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Random Heathen Ramblings: S2, EP14 - Sacrifices vs. Offerings, And Why I am FED Up With Anchor!!! · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  Deeds versus intense. Sacrifices versus offerings.
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  would be fun to go on a bit of a rambling rant about I mentioned
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  intro in the intro about sacrifice over offerings or
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  sacrifice versus offerings and deeds versus intent.
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  All this kind of stuff. What am I even talking about?
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  What's even that, why is that something and the idea or the
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  thing that kind of, you know, sparked this mind fire to ignite
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  as it were was a post that I saw on a The large Facebook group.
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  Or however, you know, whatever emphasis that you want to.
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  That you want to put to the word, I'll probably add the link
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  to the group in the show notes, just in case anybody out there
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  listening is not familiar with it, but it's, it is a, it's an
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  interesting group to say the least.
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  And I know, you know, it's a group that is not four.
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  Not for everybody, and I say that only because not everybody
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  takes the same style or start. It's not even real stuff.
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  Doesn't take the same approach to Heathen read.
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  As the next person, this group on Facebook that I'm talking
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  about is run by and moderated by what I would consider hardcore,
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  Reconstructionist type folks and there's a lot of knowledge.
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  There's a lot of information that can be extracted from The
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  I'm going to I'm going to fit right in.
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  You know hail Odin in this and that and they join and they
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  level, just kind of you know, lay into these newcomers or
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  people are still trying to figure things out because again
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  the the group is running a very, very specific sort of way so it
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  can come across as being very like people are just in Forex
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  about things, you know, you kind of an asshole or whatever and
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  that just is kind of the That's just kind of the, the
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  callous nature of the callous approach to things and and
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  approach it in a way where and you wanting to learn and read
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  the group rules and all this kind of mess.
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  You know, I've learned a lot and I've actually taken a lot away
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  from the content posted in this group again, if it's, if you're
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  not a Reconstructionist and if you're not at least partially
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  interested in, Historical approaches to this religion,
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  then the group's not for you again.
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  e, type stuff, the Wu fluffy bunny type stuff.
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  That's what that's not what this group is about.
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  It's very historically based. So anyway, information of that,
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  I've decided information on that will be up in the show notes.
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  If you're interested, you want to find that group head up to
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  the show, notes to the podcast, link to the Facebook group will
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  be there. But an interesting post that I
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  want to talk about. Was a post that was included on
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  March 25th. Today is the 31st last day of
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  March, by the way, you guys, we've made it three months into
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  2021 and what a ride. It's been so far.
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  So anyway about 56 days ago, this post came up and it was a
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  post asking if a half a jar of moonshine would be a
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  considerable start for a sacrifice.
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  This is a question that was posted by a I'm going to venture
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  out on a limb and say this is a newcomer to Heathen rear at
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  least to this group because of the nature of the question would
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  half a jar moonshine? Be a considerable start for a
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  sacrifice right now. The first response to this was
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  as it's not a sacrifice. No and as a follow-up response
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  in regards to the offering Factor depends on.
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  If you made it yourself and how the other half was spent.
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  And then there's a thread within this post.
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  That goes into kind of a little bit of an explanation of what's
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  being talked about here because the the the person who responded
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  to this and I'm not going to name names or whatever.
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  Just again I don't this was not my post and I don't have no
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  permission from the authors or the writers of this group.
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  If you guys just go to the show notes, you'll see what I'm
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  talking about. If you join the group, you'll
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  see there's a difference between offerings and sacrifices.
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  Now, for a lot of folks, I think that may bring up questions,
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  especially newcomers to hidenori while and offering, you know, to
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  the gods or this that, you know, what's the difference between an
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  offering and a sacrifice. And I just, I wanted to kind of
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  go into that and give a little bit of my own understanding,
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  because it look, as I've said multiple times before, you know,
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  I'm by no means an an end, all be all authority, to Heathen re
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  I'm learning a lot myself. My own worldview that has
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  developed has, has, has taken years to develop and it's still,
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  it is, it's like a living thing, you know?
