Asatru Folk Assembly - February 2019 Facebook Live Discussion

00:00:00.000 I'm giving folks just a second to get online here looks like we got one viewer so far so

00:00:22.620 I'm probably gonna give it a few more minutes here for some people to show up

00:00:26.460 All right, so we got somebody. Hi, David. Thanks for joining us tonight.

00:00:44.880 I was trying to give everybody fair warning. This is my first attempt at Facebook Live,

00:00:50.080 so it's a little sketchy. Please cut me a little bit of slack.

00:00:56.460 Well, I'm trying to give people a couple more minutes, hopefully it won't be just the three

00:01:04.860 of us.

00:01:05.860 If it is, I'm more than happy to talk to you guys, though.

00:01:09.340 Ah, 12, okay, cool.

00:01:14.340 It's just not showing up in the chat room, I told you this was my first time.

00:01:17.460 All right, guys, thank you very much for showing up tonight.

00:01:20.460 I've been talking about this for a long time and it's something I'd really like to do to

00:01:26.160 reach out and kind of have a chat with my AFA family across the country. I try to make it to

00:01:32.780 as many events as I can so I can get out there and meet you guys and raise a horn with you in

00:01:38.680 person. That's what I love to do. But there's some of you that I just can't or that I don't see as

00:01:44.000 much as I'd like to. So this is a great opportunity if you guys have stuff you want to ask or whatnot

00:01:50.060 that I can just kind of reach out and talk to you. So I've been talking about it for a while now and

00:01:54.980 starting starting now I really want to do it before we really take questions

00:02:02.620 there's a couple upcoming AFA things and things we've got going on that I wanted

00:02:06.140 to mention to you guys Thorfest Thorfest is not upcoming but my wife and I were

00:02:14.960 lucky enough to attend it and it was fantastic I just wanted to thank Jason

00:02:20.220 for putting it on and I was so glad to meet the folks out in in Colorado and

00:02:26.100 the people who'd come in from surrounding areas it was it was cold and

00:02:30.780 it was windy and it was it was everything I miss about home so it was

00:02:34.660 really nice to get that chance to to hang out with folks and perform the the

00:02:39.540 wedding for the limits that was fantastic and I was tremendously honored

00:02:44.160 to do that so yeah thanks Jason for hosting that and it's gonna be an

00:02:50.140 annual thing so look forward to that next year if you weren't able to make it

00:02:53.040 January of 2020 now let's look for Thorfest number two and I'll try to make

00:02:59.000 it out again because I sure had a good time next up is matter of fact next

00:03:04.240 weekend charming the plow in Texas Clyde Brown our folk builder there's hosting

00:03:09.760 that this can be the first time that we've done in a official AFA event in

00:03:13.960 Texas and I'm really looking forward to it I know Clyde puts on a heck of a

00:03:19.900 ritual down there and a lot of really good energy a lot of growth in our AFA

00:03:24.580 membership down in Texas this last year and I really love to go down there meet

00:03:28.540 those folks see what they got going on to be a part of it looking forward to it

00:03:31.820 and I hear there's gonna be some very spicy chili that I'm be challenged to

00:03:34.840 eat some of so we'll see how I do with that I also if you got it if you guys

00:03:41.740 can make it I know at short notice but anybody who's close within driving

00:03:44.980 distance, 15th through the 17th in Middle Area, Texas. Come on out if you can. I'd love to see

00:03:53.020 you there. If you can't make Texas, have no fear. You've got more opportunities to go to AFA events.

00:03:59.440 AFA will start in the South in North Carolina. It's going to be going on in March, March 22nd

00:04:04.180 to the 24th. That's always a great event. It's beautiful. Spring's coming out. It's a beautiful

00:04:10.640 time of year i would love to see you guys there um our local folk builders fawn harold and paul

00:04:17.120 hester are putting that on along with help from their deep south folk builder counterparts looking

00:04:22.800 real forward to it it's going to be great um so yeah if you guys can make that out 22nd through

00:04:28.080 the 24th of march it'd be really good to see all right so that being said this year we've already

00:04:38.720 made a good start i don't know how many of you are paying attention to the situation going on in

00:04:43.200 south africa right now but um ethnic europeans who live in south africa are being brutally

00:04:50.800 persecuted uh there's murders and rapes and robberies there's government sanctions seizure

00:04:56.880 of farms and lands that have been some of these people's family for hundreds of years um

00:05:02.640 once very very proud people are being brought to their knees and i want to do the best we can to

00:05:08.400 help them to help the poverty and the safety issues over there and every little bit that we're

00:05:13.840 able to do does go a long way it's been humbling to hear the thanks and the appreciation from the

00:05:20.560 people in south africa you know one that we're donating and trying to help that way but two

00:05:26.800 even that we just care the fact that we in the afa being over here in america care about what's

00:05:33.120 going on with them when so many of the news media outlets aren't covering it and so much the world

00:05:37.840 doesn't care it means a lot to those folks we're off to a great start if you're interested you

00:05:43.040 want to help there's a lot of donation options if you go to www.runestone.org to our donate page and

00:05:48.880 want to help us out with that i know it's something that's very much appreciated our fault builder

00:05:54.080 for that region is cameron modest and he he's put a lot of heart and soul and blood sweat and tears

00:06:00.320 and trying to make that work and he's doing a great job so uh thank you for those that have

00:06:04.320 donated and thank you for those who intend to donate um another thing i wanted to talk to you

00:06:10.320 guys about while i'm on donations while i'm asking for you guys money i'm gonna ask you for one more

00:06:14.400 thing um some of you may know we just paid off odin's off out here or out there in california

00:06:20.480 just over the mountains from me um that's a huge achievement in and of itself and we couldn't have

00:06:26.720 done it without you guys and the help that you've given us but that brings us on to our next exciting

00:06:32.720 project, we're going to get us, establish us a second half. We're going to make that

00:06:37.700 happen. We're going to make it happen a lot sooner than most people think. But how soon

00:06:42.740 depends on if we get the generous support of people like yourselves and people you may

00:06:47.640 know and anybody that wants to help us accomplish it. But we are opening, we're planning, we're

00:06:53.840 scheming, we're trying to make that happen right now. So if you guys can donate, if

00:06:58.780 go to www.runstone.org same donate place that i mentioned about south africa if you want to donate

00:07:06.060 towards the hoff fund we'll get that project going uh lightning fast here and make it happen i'm

00:07:12.380 pretty excited we've got great things in store so again thank you guys we appreciate your generosity

00:07:17.900 with that kind of the point of while we're all here is you guys have any questions for me is

00:07:22.460 anything you want me to address anything you want to know anything you guys want to talk about this

00:07:28.380 I'm told there's a little bit of delay, so I'm kind of waiting for some of that to come through.

00:07:36.440 I appreciate all the little thumbs up going through my screen.

00:07:39.460 That's nice to see.

00:07:43.640 See some familiar faces over in the chat room.

