00:16:47.700we are building Hoff cultures around all of our locations.
00:16:50.860locations. I, um, there, uh, we have a good strong community at Njordshof, um, Thorshof,
00:16:57.960the same, Odinzhof, I'm sure, um, where there's, you know, where we have groups that, that come in
00:17:04.100and are regulars there at the Hof, and, you know, you get to know each other, you get to, uh, know
00:17:11.160each other's, um, uh, personalities and, uh, troubles and joys and all that sort of stuff,
00:17:20.860So it makes the practice of all is true, you know, a happier thing instead of sitting at home wondering if you're the only one, because if you're sitting at home by yourself, you are the only one.
00:17:34.740But if you come to the Hof, then you can be around a bunch of like-minded people that share your assumptions about the way the world works.
00:17:44.620We are traditionalist-minded people that believe in the natural order of things and a hierarchical existence that is run in a hierarchical structure in keeping with nature and 300,000 years of cultural evolution.
00:18:12.020So we certainly believe that Western civilization manifested in its way, the way that it has, because of the cultural influence of the Germanic tribal peoples.
00:18:31.540So that despite the overlay of Christianity, the bedrock community aspects of Western culture are those that it inherited from its pagan past.
00:18:51.920um so the odinic structure that lies beneath the christian overlay
00:19:01.800um is what gives western civilization all of its best features um
00:19:08.940and a thousand examples of that of course so the um so the other thing about um also true community
00:19:20.180is that when you join the Osdru Folk Assembly,
00:19:25.360obviously you get to take advantage of the member chats,
00:19:32.760and that is an important means of shaping
00:19:37.360and expanding your understanding not only of the lore
00:19:41.860and the beliefs and practice of our folk,
00:19:44.260but also the zeitgeist, the world spirit
00:19:48.820that we manifest as we track our way through the world.
00:19:55.060The way that we approach things is not necessarily cast in stone in that way,
00:20:04.980but I was actually listening to a podcast about theurgy, of all things,
00:20:10.920and what they talk about when you have those bedrock principles,
00:20:15.480it doesn't necessarily solve every problem.
00:20:18.820But what it does is it gives you a firm stance from which to analyze all these issues so that you can come at a problem in a rational way that takes into account the right understanding of the world.
00:20:40.620And, of course, that applies not only in, you know, in family and social situations, but writ larger into the political stuff.
00:20:53.600And, you know, we don't talk a lot of politic on here and there are reasons for that, but the analysis of it, and you can come to many conclusions as long as you're approaching it through the right way.
00:21:11.460And I think a lot of these political ideologies are, as they say, downstream of culture.
00:21:21.440So when you have your culture right, if we can fix the culture, and that's what we are trying to do, certainly within the AFA, if we can figure out a way to put Matt in charge, we could get a lot of the rest of this stuff straightened out, too.
00:21:38.100um so so there's that you know you uh you know you you get the understanding
00:21:46.080of people who have been at this for a while that includes me there are lots of others who
00:21:53.980have been doing it just as long or longer and you can if you hang around in the um the chats
00:22:03.600If you come to the Hoffmore especially, then you can share knowledge and wisdom and understanding with us,
00:22:12.880and we can deepen our understanding by approaching problems in new ways that we hadn't thought of before.
00:22:21.280In addition to that, the other important aspect of community, it seems to me,
00:22:26.640is the community that we share with the ancestors and ultimately with the gods.
00:22:33.600we are all one folk um odin as the progenitor and all of our culture and folk are descended
00:22:51.840beginning and so you know if you if you read books of history i mean even the early english kings
00:22:58.880for example, trace their lineage back to Odin. They were ostensibly Christian in their practice
00:23:05.920because that's what you had to do. But, you know, in the early days, they were certainly
00:23:13.040much more aware of the fact that their actual culture, their pride and lineage,
00:23:20.480tracked its way back to their own gods and to their own understanding of the world.
00:23:26.080So through the ancestors and the veneration of the ancestors to their rightful place among the gods, through the desir, that is all part of the community that we share.
00:24:08.900You know, we've gotten so particularized about,
00:24:12.220You know, we don't want to be around somebody unless they match up with us 88%.
00:24:18.480But, you know, in point of fact, people with larger friend groups that maybe match less well overall,
00:24:35.380but they have a I'm sorry that have like a less complete overlay if you have a bunch of people
00:24:41.980that are 50 60 percent of the way there then between all of you you get you know it all works
00:24:48.480and it all happens and that's the kind of group that you can build by um bloating together by
00:24:55.200going to moots and having dinner and riding bikes and kayaking you know you build common interest
00:25:01.920and common stories, and those are the kinds of things that by sharing community, it, you know,
00:25:09.360it makes you a happier person. The, you know, wealth that we've created in this country is
00:25:15.420one thing, and it's marvelous, but the, but we'd really be better off having less stuff and having
00:25:23.680more friends, even though it means driving a couple hours, you know, but if you think about
00:25:31.280A couple hours used to mean barely being able to get out of sight of your house, to hitch up a team and go to a big county fair or something like that was a big deal that didn't happen very often.
00:25:50.940But we have the opportunity now with modern transportation that we can avail ourselves of these functions of community, and we should.
00:26:19.580all right so i just think this is an apropos for our theme today i have them all 47.
00:26:26.220oh nice i was young once i walked alone and bewildered seemed in the way then i found me
00:26:32.140another rich i thought me for man is the man and i think this rings true i think it rang true
00:26:41.340in the viking age i think it rang true in the neolithic period i think it will always ring true
00:26:47.260um humans are social creatures we are built and formed to interact in groups and to interact with
00:26:56.860one another um I kind of primed the discussion a little bit the fact that that interaction is the
00:27:10.780it's the context that we express our values you can't express hospitality by yourself
00:27:17.260You can't, you know, it's not there are, I guess, you in the woods can do courageous things.
00:27:25.240But so much of the virtue of courage is others recognizing it and celebrating it and you being part of celebrating it when you see it in others.
00:27:36.280One of the terms that I think is very often misunderstood in a modern context is honor.
