On the Value of Motherhood #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss the role of women in shaping the lives of men and women, and how they influence the values we instill in our children. I talk about how important it is to have a mother in your life, and the role that a mother instills in her children.
Transcript
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I don't know, certainly as men, our ambitions are displayed a lot in relationship to our fathers,
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either, you know, in order to impress or in spite of, you know, whether you had a good father or
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bad father, a lot of what you do as a man is a reflection of that. Like my dad did all these
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things wrong. So I'm going to, I'm going to get them all right. I'm going to, I'm going to do
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right where he didn't. Or I'm so proud of my dad. I look up to him so much. I want to make him proud
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or I want to surpass something he did. But, um, with mothers, it's very different. Um, you learn
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through, through subtle things that build your character in terms of the way you treat other
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people in a lot of ways in the way you instill a lot of our virtues in throughout your life and
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your family, place value on, um, place value on your wife, place value on the mother of your
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children, place value on hospitality and on kindness and, uh, and compassion and those kinds
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of things. And I know my mother really instilled a lot of that in me. It's interesting the effect
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mothers have on the raising of, of men and certainly of daughters as well. But I think that
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Frigg in her patronage of or matronage rather of motherhood