00:01:29.560Got more members now in the Ask True Folk Assembly than we've ever had before.
00:01:34.320That's a really auspicious way to start our year.
00:01:42.200Any of you guys have any questions starting off this evening?
00:01:45.760I'm going to be ending it pretty promptly tonight because I have a Whitten meeting directly after our discussion.
00:01:56.740All right. Well, I'll start off. We got a got a question.
00:02:00.180I want you guys to know, feel very free to email me any questions you might have.
00:02:04.760If you want me to address them throughout the month or whatever, when they come to you, go ahead and send them to me.
00:02:08.960And I'll try to remember to get those on here. So there's a lot of different ways to ask your questions.
00:02:13.580um we had one gentleman reach out and uh he had kind of an interesting question i think it's
00:02:21.500something that a lot of us have have pondered or you know that friends and family have pondered
00:02:27.220um it's something as a matter of fact uh king radbod pondered was you know what
00:02:35.560where do we go when we die where do our our christian relatives go when they die
00:02:43.580and and how does that work in the afterlife with those of different faiths
00:02:48.620and i would like to tell you that i i know all the all the secrets of the afterlife and i can
00:02:53.740tell you exactly what happens but i think that'd be foolish um so i want to start out by you know
00:03:02.060we're not sure exactly how that looks or exactly what that looks like we have glimpses we have
00:03:07.900insight uh we have you know over the course of centuries we have visions from the gods we have
00:03:15.500people with near-death experiences um and we have uh have intuitions and things and ideas
00:03:25.500one thing i'd like to say that i think is kind of fundamental to also true
00:03:29.740are the gods in in our faith are are real they're not theoretical and it's your faith
00:03:43.640in the metaphysics of life and death and immortality aren't aren't tethered to
00:03:50.880what you believe or what you don't believe they're tethered to real things of where you go and how
00:03:57.700mechanics of that works now i think that uh gods and powers beyond beyond our earthly you know
00:04:07.860midgard existence have a say in that but i think that one truth in our culture and in our faith
00:04:16.420and i think in most faiths is that you go to your ancestors there's that connection
00:04:22.180on the other side of the veil between us and our loved ones um i have to believe that whatever
00:04:29.780our ancestors did or didn't believe our folk reside in our folks after world and i think
00:04:39.860that exists i think a lot of people are probably a lot of devoted people in other faiths are
00:04:45.300going to be going to be surprised at how that works or where they end up and at the realities
00:04:53.240of of our gods after after we pass. I think that certainly when we get on the other side of the
00:05:00.200veil, we'll know and we'll we'll have that. I don't have that understanding of where we got
00:05:07.020it right, where we got it wrong. One thing that we have seen with anybody who's had near death
00:05:14.220experiences and those who've had, you know, shamanic experience where they've approached
00:05:20.580the gates of that veil and come back to us is that family and loved ones are there to greet us
00:05:30.320on the other side. And very often, those of our faith who have that experience, their families
00:05:36.580and their loved ones that greet them, were Christian during their life. When we have our
00:05:42.220desir bloats, and we think about our desir, almost all of us, our desir were Christians.
00:05:50.420Our departed mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers, most of them,
00:05:56.740we're now starting to get to where we have a second and third generation of Ausitruer, but0.99
00:06:01.860most of us, those desir were Christians during their life, and we believe they look on. We0.99
00:06:08.540believe that they are celebrated and honored ancestors beyond the veil looking onto us.
00:06:14.040So I hope that comes close to maybe some insight into that question. And again,
00:06:19.520when our day comes and we pass, then we're, then we'll have those answers for sure.
