read because it was so

03:14:01.940 mind-blowingly profound and again so much of it when you've

03:14:10.180 something happens without a true people ask you know what are what books should we read to start

03:14:16.980 out and there's no there's very few starting from zero getting to 101. there's a lot of things that

03:14:28.020 are higher that just by reading them and accepting that you're unfamiliar with some of the territory

03:14:34.660 eventually they start referencing one another and that was the thing i read a lot of the primary

03:14:39.940 sources before i read culture of the teutons so when they made references to stories to sagas to

03:14:46.740 to epic literature i remembered them like aha i remember that okay no i know what he's talking

03:14:53.060 about those connections that book was so special in tying together and also points that were

03:15:01.780 common sense were rephrased by uh grown back in such a way that they literally blew my mind i

03:15:11.620 remember i was reading it i was bouncing at the door at world famous chilkoot charlie's during

03:15:16.580 the week and it was you know weekdays are slow at the bar so i was sitting there reading this book

03:15:21.860 and i would have to just set it down and absorb because they put something in such a

03:15:29.140 succinct way that i hadn't thought of it before but that really changed my mind and the standout

03:15:34.740 is is the concept of frith culture of the teutons explained frith in a way that it never

03:15:41.140 quite connected for me before i read that and it completely changed my understanding

03:15:46.420 and i will follow up yes i know europa we didn't i skipped it

03:15:52.860 i did it intentionally i was coming back to it my favorite saga

03:15:56.520 i mean really they're all really good there's especially your big ones i'm gonna go with

03:16:06.240 for the simple fact of that whole story of cigarette and guthrum is the biggest soap opera

03:16:15.400 and it's awesome and seeing you know the strength of her sons and their perseverance

03:16:27.200 and you know the carnage and you know it's it's cool story it's bloody

03:16:41.240 i'm a simple man what can i say

03:16:43.080 all right uh wolf throne uh what part uh does humility play in asa true i've heard much about

03:16:56.140 boasting and having folks sing your praises but what does humility fit into asa true if at all

03:17:01.060 So, this is, I'm trying to think of where to start on this because this one's kind of

03:17:16.300 complex. Realism factors in quite a bit. There is in the

03:17:30.220 world that we live in, it has become so first of all, in the

03:17:34.060 world that we live in, it has become socially valuable to

03:17:40.600 pretend that you are a victim. And to highlight all the ways

03:17:45.240 you are victimized and downtrodden that is antithetical to our ancestors

03:17:54.920 but realism is what is important in finding that equilibrium

03:18:03.240 when our ancestors because yeah boasting was important but the reason for boasting wasn't to be 0.96

03:18:10.840 a jerk it was your social capital when you went to a new place 0.97

03:18:18.760 you would need to justify why you were worthy of acceptance and why you were worthy of of 1.00

03:18:26.920 the things that you had when you traveled or you were in a new place and you'd speak of those

03:18:32.920 You would basically present a resume during the feast or the sumble of who you are and what you bring to the table.

03:18:45.300 But it was honest.

03:18:47.280 So often today when we use the term boasting or hear the term boasting, it's an idea of people with inflated things.

03:18:55.580 No, the idea of honestly taking credit where credit is due.

03:19:02.920 also means being honest where credit is not due um

03:19:11.400 this is the idea about boasting all the time is a modern

03:19:17.160 bastardization of what our ancestors did

03:19:22.600 so you would again you want to advertise if nobody you know who's going to be for you if not you

03:19:29.800 you. You need to advocate for yourself, but fairly. And knowing your place was such a huge thing.

03:19:39.220 We talk in Austertru, you know, there was a meme that went around a couple of years ago,

03:19:43.980 and I guess still goes around about how equality is a false God. There is no equality in this world.

