Asatru Folk Assembly - August 06, 2021


August 2021 Live Discussion


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In this episode, I talk about a recent interview I did with Jack Ashcraft of Expedition Truth Radio. I also talk about the steps we took to pay off our outstanding loan to get The Hoff off the ground.

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00:00:00.000 hello folks i'd like to start out tonight apologizing by you know all the stops and
00:00:22.640 starts with this month's uh live i have been very sick since saturday and i i really intended to do
00:00:29.920 this on the first. And then I was hopeful I'd be able to do it the next day and the next day
00:00:34.980 and the next day. And here we are. So finally, I'm with you tonight. I'm glad to be here. I'm
00:00:41.060 glad to get a chance to talk with you guys. I hope y'all are doing amazing. I hope you guys
00:00:46.160 had a great July and I hope you guys are starting off your August victorious and excited and happy
00:00:55.760 and doing things with your folk and your family appreciate everybody who's joining us tonight
00:01:04.480 i'm trying to think of uh stuff that's occurred since the last time we spoke on one of these
00:01:10.640 it's been a really busy month um something about something about this july we had
00:01:16.800 five different interviews from four different uh media outlets in the last month some of them you
00:01:28.240 know some of them are were were hostile some of them were seemed nice we'll see how it comes out
00:01:34.800 but one in particular was really fun to do and i want to um the links up on on our youtube channel
00:01:41.760 But the folks at Expedition Truth with Jack Ashcraft, they did an Internet radio interview with me.
00:01:52.240 And I had a lot of fun doing that. I thought it was a great interview.
00:01:56.700 Reverend Ashcraft was a great host, very welcoming.
00:02:01.640 He had done his research on Alistair True a little bit on the AFA.
00:02:05.980 We had a very nice conversation. It was really an honor to be on this program.
00:02:09.560 So if he catches this, thank you. I appreciate being on your program. Anybody out here, I would encourage you guys to listen to his program.
00:02:17.960 I when I received the invite to be on there, I decided to do a little bit of reconnaissance and listen to a couple of episodes.
00:02:25.400 And I was hooked and I listened to a bunch of the back episodes. And now I'm a regular listener.
00:02:29.920 I really like that show. It's it's interesting. A lot of it's done from a very Christian point of view.
00:02:36.220 But it's about it's about values. It's about religion and it's about some interesting things.
00:02:44.360 And it's I think it's a nice break from the typical politics that a lot of us end up hearing on on those kind of talk programs.
00:02:52.940 Anyways, I really enjoyed it. Expedition Truth. Check it out if you're interested.
00:02:57.900 And if you want to see my interview from there, that's also up on our YouTube channel.
00:03:01.580 um so that went on so you guys know we are fully engaged in the quest to get nords off
00:03:13.600 we're working hard on making that happen and
00:03:16.760 any progress we make towards that is a testament to y'all's generosity but very specifically we've
00:03:24.280 been doing really well on it because you guys have been overwhelming in your support and in
00:03:30.820 your enthusiasm to make it happen. Looking over on the side here in case people got stuff to
00:03:40.240 questions about the Hoff, but basically we had it broke down into three steps to make New York's
00:03:50.400 Hoff happen. The first step, and these steps can all happen simultaneously to a degree,
00:03:55.620 But the first step was to pay off our existing loan that we had.
00:04:04.980 A little bit over a year ago now, we took out a loan in order to get and establish Thorshoff and Baldershoff.
00:04:13.820 And it wasn't a mortgage.
00:04:16.680 We were very fortunate.
00:04:17.920 We had a private lender that helped us out.
00:04:19.940 So this wasn't tied to any building.
00:04:22.940 We owned both of those buildings outright.
00:04:24.620 but we had this outstanding loan that we wanted to make sure we paid off.
00:04:29.220 We had, I think two months ago or something, we had an $18,000 balance on it or something,
00:04:38.260 and we wanted to go ahead and get that paid off. It took us about three months, and we were able
00:04:43.860 to finally pay that off. As of this week, that check is in the mail. We are out of that debt,
00:04:49.800 And that was the first foundational step to making sure that Njortzhoff is a reality, is getting that original loan paid off. 0.98
00:04:58.760 We did that shockingly fast. I'm blown away with y'all's generosity on making that happen. 0.98
00:05:05.560 So the first step, three things. First step, mission accomplished.
00:05:11.280 Step number two was to bring our monthly income average up to a certain number we were looking at.
00:05:19.520 The idea is so not only can we afford the Hoff, but we can properly take care of it and fund all of our Hoffs so we don't find ourselves in a financial bind.
00:05:30.540 We, you know, our goal for that's a very, very safe margin for us to be able to take care of that.
00:05:35.480 And I'm very happy to say that we've met and exceeded that goal now for that monthly average.
00:05:40.420 So step one, done. Step two, done.
00:05:45.860 Step three, and this is the tricky one, devil's in the details.
00:05:49.520 but finding the property and finding outside lending to help us get the
00:05:54.780 property. But I'm proud to say we're on that.
00:05:58.760 We're engaged with some realtors in counties that we're looking at.
00:06:02.960 We are looking and scouting financing and we are well on our way with that.
00:06:07.880 So I am so happy that's moving so well.
00:06:10.440 I'm so thankful for your all's generosity. I just want to update you.
00:06:13.820 We are moving ahead full, full steam towards New York's off.
00:06:18.240 Hail New York.
00:06:19.520 All right. While you guys think up some questions, first thing, someone mailed us in a question
00:06:41.320 that I'm glad I remembered to answer today because they mailed it in right after our last
00:06:46.080 um or a last uh live chat at the beginning of last month the question and we get this a lot
00:06:55.200 in different forms and shapes but the question was basically
00:07:01.600 i'm like how does the afa feel about working with other folkish also true groups
00:07:09.120 towards common goals and we've seen this before a lot on you know how we feel about
00:07:16.080 teaming up to co-sponsor an event or something in that regard. But most often, and I've got a few
00:07:24.440 thoughts on this, most often it's a very broad theory of how would the AFA theoretically feel
00:07:33.480 in those kind of situations as opposed to an actual plan or an actual thing that any of those
00:07:39.120 groups are doing that they want help with. And the other thing, and I promise none of this is
00:07:49.460 is meant rudely, but I think people assume that there's a lot of these, you know, big and very
00:07:59.580 successful other focus groups out there. And I'm really not aware of them. I think internationally,
00:08:07.760 there may be some that are very country specific that we're not aware of. I think that's probably
00:08:14.280 the case in Germany and some places in Europe. As it stands here in the United States and places
00:08:20.140 where the AFA is very active, I really don't see these other big, large folkish groups. So I'm not
00:08:26.160 sure exactly who people are talking about. I believe they're probably often people consider,
00:08:32.300 perhaps the odenic right, I got to say, I'm not sure how big of a deal they are. I'm not sure
00:08:39.340 how big of a group they are anymore. In the past several years, I haven't heard much about them at
00:08:45.360 all, except for a couple of key people who are keeping it alive with their private kindreds.
