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Random Heathen Ramblings: S5, EP40 - Monthly Heathen Live Stream [October 2024] · Random Heathen Ramblings

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All right, everybody, we are back here for our monthly live
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stream broadcast of the Random Heathen Ramblings podcast,
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coming live at you on Facebook and YouTube.
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If you're watching, feel free to say hi in the comments down
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below. We've already had a couple of
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folks on the YouTube channel check in.
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So to more, sorry, more oof. And Michael Thacker over here on
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the YouTube channel. Halen, welcome to the two of you
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and thanks for coming into this this monthly live stream.
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So as I did last month, this is going to be this week's episode
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of the Random Heathen Ramblings podcast.
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And so for all of you listeners, when you catch this later on in
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the week, when it comes out on Thursday, don't forget that if
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you want to get in on the action, I do these lives once a
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month, usually at a fixed date. So this one is, you know, the
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second, sorry, third Monday of the month.
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And I'll probably look to do it somewhere around that same time
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each month going forward. So that way you can kind of be
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prepared. Is it the second, third Monday?
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No, it's the, it's the, it's the third Thursday, second Monday.
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So anyway, somewhere around the second or third Monday of the
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week is when we'll probably end up doing these live streams and,
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and get some interaction with the folks out here in the
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various social media places. So this week coming up, this
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weekend coming up is going to be our tribes winter nights.
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I am very much looking forward to that.
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We got some new guests and friends coming over this
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weekend, October 19th, to celebrate the the the coming of
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the. The Norse or dramatic winter.
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Historically speaking, winter nights was seen as the beginning
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of the Germanic New Year. So for us in the Germanic
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heathen beliefs, this is kind of our New Year's Day, New Year's
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celebration, because the way that the Germanic people's
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reckon time was not necessarily by, you know, days of the week
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or birthdays of the year, they would they would calculate their
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life and their time living as as how many winters they survive.
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So winter nights was important for that.
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And it was quite often times meant to be a exclusive family
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gathering or, or, or family thing.
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Some others would. And you know, some other regions
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they were a bit more public and inclusive of other people.
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But yeah, we're we're very much looking forward to that.
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Hey there David Clin down there in Columbia, TN says, hey, good
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to see you again and got got to break ground on a future long
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haul and Norse village very cool.
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So, yeah, awesome man. Congratulations on that and
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looking forward to to hearing more or seeing more progress
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when and as you're. Able to to share that so.
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Yeah, if you ever want to come on the show and and talk about
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the progress of things going on down there in your neck of the
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woods, feel free to shoot me an e-mail and everybody else
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that's, you know, catching this. If you're interested in wanting
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to ramble with me on a podcast one time, you can you can do it
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one of two ways. You can always e-mail me
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midgardmusingstn@gmail.com or you can call the Midgard Musings
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podcast hotline and that number is 615-671-9832. e-mail helps me
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keep track of things and helps keep us in a line of
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communication. But even if you don't want to be
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on the episode and you just want to drop a voice message and
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leave me your thoughts, you can do that by calling into that
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hotline number and we'll. Have your voice put out here if
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you want on the on the show. So again, this is a live stream.
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I'm going to be taking some questions.
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I know a couple of folks have posted their their questions if,
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if they're not able to join the live stream, they they, they,
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they left a comment on the on the Midgard Musings Facebook
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page or YouTube channel post. So I'm going to be going back
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and forth between that. But before we get started with
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with those things, I am going to be, what am I saying?
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I'm going to be kind of recalling or, or reminiscing a
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bit about this past weekend's celebration with the, the folks
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of the Raven Moon Hearth Kindred and in Tennessee for their
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Shadowmoot event. I've been talking about it now
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for the last maybe a few months on and off and pretty regularly,
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regularly now for the last couple of weeks at least, or
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more kind of advertising, getting the word out, you know,
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drumming up some attention for it.
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And that was just this past weekend on Saturday the 12th.
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So we all got a chance to, you know, meet together at the
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Barfield Crescent Park here in Murfreesboro, TN.
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It was a bit of a different thing planned to be a different
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thing based on the fact that, you know, they, they, they, they
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couldn't hold the, the feast and, and the camping and, and
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everything on the scale that they've been used to kind of
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doing it for over the last 10 years.
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As I recall, their Chieftain, Greg said that the either next
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month or beginning of December is, is the Hearth's 11th year
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running. So very excited that they still,
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despite the challenges of them not being able to do it in in
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the space and at the area where they normally do it, they were
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still able to to find a way. Michael Thacker says that since
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winter nights is this week, what would be a great dish to add to
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the feast? Spread your opinion as well as
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everyone else's. Yeah, that's a great question,
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Michael. We have been doing a sort of
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unofficial, traditional thing every year since last year,
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really. So this is our second year kind
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of repeating the theme. We do like a potluck, soup, Stew
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and chili kind of thing. So we encourage people to bring
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something that is along the soup, Stew or chili line.
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Of course we can, you know, we're, we're happy to take, you
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know, whatever, you know, breads, desserts, fruits,
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vegetables, you know, stuff like that, things that just kind of
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make us feel like, you know, we're, we're, we're, we're
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stocking up for the winter months and we're, and we're
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eating good and kind of, you know, feasting in that really
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Hardy sort of way. So soups and stews and, and, and
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chili, you know, it's great this time of year.
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It's it's that type of food that really warms your bones.