00:27:42.280honor was never intended to mean like your personal code of doing stuff that's awesome
00:27:49.800and there's nothing wrong with that that's a very admirable thing but honor was the value that your
00:27:56.880community placed upon you honors were bestowed upon you by recognized representatives of your
00:28:04.080tribe and your people and important personages in your orbit. And we still see that in some
00:28:13.220things when there's a civic award given or something. But honor was, it wasn't your self-value.
00:28:21.460It was the value placed upon you by your community. We have become very, very atomized in the
00:28:31.200world around us. And as individuals, many of us have had to break from groups and institutions
00:28:41.280we were once part of that weren't fulfilling and that we learned not to be the right thing.
00:28:46.280There's been an overcorrection to where so many of us have trouble getting along with others,
00:28:52.840have trouble being part of something, have trouble fitting into their place in a hierarchy. We
00:28:59.780have a hyper focus on individualism and we have a a lacking focus on group function alan pointed
00:29:09.040something out that i think is worth noting um hopefully you guys all see when we post the uh
00:29:14.260the various pictures of afa gatherings and man that just looks like some people sitting around
00:29:20.520eating dinner quite often it is but that sharing of food with your folk with your
00:29:28.120spiritual community is a religious act. Building bonds, building frith, building trust
00:29:35.800between you and your fellow Alcetruar and your fellow AFA members,
00:29:43.180that's what this is. That's a big part of what this is about. I would say ritually,
00:29:50.020what we do in Bloat and Ensemble is very significantly ingrained in community practice.
00:29:56.560It's not one guy and the gods. It's a circle of worshipers together worshiping the gods.
00:30:05.160It's a gathering of our folk, raising toasts to the gods, to ancestors, and to one another.
00:30:13.580Community is at the very core of this, and it always has been.
00:30:17.740But I think all too often that is common sense, it's what happens, but it's not spoken about as much.
00:30:24.800And so sometimes I don't think he gets the emphasis that it ought to be.
00:30:44.780um uh one of the remember one of the most severe punishments that uh could be exacted on uh you
00:30:54.360know on a wrongdoer was banishment so like the very worst thing that could happen to you i guess
00:31:00.180worse than unless short of being blood eagled which probably never happened but the but the
00:31:06.980But but to be turned away from your community. So the the mindset of certainly those who wielded justice absolutely was like the most important thing to people is the people that you know and the people who have your back and the people who know you and respect you.
00:31:31.700And to be excluded from that community of friends and loved ones was, you know, was a harsh punishment almost beyond thinking.
00:31:43.220And but the atomization of modern culture has just put us in a totally different mindset.
00:31:50.280You know, like we'll, you know, we can just go find some different friends that do some different stuff.
00:31:57.560But the friend group that I found in the AFA, and I think that most of us find, is a diverse group in the proper sense of that term.
00:32:10.520We have a lot of experience in a lot of different areas and are able to share those experiences, share those stories with a common understanding of what what the proper meaning and context of all this sort of stuff is in our culture.
00:32:28.580so you mentioned um justice and i think that we don't
00:32:43.220i don't know it's not one of the things that's front and center when we talk about the faith
00:32:49.300but community is again highly highly reflected in our understanding of of
00:32:57.200I want to say justice, but I guess when I say legal law and when I say like criminal justice,
00:33:09.060it puts it in a real modern context. But as a person in relation to society, justice concept,
00:33:18.780we often hear debt to society but that doesn't really mean much in its current implication but
00:33:28.780it meant everything to our ancestors the understanding of crime and how to
00:33:36.700right those kind of wrongs was fundamentally about repaying the damage to social fabric
00:33:44.600that you cause it wasn't about locking somebody up or doing something punitive necessarily
00:33:52.520sometimes but those had community implications it was very much about what damage have you caused
00:33:59.640to the community what you know by doing something harmful to one of my family members
00:34:06.200you have made us weaker you have made my clan and my house weaker you have
00:34:14.440put a hole in what was known as the kin fence everything was an understanding of community
00:34:21.800a place in that community and a value in that community i think that with so many things we
00:34:30.360We have a very disposable culture today, as Alan mentioned, you know, if you do wrong by one set of friends, you can pretend they don't exist or you can go move somewhere and, you know, have a bunch of new friends.
00:34:43.660But I think the more you do that, the less, the less intimate those friendships, the less enduring those friendships are.
00:34:53.660And I think that when we look at many of us, there is a decreasing, as the generations progress, number of lifelong friendships or lifelong connections that our people end up having.
00:35:06.040and some of that's a consequence of just the circumstances we all live in but so much of it
00:35:13.980is because we don't it is easier to flee discomfort than it is to fix damage that one's done
00:35:23.420in the eyes of your community i think that factors in the house true in many many ways
00:35:31.280The other part of it, and again, I don't use this word a lot, but, you know, we have to also be tolerant of the errors of our friends and the, you know, the mistakes that they make.
00:35:47.580as long as like the, although it took me a long time to get here, but, you know, it certainly
00:35:53.160is the idea that, um, as long as people are acting in good faith, like if, you know, you may do
00:36:03.800something wrong, but if it doesn't start with thought crime, like if, you know, if, if somebody
00:36:09.600makes a mistake, it's one thing. Um, you know, but if, if somebody's does something to intentionally
00:36:17.740wrong you, that puts them in a very different place and posture of the, um, you know, their
00:36:24.480relationship to you and the kind of friend that they are, the kind of person that, um, that you
00:36:29.160can subsequently know that they are. Uh, I think it's also true talking about community. First of
00:36:36.840Well, you know, America is a complicated place in many ways, you know, and part of the reason that we've ended up in this crazy posture is exactly because of the diversity that's been forced into our neighborhoods.0.99
00:36:56.560I mean, you know, 50 years ago, 60 years ago when I was growing up, I mean, you know, people bought a house and stayed there.1.00
00:37:06.940My mother and father, you know, bought a house in 1968 and we still have it.
00:37:13.160That's where I grew up, spent my whole childhood there from age seven on.
00:37:19.480But, you know, and most of the neighbors are still around there.
