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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP27 - Let's Talk About Frith · Random Heathen Ramblings

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So let the incense before we forget, just doing one today.
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Should be enough to. Get going, what we need.
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Yeah. So hope you're all doing well by
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the way. Hope you guys are staying safe,
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staying staying strong, staying healthy taking care of
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best life that you can live best even way that you can be.
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So yeah guys, we have something that just kind of came to my
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mind. Recently.
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I've talked a lot about this particular subject so for some
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of you maybe that are, you know, longtime supporters and that
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have listen to this podcast or viewed my content here on the
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channel. For any length of time, you're
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going to know that. You know what I'm talking about
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is is been pretty. I don't want to say beaten to
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death or over spoken, but I've always feel like, you know
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there's there's there's times when you, you're going to get
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questions, you're going to have situations where revisiting
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things that we've talked about before and rehashing, those
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details is good, it's good to be reminded of those types of
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things, you know. And one of the one of the things
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is is this topic of frith, right?
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I don't want us to kind of remind ourselves.
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What what? What that is. and first by
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talking about what fourth is, you know, I want to start by
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saying what, what what kind of sparked me into that direction
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of thinking along those lines here in the Middle, Tennessee
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area, the local Heathen communities have really started
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to Make themselves known and it's been a great thing to see.
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It's almost like somebody came through and just woke a bunch of
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people up, and there's been activity, there's been movement.
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There's been, you know, a lot of networking taking place the last
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Middle, Tennessee, heathens Meetup, which we hosted at
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Mcalister's Deli and Murfreesboro off of Medical
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Center had about 20. Some people are so I have 15, 20
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people are so show up which may not sound like a lot, but when
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you get it, you know, an area in a restaurant that is
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concentrated to, you know, pagans and heathens and folks of
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that nature, you know, it's a nice little group of people and
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the majority of those people had never met each other in their
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lives before, you know. So it was a common ground.
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It was it was a place that we all could meet on common terms
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and get to know one another. And it really, like I said,
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like, you know, ever ever since like the last couple of months,
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Or so of us. Reintroducing these things into
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the area. It's like we're seeing a lot and
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it's not just us here in Middle Tennessee.
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It's, you know, people up close to like the Kentucky border.
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Clarksville Tennessee is in seeing a pretty active group.
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I'm not to privy to what's going on up in the Clarksville area.
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But I've heard that there's a group of upwards of about 30
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people that meet on a regular basis.
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So shout out to the Clarksville heathens up in that area.
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There is the Nashville heathens group on Facebook which although
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In number in terms of their memberships, have a really great
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regularly recurring. Get together at the Honey Tree m
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e in Nashville and got to meet some of the folks that are
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affiliated with the Honey Tree. M e.
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They have regular weekend get-togethers and they have
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this. I guess this sort of deal where,
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you know, Saturday nights, you can come and bring your horn and
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you get your horn filled up, if you have one, right?
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You bring your horny. And they get you a horn of Mead
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and you've got, I think. People there that, you know, or
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it may have just been this last sat down if it's a regular
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Saturday thing where you can dress in Period clothing, you
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know, you can go and wear your costume or where your your
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ritual, Garber, your Pagan Garb, whatever you want to call it.
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And just socialize and talk with people of like Minds aside from
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that, you know, the Raven, Moon, Hearth, Kindred that Chieftain.
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Greg Strong is, you know, helping with those folks and And
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they're all doing things. They've got the shadow moot
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event coming up here in another couple of months.
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Well, yeah, not a couple of months or so it's mid-october.
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I've been talking about that too.
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And, you know, so there's a lot of, there's a lot of recent
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activity, going on with people, our next Meetup here in Middle.
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Tennessee is happening in September, basically a month
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from or so, a month give or take a few days from when this
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podcast is airing. So mid-september where Thing a
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park mode so it's going to be like a potluck sort of thing
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where everybody contributes, everybody brings something as
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far as food and drink and it's going to be again an outdoors
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event. So we're going to have like a
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little Pavilion that we congregate in at one of the
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local city parks. So we're hoping for a really
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good turnout in from the responses that I've seen and
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stuff from from the event details. my back is a little bit
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tight, so I'm going to stretch a little bit but the the details
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from the responses of the the events are like We've got a lot
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of people expecting to come people from Alabama, people from
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other parts of Tennessee, possibly people, even from
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Kentucky. So the turnout that we had at
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the restaurant. If if half the people show up
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that are interested in showing up, will already be more than
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what was that the you know, Little Dot deli, meat up or
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whatever we want to call it that.
