Asatru Folk Assembly - 9⧸25⧸24 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 116 - Creating Gimlé

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

00:03:17.520 um as you guys may can tell my camera is still messed up i have not gotten with nick to fix

00:03:23.600 whatever the update problem is so i will be slightly less handsome than usual um

00:03:33.280 but luckily for you we have these two handsome gentlemen with us tonight

00:03:37.040 we are joined by whit and daniel young and go the trent east um

00:03:44.880 and we are going to talk about building gimley uh before we get to that though

00:03:53.600 Hmm. News since last week. So I spent this last weekend in Montana celebrating Frayer's Harvest

00:04:03.800 Feast with our amazing AFA family up in that part of the world. I got to spend some time with some

00:04:14.120 folks that I haven't got to spend time with in a little bit. And I got to meet some members that

00:04:18.740 I haven't gotten to meet before, and it was a really nice weekend. We had powerful bloats and

00:04:25.420 some really good bonding time, and I got a chance to see the homestead that our folk builder Tyler

00:04:35.800 Heinlein and his family are building up there, and it's a really special place. I'm really glad I got

00:04:41.140 to see that. Coming up very soon, and there is still time for you to make it, we are celebrating

00:04:50.200 winter nights in New Hampshire. This is going to be the first time that we have celebrated a big

00:04:56.240 AFA event that far north on that coast, and certainly the first time we've had a big event

00:05:03.720 in new hampshire i am very excited to experience that and to see the folks that i've already seen

00:05:12.920 from out there again and meet brand new folks that i've not gotten a chance to meet and also

00:05:18.680 to experience the amazing changing of the seasons in that part of the country it's going to be

00:05:24.680 absolutely beautiful and looking forward to it and i'm looking forward to sharing it with all

00:05:30.040 of you fine people if you guys can make it so if you are interested if you can make that happen

00:05:36.040 any of your folk builders can get you all squared away it's going to be a fantastic event um

00:05:43.400 if you can make it to that we got another one for you that's awesome and if you can't make it

00:05:48.120 we still got another great event so uh feast of the iron hair yarn south dakota is coming up very

00:05:53.960 soon it's going to be awesome i'm looking forward to it it's a nice spot it's gonna be the same

00:05:59.960 spot we did it last year so it's really good location and i'm looking forward to that so

00:06:05.960 i'd love to see you guys there again if you're interested your folk builder can get you all set up

00:06:12.280 um

00:06:16.680 trying to think of what else off the top of the show i may be

00:06:19.960 remiss in not reminding you on i think that's good for now so

00:06:37.400 a lot of

00:06:37.960 of my current in our law here as far as topics and themes that keep coming up and things

00:06:51.980 that end up stacking and synergizing. About a month ago now, our Gothar had a meeting

00:07:01.420 and there was a question raised by a member that folks wanted, I don't know, some advice

00:07:06.720 on or some like what the also true perspective on was and that was on

00:07:16.240 what we refer to i guess the ideal situation being or our uh

00:07:26.960 our goal or our ideal that we look towards building or towards you know the right order

00:07:33.280 of how things should be and so we're thinking of what that is expressed in announce true concept

00:07:42.400 uh gothi trent east here um posited that you know our closest depiction of that was gimli

00:07:53.200 and i think that was really apt and that's kind of the seed of this episode and it was built upon

00:07:58.960 a couple of different a couple of different things so a big focus of frayers harvest feast this last

00:08:07.120 weekend this is what i mean about themes stacking on one another was kind of what those gentlemen

00:08:13.920 are building out there on their homestead in their part of our afa world and not only what

00:08:22.640 they're building there but what certainly the men at that event especially the young men could be

00:08:29.040 building within their own lives and i think that really plays into what we want to focus on

00:08:35.200 on this week's episode is talking about

00:08:39.600 what we are building what we are doing what we are the dream we are realizing in the world around us

00:08:55.320 and I think a lot of people when they look at the world that they want or the world that they wish

00:09:08.700 it were often you can see that in terms of I don't know in terms of politics depending

00:09:18.240 on where you're sitting in terms of economics in a lot of different ways that are conditioned

00:09:24.820 by circumstance but I think fundamentally what we want to express and what is valuable

00:09:32.140 about the Gimli that we are building is its relevance outside of any of those concerns

00:09:39.020 or any of those circumstances.

00:09:42.240 In Ausatru, we build on principle, and principle can apply to politics, it can apply to economics,

00:09:49.380 it can apply to any part of your life, but principle in and of itself is timeless.

00:09:54.920 So one of the things that we're focusing on is what we can do and what we are doing in

00:10:05.040 our current circumstance to achieve the dreams of our folk, the dreams of our ancestors,

00:10:12.680 and the dream that we want to have for our children.

00:10:16.240 And that's what I really want us to focus on tonight.

00:10:22.320 case anybody is well say in case every week we have new people listening and uh and watching

00:10:29.760 wherever they consume this good reminder we are live on youtube on x on bit shoot

00:10:41.280 oh we're not on bit shoot never mind on odyssey on entropy on twitch rumble

00:10:52.320 and vk we come out on fridays as a podcast as well on

00:11:02.640 on uh i heart radio on amazon on amazon music on apple music and on spotify

00:11:10.160 so there's a lot of different ways to consume this as i said we got new people

00:11:14.960 listening and participating every week so in light of that

00:11:18.800 Whitton Young, can you introduce yourself to the folks that may not be familiar?

00:11:26.640 Sure. Thank you for having me again. Always a pleasure to be a guest on Victory Never Sleeps.

00:11:32.800 I'm Whitton Daniel Young. I am from Camden, South Carolina. I'm a member of the

00:11:37.760 Austria Folk Assembly for six years. I've been a part of the clergy for the last three, going on

00:11:44.960 three years and that's something that that flew by but yeah it's my pleasure to be here and my

00:11:50.780 pleasure to be your guest uh excellent and uh trent can you tell people a little bit about

00:11:58.800 yourself in case they are not familiar yeah i'm go through trent east i'm from west georgia i've

00:12:05.860 been an afa member for uh a little over nine years nine and a half or so um

00:12:12.680 And I have also been a part of the clergy for three years, exactly as long as Whitton Young, down to the very minute, in fact.

00:12:26.200 All right.

00:12:29.340 So to start off a little bit today.

00:12:32.940 um daniel can you explain to people what gimli is and like what what that is in our lore

00:12:50.620 sure gimli is a concept of uh of a place that exists in ausgard on the evil plane

00:12:58.540 and the etymology of the word translates to place protected from fire or place

00:13:07.840 untouched by fire it's a place where the gods gather and meet after the

00:13:14.440 Ragnarok after a certain fiery horror has burned the earth it's where the gods

00:13:21.280 reconvene and recollect on the things of the past and look toward the future

00:13:28.180 They look back on the stories of the

00:13:31.980 Nuremungandr 1.00

00:13:33.140 They look back on the stories of the All-Father 0.97

00:13:35.580 And it's where the sons of Odin

00:13:39.300 And the other gods that survived

00:13:41.220 The sons of Thor and many others

00:13:42.720 It's where they start

00:13:44.700 The beginning of the next age

00:13:47.680 And I think it's a

00:13:49.680 Poignant topic

00:13:50.780 For kind of the stuff

00:13:53.680 That goes on and exists in our life

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00:13:56.180 and i'm sure we're going to touch on that as we go forward but it essentially translates to fire

00:14:02.820 shelter it's the place where the god gather and meet and kind of i don't want to say post game

00:14:10.980 wrap up type thing but it's reflecting on what was and planning for what needs to be

00:14:15.860 so Gimli is described as the most beautiful of halls

00:14:29.540 and I think there's a lot to be said it's not just you know

00:14:38.180 it's not just a cool place to go that good people are rewarded with with entrance in

00:14:44.180 And it's a place that is untouched and beyond the reach of the flames of destruction.

00:14:52.200 And that's a big theme here.

00:14:54.180 I don't want to get too wrapped up on the Gimli in our myth cycle, because that's not really what we're talking about here.

00:15:02.580 We're talking about an earthly Gimli that we are building within the husk of the world that we see around us.

00:15:08.740 I don't think it should come as any great surprise to folks that there's a lot of things out there

00:15:15.060 that we wish were different. But I think one thing in the day and age that we live in,

00:15:21.760 with the media that we consume and the way we consume it, the focus is very often on

00:15:30.940 big macro geopolitical things that we find disquieting and

00:15:42.640 there's a hyper focus on a lot of things that we don't necessarily have an immediate access to

00:15:49.440 but what i think there's far too little focus on is all of the things that we have a very

00:15:55.080 immediate access to and that many of us are working extremely hard to build and to make happen

00:16:03.160 and that's the thing that i want to talk to folks about this evening

00:16:08.920 um as always i would like to invite any and all of you guys to ask questions throughout the show

00:16:20.120 it's very much a question base uh based program as far as conversation goes and we welcome

00:16:27.320 anybody who has questions who wants to ask them in a in a reasonable and respectful way we would

00:16:34.920 love to answer all of those questions they can be about the topic at hand or about anything else

00:16:41.960 but one of the things that i wanted to kind of shed light on in case people don't know

00:16:46.040 know is the things that we are building and the things that we're building together

00:16:53.720 now the idea of Gimli comes about in the

00:16:59.720 I guess in the great cycle in our mythos that talks about

00:17:06.200 Ragnarok and what happens during that event and what happens after it

00:17:11.000 um but it's something that I think is applicable in the microcosm and the macrocosm I think there

00:17:21.860 are cycles of creation and destruction in the world around us all of the time some of those

00:17:28.520 are small some of those are large but one that I think that's really relevant is the 1.00

00:17:36.020 breaking of the trough with the Eysir that our ancestors did a thousand years ago, 0.97

00:17:44.300 some more, some less, depending on where we come from, 0.95

00:17:48.440 and the resurgence and the rebirth of Alcetru in the middle of the last century.

00:17:58.480 We are currently in that generation, or in the generation directly following that,

00:18:05.060 to where we're in that time of building.

00:18:08.440 The waters have receded.

00:18:11.940 The destruction has gone away.

00:18:16.460 And what do we do?

00:18:17.500 We're resetting things up.

00:18:19.220 We're remaking things right.

00:18:21.060 We're reoccupying the halls of the gods.

00:18:23.620 And we're talking of the former days and the former things.

00:18:27.500 We're recapturing our history.

00:18:29.660 We're recapturing our identity.