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So that's what we like to do and being, you know, making it a
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potluck sort of thing doesn't put the burden too heavily on
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any one person, you know, so everybody's kind of pitching in
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and contributing in that sort of way.
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So that's what that's what we do.
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And that, you know, interestingly enough, that's how
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the, the Shadowmoot event last last weekend with the folks
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Raven Moon Hearth and, and the surrounding areas, you know,
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that's how they did their event. They usually with their public
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events, they will, you know, charge at the door for the
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ticket fee for the camping and, and getting your meals and, and,
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and all of that. And so since this year they
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weren't doing that, there was they, they, they nullified the
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entry fee. There were no.
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Ticket sales to buy to. Come to the event.
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But what they did instead make a potluck thing where they asked,
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you know, if you're going to come, please, you know, bring
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some food item or items or, you know, plates or whatever.
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And we had a really great spread.
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I made a a a vegetable lentil soup.
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There was some awesome chili. The hearth Max, They're they're,
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they're scald. He did a pulled pork.
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You know a. Smoked BBQ, pulled pork BBQ,
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which was delicious. Some folks also, you know, there
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was fruit, there was vegetables, there were yummy desserts, kinds
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of cookies. My wife did a sweet potato bake.
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My Thule, he brought a variety of cornbread, which was great
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for, you know, to accompany soups and stews and and that
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sort of thing. So it was, it was a really
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great, you know, just late, late summer, early autumn spread to
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get into the spirit of things. And aside from that, one of the
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folks who I've had on this show before, he has a music site or
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page and a YouTube channel called Ascaldicworks.
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And, and Blake Russell, who, who is the, the man behind the name
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Skaldic works. He lives in Alabama and he came
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up for the day from Alabama with his, his big Davu drum and some
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other hand drum and his tackle harp that he plays.
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And so we had some really cool like Nordic Germanic kind of
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sounding music and drumming and stuff going along throughout the
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afternoon. And it was an all day thing, you
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know, So I got there early around 8:30 or so in the
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morning. Most everybody else came a bit
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later on in the day. But Mike, Mike, I had a class
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that I ended up teaching that morning about Stumble historical
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Heath and Stumble, which for those of you that are listening
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and watching this episode when it comes out and for the folks
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watching this live now, if you didn't get a chance to make it
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to Shadowmoot and you're, you're interested in what the class was
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about, I did film that whole thing.
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So tomorrow at I think it's premiering on the Midgard
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Musings YouTube channel at I believe it's 6:00 PM Eastern,
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5:00 PM Central time. So tomorrow evening on the
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YouTube channel, that class will be airing on the, on my channel
13:19
there. So you can watch everything that
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was talked about regarding the myths and facts of historical
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Heathen Sumble. And that was a great opportunity
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to talk about this, right, or this ritual, this ceremony that
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is very important in Heathenry because as it turned out, there
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was a, there was a need for people to kind of know what that
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was very immediately due to the fact that the the evenings
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ceremony or ritual for foreshadow moot was a impromptu
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stumble wasn't a wasn't couldn't have been assembled in the
14:00
traditional sense because we were outdoors.
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Granted, we were under a pavilion with the roof and
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stumble traditionally has to be done indoors with walls and all
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of that around you. But we did a sort of, you know,
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impromptu stumble or what sometimes gets called the Yeva
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Shippa or, you know, there wasn't any alcohol or beer
14:16
drinking going on, but it was a, you know, a lot of the elements
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of traditional stumble were present.
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None of that was filmed, of course, because it was, it was
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meant for the attendees and all that there.
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But it was a really, really interesting thing to to to teach
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a class about stumble and then not only participate in a sort
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of stumble thing later on that evening for the events, you
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know, ritual. Yeah.
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So not only did I did I get to participate in that, but I was
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asked to lead it and to sort of run with it, which is the first
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for me. I you know.
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All of the stumbles that I've done have been in the kind of
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the privacy of of the hearth or the home of myself.
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Or are there? Hearts and homes that I've
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attended where I've participated in the stumble and somebody else
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did did the work did the leading of it.
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This was my first time doing something of a public nature
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with, you know, I think at the table that were seated were
15:22
close to 15 people, not including myself.
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So it was, it was a nice little crowd that got got a chance to
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participate. And some of some of the the
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folks that were there, you know, had they had never gotten the
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chance to experience anything like that before.
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They've never, some of them hadn't even heard of stumble
15:44
before being a part of 1, you know, So getting a chance to
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educate the public and then show them by deed, you know, what
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this whole thing means and what it's all about was a huge honor.
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So I mentioned it already, of course, at the event, but for
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any of the members of the Raven Moon Hearth Kindred who are, are
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watching this now or, or listening to this or watching
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this later, I do want to say a very special thank you for
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entrusting me with this high honor and this responsibility
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to, you know, be the, the stumble giver at one of your
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events. I, I said I, it was, it was a
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high honor for me to fulfill that need and, and to be there.
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And I think everybody from, from the feedback that we got, you
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know, that day, it was, it was enjoyable.
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It was, you know, not too shabby for, for an impromptu sort of
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thing. Because again, that, you know, I
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had no idea going into that up until sometime late Saturday
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morning, early Saturday afternoon that this was
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happening. The plans for that, you know,
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for the events ritual had changed very suddenly due to
16:58
unforeseen circumstances. And it, it, it was brought to me
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like right then and like, hey, would you be able to do this?
