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Random Heathen Ramblings: S4, EP15 - Protecting What Is Sacred · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Hello everyone and welcome to the random Heathen ramblings
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podcast, where we discuss all sorts of things Germanic,
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Heathen re related. My name is Jessie.
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I am your host. Let's get into it.
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Hello, hello, hello. Hello there.
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Welcome back, everybody. Welcome back to the random human
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ramblings podcast. Thanks for coming back, after a
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brief, unplanned, and quite frankly, less than desirable
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reason, for my absence. For those of you that don't
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follow me on my socials, the reason why there wasn't an
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episode last week was because I had to travel to New York where
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I'm from due to my father's death and my wife, and I took
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off the day that it happened. But so if you aren't familiar,
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I'll just kind of, you know, if you're not following me on my
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socials and you don't know, he, he passed away on Sunday April
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16th. he was battling a very aggressive form of skin cancer
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for over a decade and it finally, as was expected it
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would Was the thing that that, that took his his physical life
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and I'm not going to go into much more details, other than
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that, but that's, you know, why I wasn't able to release an
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episode last week, my wife and I traveled from Tennessee to New
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York to be near family and to address any things that may need
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to be done from the family side of things.
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You know what I mean? but, it's been, it's been a it's
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been a wild week and a half to say the least, you know, when
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When I got the word that really, I kind of knew and you know
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about a week or so in advance of things to some degree of his
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rapid decline. You know, this was and it's and
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it's a touchy subject. And again, I don't want to take
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up the podcast talking about this, but this is something like
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I said he'd been battling for dealing with for for over a
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decade. And it was kind of one of those
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things where, you know, it was hard to determine when some days
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were really really bad someday. As we're not so bad.
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So it was really hard to determine when he would pass.
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And so being this far away from Tennessee to New York, you know,
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among some other things that I won't go into.
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It was difficult for me too. Figure out when I should be
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there. But soon as I was able to, you
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know, really understand the State of Affairs, you know, I
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made made made a trip up there to try and see him before he
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died. Knowing, when I got notice of
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things being pretty bad, it was a, it was the day that he
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passed, and I didn't make it to him in time before he did die
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and but when I got to New York with my wife, I learned a lot.
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I learned a lot while I was there, and I wanted to talk
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about sort of a subject or a topic that I think fits stuff
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like this and other things like this, you know?
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So once again, thanks again for being here and tuning in, and
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continuing to support, I know, while I was away the presents
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that I had on, so, Social media was next to nothing
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understandably. So right I know everybody that
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supports and follows what I do understood that I wouldn't be
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making any content while I was up dealing with those things.
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But you know, so today today at the time of this recording, I
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have just returned back to Tennessee. so we've been up
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there for, you know, a week in a couple of days to just be nearby
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and and intend to some things that I Wanted to tend to
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personally the kind of work through the process of what had
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happened and some of which, you know, involved me being out in
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nature near a really, really pretty Wildlife Park Reserve
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nearby, it's called winding Hills sin.
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Guys, it's considered Montgomery New York in there, you know, got
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to drum by the water there and just tend to do things that I
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have that for me, tend to be very healing and very, you know,
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focus on the spiritual healing. That's required for things like
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this. You know, family member passing
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But what really kind of struck me about the whole visit and
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about the whole trip there. And Back Again, was a topic
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that, you know, I've talked about on this podcast and on the
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YouTube channel and across my other social media platforms
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before where, where the the concept of In and guard and
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mutant guard, the inner yard, the inner and closure, and the
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outer enclosure, and what these concepts for heathens.
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You know, mean and while the the words themselves may not
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necessarily be part of the Vocabulary or words that we see
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in you know, Old Norse texts or things that might be found in,
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let's say other sagas or The Lure or anything like that.
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The concept of what is within versus what is without, you
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know, that concept is evident in many of the stories, many of the
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sagas and when we see, and we know, and we know that at least
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in the Germanic tribes that predate Christianity, becoming
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prevalent in the region or regions, The concept of the
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inner yard in the outer yard or the Inner Circle, Outer Circle,
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inner outer, right? These these are very prevalent
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Concepts that that existed across these regions.