00:18:32.320 and we're resetting things the way they ought to be we're finding the uh

00:18:37.520 chess pieces in the grass and setting the tables back up and that's very much

00:18:45.280 symbolic of what we're doing in this reforging of alsatru and we're still in a relatively early

00:18:51.760 phase of that but we see it all around us so one thing that i'd like to i don't know ask

00:18:59.760 Oscar, get you to shed light on, Trent, can you talk about some of the things that we

00:19:10.960 have built in, you know, since that reawakening of our folk soul with our founder, Steven

00:19:23.760 mcnalen until now what things have we have we rebuilt what what progress have we made towards

00:19:30.460 building that gimli thus far um well like you said we're still early in the uh reforging of

00:19:38.520 alcentrue but at the same time uh we've we've done so much uh i mean you know four hoffs dedicated

00:19:46.180 to our gods a fifth and sixth one already on the way sigurheim land you know for the afa for

00:19:53.420 Alcetor, uh, dedicated to Lords here. We have the Astro Academy. Uh, we have stirred sort of

00:20:03.260 an awakening and just the consciousness of our folk. You know, I can go to the Walmart in little

00:20:11.300 old Cedartown, Georgia, and somebody will say, Hey, I like your hammer, or I'll see another guy

00:20:16.360 wearing a hammer. It's, and they, they know what it is. They know it's not, you know, comic book,

00:20:22.020 Marvel, whatever, they know it's a real faith, even if they don't agree with it. And I'm in the

00:20:26.360 Bible Belt, they don't, but it's a recognizable thing. And it's slowly becoming more and more

00:20:31.820 respected. And again, this is just the tip of the spear. Yeah, I've, I've noticed that too,

00:20:38.920 not only the recognition of my hammer, but it seems like in recent years, I'd say in the past,

00:20:46.520 I don't know five to ten years not only they recognize you know what it is but they recognize

00:20:53.900 it as Mjolnir and they will you know say as much and like completely get that which is

00:21:00.140 amazing to me because just you know two decades ago that was an extreme rarity and now that's

00:21:08.720 rather commonplace um but I think that's good that you mentioned that so we have

00:21:15.800 four Hoffs thus far that regularly our folk gather at to worship our gods, to celebrate

00:21:27.800 our ancestors and our heroes, and to bond around the things that are most precious and most

00:21:36.260 important to us beyond just that they are outposts of this gimli that we're talking about

00:21:46.820 they are physical real locations that you can reach out and touch that are ours that are

00:21:59.700 they're tangible in the very very literal sense of the word but they're also tangible

00:22:04.340 in a in a macro sense where people want to apply place and address and see it on a map and see it

00:22:12.100 on stuff it's kind of goofy to me but it's such a cool feeling to be able to find each of our hofs

00:22:22.020 on google maps like that's legit people will ask for the address like it's a you know a frat party

00:22:28.100 that you're going to that you got to have the secret directions and turn left on this and

00:22:32.340 whatever we're like no just just type it in the google maps it's on there you can follow the blue

00:22:37.060 line it'll take you right there that in and of itself is a really really special thing

00:22:43.940 and it's something that if you would have said to you know folks during the the free assembly days

00:22:52.020 they it would have been mind-boggling on a lot of different levels but the fact that we would

00:22:57.700 be on there would be mind-boggling to them um and i hope so it's something that i'll be very proud

00:23:02.900 of i know many of them are um but something that i was talking about earlier today as a matter of

00:23:11.060 fact with quentin young was what that looks like when stuff in the world goes goes haywire a little

00:23:20.580 bit. Can you talk to people a little bit about how the massive response to COVID-19 affected

00:23:36.440 us versus the stuff that's outside of Gimli? Yeah, no, I would love to. My parents are

00:23:49.080 the baby boomer generation and, you know, come from that era where, you know, if the guy,

00:23:57.660 the talking head on the TV says that something is going on, it's factual. There's, you know,

00:24:02.780 no disputing that. It's indisputable because it was on CNN or Fox News or whatever. And during the

00:24:10.000 height of the COVID-19 outbreak, you know, my parents, that was the subject of conversation

00:24:17.680 with them every time i talked to them we talked you know daily at the time and i was so immersed

00:24:24.160 in you know afa stuff uh 2020 2020 was a was a big year for the austral folk assembly that was

00:24:31.840 the founding of thorshall and uh in july and then later that year the founding of baldershoff had

00:24:37.200 had occurred and then you know some of the uh you know the media response to that you know had a

00:24:42.560 lot of our attention. I was going through the Gothar program along with Go the East, and there's lots

00:24:47.840 of stuff happening. And I was completely immersed in it. And I remember, you know, telling my parents

00:24:51.840 at the time that that might as well exist somewhere else, this idea of this, you know, pandemic.

00:24:58.240 And my mother lamented the fact that, you know, I existed in a bubble at the time. And I was like,

00:25:04.000 yeah, my bubble is really cool. And that was when it kind of occurred to me that I was thinking

00:25:09.200 about the concept of Gimli, that while the fiery sword of Sert was sweeping across the earth and

00:25:16.800 burning things down, we were huddled inside, huddled isn't the right word, but we were gathered

00:25:22.280 inside this bubble, inside this place untouched by flame and building something anew. And so,

00:25:33.500 So, I mean, we didn't approach the idea of COVID-19 with fear and all that.

00:25:38.740 It was something we were all very aware of.

00:25:40.060 We didn't get people sick and stuff.

00:25:42.140 But that very same year, I had the Erickson's were at my house.

00:25:50.020 And, you know, at the time there was, and I remember the news reports,

00:25:53.040 there was like 90 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in South Carolina.

00:25:57.540 Like 85 of them were in the county I live in.

00:25:59.440 And we still moved about like nothing was going on.

00:26:04.740 I remember I went to go grab some stuff to cook at the local grocery store and shoved me so he could grab the last pack of ground beef and all that.

00:26:16.300 And I was just thinking, what the hell are all these people panicking about?

00:26:19.040 Because in my mind, it was non-existent.

00:26:23.640 So I think the coronavirus stuff is a good example.

00:26:28.520 it wasn't just you know what was happening here with me personally locally trent and i were running

00:26:34.440 up up and down i-20 from camden to the atlanta area to visit every other weekend and studying

00:26:40.680 together and jumping in cars and going up to you know prepare for the opening of thorshof and

00:26:48.120 the you know meister flavelle flew out from reno you know when the thing supposedly out you know

00:26:54.120 there was this outbreak and all that stuff we were making hugs and passing around horns of sacred

00:26:59.240 mead and drinking from it and there was no concept of danger because uh all the panic and stuff just

00:27:07.000 seemed to exist elsewhere it might as well have been on another planet that's the thing we existed

00:27:12.840 in the hall untouched by the flames and that was really really a special thing during that time um

00:27:24.120 And this is just an example, as I mean, this can apply to whenever something goes strange, but when society decided to take a very radical turn in a direction that we didn't agree with, we had the ability to have locations where we could gather, where we could celebrate, we could worship.

00:27:47.800 and we could carry on in spite of or without regard to the things going on in the world that

00:28:00.040 were contrary to the way we would have it we were able to and and i saw this in a lot of ways

00:28:07.420 there are a lot of people out there in in the west and i realize we have an international

00:28:13.580 audience, but so much of the time we speak from an American perspective, because that's where,

00:28:19.160 you know, that's where we're from. We will have, you know, some of our international people on

00:28:25.340 here from time to time, like our folk builder, Eric over there in Sweden, but in general, we have

00:28:32.340 a very heavy United States population here watching the show and participating. So

00:28:37.340 a lot of folks that were religious for their entire life it just stopped um during during

00:28:50.760 that particular situation they went a year two years they used to go to church once a week

00:28:58.380 maybe twice maybe three times with different bible studies and other things

00:29:03.640 but they you know they just shut down there's a lot of people very isolated

00:29:11.080 and alone and scared and we were in a time where we didn't have to do that because we

00:29:17.840 had that resource we had the things that we were building um as daniel mentioned that's when we got

00:29:26.380 both Thorshoff and Baldershoff during that time.

00:29:33.560 And it's also kind of a precursor or one of those things

00:29:44.280 that solidified the intent and the idea of getting Sigurhan.

00:29:50.700 Now, it takes some time to get these things going or whatever,

00:29:54.380 But all three of us and our families are eventually going to live on Sigurheim with several other AFA families.

00:30:04.920 And we're going to try to get as many of our AFA family as we'd like to, to move to the surrounding area so that we have that there too. 0.96

00:30:13.440 so that we have an AFA village in which we can have a foothold in the world to interact with our community

00:30:30.560 and also a home to come home to, to where we are insulated from the things that we dislike out in the wide world.

00:30:39.040 So we're operating from a place of strength and not a place of weakness.

00:30:42.980 And that's something that we are currently building and putting our energy towards.

00:30:47.400 And it's really special to be in a day and age where we have that.

00:30:52.440 I'd like to take a second to acknowledge GW Farnsworth, a near constant contributor to the program.

00:31:02.520 We appreciate you so much.

00:31:04.300 Bought us five coffees.

00:31:05.740 That's a $25 donation.

00:31:07.620 Thank you very much.

00:31:08.460 We really appreciate it.

00:31:09.560 You had mentioned, though, that we can approach the world from a place of strength and not weakness.

00:31:18.680 And I would say also approach from a place of courage rather than fear.

00:31:23.360 And I think that the whole situation from 2020 to, I guess, 22 was evident of that.

00:31:32.900 We saw the AFA flourish in ways that it had never flourished before.

00:31:39.560 I think I don't like using the word safe space in the liberal sense that you hear it now, but the AFA itself and, you know, of course, our physical locations provide that.

00:31:54.200 But it was a place where we all felt safe and a place that we all felt comfortable.

00:31:59.160 And it was as easy to do as it would be to go check on a neighbor or something like that.

00:32:05.300 We were all in constant contact.

00:32:07.540 We were all pouring sweat inside the house.

00:32:09.560 those hops getting them ready for it to be dedicated to our gods um the the idea of of

00:32:17.320 sigerheim was born out of that necessity i think it was a place to be able to gather and call home

00:32:23.560 and it's those halls and that and that property in tennessee

00:32:29.400 do serve and will serve as a place of refuge as a place to feel safe and and to fellowship

00:32:36.920 with people who think like you and believe like you without fearing or lamenting what's going on

00:32:43.920 in the outside world, because that's beyond our control anyway. We control what we can control.

