Focus on the Folk part 5 October 2007
Episode Stats
Harmful content
Toxicity
1
sentences flagged
Hate speech
3
sentences flagged
Summary
Steve and Elga discuss what it means to be a Christian, a heathen, and a believer in the AFA, and how to live a life of victory in the face of the ignorance and fear that surrounds us.
Transcript
00:00:13.640
I wish I could remember those beautiful lines from the Conan movie, actually.
00:00:25.660
I want to talk about victory not just in the generic.
00:00:32.780
I want to talk about victory in a specific context.
00:00:35.480
I want to talk about it in the context of victory for our faith and our folk.
00:00:43.940
Victory is ensuring, first of all, that we survive,
00:00:51.160
that we remain an identifiable, powerful, self-determining group of men and women
00:01:00.460
united by blood and culture. This will only happen if we awaken. The awakening
00:01:08.980
is everything. The three horns that are the symbol of the AFA, to me one of those
00:01:25.600
folk. We must awaken. We must realize first of all that we
00:01:29.380
are a people and that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that.
00:01:33.860
We must remember that as a people we have a right
00:01:37.240
to determine who we are. We have a right to assert ourselves properly.
00:01:42.480
Once we are awakened, then we must become empowered.
00:01:45.800
this empowerment is the sort of thing we've been talking about with the issue of money
00:01:51.140
but that's only a part of it we must have an awakening that brings us spiritual power which
00:01:56.980
can then be transformed into a multitude of various forms but again we must have
00:02:04.320
a psychic place in the world there must be room in the world for us and for our opinions for the
00:02:12.100
things that we hold dear. We must establish these. We must legitimize these. We must do this by the
00:02:19.220
force of our will and our dedication. And then finally, we must ensure the long-term, the long-term
00:02:28.240
survival of all that we hold dear. Our folk, our faith, for that matter, the very planet on which
00:02:34.680
we live and ultimately in the long run generations from now that will only happen if we get out of
00:02:42.700
the cradle and the earth is the cradle. Tonight when those stars come out and you look up and you
00:02:51.560
see stars that you don't see in the city you see the Milky Way for the first time maybe since you
00:02:57.000
were a kid. Someday, someday, maybe long, long after we're gone, I want Alsatruar, Eurofolk,
00:03:09.940
out there to be looking back at a little Class G star with some rocks running around it and say,
00:03:19.180
that's where it started. That's where we came from. And then they're going to pass the horn.
00:03:27.000
Elga, what do you think? How do you define victory?
00:03:34.800
My vision of victory for our community is more personal and less far-reaching. I'm kind of in awe of that.
00:03:49.000
For me, I honestly think that in a lot of ways this faith will never be one of the big
00:03:59.440
It's a path that requires us to take a whole lot of personal responsibilities on our shoulders
00:04:10.240
It's a hard path to walk and I think that it will always be to some degree a path that
00:04:16.580
a minority of people in the world at large choose, but to me victory is a dispelling
00:04:23.580
of the ignorance. That if I say, I'm also true, I don't just get a blank look. That
00:04:29.140
if I say, I'm a devout heathen, people don't think I just uttered a completely inexplicable
00:04:34.000
oxymoron. That when I say, I'm not Christian, people don't say, so you don't think Jesus
00:04:41.040
was the son of god um to me an understanding and accepting of our faith and our folk way as a a
00:04:50.480
valid expression of of faith in ourself a something where not everyone you know may be also true but
00:04:58.320
when you meet one you're like oh that's what also true is um the idea that this is out here so that
00:05:05.680
People who are called to it can find it so that we have a voice in our governments and our future.
00:05:12.800
To me, that's victory, is when we're known and accepted, even on a small scale.
00:05:18.600
Stephen, what do you think? How do you define victory?
00:05:21.660
Victory, for me, will be when we have hoffs and temples in every state,
00:05:29.680
when people will look and see a Thor's hammer around a person's neck and think,
00:05:36.180
When our children are not ostracized or made fun of in school
00:05:43.340
When people will look at Marvel Comics and see a Thor comic book
00:05:56.420
when there is a recognizable definition of this religion
00:06:04.180
that's commonly known among everyone, that will be victory.
00:06:09.300
You know, Helga said she doesn't think that we're ever going to be part of the big three.
00:06:13.660
I don't think that we were ever meant to be part of the big three,
00:06:20.880
but I think that we will be as large and we will be as well known.
00:06:26.660
Because to be honest with you, I really believe sincerely that the big three
0.61
00:06:31.540
are going to become something that's going to fade into the background, especially Christianity.
00:06:39.020
I see people, more and more people leaving Christianity every single day. The only thing
00:06:45.940
that I feel is, the only big religion that's growing right now is Islam. And I think Islam
1.00
00:06:51.920
is going to be the biggest threat to our folk than Christianity ever was. So it's, the future
1.00
00:07:00.980
is going to be very challenging for our folk but if we stay focused and stay
00:07:07.800
firm in our beliefs I think we'll achieve victory any comments any