00:37:23.240And that's not, you know, so this portability that we have, and I realize it's part of the American mosaic that we, you know, that we think we can always move on to greener pastures.
00:37:36.800But what we've lost in return for that marginal increase in wealth or status that we get from skipping around through the neighborhoods is drastically worse than what we've lost.
00:37:54.860We've given up these lifelong friendships and the idea of permanence and settled the ability to be comfortable, you know, around your own neighbors because you've known them for a long period of time.
00:38:10.420I think it's also true, you know, again, relating to Hoff culture and people that you bloat and moot with.
00:38:18.040You know, you can be comfortable around them. And there's, it is, as those of us who hold opinions that are not welcome necessarily by the mainstream in a lot of places, it's a good thing to be able to let your guard down a little bit and talk about things with people of understanding, with people of right understanding, who grasp what these things are.
00:38:46.360And trust me, it's worth it to drive a couple, three hours each way, get a hotel, spend the night.
00:38:54.260It's worth it. It's worth it a thousand times over.
00:38:57.660I think the other thing that we should address while we're talking about community is the idea of the of the community at large.
00:39:05.860our civic community. Most of us are certainly, in many places, for many of your friends,
00:39:20.000you're the only Odinist that they know. And certainly for most strangers, even
00:39:26.440it frustrates me how many guys I have run into wearing a hammer or who recognize my hammer and
00:39:35.560I try to invite them to stuff and try to get them to get involved and give them a card with the Brunestone URL on it, and you just never hear from them.
00:39:48.020It's frustrating. I don't know what the cause of that is, but in the greater civic community, we should all be more active, I'm talking to myself as much as anybody, in trying to shape the communities that we live in.
00:40:05.560Um, and it's, it's bigger things like, and, you know, I'm not as, I don't even live in the city, so I can't go to city council meetings anymore. I guess go to county commission meetings, um, but getting involved in that sort of thing.
00:40:21.280And also, you know, being generally polite to people and, you know, putting your cart back when you are grocery shopping, you know, being a good citizen also plays into the idea of community in the larger sense of the word.
00:40:40.420You know, what we what we have to be, especially at this stage in the development of our faith, we have to be examples of honor and integrity and responsibility so that people will see us and want to emulate who we are and what we do.
00:40:58.620ideally i'd like that to be a commonality and a marker that people can recognize
00:41:08.880about us it's one of the things i will say very very positively about latter-day saints
00:41:15.400growing up and in my high school we did not have a huge mormon team
00:41:20.860but the mormon kids in my school were the best at all the things they were academically
00:41:28.920high achievers they were athletically high achievers they were good looking kids that
00:41:35.480were in shape that took care of themselves that were respectful of other students respectful of
00:41:42.160teachers you could as a brand thing the latter-day saints were top-notch folks in the
00:41:52.320community i grew up in and all of that spoke volumes about that being something positive
00:42:00.320without them having to open their mouth and tell me about joseph smith um those non-verbal
00:42:07.760communications go a long way and allen's points very well taken you may be their only point of
00:42:12.160reference to what else true is or what else sure are like by you being the example and again wearing
00:42:20.960your hammer out so they know what that is and associating that with somebody who is dignified
00:42:27.760and a good member of community and something they want you know the kind of guy they want to be to
00:42:35.920be friends with or they want their sisters or daughters to find themselves with that's what you
00:42:42.800want that's the kind of thing you want to i ran into this with aubrey the other day and i was
00:42:48.560talking about it it's always such a nice thing when other parents come up to you and compliment
00:42:55.920you on how well behaved your child is i think that is informative to this discussion it's always
00:43:02.880is a great thing when you hear about you know i don't know much about that's true but i know this
00:43:07.920one that's true guy that guy was great they they they're doing something right that's invaluable um
00:43:19.280and i have to think how much more so for the gods to recognize like wow people think that
00:43:26.560our followers are somebody special i i talk all the time in ritual and i think it's really important
00:43:35.360we want our gods to be proud of us we want our families to be proud of us
00:43:41.360um a big part of that is by being the example and living the things that we talk about instead of
00:43:49.760you know just making cool viking memes about them but living out our values in the world
00:43:55.440it's one of those things with the food pantries they are a big effort on our part to be part of
00:44:01.840our local community and to show our best face our hospitality our generosity in those communities
00:44:09.040to be recognized as a positive force to have in your area and a source of good things in your
00:44:16.480community so far that's worked out very very well for us it's something that i'm really proud that
00:44:21.360we're doing yeah that has been awesome and we you know i know at nortoff like um one of the guys
00:44:32.080who's a regular there at the at the food bank picking up food i mean he gave us two wild boars
00:44:40.000that he killed so now we have meat for a while um and it's you know and you know and some of the
00:44:50.640the some of the other regulars there at the at the um community as you know i mean i think you've
00:44:55.680seen some of the pottery that the one guy has made for us um and very much with the njortov motif
00:45:02.800and you know so he gets the you know so he gets what it is that we're trying to do there i mean
00:45:08.000it even had you know someone has the marlin on it that we you know that is the njortov symbol
00:45:14.000so and thor's ham you know replete with thor's hammers and you know that sort of thing um
00:45:20.640Another lady has brought us, she made little, like, lays, but, you know, just out of cloth.
00:45:34.740So she brought some of those for us to wear one time.
00:45:37.580So, you know, and I asked those people that are eligible for membership, you know, I suggested them, you know, you ought to check us out.
00:46:18.080that he could have common interest with, you know, we are, I mean, he's almost as conservative as we
00:46:27.380are. And so he found a good cadre of friends that he could, that he could discuss things with in a,
00:46:36.700you know, in a good spirit. And, you know, he hadn't been back, but he will. So, and again,
00:46:46.080So that's, you know, because we enjoy it, because we know that we are on the right path spiritually and culturally, we should all be inviting more of our culture, our circle of friends to, you know, to join us at the Hoff.
00:47:03.740So we should be good people with everybody we interact with, and we should always make the best impression.