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  It's, it's constantly evolving. It's constantly growing too.
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  We'll adjust, you know what I mean?
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  Like, my world view now is not the same as it was your, you
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  know, year two years ago, whatever.
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  And I'm almost sure, assuredly going to say that my worldview
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  today is not going to be exactly the same as it will be this time
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  next year. It's like my world do a year a
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  year ago. Wasn't exactly the same as it is
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  today, you know so with that being said, you know, when a
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  post like that gets posted and you get someone who is Who has
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  been doing this for so long and who has been who has developed a
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  world? You do two years of research and
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  experience comes off and says, well it's not a sacrifice.
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  So no, it's not a quote considerable start.
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  Now in regards to the offering Factor, it depends on if you
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  made it yourself, right? If you made the Moonshine, if
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  you made the, the liquor yourself and how the other half
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  because guy, you know, again the the original post was posted as
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  like, half a jar of moonshine and the person who's responding
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  who posted that got the response and then the in an innate intern
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  replied, said I didn't know if it also depends on personal.
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  Value to which the response came off as no, because it's Deeds
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  not intent and they suggest reading studying and learning.
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  Because the approach that this person is taken, seems to be
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  following a bit more of a romanticized view, which is very
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  typical for newcomers to Heathen re they're still trying to find
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  their way, they're trying to still, you know, develop a
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  worldview and then learn things and come.
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  Across and then come forward with things that just again seem
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  a bit romanticize and not actually based on any sort of
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  research. Now, again, if your approach is
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  not historical, and if you're not into, you know, a
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  Reconstructionist approach, then fine, don't pass off your your
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  old beliefs, or your thoughts, or your what is unverified,
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  unverified personal gnosis UPG. Don't pass that off as Factor.
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  Don't pass it off as anything other than what it is.
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  But if you are truly interested in wanting to develop a
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  worldview that is based around historical sources and texts
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  take the time to learn and study about these things.
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  Because as a point that was brought up in this post was that
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  you know, wasting alcohol when you don't even properly know why
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  you're wasting. It would be pretty much a shame.
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  So I wanted to kind of talk a bit about at least where I'm
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  sitting at, in my world view, in my understanding of things
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  sacrifice versus offerings. Okay?
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  Now again on the surface, the words, the the approach or
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  whatever to What these words mean and what you're doing?
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  They seem identical. But I'm going to kind of talk
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  through it a bit and go off into the weeds with this stuff.
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  So again, as you guys and gals out, there are doing your thing
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  and going about your daily activities, whatever it may be
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  just kind of, as I like to say, you know, bear with me.
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  So again, my idea or my understanding of sacrifice is
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  that The reason behind the sacrifice is to elicit, a
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  certain response from the sacred.
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  Also sacrifice means that you are rendering the item that you
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  are sacrificing, okay? The at that, the thing that
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  you're sacrificing, whatever it might be, the sacrifice process.
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  Renders it to be the Of no more further.
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  Use in profane space I mentioned on my podcast and in videos
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  before about the difference between fruit profane and Sacred
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  Space are at least I've alluded to it.
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  Maybe haven't gone into great detail or depth with that but in
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  but suffice that to say, you know, profane space and time is
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  what we as humans as Mortals as mankind.
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  That is the, that is the existence that we live in.
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  We live in profane, space and time.
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  There is sacred space and time that transcends beyond what we
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  can tangibly or in any sort of way.
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  Identify with, in, in again, in our own mortal profane view of
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  things. Now, there are also as I can
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  subsets or sub differences between Sacred Space and Time
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  where in the sacred? Well, and the RIT realm or the
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  Spiritual Beings because the spiritual realm there, there is.
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  It's kind of like different levels.
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  At least the way as I understand it.
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  You got mortal beings that exist in profane space.