00:32:49.620 What we can control is our own perspective on things. And I think the Austrian Folk Assembly

00:32:55.300 is the ultimate white pill. Well, so a couple of things, just to comment on a couple of things

00:33:06.320 see over in the chat uh booney rat says he finally saw siggerheim this weekend and it's absolutely

00:33:12.640 beautiful which it is and the vision for it is amazing which it also is and i'm very glad you

00:33:18.160 went out and saw it and uh so proud of it so daniel young on the program tonight

00:33:27.600 he was the guy that went out there and did all the scouting for it

00:33:31.040 it. And we got it because he said it was, in fact, beautiful. And he could see that vision

00:33:38.280 that we had for it there. And we trusted him. And turned out all right. It's an amazing,

00:33:45.080 amazing spot. I don't think we could have done better. So I'm so very, very excited about it.

00:33:50.960 I'm glad you went and checked it out. Got a lot of amazing things that are going to be happening

00:33:54.820 there in the coming in the coming years um then i also see a comment and i'm not aiming this

00:34:03.780 at the the guy who made the comment because it's something that we run into a lot is the

00:34:09.300 unfortunately the outside world doesn't want to leave you alone no it doesn't but because we're

00:34:15.940 out there building things like that it largely does leave us alone in those places it certainly

00:34:22.100 leaves us alone at the locations that we've mentioned to you can i guarantee that for all

00:34:27.780 eternity no of course i can't but i can guarantee you it left us a lot more alone there than if we

00:34:34.100 were renting out spots or trying to gather in other locations that we didn't own at those times

00:34:42.020 and i can also guarantee you that we have the means to look out for one another and take care

00:34:49.540 of one another for the times to where the outside world does intrude into our lives

00:34:54.900 and that's something we wouldn't have if our focus was on

00:35:01.380 you know the the bad guy outside and not on the cool things that we want for ourselves for our

00:35:10.100 families and for our children and that's kind of the great thing about what we're talking about

00:35:15.220 here and the concept of the gimli that we are building is in really bad times it is a

00:35:25.780 it is a place of refuge from things it's a place to come home and have folks looking out for each

00:35:33.300 other helping each other through taking care of each other and making the best out of a bad

00:35:39.700 situation in the normal times it's a fantastic spot to do the things we want to do live the way

00:35:48.660 we want to live and raise our children the way we want to raise them and in a in great times

00:35:54.340 it is a wonderful place to serve as a beacon and a you know place of distribution and to go out

00:36:03.540 and interact with the world from as an outpost to show our very best face to the world around us

00:36:09.700 And we do that right now all the time. We make, you know, whatever the fake news or any of the other big things that we all worry about may have to say, communities where we actually exist around our physical locations, those people by and large love us and enjoy us being in the community and tell us so frequently.

00:36:34.140 those people have a positive vision of who we are and we're building reputation there

00:36:40.740 there's a lot of things we can't do anything about and that's unfortunate i wish we could

00:36:45.520 and where we can we will but there's a whole lot of things we can do a lot of stuff about

00:36:51.900 and we're doing those things and we're able to do them much better and much more if we're doing

00:36:56.340 them all together i got a question so the wolf throne wants to ask you mentioned how our ancestors

00:37:06.240 broke trough with the iser and embraced christianity do you believe the gods punish those who break

00:37:13.020 trough with them um start with you trent what are your thoughts uh the short answer is no but with

00:37:20.040 the caveat that it's because the gods have bigger things going on they um they're more concerned

00:37:28.380 with cosmic order and natural law and the you know nine worlds they're not i and i said this

00:37:35.720 in the spiritual excellence that on me to someone the other day but outside of a few mortal men

00:37:43.340 maybe i don't think the gods are really looking at us too much outside of the good things that we do

00:37:48.920 i think you know it certainly is a shame that our ancestors did break trough with the ice here

00:37:55.620 and maybe when it was enough of our folk they did notice but i don't think any

00:37:59.200 any you know random individual peasant or whatever that was forced to do so

00:38:05.060 uh is was somehow punished in the afterlife i think men like uh olaf trignison i i hope

00:38:14.460 you know, he's punished. I hope ones like that were punished. But by and large, I think the

00:38:20.340 ICR have bigger things going on. And like I said, other than a few mortal men here, like maybe

00:38:25.860 founder McNallan and the Altair go through, they're not keeping too, too close of an eye on

00:38:31.540 us in that sense, as far as, you know, making a list and checking it twice.

00:38:38.720 What are your thoughts, Daniel?

00:38:40.100 i certainly think that people that actively broke truth with our gods

00:38:46.980 would be punished in some form or another and what that looks like you know i don't know

00:38:51.860 i think um you know gothees touched on it the the people who like you know followed the lead and

00:38:58.900 were forced into conversion or whatever no i don't i don't think they'll be punished but i also

00:39:04.740 take the same uh the same stance though that i think the gods are more worried about the grander

00:39:10.180 picture um we're talking about generations of people that were you know that had that

00:39:16.500 that cord severed and i think the ones that sever that cord i think i think their portion is on the

00:39:23.620 strand so this is kind of a an interesting question um i think that

00:39:41.940 i think there are a couple of things at work here i think that no as a one for one i don't think the 0.75

00:39:54.660 gods are in the business of like doling out misfortune to you when you make dumb life choices

00:40:03.380 or when you aren't honorable in you know in your life i think that

00:40:13.140 when the time comes to make judgments about you certainly if if you have their attention

00:40:20.260 but i think your ancestors certainly do and what else i think happens is there is a mechanism in

00:40:27.860 our cosmos that does that um the web of earth makes those things kind of happen when you do

00:40:41.200 the right stuff at the right time in the right way good things occur to you when you are a person

00:40:49.240 of little honor and you make poor choices and you break your trough with the ice here

00:40:54.240 bad things come your way and tend to happen and you reap the consequences of that in the

00:41:02.080 the orla and the hymenia you build for yourself those things occur and it's not you know

00:41:10.480 the gods coming behind you and kicking you down the stairs it's a pattern of your efficacy in

00:41:19.800 the world being greatly diminished due to your lack of worth. And I think that's a very real

00:41:25.620 thing. Now, for example, if you do draw the attentions of the gods and you do something

00:41:31.880 particularly offensive to them, then certainly the gods can do what they like to you. And in some

00:41:41.940 cases, you know, they have. Usually when we see that in the lore, it's in the case of kings or

00:41:48.080 people that represent more than just their mortal existence you know if you lead a nation away from

00:41:55.440 their trough to the gods that's liable to get a little bit more attention than if you just happen

00:42:00.880 to you know quit and go join the orthodox church or whatever you decide to do

00:42:08.560 but i think a common theme is when people do that their lives kind of go out of whack

00:42:14.240 bad stuff starts happening their life falls apart and that's because they lose spiritual might

00:42:22.720 they lose luck luck is a very real concept and it's not something inflicted by our gods

00:42:29.680 it is something that's a result of your own spiritual agency and the choices that you make with

00:42:37.200 it um but yeah it's always the it's always the caveat of the asterix gods can do what they want

00:42:47.920 if you particularly anger them and they want to you know become your enemy then you know

00:42:54.960 woe be unto you and please stay away from me i don't want to get any on me um

00:43:02.320 also over in the comments section 0.66

00:43:07.200 Um, so, so bringing people up to speed, if you didn't watch, uh, not last week, two weeks

00:43:16.940 ago, it seems like it was a lot more recent than all that, but yeah, two weeks ago, Cliff

00:43:23.160 and I went into, uh, we went into some stuff and maybe it was, yeah, I think, all right.

00:43:34.700 they start to run together anyways on a previous episode um there was a video that i guess has been

00:43:42.460 lingering out there trying to i don't know defame the afa and our founder steve mcnallon it's an old

00:43:51.180 video and we get you know we get haters all the time it's a thing and so we answered some questions

00:43:58.140 as part of that and then comment over on the side i made a vid defending the afa from that vid

00:44:04.700 borrowing the part of last week's vns the part that matt answers the attack vid then i get a

00:44:10.700 bunch of counter signal comments well of course you do and i i think something to realize on that

00:44:18.540 there are people that have genuine disagreements with us that

00:44:23.660 they really believe in or have some you know reason that they think's good to to take issue

00:44:31.900 with us and there's there's room for that and i understand that there's people that are going to

00:44:38.460 have differences of opinion but something that i run into far more common than that is really really

00:44:45.900 toxic negative bad people that just want to be contrary for contrarian's sake i think some of 0.61

00:44:59.020 them are dishonest in it and i think some of them are also mentally ill and i don't use that 0.96

00:45:06.700 i mean fine i'll own it i'll i'll use it as a pejorative but that's not 0.96

00:45:13.700 what I mean. I mean, these people are genuinely depressed and they're so far in their defeatism

00:45:20.080 that they create a narrative that anybody that has the audacity to be successful,

00:45:26.320 you know, it must be a scam. It must be something nefarious. It must, you know,

00:45:33.500 it can't possibly be that some people just work really hard, really consistently for a long time

00:45:40.040 because they love their gods and love their folk and do their best and and are able to accomplish

00:45:46.040 things because that thought i think is scary to them and makes them confront their lack of doing

00:45:57.800 stuff or it makes them confront their failures in life as maybe being a result of things they

00:46:05.160 did and not you know the overarching conspiracy of people out to get them and i think it's much

00:46:12.120 easier to just you know blame it on on some boogeyman whatever you want to call it and

00:46:19.320 write off anybody who is successful as they there must be some hidden hand behind it

00:46:25.080 and that's unfortunate but it's something that we've dealt with

00:46:27.800 for a very long time something i don't see you know disappearing in the future like to see it be less

00:46:36.520 and less um ah so some people are mad because i look like a fed apparently what does that even mean

00:46:47.880 um normal because i'm handsome because i don't look homeless i don't know i don't know what that

00:46:59.640 means to them because i don't have a swastika tattooed on my face i i don't know i don't know

00:47:06.120 what i think that means that's in the eye of the beholder i think anybody that is successful looks

00:47:11.560 like a fed to these folks uh also 501c3 churches are always subversive because reasons because

00:47:22.680 success is is bad i guess um yeah but those those things speak for themselves i can

00:47:32.120 you know beat up and be mean to those people verbally on here but that's not really

00:47:38.840 doesn't get us anywhere i think that those kind of comments are self-evident in their

00:47:44.840 ridiculousness but that is something that that is something that is relevant to today's topic

00:47:49.880 that i think is worth worth mentioning we always think that what holds us back from creating the

00:48:00.760 world that we want in our case today creating gimli is you know some big other force that

00:48:13.320 twirls its mustache or has an oversized nose or various things and in my life i have found far

00:48:24.440 more often it is members of our own folk that can't get out of their own way and because they're

00:48:31.800 toxic won't get out of our way too and i've seen that i think a lot of us have encountered that

00:48:40.600 in smaller circles if we haven't encountered them in um

00:48:46.520 circles adjacent to this, either in Ausitru or things that are nominally for the betterment of

00:48:58.580 our folk. In those macro senses, I think we've seen that very often. But in micro senses,

00:49:05.440 you see it in families. You see it where a member of the family hasn't achieved what they want to

00:49:12.240 in life and becomes abusive and destructive to everyone around them because they're not going to

00:49:20.720 let anybody else be successful either. I saw that with my uncle when he was suffering from

00:49:28.340 alcoholism. That was one of the things that sometimes when people haven't achieved what

00:49:33.280 they want, it becomes really toxic and it metastasizes. And there's something that is

00:49:39.420 phenomenon i think we've all heard of called crab in the bucket but crabs will try if you

00:49:46.620 get a bunch of crabs and you put them in a bucket um and this is a thing they can't get out of the

00:49:55.340 bucket because when one crab tries to the other crabs pull it back down into the bucket so if

00:50:03.500 if they all can't get out, they won't let any of the crabs get out. And so that means we're all

00:50:09.860 eating crab that night. Some of these crabs could escape and go back out to the ocean, but no,

00:50:15.540 the lazy crabs at the bottom of the bucket won't allow the other crabs to be able to get out

00:50:21.480 because maybe they can't get out too, or whatever goes on in their little crab brains.

