00:00:00.000fair enough uh trent asks law speaker allen could you please explain the importance of
00:00:16.800elevating our discourse why do our spoken words matter so much
00:00:20.640okay to continue my one man campaign against uh low speech you know if you
00:00:30.960uh if you get the uh when you get this month's room stone you'll see my challenge
00:00:35.280um for everybody to raise their discourse um it's called low speech for a reason higher discourse
00:00:42.560is this is the noble speech it's the it's the idea that uh there and of course there are several
00:00:48.880spiritual reasons for it as well uh if you believe as i do that galder changes the world what you
00:00:56.160what you know is that your written that your spoken word enter it that's where your will
00:01:02.640manifests into the world so when you speak with vulgarity when you speak profanely you are
00:01:10.400profaning your world you are vulgarizing your environment so it's important for you to speak
00:01:17.680with the with the highest level it's only been a few decades when
00:01:26.320white people were known to curse as freely as we do now in public
00:01:34.560and you know i remember years ago when it was said of various comedians that they couldn't work the
00:01:40.400big rooms because they back then it was called working blue you know if you used sexual innuendo
00:01:46.800and certainly foul language you know that you that you weren't even allowed in the big
00:01:51.840in the in the big venues because it was seen as um to uh to be beneath polite society um and
00:02:02.960and i don't think that we as also true although we certainly a lot of us come from that background
00:02:10.720myself to some degree included where you know we've had to we we had to sort of portion ourselves
00:02:15.760up through the school of hard knock certainly there's you know i'm not approved about these
00:02:21.920sorts of things but the but the idea of it is to to always present your highest self knowing that
00:02:30.000you know your grandmother is with you over your shoulder your your gods watch you not as closely
00:02:36.560but they certainly know whether you are you know whether you are presenting the highest possible
00:02:45.280like to those around you. So part of it certainly is just the personal, that you should always be
00:02:51.660your highest and best self. And part of it is that you are, for most of us, for the rest of
00:02:59.540the world out there, we are the only author, we have the only odeness that they know. And so if
00:03:05.080they think of us as a bunch of foul-mouthed brigands, then they're not going to want to be
00:03:09.720associated with that in any degree. But if they think of us as polite, well-spoken, helpful,
00:03:16.360all the things that we really are and really should be, then we'll begin to attract
00:03:24.120more and more as we have over the last few years.
00:03:27.800So it's both the sales pitch and a personal means of displaying integrity.
00:03:33.800and i think that's very important um linguistically i think i fall short with foul language sometimes
00:03:43.640and alan is alan is sure to correct me on that uh frequently and it's much appreciated i agree 100
00:03:49.960i uh i got loose with it when i was in the bar industry bouncing and in that environment it was
00:03:55.160just so so commonplace and i did i worked in the bar as well so you know again i just i just got
00:04:02.680in the habit well i so one time i ended up taking my mother to a doctor's appointment on a
00:04:09.640like a saturday morning and i had been working the bar friday night and didn't get much sleep and i
00:04:16.440just i was still in that mode when i was at the doctor's office and i was with my mother at the
00:04:22.840doctor's office just dropping f-bombs here and there left and right like it was nothing and all
00:04:27.320of a sudden i heard myself and i was so embarrassed and i had to apologize to the doctor and it really
00:04:33.800made me look at myself critically for because for a second there i you know heard the words
00:04:38.520coming out of my mouth and it was so out of place and for a lot of us it's just you can have that
00:04:43.320one moment of realization and you know you can snap at least absolutely begin the course begin
00:04:49.880begin the course correction well one of the things is when you try to hold yourself to a higher
00:04:56.360standard whatever that may be if it means fixing your language or holding your head up and looking
00:05:01.960people in the eye when you talk to them or speaking with a higher level of discourse using
00:05:06.760you know using high value words instead of uh commonalities using you know proper language
00:05:15.400instead of i mean you can still be scathing and insulting if you need to with in a in a more clean
00:05:20.680and certainly more creative manner um but those kind of things when you act a certain way when
00:05:27.000you dress a certain way and you try to project something it fundamentally changes how you how
00:05:32.440you do things you carry yourself different you have a different not only do other people respect
00:05:37.400you differently and more but you respect yourself differently and more and uh i've seen that a lot
00:05:44.360in the afa as we've tried to tighten up on some of those things
00:05:51.640Finn Wraith asks, is there anything in the myths that said we shouldn't curse?
00:05:57.880I think the idea that we shouldn't curse because it makes our believers look bad is only if the
00:06:04.640person we're talking to sees swearing as bad. A couple of thoughts on that, and I'm sure Alan's
00:06:10.580got thoughts on that as well. His first point that Alan made that I think stands with this,
00:06:16.920when we the root of magical act is incantation it's speaking things into existence the act of
00:06:29.280speaking is what takes thoughts and ideas from the privacy of your head and manifest them into
00:06:37.680the world into our shared space i think you certainly want more good things than negative
00:06:43.260things when you're doing that yeah you know speech you're right in a sense that speech
00:06:49.660only has context based upon um meanings that we uh that we ascribe to words sorry my daughter is
00:06:59.020has broken in my office here and is causing some chaos um no but you know our words only
00:07:06.460have meanings based on the meanings we've assigned to them but we can navel gaze about
00:07:11.020that all day at the end of the day our words do have meanings and there is a there is a
00:07:19.260perception that happens and so much of our speech isn't just about um the one person we're conversing
00:07:27.660with there's almost always there's people looking on there's an audience whether we know they're
00:07:33.740there or not and they make judgments about us they make judgments about how we look about how
00:07:38.220we speak about how we present ourselves in general and i think it's also true that you know
00:07:45.820a couple things like the lore we don't think of as a comprehensive source anyway you know there's
00:07:51.500not a list of thou shalt nots because it's just an example for the way that we live and there's
00:07:56.300There's certainly not any place in the lore where Egil Scalagrimson, you know, curses at people, except with the intent of casting a curse on them.
00:08:10.200And that's really what the, you know, that's the thing of it, you know, is if, you know, and I don't even like to use examples, but, you know, to like the, like the GD remote controls lost.
00:08:23.980Okay. I don't want the all father to curse my remote control because it happens to be missing right now. You know, that's just idle speech. The, and the other thing that while I was formulating these ideas, lo, these many years ago, I spoke with a guy who's one of the leading scholars on the Anglo-Saxon tribal era.
00:08:47.580And he confirmed that the Anglo-Saxons would, during that pre-Christian era, would not have cursed an object because they think their words have intent.
00:09:00.780They wouldn't waste like this manifesting power of the web of weird and use it to, you know, because their tire went flat or, you know, because the wheel came off.
00:09:12.880That's just not, you know, that's not worthy of that sort of that level of discourse.
00:09:18.960So it's so it has both the practical and the spiritual aspect.
00:09:23.180You know, and certainly if you're alone with your buddy and, you know, and he's, you know, but he's going to he's also going to notice that you're speaking in the higher tone, which doesn't mean that you have to be a prude about it.
00:09:34.600I mean, you can you know, you can speak to your audience.
00:13:15.700This is part two of my verbalization manifestation.
00:13:22.700The word weird, the English, the current usage of it originates from Shakespeare, the weird sisters in Macbeth.
00:13:33.640But when Shakespeare used that in the play Macbeth, the three weird sisters stirring the pot, the people in that era of the 1600s would have known they were still living in the era when weird to them meant the same thing, much the same thing as the karma.
00:13:54.200You know, it's the oar logs, so they would know that the, because they were so, living
00:14:01.280so much still in the folkway, the weird sisters were the sisters who made weird in the, in