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Pub move. It's not really a pub because
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they don't serve alcohol, but you know what I'm saying?
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So seeing all of this stuff, right?
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And seeing all these people come together and meet and network
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and become friends, and share and conversation.
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All of that stuff is part of the community fostering in the
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community. Building things that are needed
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for tribes and other kindred's and stuff to grow for ones that
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are established and even to perhaps have ones, Be created a
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new right seeds. May be planted for those trees
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to grow in and grow from. I should say so seeing all this
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activity, right, like, it's great.
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And one of the things that we probably hear a lot.
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And then maybe even folks listening watching today, that
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use the term that I'm about to say in the context of which I'm
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about to say it and that it's you know, it's good to meet
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people and share frith. With people, you know.
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Or to meet and have forth with one another.
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And in the context that I think it's being used, and in the
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context that I think a lot of people who are using it intended
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to be used, there's some basic things about what we're
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referring to here, that really should be clarified and I think
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Revisited, and that's why I said, you, I may have talked
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about this before in other podcasts, or I've mentioned the
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word and the term and the meaning of it in other episodes
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or other content before, but for those that are new, for those,
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that may be listening for the first time.
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Maybe those that have just never heard it gone into in great
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detail. Here we are.
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So, you know, one of the things about when pagans gather
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together and when he didn't gather together so much of what
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I come to kind of realize is that there's this almost
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unspoken sense of family, you know, you're gathering around
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people that are so like-minded and that are so that that share
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in some of the same beliefs as you might that the sense of
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family is Most inherent, you know, like you feel like you're
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a part of a family of pagans or that, you're these pagans that
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you've never met a day in your life before, who are sharing the
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same religious views as you perhaps are close enough to
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them, they have the same spiritualities.
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They honor the same gods and honor their ancestors and do all
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these things that you can relate with that.
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Now just because of those, you know, similarities and because
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of those, you know, things that you are can be compared with
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into that. Now all of a sudden these These
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strangers are suddenly your family brother sister other such
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familial bonds and titles being being used with the again.
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The phrase of yeah, you know, we're meeting together and
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forth. It's good to share forth with
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each other. Yeah, right.
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So And then I want to preface with what I'm about to say with
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kind of like a disclaimer in that.
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What I say here are my views, my thoughts, my ramblings right are
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just that they are random heathens ramblings and I am that
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random Heathen. I'm just a heathen in Middle
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Tennessee. That has ideas that wants to
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share them with the world. And this is the platform and
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platforms that I can do it in. But by no means am I the person
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that you should walk away from at the end of the day and and
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change whatever it is that you're doing?
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Just because I said it, if what I said rings a bell or if what I
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said, Sparks you to do some research and then through your
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own research and through your own practices.
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Now you are finding that the thing that I said, makes you a
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better Pagan then that's great, so be it.
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But I'm not here to tell you what to do and how to do it.
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I'm simply here to share with you.
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My thoughts of my eye. Years and based on my own
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research based off of my own practices and and making sure
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that the things between those two like the lines in the sand
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are defined, right? Because what is historically
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reference, what is actual or factual or close enough to it
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is? Is that and what my own personal
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unverified, personal gnosis the UPG type stuff, is what that is
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and I don't blend the two together.
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I don't, I don't the lines are our definitive between the two,
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you know, I don't, I don't say that my own Onew PG is should be
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taken as fact, okay? Documented fact, historical
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facts. There's some speculation in my
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own mind. That the reason that we have
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these historical facts, right? The, the historical sources that
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we have is because somebody at some point in time, decided to
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write down things that was at one point in time.
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Another person's UPG, right? They saw something.
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They experience something, they had some sort of a moment or
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anything and they said, well this is what it And I'm going to
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and then everybody else nearby said well okay well if he's
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doing it she's doing it that way.
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I'm going to do it that way too and then we're all going to do
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it that way. And next thing you know it
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becomes a tradition and then that thing becomes a religion
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and next thing, you know, it becomes Doctrine.
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And so going into the weeds a little bit with it, but whether
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or not, you know, you want to go down that rabbit hole that's you
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know, again your prerogative. So there you go.
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There's there's there's that kind of disclaimer nothing that
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I'm about to say should be the thing that tells you to do what
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you're doing differently or think things differently.
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However, if what I do, say inspires you to look into it
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more in than what you find, shifts, your thoughts and you
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become more in line with what I'm thinking, then so be it
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whatever. So let's talk about it, right?