03:19:51.260 No man is equal to any other man. No woman is equal to any other woman. No man and women are, none of them are equal. We are all individuals with our own very complex web of strengths and weaknesses. There's no such thing as equality. 1.00

03:20:13.180 so when we're in a new situation figuring out that pecking order is important but also realizing

03:20:21.860 you may very well not be at the top of that pecking order so your question wasn't about

03:20:28.480 boasting but it was about humility knowing your place recognizing your betters and falling in

03:20:38.240 line where you are. Have an ambition to become more than that. So when it's time to re-evaluate,

03:20:45.800 maybe you move up a few rungs. Maybe you fall down a few rungs. But an honest assessment of

03:20:53.000 who you are and where you're at compared to your neighbor, one way or another, is extremely valuable.

03:20:59.800 The idea isn't that arrogance is an out-of-truth thing and humility is a Christian thing.

03:21:06.900 No, humility is a Christian thing.

03:21:11.940 Honest self-reflection is an also true thing.

03:21:16.300 And yes, at times, certainly our ancestors, you know, drank the mead and got puffed up and talked about how great and how amazing they are.

03:21:26.000 If to the degree that that's accurate and fair, good on them, we should all stand up and celebrate.

03:21:33.400 When it's not true, we should, you know, throw a flag on the play and be honest about that, too.

03:21:39.660 I think one of the values that you'll see in Tacitus and the other writings about our ancestors, our most ancient ancestors,

03:21:49.080 you would also have people who would challenge these things.

03:21:52.320 When people stepped up and boasted about stuff, you'd have people who'd call BS and say, hey, now, that's not true.

03:21:59.260 Hey, now, I was there for that battle. I saw you and that's not what happened. So I think the question is much more of realism and honesty than the false self-deprecating humility that modern society has embraced and that Christianity institutionalizes.

03:22:19.820 Because this is something that I, you know, I was talking to my Christian friend that I had in high school.

03:22:27.820 One of the biggest things that was a factor between me separating from Christianity and then coming home to Alcetru was that idea about humility.

03:22:40.500 And the idea that in Christianity they conceive of their God as a father.

03:22:45.440 every time you accomplish anything great in christianity it's not you it's god that did that 0.65

03:22:55.160 all credit to god you are lowly you are a sinner you're imperfect you're 0.68

03:23:00.480 all this litany about how terrible you are but how great god is and every time you've ever had a

03:23:06.020 success. If you were a father and your son were to win a spelling bee and you were to go up there

03:23:15.880 and kick him out of the way for the acceptance speech and say, yes, that's because I taught him

03:23:21.080 how to read and I taught him how to spell and yay, I'm better than him. How horrible and petty

03:23:26.840 would that be? It's absurd on the face of it. And I'm not trying to be silly. I'm dead serious

03:23:32.640 Because this was my thought process. What kind of terrible parent would want to take credit for the great things their kids did, rather than celebrate how great their kids are for doing those things?

03:23:44.540 that's something that i love about aussitrew is you're celebrating heroes for being heroic

03:23:51.540 our gods want people of worth to be their people and to serve them not

03:23:59.840 lame people that are terrible that are saved by the grace of our gods decided to be nice to a

03:24:14.520 with victory. And I think I and I hope that gets to your 0.75

03:24:17.940 question. I know it's kind of roundabout.

03:24:23.640 Real Madrid fan. How much does it cost to be an AFA member?

03:24:31.140 So that's a complicated question. Honestly, what we've

03:24:35.280 tried very hard to get folks to do is to donate to this like

03:24:40.800 would other faiths and have percentage-based giving.

03:24:44.800 We call that the Hoftholler,

03:24:46.880 where people give a minimum of at least 1%

03:24:49.740 to the Austra Folk Assembly.

03:24:53.160 But our current minimum membership is $10 per month.

03:25:00.120 It's been that way for a long time,

03:25:02.700 but that's our current minimum.

