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False Kinship · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  Hey guys, real quick. I just wanted to call some
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  attention to a great YouTube channel that I think you all
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  should check out these four friend of mine fellow Heathen.
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  He's the go the of the Creed gar folk out there and he's Texas,
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  United States. And his name is Eric word,
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  Weaver, shervin, and his YouTube channel is called the Ravens
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  call. If you go to YouTube and just
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  search the Ravens call and the YouTube search, you'll find his
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  channel. He does weekly videos Usually
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  uploads, I believe on Wednesday really early, Wednesday morning.
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  Central time. I think his videos typically go
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  up like 4 a.m. Central Time so they're up
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  really early in the day in the middle of the week.
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  Great content. Really neat an approach to
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  Heathen. He's got a great, I think a
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  great view for not just you know heathens coming into this path
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  new but also folks that have kind of been treading this path
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  for a while and maybe Learning things as they go and Eric's a
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  great source to learn things from.
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  I know I've learned a lot so I definitely encourage everybody.
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  That's listening here on the podcast to take a moment and go
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  check out Eric's Channel again, that's the Ravens call.
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  He also does some neat media reviews on that channel uploaded
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  on a different schedule. I think he calls that the raving
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  Ravens reviews, it's pretty fun stuff.
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  He does like reviews on video games, movies Comics, it
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  basically I think Video got any kind of media really so that he
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  just started that. But anyways really great
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  Channel. Really awesome guy.
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  I've had the pleasure of collaborating with him a bit, so
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  please go ahead and check out Eric's Channel.
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  Appreciate you guys support. Let's get back to the podcast.
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  Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast.
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  My name is Jesse. This is midgard musings.
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  Sported, a real quick or in this episode.
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  What I wanted to talk about a little bit is a subject I've
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  talked about, on my channel before it keeps coming up here
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  and there, especially given the fact that online Heathen re
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  tends to be such a trendy thing, nowadays.
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  And I say online, human re using the term Heathen, re online
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  because you really can't. You can't practice evenly over
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  over a screen, you know what I mean?
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  Like you can't legitimately practice either if it's sorry
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  about the crackle there, my mic's acting up.
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  The the thing about heathen, Rosetta has to be something that
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  you experience in person and with people.
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  But anyways, you get my point. You see all these like, you
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  know, Heathen group. So, I can groups Pagan groups
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  that focus on the Norse aesthetic Germanic paganism,
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  that nature. And what would we see all the
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  time? Is this hail brother, Hales?
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  Sister my, brother's my sister's, my Heathen, brother's,
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  my Heathen can let it at all. That stuff is stuff.
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  So the subject of today's podcast or this podcast today is
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  the subject of false kinship and kind of my views on it.
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  And as I always like to say, you know what, my views are, don't
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  necessarily reflect the larger Heathen view of things, I'd by
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  no means make a claim to be a For the larger Heathen
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  Collective world, view of things, everybody's going to
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  have their own views and think the way they want to thank and
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  do things how they want to be. But my view on this whole
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  terminology that comes across referring to, you know, each
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  other as brother. And sister, the reason why I
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  call it fall skinship. It's because you know, if you
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  and I aren't related to one another through blood if we
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  don't share the same mother. Father uncle.
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  Nephew cousin. Yeah, I think that if we're not,
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  literally blood can then we have no familial ties. okay, you and
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  that's where I see a lot of folks that come from a Christian
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  background, carry, some of that we call, you know, that that
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  baggage, that religious baggage, because a lot of, you know,
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  judeo Christian religions abrahamic religions, there's
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  that belief that, you know, we, you know, you know, if you
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  believe in the same God, God and you are all children of the same
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  God that you are there for his children and that we, you know,
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  the people, our brothers and sisters through their faith.
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  And that is a, that is not a pagan view of the world at all.
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  It's not something that Archie then's pre-christian,
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  Scandinavia in that time frame. Nobody that we know of had that
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  belief or that view of one. You are my brother.
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  If we shared the same parent or parents, we were not Brothers in
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  our faith or brothers in our beliefs, in the gods or anything
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  like that. So what happens when we do that?
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  What happens when everybody who says they, you know, hail Odin
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  and health or and have beliefs that very but that follow a
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  dramatic pagan. Approach what happens when we
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  throw this term out to one another?
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  As these are my brothers, these are my sisters is what I feel
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  happens, is that it weakens the term, it lessens the strength of
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  the term brother, and that of the term sister of those
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  familial titles, okay? You can't change or choose who
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  your family as you're kind of stuck with that.