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  Such as us as Mankind. And you've got Spiritual Beings
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  that exist in profane space. And we're talking in talking now
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  about such figures as the vator of the home of a tear of the
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  land, the London fit here, the who's fatir these Spiritual
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  Beings Spirit beings these whites as it were.
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  These entities that exist in profane space.
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  We coexist with them in our profane space and time, but they
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  exist on a different level of exhibit, they exist on a
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  different level, you know what I mean?
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  Like they've, if I feel like they are closer to Sacred Space
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  than we are, but they still coexist with us.
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  So, we're talking about again, the who's Are the weights these
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  beings. These are creatures.
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  These are entities. These are as o and our ancestors
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  as well. So our ancestors, our spirit
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  being Spirit forces that a that exist within the profane space
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  there just in like the Spirit Room, sort of sort of existence
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  in my understanding, right? So or is how I approach it?
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  So you've got sacrifice offerings, we Sacrifice to the
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  sacred, and we offer within the profane.
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  We offer to our ancestors. We offer to the whites as they
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  sort of gesture of acknowledgment to maintain solid
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  and good wholesome relationships between us and them because we,
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  again, share existent share space.
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  We share our time, we share our lives with them and we coexist.
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  We cohabitate Offering to them is an engagement within the
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  gifting cycle to again, maintain that that healthy relationship.
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  The sacrifice element is done through the sacred as also a
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  engagement of the gifting psycho, but the intent, you
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  know, the reason behind it, I feel is different and it's on a
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  different scale. Deeds not intent, Deeds versus
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  intent sacrifice versus offerings and again.
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  So so you know how do we Define the difference?
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  What is the, what is the separation between it?
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  To me, right? At least coming at it from a and
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  I am not a. Let me just reiterate.
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  If I haven't mentioned it, already it on this podcast.
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  I haven't another's podcast episodes before.
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  I'm not a 100% hardcore, Reconstructionist even not a
• 25:47
  historical reconstruction seating.
• 25:48
  I do however draw strongly from the historical side of things
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  like that is a huge inspiration and a huge source.
• 26:00
  For me to pull from. So, with that being said, The
• 26:07
  way I approach eating my worldview of heathen re is being
• 26:11
  built largely around historical approaches to things the the
• 26:16
  engagement with the sacred is done solely at the tribal level,
• 26:23
  right? The reason for that is because
• 26:25
  we know at least from historical sources that when the gods were
• 26:30
  sacrificed to, It was done. With the involvement of the
• 26:37
  tribe of the society. It wasn't like, you know, you
• 26:41
  know, Joe blow over here sacrificed something of his own
• 26:46
  to the gods and it was just him if it existed, if that happened,
• 26:51
  we don't know about it. We don't have any historical
• 26:53
  text so we can't back it up. In any sort of way, did it
• 26:58
  happen? Could it have happened.
• 27:00
  Very, very possibly. And probably, I mean, why would
• 27:06
  we think otherwise? But again with their, there's
• 27:08
  nothing to back it up. What we do have is store
• 27:11
  actually written down. What we do have document that we
• 27:13
  know of is that when the gods were sacrificed to, there was a
• 27:18
  group present, it was done at the tribal level. and those
• 27:22
  things that were sacrificed where, Destroyed in some sort of
• 27:28
  way. They were weapons were bent food
• 27:31
  was burned. Things were bogged things were
• 27:35
  rendered useless in the profane space, that was the ritualistic
• 27:39
  element. It was being sent off to the
• 27:41
  sacred sent off beyond the profane space and times use.
• 27:47
  And therefore, that was a sacrifice and that could have
• 27:50
  been anything. It could have been.
• 27:51
  I mean a weapon It could have been the the harvest of a crop
• 27:59
  or something. If you destroyed something
• 28:02
  Beyond use for yourself and for yours, that's a sacrifice.
• 28:06
  Because again, that was your life.
• 28:07
  That was your protection. That was something that could
• 28:10
  have been used to, you know, provide for your hearth, for
• 28:18
  your home, for your tribe. And if that did not exist
• 28:21
  anymore it was ritually destroyed as a Sacrifice.
