Asatru Folk Assembly - July 06, 2025


Honor in the Modern Sense #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

Hosted by
Steve McNallen
Miðsumar 2025 Body Dysmorphia and Building Confidence #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

173.28

Word count

428

Sentence count

15


Summary

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In this episode, I discuss the virtues of honor and how to live them in a real life context. I talk about the benefits of having a strong reputation in society, and how we can live up to those values.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 We, as a folk, have relegated a lot of these important values to, that's something other
00:00:07.720 people do, or that's something our ancestors did, or that's something we would do if only.
00:00:14.000 And I think it's extremely important for our folk to conceptualize these virtues
00:00:18.320 as real things for them to enact in their life in the context that they live in,
00:00:23.540 Not in some superficial view of the past, not in a woulda, coulda, shoulda way, but in a real way in how you deal with your family, how you deal with yourself as an employer or as an employee, how you deal with yourself, with your friends, in your community.
00:00:42.620 Utilizing our virtues and living those virtues in a real way is extremely important.
00:00:47.860 And so many of us have a disconnect between what we think those are and they aren't.
00:00:51.720 Honor, for example, it's very easy to conceive of it in a battlefield sense or in an ancient warrior sense or as a knight and winning honor at tournaments and things that way.
00:01:04.380 It's more seldom that we consider honor in the integrity of how we are as an employee, how we are when no one's looking, how we deal with our families, how we deal with people we run into in society.
00:01:19.700 the fame that we build for ourselves to where people know our name because of our good deeds.
00:01:24.500 That's a big one, especially this has gotten much, much worse since the reactions to COVID-19.
00:01:30.340 But we were already on a path to where people having real life reputation and real life social
00:01:36.020 interaction was getting less and less. We run into folks that are very comfortable being anonymous
00:01:41.400 and no one wants fame or attention. And building a name, quite literally building a name for
00:01:48.040 yourself was one of the biggest deals for our ancestors, one of the biggest deals for all of
00:01:53.320 our ancestors up until very, very recently. But we live in a place now where everyone wants to keep
00:01:57.960 their head down and be as secretive as possible. And that said, that's part of the abuse that's
00:02:02.900 been heaped upon our folk and the battered people's mindset that we have now. And I think
00:02:08.940 by people taking courage, putting their name behind things and building strong reputation for
00:02:13.520 themselves, that would be a huge, huge advantage in building honor amongst them. We as a folk have
00:02:19.520 relegated a lot of these important values to, that's something other people do, or that's
00:02:25.900 something our ancestors did, or that's something.