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Episode 1: Intro · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  All right everybody. Hey, what's up?
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  Welcome back. This is the first full episode.
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  I'm going to call this episode 1 of the midgard.
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  Musings podcast here on anchor dot.
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  F m--. Thank you again for tuning in
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  Okay, my name is Jessie and this is midgard musings.
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  You may be familiar with me for The YouTube platform youtube.com
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  slash midgard musings as well as on Facebook facebook.com forward
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  slash midgard. Musings, Tian.
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  Anyways, guys, this kind of an episode 1 of the podcast that
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  I'm going to be doing here on. Anchor is kind of an intro to
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  who I am, what I do, how I Heathen so to speak.
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  Okay. This is by By no means a, you
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  know, attempt for me to sway you and how you practice even re,
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  it's just kind of a little bit of an insight.
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  As to, who I am, what I do, how I practice kind of give you guys
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  So anyways, guys, like I said, this is going to be kind of like
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  an intro to who I am. All right, so, my name is
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  Jessie. I am, as of the time of this
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  podcast. I am 34 years old.
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  I'll be turning 35 in November. Today is June the 6th.
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  And yeah, I've been Heathen for about four years now.
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  Give or take I come from a Christian background of
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  Christian values, you know, so when I say that, I mean that
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  the, you know, that's kind of an umbrella term because there's
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  just so many different denominations.
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  You got your Protestants. You got your Catholics, which I
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  argue is an even really Christian.
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  I think it's a pagan path disguised.
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  With Christian characters and values.
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  All right, but be that as it may I was raised as a
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  non-denominational non-denominational Christian.
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  Okay, meaning that there we didn't go by a title of Baptist,
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  Protestant Presbyterian, Pentecostal Methodist.
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  Nothing like that. Okay.
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  There was no title or version of Christianity that I Raised up in
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  the rate. The way I was raised was based
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  off of Doctrine from the King James version of the Bible,
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  which for a lot of folks here, who may not know, you know, the
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  King James version of the Bible is one of the oldest forms of
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  the English translation that is available to us, as a society.
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  And as, as people, okay, it's Very archaic and its language.
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  We have all the Ye Ye thou, the shout Wilt all the old English
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  sort of, you know, terms of speaking.
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  All right. So but anyways, you know, that's
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  where I kind of come from in terms of my religious
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  background, and I'm originally from the state of New York.
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  Okay. I'ma run from the United States
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  of America. Born and Raised on Long Island,
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  okay, which if you're not familiar, Long Island is known
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  for a medieval, you know, the Amityville Horror haunted area
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  out there on the west end of the island.
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  You got Queens, you got Brooklyn, you got, you know,
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  stuff like that. So it's got some history.
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  It's got some You know, stuff stuff, that makes it kind of
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  popular and I moved off the island.
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  When I was about 13 years old up to the lower Hudson Valley area,
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  Orange County area with my mom, my dad and my sister who is
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  about four years younger than I am.
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  And, you know, so I moved up there with my family and around
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  the around 97 and still living in the, you know, Christian
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  approach to things move. To the state of Tennessee where
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  I currently reside in the year was around 2005 2006.
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  And so, I've been here ever since so around 13.
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  Going on 14 years. I am a Tennessean.
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  All right, a transplant. If you will.
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  And in the last, like I said, about four years is when I
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  adopted the approach to pursue Heathen re as my faith.
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  All right, kind of what drew me to To this path was the
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  non-dogmatic approach to living life.
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  If it was anybody that listens to this that is Christian was
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  Christian. Anything you kind of know what
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  I'm talking about when I say that?
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  There's definitely a feeling of if you don't do something,
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  you're going to be punished for it, you know, so there's a,
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  there's a very clear line as far as do this, don't do.
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  That thou shalt, Thou shalt not, you know, all that kind of stuff
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  in adherence to the Supreme doctrine of a sovereign God or
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  deity. Okay, what he says goes and if
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  you don't do it, you're going to your Eternal Soul will suffer
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  eternal torment, right? So anyways, being raised in that
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  and growing up in that I was as pretty devoted in that.
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  Most of my childhood and through my throughout my early youth.
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  Okay, and then as I got a bit older and started thinking for
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  thing with you know, thinking on my own and moved away from my
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  home and kind of started Living my own life, you know, I
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  branched out and became a bit more aware of the world around
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  me and things that go on outside of the small community that I
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  was. kind of kept in, and Grew up around.
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  So during that time from, when I moved out of the state of
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  Tennessee state of New York and move down to Tennessee, you
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  know, I became a bit more aware of things and figure things out
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  about myself. I went through phases.
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  I you know, fell out of belief of one thing fell into belief of
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  others, fell into a space of or an area my life where I had no
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  belief and then I came into this this Norse Heathen view of
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  things and what Drew me to it was the fact that or what
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  attracted me to it, you know, was the fact that I didn't feel
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  like I had anything sitting over my head judging me, telling me
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  that if I didn't do something or if I you know, if I didn't do
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  something wrong or if I didn't do something right, I was wrong
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  and I was going to be punished and that if I you know, you
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  know, all these dogmatic type of of things.
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  I felt like it was a bit more. It was focused more on, you
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  know, be a good person, beep, be.
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  Somebody who is going to do something?
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  Do things to the betterment of not just yourself but to the
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  betterment of the people around you and that there is no God or
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  God's standing over. You looking over you saying, if
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  you don't do this, we're going to kick your ass.
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  We're going to make you suffer this or that what are what are
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  you know, or what? You know, what I learned early
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  on was that what you do? How you live your life, how you
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  perform in life is going to be a direct reflection on the things
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  that go on, you know, around you not just what goes on around you
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  but how you act and how you behave is going to impact those
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  around you? I guess is a better way of
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  saying it. You know, what you suffer and
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  what you, what you go through is because of your own decisions,
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  so, Early on. I figured that, that, that seems
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  more like what I want to do. It's how I want to live.