00:07:46.200 That's encouraging.

00:07:49.500 Tiffany, I never get to talk to you.

00:07:51.080 Thank you so much for what you're doing with Votan's Wolves.

00:07:53.680 um blaine and i were just talking about that uh monday night about what a great job you're doing

00:08:00.040 with that you and cole have done great with that you're uh votons wolves if anybody listening

00:08:06.120 doesn't know what that is it's a uh it's a youth program that uh cole and tiffany distal started

00:08:13.360 and so many people talk about that all the time i've you know i've been floating around

00:08:18.400 out some true circles now for a better part of 20 years and I've heard wanting to do these youth

00:08:24.040 programs it's kind of one of those perennial one of these days things and rather than wait for one

00:08:28.740 of these days they just stepped up and went out and did it and they're doing a really really nice

00:08:32.280 job so Cole and Tiffany thank you guys very much oh my little chat thing's not auto-scrolling

00:08:42.040 working out the kinks here and figuring out who else we got saying stuff in the conversation

00:08:46.440 question. Where will the next HOF be? Well, that's a good question. I know you guys all

00:08:51.440 want to know. A lot of things to consider. So we don't want to 100% commit until we're

00:08:58.500 ready to actually put something down on our property. But there's a couple of things that

00:09:02.760 we're looking at. In order for us to invest in a HOF, we need to have a very stable population

00:09:08.780 of active, enthusiastic, and loyal AFA members. Making the investment of a HOF means we're

00:09:14.800 going to have something that's going to last you know hopefully something that's going to last

00:09:18.560 forever there and so we want to make sure we have a very stable group of people that are going to get

00:09:22.880 the most out of it going to be able to make use of it and take care of it the way that it deserves

00:09:27.520 to be taken care of so one of the things is to have a solid membership group there the other

00:09:33.600 thing is we need some redundancy on volunteers kindreds there people that are going to step up

00:09:39.760 we don't want it all on one kindred in a location or one volunteer or one local leader we want you

00:09:46.720 know in case somebody falls through or in case somebody gets sick and can't step up we want a

00:09:51.120 group of people so that a whole community can support it so those are the things that we're

00:09:55.040 looking for um so yeah that's where we're at with that and also it depends on how fast we're able

00:10:01.200 to raise the raise the funds to put the down payment down so those things all kind of factor

00:10:05.680 into our decision. Thanks, Mitch. I appreciate it. I'm trying my best. Hi, Caleb. Oh, hey,

00:10:19.040 Mark. We've got Mark Puryear over here and part of the conversation. Thanks for joining.

00:10:25.380 my wife's telling me we got some some guy named burp brian wilton i i guess we're letting everybody

00:10:37.060 in right now so hey brian if you didn't check it out check out um steve's interview with brian

00:10:43.780 that he did on tuesday it was fantastic um really good conversation and uh both men that i have a

00:10:50.980 a lot of respect for it and they had a really good talk, so, Steve's Ragnarok and Roll on

00:10:55.900 YouTube.

00:11:05.180 Got a number of people who know he's asking me anything.

00:11:07.580 What gives?

00:11:13.920 Alright, well until you guys do ask me something, or until I get bored here, I want to talk

00:11:17.840 to you guys about uh what we got upcoming ostara in north carolina i talked about at the beginning

00:11:25.520 but i think we've got a lot of folks that have joined us since then that's our next our next

00:11:29.440 thing is charming of the plow in texas but that's next week if next weekend you don't have anything

00:11:34.400 to do and you can make it to central texas please absolutely make it there um love to see you and if

00:11:41.760 If you can't, next month in March, AFA Zostara in the South is going on in North Carolina.

00:11:47.720 That's going to be a really nice event.

00:11:49.140 My wife and I are going to be there.

00:11:51.140 We would love to see you.

00:11:52.760 A lot of great people that we only get to see a couple of times a year are going to

00:11:57.360 be there.

00:11:58.360 We've got a lot of people coming up from the Deep South, a lot of people coming down from

00:12:01.380 the Northeast.

00:12:02.380 It's going to be a lot of nice folks.

00:12:03.880 If you've never made it to an AFA event, that would be a really good one to be your first

00:12:07.760 one.

00:12:08.760 hope I see you guys there. Jessica, as far as advice on how to get more involved, the key to

00:12:25.260 that is reaching out to your local folk builder. Our folk builders are the tip of the spear as far

00:12:32.360 as AFA activity in your local area, and if you live a little ways away, talk to them because

00:12:37.620 you'd be surprised. We have a lot of local events that go on that may be closer to you than you

00:12:41.780 think. So if you reach out to your folk builder, hopefully they can also get you connected online.

00:12:46.960 I know it's not the same thing, but you do get to meet a lot of AFA members through some of our

00:12:50.820 Facebook groups. And it's a good chance to get your feet wet and get to know some folks.

00:12:58.660 That way you'll already be ahead of the game when you do get to meet some people in person.

00:13:02.960 But if you're regularly interacting with that local folk builder, hopefully they can get you

00:13:07.400 somebody in person that you can meet and interact with and have some some live

00:13:11.580 interaction if for some reason you don't or that's not working out well for you

00:13:16.700 please reach out to me directly and I will do what I can to help you Matt

00:13:20.260 Flabel at runestone org or you can message me here on Facebook and I'd love

00:13:24.780 to see what I can do to help hey Brian what's up oh yeah piety so I talked

00:13:33.160 about piety today um so I thought we're gonna ask simple questions that's a big

00:13:41.740 deep topic for me to get to one of the things that I mentioned to Brian who's

00:13:46.040 one of our go thar Brian's go the priest in the Ostra folk assembly and we

00:13:51.380 talked today a little bit about piety and the the crux of the conversation was

00:13:56.980 in modern house history there's been a big lack of of piety and religiosity

00:14:03.360 there's been a great amount of enthusiasm for building community and for

00:14:08.580 the folk and helping us get together but oftentimes our mindset isn't taking the

00:14:13.720 gods as seriously as we ought to and that's something we've been working on

00:14:17.380 I've seen positive movement in one of the things that I was mentioning to

00:14:21.400 Brian that I do want to touch on here with you guys how many times have we

00:14:26.840 all left bloat and, you know, wondered how it affected the person next to us. You know, I know

00:14:35.080 myself, you know, did I do a good job? Did everybody like it? You know, did these people get moved? Did

00:14:40.380 it help these folks over here? And those are all really important things. But how many times have

00:14:45.400 we left bloat and asked ourselves, you know, wow, I really hope Odin liked that. Wow, I really hope

00:14:51.720 the gods were pleased with what we just did here. Wow, we invoked my ancestors. I really

00:14:56.960 hope that they're proud of what we did. And I'd like to see us all ask ourselves those

00:15:01.500 questions more often and develop that piety a little bit. And we've been doing a great

00:15:06.100 job with it. I'd just like to see us all be more conscious of it going forward because

00:15:09.500 I think that's going to be the key to our success in the short term and in the long

00:15:14.560 term. So thanks for asking about that, Brian.

