00:03:46.820probably throughout the world but certainly in in the western countries certainly here in the
00:03:51.220united states it's a big problem that affects people and uh depending on where you're at what
00:03:57.380you're going through in your life it's uh it's a problem that has affected a lot of a lot of afa
00:04:03.760members now so sure over the years and we're we work to help with that the best we can um it
00:04:13.200depends where you're at but we've had a number of different kind of outreach programs to to help
00:04:18.780folk who are going through that um i know that our gothar spend a lot of time counseling people
00:04:24.900with various kinds of addiction and working through it. Um, I'd suppose in a, in an ounce
00:04:32.000true, in an AFA context, um, willpower and strength of will is really important. And addiction
00:04:42.860in all of its forms is a compromising of that. It's an individual not having enough willpower
00:04:51.160to stop a compulsion to do something and struggling against that and struggling to
00:04:56.660reclaim that control in your life is vital to our ethos. It's vital to what we try to do. And so
00:05:05.940insofar as we counsel and help people with that, regaining that self-control and that
00:05:13.260strength of will to overcome those things is a really important part of it.
00:05:17.860Certainly, we call upon the gods and our ancestors to help with that process, but ultimately, we want to encourage our individual to master their impulses instead of being mastered by them.
00:05:31.320I think that an important point when it comes to addiction in terms of Ausatru is Odin and the root of Odin's name.
00:05:41.500It means master of the woad or master of the ecstasy or the ecstatic inspiration.
00:06:02.980And so being the force of will that can master the chaotic influences and impulses in your life is essential to the very foundation of our gods and the all-father of our gods.
00:06:19.020So we certainly look to Odin as an inspiration on that.
00:06:21.860um just looking over the side seeing if we've got any other questions going on uh 603
00:06:39.540glad to glad to have you as a new member i think i think i know who you are and remember
00:06:44.980your application coming through and that's great to see you here
00:06:51.860Katla as far as we got a question if in addition to the websites, we can get
00:07:04.880district newsletters. The observation that our runestone is overwhelmingly long and it's too
00:07:15.920long it's plus or minus i suppose it is extremely extremely long but that's because we got so many
00:07:22.720amazing things going on um i don't really want to cut that out because i love seeing all the
00:07:28.240amazing things we have going on but i do see the desire to have something a little bit more local
00:07:35.200so that people in an area can figure out what's going on near them and that's a big part of what
00:07:40.000the websites are about i know that some of our districts uh odenshoff district is good about
00:07:48.000putting out a newsletter to their people about stuff going on and i'll talk with other district
00:07:54.160leaders see if that's something they might like to do on those websites it's got the events calendar
00:07:58.240and it's also got a news section with local pictures of stuff that's gone on in the region
00:08:04.560And it's trying to get a little bit of what you're asking for.
00:08:08.320But I will definitely talk to folks and see about those newsletters.
00:08:37.860one of these months very soon i promise i'm going to have something really cool to tell you about
00:08:44.200in york's off um we're not quite there yet we've been looking what's been great is since we've had
00:08:52.520the uh the challenges that we've had with the bank and with that title company we've had a
00:08:58.480number of people step forward and offer us some very very first we've had a lot of very generous
00:09:04.320donations and secondly we've had a lot of people step forward to loan us the necessary funds so
00:09:09.280it's not a money issue at this point it's finding the right property and getting that dialed in
00:09:14.320that said um we've been looking steadily we have our people just looked this last week and
00:09:24.080put an offer in on something so we'll see where we're at again don't don't put stock in that
00:09:29.600until i can tell you for sure because we've had a lot of close calls so far but we are getting
00:09:33.920closer and we are getting there and what i've told everybody as a you know worst case scenario on it
00:09:40.640we're continuing to stack a significant war chest so by the time we do put the money down on yards
00:09:46.400off we'll have you know every month that goes by that's less we'll have to pay on on any kind of
00:09:51.840loans uh loan situation so we're getting much closer i wish i had something a little bit flashier
00:09:57.760to tell you hopefully hopefully in the next couple of these i'll have something a lot more exciting
00:10:03.360to tell you about it. Reinhard, absolutely. We have our first Hoff, Odens Hoff in Brownsville,
00:10:13.880California, and that's in Yuba County, California.