00:08:51.820 One's a gentleman in Texas, and one is a lady in Portland. And outside of those people and
00:08:59.420 their particular kindreds. I really haven't seen a lot of evidence that the authentic right is
00:09:04.680 in existence or operating outside of rumblings I hear from folks in prison that they still have
00:09:12.040 a very healthy prison outreach. But I'm really not sure who these other organizations are.
00:09:18.360 I will say this, there's probably a lot of folkish kindreds in smaller organizations out there.
00:09:25.640 And I would strongly, strongly encourage those folks to join the AFA and become part of what we're doing.
00:09:34.500 If we're all supposedly moving the same direction, and if you guys like what we're doing, you guys like what the AFA is about, you guys like what we've been able to accomplish,
00:09:44.460 We are far better served working together under one banner, under one tent in the Astro Folk Assembly, unified in the direction that we're headed, then dispersing resources on all these little different backyard groups.
00:10:00.700 We're much stronger when we stand united in the AFA. So that's kind of the AFA's policy on that.
00:10:07.400 if uh you know we'll evaluate any situation as it comes up but these other folkish organizations
00:10:14.600 and groups if they're out there the best way that we can accomplish great things for the icer and
00:10:21.800 for our folk is for those folks to go ahead to join the astro folk assembly and let's move forward
00:10:27.240 together um so that's my thoughts on that let's see if we got any questions so far over in the
00:10:35.880 in the chat room
00:10:49.240 Okay, Sigmund asks, why or what's the rationale behind the naming order of the Hoffs?
00:11:13.880 And it's based on the order listed in the Gilthagening poem in the Eddas.
00:11:19.240 And then in that poem, the question is raised, you know, tell me about these Aesir. Who are these Aesir? And it said there's 12 Aesir worthy of, beneficial for mankind to worship.
00:11:36.860 And then he goes on to list those 12s. And it's a complex list. He ends up listing, I think, 14. So you've got to infer from the text which of those are the 12 that count.
00:11:50.580 And then after that, he goes on to mention a list of the goddesses as well. But that's what we've been going off of.
00:11:58.780 Um, that honestly stems from a deep discussion that I had with Brad Taylor Hicks, say in
00:12:08.080 2014, 2015. But it was a, you know, a deep discussion on, man, it'd be great if we had
00:12:16.180 Hoffs. When we get Hoffs, you know, how should, how should we go down this list? And we discussed
00:12:22.300 a little bit about that. And the idea behind it is to rebuild the rainbow bridge connecting us
00:12:32.320 with our gods. And, you know, I don't think that connection was ever completely severed,
00:12:38.660 but the idea of these bright colored, you know, Hoffs dedicated to each of these gods,
00:12:45.560 the hope that that strengthens that connection and that bridge between our folk and our gods.
00:12:54.180 And certainly we've seen that happening. I know that will continue to happen as we establish
00:12:58.700 Hoffs. That will happen long after we're done with that first initial 12. But that's why we're
00:13:04.740 doing the name order in the order that we're going.
00:13:15.560 Thank you.
00:13:46.320 Melinda, I'm not sure where in Southern Oregon you are. It's worth reaching out to our folk builders
00:13:52.620 in Oregon. We actually have a go-thee that's in Oregon now, Joe Rosenick in the Portland area.
00:14:01.740 But reaching out to Joe, he could help you get connected with folks that are in Southern Oregon.
00:14:06.640 We do have some. Not a great abundance, but if you take Oregon and Washington, we have quite a bit
00:14:13.140 of AFA members there. We do have quite a few folks in Oregon. They're kind of spread out
00:14:18.160 and we've got quite a few people in Idaho too. So figuring that out and getting you guys together,
00:14:24.080 we have some people in far North California too, that may even be closer. So if you reach out to
00:14:28.920 go feed Joe Rosinick, jrosinick at runestone.org, he could get you, he could get you set up
00:14:37.320 and help you connect with those folks.
00:14:41.540 It's really nice to be in a time where we,
00:14:45.260 certainly we don't have the number of members we'd like,
00:14:47.920 but we've got members spread out across this entire country
00:14:50.700 and around the world.
00:14:51.940 And so there are people close to you.
00:14:53.320 It's just a matter of getting you guys connected.
00:15:00.520 Nathan, that's a good question.
00:15:01.740 You asked about the Norana Society.
00:15:07.320 First, I don't think that they're, you know, really what we're doing. I don't think that they, like you mentioned, you said, are they more of an academic society? And I think that they are. I think that they focus a lot on theory, but I haven't seen that they actually practice Ausatru. I just am aware that they talk about Ausatru a lot and
00:15:33.440 are kind of critics and commentators on people that do practice Austria. I'll say this,
00:15:42.900 their group is not large. As of a few years ago, I was told it was 20 people. I think it may be a
00:15:49.740 little bit larger than that now. But if those people are on board, I would highly encourage
00:15:55.420 the Oriented Society folks to join the Austria Folk Assembly. We can move forward and actually
00:16:00.300 actually do a lot of the things that I think they spend time theorizing about. But anybody who's,
00:16:07.020 you know, folk-ish in practice is AustroTru, I'd love for them to consider joining the AustroFolk
00:16:11.800 Assembly, and that includes people in the Narayanist Society.
00:16:14.300 um john that's a good question john asks if non-afa members uh can worship at the hoffs
00:16:33.420 if they're still folkish we have uh we invite people to the hoffs we have friends prospective
00:16:40.140 members. We invite guests from time to time. My question is, if they're folkish and they're
00:16:48.500 Ausatru and they want to worship at these Hoffs, why wouldn't they join the Ausatru Folk Assembly 0.99
00:16:53.780 and help us do the things we're doing, help these Hoffs exist? And that's why I got a question, 1.00
00:17:01.040 you know, if these people are Ausatru and they're folkish and they believe so much that they would
00:17:06.760 like to come worship at our Hoffs, then they should absolutely join the Aus True Folk Assembly
00:17:11.000 and be part of it and be part of what's moving it forward. It's a much better and much deeper
00:17:20.240 connection when you're actually committed to what we're doing than when you're, you know,
00:17:24.740 kind of a spectator that floats in and out when you want. It means a lot more to be there and
00:17:29.680 support it and help those Hoffs to exist and to thrive.
