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What Is Up With Folkish Heathenry?? · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  youtube.com. / midgard, musings. So thank you all for your
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  support today. Right now, we're going to be
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  talking about a little bit, is something that we have covered a
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  little bit about on my YouTube channel before.
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  Maybe you've seen that video, if you've already subscribe to the
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  channel and follow me on that platform and that is the
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  different forms. Or variations of heathen read
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  that we see come across. We're talking about things like
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  terms that Refer to sort of the structure of heathen re various
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  Heathen groups, May adopt. We're talking about things like
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  Universal Heathen re tribal Heathen.
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  Refocus, Heathen re, okay, I've talked enough a bit about, or
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  actually, a bit about the concept of universal,
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  Universalist heathens universalism within Heathen re,
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  and that's just kind of a, the way I see it.
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  Anyways, as it's just kind of this You know, just let
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  everybody do it any and everybody do it and you know if
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  you're a good person, you want to worship the gods, you want to
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  learn more about Germanic paganism, then there's no
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  criteria to be met. There's no requirements.
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  As far as your ancestral ties. There's there's nothing,
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  there's, there's, it's a very kind of open-ended invitation
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  Vite to accepting folks into this this path.
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  Then you've got tribal heat memory which Is is sort of the
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  the the path or the direction that I want to lean more
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  towards, while I'm accepting of everybody.
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  And anybody, I don't feel that there's anything that should or
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  could restrict someone from wanting to pursue Germanic
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  paganism. The the tribal aspect of of
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  heathen re it is is that there's a structure in tribe is
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  Paramount within this path or within this particular approach
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  to this path and what I mean by tribal Heathen re is that and
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  then the structure of it all is that, you know, there is, there
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  is a set sort of hierarchy within the collective of folks,
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  you have your Chieftain, you have a sometimes, in some
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  tribes, you have the, the title, or the Addition of Chieftain to
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  be combined with that of the Goethe.
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  The gozi being sort of the spiritual leader of the of the
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  tribe, some tribes will have a Chieftain / go, the and that
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  person sort of takes on the leadership role, and the
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  religious leader role, other tribes will have a definitive
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  separation between Chieftain and Goethe.
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  You'll have quite often a Law speaker.
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  Somebody who's, you know, sort of designated to be the order of
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  Law and to keep things structured and orderly in the in
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  a lawful manner within the tribe and you'll have other things to
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  different tribes will have their structure set up differently.
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  It's not that there's necessarily a one all you know,
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  approach to it. Some folks will take a very
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  historical approach to it to a tribal structure and you know,
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  you will have your Chieftain, you have your go that your Seer
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  you'll have your, you know, the law speaker.
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  You'll have different positions that in our teeth and times had,
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  you know, we can see from the sagas and stuff that there were
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  definite positions held within the tribe.
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  And every tribe will do things differently.
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  I like this. I like the the approach to
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  tribal Heathen re I like the fact that it's not so much
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  focused on, you know, it's not like it, lets everybody in but
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  there's there's there's a there's a structure, there's a
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  need to establish trust. There's a quite often the
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  Worthing process or vetting period for for new folks that
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  want to become part of the tribe.
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  Sort of prove their worth. I like that.
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  It just kind of fits my interest and how he than I how I see.
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  He even reworking from a tribal aspect and then we have the
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  focus, focus focus, even re and this is, this is one of those
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  things that My view on Focus sheet and reasons that I don't
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  necessarily see Focus. She Landry.
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  As inherently being a bad thing. But recently, and in very recent
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  times that term has left, a really sour taste in my mouth.
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  When I say it. And when I hear it, and it
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  leaves a sour taste in a lot of folks, mouths that that are that
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  are heathens. There's there's this sort of
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  preconceived notion that when you talk about Focus Heathen re
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  that there's a lot of Of racist undertones to that approach of
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  heathen. During the reason for that is
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  because you know, one of the things that make Focus heat
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  Andre what it is, is that there's a, there's a very hard
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  focus on your ancestral ties and there's a very hard focus on
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  your own Heritage and, you know, sticking to your Your roots and
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  not just your roots, but just the whole the Heritage thing.