03:25:04.920 rod again asks again for the final question oswald spangler predicted the end of christian

03:25:17.300 civilization starting in 2000 that seems to be holding true are we living to see the end of the

03:25:23.860 trend that distraught king alernic i'm assuming he means the tharn athanaric

03:25:31.680 but i don't know how that connects to the rest of the question

03:25:36.120 um unless it's just you know the christian yes since the turn of the century we've seen a

03:25:46.760 massive decline in christianity and i'm going to take liberties because this question the

03:25:51.120 it's written is is confusing um attendance so a couple of a couple of thoughts and i don't

03:26:02.800 necessarily think this is this is this is inspired by the question but i don't know that it answers

03:26:08.400 it um in the united states most of us our grandparents were religious and went to church

03:26:18.720 regularly certainly growing up i say most of us most of us my age i'm 40 i'll be 42 here in a month

03:26:28.480 but our grandparents were fairly religious

03:26:32.880 our parents generation was largely not very religious in our generation it was much more rare

03:26:41.360 i went to sweet and i think of white nations um or nations consisting largely of white people

03:26:53.580 america is you know the united states of america is

03:26:57.720 one of the more religious when i went to europe and i was in sweden last

03:27:05.500 the swedes didn't have the same cultural touchstones that we had it's been much

03:27:12.860 it's been several generations more since most europeans had very religious ancestors

03:27:21.820 they have been secular for at least a couple of generations longer than we have in america

03:27:27.980 one of the things that I noticed in 2020, when all of a sudden the government determined that

03:27:39.340 church attendance was unacceptable because of COVID-19,

03:27:47.720 you had people who were elderly that every single Sunday since they were little children,

03:27:57.140 They went to church. All of a sudden, in 2020, they didn't get to go to church for a year or so.

03:28:08.760 And then very few of them came back. I can proudly say that the AFA in 2020

03:28:15.420 had our biggest year to date at that point. We got Thorshoff and Baldershoff during that time.

03:28:24.020 And we had our biggest gathering we had ever had up to that point at Midsummer at Odin's Hoth in California.

03:28:31.600 And we shared a horn and we hugged and we shook hands at every one of those events.

03:28:39.340 And we did all right.

03:28:41.220 um but no uh one of the reasons that we've been able to very successfully establish

03:28:50.360 three of our hops at former christian churches is because they're up for sale and they're such

03:28:59.920 a niche market that we can get very good value and very good prices on this christianity is

03:29:06.880 absolutely on the decline in the West. I know there are areas of the third world where it's

03:29:12.360 being very successful. And I think that's part of that plan. If you read, Christianity has always

03:29:21.380 been geared towards downtrodden, desperate, broken, unsuccessful people. I don't mean that

03:29:33.900 insultingly if you read uh jesus's sermon on the mount tired hungry poor yeah it's blessed are the

03:29:42.860 losers and i again it sounds unkind i don't mean it that way um but that religion is a religion that 1.00

03:29:55.740 took root amongst the slaves in rome in the very lowest classes and it was a celebration of of the 0.99

03:30:03.720 losers. Oustertru is a celebration of victory and a celebration of heroes. 0.99

03:30:12.840 Wolf Throne asks, what is the AFA's book reading list?

03:30:21.540 So that's a good question. I'm not just going to randomly rattle one off to you. What we would

03:30:26.160 like to find out, and I will find out for you by next time. We have a prerequisite to our

03:30:32.940 go through our program reading list and i think that would be the best place to start

03:30:39.340 so nick and myself will try to figure that out for you by next week and get that list

03:30:44.940 i believe whit and brandy has that list right now or uh githia erickson i'll get it

03:30:54.300 europa the last battle.net with the last question in the queue ding ding ding if you got any more

03:31:01.420 send them in. Mr. Rice, what's your plan for Tennessee as a folk builder? Where do you see

03:31:09.720 the AFA and our folk in five years considering worldwide degeneracy? Thank you. I'm going to

03:31:17.560 start from the bottom, and I'm going to be honest. I don't care about the worldwide degeneracy.

03:31:22.420 It sucks, but it's not factoring into my plan because my plan is, well, the AFA's plan is based on winning. 0.98

03:31:33.700 So I don't, the losers are going to lose. 0.99

03:31:37.000 I don't care.

03:31:38.420 But my plan for Tennessee in the next five years, well, we've already got a foundation of great people out here.