00:47:10.080we should do that because we are Aryan and we should be noble
00:47:16.180but outside just that it is very practical towards
00:47:22.560showing how special and beneficial this is that we're part of and helping to bring our folk home
00:47:31.860and it's like so many things these days one of the unique features we
00:47:44.340we all have these different web of people that we know and that web transcends
00:47:51.540age oftentimes it transcends communication we all have friends and through the internet and
00:47:57.460everything else we have friends all over the place if you're talking to somebody and they're not
00:48:05.140interested or not eligible or not religious or whatever their thing is maybe their roommate is
00:48:11.140maybe their friend is maybe their parents are maybe the next guy they meet when they go down
00:48:16.660the road man you know what just happened to me i was over at that half and man them honking
00:48:21.700some good folks cool what's that about i'll check it out next time i drive by
00:48:28.260it those things and as silly as that sounds those things do happen those things happen all the time
00:48:36.180planting seeds by having a good reputation is fundamental that's something that our ancestors
00:48:41.620certainly surely knew our reputation is so very fundamental to what we do for those kind of
00:48:47.780reasons um but in this day and age where the word spreads fast on a lot of things we can really make
00:48:55.300a good impression that affects people you know states away and brings the folk home you may not
00:49:03.380always see it but that doesn't mean it it doesn't happen i talked at the beginning of the
00:49:10.740excuse me at the beginning of the broadcast about we have a little surge in membership going on
00:49:16.820um and how i never can figure out what the x factor is i always look for man are these people
00:49:22.820all in the same area or do they have the same reason for joining or you know what caused this
00:49:29.380all to happen and it's always very elusive but oftentimes it's because of things like this they
00:49:35.780may not put it in the reason for joining but sometimes they do hey i knew a guy one time that
00:49:41.220said they were an afa member and they were really cool now that i've got you know whatever in my
00:49:46.020life i want to check that out we have that happen we have it happen frequently so those things do
00:49:51.620matter and i think the lds or mormon example is spot on um the um i was watching a
00:50:10.580documentary about this lady who was a um
00:50:14.420counselor for you know for mormon families and she developed this little niche specialty0.98
00:50:22.500in uh in in counseling afa merit marital problems she turned out to be quite a0.96
00:50:33.860uh a wrongdoer um in the long run but you know you're exactly right like all those you know all
00:50:40.820the families that they interviewed you know were in good condition doing well financially
00:50:49.540and i think i think that they have although of course the genesis of that the right word for them
00:50:58.020um the genesis of that for them was you know that they got whipped out of town until they
00:51:02.740They just really had no choice but to circle up and help each other out.
00:51:10.520Otherwise, they weren't going to make it through the Utah.
00:51:17.040You know, they just weren't going to make it through, you know, through the next winter.
00:51:21.160So they, you know, they developed a culture out of necessity, a culture of assisting each other and holding each other to a higher standard.
00:51:29.380You know, I think a lot of times we are worried about, and rightly so, perhaps, we're, you know, we're worried about being too hard on each other.
00:51:41.720But at the same time, you know, we should look to each other to meet the standard that we expect of ourselves and of each other.
00:51:52.600And that's something that as we build culture over time, we'll get better.
00:51:57.540It is difficult because I think we're all, especially the younger generations coming up, but I'd say most people now in the West have a fragileness for plain speaking.
00:52:13.880There is a line between being straightforward and being rude, and a lot of people, you know, on both sides of that, misunderstand the one for the other.
00:52:27.540But I think we're very quick to take offense, and because we don't place strong enough value on community, those are the kind of things that we're very quick to hide from rather than address and rise to the occasion.
00:52:45.660um lesson that i learned uh you know unfortunately by by negative example on it but from my mom
00:52:56.220i watched growing up and she had this friend you know this friend group of other you know other0.99
00:53:03.180i don't know if you would call them liberal liberal white ladies now but you certainly0.99
00:53:11.280would back in the eighties and nineties, um, teacher friends. And their friendship was always
00:53:17.860very, uh, work oriented and man, the slightest, the slightest dose of honesty about something
00:53:26.520that bothered one of them or something that, you know, Hey, you did this thing and I need you not
00:53:32.460to do that again. And they would sever ties and you'd never talk to that person again. And I
00:53:38.080watched i watched her really suffer a drought of friends over the years because those friendships
00:53:46.240couldn't endure any kind of straight talk or honest reflection to one another and that's
00:53:51.760unfortunate and i've seen that up front and i i think that we do well to uh
00:53:59.520steel ourselves against hypersensitivity and be willing to not only speak plainly or not
00:54:07.600only be able to hear plain speaking about ourselves amongst friends but be able to
00:54:14.080give that back in appropriate measure where we can all be made better and
00:54:21.920not have that artificial barrier of hypersensitivity there you're certainly
00:54:28.080right that you know that there's a line between honesty and rudeness you can be direct without
00:54:33.600being rude and it but you have to hear it in that way too honest constructive criticism is not meant
00:54:44.800to hurt your feelings it's meant to you know improve your position and to you know so that you
00:54:52.160don't continue to engage in that inappropriate behavior or activity or you know so you get the
00:55:03.520spinach out from in between your teeth i mean at that stage of the game the you should be able again
00:55:11.920it's a function of uh what used to be called helicopter parenting which i now understand is
00:55:18.480you know devolved further into snowplow parenting if you know what that is um yeah uh it's snowplow
00:55:27.840parenting is where the parents go and clear every obstacle out of the way so the child gets like the
00:55:33.440red carpet ride all the way through um to the participation trophy um but it's uh
00:55:45.360and i realize that you know that this whole approach seems anachronistic it seems like
00:55:50.800we're out of touch but really it's the rest of the civilization the rest of the world is what's
00:55:57.440out of touch the fact that um people can't certainly can't take a joke much less um hear