00:10:33.360so uh folk builder james alt is uh reminding us of something over on the side sometimes we don't
00:10:42.060think about it especially if we're you know regularly and actively involved in the afa but
00:10:47.400any of this social media any of these visit uh i'm sorry these videos on our youtube
00:10:52.580every time you click like or you share it or you do those things it helps the little algorithms
00:10:59.560on the back end it helps get our message further out there put it higher on higher on searches and
00:11:05.560make it a little bit more visible to other folks that are trying to make it home so you know if
00:11:11.280you can you think about it click like give us little thumbs up on stuff interact and comment
00:11:16.040all of that stuff helps and is much appreciated
00:11:18.780okay um king of cheese he's got a question about wants to know what uh what the afa thinks what i
00:11:40.940think what folks in the chat there think about europeans suggesting to us to to go back home to
00:11:49.900europe and to like i guess come back and try to repopulate our uh our homelands there um
00:11:57.900um so I don't think that's silly or or wrong I think that you know those are those are our
00:12:15.600ancestral homelands and if we want to go back there and that's something you want to do by
00:12:20.160all means um as far as folks in the United States trying to go back to Europe I think there's a lot
00:12:26.880of a lot of disadvantages to that, especially right now. I think that Europe in your head is
00:12:33.140not necessarily the Europe that you'd be going back to. But there's also a lot of beautiful and
00:12:37.900amazing things there. I know a lot of people in the height of some of these restrictions and some
00:12:43.980of the political goings on in the United States have looked at that as an option.
00:12:48.660I don't think it's silly, but I think we are often best served looking at how to make our current situation the best we can, as opposed to taking our ball and going home.
00:13:04.540I don't necessarily think it's advantageous. And in the United States, we've got a lot of ability to do things.
00:13:10.980We have a lot of freedoms that we wouldn't have in most of Europe and a lot of wide open spaces, a lot of the ability to to do and to settle and to just carve out the lives for ourselves that we want here that I think we don't have in the same way back in Europe.
00:13:30.000But again, I don't fault anybody. If you want to go back to Europe and bring your family back to those ancestral lands, I think there's probably a lot of beauty and a lot of cool things about that.
00:14:17.040alistair i'm not sure if you send one during this i'm sorry we have a comment on the side
00:14:23.520from a gentleman that says he's emailed me about some ordering some stuff in canada
00:14:27.200But if that's falling through the cracks or maybe a response has ended up in a spam folder or whatever, please reach out to me, Matt Flavell at runestone.org tonight.
00:14:37.580And I promise I'll respond immediately. He's asking about shipping stuff internationally from the website.
00:14:44.280It's tricky. International shipping is crazy and it's expensive. And the e-commerce app that we
00:14:52.240have doesn't function well to calculate international shipping. So that's usually
00:14:58.000not an option on our website. If you reach out to me on the back end, there are ways to make that
00:15:03.600happen. Sometimes I do apologize. Conversations get derailed or lost and we have a lot of stuff
00:15:11.200going on. But if if I drop the ball and get back to you, I apologize. Like I said, if you email me
00:15:16.820tonight, I promise I'll get right back to you and we'll try to get you sorted out.
00:15:26.380Sarah asks, how the AFA chooses the men and women who we honor for our days of remembrance?
00:15:31.880so i can't speak definitively to the original round of those days of remembrance have been
00:15:46.400celebrated in aussitrew since the free assembly days i believe since the early 1980s those have
00:15:54.720been celebrated. Most of those early ones were taken from the same few sagas in the Heimskringla.
00:16:04.900I think these are people that initially stood out to that founding generation of
00:16:11.180Ausatruar as often as Ausatru martyrs during the Christianization of Norway.
