Asatru Folk Assembly - November 23, 2023


Being Thankful for Our Blessings (from VNS Episode 72)


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Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

127.61

Word count

503

Sentence count

21

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

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Hate speech

4

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Thanksgiving is a secular holiday that is not beholden to a particular denomination or religion. It is about being thankful for all the blessings in our lives. Being thankful for the things we have is not a Christian thing, it is a reverent thing.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Okay, something I did want to touch on before we start, I don't know, with the meat and
00:00:12.180 taters of today's program. Thanksgiving is tomorrow in the United States. I don't think
00:00:21.800 people celebrate that a lot of other places. But I've met with confusion and opposition in the
00:00:34.260 past when I have posted about that on AFA channels as a celebration that we observed in the Astro
00:00:41.520 focus on. For those of you that are outside of the United States and may not know and may not
00:00:51.220 understand, it is a secular-ish holiday in the United States. It's secular in the sense that
00:01:04.180 it's not beholden to a particular faith or a particular denomination, but it is about faith.
00:01:11.520 And it's about being thankful for the blessings in our life.
00:01:16.800 And I want to urge everyone to resist the urge to not do things just because Christians do them. 1.00
00:01:27.920 Well, Christians are pious, so we need to be irreverent. 0.99
00:01:30.540 Christians take baths, so we need to be filthy. 1.00
00:01:33.900 It's silly logic that doesn't make any sense. 0.98
00:01:36.800 And I think that taking a day to get together with friends and family and celebrate a feast, giving thanks for all the blessings in their lives, is a good thing for every single person to do, especially and including Asitua.
00:01:55.760 Being thankful for the blessings that we have is, that's not a Christian thing, that's a good people thing.
00:02:06.800 that's a reverent human being thing and i think we need to embrace it wholeheartedly i'm looking
00:02:12.320 forward to it always excited about thanksgiving um becoming also true doesn't mean that you have
00:02:17.920 to give up on all the traditions that you were raised with it does mean on certain ones of our
00:02:24.000 holidays having to separate a couple of things out here and there but thanksgiving's not really
00:02:28.480 one of those when you give thanks give thanks to to our gods the gods of our folk our blood
00:02:34.960 and our ancestors. But one thing that I do think is vital about that, especially today,
00:02:44.000 is taking note of all of the things that we have to be thankful for. I think that
00:02:49.920 in certain circles that a lot of us find ourselves in, there is so much focus on
00:02:55.760 on negativity all of the time.
00:02:59.620 And I always urge against that.
00:03:01.860 There are so many amazing blessings in our lives.
00:03:05.900 There's so many amazing things happening.
00:03:09.680 And there's so many beautiful opportunities
00:03:12.280 that are before us if we choose to approach the world
00:03:17.040 with thankfulness and optimism,
00:03:19.000 as opposed to hanging our head
00:03:20.640 with focusing on all the negatives.
00:03:23.940 don't pick our head up hold our head high and look up we're missing so many opportunities
00:03:29.300 so keep your head up keep your chest out be proud be thankful for the things we have and
00:03:36.740 look for the amazing opportunities we have on the horizon we have done amazing things
00:03:40.580 together in the astro folk assembly and we have amazing things yet to come