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And so it was like a, it was a challenge, you know, in a way
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for me to really be there and show up and be present for
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those, for those attendees and, and, and for everybody.
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So a high honor to me. Thank you to the hearth once
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again for allowing me that honor.
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So. After Stumble, you know, it was
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it was time for people to pretty much just, you know, socialize
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and and go about their business and and clean up and then head
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home. I think you know, besides Greg
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and Max and Rebecca and. Maybe a couple of other
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stragglers like myself and my bonus kid Kevin, like we were
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one of those, some of the last people to leave.
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You know, we helped pick up some of the last remaining things
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that needed to be either thrown away or organized and loaded up
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in vehicles. Oh, and Don, yeah, Don was
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there, of course. So Greg and Don and Max and
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Rebecca, myself and Kevin, you know, we were some of the last
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ones to to leave, one of the 1st to get there and one of the last
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to leave. And that's appropriate, I think
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for. For the for those the hosts that
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are doing it and I, you know, I didn't have anything to do with
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the, the hosting of it. I was, I was there to attend
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like a lot of other people that came and surprisingly had to be
18:29
there for, for more than just just more than just a class and
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more than just socializing. So.
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It was great. Had a wonderful time.
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The weather was, was beautiful, you know, yeah, the sun was a
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little bit warm, but we had shade under the canopy and the
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air was, was cool, especially getting on into the evening.
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Yeah, you know, it, it was, it was very nice.
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And, and so for, you know, a big shout out to the hearth.
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Like once again, they, they usually do these things at a
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very specific, in a very specific way with the camping
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and, and all of that stuff. And they weren't able to do that
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this year. But they still, you know,
19:05
persevered and endeavored to do something.
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And it's better to do something than to do nothing, you know.
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So Congrats to them and and good on all of them for doing such.
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All right, so now that I kind of updated all of you with with
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that little little update and story, I am going to go and look
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at one or two comments that I know came.
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Across for this live stream. And again, for anybody else that
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does want to comment, feel free to do so down below.
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But this, this question or this statement is a bit of a load.
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It's a paragraph. So I'm going to kind of read it
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slowly, try to digest it a bit. I've read it once just because I
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saw it and and try to give some thought to the answers.
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For this SO. I really have no way of showing
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it on the screen because it's all on my social media.
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I'm not going to just blast this all on the screen here, but this
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message or this comment came from from John.
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I don't know Deslate, Deslate. I don't.
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I'm sorry John, for mispronouncing the name.
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He says that in the heathen mindset where does where does
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extreme depression fit and could work?
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I mean in the basis of one thinking that they are absolute
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dirt and deserve to die in pain and suffering and not going with
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the notion of everything will be better but they can function in
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society but are seriously so effed up that they can't have
20:58
relationships and when they do it's through extreme debauchery
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and violence. Along with that, how can it fuel
21:06
someone to strive past their own simplistic BS to become better,
21:14
but not destroy everyone around them in the process?
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And, he says, and medication and therapists are not the answer.
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So. Heavy duty stuff, right?
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Heavy duty, heartfelt things that John is talking about here,
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you know, we're talking about, I guess what he's, what he's
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trying to convey is, you know, from a heathen mindset, you
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know, folks that are heathen dealing with extreme depression,
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who I guess manage their depression through like the, the
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self deprecation or self deprecating acts or, or, or, or,
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or thoughts. You know that they are, they're
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dirt. They're not deserving, they're
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not worthy. They should just continue to
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live and then die in pain and suffering.
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Don't even worry about trying to have a relationship.
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But if you do, then just you know.
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Live it up and and and be disruptive and destructive and
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all of these things. You know, how can it fuel
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someone to strive past their own BS and become better?
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And we're not talking about, you know, going to a therapist or,
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or taking pills or drugs or something like that, that he's
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saying that, you know, that's not the answer.
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You know these? Types of topics and these types
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of subjects are, are very, they are, they're very sensitive and
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you know. As somebody who's who's been
22:54
given a chance to to. Get involved with not just my,
22:59
you know, local community, but also with others in other parts
23:05
of the world and other parts of the country and meet together in
23:07
person to talk about things like this and, and to, and to have a,
23:12
an awareness in a sense of it, you know, I'm very much in tune
23:15
with mental. Health.
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With, with a lot of the people who I interact with, you know,
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everybody has things going on in their lives and everybody deals
23:28
with things a little bit differently.
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But I definitely think that I have a, a more intertwined
23:39
connection with people who are battling the negative side of,
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of mental illness and, and, and depression is a big one.
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You know that that can be a. Crippler.
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Now, when somebody. Takes on the approach to be
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self-destructive to take on the approach of you know, you know,
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any, any relationships that one has with somebody is is is not
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in a wholesome sort of way. It's let's let's live it up.
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Let's party, let's get trash, let's get messed up.
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Let's fight. Let's you know all of these
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things. I mean, if if we look at it just
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from a from a human being perspective, not even.
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You know, a, a heathen mindset, it's, it's very anti peace, it's
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very anti order, very anti what it what, what a good life would
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be, right? Objectively speaking,
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holistically speaking, what a good life should be.
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You know, free of violence, free of debauchery and and excess,
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excess of anything excess, excessive eating, excessive sex,
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excessive food, excessive drink, everything.
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And you know, things need to have a balance.