00:50:26.220 But we see that with our folk. A lot. To where there's just some really, really negative, toxic people out there that won't try they try to tear down anything successful.

00:50:40.380 And that threat from, quote unquote, within is much, much bigger and more present and has a greater effect on your day to day than a lot of the bigger things we want to project that on to.

00:50:58.380 I think it's a clear indicator too and it's a clear symptom of the the soul sickness that

00:51:05.460 our founder Stephen McNallan often talks about is that it's almost a it's almost a fear of success

00:51:13.080 you know if I if I become successful then I'll be held accountable I'll be held to a standard that

00:51:19.000 I don't know that I'm I am capable of keeping which is also insane to me and I'm just stuck

00:51:25.620 with the stressful people, like the two gentlemen I'm sharing the screen with, that success gets

00:51:31.380 contagious. And also, there's a responsibility that comes with that success, and a lot of people

00:51:37.360 don't want to face that part of it either. And comfort kills. You know, and you're right on

00:51:51.840 about the soul sickness part of our job as gothar is to try to help our folk overcome and heal from

00:52:04.300 that soul sickness and we think everybody on this screen has spent a lot hours and a lot of

00:52:12.500 a lot of heartbreak on trying to counsel people who are deeply deeply afflicted with that soul

00:52:22.660 sickness and some of them are not yet able to overcome it unfortunately and i think you know

00:52:32.600 another another analogy and then i will back up off my amateur psychology here but i think it's

00:52:40.980 I think it rings true. I think ladies are aware of this and see this. They may see it through a different lens. I think, I know that most all of us, you know, that are adult men, especially those of us that have been adult men for any amount of time, 1.00

00:53:07.980 have known women that get in abusive relationships and are always in an abusive relationship and

00:53:19.620 won't leave it and won't break free of it and it's hard and it's hurts and it's heartbreaking

00:53:26.780 and you want to help as best you can

00:53:30.080 but you can't save them unless there's something internally that they genuinely

00:53:36.680 want something better. What happens and what I've come to realize

00:53:42.660 misery and bad things that you are accustomed to are often easier and less scary

00:53:56.360 than unknown things that you don't know how to deal with and that you're not accustomed to.

00:54:02.300 and so they know how to live and how to navigate in a very unhealthy and destructive situation

00:54:12.660 but they don't have that point of familiarity they don't know what it's like to be in a spot

00:54:18.220 that's not like that and that unknown is terrifying the unknown is one of the scariest

00:54:23.500 you know the scariest things because you don't know how to brace for it you don't know how to

00:54:29.260 prepare for it? What if you mess it up? What if you try and you fail? It's a lot easier not to try

00:54:35.020 and to make up an excuse for it than to try something and fall on your face and deal with

00:54:41.080 that and be embarrassed or whatever that is. And that's hard and I'm not going to pretend like it's

00:54:47.080 not. But that I think a lot of our people suffer from, especially when they've had disappointments

00:54:55.040 earlier in their life, it's easier to just sit back and to heckle and to come up with an excuse

00:55:04.120 why you can't than to go out there and try and risk failing. And yeah, it all harkens back to,

00:55:12.260 and I don't have the whole thing memorized, but it's, you know, one of my favorite things that

00:55:16.200 I've ever read, heard, or encountered is President Teddy Roosevelt's Man in the Arena speech.

00:55:21.960 And I think it encapsulates this in a very, I don't know, very succinct and very poignant way.

00:55:32.280 Commentary over on the side says, because I do not have tattoos and I am clean cut, I look like I am a cop or fed or insert authority figure that represents order over on the side.

00:55:51.960 So, as far as all the stuff that we're building, and we have quite a bit that we're building,

00:56:08.440 what can you articulate for folks that we plan on building

00:56:15.400 in the, you know, I don't know, within the next 10 years kind of range?

00:56:25.300 Within 10 years, I mean, the House of True Academy will be finished, K through 12.

00:56:31.740 I'm sure we'll have like an adult House of True education program by then. 0.78

00:56:38.500 10 years, I think we can get four more Hoffs in 10 years at least.

00:56:42.080 at least sigurheim will be a night and day difference it's already beautiful of course but

00:56:49.180 it's largely right now it's beautiful because of the potential in 10 years it will be beautiful

00:56:53.780 because of all the families living on it and all the all of what we made out of that potential

00:56:58.060 uh the afa will be surely more well known i'm sure there'll be you know more really badly

00:57:07.720 really hit pieces that bring members to us in droves like it always does you know it on drop

00:57:17.080 down menus on websites for government stuff we have to select your religious beliefs also true

00:57:22.040 will be one of them lots of um little things that we don't really think about like that as well as

00:57:27.880 the bigger things like sierheim and hoffs and recognition

00:57:32.760 so you brought up something there that i'd like you to elaborate on a little bit for folks that

00:57:40.960 might not be familiar oh and before we do that alicia jones joins in the chat room

00:57:47.020 long time lurker appreciate that she kind of stepped into the middle of strange conversation

00:57:54.880 that she didn't know how it got started that's okay i think a lot of people are in there i think

00:57:59.240 it'll sort itself out. And I hope you get it. If you have questions, please feel very free to

00:58:04.260 ask them. And I'm glad that you've been lurking for a long time. I'm glad you're in our chat room.

00:58:09.460 Trent, could you tell people a little bit more about the Alsa True Academy? What that is,

00:58:14.640 you know, what that looks like if people are not familiar with it?

00:58:19.160 Yeah. So the Alsa True Academy is exactly what it sounds like. It's a homeschooling program. It's

00:58:27.180 a complete curriculum uh run by uh my good friend or out all our good friend i suppose uh

00:58:34.700 bothy stam he is uh the dean he's assisted by folk builder sarah alt and a handful of other

00:58:41.840 really awesome folk um it's i think we have kindergarten through third grade right now maybe

00:58:50.440 more um it's it's it's going to serve as just a complete different option uh rather than the

00:59:01.320 public school mess the uh certs fire if you will that kind of surrounds us that's

00:59:09.640 when i think of gimley a big part is the austro academy

00:59:13.080 absolutely it is and what's what's tricky about that is it's not as obvious it's not something

00:59:26.000 that we've got a brick and mortar schoolhouse to kind of put a face on it but it's one of the

00:59:32.440 things that we're doing that's you know got the potential to have the biggest payoff over time

00:59:37.160 it is Gimli in the world of educating your child. I think a great many of us are

00:59:48.800 very concerned with the state of public education, certainly here in the United States.

00:59:57.120 And I say that, I'm sure there are some of you out, okay, I say that from a couple perspectives.

01:00:01.940 first i think the concept of public education isn't a horrible thing um my mother was a

01:00:11.220 first grade school she taught a variety of grades mostly first grade but she was a public school

01:00:16.240 teacher for you know 30 years of her life dedicated herself to teaching kids how to read

01:00:21.480 and i think that's a really beautiful thing but

01:00:23.920 things have uh taken a dark turn in a lot of places and i also acknowledge there's probably

01:00:32.560 some of you that live in in certain counties and certain school districts that you know

01:00:37.200 may be very very good at uh at educating and at you know reinforcing traditional values

01:00:46.960 but i don't think that's the case in an increasing number of school districts

01:00:51.280 and one of the things that we aim to do certainly here in the united states but we're open to making

01:00:58.480 it work in other parts of the world that allow for homeschooling because we have a homeschool

01:01:03.120 program designed to help us teach our children the things that we value the things that reinforce

01:01:12.480 um tradition reinforce honorable living reinforce a correct view of the world and

01:01:22.880 a lot of people find themselves unable to do that we want to make it as easy as possible for

01:01:27.280 parents to be able to to homeschool their children um and a big part of that isn't just

01:01:36.640 uh oh and so nick says over inside if you guys are unaware we are constantly enrolling you can

01:01:41.600 join at any time with that and we've currently got curriculum available for uh kindergartners

01:01:48.320 through sixth graders so all of elementary is currently you know available so one of the things

01:01:57.280 is not only providing the you know course material stuff a big big part of it is um

01:02:11.680 helping parents through the process the concept especially depending on the state that you live in

01:02:20.400 is scary i know a lot of people don't aren't familiar with it maybe uncomfortable may not

01:02:26.080 really know if it's something they can do may have you know doubts about how hard it might be

01:02:34.480 first it's easier in the vast majority of places than you would imagine

01:02:39.280 secondly we want to make sure that we are there to hold parents hands through the process

01:02:44.800 to make sure that you and your family are successful and to take away some of that concern

01:02:51.520 about you know not knowing what to do we want to lean on our system on gothe stam but also

01:02:58.160 on parents who are involved in it who have already been involved in homeschooling their children for

01:03:03.920 a long time um winton young homeschools one of his children and he knows about that we have a

01:03:12.160 number of parents that do very successfully and have for years it is very very doable and we would

01:03:18.000 We would love to give parents that option

01:03:19.760 if that's something they'd like to pursue

01:03:21.380 because I think it's very important for our future.

01:03:39.360 Looking at stuff over in the chat room,

01:03:41.160 got a kind of an active chat room tonight.

01:03:44.140 Not a lot of questions stacking up.