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And because of that you know it had has transferred into how
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modern heathens View and perceive the world or at least
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in many cases, our worldviews Become. a part of this, this
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concept, you know, we we perceive the world is what is
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within, is what we protect and what is without is, is outside
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of the purview of the tribe of the Kindred of the group, you
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know, and also that, which is within what we count as art in
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and guard our inner yard, our Inner Circle is sacred and we
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protect that and we safeguard that even to the point of
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gatekeeping You know, this is a touchy.
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This is this is a topic that gets some people's feathers
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ruffled when I say things like gate.
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Keeping it. A lot of people just
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automatically lean towards gatekeeping under the context of
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preventing people who are not of northern European descent or who
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are not dramatic, or who don't have any sort of ancestral ties
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to this part of the world, you know, keeping them away from
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these practices from These beliefs.
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And that's not what I'm referring to when I say
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gatekeeping, what I'm referring to is preserving and protecting
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the inner yard, the things that happen within the sanctity
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within the sovereignity of that enclosure protecting that from
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the wild from that, which is without that, that which is
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with, you know, outside of our purview.
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Of of dealings, you know? So gatekeeping to the sense or
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in the in the context of preventing that which is without
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that is not part of that inner construct to to breach those
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Gates, you know. And I've lived that very vividly
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I've lived that concept very vividly within the last week and
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a half and it caused me to kind of ponder and This concept with
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regards to how it's applied. Within modern even re.
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And as I've mentioned on this podcast and across my channel
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multiple times, you know, this this this content that I release
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is is, is kind of my, you know, take on things.
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This is this is largely just the ideas that come through my head
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that I want to share with people and maybe plant some seeds food
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for thought, you know, fat to chew on as it were.
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Give you some give you some things too.
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Discuss amongst yourselves perhaps if you have a group or a
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collective that you are a part of and see if it fits, right?
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I'm not trying to be the one that tells you that this is how
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you have to Heathen. This is how you should be in
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order to be a good Heathen or a prosperous even or anything like
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that. This is just a my view, one
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person, one Heathen. When Chieftains view who serves
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his tribe in this capacity and is willing to share certain In
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things that don't. Leak anything into what is
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sacred for us within. So we all from, I think, for a
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lot of the listeners, a lot of viewers, you know, this concept,
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like I said of in and garden guard.
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Inner outer is not foreign. We understand.
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We know what those things are. I'll put some links down in the
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description and show notes of the podcast for you listeners to
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if you want to go back and refer to.
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But if this is probably something that especially for
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some of the Season heathens for those that have been Doing this
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a little while, and maybe even those that are somewhat new,
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have we have definitely heard, but for the veterans, you know,
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for the, for the folks have been doing this for a while, but I'm
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talking about is is not foreign and you get it, but I go back to
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so much of what I go back to when it comes to practicing,
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Heathen re old ways. Heathen re, I mean, and modern
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times is the, what is our purpose behind?
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What we do? When I say we, you could you can
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use the The that as, as a term to describe the larger Heathen
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communities, all right, across the world across the state, our
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country here in the United States.
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But maybe even across the world. But why do we do what we do?
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What is the purpose behind? What we do?
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We should be Purpose Driven. I believe that that that the, we
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benefit better from understanding the why?
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If we're just going through the motions.
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Because, you know, so and so set it in a in a piece of source
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material that that dates back in over a thousand years ago.
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And we don't really have any practical or or, you know, hands
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on boots on the ground sort of examples of it working in modern
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times now, and if all we're doing is just trying to relive
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something from a from the past that worked back then, but
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doesn't work now for certain reasons whether it be social
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Constructs are different Customs are different Traditions, you
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know the way that the world was at a time, you know it worked
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back then but it doesn't work now.
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And again the reasons why why do we do what we do the purpose
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behind what we do, I think that in a garden guard, get get
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brought into the mix of things to do just because well, that's
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how the ancient Germanic people viewed the world and they had a
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very clear defining, you know, the barriers between the inner
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and the outer were unequivocally set, you know, people knew what
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was good that which was good was what was within and that which
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was not good that which was you can maybe use the word evil but
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that, which was against the benefit of the inner guard of
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the tribe was without You know. So again that we have examples,
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I think a lot of times with people that that go back to the
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Archaic, maybe, or ancient views of the world and applied in a
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modern setting without understanding the purpose of the
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reasons. Why, so, why do we have these
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things? Why is in a garden guard?