00:06:24.060just looking at questions on the other side
00:06:37.880so one thing unfortunately that happened in january so january 28th we were supposed to
00:06:45.840close on yordshoff i know i've been telling you guys about yordshoff for months and months and
00:06:50.900how close we were getting. And it's very unfortunate. Some positives, the bank that we
00:06:57.080were interacting with, we actually were, it was a faith-based lending group, and they had farmed
00:07:04.480our loan out to a particular bank. Both the lending group and the bank said that we had some
00:07:09.460of the best financials they'd ever seen. They were excited to do business with us. They wanted to do
00:07:14.520business with us in the future. All the numbers and everything looked amazing, and they were very
00:07:20.120eager and excited about it for mysterious reasons at the very last minute uh one day before our
00:07:28.440our closing was scheduled they decided to back out and cease doing business with us very abruptly
00:07:34.220and they refused to tell us why so we're left to assume various reasons why i believe that uh that
00:07:41.800our faith and our beliefs were that reason i think that makes sense can't say that for 100 sure and
00:07:48.480And they made sure of that by not not honestly giving us an answer to that question, unfortunately.
00:07:54.200But all of the real reasons we asked and they said those were all good.
00:07:58.520So we have to left to assume anyways, that was on Thursday that we found that out.
00:08:06.020I came to you guys on Friday, I believe, in one of these live discussions, very brief, to ask for help and support with that,
00:08:14.860to try to get lenders from our folk, from our extended family, from people that we know
00:08:20.000to be willing to lend out of their pocket and out of their resources to make this off happen.
00:08:26.220Now, I can't guarantee, but we're currently in the process of arranging a closing.
00:08:31.180We have, you all have stepped up in a beautiful, amazing, overwhelming show of support.
00:08:42.100Thank you to everybody who shared that video around.
00:08:45.200Thank you to the, I don't know, 20 or so of you that have gone on and donated hundreds of dollars out of your own pocket to your Tsoff fund to make sure that happens.
00:09:00.440And quite a few of you have reached out willing to lend large amounts of your own monies so far.
00:09:08.020and we haven't received all of this yet, but we have promises of over $450,000 in lending
00:09:14.480from you guys to make this happen and make this a reality. So we'll praise the ice when it's
00:09:23.640crossed, but if we don't get this, it won't be because of lack of money and it won't be because
00:09:29.360of lack of generosity on your end. You guys have been fantastic and I'm very eager that
00:09:34.660Hopefully by the next time we have one of these lives, we'll be able to celebrate getting
00:11:53.220our gods and our faith predates theirs certainly predates christianity and uh it's it's very
00:12:02.480ancient it's something that our people had for millennia before the catholics came around for
00:12:08.200them to one day decide that all of our gods are demons and uh what we're doing is evil is highly
00:12:14.100subjective to the catholic worldview the other thing to say is by them making that statement
00:12:19.860they acknowledge that our gods are real and that our gods exist and that our gods have power
00:12:25.460that being said if they want to put them in a context and label them something else it doesn't
00:12:29.860alter the reality that they have acknowledged by making that statement that our gods exist in our
00:12:36.900potent spiritual forces and i think that that starts us on the right foot of having legitimacy
00:12:42.500discussing it with them um but it's such a ridiculous claim for them to make that it's
00:12:50.180it's kind of absurd on the face of it but that's what i would do is i would start by acknowledging
00:12:54.820by i guess restating to them that their position acknowledges the existence and the power of our
00:13:02.660odds. Pam, how often are these live chats held? Typically, we do them for sure at least once at
00:13:18.540the beginning of every month. Depending on what I've got going on, I try to schedule that as close
00:13:23.380to the first as I can. Usually we do it at whatever day of the week that falls on. I shift
00:13:30.420that around quite often so hopefully more people can make it depending on their schedules we
00:13:34.980usually do it about six o'clock pacific time so that most people can get to it it's hard i know
00:13:44.020it makes it a little bit easier for our east coast folks if we do it earlier but if we do it earlier
00:13:48.900a lot of our west coast folks are are still at work and then it's always kind of difficult for
00:13:55.140our international members to attend so it's always very exciting when they're able to