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  And the reason why it becomes such a problem for heathens
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  nowadays, when they hear see Focus even groups is that, that,
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  that that mentality, that thing of preserving, Heritage
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  preserving the traditions of your heritage, you know, that
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  that attracts the far right and the race Types of folks, okay?
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  And that's just the facts. That's just how it is.
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  You really, you really won't see runes or Norse Pagan symbols or
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  the The names of our date, he's the symbols, the sacred, symbols
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  of this fat of this Faith, or this path, you won't ever see it
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  really misused or misrepresented in a negative way, or in a
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  racist way from anything other than focus groups.
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  Okay, I've not seen Universalist heathens or even tribal,
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  heathens misrepresenting being misrepresented in a negative
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  way, it's usually always with the focus, Oops.
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  And that's where I have the problem.
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  Do I see the value? And in the end, the importance
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  of preserving Heritage. Yes.
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  Absolutely. Because Heritage is something
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  that is in, you know, tied to a region.
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  It's not tied to a race. It's tied to the culture of a
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  people from a region. So to, yeah.
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  And you can't you can't tie race to that.
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  You can't say that it's, you know, A northern European white
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  thing. It's if it's if you want to get
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  right down to it, you want to say that it's northern European,
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  there's you know, hard archaeological, evidence
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  evidence that can back up and support.
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  The fact that it's, you know, our ancestors were not a pure
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  white race when talking about the northern European side of
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  things. And that's that.
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  It's hogwash. It's absolute ridiculous.
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  Propaganda to think that you are exclusive to being able to
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  believe or worship or venerate a Pantheon of gods because you are
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  not white. Okay?
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  Now the caveat with that is that what what, what I see focused
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  folks doing what I see. Focus heathens doing is saying
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  that will hey Not, we're not racist.
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  We're just saying that, you know, people should stick to
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  worshiping if they, if they want to be polytheistic, if they want
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  to have a Pantheon of gods to worship, then they should stick
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  to the pantheon of gods that are indigenous to their ancestral
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  regions, okay? So what they're saying is that,
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  you know, if you're of a South American, Hispanic Latino
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  descent and, you know, you shouldn't be focusing on the
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  northern European Gods, you should And if anything be
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  focusing on the gods that are indigenous or that are from the
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  indigenous areas that your ancestors are from.
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  So why would you feel a draw? Why would you feel a pull to
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  venerate or worship gods that you have no literal Blood Ties
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  to or Heritage ties to because within at least the anak
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  paganism approach to things. Ancestral veneration is huge and
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  is a big thing for us. We look to our ancestors for
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  guidance and strength and comfort for our day-to-day type
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  things, and the veneration of the gods are aside from our own
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  individual. Cultic practices things that we
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  do in our, within our home, how those practices come to
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  fruition. Aside from that, the gods are
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  venerated at certain and specific times of the year for
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  certain. Holy tides that we have
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  documented in the sagas, specifically, like angling a
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  saga, where we see that, you know, the communities all come
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  together and the tribes collect together.
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  One on the, the community as a collective joins to venerate a
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  God or Gods at a specific time of Here we have, you know, the
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  summer, the coming of Summer, really like secret about the
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  victory bloat that that ends the winter months and welcomes in
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  the spring or harvest months. And then we also have the usual
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  times of the year where there's a definite specific way of how
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  our Chieftains pre-christian heathens venerated or celebrated
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  their gods and stuff that time of year.
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  So with the whole ancestor thing, you know, that's why we
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  see Focus heathens say, you know, hey we're not saying we're
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  racist, we're saying that you should just focus.
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  Kisan. The, the pantheon of gods or you
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  should focus on your answers from here.
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  And that's, that's utter BS to me as well, because who's to say
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  that, okay, you're not purely of anything.
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  You can't say, like, you can trace your DNA, you can do
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  these, you know, ancestry.com 23andMe, whatever these other
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  online, give us your DNA. We're going to tell you where
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  the hell you came from stuff that you pay out the ass for it.