00:15:16.780 um one's wolves how widespread is that very wide one of the problems that's always held

00:15:26.140 people back before is us having a big enough group of the same aged kids in one area to make

00:15:33.380 something really happen and we've always kind of waited and waited on that to happen and maybe one

00:15:37.520 of these days well the distals decided to stop waiting and start doing and so you know they've

00:15:43.600 brought together children from around the United States. I know a lot in their region

00:15:48.280 and surrounding regions, but it's pretty widespread. I would reach out to them, and they can get

00:15:54.560 you set up if you need to know more specifics.

00:16:07.000 I'm trying to take these questions in the order they come in. All right, Mark, I figured

00:16:11.520 somebody's gonna ask about that tonight um so the situation with being drugged

00:16:19.380 through the mud by the SPLC there's nothing you can do to please those

00:16:24.720 people they like to label other groups of people as hate groups but I've

00:16:29.580 encountered very few people more hateful than those folks the things they say

00:16:35.160 about us the labels they put on us certainly aren't true and if you look at

00:16:40.500 their reasoning for why we're hateful it's kind of shocking what what passes

00:16:44.220 is hate these days we're not a hate group never been a hate group we don't

00:16:49.500 got time to hate people we're busy building and we're busy loving our folk

00:16:53.400 loving our gods and loving our children and what we're building that's what we've

00:16:58.380 got time for it sucks but that's the world we live in and we see more and

00:17:04.200 more of that these days it's really unfortunate and it's especially 0.98

00:17:07.440 unfortunate when there's lies and misinformation involved so yeah that

00:17:12.560 really saddens me and it also saddens me if there's a police officer out there

00:17:15.940 being persecuted for his religious preference or for you know having a

00:17:22.760 worldview that doesn't match today's political correctness that's a really

00:17:26.400 sad statement on where we're at as a society and I hope that gets better

00:17:37.440 Anybody else have questions or stuff they want me to talk about tonight?

00:17:50.100 It's a little bit of delay, so I'm waiting and reading the chat going on.

00:17:56.960 If you guys can't tell, I got Mandy over here monitoring stuff and trying to help connect the dots and connect people that have questions.

00:18:05.800 That's Mandy.

00:18:07.440 Sorry guys, I'm reading a question from Katrina here.

00:18:37.440 okay so being a new member does the afa have a specific way of worship or approach to spiritual

00:18:42.560 practice yes next question no uh to give you a little bit more on that and i'd love to see

00:18:48.720 more discussion on spirituality in those groups too um if any of our gothar out there listening

00:18:55.280 uh let's step up and try to do that and provide for folks because you know some of us who've been

00:19:00.240 at this for a long time around don't realize how it is for somebody who's new and not quite sure

00:19:04.240 how everything works yet so you know we absolutely do have a specific way of worship and what we do

00:19:10.640 um i don't know how familiar you are with it already but our two main two main rituals are

00:19:16.240 bloat or a feigning as some people call it and stumble bloat is when we typically we stand in

00:19:23.600 a circle outside and we're approaching the divine and giving them an offering and hoping for their

00:19:29.920 blessing in return symbols a little bit different it's more about the community

00:19:34.800 and that's typically us sitting in a circle and sharing a horn of mead and

00:19:40.000 making toasts over it and bonding together by usually three rounds around

00:19:44.920 hailing our gods one towards our ancestors and then one towards whatever

00:19:51.020 else we may need to get off our chest or often towards the heroes so that's the

00:19:57.600 basics of it but i would really encourage you and i'm not sure where you're located but reaching out

00:20:04.160 to uh reaching out to your local gothar would be great uh i believe if you want to get with me

00:20:14.160 after this i can figure out exactly who your nearest gothi is and i can get you guys set up

00:20:19.600 um but yeah i'd love to help you do that and we do need to increase our talk about spirituality

00:20:25.120 in our online groups and we'd like to start doing something out hope that was helpful

00:20:33.280 who was the folk builder for las vegas nevada the folk builder for you right now mary is heather

00:20:38.080 so heather clinkenbeard is taking care of southern california and the southern half of nevada so

00:20:43.920 she's who you need to talk to and reach out to and hopefully she can help our folks down

00:20:48.720 those areas get squared away mark yes I yes I have an opinion on the academic

00:21:06.480 treatments of our lore but without something a little bit more specific I'm

00:21:10.140 not sure how to approach such broad topic rest assured I do have opinions on

00:21:14.280 those things oh thanks for everybody who's just joining us now it's great to

00:21:20.960 have you guys

00:21:23.300 Okay, so Wolves of Inland, I'm trying to read because it's a multiple part question

00:21:44.520 here um do we okay does our organization have any affiliation with alliance with experience with or

00:21:54.920 thoughts on the wolves of inland we do not have an affiliation with we do not have an alliance with

00:22:00.680 we have some experience with and we do have some thoughts on um so i guess as far as experience

00:22:08.680 goes way back when i joined the afa and was first getting involved um over 10 years ago now uh the

00:22:15.960 wolves of inland were actually afa members or at least parts of them were it was a very different

00:22:21.560 organization back then and the leadership structure was a little bit different um but in the very

00:22:26.600 early days of me being involved with the afa there was there was a rift and they drifted away and are

00:22:31.400 They're no longer, no longer part of the Austro Folk Assembly.

00:22:37.040 They are a very spirited bunch and have a lot of enthusiasm with their rituals and the stuff that they do.

00:22:45.960 And their major spokesman and their front man, if you will, Paul Wagner, I'll say this.

00:22:51.540 I have a lot of respect for Paul personally.

00:22:54.880 I think there's a lot of good character involved in that man.

00:22:57.380 And I think that he is, as far as left-hand path practitioners, I think that he is extremely powerful and potent.

00:23:05.100 He's one of the few people that takes that sort of thing and manifests it in his life as success.

00:23:12.240 So I think Paul's done some really great things.

00:23:14.260 And, you know, behind the scenes, he's been a real class act.

00:23:17.700 Wolves themselves, our biggest problem that we have as the House True Folk Assembly is their embracing of chaos.

00:23:27.380 a chaos aesthetic they've done some rituals to Jormungand and forces of 0.92

00:23:34.320 chaos and the Astrofocal assembly is devoted to worshiping the Aesir and the

00:23:38.360 gods of order we can't serve the gods of order and then be involved with an 0.93

00:23:43.320 organization that provides worship to their enemies I know somebody will you

00:23:47.880 know question the term worship because I think a lot of the people in the wolves

00:23:51.020 are more atheistic and how they approach things like that but regardless we're

00:23:56.520 theistic we do believe in the gods and we can't into conscious support worshiping you know they're

00:24:02.280 foes and the force of chaos so that's kind of where we fall with the wolves and there was a

00:24:07.800 time there i haven't paid a lot of attention to what they're up to lately but there was a time

00:24:11.960 where there was there was a lot of unseemly and what i think a lot of us refer to as degenerate

00:24:19.960 things going on um as far as their shirts and the way they were presenting themselves and things

00:24:25.560 that way and it's just not an aesthetic that we approve of but that's kind of that's kind of where

00:24:30.920 we're at with the wolves oh one more thing before i get off of the wolves of inland another thing

00:24:40.500 they focus on a lot is destruction i think that both the afa and the wolves see a lot wrong with

00:24:46.620 the world that we live in today there's so much that's not good out there and they talk a lot

00:24:53.640 about wanting to just burn it all down and, you know, let's live in Mad Max time.