00:14:01.780the afa's spread is so wide that there's no perfect time that we can get everybody in this
00:14:07.460unfortunate as that is that we that we do miss some of our some of our folks that way
00:14:12.260it's really a powerful statement about how widespread our faith is and that's that's something
00:14:16.980pretty cool jared it is not too late to donate to the hof um we absolutely need funds even if
00:14:30.500everybody comes through with their promised loans to us we still need to pay off those loans
00:14:37.220if uh one of our folk builders or if my wife mandy could post the link to the
00:14:42.740jords hoff fundraiser on our site that's the best way to donate to that effort any donation towards
00:14:49.540that is greatly greatly appreciated um folks that have donated 500 or more will get their name on a
00:14:57.140donor plaque at jords hoff and uh it's a really really special gift to the afa to our folk most
00:15:04.180importantly it's a really special gift to the the great sea captain you're there um and those that
00:15:11.940are very appreciated so thank you for asking and thank you for anybody who has or intends to donate
00:15:17.380Sinister Warrior, are there any crypto donation options for Njortsov? Yes, there may be people
00:15:44.720on the chat watching this that know a little bit better about that i know very little about
00:15:48.880cryptocurrency i know we do have some crypto donate options it may not be on that fundraiser
00:15:54.480itself but as far as donating on our website there are links to donate with cryptocurrency
00:15:59.760and we'll make sure any and all of that goes to this hoff effort um so yeah i appreciate that
00:16:05.280you're that you want to do that and we can absolutely make that happen if you need more
00:16:09.920information on that. If you reach out to me after this live, I'll try to get you a better answer
00:16:17.180than I have right now. Dr. Lawson Axford, absolutely. I notice a lot of people and I
00:16:34.380appreciate the sentiment of, you know, why care what other people of other faiths think about us?
00:16:38.740It's very important what other people think about us. It's important that they take us seriously. We want our enemies to be intimidated of us, and we want our friends to be strengthened and to think highly of us. We want everyone to respect us.
00:16:55.640And very importantly, when you mention your family, and I think this is the key point, we all have a lot of friends and family of other faiths.
00:17:05.100We would love to bring those folks into our faith, but we want them to at the very least understand and respect what we do and think highly of us as people.
00:17:17.900And I think that's extremely important. So I absolutely respect your question and where you're going with it.
00:17:23.320I think you're right on with that. I've always said, I think the best thing we can do in that
00:17:27.920regard, rather than having a theological argument with Catholics over it, is you need to be the
00:17:34.340living example of Alcetru and the value it brings. Your life is the most powerful testament to Alcetru
00:17:41.480that you can offer them. If they know you to be a person of substance, they know you to be somebody
00:17:47.780who is successful, who is a good person. And by good, I don't just mean he's a swell guy, he's
00:17:54.540kind of nice. We often let that pass for good these days. I mean a virtuous person, a person
00:18:00.640who has value, a person who brings something good to the table and who accomplishes great things.
00:18:06.280If they know you as that and a person of great character, and if you can connect that to your
00:18:10.840House of True Faith and your membership in the House of True Folk Assembly, that is the best way0.99
00:18:15.680to communicate our values and our faith to, um, to non-Hausitruer.0.98
00:18:36.140Rubizal. What, what do I normally say to someone who is interested in faith,1.00
00:18:41.500but does not know where to start. Generally, people say read X book, but do I have a better
00:18:47.500way? Absolutely. There's a lot of options on where to start. Certainly, there's tons of good
00:18:56.300stuff you can read. There's cool, you know, basic stuff you can read on our website. And reading is
00:19:02.620good and great. But what I think is the most, that's where you start to learn academically
00:19:09.360about Ausatru a little bit, but if you want to start practicing Ausatru, the most important
00:19:15.700thing, I think, is making an offering to the gods. And it can be really simple. I remember when I
00:19:24.300started out, one of the first things I did was I went through our gods and goddesses, and I tried
00:19:30.700to pick one every, I forget how often it was, I think it was every three days or something,
00:19:35.440and learn what I could about them. And each evening I'd make an offering.