00:16:19.560In my time as Australia Goethe, I've seen that four different ones were added to that list.
00:16:34.920And I wanted, and I can tell you why I've added those.
00:16:39.960I wanted our Days of Remembrance, and right now we have 12.
00:16:45.000We will definitely add to those days of remembrance as heroes emerge and as we have more people that need honoring in that way.
00:16:55.860I wanted to make sure that it wasn't confined to an ancient period of time or to a specific location.
00:17:04.960And I also wanted to make sure. And again, I think that that those founding fathers would acknowledge this. There was a particular focus on the Vikings at that time. That's what inspired a lot of our people. But our faith isn't just about Vikings. It's about any of the sons and daughters of Europe that worship our gods and that contribute and give of themselves to to be heroes of Ausatru.
00:17:33.420I added King Athaneric of the Goths because he was a prolific champion of our gods during
00:17:42.720a time where a lot of our folks were being converted in Central Europe.
00:17:48.320His story was particularly meaningful to me, so I wanted to make sure that he was honored
00:23:48.360please forgive my ignorance those folks are in ontario we do not have anybody currently in quebec
00:23:54.760we would love to have folks in quebec again i apologize for my poor canadian geography
00:24:00.840they're very close to quebec if that makes it any better but it probably doesn't
00:24:05.320um but we would love to see growth in quebec and we'd love to help that happen
00:24:18.360Thank you, Alistair, for catching that. I appreciate it. Good deal. Love our Canadians. We'd love to see more Canadians. It's been very difficult to maintain a lot of activity with our Canadian members during the last couple of years with all the COVID stuff going on and whatever.
00:24:38.360It's made it very hard for us to maintain that connection, and I look very forward to that getting better, for us to be able to freely cross that border and interact with our brothers and sisters in Canada in a more meaningful way.
00:25:08.360You guys are having good talk over on the side. I appreciate such an active chat room. That's great.
00:25:23.360Got a question. What can the AFA do to promote healthy lifestyles within our community such as diet, exercise and mentality?
00:25:31.360Well, I think we try to do that a lot.
00:25:36.360It may sound so the very least we can do that we that we are doing is in our me, we groups and our online information.
00:25:46.240We're trying hard to promote physical excellence.
00:25:49.820We had before we were so rudely booted from Facebook that a very active physical excellence, excuse me, physical excellence page.
00:25:59.720We now have that again on me. We if you're not there, you should be. We'd love to see you there.
00:26:03.860A number of our members post their exercise routines, diet tips, and just encouragement to help people who are trying to get in better shape.
00:26:14.400That's something very important to me, very near and dear to my heart.
00:26:18.880Lifting, being physically active, and getting myself in better shape has been so very fundamental to my own health, my self-esteem, and my quality of life.
00:26:28.880it's really important to me that we get as many of our members to make themselves and their lives
00:26:35.020better as possible i think we do that in a lot of ways with our communications with one another but
00:26:41.440i think that specifically in our local kindreds and our local areas we have a lot of that going
00:26:47.960on they're really doing a great job with that in washington state folk builder mason johnson and
00:26:54.080his guys up there. They train regularly. They lift together regularly. They train martial arts
00:27:00.240together regularly, and they really help each other excel physically. And I think that's a
00:27:05.940really, really beautiful thing to see. And if you're interested in that, you're in the Washington
00:27:10.800State area, definitely reach out. But we're doing our best on that. Like I said, that is
00:31:51.300Like, that's complex because depending on where you, depending on what you read and the context it's in, a lot of those concepts are very overlapped.