00:17:36.760 Hi, Brad. I have been good. I have been good up until the past, I'd say, since Saturday.
00:17:55.880 A little bit rough since Saturday. I've been pretty sick. That's why this got postponed so many times.
00:18:06.760 Victor Rydberg's really interesting. I like a lot of the things that I've read that he's written.
00:18:28.280 um i like a lot of the i think the style that he writes in as well um i think he's writing from a
00:18:39.240 time period where he didn't have access to a lot of the information that we have access to
00:18:42.440 um i know the norena folks really like ryberg i certainly don't have a problem with him
00:18:47.880 but um i don't think that his interpretation is necessarily the be-all end-all
00:18:53.620 hmm what can i say about the concept of wisdom and memory
00:19:23.620 both are really fundamental to what we do in the house are true in general
00:19:30.600 um i think they're two two really separate things i see the uh paired together rather
00:19:39.180 than wisdom and memory i see thought in memory uh with hugan and munan and it's telling to me that
00:19:46.360 the thought is really valuable. You know, the Allfather
00:19:51.100 worries about both of those ravens returning to him, but he worries most about memory.
00:20:01.180 Our connection to our memory is our connection to who we are. And I think
00:20:09.460 very fundamentally, you see this in people with dementia or Alzheimer's.
00:20:16.360 it's particularly tragic when someone begins to lose their memory. And with every bit of
00:20:27.080 their memory they lose, they lose a bit of who they are. And you can watch that disintegration
00:20:34.960 of a person's who they are based on that loss of memory. And I think we deal with that as a people
00:20:44.160 as well. I think when we have our roots taken away from us, the more we're not acquainted with
00:20:50.180 who we are, where we come from, the further adrift we are, and we don't have that fundamental grasp of
00:20:57.360 what makes us us. So memory is extremely important in a very obvious your memory way,
00:21:06.740 but also in our folk soul, in our folk memory, in our ancestral memory. That's really important.
00:21:13.080 I'd like to say something about wisdom, though. Wisdom is more than just knowing stuff. Trivia is not the same as wisdom.
00:21:24.680 And I think it's worth noting and thinking on that wisdom is the understanding of things, not just the knowing of minutiae or you've read a lot of books.
00:21:45.520 Wisdom comes with application and it comes with experience and it comes with having a deep understanding of things and how different things interact and how things work in a real way, as opposed to just theory.
00:22:01.320 Wisdom is so much more than that.
00:22:02.980 And I would encourage folks that prioritize wisdom so highly to pair their book learning with some actual application and some experience.
00:22:14.700 Because experience does so much to enhance and create wisdom.
00:22:19.520 And that's my thoughts on wisdom.
00:22:44.700 uh how do i feel about brian wilton's books um
00:22:57.020 it's been a while since i've read one of his newer books
00:23:02.460 um i think that i think brian is certainly an extremely powerful speaker and i think that
00:23:11.440 translates well into his writing in short bursts um it's difficult and i and i've watched and i've
00:23:20.800 been impressed by this too uh his books for a long time were on a steady a steady increase
00:23:27.920 in their quality and i think that um i think there's a lot of really good ideas presented in
00:23:34.560 there i think sometimes sometimes some of his books i think would work better as a collection
00:23:42.940 of essays than as a book but again he's got a very strong voice he's definitely got stuff that
00:23:50.200 he wants to say and he's i'd say he is the most dynamic speaker that we have in modern house of
00:23:59.340 And again, you get some of that in you get some of that certainly in his books.
00:24:05.340 But that's my thoughts on it.
00:24:18.340 Ryan, you can absolutely invite your family members to any AFA thing that you'd like to, you know,
00:24:26.340 Assuming your family members are like the rest of us and yeah, we would welcome people.
00:24:35.160 They don't have to be AFA members.
00:24:36.400 If they're members of your family, we'd love to have them come out for food distributions or to attend events at the Hoff and check it out and see what we're all about and see what you're doing and take pride in what you're doing.
00:24:48.720 So, yeah, people's family are definitely welcome around as long as they conform to our values.
00:24:56.340 Share that commonality with the rest of us
00:24:58.340 All right, guys.
00:25:26.500 What else do you guys want to hear me talk about tonight?
00:25:30.320 Does anybody have any questions about pretty much anything?
00:25:45.840 Suppose I want to say this, too.
00:25:47.420 um we find ourselves in a really really good time in the afa we've got a lot of really great things
00:25:59.340 going on we've got hoffs now three hoffs now and we're very seriously in the hunt for hoff number
00:26:07.140 four um it's really a special time to be part of the afa and to be involved in ostrich and something
00:26:15.200 that I've noticed, I don't know, I would encourage everyone on here to get together with people in
00:26:24.860 real life. Do stuff together in real life. Gather together at the Hoffs, gather together with your
00:26:31.400 local kindred, get together with other AFA members and actually practice Ausitry. I find a phenomenon
00:26:38.680 on when people join up and
00:26:41.980 their whole experience is confined to the
00:26:46.660 internet, when they get bored or they
00:26:50.640 get angsty or whatever, really
00:26:54.540 petty arguments pop off in different telegram
00:26:58.540 groups and things. Tiny little things over
00:27:02.480 minutia and people get bent out of shape and want to take their
00:27:06.540 ball and go home or whatever they do. But it's really unfortunate. In the world that we live in
00:27:12.600 now, we need to stand together more than ever before. And very often, you know, we'll be in
00:27:18.100 95% agreement. But rather than celebrate our 95% agreement together, it's very easy to splinter
00:27:27.760 off and to get in very heated fights over that 5% that we may not see eye to eye on. And it's just
00:27:34.820 wasteful. It's wasteful and it's a poor use of energy. And I see it happen online, but I don't
00:27:40.900 see that happen in real life. I don't see that happen at the Hoffs. I don't see that happen at
00:27:45.540 events. So I'd encourage everybody to take any opportunity you can to meet other AFA members
00:27:51.520 and build real relationships in real life to where you look the other person in the eye and you get
00:27:57.820 to know who they are because that sense of brotherhood and family is irreplaceable.
00:28:04.820 All right.
00:28:19.080 Cliff was listening to one of my old interviews that Lane just found and uploaded on our YouTube channel.
00:28:27.920 And apparently I talked about honor, sacrifice, and fame.
00:28:31.800 I have no idea what I said because it was back in 2017, but I hope it was all right.
00:28:42.880 Yeah, I'm trying to think of how that arose on the interview or how it came up, but
00:28:47.140 honor and fame were always so very, very important to our ancestors.