• 28:24
  And it was the deed itself of doing that was done for
• 28:30
  something very specific offerings, things of a gift, you
• 28:35
  know, I offer this to you and hope that I receive something
• 28:38
  back little bit different approach and then the Deeds, the
• 28:45
  focus on those deeds were position little bit differently.
• 28:50
  You know, and I understand the the response and the reply where
• 28:59
  this whole, you know, where this this individuals like half a jar
• 29:02
  moonshine, is that considerable start of a sacrifice?
• 29:04
  No, not as a start of a sacrifice because what can you
• 29:07
  do, go to the store and buy a jar moonshine, you know, without
• 29:15
  context without understanding what it is.
• 29:16
  You know, was, was, was this moonshine, something that you or
• 29:21
  you or someone near and dear to you hate themselves, I can say
• 29:27
  just as a sort of I'm trying to think of the right word but like
• 29:33
  my own experience, right? Mead that has been made homemade
• 29:41
  by those nearest and dearest to me was made specifically for a
• 29:48
  sacrifice. It's like it wasn't even drunk
• 29:55
  by by the Tribune. It was like a batch of mead was
• 29:58
  made to ritually destroy as a sacrifice of the Sacred and it
• 30:03
  was done on the like tribal level with the group, right?
• 30:09
  So, If if that part again, it's their these Deeds over in 10 or
• 30:20
  deeds not intent. I'm still doing some some
• 30:24
  learning and studying and research of myself to decipher
• 30:27
  the difference between that, because I feel like intent means
• 30:31
  a lot when it comes to why we do what we do, I've talked about it
• 30:34
  enough where, you know, what you do, what you give, what you the
• 30:41
  item is of little And there's there's more to it with the
• 30:47
  intent behind it. Why you're doing it?
• 30:48
  The purpose behind it. So I feel like there's a blend
• 30:52
  between deeds and intent that needs to be considered here.
• 30:58
  But again, the initial response, you know, half a jar moonshine,
• 31:01
  what? You know what do you do with the
• 31:02
  other half? Secondly, you know, firstly
• 31:04
  secondly there's no real context of basis off of you talking.
• 31:09
  Just about a generic half a jar of something.
• 31:15
  Again, if there was more context behind it, if somebody's like
• 31:17
  I'm gifting this. Because our I'm sacrificing, is
• 31:20
  because I'm the one that made it.
• 31:21
  I've spent x amount of months or whatever making this.
• 31:25
  And this is what I've put into it.
• 31:28
  And this is, you know why I'm doing it again.
• 31:30
  There's there's got to be a reason why I feel that the
• 31:33
  intent behind. It does mean something.
• 31:37
  So maybe more on that to come over time.
• 31:40
  But that's kind of where I feel like the difference between
• 31:43
  sacrifice and offerings are sacrifices to the gods
• 31:46
  sacrifices to the sacred. And it's done with a very
• 31:49
  specific approach in a very specific audience, the audience,
• 31:54
  but involvement with the tribe offerings can be made and done
• 31:58
  on a daily basis, on an individual level, at an
• 32:00
  individual, or even small group, you know, if it's like a family
• 32:04
  called Hearth cult approach to things, you know, like every
• 32:08
  morning we make it, we make a All the votes, are we poor this
• 32:11
  or that? And it's a ritual gesture to the
• 32:15
  whites of the home or the whites of the land or we do this we do
• 32:18
  those sort of individual cultic practices that I feel are an
• 32:23
  integral element to how Heathen rage developed in modern time.