00:19:42.940And sometimes something really silly, like one, I mean, I did this with quite a few of our gods,
00:19:50.020but I remember one of my first offerings was to Freya. And all I knew was Freya liked gold
00:19:56.520and that she had some cats that pulled her chariot at the time. So I said, okay, I poured a shot of
00:20:04.160Goldschlager and opened up a can of Fancy Feast. And as silly as that may sound, as a really young0.89
00:20:12.440man who's just making the effort, I lit a candle and I said, hey, I'm here, I'm listening. And I0.81
00:20:19.420sat there in some meditation and I did that right before bed that night. I had a really important
00:20:24.720dream, I think, and I felt like I helped build that connection. Our faith is all about the gift
00:20:29.800cycle and learning and knowing about the gods academically is great. And I do think it's
00:20:35.300important, but what's much more important is building that relationship. I don't think the
00:20:40.760gods are, you know, your personal buddies, they're gods, but you reaching out in a sincere way and
00:20:48.680opening yourself up to them. That's the first step in being also true. And I think that if people do
00:20:56.820that and they proceed with a with an openness and make those little offerings amazing amazing
00:21:04.180things can happen and opening their heart opening their mind to our gods
00:21:09.620it will change their life and that's what i would recommend people's first step be
00:21:18.900uh kingdom of vinland how can someone who is new find folk in your area the contact
00:21:25.860page that they shared with you is the first and best suggestion i'd make it's our folk builders
00:21:30.660contacts it's also the contacts for our go thar those people are dedicated to helping you make
00:21:37.140those connections into building our afa community if you can't find somebody on there that you think
00:21:42.740is close enough you can always reach out to me and i can direct you to the right person
00:21:47.220but that is your first step and we've got people that that's their job is to try to help connect
00:21:52.100you with other people close to you i'm not sure where you're at so it makes a difference on who
00:21:56.980i'd recommend but if you tell us over in the side i can can give you some suggestions
00:22:10.100hmm whereabouts will njordshoff be located in florida um again till we're safely on the other
00:22:24.500side of it i don't want to get super specific but uh you know northern half of florida is where
00:22:31.600we're where we're looking to make njordshoff happen
00:22:33.780florida is kind of special with that there's a long history in florida of making offerings and
00:22:43.560building that relationship with new order uh our people there even from a time some of them you
00:22:49.460know before they even joined the austral folk assembly there's a long tradition of that being
00:22:54.720a spot of your worship and uh of building that relationship so we're very excited to make sure
00:23:02.840So one of our folk builders, Cody, reminds us that Ostara in the south,
00:23:32.780held at Thorshof in Linden, North Carolina is coming up in March. Make sure you're there. I'm
00:23:39.400going to be there. I would love to see you guys there. Anybody and everybody who's, you know,
00:23:44.640if part of the Astro Folk Assembly or a trusted guest is welcome. And we would love to have
00:23:50.340everybody there to celebrate and to visit the Hof of Asa Thor and to be able to get together with
00:23:59.640your AFA family there in North Carolina. It's a beautiful place. We'd love to see you guys there.
00:24:15.480Henry, without giving away too much sensitive information, are there other hops to come
00:24:20.360soon? And if so, where would they be? Yes. Soon is relative. It all depends. We've got a number
00:24:27.920of numbers, we look out on the back end and make sure that not only can we get the Hoff, but we can
00:24:32.380afford it, maintain it, have people that are going to care for it. We don't want to get a bunch of
00:24:38.060Hoffs and then have, you know, have them in a spot where we can't make them the temples to our gods1.00
00:24:44.760that they should be. So we want to make sure we can take care of them. There's a number.