01:03:46.940 Witten Young, is there anything you would like to tell folks in regards to building Gimli in the world and in their lives?

01:04:01.360 Well, I think you touched on it, is finding a way to breed that inner success and that, I don't want to say stoicism, but to rise above the flames.

01:04:16.940 The flames of chaos, the winds of chaos, and to, you know, build that inner sanctum with the concept of using your kin fence as its own defense against, you know, the waves of chaos that approach.

01:04:33.160 And not just approach that had been encroaching in on Western society for the last five decades or more.

01:04:41.740 But I think one of the things that you've bounced off Trent about, you know, you asked the question, you know, what is it that we're building?

01:04:51.100 And I think one of the most important things that we build is something that maybe we don't touch on enough because we need to collect is building the individual, you know, by by obtaining that success and and sharing the successes with your your friends and your and your kids.

01:05:09.140 when we're together and and we get to see the success that people achieve in their personal

01:05:16.920 lives it becomes contagious when i first uh joined afa i uh went to a moot in uh in north

01:05:24.680 carolina it was a guy's house that was a fulfilled at the time and he's living on this like really

01:05:29.980 nice golf course and you know living it living really nice uh wife driving a really cool german

01:05:36.700 car and look you know everybody measures success by different things they got a boykin spaniel

01:05:43.020 and they got a boykin spaniel and uh he talks funny but the spaniel sure

01:05:52.700 but anyway no i was but i was really like blown away by that and i had the envy

01:05:58.220 of not that i you know i i can't have this so i don't want you to have it kind of crab in the

01:06:02.780 the bucket syndrome that you were talking about. It was like, why do I not have a piece of this?

01:06:07.960 Why do I not have, you know, a really cool place that I would be comfortable with inviting people

01:06:13.920 over to and stuff like that. And that, and this is just, you know, one very small example, but that

01:06:22.220 lit a fire in me to, you know, bring my family up out of a bad living situation and put them in

01:06:32.960 something much more sustainable and something to be proud of. And building the individual

01:06:40.640 along with our, you know, our collective what? Our collective hymenia permeates each individual.

01:06:47.760 And we talk about this concept quite often in our Gothar talk, that our success is your success and your success is our success.

01:06:58.820 So the more successful we become as a whole, the more it elevates the individual.

01:07:03.740 And I think I could think of, you know, any number of examples where I've seen people overcome the things that held them back.

01:07:13.100 And I think in large part, and I would almost say 100 percent because of the support and success of the Austrian Folk Assembly and the folks that make that up.

01:07:24.680 And that's something else, too, that I, you know, when we say the AFA, we're not just talking about the three faces you see on the screen or the, you know, Sfons and the Erickson's that you see on our screen all the time.

01:07:36.840 It's all of us.

01:07:38.840 Every one of us is a contributor to that group, Hamingo.

01:07:41.820 It isn't just, you know, the guy in Reno that's making the calls.

01:07:46.720 You know, he's the face of the AFA, but he isn't the AFA.

01:07:50.160 We are the AFA, and we are Alcetree.

01:07:53.700 We aren't just the church of Alcetree.

01:07:56.020 We are the religion of Alcetree.

01:07:58.040 And I think us reforging this path has awakened a spirit in all of us to try to chase that horizon like our ancestors did.

01:08:06.400 And, you know, that first Aryan man that was on the Caspian step that looked upon the setting sun and wanted what lies beyond the horizon.

01:08:16.460 And I think this reforging of our faith and reforging of our folk soul is opening that concept in all of our minds and all of our souls, reignited that flame. 0.74

01:08:28.960 um we talk a lot about you know having a fire with them and that fire being a beacon to our gods

01:08:38.240 and just as importantly it's a beacon to each other and uh matt brought up the the concept of

01:08:45.560 the namaste or the divine in me recognizes the divine in me we're not in the you know the crazy

01:08:51.920 liberal concept of it but we know when we meet the guy you know i knew when i met trent that

01:08:58.340 he had something special in it but you know i recognize that flame that he had burning inside

01:09:03.860 of me and you know that that hunger for more that hunger for for better that hunger for success

01:09:10.820 and and i see that all across the afa from you know the average member that we meet up you know

01:09:17.060 at our house or at our national events or our moots uh but all across all across so

01:09:23.700 i think one of the best things that we have built is we have built each other

01:09:28.340 all right so a couple of things while i'm thinking about it and i think those points

01:09:37.540 really melt well made so i got a couple of things i hope i get to them if i randomly they occur to

01:09:43.780 me down the line i will let you all know but um i think a lot of people when they look at goals

01:09:54.820 or they look at projects to be engaged in, they very often look in terms of either or,

01:10:05.240 and that's not really where the AFA is at with it. The question is all. There's a lot of these

01:10:11.020 things that can be done simultaneously, or folks can do lots of different ones in different phases

01:10:18.480 of their life and different places that they're at that all kind of synergize.

01:10:22.060 so building our dreams and building what we want to do one thing i want to make really clear first

01:10:28.840 we are surrounded every single day with opportunities for success

01:10:41.260 it is very easy to see all of the things that we don't have that we can't do

01:10:49.240 that we whatever what's a bigger challenge but far more useful what can we do what options are

01:10:59.800 available to us what things can we do to achieve the things we want in our lives internally and

01:11:09.540 externally within our family within our community within our afa there's a lot of things we can do

01:11:16.420 those present themselves in really different ways i mentioned that i spent this last weekend up on

01:11:23.060 tyler heineland's homestead and for him that's a huge part of the world he wants to build and

01:11:31.780 create and to his credit of all of the people that i hear talk about that he's the one that

01:11:38.500 i know that's gone out and done it and is in the process of of doing it and evolving it but

01:11:44.420 been out there been out there for years making things happen and that's awesome but that can

01:11:51.780 look different to different folks you don't got to go homestead in the middle of nowhere you can

01:11:58.740 do something urban if you're a guy that lives in an apartment there's stuff you can do there's

01:12:03.700 always things to make the world that you want and what you want personally in your life and for your

01:12:09.780 family and for your career or whatever you want may be real different than what some of the rest

01:12:13.780 of us want that doesn't make it wrong there's ways to do it there's not one right way but 0.92

01:12:20.580 there is one wrong way and that's sitting on the couch inundating yourself with a flow of doom porn

01:12:30.260 and not trying trying is good the lack of trying is bad i think for the rest there's a lot of right

01:12:39.220 ways to do things but sitting around waiting on someday or a perfect perfect scenario is not that

01:12:46.500 right way and that can mean a lot of different things matt you could drop the mic on that

01:12:54.900 so oh and i tried to but we got the narrow camera thing i got to have the t-rex on

01:12:59.380 backdrop so that said a couple of things i wanted to bring up if yeah the adorners of grandma's couch

01:13:11.220 so one thing when we're talking about homeschooling i sent nick the link if he can throw that up the

01:13:20.340 homeschool legal defense association not really good on their branding because it doesn't clearly

01:13:27.300 say on their home page it just gives the initials but if you can throw that up there it's an it's a

01:13:32.020 fantastic organization um whether you want to homeschool with the afa or on your own or you

01:13:38.980 know anybody out there that would like to do that these folks are a very very helpful resource on it

01:13:45.540 so i would encourage you if something you're thinking about go to that website check it out

01:13:49.460 take a look take a look what it looks like in your state it's a very very good resource and

01:13:55.540 yes i say that as somebody trying to push the austro academy i also say it as a father who's

01:13:59.700 going to homeschool his daughter so it's given me a lot of peace of mind being able to look at it

01:14:06.660 also seemingly unrelated but really important and something that somebody brought to my

01:14:11.540 attention today that haven't talked about and beat this drum in a while get your will done

01:14:16.900 if you are an old man or an old woman get your real get your will done it's self-evident do it

01:14:30.160 it's important it's something you need to have done but you may think but wait i'm young i've

01:14:37.240 got a lot of time get your will done anyways and get it done different when you get older

01:14:42.960 and have more stuff or different stuff we don't always know what happens and i hope you do have a

01:14:49.360 long time i hope we all have a long time but there's no excuse because i found a resource

01:14:57.840 do your own will.com

01:15:02.000 it's free i talked to our law speaker just to make sure he is a practicing attorney and member of the

01:15:10.240 bar it is legally binding and legitimate in all 50 states and i believe they have some stuff for

01:15:17.520 canadian provinces don't quote me on that but at least here in the united states it's legit

01:15:24.080 do it get it done also important please send our law speaker an original signed copy if it

01:15:32.960 needs to be signed and notarized in your state do that too it's not only important that you

01:15:39.920 have a will but that you have a will in the hands of people who are going to advocate for

01:15:48.480 for lack of a different term for your will to be done um there

01:15:57.680 i have seen in the astro folk assembly the vast majority of the people

01:16:02.960 who are part of our afa family who have passed have not had wills

01:16:09.920 Some of those people had family that were first in the know on what they wanted to have happen

01:16:18.100 with both their remains, their funerary service, and the distribution of their assets.

01:16:27.200 So what you need is both family who know what you want, but also family who are inclined to do what

01:16:36.040 you want some folks have had that other folks have not had that one young man who passed away

01:16:48.280 unfortunately his parents decided out of the blue with no ethnic connection to it

01:16:55.000 they just thought it'd be a good idea to convert to judaism

01:16:57.640 his remains reside eternally now in a Jewish cemetery and that's not what he wanted

01:17:06.640 but he didn't have a will so that's stuff that can happen especially if you have children

01:17:14.840 get a will done specify who takes care of those children don't leave it up to chance

01:17:21.500 you have the ability to make it happen concerns about cost or about getting a lawyer and about

01:17:28.800 all this stuff cool do that when you want to and how you want to but until then get this free one

01:17:36.940 done you can do in about 10 minutes send a copy to our law speaker and we can try to advocate for

01:17:43.660 you if something were to happen it's really important so i'm going to keep being obnoxious

01:17:49.240 about it, because I want you guys to have what you want should something bad happen.

01:17:55.400 I wouldn't say this. Before I told anyone else to do this, I did it myself and sent him a copy.

01:18:01.960 I don't want to be that guy that tells everybody else to do it. It's not going to do it myself.

01:18:05.460 I don't believe in that. But yeah, I got those. Now we have a couple of questions that have come up.

01:18:19.240 so one's kind of split into two here we'll go on the question that was in the middle and then

01:18:29.420 we'll get to the other question uh does matt like my ai song who do the gods call in bluegrass style

01:18:38.640 i remember he likes bluegrass um ryan orion i have no idea what this song is and i did not

01:18:48.200 know it exists. If I knew how to access this song, I may consume it and I may like it. I may not.