• 32:28
  Like there has to be that there has to be a strong sib, that has
• 32:32
  to be a strong family unit. There has to be that strong
• 32:34
  familial structure in existence before you can even think about
• 32:40
  Out engaging with the sacred at the tribal level, it has to
• 32:43
  happen at the home. First, it has to happen with the
• 32:46
  family. First, you know, even re is
• 32:48
  where the Hearth is. Shout out, Eric shervin at the
• 32:51
  Ravens call because that's that's entirely him but I back
• 32:54
  it up 150 thousand percent right even realize where the Hearth is
• 33:02
  folks. And if you don't have a strong
• 33:05
  family unit, if you don't have strong Hearth cult individual
• 33:09
  cultic Actresses within your roof-tree, your family
• 33:13
  roof-tree. Whatever label, whatever name
• 33:15
  you want to put to it, then where do you have anything to go
• 33:19
  off of? Where you going to?
• 33:21
  How do you know, you can understand?
• 33:26
  Engaging in dealing with the sacred.
• 33:28
  If you are not first understanding on how to deal
• 33:31
  with and engage with those spiritual entities and elements
• 33:35
  that exist within your own space within profane space, you got to
• 33:39
  start, you gotta crawl before you walk.
• 33:42
  You got to walk before you run you know it has to start
• 33:45
  somewhere and I feel like that's where a lot of newcomers to
• 33:48
  Heathen. We are getting kind of lost in
• 33:51
  the sauce, you know, you know, Odin Thor prayer, tear.
• 33:55
  God's, right? And they have no idea or haven't
• 34:01
  built at least a a foundation to go off of, you know, I think
• 34:06
  it's all about the gods, the gods, the gods Gods gods.
• 34:09
  And I've talked about this in a recent video on my YouTube
• 34:12
  channel, you know, God's over folk.
• 34:14
  You know how, you know, where is your approach to you, you know.
• 34:19
  Have you already built your Hearth, cult, have you already
• 34:22
  built those individual cultic practices and an established
• 34:26
  tradition there before you venture off and go into the, you
• 34:31
  know, the sacred realm of things.
• 34:34
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• 34:40
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  one of you, right? So if you're listening to this
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  Okay. So hope you guys are settled in
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  you know ten hour days, five days a week.
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  I don't have a lot of extra spare time.
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  That I spend with like my family with my wife and stuff, she has
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  things that she does extracurricular activities
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  outside of her work schedule in our, in our lives work, in such
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  you know, once a week it's doing something like this with the
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  other kind of stuff. It's time, right?
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  You know time is money, okay? And look For me to come out here
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  I love to do it, you know, for the hour or so, a week to put
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  But what I am trying to do is monetize, right?
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  To say, hey, you know what, let's throw some ads in between,
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  When you watch YouTube, unless you're paying for premium,
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  you're going to get ads. It's just another form of
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  marketing, it's just another form its business, right?
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  That's all I want and that's all I know.
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  I was getting it here on anchor for the longest time.
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  Longer Lynn a year, probably for last year and a half.
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  All the episodes that I put out that get absolutely, no
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  All right, folks, here we are once again at the end of the
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  podcast, winding things down with another randomly selected
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  stanza from the lava mole, whereas of the high one, one of
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  the most widely known and recognized poems contained
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  within the poetic Edda. Largely recognized by many
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  heathens as being a source of practical wisdom.
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  How to get some water. There's some wisdom for you,
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  stay hydrated, right? Drink water or die.
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  There's your, there's your stanza for the day.
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  That's it. Good night, have a great day.
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  Random Heathen. Ramblings out.
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  No no just kidding. Today's random stanza from the
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  Hall of them. All is selected and it is stanza
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  37. So if you made it this far in
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  the podcast, then I would like to initiate or or invite people
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  initiate, right? One of those Southern words. 8,
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  but that's horrible humor invite you to suggest a random stanza
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  of the Hall of them. All right?
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  You got plenty of ways to get in touch with the podcast.
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  Mainly, if you want to discuss anything you can call the
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  hotline. But if you want a stanza to be
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  read here on the podcast and call into the hotline 61 5 6, 7
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  1983 to and let me know which stanza from the Of Mall you
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  would like for me to cover but today's random stanza is
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  selected by myself randomly. I'm going to randomly randomize
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  it stanza, 37. And as always, we're going to
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  read from a number of various translations.