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Things need to have moderation for it to be.
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A good life. This this is very nihilistic.
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It seems you know this is a, this is a, This is a view that
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that is. You know what was me?
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What was everything? Everything sucks, You know, it's
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nihilistic, it's misanthropic. It you know, everybody sucks.
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Everything sucks. And you know, I don't know, I,
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I, I guess from a heathen mindset like it doesn't, it
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doesn't bode well to maintain that idea when.
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You know that that's anti order, that's anti what the gods
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represent in our belief with with the gods as the holy powers
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that they are. There is order, there is
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structure, there is, you know this, I guess, sense of peace,
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right? That they, they, they want, they
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don't want the constant strife, the constant struggle, even
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though there is that always, that's always happening in, in
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the nature. I mean, knee dog is always
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gnawing at the roots. There is those agents of
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entropy. You know, Fenrier will
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eventually be released and break free from his, from his chains
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and, and, and, you know, bring the, the Ragnarok on the gods
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and, and mankind. And so it's, it's, it's
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inevitable, it's there, but there's always a balance.
26:26
There's always something that that brings it back to a state
26:31
of peace and. I don't know, man, like this is
26:38
a tough one for me because I, I, I choose not to.
26:42
I, I can't, I just, I, I don't know, I can't.
26:45
No matter how bad things get for me, I always, you know, and I'm
26:49
just going to say personally for me, you know, no matter how bad
26:52
things have gotten for me over the years, I've always I was
26:54
brought up in a way and that and that's.
26:56
Probably a large part of the reason why I have the, the, the
27:00
perspective that I have is this how I was raised or how I was
27:03
brought up like I always have. I've had and, and maintained, no
27:07
matter how bad it's gotten, I've always maintained that I need to
27:11
learn what I can from this and I'm not just going to get
27:14
enveloped and sucked in to this defeatist mentality or it's all
27:19
bad and it's all, you know, pain.
27:25
It's all suffering. Because as they.
27:29
Said, you know it, you know, not going with the notion of
27:32
everything will be better that they can function in society.
27:36
So why, why isn't it going to be better?
27:39
That's a choice. You're choosing violence, you're
27:41
choosing destruction, you're choosing the chaos.
27:47
You know, and again, this is this seems like a very
27:48
specifically targeted. Thing, and I know I don't know
27:53
the specifics of it, but when I hear stuff like this it just
27:56
makes me think that, well whatever the situation is, if
28:00
you want it to be different, if you want it to change, then
28:03
change it. OK, if if you don't want to be
28:08
fat anymore then stop eating so much food, Get up off your ass
28:12
and exercise, Drink more water, be more active, do all the
28:16
things that is going to change the situation of what it is.
28:21
Right. That that that is understanding
28:27
that things are with the way they are because of the choices.
28:30
That we've made and sure there are certainly times or
28:33
circumstances that are contributors to the thing where
28:38
we are, you know, a victim, I guess you could say or you know
28:44
the. A victim of the circumstance.
28:46
But I think, I think the majority of, of times and I, and
28:50
I mean that sincerely, I think the majority of times the victim
28:55
is, is, is not truly a victim of anything other than their own.
28:59
Decisions, their own deeds, their own actions.
29:02
Yes, absolutely. There are times and there are
29:06
situations where in an innocent victim is is harmed and and bad
29:11
things happen to decent and good.
29:13
Folk, I'm not delusional and I'm not in denial of the fact that
29:19
you know, and I'm not victim shaming here when I say that
29:23
yes, there are definitely. Times in in situations where
29:25
they're, you know, true victims are experiencing negative things
29:29
that that ruin their lives. I think again, though, the
29:33
majority of the time is there, It's it's mostly my life sucks
29:36
and it's nobody else's fault but mine.
29:39
And if you're in denial about that or delusional about that,
29:42
then you're not going to you're not going to find a solution.
29:45
You know, you have to face those those hard things and those
29:49
difficult things to be honest with yourself and realize, yeah,
29:54
this is the way things are, is because of me, my decisions, my
29:59
choices, my actions. All right, You know, so this is
30:05
how I feel about it. I'm not a professional.
30:07
I don't have professional background with psychology or
30:12
anything like that. That's just how I feel.
30:15
So I'm going to leave it at that and see if anybody else has
30:18
anything to say. We have a question, though.
30:20
Michael Thacker says, you know about the timing for a stumble.
30:23
Would it be best at the beginning of a meet up before
30:25
feast, during feast or after feast?
30:29
I think from a historical perspective, timing wise, it's
30:35
usually done during or after the feast.
30:40
We do it after like we'll have our, we'll have our feast.
30:43
We'll get our fill in, you know, after we bloat, we do our, we do
30:47
our, we can all say religious or spiritual work.
30:51
We, we do our, our ritual before we feast.
30:54
We, we, we spend time. We, we, we do that thing in
30:57
ceremony before we feast. Then we come in and we socialize
31:00
and we feast. And then we we call the formal
31:02
stumble to happen usually after that.
31:05
And then, you know, I think that's, you know, somebody asked
31:11
during the during the class. If if you can only do stumble,
31:17
you know, like once a year and I said no, you can do it.
31:20
You know, we know historically that stumbles were were done on
31:25
the attested holy tides in the documented holy tides.