00:28:55.700 And the one played right into the other. Our ancestors, the concept of honor, we've evolved the word to where it's a completely personal sense of integrity now.
00:29:12.460 But that wasn't always what it meant. Traditionally, honor was something bestowed upon you by your community.
00:29:19.100 and we still hear today in the terms of your receiving an honor someone is being honored
00:29:27.940 when the community gives an honor or an award to a person the community is placing a value
00:29:36.340 or a worth on on you that was essential that was the currency by which you lived and died
00:29:43.860 because that was the basis of your reputation.
00:29:50.100 Building fame through achieving and storehousing honor
00:29:54.640 and having that worth,
00:29:58.020 that's the heart of what we should be looking to do
00:30:01.880 within Ausatru, within our families,
00:30:05.440 within our communities,
00:30:06.340 is to build a good name and a shining reputation.
00:30:10.360 And it affects you and it affects all the groups
00:30:13.800 that you represent and that you're a part of. As an AFA member, it affects the AFA.
00:30:20.120 When people see you and know that you are in the AFA, your honor, your reputation,
00:30:25.660 your fame will either add to the AFA's or take away from it. And it's extremely,
00:30:34.120 it's one of the most fundamental concepts in Ausatru is to build that bright fame.
00:30:40.360 When you build that, that's your reputation that when you travel across the country,
00:30:43.800 People will know who you are, know where you come from and know a bit of your deeds, know what kind of person they're getting involved in.
00:30:52.160 And that that reputation that precedes you when you go places is essential.
00:30:56.780 And I think it's so very important because that that reputation precedes you.
00:31:03.140 In the halls of the gods as well, and in the afterlife, when you pass wherever you go.
00:31:09.480 those entities know of your deeds. They know the name that you've built from yourself.
00:31:16.780 They hear the rest of us when we raise a horn in your name and speak of your deeds and stumble.
00:31:22.100 That reputation and that fame you take with you to the other realms and beyond the veil.
00:31:28.760 So building that up is absolutely essential. One of the ways you do that is through sacrifice.
00:31:34.460 If you are willing to give of yourself, that goes a long way towards establishing that worth and that fame.
00:31:49.280 Yeah, I think that's what I got to say on that this evening.
00:31:53.340 But we need to always be aware of building that good reputation for ourselves because it speaks well of our family.
00:32:01.280 we can spend that reputation by saying, hey, if you trust me, here's my friend. I'm vouching for
00:32:08.120 him. Put it on my tab. You can extend that that way. You can extend that to your family, to your
00:32:13.580 close associates. And it's a real currency. It's something that has actual value.
00:32:20.920 Hmm. Joe asks, what area in Florida is most promising for Njordshav? 0.81
00:32:33.620 Casting a pretty wide net, Joe. We're looking at it. 0.99
00:32:39.180 Say the northern half. I'd say I can't get any tighter than that right now, but probably the northern half of Florida would be the most promising area.
00:32:50.920 is to look for it. Again, we'd love to have something near the coast, but we, in our current
00:32:57.380 price range and where we're at, we can't necessarily guarantee that. But I think the northern half of
00:33:02.520 Florida would be the most promising area right now.
00:33:05.440 I've got a question. How does performing charitable deeds for local communities benefit the AFA?
00:33:26.240 Benefits the AFA in innumerable ways. A couple of them
00:33:35.440 let's go with the most obvious first it looks really good for us to do nice things for people
00:33:42.560 that helps us and it helps put our best foot forward to where communities see that we care
00:33:49.680 that we are good neighbors and that we want to help folks out and we want to be good neighbors
00:33:55.680 and i think that establishes a really good tone in a community showing them not what we talk about
00:34:02.000 but what we are about that we are there handing out food we are there helping out we step up to
00:34:08.160 help our communities and to be a good neighbor that idea of being a good neighbor is very
00:34:12.480 essential to who we are and our values also it genuinely helps people it's nice to help people
00:34:24.080 when we got people that are suffering and we can you know do something to help them do something
00:34:30.800 to take the stress of being able to feed their family and make that stress a little bit less.
00:34:36.260 Being able to do something to make something in their life better is extremely important and it's
00:34:41.500 very beneficial to those people. But also it's extremely beneficial to us. Our folks tend to
00:34:50.560 get bogged down a lot in stuff they don't like in seeing all of the things in the world they wish
00:34:57.580 they could change, all of the good they wish they could do, but they don't know how, all of these
00:35:02.140 problems that are too big for them to do anything to affect. And so we complain and gnash our teeth
00:35:08.280 and get grumpy and talk about all this negative stuff. Well, these charity opportunities,
00:35:14.740 that's a time where we can go, be happy, be with one another, and do something good that helps
00:35:21.620 people. It doesn't fix all of the problems we wish were fixed. But that day, you were able to
00:35:29.460 help a family that was not going to be able to eat or eat as comfortably. Now they're going to
00:35:35.360 have food. They're going to have something nice because you made an effort to help them. And that
00:35:40.600 is good. That is good for the soul. That builds us up. And it makes us positive people focused
00:35:46.540 on doing positive things. And there's immense value in that. And I'm very proud that now at
00:35:52.200 all three of our Hoffs, we have monthly food distributions. All three of our Hoffs, we're
00:35:57.700 going to have Yule toy giveaways for kids that may not have toys in the area. So we're doing
00:36:04.240 charitable things to all three of our Hoffs now. And I'm very, very proud of all our people making
00:36:08.440 that happen tim asks is there any locations being scouted for phrasehoff
00:36:30.280 it's putting the cart before the horse a little bit but always got big dreams yes i'm absolutely
00:36:36.920 looking at and have ideas for for phrase off uh more to come on that don't have any any plans
00:36:42.760 we're going to share publicly right now we're going to make sure that muir gets his hoff
00:36:46.840 before we worry about that but yeah we're always thinking and we do have ideas about phrase off
00:36:51.640 um so ryan asks is there any truth to drama between the afa and jacob of wisdom of odin
00:37:11.360 there may be at some point somewhere with somebody but honestly i don't i don't know
00:37:18.980 that guy. I hear talk about him saying various things, but I haven't listened to, you know,
00:37:26.000 any of the stuff that he's had to say. I'm really very unfamiliar with that guy or with his
00:37:31.780 program. Other than I, on chats like this, I read little snippets here and there about it.