00:24:59.420 And in the AstroFolk Assembly, instead of focusing on tearing stuff down, we want to

00:25:04.400 focus on building things up.

00:25:06.200 We all see things we don't like, but our focus is really on things we want to build,

00:25:11.580 things we want to achieve, and creating and not destroying.

00:25:17.860 So I think that's another big fundamental difference.

00:25:23.640 I'm not sure who keeps making the angry face Brian yeah I've seen the same angry face I'm not sure

00:25:40.080 who keeps hitting it but uh angry folks out there that's the world we live in these days

00:25:45.660 oh you're very welcome David I hope that was helpful and if you got any more

00:25:53.880 follow-ups or anything I'm glad to glad to clarify more if I need to hmm all

00:26:08.700 right I'm gonna keep doing this a little bit because that's just how this is

00:26:10.920 gonna work are there any more questions or anything that people but well there's

00:26:13.900 The angry faces, angry faces, lots of angry faces.

00:26:18.700 I don't know what I said or did,

00:26:19.780 but somebody's grumpy.

00:26:24.760 If those of you are not seeing this in the chat room,

00:26:28.080 our Gothar coordinator, Blaine Qualls,

00:26:30.920 is letting you know that the applications

00:26:34.120 for this next round of our Gothar course

00:26:37.120 are up on the website and to contact him slash us

00:26:42.120 that's something you're interested in um it's demanding it's hard and not everybody who applies

00:26:48.840 makes it through first not everybody who applies is accepted and secondly not everybody applies

00:26:53.240 makes it through it's very difficult but hopefully it's very rewarding to the folks that do make it

00:26:58.760 through and i know that it's very rewarding to us as a church when our folks do make it through and

00:27:03.880 and over the years people like to use the title of go-fi an awful lot

00:27:09.080 but I'm very proud that within the AFA it doesn't get thrown around lightly

00:27:15.440 people who are ordained by the Austria folk assembly is go through our people

00:27:19.800 who've put in a lot of work a lot of study a lot of dedication and I have the

00:27:24.800 utmost respect for those folks so if you want to if you're interested in that if

00:27:28.580 that's something you want to pursue applications up on the website and

00:27:32.540 and BlameQuals will be your contact for it.

00:27:48.300 Greetings, Eric S. Hughes.

00:27:56.520 Got any more questions or anything you guys

00:27:58.860 like to hear me talk about within reason all right so we got dead ears I'm gonna

00:28:21.480 find something to talk to you about I'm gonna go back a little bit to what

00:28:24.600 Brian was talking to us about early. Oh, actually, I'm going to ask Mark if he's still with us. You

00:28:31.440 asked me a question. It was kind of vague early about the scholarly treatment of, I think it was

00:28:37.400 our lore. If you have something more specific that you want me to answer on that, I'd be happy

00:28:42.360 to. It was just so broad. I wasn't sure where to take a stab at it. Oh, Brandy, you're leaving us

00:28:51.540 so soon I'm sorry to hear that thanks for coming and I'm looking forward to

00:28:55.200 talking to you at Fall Fest

00:29:10.840 okay so Katrina you want to talk to us about what we're building and what

00:29:15.720 goals that we're building towards so right now our founder Steve McNallan put

00:29:23.320 us on this this nine-year cycle of building things and the first phase was

00:29:29.640 the first three years was awakening the second three years was empowerment well

00:29:34.280 the three years that we're in right now the focus is on immortality so what

00:29:39.180 we're trying to build is an organization a church that's going to outlast us

00:29:45.860 that's going to develop and grow and be a rock-solid institution that our children and their

00:29:52.420 children and their children's children can look to and come and honor our gods and support our folk

00:29:59.780 and revere our ancestors and practice our ways and so that's the kind of long-term goals that

00:30:05.300 we're going towards right now we're focusing a lot on establishing hoffs around the country

00:30:12.900 and hopefully around the world got the first one down the first one's always the hardest it's going

00:30:17.780 to be easier from here but that's that's one of the things establishing buildings and stuff in

00:30:24.020 the real world something physical that you can reach out and touch is such an important thing

00:30:29.460 to the legitimacy that others see in you but also the legitimacy that you feel with things

00:30:35.460 that you're doing all of a sudden you know concepts and thoughts become real you have an

00:30:41.620 Actual spot to do sacred space one of the coolest things at Odin's Hoff

00:30:45.880 For the longest time if you read about how to perform our true rituals when you're gonna do a bloat

00:30:52.180 You you have to do this hammer signing use hammer right to create sacred space

00:30:57.220 you go around to a park or your backyard or

00:31:01.940 Wherever random place that you know as vagabonds 1.00

00:31:05.340 We'd have to go to and you create that sacred space and you do this hammer, right?

00:31:10.160 one of the coolest things is when I realized that the Hoff that I don't always need to do that we

00:31:14.340 have sacred space that's permanent and that's something that our people have wanted for for

00:31:19.580 so long and we have now so that's something we're really trying to build towards it's more Hoffs as

00:31:27.200 far as building would like to see more AFA members around the world and that's been something that's

00:31:31.400 been fantastic Cameron Madison New Zealand has built up Australia and New Zealand to be really

00:31:37.740 thriving AFA areas. And I'm so excited for that. And then Anders and Linus have done a great job

00:31:45.080 of making Scandinavia just explode within the last 13 months, maybe 14 months. They have

00:31:53.820 created something amazing over there. And I'm looking forward to going and visiting those

00:31:57.760 folks in May. So that's the kind of stuff we're trying to build towards right now.

00:32:02.000 I heard we had a question about becoming an AFA member.

00:32:10.620 The application is on our website, www.roomstone.org.

00:32:16.300 If you do that, I ask that you read our Declaration of Purpose and our Statement of Ethics and

00:32:20.440 make sure you're on board with what we're about and what we stand for.

00:32:23.120 And if you are, we'd love to have you apply for membership.

00:32:25.440 at the moment to apply is right there.

00:32:41.460 Well, Zeke, for myself,

00:32:42.500 I love taking the time to talk to you guys.

00:32:45.560 I look forward to talking to my AFA family all the time.

00:32:49.320 You guys are great,

00:32:50.160 and I don't get to talk to you nearly as much

00:32:51.540 as I'd like to.