00:24:50.820We always like to dream. We got a lot of dreamers in the AFA, myself included. So we certainly have
00:24:56.040plans about our next Hoffs coming up. If you go to our website, we have a list of the order that
00:25:02.560the Hoffs will come in. Next one, after we get Nyorder His Hoff, it's going to be Freyer's Hoff.0.95
00:25:10.440We'll get His Hoff. And then after that, we'll get Tier His Hoff. Don't know exactly where those
00:25:18.200are going to be. We'll see. Situation on the ground changes. Love to give you some more
00:25:24.440information on that for sure, but I just can't quite do it yet. We will keep you in the loop
00:25:29.400on where those Hoffs are, are going to be. I would look for one in the fairly soon future to be in the0.99
00:25:36.940Western Pennsylvania, Ohio area. That's where I would put,
00:25:45.420that's where I would put the most money right now on, on betting where the next one's going to be
00:25:51.040after New York's Hoff, but we'll see. James, depending on where I move, I think right now
00:26:09.780the reason I have the Odenshoff one behind me is I'm currently in the Odenshoff district,
00:26:15.340But we'll see. I'm sorry, James was asking if I'm going to change out the hot flags behind me.
00:26:21.340behind me. Reinhard Frederick, we have members in Europe. We've had a European member. Sorry,
00:26:41.820I'm not sure if everybody can read this on the side. I don't see it on the replay version. I've
00:26:45.300tried to adjust the settings, so hopefully it's on there. A gentleman asks if we are going to
00:26:50.640expand to places like Europe when we get big enough. We are and we have. We've got a kindred
00:26:57.260in Ireland. We've got, we've actually got members in 14 different countries right now.
00:27:04.060Scandinavia has always been our biggest and most active European membership. We have a folk builder
00:27:09.660in Sweden, Erik Lugnet, and he's doing a great job for us over there. We've got Norwegian,
00:27:17.260Dane and Swedish members all in that area. We've got a very active Swedish membership as a matter
00:27:23.080of fact. A number of us went and visited our Swedish members a few years back and that was
00:27:28.080great. A few years before that some of us went and visited our Danish members. So we do have
00:27:34.180European members and we would love to have more members in our homelands of Europe.
00:27:47.260It's an interesting point over on the side that Dr. Lawrence is making about, first heard
00:28:10.600about us due to one of the media hit pieces.
00:28:13.160One thing of the left I don't think they understand is when they do unfair propaganda against us, instead of hurting us, every time they've done a news story about us, we've had members join us because of it.
00:28:31.840I would much rather they did fair reporting on us.
00:28:36.120Even better, I'd love for them to do something about all the great things that we're doing.
00:28:39.760I think it's a fantastic story that we're restoring the worship of of our gods that haven't had Hoffs in a thousand years.
00:28:48.540I think that our food distributions and all the good things that we're doing deserve and are newsworthy.
00:28:54.800Instead, they want to focus on racism or whatever the hot button controversial issue is that they can pretty much make up to create a controversy.
00:29:04.200But every single time without fail, we get members out of it.
00:29:08.020We get some really great members out of it.
00:29:17.160Is there a damnation concept in Ausitru?
00:39:29.080Does national socialism conflict with Ausatru?
00:39:33.960Those things all depend on really specific meanings.
00:39:37.160I find when people use those terms, they associate them with specific points in time and specific geography.
00:39:45.700And the devil's always in the details as the expression goes.
00:39:49.940No, I don't think that explicitly it's it conflicts with also true.
00:39:54.400I think there's a lot of political governing systems that are compatible with also true.
00:39:59.540And there's a lot that aren't. I think how they're administered has everything to do with their level of compatibility with our faith or not.
00:40:07.160I get asked this a lot. I really have never listened to the Wisdom of Odin's
00:40:16.940YouTube channel. I've never listened, so I can't comment on the good, bad, or otherwise of that
00:40:24.860broadcast. Rachel, what leadership is planning on attending Ostara? Can't say for sure. I think
00:40:36.880most of our East Coast guys are going to be there. I hope Brandy is going to be there also.
00:40:47.180Brandy Callahan from Minnesota. I am going to be there. I believe our fork builder, Mason Johnson,
00:40:55.760is going to be there from Washington State. Other than that, I'm not sure who yet is going to be all
00:41:01.300at Ostara, but we should let you know as things are coming up.