00:32:06.740in a lot of ways I think weird is the very complex totality of the web of
00:32:26.620interactions in life and destiny and I think Orlog is a part of that but it's certainly not
00:32:34.340all of that um i think weird is also really you know also correctly used to identify
00:32:46.340syncretic things that happen in life um or log on the other hand is is that primal law or that
00:32:55.060original layer that's laid down in a lot of ways when you're talking about your personal weird
00:33:00.340to your personal destiny the orlog is that that layer that you start with it's the hand that
00:33:06.260you're dealt at birth through you know a combination of things uh but through your
00:33:11.780ancestors through your genetics through things that are passed to you and you build from there
00:33:16.220so it's kind of your starting point in a lot of ways a lot of ways orlog is also that primal
00:33:21.720trajectory that projects destiny towards a course and it doesn't mean there can't be any
00:33:29.700altering done towards it, but it's that starting course that you're on. And it's much more
00:33:36.020complicated than that, but I think those are some ideas on the difference between the two.
00:33:40.660Firebug, you are very welcome. I love doing these. It's a really special time to get to interact
00:34:04.920with folks and to take questions. And I love talking with my FA family. So I'm really glad
00:34:09.920you enjoy these. I look forward to them every month. Is the situation in South Africa getting
00:34:25.700better or worse? And if it's getting worse, should we encourage our folk to leave South0.97
00:34:30.880africa it's really hard to tell and i don't want to i don't want to claim that i have knowledge i
00:34:40.960don't have we hear about some of the chaos there less but i think some of the reason we hear about
00:34:47.600some things less is because so much of south africa has been locked down in uh a response to
00:34:57.040the the idea of of covid uh and and having a global pandemic um i know that you know the
00:35:06.720restrictions that we have gone through in the united states are very frustrating but
00:35:12.640nowhere even compared to the amount of uh infringements upon people's freedom of
00:35:20.560of activity and movement organizing organizing in south africa and i think that set everything back
00:35:27.040I think that's been very difficult. And I think it's also been difficult to get, you know, news and find out new things. The contacts I have in South Africa, still think it's, you know, just as big a problem as ever, if not more.
00:35:44.020all of the persecution and the murders and rapes and all of the things that have gone on there to
00:35:56.740our people are still there but now all of the extra hardship that's been inflicted by the
00:36:03.460destruction of business and things that way with these these lockdown measures really put everyone
00:36:10.240in a in a hard spot and certainly disproportionately our folk in south africa um on and should we
00:36:17.440encourage them to leave i don't know i don't know all of their individual situations i think
00:36:22.800there's certainly a very good case if they can for them to get someplace where they have better
00:36:27.280opportunity and where they have the opportunity to build a better life for their children but i
00:36:32.160also think that you know many of them have been there for hundreds of years um as a family and
00:36:39.040they've they've built legacies there and uh you know who am i to tell those people that they have
00:36:43.920to leave so i think that's a that's a question for each of them i would love to see more countries
00:36:49.840take in our folk there who are victims of persecution and want a better life
00:36:57.120on a on that note today we did our our quarterly distribution to the south africa family relief
00:37:04.960project many of you have donated to our south africa fund on our website and you know we
00:37:12.160pooled our resources there and each quarter we donate that to a south african charity to try to
00:37:21.280food baby formula and supplies to a lot of folks who are living in the squatter camps and other
00:37:27.440situations there we just did that today those folks are very appreciative thank you so much
00:37:34.320to everybody who's donated and contributed to that those people over there often feel like
00:37:40.800the world's forgotten about them or like other people don't care all of the material contribution
00:37:47.040we've given is very much appreciated but also the fact that we care the fact that there's people on
00:37:53.440the other side of the world that love them and care about them and want to do what we can to help
00:37:58.400them have a little bit better life means a lot to those folks so thank you very much
00:48:31.760Like I've said before, I'm not an expert on that conflict.
00:48:35.700I think that, you know, if I had family and really close connections to Ukraine, I may feel one way.
00:48:45.300If I had a lot of family or close connections to Russia, maybe I'd feel a different way.
00:48:50.420I think it's very tempting in any of these situations to look for and to find a bad guy, and I think that there's probably bad guys on both sides, and I think that there's probably amazing heroes on both sides.
00:49:07.820There's also mothers without sons now on both sides, and wives without husbands on both sides, and that's tragic.