00:37:39.560 No, certainly not on a leadership level. There's no drama. Again, I don't know the guy. He may
00:37:47.040 he may have some drama with us again i don't know but from our end no i i don't know him to have
00:37:53.960 drama with him and i don't think any of our certainly of our whitten level leadership have
00:37:59.140 talked about him in any dramatic context um but yes so that's honestly where i'm at and all i know
00:38:06.560 maybe if i listened to the broadcast there would be some drama i have no idea
00:38:11.060 but no i really don't know the guy very well
00:38:13.800 um all right we've got a question what home or family rituals do i recommend
00:38:36.040 for introducing families to Ausatru.
00:38:47.040 So in the question, he mentioned that the ancestors altar
00:38:51.480 has been successful for him and also an annual day
00:38:56.580 of remembrance for a family member that passed.
00:38:59.680 And I think those are both really good ideas.
00:39:02.560 I think approaching the ancestors is a point of commonality
00:39:05.120 that your family has that's undisputed. It's not talking about gods that they're unfamiliar with
00:39:11.940 or things that would strike them as strange. It's, you know, this is grandma and grandpa.
00:39:17.380 This is great grandma and grandpa. These are people that you knew or that you certainly know
00:39:21.960 of. They exist. They factually existed. Those things are a much easier sell, and I think they
00:39:28.980 go a long way. I think having the special day of remembrance for a family member, that's important
00:39:33.820 to your family, a patriarch or matriarch of your family is a really important thing.
00:39:39.720 You know, I do that on March the 31st for my grandfather. He was born and passed away on the
00:39:47.500 31st of March, and he was a really big figure in my life. He's the man that I ended up naming my
00:39:53.360 daughter after. So I think those are really good rituals. I'd say on a very simple level,
00:40:01.000 If you're having a family dinner, I think a meal blessing is is a nice thing to do.
00:40:07.500 I think it's got enough commonality that people are aware that, you know, religious people say grace before before meals.
00:40:14.920 Us doing a meal blessing, I think. Isn't jarring or odd, and it shows that we're pious and it shows that commonality that we have in our spirituality, and I think that's a really good one to do.
00:40:28.660 And then also on a on a bigger, bigger scale, I think having family there when you do a baby name is extremely important.
00:40:38.280 And I've seen a lot of family that's not also true be very moved when they attend baby names.
00:40:44.280 So I think that's a really neat one to spotlight.
00:40:48.660 Family rituals and what we do for families, it's a happy, upbeat thing.
00:40:52.840 And I think that's very engaging for family members.
00:40:55.800 So that's my recommendation.
00:40:58.660 Uh, Jess asks how our youth program is going. It's going. Um, one of the things that we run into, and I think this speaks highly of our youth program.
00:41:27.660 a lot of people like the idea of it and then when they sign up for it and discover that there's
00:41:36.260 quite a bit of work involved in it and there's quite a bit of meaty things to it they get a
00:41:42.760 little bit less enthusiastic and sometimes their participation trails off a little bit
00:41:46.980 and I think that speaks highly of what we're doing because it is important and it's about
00:41:53.940 very important things. It's not just, you know, here, color a picture of Thor. It's really trying
00:41:59.900 to learn a bit about our lore, a bit about the Ausitru Folk Assembly, and how a young person
00:42:05.640 practices Ausitru in their life at that stage. But if anybody who hears my voice on this,
00:42:16.040 AFA member or not, wants to be involved in the youth program,
00:42:19.320 um please reach out to brandy callahan b callahan at roomstone.org she is heading up that program we
00:42:29.880 would love to have more participation we would love to have more young people get involved in
00:42:33.600 also true and learn um so please reach out and she'd be happy to get you enrolled and set up
00:42:49.320 All right, Nate.
00:43:10.540 Well, so I think that different families have different stuff they do in regards to baby naming.
00:43:19.320 A couple of things. There's some ideas behind just conceptually behind it in general. And then there's our naming ceremony that we do in choosing a name. It's don't have hard, fast rules on what you have to do.
00:43:37.360 But very often it's preferable to. Have at least one of the names, you know, first name, middle name, you know, sometimes folks are like the Spaniards and have four and five middle names.
00:43:53.420 it's whatever y'all want to do but those names being named after a prominent member of your
00:44:02.100 family or somebody who is important um i think that's that's a very time-honored tradition
00:44:06.740 amongst our folk uh everybody's got a little bit different ideas about reincarnation but on a very
00:44:14.160 fundamental level when you name your child after someone who's passed you want to summon some of
00:44:21.920 some of that person's essence, some of that person's hymenia, some of that person's character
00:44:26.800 to, to inspire that child or to, to live on through that child.
00:44:33.880 It's fundamental that the basic idea of naming is you give it nine days to confirm whether the
00:44:41.060 child's going to be viable and, and live. And during this time, it's as though when the child's
00:44:50.300 born, they're not a complete person yet. They have pieces of their soul complex, but they become a
00:44:57.580 complete person when you, the parents, in front of the gods and in front of the folk, ideally
00:45:06.500 under the, you know, under the watchful eye of the Gothi and with him performing the ceremony,
00:45:16.800 bestow that name and that identity on the child when you do that you're affixing the ancestral
00:45:24.780 memory into that into that baby and making them a full and complete person and a full and complete
00:45:32.640 member of of your family of your of your folk and so baby namings that we do
00:45:39.820 this is what I do. I think it's important, and I pour out a little offering
00:45:46.420 to the Norns. I also pour out an offering to Frigga. 1.00
00:45:53.680 When I pour out an offering to the Norns before the ceremony, I ask that the Norns give that 0.98
00:46:01.540 child a gift and a blessing to go and help guide things in their life. And so I do a
00:46:09.560 rune draw the night before I do a baby name. And I ask, you know, Earth, Skulld, and Verdandi
00:46:17.700 to have a blessing that's, for example, I would ask Earth to bless the child with,
00:46:32.480 you know a strong knowledge of their past and i'll i'll see what rune uh i pull and i'll use
00:46:41.160 that as as part of that blessing i'll ask um for dandy to to give that child something to guide
00:46:50.420 them in the present moment and i will draw a rune that way and i'll ask scold to give uh the child
00:46:57.700 rune to to guide them towards what to reach for and towards where they should end up and i'll get
00:47:05.060 that rune and then when it's naming time um you sprinkle water upon the child on its names you
00:47:13.940 know the three names or however many middle names you want to give your child um and then we like
00:47:22.340 then i like to trace those runes in mead that uh that the norns inspired me with the night before
00:47:30.820 onto the child's forehead and and give them that blessing and it's important to have the family up
00:47:36.820 there um close family friends to come up there and then we typically will drink them in a round
00:47:43.940 of toasting raising a horn saying something about the child making a vow that will be there for the
00:47:50.020 child we'll look after the child we'll welcome them into our folk and then having a toast to
00:47:54.580 them we go around in a circle and like to do that with the close family up in the front of
00:47:59.140 the area be it a ritual circle outside or be it inside one of our bays
00:48:06.020 those are some of the most fun and just beautiful things to be a part of i'm a softie on those i
00:48:12.740 can't get through them without just sobbing because it's just so powerful and so special
00:48:18.180 And I'm very lucky to have been able to perform quite a bit of those in my time.