00:56:06.320an honest criticism about themselves um is is disheartening in a lot of ways and you know i
00:56:14.080i've just i've come to expect it in the outside world like um the you know for the for the rest
00:56:22.320of the planet um you know the people who are not us uh i just you know i treat them all with kid
00:56:32.320gloves and but i at the same time i tell people who are my friends um you know if i speak to you
00:56:38.560directly it's because i like you you know if i if i am being hyper polite and dancing around something
00:56:46.720it's because i know you can't can't you know you can't handle the truth as jack nicholson said
00:56:56.720so that brings me to something but before i do
00:57:00.640andrew in texas thank you he donated uh ten dollars towards melinda's um
00:57:08.800cremation and memorial funds so thank you for that we appreciate you
00:57:12.480um appreciate all our generous givers on the program something alan brings up that i think
00:57:18.480is very you know appropriate to talk about in the discussion community
00:57:24.560is uh in and guard and guard so converse at alan kind of had a dichotomy there of randos that he
00:57:34.560meets at the gas station you have a different different rules of engagement and a different
00:57:42.960posture towards you still want to be dignified and noble too but there is a proprietary relationship
00:57:50.720in your inner yard of people who are your friends or who are part of your afa family when i say
00:57:57.280welcome to our afa family on the little welcome emails it's not like branding or hyperbolic
00:58:04.560i believe that wholeheartedly and i feel that way you become part of this you become part of a
00:58:11.280a family of faith and as such i think that we owe each other a certain amount of grace of
00:58:21.200and this is i am aware this is much much easier said than done and i think we all fall short of
00:58:28.720it sometimes but i challenge i do this with leadership from time to time and i believe in it
00:58:36.640i challenge folks to extend everybody when in doubt extend them the courtesy of interpreting
00:58:43.920what they're saying or what they're typing to you in the best possible tone with the best possible
00:58:49.680intention we know for a fact that that is not always the case but until you know for sure
00:58:56.080until you know for reasonably short it is a good social kindness to be able to expend the
00:59:06.320what if let's just assume that he means that in the nicest possible way and let's act as though
00:59:12.540that's the case i think that if we all did that with one another we would all have an easier time
00:59:19.800life and i think a lot of um a lot of our friends might still be with us as friends
00:59:27.240and we would have much more enduring relationships if we actively tried to extend that courtesy to
00:59:34.760one another and i think that you know if you mess up and you let something slide by assuming it was
00:59:43.160meant in the best possible way i think that's a minimal cost for a beneficial effect over time0.94
00:59:51.400and when you are getting that email about being part of family don't be that loser cousin who only0.99
00:59:56.280comes around once at every fifth year's family reunion get off your butt and do stuff so uh0.98
01:00:03.160since you did that um alan kind of went on a a thing about you know coming to the halls so0.61
01:00:13.160a little bit over a week ago I turned 45 years old and I may not seem like much to some people
01:00:24.780but to other people it entitles me to like doing some old man things so back in my day0.52
01:00:31.240um I remember the dream of one day having a hoff like man one of these days maybe
01:00:41.700If we got all our ducks in a row, we could have a hof, and how awesome that would be.0.98
01:00:49.880And I've been fortunate enough to live in a time where that happened.0.56
01:00:58.320And that was amazing when we just had that one hof out there in Brownsville, California, Odin's hof.0.89
01:01:03.680and that gave the opportunity for all of our people to come together at a hoth and worship0.93
01:01:11.900our gods and fellowship with their afa family in one place and that was so special and you know
01:01:19.660you have people to this day that will travel you know maybe once maybe twice maybe three or four
01:01:26.400times a year they'll travel you know eight or ten hours to go to that hoth got a lot of other
01:01:31.520people that monthly will travel say past three hours is a lot but we have people that will travel
01:01:39.600four hours a month to go to their local off and i don't hear those people complain about it
01:01:44.640i know that it's a lot but all those people are very fulfilled um
01:01:49.360it's worth doing and we live in a time now where we have five hops there is a very good odds that
01:01:59.360there is a Hoff somewhere near you that you can attend. And I would encourage you in the
01:02:06.600strongest possible terms to make that a priority to attend your Hoff. If it's very, very far away,
01:02:13.600maybe you can only make it a couple of times a year. If it's more reasonable, hopefully you can
01:02:18.360make it once a month. It is always going to be worth the effort. And it is amazing that we live
01:02:24.760as close to Hoffs as we do and if we have enough participation and if our gods favor us we'll have0.88
01:02:33.460more Hoffs in the future and every one we did it'll be that much closer but that only happens if the
01:02:39.320people we have now are willing to make that effort to get to the Hoffs we have. More than that you
01:02:45.720have members near you that host gatherings that host dinners that go hiking that go kayaking that
01:02:55.080go have a board game night they get together and have a beer that do things together
01:03:00.760you have that all over the place and you may not know about it unless you actively engage
01:03:06.360we have a couple of tools for that the afa calendar at runestone.org calendar or slash
01:03:14.040calendar there is a calendar that's got all these events on it of all the stuff we do
01:03:21.640chances are you're going to find your state on there you're going to find something close
01:03:24.920enough to you that you can be part of it now's the time be part of it we have a
01:03:31.960rich community um nick if you have that other graphic i sent you from earlier
01:03:37.560this is a graphical layout of our membership each one of these little pins is a member of the astro
01:03:46.240folk assembly now we have international members we have folks in alaska but they wouldn't fit on
01:03:51.660this map in a nice and usable way but look at how densely packed a lot of the states that we find
01:03:58.980ourselves in are you got members close to you and those members do things be part of it take
01:04:05.640advantage of it. This is an amazing time to be part of the Astro Folk Assembly. Your local folk
01:04:13.060builder, or a folk builder at least, will reach out to you regularly, inviting you to these events.
01:04:19.640If you're not on the team already, now is the time. Get off the fence. Get on the team.
01:04:24.880And if you are on the team, don't wait for something down the road that is more perfect.