00:49:20.420I don't like to see brother wars amongst our people.0.79
00:49:24.580I hope that that can be resolved with the least dead Ukrainians and least dead Russians as possible.
00:49:34.760But it's certainly sad to see that happen.
00:49:37.440And my heart goes out to the families that are dealing with that on a more personal level.
00:50:37.400that's okay thorough bloat comes around uh comes around every year we'll get you next time uh in
00:50:44.200the meantime find the closest i'm not sure exactly where you're located but find the closest hexanoch
00:50:49.640to you and we'll get you set up and we'll get you at an event we'd love to see all of our members
00:50:53.720come out and participate in whatever way they can again if you look on those websites at the
00:50:59.480calendars and again the um the websites are going to be in the information on the side if i could
00:51:05.080have some of our folk builders or maybe my wife post them in the chat so you guys can see them
00:51:10.840but they're really amazing jessica did a great job making them and their event calendar is going
00:51:15.240to give all of you guys a good a good view of what's happening close to you
00:51:20.760and who to contact to get involved with things that are happening close to you
00:51:24.360uh james recognizes something else is beautiful is all of the babies being born in the afa
00:51:39.800and i say this every year but every year trumps the year before as far as0.98
00:51:44.840how many beautiful beautiful little boys and girls are born into the astro folk assembly
00:51:49.880One thing that we do for those that our ladies have taken upon themselves to do is they make a baby blanket for each of our AFA babies and send those out as soon as we find out that an AFA baby's been born.1.00
00:52:04.740James is asking what we can do on that.
00:52:10.120We can post a link in the side on who to contact, but if you contact my wife, Mandy, she can tell you a little bit more about whether we need more boy blankets or more girl blankets.
00:52:19.880we've had a lot of you guys step up lately and make blankets. It's been hard to keep up with the
00:52:26.120the demand because we've had so many beautiful little AFA babies born, but we're doing good
00:52:31.600right now. If you're interested in making baby blankets for our AFA babies, please reach out to
00:52:37.700my wife, Mandy Flavell over on the side. She can get you any kind of contact information.
00:52:43.000i believe it's mandy at runestone.org um i was going to say m flavell but that would take you
00:52:50.800to both of us if you email me matt flavell i'll forward you over to my wife um and yeah we can
00:52:56.620make sure all our all our babies get blankets
00:52:59.500Oh, wow. Just looked at the time and it's almost been an hour with you guys.
00:53:13.640um alistair i wish i had a really good answer on kids also true books for you hopefully somebody
00:53:30.980in the side chat can recommend some really good ones to you she's a little young yet and i don't
00:53:37.400have any great children's book recommendations for Ausatru, unfortunately, but hopefully somebody
00:53:43.620on the side can give you a better answer than that. And I will, I will work to get a better
00:53:47.640answer. What's the date for the next gathering at Odenshof? Let me see. Just like I was saying,
00:54:00.520I'm pulling up our website here while I'm talking to you folks. It's going to be Saturday the 16th.
00:54:07.400is going to be Hexanocht and our food pantry at Odenshof. So yeah, anybody who wants to come
00:54:14.540out for that, we'd love to see you guys there. If you haven't been, it's a really special place.
00:54:21.400People comment on that when they go there for the first time of just the feeling they get. It's a
00:54:28.100powerful place because we've done ritual there for almost seven years now, imbuing that with
00:54:35.800with power. And you could, folks often comment that they can really feel that there.
00:54:57.220King of cheese brings up a good point. Gas money is getting, or gas prices are getting ridiculous.
00:55:02.720we realize that if you reach out to your local folk builder they can help you get hooked up
00:55:09.640with members in your area to maybe carpool if you guys need help get into events it's something a
00:55:14.540lot of our people have have done it's something that you know i try to do when i drive over to
00:55:18.540odenshoff we're having a lot of folks carpooling it's a great chance to get to know other members
00:55:23.600and spend a little bit of time with them in the car on the way to events and to save a little bit
00:55:27.860money on gas. So do think about that. Just because something's a little bit far away
00:55:32.840doesn't make it impossible. It just means that, you know, maybe we work together to make it happen.