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Let's talk about the whole Frist thing and saying that you mean
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we share and forth or meeting in further or, you know, being
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together and forth. That doesn't really I get why
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you're saying it because there is I'm going to be quoting
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something a Because we're talking about, you know, a term
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that is an Old English and cognate with Old Norse and old
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high German. And some of these other, you
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know, old Germanic languages that aren't spoken anymore in
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their true form or in their original forms, just the
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cognitive cognate forms of those of those ancient languages are
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being spoken. But the word frith is again.
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It's an Old English word and we have at least one or two sources
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that I can think of off top my head.
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Head that are rep, that that are that are, you know, I say
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reliable enough reputable enough to go off of and get an
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understanding. And one of those sources that
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I'm going to be referencing is it's not an ancient source,
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okay? But I think is Wilhelm Grimm
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BEC, from culture of the Teutons, he's author of culture
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of the Teutons in his book, he writes that frith is the state
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of things which exists between friends.
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The state of things, which exist between friends.
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Now, the word friend, the modern word friend is, is cognate to
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frith or vice versa, right? The it, we get the word friend
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from this word for it, and it means, first and foremost
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reciprocal in Vile ability. Now I want us to pause and just,
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and remember these two key things first is the state of
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things which exist between friends Not people who've never
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met before and it is in its first and foremost foremost
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definition. Reciprocal inviolability.
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Okay, now remember that as we go on.
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However, individuals Wills May clash in a conflict of kin
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against Ken. However, stubborn individual
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heads, may seek their own way, according to their quota of
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wisdom. There can never be question of
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conflict, save in the sense of thoughts and feelings working
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their way toward an equi pose in unity.
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We need have no doubt, but that good Kinsmen could disagree with
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fervor. But however, the matter might
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stand there could should must inevitably be, but one ending to
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it, all a settlement Peaceable and making for peace frith.
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So, the last part there, right? A settlement.
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Peaceable and making of Peace. These are all very key things to
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bear in mind, right? The existence of the state of
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things between friends, is probably one of the most
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important aspects of this. You cannot experience forth with
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strangers. In its true form.
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You can experience peace between strangers and that is what we
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would call Griffith, right? This, this ceasefire peaceful
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state. So we seen the term use or
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referenced in, I believe. I'm trying to remember where the
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sources is that it around the Icelandic, all thing, if it was
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900, something thousand eighty, something like that.
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Where you had all of these plans, all these tribes all, the
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Kingdom's, whatever coming together for the annual thing
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for legal purposes. You know, and everybody that
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came to the thing had to agree to be Peaceable.
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Could have been that you were at war with, you know, vilhelm and
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Bjorn was trying to kick, you know, Ivar's ass over there in
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the other part of Norway. But when they all came together
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at the thing, it was a ceasefire.
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We're okay. We're going to be Civil.
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We're going to be Peaceable. We will observe and maintain the
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Griffiths Ted the state of this mutual agreement of Peace.
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What we have in online communities and even in personal
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communities when soon when strangers meet those are what we
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refer to as Griffith meetings or grits, dad's.
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Okay, we're not sharing in frith because we're strangers.
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We're sharing in Griffith where we are agreeing.
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That this is a Actually acceptable place to agree.
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We despite what, you know, I think or what you think we're
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meeting together on Peaceable terms.
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All right. So I understand like why you you
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would you would have people that would say, you know, sharing and
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frisked at a meet up or at a park mood, or anywhere where
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it's, you know, public gathering place because they're looking at
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the word for it as just the state of peace.
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Right. A peaceful agreement.
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A peaceful said which In first does have the meaning of the
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word does have kind of tations of Peace involved, there has to
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be peace when frith is established and maintained and
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kept but it is not just piece. It is reciprocal, inviolability
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the settlement of Peaceable and making for peace, right?
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It has to be made. Again.
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From the state of things between friends.
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So I'm going to use some examples of I've already given
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you like the one or two examples of what Griff is.
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You know, if you've have made a can online Facebook group or
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Discord server or any other sort of you know, online platform
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where you should, you talk to people who you've never met in
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person, right? Those meetings, those
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Gatherings. Those are grits Ted's.
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There's rules that you have to abide by right there.
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There's, you gotta play by the game.
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Of the house, right? Gotta do what they say.
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You got to be Peaceable, you have to maintain Griff and then
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when Griff is violated and there's you know, consequences
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to be made you to get banned, you'll get, you know, put on
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mute. You'll all these various checks
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and balances that are in place for growth.