00:32:55.440 so mark asks and I need to start reading the questions instead of just responding to them

00:33:06.240 like I told you I'm new we're working on this but mark is asking we've been looking at schools of

00:33:12.300 thought in academia do you think the academics have been a disservice to our faith in this sense

00:33:17.280 i think thinking without doing is a disservice to our faith and i think we have a for a long time

00:33:29.920 absolute you had a lot of folks that studied ancient tomes and you know obscure pieces of

00:33:38.080 pottery and artifacts but they wrote it from inside their homes and they didn't get out

00:33:44.800 and practice and they didn't get out and perform bloat and get together with their folk and worship

00:33:49.760 our gods and i think that if your academics is removed from practice that is a disservice i

00:33:56.400 think it becomes very very easy to purity spiral and to um to be destructive that way and to pick

00:34:05.760 apart everything that you feel is done incorrectly instead of instead of spending the time to

00:34:10.240 participate in the things that may really change your life and add dimension

00:34:15.400 and depth and richness to our faith I think in that sense academics to a large

00:34:20.800 part have been a disservice but we wouldn't know what we know and we

00:34:24.220 wouldn't be able to understand the things we do about our ancestors if we

00:34:27.360 didn't have some of those academics so I think that's that's too broad of a brush

00:34:31.780 to paint it all with but it's my thoughts on that so I'm just looking over here at

00:34:52.300 the questions in the chat I apologize oddly enough lots of them are for my

00:34:57.340 life, not even for me. Okay, so Spahn is asking us about what are my views on Pan-Germanic

00:35:21.400 and Pan-European or even Pan-Indo-European spirituality and their congruence together?

00:35:27.340 The AFA has now, has always been, and will continue to be in the future, not only Pan-European, but Pan-Aryan in our approach.

00:35:37.540 The Aryan family of religions all have a commonality and come from the same source and the same root.

00:35:45.860 And I think that by studying different related belief structures, there's a lot that can be said for enhancing our understanding of our lore and our practice.

00:35:55.440 especially here in America where so many of us are from a number of different tribes of Europe

00:36:02.060 it's very important to keep in mind the things that are common to those European tribes and

00:36:08.420 common to that shared spiritual heritage instead of focusing too heavily on one small region or

00:36:14.200 one small point in time because as the time recedes towards the ice age our folk become

00:36:20.120 much more of a cohesive unit and that's the time where our divine really spoke

00:36:24.920 to our people in a way that founded all of our faith. Ben Peterson, I've

00:36:35.540 talked about this a little bit lately as far as ritual attire, collar and tie,

00:36:40.880 when is historical or period attire appropriate or useful as I've said

00:36:51.920 earlier I think it's fundamentally important that when we approach the

00:36:56.300 divine we're doing something sacred we dress like we're doing something sacred

00:37:02.020 I'm wearing a shirt and tie right now I don't typically in the evening sit around

00:37:07.380 my house in a shirt and tie. But when I'm going to come on here as the Al's Harrier go through 0.78

00:37:11.580 the Al's True Folk Assembly and address my folk, it's a special occasion. It's something worth

00:37:15.620 dressing for. If you guys are all going to be here asking me questions and I'm going to, you know,

00:37:20.500 pontificate on my thoughts on things, I owe it to you guys. I owe it to our gods and I owe it to

00:37:25.360 the AFA to try to look my best for it. And I think that attitude is what we should have when we

00:37:29.860 approach our gods when we're literally speaking to the gods of our folk we

00:37:39.180 shouldn't be dressed with any less care then you know when we go to a wedding or

00:37:46.240 a family family reunion or dinner with your grandparents something special we

00:37:51.040 should dress for that there's different you know there's different occasions if

00:37:55.180 we're doing something out in the woods and it's a hiking thing that of course

00:37:57.940 you're wearing hiking clothes if you're out of the camp then you're probably going to be wearing

00:38:02.100 camp out clothes but you do the best that you can within reason and you make sure your intentions

00:38:07.220 there is to look nice for yourself for your gods for your ancestors and for your folk that are

00:38:13.300 there with you um as far as historical like anachronistic period clothes if you want to be

00:38:21.220 a reenactor that's fine there's a time and a place for that there's reenactors all across

00:38:25.140 the country and i assume throughout the world that reenact things and that's that's cool

00:38:29.380 if as recreation you want to dress in viking clothes and reenact great more power to you

00:38:35.700 that's that's fantastic but it doesn't have a relationship to our faith if in a small group

00:38:41.220 of people you and your kindred you guys feel closer to the gods by you know wearing a tunic

00:38:47.140 and some chain mail that's up to you guys um but as the afa as a church it's our standard

00:38:53.540 to try to dress our best in modern attire that's going to be recognizable to our people to our

00:38:59.460 ancestors and to our gods as dressing with enough respect for what we're doing and that's

00:39:04.180 really the focus is dressing appropriately to approach the divine

00:39:08.100 All right. Kevin Long asks, what do you recommend to folks who get hit with religious discrimination

00:39:26.280 for their folkish beliefs? It is my sincere wish that I could tell you right now that if you behave

00:39:35.000 a certain way if you keep your nose clean if you do everything right then people are going to treat

00:39:40.520 you fairly and laws are going to apply to you i wish that i could tell you that but it's just not

00:39:45.240 true the best we can do is maintain ourselves how we present ourselves and how we speak in a manner

00:39:56.760 that we're proud of yeah people watching you all the time our beliefs are right we're not

00:40:04.280 doing anything wrong we're not hurting anyone and we're not going to for an afa standpoint if you

00:40:10.840 are discriminated against for your afa participation i can assure you that we're not a hate group

00:40:16.840 never been a hate group and never will be a group because i made sure that we're not focusing on hate

00:40:22.280 it's not helpful it's not constructive and as i've talked about our whole thing is about

00:40:26.120 constructing it's not building we have a right in this country to have a religion

00:40:34.520 of our choosing and to have beliefs of our choosing and be proud if you know

00:40:40.760 you're doing the right thing and you know that you're not hurting anybody

00:40:43.760 and you're not doing anything wrong hold your head high stick your chest out and

00:40:48.840 be proud of yourself we'll do anything we can to support you and it's the world

00:40:54.600 we live in and unfortunately it's the world is a much scarier place than facebook would have you

00:41:00.460 believe it's very easy to post a viking meme with a guy with a bloody axe and talk about courage but

00:41:05.900 there's a cost to it sometimes in the real world and uh really sad that anybody has to pay that

00:41:11.580 cost but courage is valuable and it's what separates the heroes from folks that will never

00:41:17.440 know their names so uh hold your head up keep doing what you're doing make sure that you're

00:41:22.240 acting right and that's the best and the only thing you can do. I do not have wings. It is a

00:41:32.060 goat hide that law speaker Alan Turnage gifted me a number of years ago. It's comfy, but it is

00:41:38.840 kind of funny looking. I'll give you that. Mark, modernized vestment. Depends on what it looks like.