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Such a big thing. Amongst heathens especially, why
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is the Inner Circle? The outer inner yard, outer
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yard. Why is that such a big deal?
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What is within and I want to just touch upon it briefly.
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I think I've talked about this on other podcast before, but
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what is within what is, what is part of the inner is lawful
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there is order, okay? There is there, there are
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Customs, there are Traditions, there are things that happen
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within that have been set for the betterment for the good k
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for the growth of those who function within So that's why
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there are laws. That's why there are customs and
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traditions across different tribes.
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That don't exactly aligned with the same thing that that a
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neighboring tribe or a or or another region did things.
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That's why we see variances and nuances, similar things right
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similar names. Close enough.
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Things of proximity that we can understand.
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Like yeah, there was there was a commonality But the happenings
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of the inner wear developed for the good of that particular
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group for that particular, tribe, Village, Clan, whatever
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that social construct at that time.
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It wasn't to exclude others from them.
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It was to establish and set lawfulness in order.
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And the, the people at the time, understood and knew that in
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order for a society to function, well, there needed to be those
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things because what happens without, what is gluten guard,
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what is outside of that inner, sanctum of that inner circle of
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that inner yard is lawlessness. It is Wild.
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It is uncontrollable and the laws that are applicable within
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do not apply to that, which is without and so, it is
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borderless. It is Lawless, it is chaos, the
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things that apply to the outside.
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Or that work for the outside. Don't have the same sense of
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semblance of order. That that hat is happening
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within and I think we don't, you know, we could probably all
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agree that this type of the barriers being set between inner
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and outer. You know, it didn't happen until
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humankind, mankind societies, started to, to be established
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where there were Villages tribes separate from each other and
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this person wanted To have the rules to be this, that way, you
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know, x y z, you know, this is how we do it.
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And then the other group was like, why don't?
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We don't really, we don't really like doing it that way.
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We're going to do it, you know, the way that ABC is done, so the
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variance is the nuances. The changes became a Thing.
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Once, mankind Humanity started to try and take control of
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situations and become more orderly and when Awful the law
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of the Jungle, right? The law of the wild is, you
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know? You got to fight, you gotta
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scrounge, You Gotta Be, You Know, tenacious, you have to
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have all of these things that the law, the law of the Jungle,
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though, the wild doesn't care. If you are not feeling good that
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day, you know, doesn't care if you broke your foot.
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It's not going to wait the storms, not going to wait you
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out in order to heal your broken foot.
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You know what I mean? It's going to rain, it's going
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to snow, it's going to storm is going to do, what it's going to
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do because that's just That's the Law of the Jungle and so Oh,
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that's the way the wild operates.
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The animals are going to come to you to hunt you if you're the
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week. Part of that equation.
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And in there's nothing there's no law that says, otherwise or
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makes it different. So the concepts of inner and
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outer, is that we control? What is within we Safeguard,
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what is within, we establish order Customs traditions and
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things that occur within for the betterment of our people, for
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the betterment of our try for the betterment of us as a
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collective, right? Whatever that Collective is.
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We do that or it's done to whatever means necessary if if
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something from out from without threatens.
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The, the sanctity, the sovereignity, the what we've
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established as within. If something without threatens
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that then we address it. We put up the wall, we put up
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our Shields, we fight if necessary, we defend, you know,
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what is sacred and what is within to keep that thing from
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without that is potentially trying to infiltrate to leak in
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We're preventing that from happening to stop.
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You know what we've established as order as law as what is good
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for us? From being damaged from being
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torn apart. That's the why that's the
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purpose therein lies. The reason of inner and outer,
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at least from an ancient context, I believe, you know, as
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I so much as I've been able to learn from my own experiences
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and from from studies in such, right?
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This is the reason why again, it wasn't to stop the The person of
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a different color skin or they were taller or they look
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different or they, you know, they didn't have a pointy hat or
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whatever other such silly thing. Modern, you know, people that
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that want to leverage Concepts like this, to further, their
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bigoted. Agendas write something like
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that. It was simply because a, at the
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time, this is, this is our law. This is our customs, and if you
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come in, and if you Approach. You either aligned with our
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customs you aligned with what we are doing.