00:48:24.000 And those are some of the most special things I get to do as a go-thee.
00:48:41.220 Mary, you are spot on with that about electronic communications.
00:48:45.240 Mary makes the point that one of the reasons things go wrong with electronic communication
00:48:49.560 so much is that you don't look someone in the eye and you don't see the effect that
00:48:57.480 your words have on them, and you don't see their emotion when they're saying things.
00:49:02.400 It's very easy to misinterpret them saying something in a harsh way that maybe they're
00:49:05.980 not, but it's also very easy to say something without taking into account other people's
00:49:11.480 feelings.
00:49:11.880 we often think man people wouldn't say that to my face and when you say that there's a certain
00:49:17.840 amount of bravado and like it's not that you'd fight the guy the idea is they wouldn't say it
00:49:23.880 in your face and have you look back at them angry or hurt or then be embarrassed for having the
00:49:29.900 audacity to say outlandish things that affects us so much those kind of non-verbals when we have
00:49:36.100 communication, and the internet takes that away from us. It's one of the reasons I like these
00:49:42.960 live video chats. It's not the same, but at least you can see my face when I'm saying things, and I
00:49:48.960 hope it communicates those things more authentically to you.
00:50:06.100 All right, so Sam asks. Prison outreach programs. I wish. Every time the AFA gets some traction
00:50:29.100 on that the people we have involved in it tend to have things occur in their life
00:50:37.980 that take them away from it and a lot of those things stop before they get started
00:50:44.460 i'm very eager to get back on that as soon as we have the right people that want to help out with
00:50:50.220 it we had more progress going than ever before here a couple of months ago and the guy that was
00:50:56.700 running it had some things happen in his life so hopefully we can get back on track with making a
00:51:02.540 little bit of progress that way um but yeah i wish i had better news on on prison situation
00:51:09.420 but that's kind of where that's at cliff so you know it was in fact intentional and i'm very glad
00:51:24.780 you got what I did there. Cliff caught my wide net reference 10 minutes ago or whatnot.
00:51:41.500 Mary, the idea of the Pacific Northwest is a really good idea. That's kind of our runner-up
00:51:46.540 area. It's still not 100% out of the running. For this hof in specific, it really does need to be
00:51:53.420 fairly near the water and in the pacific northwest that would mean we would need to have it on the
00:51:59.580 coastal side of the cascades in either washington or oregon properties there are very hard to come
00:52:05.660 by and they're very expensive to get what we're trying to look for we do have feelers out we are
00:52:10.620 looking but that's going to be a it's going to be a hard sell on this one i think when
00:52:14.380 we get one in the pacific northwest it may end up being on the eastern side of the cascades
00:52:23.420 Joel, that is an imaginative image, but I think it'd be cool.
00:52:41.000 Yeah, I think it'd be really cool, honestly.
00:52:43.980 Sorry, Joel suggested that he could see at Njortzhof having a big fountain with a dolphin
00:52:48.160 that had water coming out of its face as part of the fountain, and I think it'd be cool.
00:52:53.420 Joe, you said it.
00:53:19.760 I'm going to be very disappointed if there's not delicious fish fries at Njord's Hof.
00:53:25.820 Sorry, guys.
00:53:26.560 I'm looking over here at the chat to make sure I'm getting any questions you guys are out there asking.
00:53:31.920 I know I'm running a little bit behind on it.
00:53:40.200 Do I have any tips or suggestions when studying material, be it for self-knowledge or practical application?
00:53:49.760 So if I read that right, you're asking for tips on how to how to study as opposed to what to study.
00:53:59.760 I would say it's useful to read things out loud sometimes.
00:54:13.760 um i think reading out loud helps something about having to actually say the words especially when
00:54:22.460 you're reading you know strange icelandic names and german names and things speaking them out
00:54:29.240 loud i think helps a lot so i'd say that um i also we live in a really cool time to be able
00:54:38.680 use wikipedia and wikipedia has been very unfair to the astro folk assembly not fans of the people
00:54:44.280 that run it but it is a tremendous tool for help um and when you're reading something anything for
00:54:51.080 that matter every time you don't know a word or you don't know you're unfamiliar with something
00:54:58.440 that they reference you can check on wikipedia right then and just doing that will add such a
00:55:06.920 a dimension to what you're studying because you'll get such a fuller understanding of it.
00:55:12.200 And it can be tedious and time-consuming. You do that and you go down a rabbit hole on Wikipedia
00:55:15.980 and you can be doing that all night. But I think that's one of the best tools to really get a
00:55:25.020 deep understanding of a subject is follow those little Wikipedia links when you're reading
00:55:31.020 and check those things out. Don't blow by them and think that they're not important. Whatever
00:55:36.820 little reference they're making or historical person or event they reference if you don't know
00:55:43.300 do that quick wikipedia search it'll add so much to what you're doing i notice without the true
00:55:49.700 things when i read culture of the teutons way back when it was very difficult because the author was
00:55:54.980 constantly referencing all these primary materials and i was relatively new at the time but the more
00:56:00.660 i go back to it after reading those primary sources the better i feel and aha i know what
00:56:06.100 what he's talking about. Ah, I remember that. And it makes all the difference. So try to cast that
00:56:12.400 wide net with your knowledge and run down the things that you may not know. Go ahead and take
00:56:18.460 the time to look it up. Take the time to look up definitions, not just definitions, but take the
00:56:23.420 time to look up etymologies of words. And I found that helps tremendously.
00:56:36.100 um jason asks how our men can constructively form and express the tradition of manner
00:56:49.300 uh manner brunnan in 2021 i think that's difficult and i think that when you call it that
00:56:57.140 you presuppose lofty things on something that doesn't have to be
00:57:04.060 I think that finding, finding time to get together as men and do things is really important.
00:57:14.560 And I think it's not the same as a young band of men going out and fighting wars or doing cattle raids or things that our ancestors may have done.
00:57:24.440 But I think we let perfect be the enemy of good.
00:57:27.100 But I think getting some guys together and going to the gym is really valuable.
00:57:31.660 A couple of workout partners with some lifting or any other sport that you want to do.
00:57:36.280 Shoot, getting guys together and having a bowling league.