00:41:47.680 We've talked about that for a while and wondering what that would look like.

00:41:51.560 I'm not opposed to it.

00:41:54.400 Again, I'd want it to look formal.

00:41:56.100 I'd want it to look respectful and something we can all be proud of

00:42:00.200 and something that's not silly looking.

00:42:01.900 I'm not really sure what that is yet.

00:42:03.780 If I was, probably I'd wear one.

00:42:05.600 So if you've got ideas on that, reach out and let us know.

00:42:10.580 Mary, it would be way cooler if it was a bearskin.

00:42:13.360 Unfortunately, it's not.

00:42:17.680 Jessica, discrimination within our own families for being folkish.

00:42:27.460 That's hard. It's especially hard when we're such a family-oriented faith.

00:42:35.260 Best thing that I can say is stand for what you believe in, but don't be a jerk about it. 0.99

00:42:41.640 So often we get so much of this liberal nonsense shoved down our throat in the world we live in 0.98

00:42:47.280 that we just want to take a stand and we want to we always want to be hard about it especially with

00:42:53.140 your families don't they're your family try to tell them with the best of who you are why you

00:43:01.580 believe what you believe and leave any of the frustration that you know others have put in your

00:43:07.980 way leave that aside when you do um if if it's what you believe in and it's you know if you

00:43:14.820 believe in what the Astro focus and we believes and it's something you should be proud of it's

00:43:19.060 not ever something you should be ashamed of and it's something you should be able to articulate

00:43:23.160 to your family members in a loving way and in a way they're going to they're going to recognize

00:43:28.160 that you know if they know that their daughter is a good person and how she lives is right and

00:43:34.620 she cares about other people and she does the right thing then hopefully you'll be able to

00:43:39.900 communicate to your family in a way that they'll understand where you're coming from or at least

00:43:45.180 that you're not some kind of a monster and like I said one of the other things is and I can't

00:43:51.840 overstate this don't ever start apologizing or equivocating for stuff that you believe in

00:44:00.220 apologize when you do something wrong but don't ever apologize when you're doing something right

00:44:03.720 if you stand proud for what you believe in you have a much better chance of people taking it

00:44:09.480 and accepting it than if you act like you're doing something wrong because we're not. So

00:44:14.640 don't ever feel like you have to act that way. I hope that helps some people join in

00:44:31.560 Hey, Chancey.

00:44:38.540 All right, that was a good little run there.

00:44:41.120 Does anybody else have anything they want me

00:44:42.620 to talk about tonight or that they'd like to ask?

00:44:48.020 Any of our new people maybe?

00:45:01.560 those of you just joining us just because there's some dead air and it's something to do i'm going

00:45:06.340 to plug ostara again for the people that didn't hear it the first two times ostara in march in

00:45:11.980 north carolina 22nd through the 24th it's going to be great we're going to have our upper south

00:45:17.760 people there we're going to have our deep south people coming up we're going to have people from

00:45:21.200 the northeast and new england coming down for it mandy and i'll be there if you can make it

00:45:27.560 it's well worth it i'm looking forward to seeing y'all there i hope that you guys can

00:45:31.400 I hope that you guys show up and I'm looking forward to having, you know,

00:45:35.780 the same kind of conversation, but sitting around a fire,

00:45:38.320 drinking some meat and enjoying your company in real life.

00:46:01.400 I'm sorry if you guys are hearing that ping.

00:46:03.120 Somebody's blowing me up on Facebook and I can't look at it while I'm doing this live.

00:46:09.740 I suppose that's a good problem to have, not even knowing what you don't know.

00:46:18.440 There you go.

00:46:19.620 How's the food drive going, asked Victor.

00:46:21.960 Food drive's going fantastic.

00:46:24.080 And thanks in large part to you, Victor, and you're volunteering and helping out.

00:46:28.760 That's something I'm not sure if everybody here is aware of.

00:46:31.400 Um, this last summer there was, you know, there's always been big, I'm sure you guys

00:46:36.240 on the news have heard about the fires in California, but there was a fire in the town

00:46:39.980 Brownsville where our Hoff is located that burned down the local gas station slash drug

00:46:45.000 store to where people were buying a lot of their groceries in the town.

00:46:48.720 Those of you who may not be aware of it, it's a very economically depressed little town.

00:46:53.040 It's one of the reasons we were able to get a really good deal on the Hoff there, but

00:46:56.600 folks there are really really struggling but the food bank reached out to us to see if we wanted

00:47:03.640 to help them with distributing food to the people of Brownsville and we were so excited to get the

00:47:08.680 opportunity and since then they've been absolutely great working with us that was that happened in

00:47:14.840 June and every month on the first Saturday of the month AFA members have been out there volunteering

00:47:20.840 and giving food to people who really really need it and very much appreciate it you see cars rolling

00:47:29.080 up they're held together by duct tape with four people in them because that's all they could take

00:47:34.160 to carpool up there to get get food so it really is impactful on these people's lives every month

00:47:39.800 we're feeding you know with the help of the food bank we're able to feed well over a hundred

00:47:46.280 individuals and just about a hundred families total so it's been a really

00:47:51.900 really nice thing and recently a local group of Cub Scouts has been helping us

00:47:56.680 out also and so we really appreciate that

00:48:01.000 again. Sorry for the close-up there. I was leaning in to read my message.

00:48:20.760 Oh, okay. Cool. Yes, that was a typo. All right.

00:48:24.360 can those who are new to house or true and not yet members of the afa be welcomed to any events

00:48:33.580 yes conditionally um if you're not an afa member because we try to vet people when we have these

00:48:39.540 events we have families there we have ladies we have children we want to make sure that people

00:48:43.800 are protected and safe so if you want to come to an afa event reach out to your local folk builder

00:48:49.940 and start up a conversation with them.

00:48:52.300 You don't have to be an AFA member necessarily,

00:48:54.500 but they do have to vouch for you, and it'd be okay.

00:48:57.560 So if you want to come to one of these events,

00:48:59.740 reach out to your local folk builder.

00:49:01.380 They'll try to get you all set up,

00:49:02.940 and we would love to see you at one of them.

00:49:04.660 One of these events may be the thing that seals the deal

00:49:06.600 and makes you want to join.

00:49:13.820 Ah, a lot of posts regarding health and wellness within the AFA.

00:49:17.160 Any thoughts on the driving force?