01:04:29.800is get in the car and show up you will be glad that you did and i i genuinely mean that uh
01:04:38.840trying to think it's hard to think that like never has somebody
01:04:43.080been disgruntled that they've gone to an event but i don't hear that i hear
01:04:51.080several times a month at least how special it was that these people traveled a great distance to be
01:04:58.440at one of our events and how much they loved it how much they're coming back
01:05:02.600i hear that a lot and i want you to be the next person i hear it from so go to local stuff
01:05:15.080i 100 agree and i i'm reminded of uh a member who used to come north talk quite regularly but
01:05:23.640has now moved to Texas, so it's a much further trek for her and her family, but she, you know,
01:05:30.380she was literally in tears talking about the fact that her daughters were so
01:05:37.740relieved to know that there are other normal people in the world, you know, that for so long
01:05:47.980They'd felt isolated in their public school system because all this leftist woke ideology is so taken hold.
01:05:58.720And it's not because they are right or even because they are in the majority.
01:06:03.080They're just the loudest, most obnoxious people in the room.
01:06:08.700So they have this idea and certainly it's promoted by the media culture and by the corporate overlords.
01:06:17.980but the, um, they, you know, we, so conservatives, right thinking, traditionalists have been,
01:06:25.840um, had to sit on their hands and keep their mouth shut for so long because of the fear of
01:06:31.500speaking out. But, you know, there is, there is safety in numbers. And once we realize that we
01:06:37.620are the majority um we can start readjusting everybody else's attitude so i wanted to mention
01:06:48.980another thing that goes back to something you kind of opened with but
01:17:16.840I had a thing where I would, I don't know if this would make sense articulating it,
01:17:23.980but if it was coming to fisticuffs, I would, if they were loading up a punch for me,
01:17:30.280I would lean my forehead in, eat the punch in my forehead because that didn't hurt and it hurt them and close the distance so I could get a headlock.
01:17:42.940And then I would roll to where I ended up falling with all my weight on them when we hit the ground.
01:17:48.600That and then they were done. That's all it was. And they were done. And it was an easy victory and it worked.
01:17:54.820it worked a lot it didn't work this time and I didn't have I didn't have a next step
01:18:01.260so the guy reached around and hooked his finger into my eye socket and he got
01:18:06.600almost up to his second knuckle in and all of a sudden I was seeing rainbows and I was like
01:18:15.740a turtle on my back but didn't know what to do luckily my guys were there and they were able
01:18:20.560get me out of the situation pretty quick um but he had stretched out my eyelids so much
01:18:28.000that i wasn't seeing right because my eyelid was all droopy over my eye
01:18:32.880so i thought my eye was hanging and i was gonna push my eye back in luckily that was not the case
01:18:41.200uh my my uh my colleagues were making fun of me saying i was crying until they realized oh no
01:18:47.120that's blood. I was bleeding from the eye socket. But it was a, I appreciate the lesson. I value
01:18:56.100the lesson. I only had to wear an eye patch for about a week. And I may do things wrong if I get
01:19:02.440into a conflict in the future, but I'm going to know where people's hands are. I'll tell you that.
01:19:07.260So yeah, don't underestimate people. You got to never take it for granted. Even if it's worked
01:19:11.760100 times it may not work 101 times uh number two never start anything inside yeah you always want
01:19:18.640to get out get them out the door as quick as possible especially i mean you can walk them to
01:19:24.560the front door whatever but if they look like it's going to get squirly get them out the closest door
01:19:28.080and you can deal with it out in the parking lot that is always good and it minimizes their friends
01:19:34.320inside you don't know they have coming at you and it also makes it not a problem for everybody else
01:19:41.280And you don't end up tackling, you know, old ladies and random people that have nothing to do with it that get in the way.0.75
01:19:57.180When I started, we were in fights every Friday and Saturday night.
01:20:04.960Like four or five different physical altercations every single Friday and every single Saturday.
01:20:11.280And by the time that I got out of there, I was almost never in a fight because I developed enough self-confidence and conflict resolution skills that it just usually didn't have to go there.
01:20:28.740And it wasn't by letting people take advantage, but it was by having a calmness of demeanor when you're dealing with folks, being comfortable enough to treat people nicely and to not escalate and get people all amped up.
01:20:44.320And, yeah, if you can get that and get that under control, you're able to accomplish a lot of stuff without it getting sketchy.
01:26:57.860but i think those things scale up too i think that if you're a little kid
01:27:04.660and that's how you relate to the gods is things that are big concerns to you
01:27:11.000because you're little and maybe aren't big concerns the rest of us i know that that's a thing
01:27:18.160and maybe the response isn't you know some the heavens part and the gods descend and speak to
01:27:27.160the child at bedtime but there's a comfort that's extended and there's an acknowledgement of
01:27:34.040a presence there in a lot of in a lot of circumstances so i would encourage those
01:27:41.100people to um open themselves in their heart and in their mind and make offerings and see what
01:27:50.420happens i can't guarantee you something will happen but i guarantee you some things have
01:27:56.360happened by people following that advice and hopefully that might happen in their case
01:28:01.060um alan what if any music do you listen to for devotional purposes
01:28:07.160um i have a high long channel uh on by pandora that
01:28:16.720And again, you know, this is especially with music, you got to leave some of the stuff out, you know, like they're they always have a little political thing before they.
01:28:31.840In other words, I enjoy their music, even though they seem to be they don't own the folkishness that they should.
01:28:40.760I'll say it that way. So High Lung is a great.
01:28:46.720devotional thing and the associated things with that um i also have some yoga music um
01:28:57.680can't i'd have to look on my phone to remember the girl's name but there's a you know that
01:29:04.760who does some mantra work um chanting with kind of some cool instrumentation
01:29:14.780um one of those or i'll listen to some techno um because uh you know it's it's typically
01:29:25.240non-lyrical and i just think that that you know i because i can shape that thing and and and in
01:29:33.700in its own way it is it is about elevation and so i shape it to my own purpose so that's what i
01:46:04.400You know, one of the reasons, one of the many reasons that people in the United States are suffering from low testosterone in general is that pesticides that are put on food are deliberately targeted toward the reproductive system of insects.