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  I want to be responsible for my own actions.
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  I don't want to feel like I'm, you know, dictated or ruled or
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  controlled by a something that is a bit egotistical and a
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  maniacal in a way. So early on, you know, I was
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  drawn to the Norse aesthetic of things, the north Germanic
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  aesthetic, the imagery, the lifestyles, this and that.
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  And then as Die, you know, went into it more and started
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  learning more realize that. You know, what, there's there's
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  more to this than just, you know, hail Odin, hail Thor, that
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  sort of stuff. It was.
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  Yes, venerate those those deity's venerate those figures
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  as you see fit, but don't don't neglect.
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  The fact that there are other spiritual forces and there are
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  other spiritual elements surrounding this path that have
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  more to do with you as an individual then the gods do.
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  Okay. And that's what really took it
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  to another level for me. Was that the fact that the Is
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  don't even really care for what I do on a day-to-day basis.
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  They, you know, we can do things ourselves that will Garner their
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  attention, that will sort of attract their attention.
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  It's kind of like if I was to have a, the way, the way, the
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  way I sort of look at it, you know, is that if there's a
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  father with a child, you know, he's there, he's going to love
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  that child, you know, his son his daughter, but there's going
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  to be certain things that that child does throughout its life,
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  that will definitely stand out to that, father.
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  Figure that that authority figure, regardless, you know,
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  you're always going to love your child, is going to admire
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  charger was going to look to, you know, to be there for that
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  child. There's going to be certain
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  things that just stand out to you.
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  And that's kind of almost the way, not not entirely, but it's
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  almost the way that I see how the gods are in our lives.
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  You know, they are there they had, you know, least in the lore
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  and stuff. I had an important part in.
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  You know, what? how how mankind sort of exhibit
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  B came into existence and But in, but in terms of our
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  day-to-day activities, our day-to-day lives, do they really
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  does it really matter what we do to them.
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  I don't feel so what the figures that look to us and want to be a
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  part of what we do more is going to be our ancestors and is going
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  to be those who are directly connected with us and to us, you
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  know, so as I learned more that and as I Look to do things that
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  not just Garnered the favor, the attention of the Gods, but that
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  actually brought honor and you know, good luck and then stuff
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  to myself. And the ancestors that came
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  before me and to my descendants, that come after me.
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  I felt like I was living a life that was much more suited to
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  what My Views were. So Heathen, really fit the bill
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  for me, you know, and as I've grown and as I've gone to become
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  more. You know, kind of in tune with
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  Heathen re the more that glove fits.
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  Well, it's kind of like it's molded around myself a bit more,
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  you know, so that is kind of where I'm at.
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  I've been doing the midgard musings thing on YouTube.
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  Now, for just a little bit over a year.
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  And you know, that that that's been a fun Journey, weekly
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  episodes, people get to comment be a part of it each week.
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  You know, offer their insights to things.
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  I've learned a whole lot just within the last year from being
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  a part and doing my thing with midgard musings from other
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  people that have commented on that have joined that have that
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  have been a part of that whole, you know, part of my journey.
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  So it's been a fun and exciting Journey for me.
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  And I hope it's been, you know, something that other people can
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  benefit from and you know, get some get some help from, you
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  know, because one of the things that I noticed about Out.
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  He then released nowadays is you know, there's a lot of people
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  that are out there that are struggling with the fact that
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  there's not people of like Minds around them there.
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  There's they feel solitary, they feel isolated and that's a tough
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  thing. That's a tough thing.
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  When you're in an area around a place in your life that You
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  know, you feel alone in your, not alone because we got so many
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  Heathen stretched out around the world that share in are in
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  similar values and similar things.
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  Maybe not identical, but very similar, but you definitely not
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  alone. And I almost would guarantee
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  that if you feel, you are alone in a certain area, then it's
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  because other people in your area, feel the same way, and
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  they just aren't branching out and they aren't reaching out,
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  you know, like me and my area, you know, they're, I've met
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  more. Heathens in my area over the
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  last six months and I have over the last four years simply
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  because I took a step and reached out and started doing
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  things to reach more people in my area and connect with more
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  people in my area. So that's definitely a part of
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  it Community. Is one of the biggest things
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  that make or break. How you function and, and how he
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  even reworks. Okay.
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  We're going to be talking more about that and upcoming
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  episodes, but that's just one of the things guys that You know,
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  you need to look at in your area, where you live, where you
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  reside, what your community is or isn't has a lot to do with.
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  Who does what, you know, are you involved with anything?
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  If you're not, can you start something?
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  Can you put The Feelers out there?
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  Can you sort of spark that, you know, fire that hopefully will
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  take. And I guarantee if you're not
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  sure of how to do it. All you need to do is I mean
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  that we have social media. Now, we have the internet.
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  You have ways that you can. You know, kind of Market
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  yourself Broadcast Yourself, say, hey, I'm in the such.
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  It's such an area. If there's anybody out here,
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  that's interesting wants to talk.
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  You know, here's where I'm going to be on such and such a date.
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  Let's meet, you know, all it takes is one action and then one
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  person comes and then that one person knows another person.
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  And then two people come, and then the next thing you know,
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  there's three, four, five, six, nine, thirteen, twenty people
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  come out. And next thing, you know, you've
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  got a small little Collective of like-minded folks that want to
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  get together and do things. And that's where Heathen re
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  thrives. As Heathen re thrives and is it
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  flourishes at the Kindred level at the tribal level?
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  All right. We're going to be talking more
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  about that in some upcoming episodes as far as the meaning,
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  and the value of tribe for Heathen or, you know, but so
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