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  And so, what that tells you that that's where Your bloodline is
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  connected with, right? Well, guess what?
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  You also have ancestry to places that whether minimally or not
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  through your bloodline, you know, places of the
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  Mediterranean places of Africa, places of, you know, outside of
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  where you think you maybe are from.
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  So in that, in that sense, there's ancestral ties through
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  your DNA through your blood to a lot of places.
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  So if people want to venerate the gods and want to choose to
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  focus on the ancestors of a certain area, let's take me for
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  instance, okay, my my ancestry is largely focused in, you know,
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  Germany. I'm I'm German, I'm Dutch, I'm
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  English, Irish Scottish and Amongst other things like Sims.
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  Don't Native American Indian Algonquin Nation Indian
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  specifically Italian, okay? So, for instance, my mother is
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  half Italian and half German. So I've got at least little up
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  to a quarter part Italian. So that's a pretty good chunk.
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  I think that's a pretty good, you know, ratio of my DNA as
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  being low, even though a lot of it is northern European.
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  Then you know why aren't I focused more on the
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  Mediterranean side of my family? Why aren't I focused more on
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  venerating? You know, the Roman gods of my
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  Roman ancestors. I don't know a whole lot about
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  them and but, you know, if I felt the draw to that, I don't
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  think I would be excluded from from practicing that such as it
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  exists. So, I feel like there's people
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  out here who have and Social ties to parts of Northern
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  Europe, maybe even, you know, medieval Scandinavia, all these
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  places. Where are they?
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  The Germanic God's sort of originated from and just because
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  they don't look a certain way. Just because they don't have a
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  certain skin tone, these Focus heathens want to exclude them,
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  from being able to practice Heathen, re in that way.
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  And it's in, it's, it's horrible and I don't back that up.
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  Up in the very at all, you know my stance on on racism and
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  bigotry is a zero-tolerance stand up against it, I'll speak
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  out against it and when it comes down to it, you know if Focus
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  Heathen re continues on in the way that it is in the majority
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  of folks that that practice focused even re you know,
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  display racist Tendencies. And I'm going to speak out
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  against that. That's not what Heathen re is
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  about. Our ancestors did not exclude
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  People based off of their skin color based off of their race
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  exclusion from the community exclusion exclusion from your
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  tribe being outlawed, being gluten, God, you know, those
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  things were based off of the Deeds that were done you
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  violated for a few you broke, you know of that you broke your
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  Oaths, you your oath breaker you were a Kinsler.
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  You had very specific deeds done at that time, too.
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  Make you such to make you a excluded and it wasn't because
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  you were from another Nation or from another country or from
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  another region and you look different and they say well
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  that's not that's not a master race that's not what we're
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  about. Blah blah blah, they didn't have
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  that concept and have that mentality.
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  You are superior you are better than somebody else based on the
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  fact of your work your worth how you've done things.
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  You know we may not Be all equal in the sense that I am not as
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  strong as somebody else listening to this podcast right
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  now. I may not be as fast.
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  I may not be as, you know, attractive, I may not have all
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  these other things. I am not equal.
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  We are not equals, but equality is available to all of us.
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  Do we can accomplish things, we can do things because we all
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  have the resources, we all have the ability to do those things.
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  You know what I mean? So to say that, To to say that
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  there it exists. Exclusionary it, that it's
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  theirs. You don't erase of people can't
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  or shouldn't follow this path. Who the hell are you?
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  Who do you, where do you come off?
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  Saying that about anybody. Let people follow what they want
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  to follow the people. Hey.
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  Sorry about that. Very abrupt Interruption from
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  the episode. That was a mistake on my part.
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  But you know let people my whole point was as it let people do
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  what they do, let people say what they want to let people be
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  how they want to be if they want to hail the gods of Northern
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  Europe and they you know they they have a less than you know
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  third of their bloodline or whatever.