01:46:26.840And, you know, people are not insects. Folkish people are not insects, but the, but the, um, but the, in the big set of things, you know, read about atrazine and how nasty it is and how, you know, to quote my buddy Alex Jones, they're turning the frogs gay.0.67
01:46:50.660so and yeah i know it's more expensive eat less eat more expensive food it's worth0.98
01:47:03.780it is in fact turning frogs gay and it's been really nice in the last few years0.90
01:47:12.580no now mainstream people have to admit like no i know it sounds funny but he was right0.57
01:47:17.220it's turning the frogs gay because it is um i'm me and alan have this push pull on some chemicals
01:47:26.120and some stuff but i don't agree with them on energy drinks they're good for you there's a lot
01:47:31.660of stuff i can do but i i can't advocate for fast food other than it's tasty and fun sometimes but
01:47:37.920even then i find that i think it's going to be this tasty treat it's going to be awesome it's
01:47:43.240really not. It's not that satisfying. It's not that great. There's some items here and there, but
01:47:48.020though I want to jump on as the counterpoint, I can't on the fast food. It's not good for you.
01:47:56.940It's just not. Alan, where does monotheism come from, and why does their doctrine seem to hate
01:48:06.900Well, the conclusion that I reached on that question, I will say it's not universally held, but it is bolstered by a lot of research and by a lot of the writings of a lot of people smarter than I am.
01:48:31.520But monotheism originates from the encounter between Abraham, Isaac, and the Demiurge.
01:48:52.440Demiurge is the false god of this world, the false god of materialism.
01:50:20.320Why do they hate us? Because their books tell them to hate us, because we do not follow the Judaic stricture that says that you will have no other God before me.
01:50:42.000And oddly, you know, even to say that to have that written in there admits of the existence of other gods.
01:50:49.740So to think that there is only one God, but you can't worship other gods, I mean, it disproves itself, in my opinion.
01:51:00.600One of the many disproves of that theological error, I recommend over and over and have bought and given away and put in auction and recommended.
01:51:15.680There's a book by an acquaintance of mine, Acharya Ji, wrote the book, published a book that you can still get on Amazon.
01:51:27.480It's called The Dharma Manifesto, The Dharma Manifesto.
01:51:31.600And the Dharma is the naturally arising organic faith of any given people.
01:51:39.260Like the the dharmic faith of Japanese people is Shinto.
01:51:43.220The Dharmic faith of the Indian people, and, you know, I mean, I realize this overgeneralizes, but, you know, the Vedic faith, Hinduism, the Dharmic faith of the European peoples is also true.0.92
01:52:02.280Um, the Abrahamic faiths are at war with us because their book tells them that we are in scriptural error, which we are for them.
01:52:16.020Um, but, and that's why they hate us because we refuse to believe in their God, um, in a meaningful way.0.83
01:52:31.560Um, believe may not be the right word there, but you, but, you know, we, and I also think that there is a phenomenon going on that is the thing of like the emperor's new class.0.97
01:52:46.020Like, everybody knows that Christianity is the real religion, and we will kill you until you stop not believing that.
01:52:57.000But, and I think that a lot of, I think it dovetails with the woke ideology that's out there.0.56
01:53:04.020People scream it from the top of their lungs because they don't want people to see that they don't really believe it.
01:53:10.980that's why I think they hate us because they expect that they should hate us really
01:53:21.780they we we have opened the door that so that they can rejoin us and rejoin the faith of their
01:53:31.080ancestors and that's part of the cognitive dissonance I think that also in modern ideal
01:53:36.960makes it more difficult for them to get there because they know that Christianity is an empty
01:53:47.020shell. They know that we are right in our history. They know we are right in our tradition. They know0.99
01:53:53.500we are right in the gods that we worship and that we are right to venerate our ancestors,
01:53:58.440their ancestors and that's why i think it's uh it certainly is an aspect of hatred but i think
01:54:06.840there's also a degree of resentment like we're brave enough to get out here on the tip of the
01:54:11.220spear and uh do what should be done and they're not but that's on them they're welcome to join us
01:54:19.100sorry that was so long that's i'd get animated about that question
01:54:27.320no that's fine um i think it's important to note that
01:54:36.920well and alan covered this a little bit in the dawn of monotheism
01:54:46.840and if you genuinely study it the proposition isn't that there's only one god it's that you're
01:54:53.720only allowed to worship that one god even in their original text
01:55:02.280it's acknowledged that that monotheistic god that yahweh is one of many gods
01:55:11.400in ancient levantine religion he is one of many gods he gains some degree of prominence and in
01:55:20.840the bible you are not allowed to have any other gods before him he is described throughout those
01:55:27.640holy texts of the monotheists as a jealous god and you find that there's this hyper obsession with
01:55:40.680needing all possible adulation all possible worship of possible praise to the point
01:55:48.280that it is sinful to celebrate any of his mortal followers because you're supposed to just give him
01:55:56.260all of the credit for all of the things all the time because celebrating you know
01:56:01.540a guy doing something good is idolatrous and like he can't stand even that small degree of
01:56:09.100credit going to somewhere that's not his and I think that speaks to a really gross pathology
01:56:18.160um just real quick about my thought is every christian i've ever met whether the book says
01:56:28.540it or not they believe the gut that their god is the only god that exists they completely discount
01:56:35.400the existence of other gods so and that's yeah that's what they believe that's and that's their
01:56:41.660religion would that would be even more i mean more monotheistic i don't know well so yeah it's
01:56:50.380evolved and it becomes simplified and you find the very early texts and the more you study the
01:56:56.620history of the region telling you that there's other gods you find those few references like
01:57:04.940in genesis and in exodus in the very early books of the bible mention plurality of gods
01:57:14.140and then from then on it's that's the one god and all the other gods are just demons or whatever um
01:57:23.580one of the features of that particular entity is a demand for all of their people to
01:57:38.060persecute anyone who is of a different faith and to um0.97
01:57:44.060you know ethnically cleanse the people who are not um in alignment with that one particular deity
01:57:54.280and it's really interesting because and i can't speak to every possible world religion but in my
01:58:00.480understanding that is very much not the norm that's not how it works in all the other you know
01:58:09.340all religion tends to be ethnically based in the history of mankind but we have an anomalous
01:58:17.420religion of abrahamism that takes its you know three heads of christianity judaism and islam0.97
01:58:23.980that all venerate this very different spiritual force that very much demands he's the only good0.86
01:58:33.580thing and everything else is bad in a really destructive way i think it is a part of a very
01:58:40.940negative chaos pathology that is debasing to humanity and that is genuinely evil and i don't
01:58:55.340think that every jew or every christian or every muslim is necessarily some horrible person but0.99
01:59:00.860But I think that ideology and that particular spiritual entity is not a good thing.1.00
02:00:17.500And it's polar opposite to what we believe.