31:29
So you know, there was always stumble at Yule and winter
31:32
nights and then the secret bloat or victory feast, victory
31:36
sacrifice. But I think that you can also
31:40
have a stumble on a random Tuesday if you want, you know,
31:44
if if the and and ensemble doesn't even have to be
31:47
something that is done as a heathen observance of anything.
31:52
You know, like I mentioned also during the classes, I have fire
31:56
on the mountain coming up in like 10 days from now.
31:58
By the time you guys are listening to this or watching
32:00
this on the on the premiere on Thursday, it's it'll be less
32:03
than that. It'll be a week because we'll,
32:06
we will be arriving for opening ceremony on a week from this
32:09
Thursday. So you're, we're, you know,
32:12
we're going to be going up for that.
32:13
And that is not, that is not a inherently heathen event.
32:15
It's, it's a mixed, mixed bag of, of cultural beliefs and, and
32:24
everything being brought to, to fire on the mountain every year.
32:27
And the host of that event likes to have a stumble when we, when
32:33
we feast the first night, you know, so either during or after
32:37
the feast. I think is, is, is fine.
32:43
I guess you know, every, every to each their own.
32:45
But if you're looking for suggestions, there's mine.
32:50
I would definitely say that if this is your first stumble to do
32:55
or to lead some things, you definitely want to be aware of
32:59
are anybody that's coming in there that you're, you know, not
33:06
if, if anybody can come and do it and you're not intricately
33:11
intertwined with their lives and they're and they're with yours,
33:15
you know. So if they're a bit unfamiliar
33:17
to you, you know, make sure that they know what it is that's
33:20
happening, what's going on, the importance of the ritual and
33:24
then what it represents and what it means.
33:27
And also be aware that people who have had too much to drink
33:30
or have had anything to to to partake of beforehand, that that
33:34
that could alter their state of mind should probably not be
33:40
getting involved with things like, you know, toasts and
33:43
boasts and and then oaths, even because oaths are binding.
33:48
And if you are inebriated and incoherent because of, you know,
33:54
some sort of intoxicant that you've ingested, you've drank
33:56
too much, whatever you could, you could be saying things
34:01
outrageous. And if there's no person set to,
34:05
to regulate that, if there's no fool or no, you know, you know,
34:09
person to be in that position to, to control what's being said
34:14
and to challenge things that are being said, it could go very
34:17
badly for not just the person saying, doing those things, but
34:21
for everybody else. That's their present.
34:22
Because when, especially when it comes to oaths, you know,
34:26
everybody is, is bound by, by by all of that.
34:31
And you know, so those are some things that I would definitely
34:36
be sure to consider and watch the video too when it comes out
34:39
tomorrow, Michael, that it'll maybe help clarify or, or
34:43
educate you on some things. I do cite some sources that you
34:47
can check out For more information about Historical
34:51
Heath and Stumble, as well as an article on a blog site that will
34:56
really condense it all for you and and and help you collect.
34:59
It because some of the sources that I that I cite are.
35:03
To be honest, difficult to come by to get your hands on because
35:08
there are rare and they are expensive.
35:11
When you can, when, if ever, you can find them.
35:13
One of the books that we end up talking about during the class,
35:16
somebody just searched on Amazon for it and found it for like
35:20
$900. It's crazy.
35:24
All right, here, we got another question.
35:26
They're all in runes on YouTube. So with the era symbol.
35:31
Hello Jesse. Just wanted to say thank you for
35:32
what you do. And others have made my path
35:36
much easier to walk. Whoops.
35:38
Know that your efforts make a great impact for us, that we all
35:42
have a safe winter. Well, thank you very much there.
35:46
The the, the, the writings are disappearing on the screen.
35:48
And it's a little bit small for me.
35:49
I know it starts with an S. Yeah, I know it's younger truth
35:55
arc, so they're on YouTube and I appreciate that very kind
36:00
sentiment and thank you for sharing that with all of us.
36:04
I appreciate you watching and tuning in.
36:07
And yeah, I. You know, I, I one of the things
36:12
that I said, one of the things that I said during the the
36:17
stumble, I can say we'll we'll just call it stumble aver ship
36:21
is is is a probably more accurate term to use, but we'll
36:24
just. Call the thing that happened at
36:26
Shadowmoon. We'll just call it the impromptu
36:28
stumble for the sake of for time and arguments.
36:32
You know, one of the things that I, I felt that was was important
36:36
to say. During all of that was, you
36:40
know, some, some, some people feel like they are at a point in
36:47
their life. And this was one of the things
36:49
that was said during the stumble by somebody else, which inspired
36:52
me to say what I'm about to say is, you know, we, we're not
36:55
supposed to be here. You know, we, we weren't meant
36:58
to get this far or, you know, I think one of the things that one
37:02
person said was, you know, I ain't supposed to be here.
37:06
And I and I get the sentiment. I understand that, especially if
37:11
you live with a particularly violent or, you know, strife
37:19
driven life, You know, there, there's been a lot of uprooting
37:23
and moving or violence or, or just things that can, that can
37:26
tear the, the, the spirit of the human soul down, you know, to a
37:31
point of feeling defeated and and unworthy of anything that
37:35
they, they can feel like. Well, then I, you know, what am
37:38
I even here for? I, I, I, I'm not meant to be
37:41
here. I shouldn't be here, but yet
37:44
here you are right. And here we are.
37:48
And when one of the things that I recalled about myself was
37:52
that, you know, I, I was born dead almost 40 years ago.
