Asatru Folk Assembly - June 29, 2026


Dagaz

Hosted by
Steve McNallen
Mentioned
Degas
6⧸24⧸26 Victory Never Sleeps, Ep 207 - Bits and Pieces Q2 2026 around the AFA

Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

129.76

Word count

567

Sentence count

52


Summary

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Every day we die. Not all at once, not in some dramatic collapse, but piece by piece. The man who made the excuse yesterday, the man who chose comfort over discipline, the one who listened to the voice inside that says, "Why bother?" Dead.

Transcript

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00:00:01 There is a lie we tell ourselves, that we are the same man today that we were yesterday,
00:00:07 that we simply just continue.
00:00:09 But we know that not to be true.
00:00:11 Every day, we die.
00:00:14 Not all at once, not in some dramatic collapse, but piece by piece.
00:00:20 The man who made the excuse yesterday? Dead.
00:00:24 The man who chose comfort over discipline? Also dead.
00:00:27 the man who listened to the voice inside that says why bother dead because there are places
00:00:35 a man can end up that don't look like death but certainly feel that way not chaos or fire
00:00:41 but an encroaching cold depression is like that it's not always loud or visible
00:00:48 sometimes it's just a slow dimming of light no hunger no drive no reason just kind of
00:00:57 going through the motions.
00:01:00 Annihilism creeps in beside it.
00:01:03 Quiet.
00:01:04 Reasonable.
00:01:05 Convincing.
00:01:06 Nothing matters.
00:01:08 Why try?
00:01:09 What's the point?
00:01:11 Not shouted, it's just whispered.
00:01:13 Until it sounds like truth.
00:01:16 This is the darkness.
00:01:17 Not just the absence of light, but the absence of warmth.
00:01:21 A place where man forgets what it feels like to burn.
00:01:25 And yet, here's the danger.
00:01:27 You can get used to it. You adapt to the cold. You can function in it. You can even build a
00:01:33 life in it. But this is only a half-life, a dim version of what you are meant to be.
00:01:40 Then comes a moment. It's not always dramatic, often as quiet. It's a realization, even a refusal,
00:01:48 a line drawn in the sand, a voice that says inside, no. It says, no, this is not it.
00:01:57 No, I will not stay here.
00:02:00 No, this is not how my story is going to end.
00:02:04 This is Degas, the crossing.
00:02:08 From dark to light.
00:02:11 From cold to fire.
00:02:13 From numbness to being alive.
00:02:17 But understand, you don't just cross once.
00:02:20 You cross this threshold daily.
00:02:22 Because every day, we die.
00:02:24 yesterday's weakness is dead yesterday's pride yesterday's excuses dead and every day we rise
00:02:35 not automatically nor by default but rising in this way is a choice you don't wake up renewed
00:02:44 you wake up with the opportunity to become but stepping into the light that's where many hesitate
00:02:50 because the light can expose, it demands, it burns.
00:02:56 It requires you to let something else die.
00:02:59 Many people will simply turn back and retreat into the cold.
00:03:04 Some call it comfort, they call it realism, but it's not.
00:03:09 This is surrender.
00:03:12 Degas is a refusal to surrender.
00:03:14 every day you stand at the edge dark behind you light in front of you and the question is not
00:03:22 will i rise because you will the question is what dies first the voice that says why bother
00:03:30 the weight that says stay down the lie that says we've had enough let it die and then step forward
00:03:41 into the light into the sacred fire into the sacred work you don't wait to feel ready you
00:03:50 move you act you generate heat through action because no one is coming to pull you out of the
00:03:57 cold you have to walk out step by step day by day death by death and rise by rise until one day
00:04:07 there's nothing left in you that chooses the dark at all.
00:04:11 We die. We rise.
00:04:13 We pass from darkness into light
00:04:15 again and again and again.
00:04:19 Words are wind.
00:04:20 Deeds are iron.