03:31:45.100 uh folk builder russell uh brown over uh just north of tennessee uh nashville

03:31:51.100 oh and then um got a solid group in western uh tennessee uh or eastern tennessee rather

03:32:00.600 apprentice tyler bethe and some members out of out there have been holding some awesome things

03:32:06.760 but i'm kind of alone in central tennessee we've got one member um well we've got one member besides

03:32:16.280 the two others that have recently moved here with along with me so we've got four now so it's pretty

03:32:23.480 awesome and you know think about that two months ago we had one now we got four yeah we're growing

03:32:30.760 pretty quick cigarette's gonna bring big things i am holding um yes next month is cigarette at

03:32:39.080 cigarette heim but um before that and after that every single month we're having something at

03:32:46.520 sigerheim so if you're in the area come on out we will be making sure that our 70 acres are put to

03:32:56.120 work uh we have midsummer coming up and then cigarette blocks and then following that the

03:33:03.400 awesome one i really wish they could have made it out for for cigarette but uh get the uh

03:33:10.200 sheila mcnalen and founder steve mcnalen will be out in at fray faxie to see sigurheim

03:33:16.680 they're already going to be in the area and they're coming by so um and we're going to just

03:33:22.520 keep going um sigurheim is going to grow it's gonna it may be slow um getting the land ready

03:33:31.000 and getting people on it but it's going to compound it's going to be it's going to be

03:33:35.240 exponential um it just takes those first couple people getting there working out the kinks

03:33:42.040 and uh once we get talk to mandy get mandy out here and then we're gonna get matt yeah we'll be 1.00

03:33:49.640 good yeah everybody harass my wife i'm sure she will appreciate that when she wakes up to emails 0.91

03:33:57.000 absolutely um if i were a 20-something single guy i'd be out there right now 0.93

03:34:03.800 my wife and i and aubrey are absolutely going to move out there

03:34:07.880 um we're coordinating our move with uh gothe young and his wife and uh one of his daughters

03:34:13.880 and we're going to get that all figured out but we're absolutely going to do it there's not

03:34:20.500 there's very seldom an hour in the day that goes by that i'm not dreaming and planning and making

03:34:27.200 that in my head trying to make that happen so that's absolutely happening it's a thing i'm so

03:34:34.140 excited for seagr bloat. Sorry guys, I'm sleepy. And I drank two of these Jamaican Me Happy Seagram's

03:34:45.420 Spiked Escapes. So realistically, we're very committed to this. I don't know if you guys

03:34:54.440 have heard before, but there is a old graveyard on the property that actually has a revolutionary

03:35:00.620 a war veteran there. One of the things that I'm doing at Sigur Bloat is bringing my mother's

03:35:07.840 ashes. I've already got a tombstone that's at Folk Builder Russell Brown's garage.

03:35:15.980 We'll move that over and I'm going to enter the ashes of my mother there because

03:35:19.900 that's where we're going to go and live and build this future for ourselves.

03:35:24.160 The question was asked what the plan is there in relation to all the degeneracy and mess we see around us.

03:35:33.960 And it's the idea is to build the future we want, regardless of what's around us, in a way that's sustainable.

03:35:49.240 So if the world gets a whole lot better, awesome.

03:35:55.220 We'd love to be a part of it, and we would love to help things be better.

03:36:00.920 If it gets worse, then we'll be there together to share resources, to help each other, and to be family for each other through whatever happens.

03:36:13.200 So we'll be best positioned if everything works out great. Awesome. We'll be in a great spot to maximize that. And if everything goes down the tubes, we will be in the best spot to share, to take care of one another and to look out for the world that we want and to have that within our within our community.

03:36:37.160 So we are building our outpost of the golden age within the Kali Yuga.

03:36:45.120 And if it catches on around us, great.

03:36:48.220 And if we're just sharing it together, also great.

03:36:53.160 So we're going to win either way.

03:36:56.160 And that's the plan.

03:36:57.280 And that's what we're committed to.