37:57
I'll be 40 next month. And I, I was back then, I don't
38:03
know what it, you know, if this was just like a universal thing.
38:06
But back then, whatever the due date of the child was, if, if
38:10
you didn't, if you weren't born naturally and there weren't, you
38:14
know, any complications seen up until that point.
38:17
If they weren't, if you weren't born naturally on your due date,
38:19
then the doctors are just like I just give it a day or two and
38:21
he'll, you know, they got to come out eventually.
38:24
So like my due date was November the 7th.
38:29
I wasn't born naturally. I wasn't naturally born.
38:32
There was no cesarean done, no surgery until the 11th.
38:37
So five days later, sorry, four days later, I came out and I was
38:44
a breached birth instead of being born head first.
38:46
I, I came out walking. I wanted to walk out.
38:48
Only the problem is, is that because I came out feet first,
38:52
the umbilical cord had had wrapped itself around my neck
38:56
and I, you know, I had suffocated myself.
38:59
And because I was being born trying to breathe and not coming
39:02
out head first, I was taking in all of the, the birth fluids and
39:05
just I, I came out as I've been told this blue has a new pair of
39:09
jeans and I and I was clinically dead.
39:15
Now who shouldn't be here? You know, I mean, I by the grace
39:21
of the gods and the strength of my ancestors and, and, and the,
39:24
the skill, the might, the main of the, of the medical personnel
39:28
there, the doctors, the nurses, whoever I am here.
39:32
And I, I also didn't ever think that in this time of my life,
39:38
you know, I had no idea what I would be doing or where I would
39:40
be. But this certainly was not what
39:43
I had in mind to be doing, you know, to, to be called upon at a
39:49
public heathen event to lead a ritual, to lead stumble for
39:55
people. You know, I, I, I never once
39:57
thought in my wildest dreams that that was going to ever
40:00
happen. I'm still surprised about it
40:05
even now that that it did. You know, and I also didn't
40:08
think that, you know, I'd have a, a voice or, or a presence as
40:13
small as it is, or as it might be on, on social media to, to
40:18
share things like this and to give recognition to people and
40:21
to get answers for people that have these questions and to help
40:27
guide or to help the mentor to help find things.
40:30
You know, shoot, I, I'm a I'm a bonus dad now and I'm almost 40,
40:34
you know, no kids with my own blood running around here, but
40:37
I've got bonus kids. Never would have thought, never
40:41
would have thought in my life that this would have been what
40:46
the gods and my ancestors had in store for me.
40:50
What the, what the, what the nor near wove into my thread.
40:55
But what's interesting is, you know, when we do get these
40:57
things, when we are given these threads woven into our life,
41:01
it's is we have choices. You know, this is the thread
41:04
that was woven for me. And on my choices, do I weave
41:08
strength into this thread? And do I continue to, to fortify
41:11
it and to strengthen it and to enhance it and to grow it?
41:15
Or do I give up? And do I, you know, say, oh, you
41:17
know, this sucks. I can't believe it.
41:19
I'm, you know, I got to take care of this and I got to do
41:21
that and I got all these responsibilities.
41:23
And when, when, when, right. Oh, the world is terrible.
41:26
Look at everything burning down, drowned, you know, floods and,
41:29
and sickness and everything's terrible.
41:35
Like, don't get me wrong again, I'm not delusional.
41:38
I understand and I see these things.
41:40
It, it makes me want to do even more though, Like it makes me
41:43
want to be a voice of hope and a voice of encouragement and to,
41:49
you know, help people to wake up and realize what they are
41:54
capable of. And, and, you know, whether
41:57
you're heathen or not, you have the, the strength within you,
42:02
you have to tap into it. You have to call upon that.
42:04
You have to reach back. Your ancestors can certainly
42:07
help with that. And they want to, you know, they
42:12
didn't get where they got through being all lackadaisical
42:17
and, and, and, you know, nonchalant, like they put the
42:23
work in and the work has changed over time.
42:27
The work has changed over the years and we we live in a time,
42:32
we live in a, a society, you know, where it's a little bit
42:37
different now. But work is work, man.
42:38
And, and if our ancestors put the work in to get them where
42:44
they got, which by proxy got us to where we are, you know, if it
42:49
wasn't for them, we wouldn't be here, you know, so, so, So what
42:53
kind of a, what kind of a dishonor are we doing them when
42:56
we say things about ourselves that are self deprecating?
42:59
And then I shouldn't be here, man, your ancestors are
43:05
observing you and they're watching you and they're waiting
43:07
for you to do great things like they did, you know.
43:11
And man, I, just, I, I, I can't bear the thought of failing in,
43:19
in that endeavour. I can't bear the thought of of
43:23
going forward without giving it my absolute freaking best,
43:27
right? Even if I fall, even if I mess
43:30
up, even if I make a mistake along the way that at least I
43:33
know I did that, you know, that happened while I was giving it
43:37
everything I got. I did the best I could, the, the
43:40
best way I knew how or I, you know, and then, and then when I
43:45
failed it, you know, when I, when I fell down, I, I, I
43:48
learned from that mistake and I picked myself back up and I said
43:51
now onward, right onward to the next, you know, get back up, try
43:57
again. And I think that kind of ties
44:00
into, you know, some of what John had said, you know, where
44:07
the where, you know, what's a heathen mindset about it?