01:18:56.180 I won't know until I hear it, but it sounds intriguing and I think I'd be entertained either

01:19:00.920 way. More meaty question from Vril the Barbarian. I have a question. Will the AFA develop a philosophy

01:19:12.420 slash worldview that can be brought to its defense. In continuance of the previous question,

01:19:20.960 a complete epistemology, metaphysics, and morality. I am a polytheist philosopher,

01:19:27.980 and I am currently working through this myself. I was wondering if the AFA had already tackled this.

01:19:34.280 so first

01:19:42.780 I think no in a in a way that is going to answer your question in the way you want it answered

01:19:53.080 no but I think that the first significant attempt towards that is something that I worked really

01:20:03.840 hard on over the last year and is up on our website and I think Nick can get a link to it

01:20:12.420 is haha he read my mind the Ausatru Trulamo and this is a as concise as I could make it

01:20:22.340 statement of our beliefs in the most straightforward way that I knew how to present it

01:20:31.800 and in a way that hopefully built upon itself to in a self-contained kind of way makes sense

01:20:42.520 and I hope that works. A lot of what you said is philosophical in speak that I think a lot of

01:20:56.400 people who aren't schooled in that or familiar with that system, myself included, in a lot of

01:21:02.400 ways, might not know exactly what you're talking about and what you're looking for or how,

01:21:09.760 you know, you mentioned that you are a philosopher. I don't know what that means or to what degree,

01:21:15.780 but I think you have an idea in your head very clearly of what that looks like.

01:21:19.840 I would really like it if you could contact me, mattflavell at runestone.org, and let me know like an outline or what that looks like or what you would want to see in something like that.

01:21:41.440 And I do think we can make progress towards it.

01:21:44.480 it's something i think i'd like for us to have but i don't really know what's all what all is

01:21:49.840 entailed in the presentation that you're looking for but certainly i think that's something that

01:21:55.680 we're capable of and something that i'd like for us to have for folks like yourself that want to

01:22:01.920 examine this through a more traditionally philosophical light

01:22:06.880 so if you could do that i would really appreciate that

01:22:13.840 Um, JV asks, I was reading about Milton Hershey and how he founded a Christian school

01:22:27.520 with his fortune. It was open to poor, healthy, white male orphans. A mere 20 to 30 years after

01:22:35.120 his death, all of these qualifiers were destroyed by the government and or discarded by the trustee.

01:22:41.320 I believe that since Christianity is a universalist religion, the trust carried a fatal flaw that could be exploited.

01:22:48.340 A good lesson to learn.

01:22:49.960 Any thoughts?

01:22:55.360 Trent, what are your thoughts? 0.96

01:22:59.420 I mean, yeah, the fatal flaw being that, as you mentioned, JV, Christianity is a universalist faith.

01:23:08.440 There's no reason to restrict it to young, healthy white males or whatever the curriculum was in Al-Satru or any ethnic faith, Judaism, Shinto, you know, the list goes on, Yoruba.

01:23:21.860 um it's the logic at least is there that you could have qualifiers for something like that

01:23:31.440 as we do in the afa and it's completely legal even among the fires of cert that we sometimes

01:23:38.660 find ourselves surrounded by so yeah the fatal flaw is that he picked a universalist faith to

01:23:44.400 do that not that he would have known any better i suppose but that was the issue and i i suppose

01:23:51.840 is also not really vetting his trustee, you know, before handing the reins over.

01:24:01.800 Daniel, do you have anything to add on that?

01:24:07.420 No, I mean, nothing more than what Trent just said, but I do want to point out that

01:24:11.840 our ulterior gothic lineage is protected from that that our current high priest is still

01:24:23.520 working in the vision of our previous high priest and pushing it even further and you know something

01:24:31.260 that trent mentioned about the the gentleman that passed away didn't you know probably didn't vet

01:24:35.820 his trustee as well

01:24:37.020 that's something that we talk about

01:24:39.720 on the AFA, I have to talk about

01:24:41.400 on the AFA Witten

01:24:42.500 at length

01:24:45.080 that the vision of the

01:24:47.260 Alls Harrier Goethe is

01:24:49.100 protected and

01:24:51.180 preserved

01:24:52.380 long after his retirement

01:24:55.300 or passing through the veil

01:24:57.400 and I think that's vitally

01:24:59.600 important so

01:25:00.380 whomever

01:25:02.300 Alls Harrier Goethe Flaybell chooses as a

01:25:05.420 successor, we've still got decades to vet those people. So I'm not in the least concerned about

01:25:13.320 that. In case I don't, I made my own will, and I've got it documented what I want to happen

01:25:19.160 because it's important. It's part of responsibility.

01:25:26.420 So realistically, a couple of points.

01:25:28.660 one of the things on that to protect not so much

01:25:37.700 who gets to benefit from it but more to protect the integrity of what's being taught

01:25:48.280 we have a lot of discretion because one of the qualifiers

01:25:55.880 while a lot of those things don't necessarily stand up in court as qualifiers for such a thing

01:26:05.000 membership in our church does so you have to be an afa member to be a member of the astro academy

01:26:13.640 that's important from a legal standpoint the other thing is it's not a paid service it is

01:26:22.200 um something provided to our members who are certainly welcome to donate if they would like

01:26:30.120 but when money changes hands it opens up um additional scrutiny from people who want to

01:26:38.680 who'd want to change things or make it woke or whatever the concern might be

01:26:44.440 secondly it doesn't sound like the government came in and did stuff it sounds like

01:26:48.840 well i mean could be the government or the trustee so those things address government intervention

01:26:57.320 the other big thing is there's a trustee or a group of trustees one of the biggest things that has

01:27:06.200 subverted attempts in the altitude sphere to move forward has been democratization where

01:27:15.240 there's councils and groups of of people and boards and things the more of that there is the

01:27:21.640 more chance you know you vote the wrong people into that and then they vote you right into you

01:27:29.080 know something drastically different and we've seen that time and time again it's one of the reasons 0.88

01:27:35.000 that you know the afa is a theocratic autocracy that it's you know run by the 0.60

01:27:44.120 y'all's harrier go the so that each of us that sits in this chair not literally but figuratively

01:27:55.880 is responsible to maintain the integrity of what we're doing and that's a really important

01:28:01.560 responsibility and it's much better carried when the torch is passed from one to the other

01:28:07.960 than when stuff's left up to some kind of voting body um so that's one of the reasons that we do

01:28:16.840 that it's really important um and also and this is just a thing to conceptualize

01:28:27.000 i'm much more concerned about the integrity of the things that are taught

01:28:30.760 rather than if somebody who doesn't share our worldview were to happen upon

01:28:35.240 our curriculum or to learn from the stuff that we do. I think every, you know, all of the rainbow

01:28:45.360 of the children out there are probably better served getting some kind of homeschooling than

01:28:51.260 the current public school situation. And if that's the worst case scenario that somebody who's not

01:28:56.480 one of us gets a hold of our secret homeschooling program, then, you know, good. They get to learn

01:29:02.740 how to read and you know maybe have something better for themselves but our focus is on our

01:29:07.700 members you have to be a member to be part of the astro academy and the membership requirement

01:29:13.140 is the most effective at keeping that contained and keeping control over what's taught in that

01:29:22.180 um the next question as an afa member is there a study group to learn and master the

01:29:30.420 lore and esoteric spiritual practices slash runes etc trent is there such thing

01:29:40.260 um in the short answer is yes uh my friend gothy plored does a lore study currently on the heim

01:29:52.340 skringla every tuesday night i believe i'm sure producer nick can get you more details on that

01:30:00.660 um the lore in general there's no dedicated uh study for that outside of the episodes of vns

01:30:11.300 previously covering the lore uh runes room studies are a thing that i think all of our

01:30:18.340 gothar would like to do and i know githya plurit has done one in the past i believe witness fawn

01:30:24.440 has done one but uh honestly the best thing for you if you're looking to learn any of that

01:30:30.700 message a go through githya of your choice or multiple gothar of your choice and just ask them

01:30:37.080 a question my favorite thing in the world is when somebody says hey trent explain this thing about

01:30:41.520 asatru to me it it makes my whole week because i get to you know nerd out about my favorite thing

01:30:46.960 So any information you want to know, there's not necessarily a dedicated AFA study for it, but we can get you the information you want quickly and with accuracy.

01:30:58.680 um something else on that there's

01:31:08.600 so i think that gothi plurds is probably the biggest outreach of a lore study that i know

01:31:15.480 about but i know that countless groupings of afa members under folk builders under gofar

01:31:24.520 do lore studies do rune studies do studies of of that of the things of our values of the esoteric

01:31:35.240 things of all the things you asked those things happen in a lot of different ways the best way to

01:31:41.240 get connected with that is to talk to your local folk builder and they can hook you up with what's

01:31:46.280 going on in your area now there are some like go-thee plurbs that you know you can call into

01:31:52.600 and they're done over a great distance and that's advantageous with the current spread of membership

01:31:58.280 but there's also folks that have people over to their house and do lore studies such as man in

01:32:04.200 the middle daniel would you like to talk about that and add anything sure yeah if you live in uh

01:32:11.080 you live within driving distance of central south carolina you can join us once a month here at my

01:32:16.760 house where we are currently studying Chris Travers the serpent and the

01:32:22.940 eagle it's a it's an introductory book into you know runic esotericism and it

01:32:29.960 is a very well written book and we're gonna move on to other things too we're

01:32:33.800 gonna study nine doors of Midgard the one-eyed God elder gods by

01:32:38.120 Paulington so far I'm really really glad that question got asked because it was

01:32:44.420 One of the things that when I first started studying Alcetree before being a active practitioner of the faith was the whole learning process is so fun and so engaging.

01:32:56.620 I think the day I stop learning, I'll pack it all in because it's a never ending process.

01:33:05.920 And I'm not one of those people to say Alcetree is the religion that comes with homework.

01:33:10.380 But it does require a lot of discernment and reflection and study and, you know, the constant need to learn.

01:33:20.760 But, yeah, if you if you live within driving businesses, central South Carolina, stop by and we'll share a meal and we'll study some stuff together.

01:33:34.460 Absolutely. And I know that goes on a lot of places besides that.