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Those are one. Those are a couple examples of I
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can think of of, of grits said, The meetups are another one now
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frith is entirely different frisked.
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And you know if you want to look at it in like modern terms is
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first. Yes, there there is parts of for
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it. That mean peace.
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But the bigger thing about Frisk is that it refers to the
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obligation of peace that you maintain between.
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Friends Kinsman right in modern terms, I could think of probably
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the most like obvious example would be marriage or civil
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unions. You know, where you've got two
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different people who have established a friendship, a a
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bond of love, and a commitment to one another.
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And then Oaths are given and taken between those people to
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secure their adoration and love. And Spect and all this for each
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other forever, you know, you know, it's a binding contract
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and it that's a very good example of faith, in the sense
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that now, like, you know, my wife and I would say right, you
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know, we've exchanged vows at our wedding.
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We have sworn owes to each other during our marriage, right?
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And so, Those are like the binding that's that's like The
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Binding part of the Frist that we have frith is you know we
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spent time with each other, we learn to respect and in an honor
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each other and there isn't anything that one wouldn't do
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for the other. It's like the ultimate highest
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achieved almost level of forth you know you I think there's
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like again we'll talk a little bit about that but like varying
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degrees of of frif you know the fruit that I have with my wife
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is not the same for it that I have with, you know, Tribesmen,
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but there's four if there if there is peace and then when
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there's not peace, there is measures to counter act and heal
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and repair the damages. That would that was done because
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of that, that strong sense of I am obligated to this person and
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they are obligated to me. So a marriage would be probably
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a good example of what frith means.
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You know. It's yes there's peace.
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But then there are times where it's not always and you have to
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compromise, you have to reciprocate, you have to come up
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with an agreement that okay, you know because of our love and
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respect and honor for each other then.
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Okay well I'm not going to necessarily I don't want to do
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that and you don't want to do it my way and I want to do it your
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way. Let's figure out what the best
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way is to do. That's going to least.
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Make both of us a little happy or one of us, happy enough to
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just agree to disagree and let it go and do whatever it is,
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right? Similarly, you know in the tribe
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when at least the way our tribe has been established in was, was
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built off of the Deeds between the brothers of the tribe.
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You know, the Archer, our little group, you know, Dango, Patrick
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Richard Jean myself, right? Our core tribe of inner circle
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people It was not necessarily an oath that was given or taken but
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a Worthing process had to be underwent or undergone, right?
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We underwent Worthing we did things with each other that
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proved each other's Worth to the other man.
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You know what I mean? If help was required, we would
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be there for each other when and when, you know, one of our
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tribesmen father died, you know, we came in We showed our
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respects, you know, we work together to plan and and and
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have our annual rituals. We do all of the spiritual work
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as a tribe together. And it's and it's even before
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that ceremonial piece of the ritual, everything that leads up
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to it, the preparation of the land, the cut that, you know,
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cut chopping firewood, the building of the camp, the
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cooking of the food, all of that stuff leading up to.
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It is kind of like ritual in and of itself, you know, it's And
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you it's getting you in that mindset of what's about to
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happen and you're doing it with your tribe and you rely on one
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another. You know, when I get too tired
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from cutting, the wood Tango steps in and helps cut more of
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it. Or if I'm over here, having
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problems setting up my Camp, Patrick's going to come and help
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me level the ground out, you know.
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And I'm going to see that, you know, Richard or can or whoever
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else might be there. That's, you know, needing
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something that I'm attending to them too.
26:19
So there's this Reciprocation, write the reciprocal
26:23
inviolability that learned back is talking about in his culture.
26:26
The Teutons that is the, the glue, right?
26:31
That binds the strength of frith.
26:35
And because any so anything else that happens, no matter if, you
26:38
know, I get a bug up my ass and something that you know, Jean
26:41
says pisses me off because of the first bond that we have.
26:44
It's the damage that occurs from things like that is so trivial
26:47
that the bonds of Frisk seal it back up again, you know.
26:51
So that damage that is sustained in minor things like that has
26:55
barely little impact, you know, we we just get go through and we
26:58
shrug it off and it's, you know, it's just us being us thus more,
27:03
severe damages, the first the things of Like betrayal or
27:07
failure to uphold your end of the deal.
27:10
You know things that would make you not trust or be as
27:13
trustworthy things that you could have done to have all the
27:16
work that you put into worth yourself.
27:17
Now you're not proving yourself to be as worth as much as you
27:22
were thought to be at first, you know, so you're worth
27:25
diminishes, you become You know. An Expendable asset as it were,
27:35
you know, you're not upholding your end of the deal.