03:36:59.020 And it's not meant to say that arrogantly, but it's keeping our head up and keeping a

03:37:03.800 smile on our face, and doing what we have the ability to do. We could sit here all day and

03:37:11.800 make lists of all of the things we wish were different, but we can't directly change right

03:37:17.520 now. What we can change is we can all move closer to our Hoffs. We can pick up, move

03:37:25.600 to the county of Sigurheim, 0.95

03:37:29.300 we can make that happen.

03:37:32.780 We can share with each other.

03:37:34.960 We can laugh and share each other's joy.

03:37:39.320 We can give each other a hug

03:37:41.100 and support each other through our pain.

03:37:43.480 We can share with each other

03:37:45.260 if it's lean for one of us.

03:37:47.940 And we can all celebrate together

03:37:50.200 when we're all doing well.

03:37:51.820 But that's the dream

03:37:52.940 and that's what we're building.

03:37:55.600 all righty i ask and i shall receive there's a bunch more questions in the chat

03:38:02.040 look what you did three and a half hours in i know and we're half an hour past my bedtime i love it

03:38:09.840 yeah you have no time on wednesday oh i know trust me i stay up just as late as y'all victory

03:38:16.520 never sleeps oh the wolf throne asks does the afa accept people who have led degenerate lifestyles

03:38:26.740 in the past but are making a serious effort to turn their lives around not necessarily people 0.52

03:38:33.340 with criminal background but people who have who generally led ignoble lives so the devil is in

03:38:40.880 the details. It all depends on what that means. So a couple of things. It is one of the core values

03:38:50.300 of the Ausatru Folk Assembly that we want everyone of our folk to have the opportunity to come home

03:38:58.460 to embrace Ausatru and make their life better than it was for them, for their family, for us.

03:39:04.500 But that said, our community, excuse me, is more important than any individual.

03:39:14.140 The safety of our families is more important than any individual.

03:39:18.300 We have a prison ministry to deal with convicts that hopefully are going to get out to support their families, to help them to transition into a better way of life.

03:39:30.020 when you say degenerate i don't know what that means um for males who that degeneracy includes 0.97

03:39:41.580 homosexuality no we don't allow them to join the astro folk assembly we believe that in general 0.92

03:39:51.060 homosexual men tend to victimize children and propagate the increase in homosexuality through 0.96

03:40:01.900 the sexual exploitation victimization of children. I don't believe for a second that every homosexual 0.98

03:40:11.500 that's the case. But far too many of them it is. And it's not worth our children to sacrifice for 1.00

03:40:22.860 somebody who has been mentally ill in that way. If someone's degeneracy in their life has

03:40:33.660 included a habitual, you know, habitual sex crimes against, you know, people who are victimized.

03:40:44.940 No, we're not going to have that. If people have a consistency, a consistent history of domestic

03:40:55.960 violence, we're not going to have that. We're not going to make our families unsafe for those people.

03:41:03.660 other than those things though absolutely we want folks to turn their life around and we want to

03:41:09.420 help them turn their life around we do run new applicants through our security team so that if

03:41:17.180 they have convictions for sex crimes and domestic violence and things that we get to the bottom of

03:41:23.100 those and we get that all sorted out so that we don't have dangerous elements around our children

03:41:29.900 or you know things that are completely ridiculous dangerous elements around our children

03:41:36.860 but yeah we want everybody to make their life better and you know you can only start today

03:41:42.620 you can't go back in time you can only start with what you have and we want to help people make that

03:41:47.500 better europa the last battle.net asks uh mr rice do you think we can create an afa bible

03:41:59.580 belt or an afa belt out of bible belt folks should come home a lot of white folks there um

03:42:10.940 we're not creating an afa belt it's not gonna happen you know why because we're gonna create 0.92

03:42:16.060 an afa suit and tie put some nice shiny shoes on it and uh put a put a flat cap on top um

03:42:26.540 And, you know, one day there is going to be a Hoff on every street corner, just like Waffle House and McDonald's.

03:42:34.420 But it just takes a few minutes.

03:42:37.940 In the grand scheme of things, it just takes a few minutes.