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  We've got the Auden and Taylor translation we've got.
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  Let's see, we got nothing Bellows.
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  We've got Hollander, Thorpe and Jackson Crawford today.
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  So we'll start with the ottoman Taylor translation of stanza. 37
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  from the Hall of mul a small Hut of One's Own is better.
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  And is his master at home, his heart bleeds in the beggar, who
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  must ask at each meal for meat. The Bellows translation is
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  better a house, though. I Hut it.
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  Be a man is Master at home. His heart is bleeding, who needs
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  must beg when food, he Fain would have Hollander is going to
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  read. One's home is best though, a Hut
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  it be there. A man is master and Lord his
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  heart doth bleed who has to beg the meat for his, every meal
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  Thorpe is one's own house, is best small though, it be at
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  home. Is everyone his own Master
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  bleeding at heart is he who has to ask for food at every meal
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  tied and then Jackson Crawford is the final one.
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  They're going to read from this is in The Wanderers of them all.
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  Better to have a home. Even if it's little, everyone
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  should call somewhere home. Your heart will be wounded if
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  you have to beg for every meal from somebody else.
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  Now one interesting thing to note as in, you know a lot of
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  the various translations that one may read from my I try to
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  offer different translations from different versions because
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  sometimes the lines and numberings of the stanzas vary
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  between the numbers between the translation.
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  So, you know, you know, like one version might be stanza.
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  Blah blah blah. And then another the same thing
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  that's red is like one or two stanzas different.
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  But these the like stanza 37, right?
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  You got 36 and 37 that touch on similar themes, and they share
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  pretty much the same thing as like the first two lines.
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  You got The first two lines. That express the idea that it's
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  good to have your own house regardless of how small or
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  humble it is, right. Plenty of people that are
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  listening to this may own their home.
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  They may rent. They may rent to own and they
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  have are buying their home. They may live in a apartment and
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  they live in a small house. A condo townhome trailer,
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  doesn't matter. It's good to have your own
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  space. It's good to Have your own house
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  regardless of how small our humble, it is okay.
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  When wherever I have lived over my life and I've lived in many
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  places, many different abodes have sheltered.
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  My head from the elements. I'm it always felt good to come
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  back to it at that time. You know, because when you have
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  a home because when you have a place, you are the master there
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  you are the Lord of your Abode, right?
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  Describing it as being, you know, your own master, your own
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  house, it gets right to the heart of.
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  I think the wisdom that is presented in this stanza,
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  because look at look at everything that we have to do
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  with, in modern time, right? We have to go to our jobs.
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  We have to go out and we have to Go shopping.
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  Whether it be for clothes or food, so much of what we have to
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  do in our daily lives happens, outside of our home or at least
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  they have in the past I guess within the last year or so, a
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  lot of what we do is restrict it to our homes because for for
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  instance myself I've had the fortune in the opportunity to
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  work from home. So my home is literally where I
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  spend my whole time. This Just a separation between
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  work and personal life. But consider, also, the fact
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  that when you are outside of your home, whether it be, if you
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  have to go to a job or with you go to shopping or public or even
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  if you're at a guest or even if you are a guest at someone
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  else's home, could be a friend, right?
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  You're not truly or, you know, there's not as much Freedom
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  present in those places. And in those Environments as
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  much as it is when you are at your own home, okay?
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  And and this kind of, I guess, you know, like a lot of folks,
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  but that may be listening, may not be in their own home as it
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  were, they made have like a roommate situation or their, you
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  know, coexisting in the home of another.
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  But You know, so you may not necessarily have that but you
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  have your own space, you have your own area.
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  Because even in your own home, no matter how little or big, it
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  might be your king of the castle.