01:33:37.560 that's just one that i know about off the top of my head a lot of people have different lore

01:33:42.680 studies and rune studies and everything in between so do reach out that's there and then as always

01:33:49.240 if you find one still message one of your gothar if you don't find one message one of your gothar

01:33:55.400 messaging a gothi and having your questions directly answered and talked through with you

01:34:04.120 is a really valuable experience and it's something that all of us are very myself included or maybe

01:34:11.640 even especially are very excited to uh to extend to you guys to share with you as trent said

01:34:18.520 it's one of these things i'm

01:34:23.480 i'm very appreciative when i hear of people that listen to this show and enjoy it a couple of the

01:34:29.720 guys that i met this last weekend said they felt like they knew me because they you know they've

01:34:36.280 been listening to the show for a long time that's very much appreciated means a lot to me because

01:34:43.560 at the core this is me talking about what i truly truly love and sitting here and drinking

01:34:52.520 Cayman Jacks with some of my very best friends and talking about something that's near and dear

01:35:02.300 to my heart. So, we always look for opportunities to talk about Ausitru with our folk. That's

01:35:07.840 really, really special. So, because I mentioned it, they were at Costco,

01:35:14.320 and they're a cool idea in this uh grilled pineapple margarita one i would highly recommend

01:35:24.080 because it is delicious very high in the carbohydrates um putting it out there

01:35:32.000 appreciate that nick the fine folks that came in jack would like to sponsor this program

01:35:39.300 we appreciate that uh it would be awesome if we had sponsored commercials for cayman jack

01:35:45.620 and for uh gorilla snot be solid in promoting those products

01:36:00.900 oh okay cool so producer nick suggests over in our private chat that i should tell folks where

01:36:07.140 they can find a you know how to contact their local folk builders and there you go he's got

01:36:12.580 the graphic ready these colored districts correspond to one of our hoffs yes i realize

01:36:20.500 that they are geographically massive but that gets smaller every time we get a hoff

01:36:27.460 um but yeah each of these hoff districts has a go or has a website that is listed on this graphic

01:36:39.220 um on the website it's got a lot of cool stuff it's got a calendar of events but it's also got

01:36:45.780 contact information for your local gothar and folk builders and that's very useful

01:36:51.860 like i said these people would love to talk to you if you are a member cool if you are not a member

01:36:57.460 still these people love to talk to you and help you out um something to note on here i

01:37:03.620 know this is just the united states and we don't have alaska or hawaii which incidentally are in

01:37:09.060 the odenshoff district also in the odenshoff district are our members in australia and new

01:37:17.300 zealand in the nordshoff district are our members in south america and in south africa

01:37:27.860 in the in the thorshoff district are all of our members in europe and then if you draw kind of a

01:37:37.060 straight line up there's too many provinces to really itemize them all out but our canadian

01:37:42.260 members correspond to the district that is below them geographically um so yeah i would encourage

01:37:50.500 you guys absolutely to contact folks on those sites they would love to help um just like this

01:37:57.860 show and just like trent talked about this is something we truly love to do and so it is never

01:38:02.740 an inconvenience as always welcome for you guys to reach out if there's any way we can help you or

01:38:08.260 share what we know with you and uh help you in your journey to increase your relationship with the

01:38:15.780 ice here catching up on the chat over on the side

01:38:31.780 Side note, Vril the Barbarian, we, it may be, I would enjoy having an actual conversation with

01:38:42.200 you in addition to your kind of discussion on philosophical framework, because I think that

01:38:49.460 might be fruitful to what we're doing. Okay. So Project Hate. This is Corey from last week.

01:39:12.440 Sorry for calling you guys white supremacists. You all are actually pretty cool. Just want to ask,

01:39:17.800 do you worship loki first thank you i appreciate that uh people come from a lot of different spots

01:39:24.200 and you know i don't know where you first heard about us or whatever but

01:39:29.400 there's a lot of a lot of name calling goes on out in the world and we all start somewhere i

01:39:35.080 appreciate you giving us a chance and uh saying that we're pretty cool we try do we worship loki

01:39:41.880 absolutely not um also true people will translate that to mean belief in the icer

01:39:51.400 it does mean that but if you trace the etymology it means something deeper than that

01:39:57.560 it means true to the icer that doesn't just mean believing in it means loyalty to

01:40:03.720 we are loyal to the icer and that's fundamental

01:40:07.480 to who we are and what we do you got mac and cheese on your face you should go wash your face

01:40:15.160 word to the wise if you get mac and cheese on your face wash your face so no we don't worship 0.95

01:40:28.520 loki we don't worship the forces of chaos because they stand in enmity to our gods loyalty means

01:40:35.140 taking sides we side with the iser and the forces of order um and i think that's really important

01:40:42.260 it's not just that we believe in a certain cosmology we are actively loyal to the iser

01:40:52.180 and we actively build relationship with them and that's a i think that's a really important

01:40:58.820 distinction i think a lot of people who are involved in alsatru i say that people involved in paganism

01:41:10.100 think that it's enough to just accept an alternate cosmology from the monotheists and

01:41:16.820 that's not the case it's about actively siding with the gods against the force of chaos and

01:41:24.100 and choosing to be on the side of good

01:41:27.400 instead of on the side of bad.

01:41:29.520 And I think it may sound simplistic,

01:41:31.500 but it's also very true and very important.

01:41:34.880 Gentlemen, do you guys have anything to add on that?

01:41:37.300 Daniel?

01:41:41.300 No, nothing to add.

01:41:46.060 Trent, what about you?

01:41:49.700 No, I think you hit the nail on the head

01:41:51.420 and it is simplistic and it sounds,

01:41:53.500 know it sounds simplistic i guess when you say it kind of is just good versus evil good versus bad

01:41:59.740 right versus wrong but when you boil it down to it it really is the icr are right and uh loki is

01:42:06.860 wrong that's all there is to it at the end of the day yeah i don't mean it to be flip or overly

01:42:14.620 simplistic but fundamentally it really is that simple there's a lot of you know some of this

01:42:19.580 tonight and talking with with vril about philosophy and whatever you can expand upon it you can

01:42:26.380 develop a lot of concepts and a lot of deeper things on it but it doesn't have to be more

01:42:33.100 complicated than that you don't have to make it that complicated fundamentally you build a

01:42:40.140 relationship with the icr through the gift cycle part of that relationship if you are also true

01:42:46.700 is being loyal to them we know how to build relationships with

01:42:53.260 beings we do that since we are small children we know how to be loyal to those that we love

01:43:01.260 and that we care about again we do that since we're small children it is very much that simple

01:43:07.820 and it can be influent you know you can make that deeper and develop that in a lot of really

01:43:13.420 important ways, but that is the biggest fundamental, and that's what's the essential.

01:43:28.860 Okay, we have another question pops up.

01:43:36.460 Lore question. Since many Europeans come from different backgrounds, English, German, 0.65

01:43:42.300 french american etc why do we follow only norse paganism why not greek celtic etc

01:43:51.100 uh trent would you like to address that yeah absolutely so um english people are indo-european

01:44:00.220 or arian german people are indo-european or arian french people are indo-european or arian

01:44:07.020 American in the traditional sense of white Americans are Indo-European or Aryan.

01:44:14.360 So, you know, we all go back to that same common root.

01:44:17.960 So when you think back to, as Witten Young mentioned, that first white man on the Ponce at Caspian Step looking west,

01:44:25.840 the setting sun and kind of just imagining all that was within his grasp, if he only had the courage to go and take it.

01:44:33.580 What gods did he worship?

01:44:34.960 was it you know was it the celtic ones was it the greek ones was it the norse ones and the answer

01:44:41.880 is just kind of yes but we use uh the norse corpus of lore specifically for a couple of

01:44:50.440 different reasons the biggest one the the absolute biggest one is that that is the form that the

01:44:57.000 the ic or the arian gods chose to make themselves known to our founder stephen mcnallan

01:45:04.900 our first ulcerer gothi um it was all father odin that called to him and it would be silly to

01:45:14.020 for him to you know go through all of that and then say okay well i'm going to worship zeus

01:45:18.660 you know and it's it wouldn't be entirely wrong i suppose but you get my point uh the other reason

01:45:25.740 is that the norse uh corpus of lore is the most complete or the closest to complete

01:45:33.440 It's the most recent and it's it's easily the least tampered with as far as sources being written down.

01:45:42.020 If you look back at Greek, it was kind of turned into this sort of like comedies and tragedies just for the sake of entertainment.

01:45:49.940 Celtic stuff is closer to what it was supposed to be, but it was tainted a bit by Christian writing. 0.79

01:45:58.640 So, yeah, those are the two biggest reasons.

01:46:03.540 Daniel, you have stuff to add?

01:46:07.820 No, I think the answer is in the question.

01:46:11.360 Since many Europeans come from different backgrounds, why do we only follow Norse paganism? 0.74

01:46:16.380 And the answer is because we are outstreet. 0.91

01:46:20.880 Cool.

01:46:21.600 So what I think, and I don't know if Trit hit on this or not, I exploited that opportunity for a bathroom break.

01:46:27.880 But something that I think is important. A lot of people, scholastically, when they come to Ausitru, come from a place of study.

01:46:43.460 And people who don't approach this as a religion, but a exercise in anthropology or sociology, treat each of these pantheons of gods like distinct things that one group of people, you know, were silly and projected natural phenomenon on or whatever they rationalize it to.

01:47:12.320 It's very different when fundamentally you take this as a reality and you believe in the existence of the gods.

01:47:23.760 You know, you mentioned American as one of the ethnicities of Europe.

01:47:29.180 America's 200 years old.

01:47:32.140 The gods don't just pop into existence in 1776.

01:47:38.060 And I know that's not, I'm not, I don't mean to diminish the question.

01:47:41.380 it's a very serious question, but it's a logical thing to trace it back. Well, if that's silly and

01:47:46.260 ludicrous, well, what about Englishmen? Well, you know, there were Britons there from an earlier 0.94

01:47:54.520 time period. Most of the people that you would know as Englishmen come from continental Europe

01:48:01.300 in, what, 2, 3, 400 AD? Cool, so what were they before that? They come from somewhere. The gods

01:48:13.540 didn't just meet them, you know, at the cliffs of Dover and be like, cool, we exist now.

01:48:22.520 Before that, they migrated. They were Germanic tribesmen before that. Before that, there were,

01:48:30.020 You know, our folk go back certainly to the Ice Age, perhaps before that.

01:48:40.500 Our gods have been with us since we have existed.

01:48:46.280 You can trace the development of our faith through the wanderings of our people, through linguistics, through artifact, material culture.