00:57:39.720 Again, that's why I don't want to use big lofty names because I know that's underwhelming.
00:57:44.060 But it's guys spending time with other men, talking with other men about men things.
00:57:49.800 It's very valuable, whatever form that takes.
00:57:53.120 it was something that was really special to me I was able to when I was a bouncer I was
00:58:00.380 bouncing to the spot to where we had you know a team of 13 guys so I was able to have you know
00:58:06.100 a little bit of shared danger a little bit of shared fisticuffs with some other men that meant
00:58:11.940 a lot to me but there's there's other ways that guys can find that and I think like I said going
00:58:17.320 to the gym is one a hunting group is one i think going hunting with the guys uh that's much less
00:58:23.960 common now than it was a generation ago but i think that's a really good opportunity for that
00:58:29.740 but even if some guys want to go hiking you know together or camping um
00:58:34.840 like i said not allowing perfect to be the enemy of the good and just get together with some guys
00:58:42.100 and do some guy stuff i think that's the first step you can evolve it from there and see what
00:58:46.220 works. I think different stuff's going to work for a different group of guys, depending on
00:58:49.740 how old they are between, you know, where they're at regionally. Manor Boone was very often
00:58:54.540 very young, young members of the tribe. And so I think young men are going to do different
00:59:01.600 things together than older men. But I think groups of men coming together is a very important thing,
00:59:07.400 no matter what age they are. Sam, talk to me about this a little bit later, because I,
00:59:15.460 Like I said, I would like us to have some resources and some ways to help folks in prison that want to learn about Ossetru and want to better their lives and better themselves.
00:59:26.240 I'm all for it.
00:59:27.600 So, yeah, let's talk about it.
00:59:29.260 Talk to me about it and talk to Brandy about it.
00:59:31.220 We'll try to get something figured out.
00:59:45.460 I'm very happy to see there's plans and schemes going on on the site about that fish fry because
00:59:56.340 that's happening when we get New York's off. I think we should have some fish fry at the New York's
01:00:01.540 off dedication, just putting it out there. Okay. Sigmund tells us that that Jacob gentleman,
01:00:16.320 I guess, from that other show says that he doesn't have problems with the AFA. He's just
01:00:21.280 not a member. Cool. I'm glad that I'm glad that he doesn't have any problems with us.
01:00:31.540 shadow banned we do not currently have any afa members in mexico um taking a look here real quick
01:00:47.860 we you know i don't think we've ever had an afa member in mexico um
01:00:53.620 Um, we do have one in Uruguay, however, but we do not have a AFA member in Mexico, nor
01:01:02.880 have we ever.
01:01:03.740 We've had, uh, AFA members in a number of different places in South America.
01:01:09.640 Um, I don't think we've had one in Central America either, uh, but, um, hmm.
01:01:23.620 Checking, seeing if I've missed any questions on the side.
01:01:53.620 Well, thanks. I really enjoyed doing these video chats once a month. I look forward to them. It's
01:02:10.700 really nice to have this kind of conversational. I feel like I'm sitting down. I am sitting down
01:02:14.880 with family and talking, and it's very nice. Like I said, I look forward to these, and I'm glad that
01:02:19.700 you guys seem to like them. I appreciate all of your questions. It's a lot of dead air if I don't
01:02:25.240 have questions, so that's certainly very important, and I'm very thankful for it.
01:02:33.020 Sigma, I'm glad you liked it. Thank you for being here and having your questions.
01:02:41.700 Okay. All right. We got one question about reincarnation. I'm going to hit here,
01:02:46.440 And if you guys got any last questions, go ahead and throw them in. We're getting, you know, an hour here. I'm not in a rush, but probably going to wrap it up here shortly.
01:02:56.480 Question about reincarnation. It's complex and there's a lot of people with a lot of ideas on it.
01:03:04.300 I think one of the truths that is maybe seems unsatisfying, but is true nonetheless.
01:03:16.440 We're not going to know all the ins and outs to the afterlife until we find ourselves there.
01:03:23.120 We have glimpses.
01:03:24.860 We know bits.
01:03:25.940 We know pieces.
01:03:29.240 First, we do believe that part.
01:03:34.040 So we believe in a soul complex made up of many different parts.
01:03:37.720 um we also believe that some of those parts reincarnate within your family line
01:03:49.900 um i don't think it's nearly as clean as your whole personality reincarnates
01:03:58.780 over and over and over again as whole personality
01:04:02.320 I think that that may happen in some instances.
01:04:10.960 Like I mentioned earlier about the baby naming, I think that when you name someone in honor of an ancestor, a piece of them does reincarnate.
01:04:21.140 But I don't think that's like them, you know, that's their personality, like you and I speaking with each other.
01:04:28.340 but it is a a a piece of their luck it's a piece of of who they are and piece of what they knew
01:04:38.420 it's part of that ancestral memory that we speak of so often and that and those kind of traits
01:04:44.900 traits certainly reincarnate um knowledge and experience seems to in some instances
01:04:54.380 but i think we're limited when we when we reach into the realm of the gods and we reach
01:05:03.860 into beyond the veil we're at a loss because we we know the things we know by experience
01:05:13.480 and by relating things to things in our lives and you know
01:05:17.400 we only have earthly this life experience to try to frame all these other bigger concepts in
01:05:31.120 but as much as we do believe in reincarnation in some ways we also believe that our soul and
01:05:40.460 our person exists after death as a sentient being. That's why we make offerings and we say
01:05:47.900 prayers to our ancestors. If your ancestor is your kid, then who are you talking to when you're at
01:05:55.420 your altar? And again, that's one of those questions that doesn't necessarily work with
01:06:00.740 the physics that we understand, but that does just because we don't wrap our head around it
01:06:06.700 doesn't mean it's not a thing or it doesn't exist. But we know our ancestors interact with us when
01:06:13.060 we go to the altar and make offerings. We know that they interact with us at different times
01:06:18.180 of the year. We know our DC are consciously look on from beyond and help us out. We know these
01:06:25.640 things to be true. Many of us know them for a fact to be true through experience and practices
01:06:33.040 that we've been involved in. So it's a sloppy answer, but I think that pieces reincarnate.
01:06:39.620 I think that if someone has a lot to do, perhaps bigger chunks reincarnate. But we also do know
01:06:46.380 that our ancestors, be they living on in the mound, in the halls of the ancestors,
01:06:52.020 or be they ascendant and living on in the halls of the gods,
01:06:56.420 that big chunk of who these people were, who these people are, exists in some kind of a whole format
01:07:04.960 that way. And I think that was kind of the goal to our ancestors is to survive the death process
01:07:12.640 whole and conscious so that you ascend to something higher. I know it's not as clean and as easy as
01:07:20.860 folks may like, but I do think that that is as close to approaching the truth as I can get.