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  Begin. Who the hell are you to
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  determine? Because of will the way they
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  look, you know, where they're, they're, they're patronymic
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  their last name, anything like that.
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  You have no right to say that. You shouldn't say that and you
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  have no. Right.
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  You know, guys I'm sorry for kind of going off on a rant
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  there because that's, it's something that just really boils
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  my blood. I want to see Heathen regrow, I
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  want to see it become something that, you know, the more we give
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  power to the, to our, to, the old gods, Seeing a Resurgence,
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  we're seeing a rise in the interest in hearing from all
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  parts of the world. And as that happens, the gods
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  are getting the power. We are giving the power back in
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  to the cosmos for the gods to to be recognized and to bring out
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  those things that help us grow as heathens.
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  I shared something today on the Facebook page, which if you
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  follow midgard musings on Facebook you would have seen
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  that in this was something that I had That I saw or heard
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  actually posted on a fellow YouTuber, friend of mine.
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  His name is Eric Sherman, he has a YouTube channel called the
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  Ravens call. And, you know, he talked about
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  it recently and it's, you know, the ordered structure of things
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  of how he then we, you know, healthy Heathen practices is
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  Hearth. Clan tribe Community.
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  First and foremost is your Hearth.
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  It's your home. It's your in and guard.
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  It's the people who are live with, who are around you.
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  Who share in your day-to-day lives that the people who are
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  most your most closely you're connected to your spouse.
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  For instance, you know, that is your that is your Hearth as an
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  example. Then you have your clan, you
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  know, your family, people who you've actually have Blood Ties
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  to your kin, you know, and then you have the tribe that builds
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  not necessarily from your blood can, but that can include your
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  blood can. But that tribe is family that
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  extends. Beyond blood.
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  No, those who have Oath to their Legions who those who have owed
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  themselves to you, who have tied weird with you.
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  And then, you know, Community tribe comes from Community, you
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  know? But your priority should be, I
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  feel anyway, is Hearth Clan tribe, and Community.
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  Worry about your in guard, worry about your close family first,
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  and then your extended family, and then the tribe that develops
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  and comes as results. Of efforts being made by people
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  to worth themselves in a close Collective.
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  And then, gather often gather and network with one another to
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  build a community. So that way there's an
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  opportunity for tribes to be formed and to build and to grow,
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  quick being stuck on this whole thing of, you know, preserving
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  your race preserving their preserving Heritage, and
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  preserving Trot Traditions, preserving culture has nothing
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  to do with your damn race. All right, the cultures of a
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  region the cultures are adopted over time.
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  You know, you have mixture of cultures you'll have, you know,
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  Regional cultures that have stood the test of time because
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  these are things that people have been doing for thousands
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  and thousands of years. But do they not pick up on
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  cultures from other areas as well?
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  People who come in and then introduce cultures and of of
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  their regions themselves, there's is there not a mixture
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  of culture that happens over the over the years and over over
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  time. Of course, there is There is no
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  white culture, there's no black culture and, you know, culture
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  is based off of your region and it's based off of the things
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  that the people of that region does is nothing to do with their
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  color. Their skin white isn't a race
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  black isn't a race quit being stuck on this whole racial
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  superiority garbage and it's all it is is garbage.
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  If this Focus Heathen remove meant, stay stuck on preserving,
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  white, Heritage and white, this and white that You guys can
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  just, you know, neither dog. Not your ankles forever and made
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  it his poison drip on you for eternity because that is
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  garbage. And it's not what he even raised
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  about. So anyways, folks, thank you for
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  I appreciate the way I can keep doing these things.
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  So thank you all for listening. Not sure.
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  When I'll be doing another episode, it may be.
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  It may be here soon. I've got, I've got a little bit
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  of free time this week because of the Fourth of July week got
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  an extended, you know, weekend coming up.
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  So there may be some more content coming out here on this
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  platform. But as always, check out the
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  For weekly uploads and I thank you for all your support.
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  Thank you for listening, thank you for streaming.
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  So until next time everyone hail may your ancestors smile on you
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  and may the gods continue to walk with you.