27:37
The tribe is struggling because you're not Pat, you're not
27:40
pulling your weight, you're not doing enough, you're failing to
27:44
meet the obligation that others have held up to, you know, the
27:48
standards that have been held that they've been held up to and
27:50
that you hold them up to your failing on your end.
27:53
And so that's a damage to the Frist Bond.
27:55
That's it, that's it. That's a pretty severe.
27:57
That's a critical hit. So that the fifth web, the thing
28:01
that binds you all together and depending on how strong that
28:05
frith is prior to that damage being sustained, Determines
28:10
whether or not that damage can be repaired or if the damage is
28:14
so great. If the violation is so,
28:18
terrible, that you have to cut your loss and Outlaw that that
28:25
thing or that person, right? Get her to get it away and now
28:28
it's it's outside of that sacred Inner Circle of tribe and of the
28:33
frith. So, you know, the fruit that I
28:39
have with my wife, there is literally nothing that is going
28:43
to break that web. We've been together for seven
28:46
years, married, for five of those seven.
28:51
We've gone through everything that a couple are age, I think
28:55
could think of. And then some, you know, the
29:00
Betrayal betrayal of trust, the loss of loved ones, the injury
29:06
of persons and body body and thus, the mental, the
29:10
psychological, the spiritual struggles that we've endured
29:13
together in the last 7 years of being together, has established
29:18
a web that is impervious to anything.
29:22
Like, there's nothing that's going to rip that apart.
29:25
You know, you can take a meteor hit and it'll shake it, and then
29:30
that's about it. There's not gonna be any
29:31
penetration, there's no, there's no penetrative damage, you know.
29:36
You're not going to get that from just meeting up with
29:38
somebody for the first time and talking about the Norse gods or
29:42
ancestor veneration or land visitors or you know any of that
29:45
other fun stuff that is about this practice, right?
29:48
You're not going to have that with somebody that you just walk
29:50
in with, there's no sharing of Frist.
29:52
There's no, you know, That's not happening there at that point.
29:59
What you're doing is you're, you know, it's a Grist at your
30:03
meeting. Now, what can become of that,
30:04
what that is, what the interactions between people,
30:07
that could definitely lead to things that build frith and
30:12
building frith is, is the start of it.
30:14
You've got to start somewhere, right?
30:16
Go to these meetings, meet these people talk, and hang out about,
30:19
you know, things but know what it is.
30:20
When you go, there it is. It is a common meeting ground of
30:23
similarly like-minded individuals. this isn't a you
30:27
know this isn't a summons from your Chieftain or yarol or you
30:30
you know Goethe or whatever to attend something at a high Feast
30:35
nature and it's just, you know, yourself and your Kinsmen and
30:38
your tribe that would be more like what you would see of
30:43
examples of frif because everyone there is Bound together
30:47
through obligation, right? So you know fourth piece, right?
30:52
Yes there's definite piece there there is trust there and within
30:57
frith you know and loss of trust, betrayals of trust can
31:03
damage breath, there's the maintenance of forthright, so
31:08
once you've built something, there is the maintenance of it
31:10
and the upkeep of it, and that's even harder to do than to build
31:14
it. You know, again, if If the
31:17
building and the working on, it has made it so that it's nearly
31:20
impenetrable, then you've done. Well and the maintenance is low.
31:28
If you're, if you're too anxious up front to get involved with
31:32
people that have not, you know, proven their worth to you and
31:36
you have not proven your Worth to them.
31:38
And you get involved with people too early on the net first Bond,
31:40
can't be established. And so, when betrayals happen,
31:43
and when, you know, someone so sleeps with so-and-so's Friend
31:46
girlfriend does something inappropriate look breaks, trust
31:50
right Critical Hits because all this was supposed to be a fourth
31:54
Bond, you know, this is supposed to be a, you know, a band of
31:57
brothers and sisters and look what you've done to me.
32:00
Well, he didn't even give him the chance to prove their worth
32:02
to you if you give him a year or so, you might have seen
32:04
behaviors, that could have indicated, I better stay away
32:07
from this, you know, group of people or that individual or
32:10
whatever. Right.
32:13
So again that that it has to start somewhere but If it
32:17
doesn't start off strong and get that, you know, traction at
32:22
first and then good diligent maintenance, apply to it at that
32:28
time. It's too weak to continue in it
32:34
and it can't. It's going to just get, you
32:36
know, the threads are going to fray from that web.
32:41
Maintaining that for if and and building those Strong's.