00:55:36.980it always surprises me and in a good way when people reach out and they're surrounded by people
00:56:03.760Any fellow folk in or around the Sacramento area? Absolutely. We have tons of people around Sacramento. Tons of great people that we'd love to get you connected with. Sierra Chapman, if somebody could post a link over on the side, is who I'd recommend you contact.
00:56:23.920She's the folk builder that's closest to Sacramento and she would be loved.
00:56:27.920She would love to get you set up, but we have got tons of people in the Sacramento area.
00:56:31.920Sacramento is just about just about an hour from Odenshoff, which is really nice.
00:56:36.920It's a good opportunity to be able to get up and be part of that.
00:56:39.920But yes, please reach out. We got amazing people in Sacramento.
00:56:53.920Sorry, guys, I'm just catching up on the side. I want to make sure I answer everybody. I don't
00:57:03.600want anybody's question to slip through the cracks. If I do forget, or if I miss one of
00:57:09.460your questions or something, please always feel free. It doesn't have to be on this.
00:57:14.300Email me mattflavell at runestone.org, and I'd be really happy to answer any question you ask me
00:57:20.800to the best of my ability. If I do miss a question on the side, I apologize, but do please reach out
00:57:27.020and I'd be happy to answer them. Gauthier Daniel Young mentions carpool karaoke as a good reason
00:57:39.540to carpool. I suppose that can cut both ways. We'll see. I don't know. I drove with him and
00:57:45.440family we had a good time singing car uh carpool karaoke on the way up to uh to ostara at thor's
00:57:52.080hof this last month so that's something to think about too
00:58:00.800thank you mandy for putting up that link to folk builder sierra chapman um
00:58:06.320Um, what's my opinion on the works of Norse myth beyond Snorri?
00:58:22.960I like them, the ones that I'm aware of.
00:58:25.620I noticed that the name of the guy who asked me that is Saxo.
00:58:29.260Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Dinorum is really interesting.
00:58:33.220it can be really confusing and i don't think it works well by itself but when paired with
00:58:42.100the eddas and compared i think it adds a richer and a deeper understanding to the eddas and i
00:58:47.780like that a lot um it's harder to find really well documented well codified stories of our lore
00:58:56.580outside of snorrizzettas um any of the sagas are are valuable and interesting a lot of the um
00:59:12.580jordan's work on the goths is beneficial and i like that a lot it's just it's hard to get
00:59:20.260really full telling so many chunks of our lore outside of those eddas but like i say those are
00:59:27.700some other i guess um original lore sources that i think are are valuable or that i enjoy
00:59:50.260yeah i wouldn't say turn down any um sources of our lore you're talking about um older writings
01:00:04.060about germanics so that being the case i really like the culture of the teutons by groenbeck
01:00:10.320um you know that's what 150 years old or something but i think that's really valuable
01:00:19.120um as far as other people writing about our folk i think uh tacitus as you mentioned is
01:00:25.840a really good source i like germania but i also like his agricola work about the britons
01:00:32.960to a degree i think there's really neat things to be learned about the gauls
01:00:36.960from julius caesar's commentaries on the gaelic wars i like that as well
01:00:48.560all right guys does anybody have does anybody have any more questions or any last things they
01:01:00.120wanted to ask me um i'm going to wrap this up here but i don't want anybody to get left out
01:01:05.600if anybody has any things they wanted to wanted to ask or wanted to talk about
01:01:09.140I'm going to give it just a second here. Thank you guys so much for being here and asking questions. This conversation is really driven by getting good questions, and I appreciate you guys participating. I appreciate this chance to talk to you guys, and I'm really excited about all the things we've got going on. We've got some really amazing, it's a very special time to be in the AFA.
01:01:39.140All right, last thing. Saxo is asking me about ancestral reincarnation.