03:42:40.580 But really, the South is growing good.

03:42:44.880 You can see that in the fact that two of our four Hoffs are in the Southeast, are in the Bible Belt.

03:42:54.740 And we've got, you know, one, two, three, four, six, seven, Gothar in the Bible Belt.

03:43:07.620 We've got a ton of folk builders.

03:43:12.040 Sigurheim, the Southeast is good.

03:43:16.380 Good stuff, good people.

03:43:18.000 so you ask about the bible belt and it's kind of a strange um name for it when you look at a map of

03:43:31.560 the bible belt it's also the confederate states of america it is the southeastern united states

03:43:39.520 almost exactly one for one. And there is a cultural tradition there of piety and of

03:43:51.740 noble Aryan values. It's not the only place we're successful. We've had success all across

03:43:59.500 the country and around the world. But one of the things, and just while we're doing this,

03:44:06.120 i'm looking at our our membership map no it's ridiculous the bible belt is absolutely where we

03:44:14.280 have you know some of our best most passionate membership some of the folks that are absolutely

03:44:22.120 on page more than some others it is a stronghold of what we're doing because it is a stronghold

03:44:29.640 of aryan values and piety um and i think that's why but it's where some of our very best people

03:44:38.440 are it's clearly where we're going to establish uh where we're have established sigerheim

03:44:45.800 it's where a lot of great things are happening for us and i think we're building on a on a

03:44:50.360 religious tradition that up until recently has been expressed through christianity but it's to

03:44:57.320 our very soul to be pious upright noble people and i think we're seeing that much more easily

03:45:05.640 accessible to folks in that part of the country

03:45:14.840 what is the scarf worn by afa clergy it's not a scarf it's called a stole

03:45:22.440 um it is a stole if you look up clerical stoles in general in western civilization they are a sign

03:45:31.480 of clergy um yes for a very long time a sign of christian clergy but the stole as a uh as a

03:45:40.680 garment goes back to ancient roman times ancient roman pagan times it had no original association

03:45:48.600 with christianity it was it was pagan for um scholarly people would wear the stole that's why

03:45:55.080 you still see it uh in graduation ceremonies and it was taken upon by um learned clergy to wear as

03:46:03.400 well but it's easily recognizable and always has been in western civilization as a as a clerical

03:46:11.560 garment to separate clergy from laity and that's why we wear it and like i said it dates back to

03:46:21.240 pagan roman times for for scholars in pagan rome and uh the christians adopted it for the same

03:46:28.440 reason that we're adopting it all right next question was deleted by the person who asked

03:46:35.800 it but i still got it so i'm gonna ask it are there as a true related ways one can stop degenerate

03:46:43.960 addictions they may have absolutely um and nick i hope you have a link to these folks we have um

03:46:55.800 we have folks that do very regularly uh

03:47:00.200 uh, virtue, uh, virtue addiction recovery program with the AFA. It was started in the

03:47:08.740 Baldur's Hof district. The idea, and we originally having meetings in the Hof for it, but our people

03:47:16.580 who needed it were too geographically spread out. It's absolutely something people work on

03:47:22.480 various addictions, various problems. We have a number of people in the AFA that have found a lot

03:47:27.580 of success with it. If you reach out to whoever link that Nick throws up, that would be great.

03:47:37.960 If not, please reach out to any of our GoTher, myself included, and we'll be happy to send you

03:47:43.400 that way and get you set up. But yes, absolutely, we have that. It's important. And anybody that

03:47:51.280 recognizes they've got

03:47:53.200 problems and wants to

03:47:55.180 throw themselves at fixing it,

03:47:57.560 I have huge respect for that.

03:47:59.280 Thank you guys so much for taking that

03:48:01.200 step. I know that's harder than it may seem.

03:48:05.000 And I'll

03:48:05.260 throw out

03:48:05.880 Ryan O'Ryan said Austin True 12

03:48:09.100 step. No, it's a nine-step program.