00:49:19.940 our faith has always been a holistic one that should encompass all of a person and all of a

00:49:32.280 person's life for instance you're not just also true when you're at bloat or when you're at the

00:49:37.280 hof you're also true with when you're at work you're also true when you're sitting around at

00:49:42.360 home with your family you're also true when you go you know wherever you are whatever you're doing

00:49:47.900 you should be living out our faith and one of the things is trying to be the very best you can be

00:49:53.100 that was always very important to our ancestors it's very important to us now and one of the

00:49:59.820 i talked earlier about things that we're trying to build matter of fact you asked me a question

00:50:03.260 about stuff that we were trying to build and construct the easiest thing that you can build

00:50:08.940 is yourself we see all these things around that we want to fix and take care of and yes please

00:50:15.180 do those things but the most simple and easiest thing you can do is take charge of your own life

00:50:21.420 your own health your own body your own fitness and wellness and try to make that more to something

00:50:27.020 that you like make that to the best it can be one of the things i dearly believe within the afa that

00:50:32.620 we need to strive for is always being better tomorrow i want to be a little bit stronger

00:50:38.700 a little bit faster a little bit smarter a little bit you know a little bit better husband a little

00:50:44.620 bit better. I was hairy or goofy. And I want to do that every single day. And I think that if we 0.93

00:50:50.080 all try to do that, we'd all be surprised at what that stacks up into. So that's kind of the driving

00:50:55.320 force behind our pushing towards wellness and fitness. In our culture, certainly in the United

00:51:01.380 States in general, obesity is a big problem. All kinds of health things coming with our modern

00:51:07.680 lifestyle and just the world we live in today is difficult. So it's really important that we

00:51:12.980 encourage each other to get better, to get stronger, to get in better shape, to look better,

00:51:18.120 to feel better. And by doing that, hopefully, one of the reasons we talk about it so much on

00:51:23.520 AFA Facebook media is so we can build from each other's strengths. So I can see and be encouraged

00:51:29.440 by what you're doing. So maybe you can see and be encouraged by what I or what somebody else is

00:51:33.720 doing. So that's really important to us. And so far, that's been doing great. I'm really proud

00:51:38.620 of how that's taken off. And we've got a lot of people that have made a lot of really good changes

00:51:42.120 I appreciate it. David, I appreciate you doing that.

00:51:58.340 I appreciate you extending me that courtesy. Maybe,

00:52:01.040 maybe one of these days if I'm not feeling good, I'll take you up on it,

00:52:04.060 but hopefully I'm not in that bad of shape.

00:52:12.120 Does anybody else have anything we want to talk about tonight?

00:52:19.720 I've almost gone an hour here, but if you guys have got more that you want to talk about

00:52:23.940 or anything else you want to ask, we'll keep doing it.

00:52:27.260 I think this has been fun.

00:52:28.860 When this is all done and over, let me know, send me a message, let me know if this was

00:52:32.280 something cool, and we can keep doing these regularly because I enjoy talking to you guys.

00:52:36.240 And I think this is a really good format

00:52:38.600 to be able to do that.

00:52:50.000 Oh, there's another angry face.

00:52:51.660 I didn't say, are you angry

00:52:53.200 because I'm gonna stop talking here shortly?

00:52:54.800 I don't blame you.

00:52:56.620 I'd be angry for that too.

00:53:06.240 hail the AFA indeed Kevin looking forward to seeing you too and not too

00:53:11.460 long well I've harped on you guys about most of the stuff I was going to talk to

00:53:21.500 you about last last chance do we have any more questions tonight oh hey Don

00:53:31.420 Ron, you're coming in on the tail end here, but we got a couple of people coming in on

00:53:36.420 the tail end.

00:53:37.420 Any of the new guys?

00:53:38.420 It looks like we got three folks that just came in.

00:53:40.420 Do you guys have any questions or anything you wanted to hear me talk about tonight?

00:53:44.420 Because I was fixing to wrap up, but I'd be more than happy to stay on and answer anything

00:53:48.420 you guys might have.

00:53:49.420 Let me give you guys a couple seconds to post up something for me.

00:53:59.420 The little faces and emoji things popping up is kind of fun to see.

00:54:07.280 There are some angry faces, but there's a lot more of the hearts, and I appreciate that.

00:54:18.220 Upcoming days of remembrance.

00:54:21.380 Yes, there are.

00:54:22.720 and if you haven't gone to our store I would suggest that you go there and you

00:54:29.220 purchase this beautiful and if they count take a look in February on our

00:54:39.400 calendar it's got the day of remembrance for Ivan King Riffey coming up on the

00:54:47.320 ninth he's one of the martyrs that was tortured because he wouldn't give up his

00:54:54.940 faith he had brazier with burning coals and it put on his belly until his guts

00:55:00.760 exploded for his faith in our gods so we talked about persecution today if you

00:55:07.040 have it rough because you know some commies are yelling at you names you

00:55:10.540 don't like this guy went to his death to support our gods so we're gonna be

00:55:15.700 thankful for that we're gonna honor him here in a couple of days also if you go

00:55:20.920 to our website we do have days of remembrance there so we can help you out

00:55:24.100 Steven if you got questions on that on the upcoming ones Devon about the new

00:55:29.920 Hoff we have but I'll do it again we are we are so fortunate because we've been 0.79

00:55:36.640 able to pay off Odin's Hoff that now we are we are looking we are planning and

00:55:41.440 we are trying to build a little bit of a war chest to put down on a down payment

00:55:45.460 for that second half getting closer all the time i think it's something that we're closer than

00:55:51.080 anybody really thinks on being able to establish that so yeah we're definitely looking into that

00:55:56.260 we're also raising funds uh for that also so if anybody wants to see that happen and wants to put

00:56:01.480 some money towards it we'd really appreciate it again www.runestone.org and if you go to uh the

00:56:08.400 donate section it'll have a link there for you to donate towards that off everything's appreciated

00:56:13.380 and the faster we can raise funds,

00:56:15.460 the faster we're going to have that second off.

00:56:18.140 I see a lot of little hearts for that one.

00:56:20.200 And I don't know how to do one myself,

00:56:22.000 but I'd pop one up there.

00:56:23.540 I'm really excited about it.

00:56:29.360 Is there a way for us distant folk

00:56:31.400 to be supportive outside of monetary means?

00:56:34.060 Yes, Ryan, but it all would depend on your skill set.

00:56:37.120 If you're not on our volunteer Facebook group,

00:56:40.840 get with your folk builder

00:56:41.920 and he can get you set up on it we do have uh volunteer services that we need a lot of them

00:56:47.360 lately are technical things and like e-publishing and digital artwork and stuff but yeah there's

00:56:52.880 always ways to help at a distance you know money helps but there's plenty of other ways that you

00:56:58.640 can help us do what we're doing and your local forefielder can get you more dialed in on what

00:57:03.120 specific we need and you can talk to him a little bit about what you can offer and how we can put

00:57:08.640 but we really, thanks for stepping up and volunteering

00:57:11.480 and wanting to help out, that's awesome.

00:57:12.980 That's the only way we can get done what we get done.

00:57:18.520 My thoughts on Gleema.

00:57:21.660 I don't know a lot about it being modernly practiced.

00:57:24.660 I've heard from some people lately

00:57:26.160 that there's some good schools out there that teach it

00:57:28.680 and that a couple of different styles of it actually.