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  It's what happens when you're born and you had no say I knew
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  you were born through or two, but you can choose your extended
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  family through your tribe and that that position that title of
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  brother or sister, that is somebody who is not related to
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  you. I feel is something that should
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  be earned and deserved by deeds and by works and by Worthing
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  yourself to them. And then where Being themselves
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  to you through the process, you don't just come across somebody
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  and find common interests and automatically just because you
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  believe in the same things or similar things that, you know,
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  they're your brother. And I'm speaking now in sort of
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  the, the third person in a sense that I'm, I don't mean, like,
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  you guys should think this way if it's not the way you think
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  of, it's not how you feel, don't let what I say sway.
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  You Yourself come up with it yourself but so let me just go
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  in forward. Let me try to rephrase it.
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  Is that when I hear it said, when I hear it said to me, you
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  know, thanks brother. This and that, you know, I don't
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  I try to be polite and I try to be, you know, I thank people for
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  their gesture, their their remark and stuff but everybody
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  pretty much Knows by. Now my views on things and that
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  is that, you know, just because you say it to me and I don't say
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  it to you. Don't take offense just the way
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  I I don't take offense. If you saying it to me, you can
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  call me what you want. I'm not going to lose any sleep
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  over it but but but keep in mind that if you say it to me and I
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  don't say it back to you, there's a good reason.
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  Why. And that is that we just
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  haven't, I may know you. I may like you, I may think
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  you're a great person. I'm a matter of fact, I may even
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  think you're a very you know like family to me in some ways
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  but there are, there are certain things that need to be done.
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  Need to be proven for me to know that you are my brother and I
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  can tell you or sister for that matter and I can tell you for
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  sure that right now today, I have less than the number of
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  fingers on my hand. The amount of people who I call
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  my brother or my sister in that aspect even less than that
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  because I don't I don't know of anybody.
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  Other than my actual blood, sister, who I can think of.
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  Right now, off the top of my head who I would comfortably
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  call sister, I don't have any female figures in my life that
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  meet the criteria that I would want to see, come along with
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  that title. And again, I have less than five
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  people in my life that males who I refer to as brother.
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  So it's a very valuable thing to me and I think that we should
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  hold value to it by not just Loosely throwing that title
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  around. Now again, this is one heathens
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  perspective, this is my perspective, this is my view on
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  things and I don't expect it to change anything for the larger,
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  especially online Collective of folks.
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  Because literally every day, when you go on a social media
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  platform especially if it's like an open Forum group.
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  Group like you see like on Facebook, literally every other
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  post that comes through there is going to be starting off with
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  something hail brothers and sisters or skull brothers and
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  sisters, you know, and it's just it's tiring to repeat myself.
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  But because I've said it on the YouTube, I've done a video on
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  this before, it's on my YouTube channel.
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  So, so check that out if you want, but it pretty much mirrors
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  everything that I'm And right now for those folks that prefer
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  the podcast platform and don't want to go looking through my
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  catalog of videos. Here's my thing.
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  And so, as such take that, at take, take it with a grain of
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  salt, take it as you will. Again, I don't make any claims
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  to say that. This is how everybody should
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  view the world. That's just my view.
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  If we don't hold the title of things, if you don't hold the
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  naming of things as something important, something of value
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  than it loses, its value and become something that just
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  doesn't mean anything anymore. You know, it's kind of almost
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  the same That I've you just maybe not as as strong or as
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  heavy of a title but even friend, you know, the people who
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  I call my friends, I know plenty of people.
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  I know quite a few people actually that our acquaintance
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  is that our relations that have, you know, connections to me.
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  And it was some sort of fashion, but there are very few people
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  who I even deem as true friends and And it might be the reason
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  why I feel that way is because are the ways and why I've come
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  to feel that way as you know, I've, I've been complacent with
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  titles before throughout my life.
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  I've done things that are or I've encountered people and then
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  it had things done with to me from people who I called friend,
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  or breathe or brother, and then I felt betrayed by them and that
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  title to them for that title. That I gave them is you know I
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  lost respect and I lost the value of them as a person and
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  therefore, that title, I removed from them and they no longer are
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  worthy of that title unless they were to do things to sort of
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  regain that that worth back. So I'm very I'm very cautious
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  about who gets this title who gets these types of titles and I
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  guess my suggestion or my you know Edmund And if you will is
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  be careful who you call brother, be careful who you call sister,
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  be careful, even who you call friend, because things can
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  happen. And the weight of that title
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  should be something worth giving to someone.
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  The value of that title should not be lost and just frivolous
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  frivolously Distributing it to people who you don't even know.
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  So there you go, guys. That's my kind of view on
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  things. I hope you guys.
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