Asatru Folk Assembly - September 28, 2023


Speak Out of Love (from VNS Episode 9)

Topics
speak out of love
Hosted by
Steve McNallen
Introducing Faith to the Family (from VNS Episode 8) Manifesting the World Around Us

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Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

159.26

Word count

619

Sentence count

20

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

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Summary

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In this episode, we discuss the importance of having courage to speak your mind on social and political issues, and how we can be more assertive in speaking our views on them. We also talk about the benefits of being assertive on social issues and what it means to be courageous.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 When we step into the world, do you have any recommendations on how to approach
00:00:10.840 social or political issues that we face? Trent, go ahead and take this first.
00:00:19.860 That kind of goes back to what we said earlier about courage. You just need to kind of have
00:00:24.220 courage. There's a, I would say the biggest reason that so many of our societies like social
00:00:30.440 and political issues have come about is because people have been afraid to speak up. That's a
00:00:35.560 thing with our people, especially where we've always been so altruistic, I think. And lately
00:00:41.140 it's gotten to the point of, you know, we don't want to hurt feelings or whatever, but you can
00:00:47.960 be assertive on your social and political views without you know being a douchebag it
00:00:55.560 you know you can just calmly say no to whatever it is or calmly say i'm not changing my stance
00:01:04.260 on whatever it is and at the end of the day i mean yeah some people are going to get upset and
00:01:09.500 go cry on twitter or whatever it is people like that do but for the most part i think you'll find
00:01:16.020 people will respect you for it even if they're like okay well i want nothing to do with you
00:01:20.180 they'll they'll just move on that's the biggest thing with a lot of this stuff is just having some
00:01:26.100 courage to be and you know what to quote the odin's hawk motto uh just do right and fear no one
00:01:36.260 so uh all of that but i think the other thing is
00:01:40.900 is, and Trent said this, but just to elaborate on it a little bit.
00:01:50.980 Don't be naive. Be courageous and stand up and say what you mean and mean what you say.
00:01:59.460 But there's a big difference in that. There's this phenomenon amongst our people is when they
00:02:06.080 go on the internet and they create a fake name and use a fake picture, they say the most outlandish,
00:02:11.960 ridiculous things in the most in-your-face possible way because it feels so good to finally be able to
00:02:20.240 say the things that you've been afraid to say. And so they spew it out in the most repulsive way they 0.98
00:02:26.340 can think of because it's been repressed for so long. What I would say is speak nobly. Realize
00:02:33.900 that what you say and how you say it is going to be seen by everyone, not just your friends,
00:02:39.280 but your enemies, your employers, your family. So own it. Believe what you believe, but say it in a
00:02:46.460 way that's honest and that reflects your real feelings. Most of us aren't bad people. We're
00:02:54.300 good people who have good values and good things to say. Keep that in mind when you're speaking.
00:02:59.220 it's really easy to become embittered and frustrated by all of the things we don't like
00:03:05.780 and rightly so there's so many things in this world that are so far askew from how they should
00:03:10.720 be it's easy to get mad don't speak out of anger speak out of love speak about the things you love
00:03:19.420 the things you value the things you want for you and for your family I think that we do much better
00:03:26.160 speaking politically or about anything to people when we talk about what we love rather than all
00:03:32.560 the things that we don't like or all the ways things are messed up think about what we do want
00:03:37.120 to see and the world we do want for our children talking positively about what we're trying to
00:03:42.960 build and who we want to become those those are beautiful things and i think we need to speak
00:03:49.200 those courageously and thoughtfully.