03:48:12.300 And

03:48:12.820 Ashley McStocker, Jacqueline Duffy,

03:48:15.380 I'll throw out some dates and times.

03:48:18.120 Ashley hosts a meeting

03:48:19.240 on Thursdays.

03:48:21.280 at 7 or 8 p.m. Central Standard Time or whatever central type of time we're on right now.

03:48:30.540 I don't know. Daylight saving, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever it is in Minnesota.

03:48:37.060 And Jacqueline Duffy hosts one on Saturday mornings at 9 a.m. Chicago time.

03:48:44.140 Look that one up. 1.00

03:48:46.180 So they are awesome, awesome, awesome ladies. 1.00

03:48:51.760 Absolutely. 1.00

03:48:53.280 All righty.

03:48:55.420 And let's see here.

03:48:58.960 That's what we got.

03:49:01.680 That's what we got.

03:49:02.780 Oh, nope, we got another one.

03:49:04.640 How close are we to getting back to 1,000 members, ask Green Leader.

03:49:09.320 All right, hold on.

03:49:10.160 I got to press refresh on something.

03:49:12.080 I can tell you exactly.

03:49:16.320 I can tell you where we were at the beginning of the show,

03:49:18.780 but I'm low-key hoping that somebody has applied since then.

03:49:26.340 Wow, now our database is running slow,

03:49:28.660 and it's taken me a while to press refresh on it.

03:49:31.340 We're 19 away.

03:49:37.580 That's where we were when we started, certainly.

03:49:40.500 All right, hold on.

03:49:48.780 Ah, still there. Yep, we're at 981 right now. And one of the reasons for that, again, I, we could come on here and it all be roses and tell you whatever we wanted you guys to hear, but we don't do that.

03:50:09.220 we're committed to being honest and anything that we tell you is going to be absolutely honest one

03:50:15.140 of the things is we have folks that are really fired up and they join and then

03:50:23.540 they drift away because they don't know what to do they will be somewhere that's at a distance

03:50:29.300 and they won't engage when you join your folk builders and everybody reaches out we want to

03:50:36.020 to bring you in it's about community and you've got to be willing to be part of that and see what

03:50:41.860 happens and sometimes that means going outside your comfort zone but yeah we try to keep a very

03:50:47.700 accurate count and an accurate database so hopefully we got more folks that apply tonight

03:50:54.260 because they listen to this program if you're on here and you're listening to us and you should be

03:51:00.820 with us but you're debating it and thinking about it get on board join us get off the fence be part

03:51:09.060 of what we're doing we would love to have you um yeah anybody on here who should be with us

03:51:17.220 let's make that happen today anybody on here who knows people that should be with us get them to

03:51:22.740 join or at least get them to listen to to this uh podcast or live stream whichever ways you're

03:51:29.220 consuming it and let's see what we can do we're making great things happen together and we'd love

03:51:35.060 you guys to be part of it absolutely that's what we got in the chat sir all right well nick thank

03:51:43.220 you so much for that presentation like i said that is the the best most detailed presentation

03:51:49.060 we have had so far on one of our heroes i think you did a good job to honor a thaneric today

03:51:55.380 thank you for that also thank you so much for all of the work you put in making this program look

03:52:04.180 like a million bucks you do an amazing job and i don't think people realize just how much you add

03:52:10.100 to this broadcast so thank you so much i appreciate it sir thank you all right well you have a great

03:52:16.100 night everybody else i hope you guys have an awesome night too if you can make it out to

03:52:20.740 midsummer at odenshoff in brownsville california week and a half from today please do i would love

03:52:26.420 to see you guys there till then hail the gods hail the folk hail the afa and remember that victory

03:52:34.740 never sleeps.

03:52:36.720 Hail.

03:53:04.740 We'll be right back.

03:53:34.740 Thank you.

03:54:04.740 Thank you.

03:54:34.740 Thank you.

03:55:04.740 We'll be right back.

03:55:34.740 Thank you.

Asatru Folk Assembly - June 08, 2023

6⧸7⧸23 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 48 - King Athanaric

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