44:13
I can try to find the the post is a little bit I think I got
44:19
the gist of of what he was saying.
44:23
But you know, some of the the way he was saying it was how to
44:28
kind of read between the lines about it.
44:30
But yeah. Like in a heathen mindset, where
44:32
does, where does a extreme depression fit?
44:34
I mean, it fits in everybody's life, whether you're heathen or
44:37
not. The difference is, is you know,
44:42
you know, you say that, you know, medication and, and
44:44
therapists aren't the answer. Maybe they're not the answer for
44:47
everybody. And maybe that maybe that option
44:51
has already been been worked. But a lot of stuff like this,
44:57
you know, you need people. You need people to, to build you
45:03
up, to support you, to help you get through things to, to let
45:06
you know that you can get better.
45:09
You can be better, everything can be better, or, you know,
45:14
things can be better. If you believe that they can't,
45:17
it's because you won't do the work necessary for them to get
45:20
better. You know, most of the time I
45:26
felt I've learned that, you know, when, when people say that
45:29
they can't do something, it's not because they're physically
45:33
incapable or or mentally incapable.
45:39
You know, it's not about their capabilities of doing it.
45:42
It's about their desire. It's about where their heart is.
45:45
It's about where they're, you know, where, where they put the
45:50
the energy. If all you think is that you
45:53
can't, well, then you've already accepted defeat.
45:56
Can't means won't can't never did you know, and, and a lot of
46:04
us, most of us are, are, are capable of so much more than we
46:09
give ourselves credit for. And from a heathen perspective,
46:12
if we're not doing that, our very best.
46:15
And then what kind of example are we setting?
46:17
What kind of how, how are we preserving our honor?
46:22
How are we living honorably? You know, if the people around
46:28
us, the people who love us, the people who because, and there
46:30
are you, you, you know, you might be the, you might be the
46:35
type of person that thinks that, you know, nobody gives a shit
46:37
about you and, and, and you're just a worthless piece of
46:41
garbage and, and your life sucks and this and that.
46:44
Listen, I guarantee you somebody, at least one person,
46:47
if not more, cares about you beyond more than that, You know,
46:54
somebody cares and that person is going to be in your corner
46:59
every time. They're going to they're going
47:01
to get in your face about, you know, you being this, this self
47:04
deprecating attitude. What the heck?
47:06
Don't talk about my boy like that.
47:07
Don't talk about my friend like that.
47:09
Meaning you, you know, you're my God, you're my friend.
47:13
First of all, you're your father's son.
47:15
You're your daughter's mother or you're your mother's daughter.
47:18
You're your, you know, father's son.
47:20
You're, you know, you are the result of your ancestors hard
47:24
work. How dare you talk down about
47:26
yourself. Therefore, talking down about
47:28
them, you know, get up. Come on.
47:31
Shake it off. Dust.
47:32
Dust the the, you know, dust your jeans off, dust your pants
47:35
off, you know, shake it out, cry it out, maybe sometimes if you
47:40
have to, and try again. Get up.
47:43
Don't give up. Get up.
47:45
Don't give up. Hello there.
47:50
Hello there. Damon Adams speaking truth.
47:52
Well, thank you, Damon. I mean, this is just from the
47:56
experiences that I've had. Everybody has their own
48:00
experiences and I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to suggest
48:04
that I've got the answers for everybody.
48:06
I'm just sharing my thoughts of a of a of a thing that's being
48:10
directed towards this live stream and.
48:12
It's, you know, everybody can, can, can chime in your thoughts,
48:16
You know, again, because, because John's thing, you know,
48:21
is it's very specific and it's very, I can't, you know, when I,
48:24
when I read about stuff like this, you know, whether it's the
48:27
individual who's posting about it or whether it's a situation
48:30
that they're dealing with, with somebody else, right?
48:34
So maybe they're speaking on behalf of somebody who doesn't
48:39
or, or, you know, doesn't want to voice it for, you know, the
48:43
sake of anonymity or, or whatever the case may be, or
48:48
maybe it's themselves and they're just, you know, whatever
48:53
it is. You know, I, I, I feel like so
48:54
many of the things that I read about like while while sensitive
48:57
and while delicate and while difficult as they are, they
49:00
can't be so unique that they're the only ones going through it.
49:06
I don't believe, I just, I don't believe that, you know, I may
49:11
not be going through it and I may not have, I may not be able
49:14
to sympathize because I haven't gone through it, you know, and
49:16
that's another type of thing that I know a lot of people
49:20
struggle with is, is when you are going through something
49:24
yourself and then the person that you're, you know, getting
49:29
help from or to venting to or whatever.
49:31
Like one of the, I think one of the, one of the things that we
49:34
have a tendency to do with people is to, to put ourselves
49:38
in this position that we're, you know, this, you cannot possibly
49:42
understand what I'm going through because you're not going
49:44
through yourself. You wouldn't understand
49:50
depression because you're not depressed.
49:52
You wouldn't understand anxiety because you don't have it.
49:54
You wouldn't understand PTSD because you don't have anything
49:59
that has, has put you through those things.
50:03
And to an extent, I understand what, where that sentiment is
50:05
coming from. I couldn't possibly understand
50:08
what it's like to give birth to a child because I don't have the
50:15
plumbing, the gears, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
50:17
the, the biological makeup to do so.
50:20
So I have no freaking idea what a woman goes through when she
50:25
gives birth. You know?