01:07:26.420 Andrew, there's a
01:07:52.920 lot of ideas out there for prayer and ritual for fertility, for healthy pregnancy. I think that the
01:08:00.340 ones that have the best to tell you on that are Agithias. I would encourage you to reach out to
01:08:06.760 them. I know they've worked with that a lot, and that tends to be an area that they focus on.
01:08:12.600 I know that while my wife was pregnant with our daughter, you know, I spent a lot of time at the
01:08:19.920 altar, asking the gods help. And I think what I can say from a father's perspective is
01:08:27.580 reaching out to your ancestors, reaching out to the gods, and just asking for help.
01:08:37.340 I think that we always think that there's a magical hocus pocus that we can do for everything.
01:08:43.000 And I think when you find that, it's really nice. But I think there's a tremendous value in just
01:08:47.540 laying your heart bare to your ancestors specifically, and then to the gods, just
01:08:54.260 asking for what you need, being thankful for what you have, making, you know, burning some incense,
01:09:02.700 offering a drink, and just, you know, asking for what you need in a sincere way. And it worked for
01:09:11.120 me. And I would encourage you to do that. But I think if you have questions about some more
01:09:15.560 specifics on ritual for that are Githya know a lot about that. So I would encourage you to reach
01:09:22.160 out specifically to Githya Katie Erickson and she can help you on that. Somebody can link her
01:09:32.280 email address on the side for you.
01:09:45.560 Thank you.
01:10:15.560 Sorry, guys, I'm catching up over here on the side.
01:10:22.560 You guys have been really active tonight, and I appreciate that a lot.
01:10:45.560 um somebody asked if there's been a conversation on using cryptocurrencies for the afa
01:10:56.840 just recently uh cliff erickson our witten cliff erickson who handles our uh the technical aspects
01:11:06.760 of things with our website and our money transferring and things has just enabled us to uh
01:11:11.400 to take i believe we take bitcoin i think he's got us set up now to take some other
01:11:16.120 cryptocurrencies as well as far as for donations and things on the website
01:11:20.440 um i'm not sure in what other way like what conversations you you're envisioning us having
01:11:30.000 about them but certainly as far as donations we do accept the cryptocurrencies now um very recently
01:11:36.000 As a matter of fact, I don't believe we're in a spot where we take them as membership dues yet, but you can ask Cliff about that.
01:11:47.360 He may have have something to tell you on that a little bit better.
01:11:50.200 We're just feeling our way out on the cryptocurrency thing a little bit.
01:11:53.120 It's it's outside of most of our wheelhouse. So we're just kind of getting getting started looking into that.
01:12:06.000 Thank you.
01:12:36.000 Thank you.
01:13:06.000 I've got a question. In order to go to Valhalla, we must be warriors. What is our fight slash war to get there? The road to Valhalla and to be carried by Valkyries and go across the Rainbow Bridge is real.
01:13:24.380 um i think that we get very very focused on one expression of our faith in one time period
01:13:35.400 i think that certainly during the viking age when
01:13:39.840 raiding was a yearly activity for men and warfare was a was a way of life and a very common
01:13:49.620 struggle that everyone faced, certainly the men faced. The preeminence got placed on
01:13:58.880 the idea of Valhalla being this place for dead warriors that are chosen.
01:14:04.980 And I think there's a lot to that. I think that's certainly a legitimate thing.
01:14:10.500 But I don't think that's the be-all and the end-all of Ascension or of crossing that rainbow
01:14:15.560 bridge. I think that at different times and places, that myth looks very different in times of peace
01:14:26.960 or in times where there's not wars going on constantly. And I think to hyper-focus on
01:14:32.580 needing to die on some battlefield misses the point. I think it's a lot of discussion about
01:14:39.340 struggle and struggle in general. I don't think that veterans that die on the battlefield are
01:14:46.880 the same as people who battle cancer or something. I don't try to make that equivalency. I think it's
01:14:52.520 a false equivalency, but I do think that both people struggle. I think we do ourselves a
01:14:58.400 disservice when we spend our time in this life stressing out about the next life.
01:15:04.380 I think that the gods have that figured out and have that system figured out pretty well,
01:15:09.160 And I don't think that, you know, if you happen to not catch a bullet that you miss out on Valhalla and you miss out on on the good afterlife because you didn't die in battle.
01:15:20.180 I just don't think it works like that.
01:15:22.260 so i think that your focus on self-betterment on struggling to accomplish for your folk to
01:15:33.460 accomplish for your family and to be right with the gods has a lot more to say on where you end
01:15:39.000 up than you know the the very small references to you need to die in battle to go to valhalla
01:15:45.920 um there's examples of in the lore and i wish i could think of them right off the bat but of
01:15:53.040 of kings and people who pass that are assumed to go to valhalla that didn't die in combat
01:15:59.420 um so i think that that's a very a very small selection of the mythos about the glorious dead
01:16:07.860 and where they end up so i think we have a lot of opportunities i think that if we live nobly and we
01:16:12.980 do great deeds, then our ascension is a matter for the gods to decide upon when it's that time.
01:16:21.000 I think the best we can is live the most nobly we can and not bow out out of fear.
01:16:25.840 And I think that if we do that, the gods will take care of the rest.
01:16:42.980 And I also want to say this about Culture of the Teutons. There's a lot of really good information on the side. A lot of people who love Culture of the Teutons. Culture of the Teutons is amazing. I'm a huge proponent of that. I always recommend it.
01:17:02.540 But you need to read that in a sober way.
01:17:09.240 The author takes everything to the most extreme possible scenario.
01:17:16.000 You need to balance your reading of Culture of the Teutons with a little bit of wisdom of how the world works.
01:17:22.460 and there is no point in time where our ancestors lived to level 10 what they're saying in culture
01:17:31.340 of the teutons all the time so it's really good about talking about principles but sometimes
01:17:37.400 uh groenbeck carries those principles to the most exaggerated degree and our ancestors didn't live
01:17:45.520 that way. You can't live that way. So factoring in those principles, but in a more realistic
01:17:52.000 manner and a more sober manner is really important. All right, guys. Well, it has been great to talk
01:18:06.700 to you tonight. I appreciate you guys. Thank you so much for being here. I'm sorry for all the
01:18:12.500 delays this month, but I'm glad to get to talk to you today. And I look forward to talking to you
01:18:17.520 next month. Y'all have a good night. Hail the gods, hail the folk, hail the AFA.