00:57:31.780 Sean Sandin was talking to me about that recently.

00:57:35.040 But I gotta say, I don't know much about modern Gleema.

00:57:38.640 Zeke, what are we doing to coordinate education of AFA children with, i.e. the Botan's Wolves?

00:57:52.140 Not much right now, unfortunately.

00:57:54.040 That's another thing we've talked about a lot and we'd really like to see done.

00:57:57.020 I know we have a lot of AFA parents that do homeschool their children, and one thing we've

00:58:02.940 talked about within the Gothar is figuring out ways to help provide

00:58:08.280 materials to make that happen and to do more towards you know coordinating our

00:58:14.760 efforts to educate kids and certainly Botan's Wolf is taking a lead in that we

00:58:20.460 talked about that at the beginning of the program a lot if anybody's

00:58:22.860 interested in that contact Cole and Tiffany Dissel they're doing a great

00:58:26.400 job setting that up and making that go and it's much appreciated but yeah I

00:58:31.020 imagine we're gonna do a lot more with coordinating education in the coming

00:58:34.320 years what advice do I have about reaching out for future members and

00:58:43.200 potential kindred formation um there's been a thing and I was true for a long

00:58:49.440 time about don't proselytize don't advertise I'm not with that go out there

00:58:55.200 if there are folk bring them home if you have influence and there's people that

00:59:00.420 that you can you know talk to and bring them back to the faith in our ancestral

00:59:04.920 gods do so don't feel like you need to hold back don't hold to the old way of

00:59:10.200 thinking of not proselytizing go out there let it be known bring people in

00:59:15.840 if they're the kind of folk that are worthwhile if they're honorable people

00:59:19.540 and if there are people bring them in we'd like to see all of our people come

00:59:23.520 home as far as kindred formations so proud of our kindred program and it's

00:59:29.460 It's doing great.

00:59:31.320 It's amazing to see all of the flags of our different AFA kindreds at Odenshoff.

00:59:35.860 I would encourage anyone out there who's, you know, got some kindred members that aren't AFA members,

00:59:41.900 if you want to become an AFA kindred, ask those guys why.

00:59:45.360 If they're not an AFA member, ask them why.

00:59:48.420 Is it because they legitimately, you know, they don't believe in what we're doing,

00:59:51.940 or is it just because they haven't thought about it that I have no idea what the reason is.

00:59:56.880 But ask, and let's find out.

00:59:58.220 if it's a good one then you know it is what it is but if something we can fix

01:00:02.100 or it's something we can do to help them then I'd like to know that too so yeah

01:00:06.620 I'd encourage for as far as formations of kindreds if you're part of a kindred

01:00:09.800 you're gonna form one and the folks out there that you're associated with aren't

01:00:13.520 in the AFA ask them why and let's figure it out and if this place they should be

01:00:17.780 and let's bring them in.

01:00:19.120 If it's not, then it's not.

01:00:20.780 But yeah.

01:00:30.700 Topic of piety, is that something that me or Brian

01:00:33.380 will discuss in the future?

01:00:34.700 Yes, both.

01:00:36.200 I guarantee it's something Brian's gonna talk about

01:00:38.480 and something that I am gonna talk about

01:00:40.160 increasingly as we go forward.

01:00:42.380 Both piety and how we practice in a group,

01:00:46.100 bloat and it's humble but also piety and how we we handle things in our home as

01:00:50.860 far as hearth cult situations and our home altars and just living life in a

01:00:56.480 more pious way and taking that part of our faith more seriously it's

01:01:00.620 absolutely something we're going to talk about more in the future

01:01:10.860 uh Don I would prefer that you do not pillage away through the door because 1.00

01:01:15.200 We've got some beautiful wood doors that Jessica Rose helped make.

01:01:20.640 Instead, contact her.

01:01:22.540 Contact the folk builder out in California. 0.99

01:01:24.380 We can get somebody up there to show you the hoth.

01:01:26.160 It's not open all the time because we don't have membership that lives super close.

01:01:30.620 So if you want to call ahead and arrange, we'd be happy to get somebody out there

01:01:34.380 that can show you around and let you see what's going on.

01:01:36.920 Or better yet, if you arrange with them, you can make it to where you come

01:01:40.160 when we have one of our gatherings there because we'd love to see you out there.

01:01:45.200 all right guys okay we're getting a question through the ether is the AFA in Australia yes

01:02:03.260 Cameron modest is our folk builder for that region he is a he lives in New Zealand but he

01:02:11.960 travels to australia often and he's put in a lot of effort with those folks over there

01:02:17.640 um i heard about a kindred that just formed in australia and uh cameron can get you hooked up

01:02:24.040 with a lot of folks over there we have a thriving community that's building and growing and the

01:02:27.960 enthusiasm is getting better all the time so if you live in australia and you want to find out

01:02:31.960 C-M-O-T-T-U-S at woundstone.org and Cameron would love to help you out with that well good done we'd

01:02:50.140 love to see you out there I'll gather at the Hoff at least once a month for

01:02:56.260 ritual but we also go out there once a month for our food drive as well so at

01:03:00.460 the very minimum folks are out there twice oh thank you Cameron for posting

01:03:06.000 your contact information whoever just asked the question if you look in the

01:03:09.400 chat Cameron just told you how to get a hold of him and you can see a little

01:03:12.760 name there you can probably get ahold of him on Facebook too and I'm sure he'd

01:03:15.160 love to help you okay coming in from somewhere we got a question about does

01:03:22.520 the AFA perform hand fast for your weddings we absolutely do perform

01:03:26.440 weddings. I was very honored to do a wedding just two weeks ago now. And it was a very special thing

01:03:34.160 to do. So our GoTar do absolutely perform weddings. And they are, they are legal in your state where

01:03:40.700 you're at. You just got to let us know ahead of time because every state's different on the rules

01:03:44.540 on that in case there's any paperwork to get filled out. But we do, we just, that's one of our favorite

01:03:49.920 things to do. That's my favorite thing to do is weddings and baby hangings. I love doing those.

01:03:54.600 So, yeah, we absolutely do perform like this.

01:04:03.640 All right, guys, we got anything else or I'm going to call it a wrap?

01:04:06.820 Hold up and forgive us.

01:04:24.600 Alright guys, thank you so much for being here tonight. I appreciate your questions. I appreciate all your little hearts and thumbs up and even little angry faces. Thank you guys so much for being here. It was really nice to talk to you. Give me some feedback afterwards if this is something you like and we can do it more often. I've had a really good night. I've enjoyed it. It's been great to talk to you guys. Y'all have a good night. Hail the gods. Hail the folk. Hail the AFA.

01:04:54.600 Hold on, bear with me, it gives me this strange option here.

01:05:02.100 It gives me the option to save or not.

01:05:14.100 No, it doesn't tell me that.

01:05:22.600 I'll see you next time.

Asatru Folk Assembly - June 30, 2019

February 2019 Facebook Live Discussion

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