01:01:53.780The AFA Gothar and I have discussed this a lot lately, and I think that it's
01:01:59.300a much more complex issue than people think. I don't think that reincarnation in
01:02:08.880our folk works one for one like that um i don't think you know like
01:02:17.760your grandson is the reincarnation of your great-grandfather i don't think that it works
01:02:23.680like that one for one um but i think that certainly pieces of your soul do reincarnate
01:02:32.880and we've got a multi-part folk soul i think that there are pieces of the soul that have the
01:02:38.880potential to ascend to the to the realm of the gods into the halls of the gods i think that's
01:02:44.880what's spoken about with the idea of folk fanger or valhalla i think that certainly there are
01:02:51.440pieces of our soul that go to our ancestors and go live on that way i think there's some pieces
01:02:58.240of that soul concept um like the like the lich or the body that you know get cremated or or uh
01:03:10.480um decompose and are done away with i think there's other pieces of your luck of your hymenia
01:03:18.320of your ancestral memory that absolutely get reincarnated and passed on and i think
01:03:26.560the process of naming helps get a bigger chunk of that person's essence of that
01:03:32.880person's personality to re-manifest in that person but i don't think it's a one for one
01:03:38.000because otherwise when we went to our altar to honor our deceased loved ones
01:03:46.000it just creates a logical dilemma that they exist one place but then also in reincarnated
01:03:51.520children. I don't think it's that simple. Like I said, I do think there are pieces that reincarnate
01:03:56.480and there are pieces that transcend death.
01:04:09.080Okay, I've got a few more questions here that I'll go ahead and try to get to.
01:04:13.620Advice for someone struggling with ancestors when they're adopted. I think there's no harm and no
01:04:20.400foul in honoring the folks that adopted you i think that's certainly those people are i don't
01:04:26.400know your experience but likely those people are worthy of worthy of honor um
01:04:34.000i think there's something to be said for reaching out generically to your ancestors
01:04:38.320at your altar and seeing what happens i think that all that often if you do that and you make that
01:04:45.360good faith attempt you'll find some point of connection or you may discover some relation
01:04:52.160that you didn't know you had and i think that whether you do or you don't making the effort
01:04:57.600to show honor to your ancestors even maybe even especially when you don't know who they are
01:05:03.280is meaningful and i think when you make a meaningful offering on your end
01:05:07.360And that certainly encourages ancestors of good faith to reach back towards you.
01:05:30.400Okay, I got a question about esoteric Hitlerism.
01:05:33.700i'm not trying to duck any questions um i know that there are people out there who practice
01:05:41.940house the truth that also practice esoteric hitlerism i think using that term is
01:05:48.480causes more confusion and more harm than good i think there's so many particulars over what
01:05:57.940you mean when you say it, that the, you know, the founders of that aren't clear on. You know,
01:06:05.000I think that Miguel Serrano and Savitri Divi, they both have a very different definition of
01:06:11.760what that means. And, you know, you asking the question may have a different idea in your mind
01:06:15.900what that means. But fundamentally, that's not also true in what we're doing. It doesn't have
01:06:20.960to conflict. It doesn't have to contribute. But in the AFA, that's not one of our tenets. One of
01:06:28.180the things that we're, you know, that we're focusing on. We're focusing on the veneration
01:06:32.340of our gods and on Ausatru. Again, the rest of that, it's really hard to say without knowing
01:06:41.740the particulars of what that means to you, but that's not what our focus is in the Ausatru Folk
01:06:47.420assembly. All right, guys, it's been great talking to you tonight. I look forward to talking to you
01:06:59.440guys next month. I encourage you all to go to those district websites and see what's going on
01:07:04.600near you. Get out, be involved, celebrate with your folk. If you're not in the AFA, I encourage
01:07:11.560you to reach out to your folk builder and join us um but until next time i hope you guys have
01:07:18.120a great month and we'll talk to you later hail the gods hail the folk hail the afa