00:49:53.380so much of our yearly celebrations are about cycles of productivity
00:49:57.220winter has been a time of stasis a time of um turning inward celebrating with friends and
00:50:06.060family through the winter taking stock of what we've accomplished celebrating at yule
00:50:11.420um coming in out of the cold and celebrating at thorobloat and in february we kind of start
00:50:18.620our accomplishments in that yearly cycle we start doing we start working so charming of the plow
00:50:26.480So traditionally, you're celebrating that implement of breaking the hard soil for planting season.
00:50:35.940In modern house of truth, so much of Charming the Plow is starting the year off right with our tools of our industry, with our plans, with our vitality for the things that we're trying to build and accomplish in this year.
00:50:53.300And so much of the symbolism of the plow breaking the hard soil has everything to do with us purposefully inflicting our will into the world.
00:51:05.420So much of all of the magic associated with Alcetru, especially associated with men in Alcetru, is us being forces of will and having our will literally penetrate the earth, penetrate the ether, penetrate the world around us and implant and impregnate that with our will, with our intentions, with the things we want to accomplish and the deeds that we want to do and the seeds that we want to sow.
00:51:33.960And so that's kind of the idea behind Charming the Plow. Very often we celebrate Frayer at Charming the Plow. He is the god of that manly penetration of will and fecundity. So we tend to celebrate him at Charming the Plow.
00:51:50.960out. So James brings up a situation I don't know if you guys are aware of. A while back,
00:52:05.900Ron McVann was, I don't know if they ever finished their investigation of it, but we have every
00:52:12.980reason to believe he was the subject of a left-wing terrorist attack that burned down his
00:52:18.880garage and his vehicle again i don't know i don't know if they've come back with anything conclusive
00:52:25.200on it but all things pointed to that kind of arson anyways we stepped up uh as the astro folk
00:52:32.400assembly especially with the help of of our folk builder james alt and arranged some fundraising
00:52:38.880to raise money to help ron to rebuild and to compensate some degree of what he lost in that
00:52:44.480attack and i was very proud of all of you that donated for that and we've had work weekends set
00:52:50.640up to help him rebuild we just had a number of afa members along with other friends and
00:52:55.840also true who are associated with ron go out and put in a very solid weekend rebuilding a carport
00:53:03.280for him building something nice spending that fellowship with him and i was very proud that
00:53:08.800we had our afa members involved in that ron's a great guy he's a person who's a beautiful artist
00:53:16.000he's spent so much of his adult life contributing to the growth and development of also true
00:53:21.760it's nice to be able to do do something in a small way to to help show our appreciation for that
00:53:33.520what is my opinion of the show vikings um
00:53:38.800Viking is fun to watch. I'm not going to say I didn't watch every episode of it. I did.
00:53:43.820There's a lot of things that are silly. There's a ooga booga fetishism in it to where it tries to0.74
00:53:51.700portray our ancestors as just being barbaric savages dressed in all black and skins all the
00:53:59.160time. It's not true. Our ancestors loved bright colors and beautiful things. They were about
00:54:07.240civilization and not savagery there's also a lot of strange degenerate behavior in the show
00:54:14.360it's a fun show one of the things that's very cool on it is to hear
00:54:19.800to see people portrayed religiously observing our faith um
00:54:27.960i don't think a lot of people who aren't exposed to alsatru
00:54:32.600conceive of our ancestors believing in and worshiping our our ancestral gods and seeing
00:54:38.680that on the tv screen was a special thing the first time i saw that but the show was not you
00:54:44.840know i don't think it's accurate to our faith i don't think it's accurate to history well i know
00:54:49.480it's not accurate to history um it was a fun show to watch and i think it brought it brought also
00:54:56.840true to a lot of people's attention that maybe hadn't thought of it before brought it to a lot
00:55:01.960of silly larpers and buffoons but i think it also brought a lot of really great people around and
00:55:07.640maybe that was their first exposure to it or it sparked something in their ancestral memory and0.98