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  You're the, you're the, you know, the Cock of the Walk as
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  they say, you know, King of the roost master of your own domain,
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  captain of your own ship. You know, that's kind of like
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  the first half of the stands are the first couple lines, you
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  know, the next few lines. Go over the point of kind of the
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  result of when Those things don't, when the first two lines,
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  don't don't play out. You know, if you're having the
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  beg for something to eat, if you having to rely on somebody else
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  to eat theirs, There's there's very few pains that can be
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  compared to that, you know, to rely on somebody else.
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  You know, I don't have a meal, I don't bring in my own nail and
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  stuff and I therefore have to rely on somebody else to feed me
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  and that sort of thing. It's It really does and I've
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  been in that situation before. You know what I mean?
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  Where you don't, you don't ask for much because, you know, that
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  you are taking from others. You know.
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  You don't have that much to offer back in return.
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  It's like this. It does.
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  It makes your heart bleed as we've heard you know bleeding at
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  heart as he has to ask for food at every meal.
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  Tied it's a terrible pain to feel.
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  It's a unique sort of pain to feel so to maintain.
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  Our honor to maintain our integrity.
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  And to stand on our own two feet is, is, is is is a real big
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  accomplishment. You know, I feel like it's,
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  we're learning our own way. We maintain our own Pride, we
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  maintain our own honor and it's, you know, knowing that we
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  provide for our family, that's one of the greatest
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  accomplishments and feelings that I've had of accomplishment
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  in my own life, is knowing that at the end of the day, the
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  things that happen within my own Earth are due to the result of
• 1:01:20
  hard work from, not just me, but from My Wife, and, you know, it
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  is, it's it's a measure of our own of our own reputation of our
• 1:01:31
  own luck. We talk about things with in a
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  heathen world view, GIF, rain, and luck.
• 1:01:35
  And these are things that are very important to us as he has
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  heathens, right? How we step up and make things
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  happen. It's, we don't just wait for
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  something to happen for us. We go out and we make things
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  happen ourselves. You know, we work hard, we go
• 1:01:57
  through our struggles, we fight our way back from troubles.
• 1:02:00
  If we get knocked down and you know what, we shake it off, we
• 1:02:05
  wipe the blood off our face, we dust the dirt off of our knees
• 1:02:09
  and we Just crack our Knuckles, crack our necks, and we get back
• 1:02:15
  into The Fray, we go back out there and do we don't accept
• 1:02:17
  defeat, we don't lie down and just take the the lashings that
• 1:02:23
  life dishes out, you know. And I feel like that is what
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  makes us as heathens so honorable, and so different, you
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  know, number regardless of the religious approach over the
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  religious views of individuals, along this path.
• 1:02:42
  There's, there's a commonality, there's, there's a common ground
• 1:02:45
  that I think we can all relate to, and that is that we are not
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  just going to lie down and let things take us.
• 1:02:52
  We're going to Let the adversity.
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  Let the struggle temper us into learning how to survive
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  learning, how to provide for and stand on our own two feet
• 1:03:08
  because it brings worth it, it gives us Worth to our folk and
• 1:03:14
  it gives You know, when our people see that when art when
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  our Kinsmen, when our kiss, when are the extended people of our
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  family, those who are nearest and dearest to us.
• 1:03:24
  When they see that, we are now worth more to them because they
• 1:03:29
  see what we go through and they don't like, well, you didn't
• 1:03:33
  even take that one lying down, more two more to him than on the
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  surface or her on the surface than met the eye.
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  So that's my analysis of stanza. 37 of the all of them.
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  All of you guys. And gals out there listening,
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  I've read it yourself and want to share your thoughts.
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  Just let me know that you heard the podcast and that you know it
• 1:04:12
  hit a nerve or whatever. So that's going to wrap it up
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  for today's episode of random Heathen ramblings.
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  I hope that you enjoyed it and I hope that you've checked out
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  everything that I've asked you to check out this far.
• 1:04:24
  You guys have a great rest of the day afternoon morning,
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  whatever it is that you're out there doing and until we talk
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  again hail and may your Hearth fires continue to burn bright.