01:49:00.020 and just through genetic culture if these are the forces and the gods that created us

01:49:07.540 they've taken different names in different places we've known them in different ways

01:49:12.260 at different times these are the same gods of our folk fundamentally our as our people have

01:49:22.020 evolved due to circumstance due to location due to a number of different things our relationships

01:49:30.420 with our gods have taken different shape and have you know our stories have evolved to take on

01:49:39.460 the aesthetic and the material culture of a people at a particular time

01:49:43.620 time but our relationship with our gods exists from the dawn of our race to now and

01:49:51.300 that's certainly a logical truth so

01:49:55.980 that the form that they have come to us in the most clear

01:50:03.540 and profound way in this day and age is through the um Norse nomenclature and the Norse

01:50:13.380 conception that is the most complete corpus of lore that we have that's not altered but what

01:50:22.100 else is really important that's the force that has made this happen there is

01:50:30.980 there's stuff going on in eastern europe with rod novery that's really cool it's not this

01:50:39.220 there's not an equivalency to this with these other pantheons or other variants of our faith

01:50:48.020 our gods re-established the link with us through our founders in their generation

01:50:57.780 specifically through our founder stephen mcnalen under these terms and in this understanding and

01:51:05.400 conception. And that's why this is what we hold to. And this is how we process it to. If not,

01:51:13.240 if we throw up our hands and, well, we could go this way, we could go that, we could do a lot of

01:51:19.440 things. But until we pick one and go with it, we don't get anywhere. This is the one we've picked.

01:51:26.520 This is the way that the gods have reached out to us. And this is the way that has yielded success

01:51:32.680 for the last you know better part of 60 years this is the foundation that we're built upon and

01:51:40.260 it's working very very well so we could have it could have occurred many different ways

01:51:45.640 but it did occur this way um what else we got here

01:51:53.720 new folk builder in out of jacksonville florida alexander casto bought us coffee it's a five

01:52:06.320 dollar donation we appreciate you we appreciate you stepping up to folk build um

01:52:11.480 do you guys ever intend on creating a freya's hof

01:52:17.540 so Nick's graphic is incomplete there should be a little arrow afterwards that says Frigg and a

01:52:29.920 little arrow afterwards that says Freya yes we absolutely plan on building a or establishing a

01:52:39.340 Freya's Hoff. That will be Hoff number 14. That's absolutely the plan, and we look forward to the

01:52:49.620 day we can make that happen. There's a lot to happen between now and then, so it's truly wide

01:52:57.140 open on where that might be located, but we look forward to the day that we can have that and

01:53:02.940 worship Lady Freya in her Hoff.

01:53:09.340 All right. Well, so is there any kind of thoughts you'd like to leave folks with about

01:53:22.900 keeping our eyes on the prize, about the concept of creating Gimli within

01:53:31.860 the wolf age that surrounds us? Is there anything you'd like to leave folks with, Trent?

01:53:39.340 Uh, yeah, something I kind of spoke about at New York South this past weekend for winter finding was that, uh, our folk nowadays, especially, we always kind of look back to various times as this golden age of European civilization, whether it was, you know, the, around 1776 and the founding of the United States or, uh, the Viking age is a big one.

01:54:02.760 of course early anglo-saxon days what have you and that's a kind of a defeatist attitude i think

01:54:12.360 to say that our best days are behind us and we're just kind of existing in this sort of purgatory

01:54:17.960 for lack of a better term afterwards waiting on what nothing so i i would like people to kind of

01:54:25.880 of consider that the golden age is now or it's ahead of us i when you woke up this morning

01:54:33.000 or this evening if you're a night shift person uh you woke up to a world with four hoffs

01:54:40.280 and a sigerheim and a fifth and sixth off already on the way you woke up to a world where

01:54:46.800 the icr are being actively and properly might i add uh worshiped where their blessings can be seen 0.92

01:54:54.920 in the mundane here

01:54:56.920 in Midgard. The Golden Age

01:54:59.040 is now and it's ahead of us as well.

01:55:08.840 Something I'd like to

01:55:10.560 throw out

01:55:14.420 to that or in reference to that

01:55:16.900 a little bit is this idea that

01:55:18.640 things were so much better

01:55:21.060 in the past.

01:55:21.760 we have lots to be excited about in the day that we live in um we are rebuilding our faith

01:55:32.920 and we are gathering our folk back home that's

01:55:40.300 you know that's a process and that grows over time but we have access to so much

01:55:50.100 knowledge now that we didn't at the time, so much ability to communicate and share that knowledge

01:55:56.800 with one another. We live in a day and age where tonight I'm talking to people from across the

01:56:02.560 country and around the world in a way that our ancestors couldn't have conceived of.

01:56:08.860 We have the ability to travel immense distances at relatively low cost and low inconvenience

01:56:16.460 together with our folk to go to all these different hoffs, to experience this in such a

01:56:23.800 different, more broad, bigger way than our ancestors had any conception of. We talk about

01:56:31.820 the greatest, you know, runemasters of the ancient period. It was wonderful for them to have the

01:56:39.880 knowledge handed down to them from master to apprentice over however long that line was.

01:56:47.680 But we at our fingertips now have access to the collected runic knowledge of our race over

01:56:56.200 centuries and over thousands of miles. Our ability to access knowledge, to learn from things, to share

01:57:07.060 that is something that our ancestors would be very envious of so we have a lot of advantages

01:57:14.500 and over time we will build back those you know wonderful things that our ancestors had but with

01:57:20.260 the addition of the amazing advantages we currently have so we have amazing things

01:57:25.700 in front of us and that should never be forgotten um

01:57:29.940 Um, Daniel, do you have anything that you would like to, any thoughts you'd like to leave folks

01:57:38.600 with this evening to ponder upon?

01:57:42.220 Yeah, I think, um, you kind of touched on it as did Trent about this, uh, you know, kind of glory,

01:57:49.600 uh, you know, viewing the past, uh, through a lens, uh, and, and looking back on a particular

01:57:55.980 time romantically and you know when we were on top of the world and when we

01:58:02.080 were this and when we were that and you often hear some people say you know I

01:58:06.900 was born at the wrong time and my retort to that is no you were born at precisely

01:58:13.440 the right time we are the most recent representations of all the people that

01:58:20.100 came before us every time you look in the mirror what looking what the

01:58:24.500 reflection looking back at you is all those generations that came before you

01:58:28.880 and that you are worthy of you want to attain being worthy of that blood and

01:58:34.940 being worthy of that blood of that blood right and that blood right is or I'm

01:58:39.560 sorry birthright is also true that we lament the decay and the decline of the

01:58:47.960 world again that's existing somewhere else that you know Trent mentioned it I

01:58:53.180 I woke up this morning and there were four hawks

01:58:55.900 to jump in my car and have access

01:58:58.180 to three of them within the day.

01:59:01.260 No other time in recent history has that been possible.

01:59:05.520 I can, you know, before I was on the Witten

01:59:09.260 and before I was a go-through or a folk door,

01:59:10.980 I had access to the high priest of the Isier.

01:59:14.180 Mr. Flavel, I need your advice on this or that. 0.97

01:59:17.200 I don't think that the average Catholic 0.83

01:59:18.880 can pick up the phone and call the Pope

01:59:20.820 or you know called our archbishop we have access to these things we were born at

01:59:28.060 particularly the right time and we were right people chosen for this and I and I

01:59:31.980 believe we were chosen for this that at some point our ancestors have cried out

01:59:38.020 there are gods asking for an heir and we are that generation that generation

01:59:43.020 that reforged the the religion of our people and then and at the same time

01:59:47.520 re-establish who our people are and our people are Alcatraz. One day somebody's

01:59:55.620 going to look back at this generation of Alcatraz and celebrate all the things

02:00:01.560 that we have accomplished and we're on the foundational part of the

02:00:04.980 structure right now. We're building it right now. Imagine what's going to be

02:00:09.980 achieved in the future. So rather than looking back longingly at what it's had,

02:00:15.040 look forward to what is yet to come because greatness is still just beyond that horizon

02:00:19.600 and we're honestly always crazy something to remember guys um and i see some of this being

02:00:27.760 talked about over in the side chat we live in a time where we are in the very early stages

02:00:37.840 of building this faith for our children for our grandchildren for countless generations to come

02:00:46.480 and we are at a time where individuals can make a massive difference and can be truly truly

02:00:57.520 foundationally celebrated you have an opportunity to leave a profound legacy for those to come

02:01:06.480 that's a tremendous opportunity we have um and we get it don't don't every one of us on this call

02:01:14.720 and you know the vast majority of us involved in this we're history nerds we love history we'll

02:01:21.440 geek out on all kind of cool things the past i love things about the past history has been

02:01:28.480 one of my loves since i could first read i've loved history and we all do we celebrate history

02:01:35.200 history is amazing it's really important none of those people that we read about in whatever

02:01:43.040 glorious age of the past that you think about they didn't know it was history then it wasn't

02:01:49.200 history then it was today and what am i going to do tomorrow we are building history today

02:01:57.120 and a thousand years from now kids might read books about us and you know long for the good

02:02:04.560 old days when matt and daniel and trent were you know talking to you fine folks so

02:02:15.120 that's really important anything that's celebrated and time honored everything had a day one

02:02:23.120 the way it becomes his history is by building upon it and by building reputation and that's

02:02:29.200 how it endures throughout the ages we have an opportunity to construct that foundation

02:02:36.720 even more solid and even more grand than it currently is and i'd encourage you all to take

02:02:41.520 part in that so i think that's a good time to say if you enjoy this if you find this meaningful

02:02:50.880 be part of what we're doing if you're an afa member and you don't do anything do stuff get

02:02:57.920 together we've got amazing things happening all the time if you are not a member why not unless

02:03:05.200 there's you know as long as you qualify for membership you should join and be part of what

02:03:11.920 we're doing celebrate with us we have a lot of work to do we could use your help and we would

02:03:18.480 love to celebrate with you we've got amazing things in the future but we've got amazing things

02:03:24.880 right now so think about that um appreciate you guys listening to us tonight daniel trent

02:03:34.560 we love having you guys on thank you so much for joining us and sharing you know sharing your

02:03:42.000 insight sharing your wisdom with us and with the folk here and what you guys do every day we

02:03:48.080 appreciate you guys um everybody out there listening until next oh join me next week

02:03:55.440 swan and i will be going over uh balder's drama uh it's relatively short but it's a really

02:04:03.680 important piece of our lore so look forward to talking to you guys then until then hail the

02:04:10.160 icer held folk held the afa remember that victory never sleeps

02:04:40.160 We'll be right back.

02:05:10.160 We'll be right back.

02:05:40.160 Thank you.

02:06:10.160 Thank you.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - September 26, 2024

9⧸25⧸24 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 116 - Creating Gimlé

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