02:00:22.120And not to completely discount, because at least my understanding of it is monotheistic,
02:00:26.900because Zoroastrianism as well, but that wouldn't be lumped in so much with the ones that are out there attacking the pagans.
02:00:35.040No, it's funny because it kind of became that in duality, but only sort of.
02:00:42.760It evolved out of a Hinduism to where it recognized the existence of other gods.
02:00:50.080it classifies them as somehow less than uhura mazda but it like it recognizes their existence
02:00:57.980and almost casts them in what you would equate to angels or demons and i don't think that's
02:01:05.540fair to put on it but it's kind of the thing people might recognize but again that's a
02:01:11.540development of something much earlier that that wasn't there so i do wonder about that
02:01:16.880it was a little bit, but it is fair to put, put that out there. Um, okay. All right. This
02:01:29.700one is a extremely long multiple part question. Hello. I am not too late for this, or if I'm
02:01:37.060not too late for this to be asked on the stream with the law speaker today, please raise the
02:01:41.840question. If I am too late, maybe next time. First, a kind of PSA for any listeners in the
02:01:47.720Las Vegas area who are not members to become members. Yeah, if you're in Las Vegas, you should
02:01:55.640join the AFA if you are eligible. If you are not in Las Vegas, you should join the AFA if you're
02:02:02.160eligible. Sorry, the way I copied and pasted this is my fault. Second, I have recently come across
02:02:13.280a few examples of court cases regarding religious provisions in estate planning,
02:02:18.260stating that inheritors of an estate must belong to a specific religion and being upheld by the
02:02:25.380U.S. Supreme Court in contrast to other discrimination laws. These have primarily been from Jewish
02:02:32.740Americans stipulating their grandchildren must be agreed to ethnic Jews and or Jewish converts,
02:02:39.520but hypothetically extends to any religious affiliation. The most recent of these cases
02:02:46.660was a state of Feinberg in 2009, but there are examples going back to at least the 1970s.
02:02:55.380I have also read about Catholics and Mormons indicating that their heirs must have official letters of good standing issued from their respective churches in order to receive inheritance.
02:03:07.600I'm curious if we, as Alcetruer and AFA members in particular, can replicate this.
02:03:13.240Would requiring that one's grandkids need a letter of good standing from the AFA be a legal way of excluding non-folkish descendants from receiving inheritance against the will of the deceased?0.69
02:03:26.920I feel this may also bolster the AFA's legitimacy as well.0.87
02:03:32.460I'm working on defining a beneficiary class in a dynastic trust using these parameters
02:03:40.860and may reach out to the law speaker personally as a client, if appropriate.
02:03:49.040I will defer to the law speaker on his legal expertise in this matter.
02:03:56.920And I've never heard of that, but AI tells me that that is a thing.
02:04:05.120It was not the United States Supreme Court, but the Illinois Supreme Court that upheld a clause and a will whereby the takers under a will were disinherited because they were no longer practicing Jews.
02:04:29.860um that's like the 30 second summary that i was able to glean while matt was reading the question
02:04:35.780um i now so a couple things um probate law is not my specialty i've done some work in the area
02:04:48.180though and i can tell you that courts go a long way toward enacting the will
02:04:59.860the final wishes of the testator. So it doesn't surprise me that this, um, that this, um,
02:05:08.060clause was enacted. I, I do think that it's a great idea as this questioner says, you know,
02:05:16.140that, um, that we should, first of all, we should rate. So I'm going to go in the right order.
02:05:25.400Yes, I think it's absolutely a good idea that those of us who have more than a couple of dollars should put in there terms in their wills that favor those children who follow our faith.
02:05:46.240Secondly, I think it is part of the hangover of cultural Marxism to say that we have to let our kids decide for themselves what they are.
02:06:01.220Now, to a certain extent, I'm glad that I came of age in that era because it allowed me to find also true.
02:06:08.180But you should raise your kids as also true.
02:06:12.420And we should, and I am absolutely willing to email with this person and help figure out a way to help people put clauses in their wills to favor those of our faith.
02:09:37.760His remains now and, you know, for the foreseeable future will be in a Jewish cemetery with Hebrew writing on the headstone, or however they do it, because he didn't have a will in place that said otherwise.
02:09:56.680And it's hard because I know that's not what he wanted.0.84
02:15:14.060But getting that mustering up the courage to get out of where you're comfortable, to decide today is the day, to drive however long it might be, show up and say, hi, my name is so-and-so, I'm with the AFA, glad to meet you.
02:15:28.880It can change your life in the most wonderful ways.
02:15:32.720And I would encourage everybody to take that opportunity.
02:15:37.580Alan, thank you for joining us tonight and sharing your wisdom.
02:15:41.140i apologize for my tardiness i will be on time next time i got my bond right boss
02:15:48.260there we go it happens um nick thank you for all that you do we appreciate you
02:15:54.280folks out here uh who donated tonight thank you guys very much you guys brought it over the line
02:16:00.160melinda is getting what she wanted and you guys are a big part of that so thank you for it
02:16:05.180um everybody start making plans now to go to your hoth for um free faxing coming up on the 15th
02:16:16.500of august i'm looking for i will not talk to you next week uh expecting a trend east will be here
02:16:24.720to uh do his program he has taken over for brandy for a while to do the uh when we find ourselves
02:16:31.940with a fifth wednesday in a month so he's going to bring you a fantastic show with amazing tales
02:16:39.940of daring do and whatnot so uh that's going to be awesome make sure you tune in for that
02:16:45.300um until i see you again two wednesdays from now hail the icer folk ldafa and remember