50:26
On the same token, I have not been diagnosed with depression.
50:30
Do I get depressed from time to time?
50:32
Hell yeah. I mean just.
50:34
Live a life for the, for the, for the, for the amount of years
50:38
that I have and and longer for. For those of you who are older,
50:42
I mean, I, I am, I am old to those who are younger than me
50:46
and I am young to those who are older than me, but I'm still
50:49
almost 40 and I have that many years of experience to say that
50:52
yes, there are definitely times where I just wake up or in the
50:55
middle of a random day, I just go, shit, this sucks.
50:59
You know, I, I, I hate it. And, and it's more than just
51:02
that. Like it gets to a point where I
51:03
feel like I can't go on, you know, so, but I know what
51:11
medicine to take to heal and I know how to manage it because of
51:17
the medicine, because of the work that I've done to lessen
51:24
the blow, you know, to, to, to get it to where the, when those
51:28
things happen, it's, you know, I'm not, I'm not crippled from
51:32
it. I'm, I'm, I'm knocked down a
51:34
little bit. I'm I'm, I'm throwing off my
51:36
rocker for a few minutes or or however long and then I'm
51:39
getting back around to it and I'm going all right, you know,
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let's go. Let's get through this.
51:45
You know, I'm learning what I can from it and and moving on.
51:50
Damon Adams says that having a victim mindset poisons
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everything around you. If you say you can't, you
51:56
convince yourself that you're incapable.
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Man, I can't agree more. You know, most, again, as I said
52:04
before, there's definitely situations and there's
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definitely people in or you know, where, where the, where
52:10
the victim is, is innocent. And then, you know, bad things
52:13
happen to good people. It, it is that way, sadly so.
52:19
But again, I think for the most part and, and by and large, you
52:23
know, people that think that they're the victim is, is, is
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they're the victim of themselves.
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They, they, they're just not willing.
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They, they won't put the effort in and they can.
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You, our minds are such a powerful thing, you know, And
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it's easy. It's easy for us to convince
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ourselves that we're not worthy. It's easy for us to convince
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ourselves that we're less than capable.
52:48
It's easy for us to remain in that defeatist attitude, that
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self deprecating mindset. It's easy to stay there.
52:59
It's difficult to do the work necessary to battle those
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invasive thoughts, to battle those those dark entropic
53:09
feelings and and and forces of nature that seek to to wear
53:14
down. You know, even in the even in
53:17
the mythology, the Norse mythology, like you think about
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knee dog, the dragon gnaws at the roots of Idris seal.
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That's entropy. The the tree is life.
53:28
The tree is, is feeding and, and, and bringing nutrients in
53:31
life to the, to all the 9 realms.
53:33
And here you have this, this dragon that is constantly
53:37
gnawing at its roots to, to, to kill it.
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And there's water being fed to it from the well.
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And there's all these things that are happening to keep it
53:45
alive and to keep it going. And there's that constant
53:47
entropic force that is nature. We're a part of nature.
53:52
We're going to feel those things, but just because we're
53:56
feeling it doesn't mean that it's the end and it doesn't mean
53:59
that we can just lay down and give up.
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You know, what does it take to feed your tree?
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I guess would be a one, one way to look at it.
54:07
What is it? You know what, what feeds your
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tree, what feeds you and keeps you vibrant and growing and,
54:13
and, and feeling alive. There has to be those things in
54:18
your life, otherwise that that entropy is going to keep gnawing
54:24
and gnawing until the roots are are cut off and it and it's, you
54:28
know, you're just this withered, lifeless shell.
54:35
So what is it the thing that what is the thing that feeds
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your tree? Nurture it.
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For me, it's being in nature. For me, it's going into the
54:44
river. For me, it's going in the woods
54:46
or on a hike. For me, it's the drum.
54:49
For me it's burning smoke, the resin of, of, you know,
54:54
frankincense and you know, myrrh and and some other different
55:00
types of incense resins, not the sticks that you buy in like the,
55:05
the head shops. I'm talking the, the purest
55:07
resin rocks, you know, the good stuff.
55:12
Those are those that's, you know, some of my medicine and
55:16
that's the way that I heal myself, maintain and nurture and
55:20
water my tree. How do you water your tree?
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If you're not watering your tree, your tree is going to die.
55:31
And then the only thing left is, is is for those entropic forces
55:35
of nature to just consume it and then you're left with nothing.
55:41
So it can get to that point. You know it can.
55:43
It can definitely get to the point.
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Of. Nothing nothing is left.
55:48
So where do you go from there? You got to start from scratch.
55:51
You got a dung that that you know, when I say dung, I mean,
55:56
you know, really get down to the to the root of things replant
56:04
regroup. So, but yeah, I do.
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I do hope that you all enjoyed this episode and thank you, John
56:14
for. Sharing your thoughts.
56:17
I guess we'll go ahead and just wrap this live stream up here
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tonight. Not a whole lot of other
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comments coming in and I've pretty much said on my piece,
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got here commenting. I saw a comment come by on the
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I think that the perfect way to express it.
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I've missed your show the last few times and I'm sure glad I
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caught this one. A refreshing new way to look
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Sorry about that at challenges in life.
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Well, thank you, Dee. I do I'm going I I don't know if
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you caught earlier or if you know, but these monthly live
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It was meant well, reception was well, and this is the for the
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I'm going to do them on Monday nights because that's when I
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