32:44
Again, very few examples could be given of a web that is Not
32:51
susceptible to damage. When that damage occurs, is it
32:55
repairable or has the damage been so strong too?
33:00
That there's a, there's nothing to repair.
33:03
There's nothing else to build off of its blown down.
33:06
Tornado ripped, right out of its roots, obliterated, right?
33:14
And I've had examples of all of that happen with me in the time
33:20
that I've been practicing. My even re, you know, I've seen
33:25
frith get destroyed. You know.
33:32
Sometimes the best efforts the best made plans.
33:36
Still have a have a weak spot and that weak spot gets detected
33:41
and gets hit and it's, and it's over. you know, I've learned
33:47
that To really get to know somebody.
33:50
You know, a few weeks a month Ain't Enough.
33:54
You know. You need to give time, you know.
33:59
Wow, time you need to allow experience.
34:01
You need to allow Worthing to occur.
34:04
You can't just say, yeah, I hung out with him a few times in the
34:06
last month, and he's a really cool guy, man.
34:08
I like the way he looks. He really carries himself.
34:11
Well, he quotes to have them all.
34:12
Like, it's the Bible man. Like What is he worth?
34:18
What did he do for you? What, what has he done already?
34:21
That, you know, of what is the level of the layer of his of his
34:26
main. And then, how is his gift rain?
34:28
However, his how his might and reputation, you know?
34:32
So anyway, going out into the weeds a bit with all that but it
34:37
all points back to the fact that II get it.
34:40
I know why I've heard the term for it being used in the context
34:44
that they thought it was. Unlike it reminds me of that
34:47
that scene from The Princess Bride, we're inconceivable
34:52
inconceivable and then to go Montoya, he's like that's worth
34:56
You keep saying that word, I don't think it means what you
34:58
think it means. And that's what I'm going.
35:01
Like you keep saying that word for it?
35:03
I don't think it. I don't think that, you know
35:04
what it means, what you think it means, it doesn't mean what you
35:07
think it means. So we're going to talk about it.
35:08
We're going to revisit it. It's peace.
35:11
Yes. There's there's an element of
35:12
Peace there but it's way deeper than that.
35:15
There is reciprocity, there is obligation.
35:17
There is trust. There is love, you know.
35:20
There is all of the things and it's in.
35:22
It's really interesting to see that there's a word that exists
35:25
that encompasses all of that. It did.
35:28
It's like a, you know, you can say all those things and we need
35:31
to condense it into one word you have for it.
35:34
And that is where we get our word friends from, because the
35:39
state of things between friends, right?
35:41
That, that reciprocal inviolability, So as we are
35:46
being so excited and thrilled to see the Heathen and Pagan
35:51
communities of Middle Tennessee, really starting to step up and
35:55
do things and be active. And Build right.
36:02
As excited as I am to see that and it is thrilling as we can,
36:06
you know, be all happy for. Let's remember.
36:10
Okay, in this guy again, this goes beyond my own UPG.
36:14
This goes into what the literal meanings of the word.
36:18
Are, you know, let's be careful of who we share in Thai frith
36:23
with, because, as growth expands and as Things become bigger.
36:27
And as more pagans are doing more, Things.
36:29
And as we start shaking the ground a little bit and making
36:31
some noise, it's going to attract Unsavory and the wrong
36:38
types of people that want to be a part of something, because
36:41
they have ill in mind, and they have, and they are not the type
36:45
of people that you would want to exchange, and share frith with,
36:49
and establish obligation between, right?
36:53
That's going to happen. You're going to have to be
36:55
careful. You're gonna have to Be watchful
36:57
and you're going to have to not be like yeah come here and have
36:59
first with us guys. You know.
37:01
It's our first barbecue of the year we haven't seen each other
37:03
all winter come and have forth with us.
37:07
You don't don't set that standard don't set.
37:09
The standard of Frist. Just being a cool place to hang
37:12
out, man, right? It's all chill here, bro.
37:17
Right. That's Griffith.
37:22
That's your grits dead. Okay.
37:26
The mutual meeting grounds of. I'm not going to mess with your
37:30
shit today, but that doesn't mean.
37:32
I'm not going to come knocking on your door tomorrow.
37:35
Because as while we're here, we got to be civil.
37:37
I still hate your guts Heinrich So, anyway, that's my thing for
37:49
this week's random Heathen ramblings, right?
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There's your first break down, do you again?
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Do your own research, please? Whatever I say is backed by what
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my experience. But this particular thing, this
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