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Or you are without and it's as simple as that, there is no
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negotiation. There is no.
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Let's talk this through, it's very cut and dry.
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It is in or out. You are with us or you are
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against us in. There is no middle area, there's
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no gray area. and I lived a very Vivid experience of that this
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week and it made me and it made me think, you know, Does that
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type of approach? Is the approach of what I just
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described where you keep the walls of your in and guard
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guarded protected with a ferocity with a Vengeance that
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some wood venture to say, is Exclusionary exclusion are like
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you or your exclusive you, you have no wiggle room there,
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there's no compromise. Does that fit does that apply
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well for us as heathens when we are talking about groups of
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people? And and this kind of I think
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leaks into conversations that people have had of, you know,
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the benefit of even re looking at even re from a tribalism
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approach, a tribalist approach to versus Lykes.
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A Universalist approaches not going to talk about Focus
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approach is because Focus to me is is is always a is based on
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racial views and looking things from a racial point of view.
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You know, your exclusive, you are your safeguarding, you are
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gatekeeping. You are doing all these things.
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For the reasons of racial preservation of keeping your
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races pure and all this other kind of nonsense that I don't
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buy into and it's not just European stuff.
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I mean this is this this this would be saying I would say the
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same for any other sort of racial Focus ways.
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This is my opinion is against what I believe that, that serves
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no benefit, no good, but if it becomes a thing of, you know,
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are are the person's views, are the person or the people, the
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group, The Other opposing group the opposite group, right are
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their views so far, separated so far distant.
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And different from your own views, the tribes views the, the
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group's music, you the Kendra's views, are they so far apart
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that, including them, inviting them to your inner circle
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infringes upon the sanctity and sovereignty of what is part of
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your inner guard? and, I think, again, I think
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it's a fine line that, that we walk, as people When approaching
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things in this way, you know, because some would argue that
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well, and I maybe argue isn't the right word, but some would
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debate, right? That the concept of this
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separation of groups of people, you know, that it's, it doesn't
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do well for the furtherance of a species of humanity.
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You have to be a bit more accepting especially now.
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In the tased age, today's age here in the 21st century where
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You know, there's so much going on with people in their own
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individual lives where, you know, they're their beliefs,
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their their worldviews are way more non-traditional than they
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ever used to be to the to the, to the point where, you know, Up
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Is Down, left is right. And so many other variables, you
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know where people. Are happier and feel more
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fulfilled when they pursue a life that is non-traditional.
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They either. Identify as an opposite gender
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or they have no gender the, which they identify with, they
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are happier, they feel more fulfilled.
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When embracing a non-traditional lifestyle such as that, right?
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And that's just, you know, very common, very popular example
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that I'm leaning towards and, you know, when people want to be
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selective or in in exclude People, based off of that,
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that's where I have a problem. You know, you can be protective
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Of your in and guard all you want.
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And if, and if you're protective of your inner guard to again
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Safeguard and preserve the Traditions, the laws, the
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Customs, the things that have been built for the betterment
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and the growth and the good of the people, apart of your in and
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guard, or part of that in guard, part of that inner circle, then
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it doesn't matter who that other person is doesn't matter if
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they're white black purple, queer genderless they, they
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trimmed or gender fluid. And trans any of these other
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sorts of things. That's, none of that matters.
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It's, you know, it's it goes back to the core values of what
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that in guards Society is built around.
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What the what the world views of those people are.
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And if for some reason, those those those views want to keep
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those types of people out in the exclusionary of that.
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Then that's, you know, that's their thing.
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But who are we to, who are we to challenge that?
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You know, if a society He has been built or I say a society
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like it's a big thing, but if a group of people have been built
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and they've been successful, they Thrive and they've
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prospered in their way by being a certain way that's their
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through. That's their custom.
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That's their law, that's their business.
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It is their haul, it is their call.
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Shout out. Eric shervin from the Ravens
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call always will give credit where credit is due when it
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comes to that, not my haul, not my call.
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And I've talked about this to on the podcast.
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I've been a big advocate for that.
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It sounds poetic. It sounds great.
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It is, it is easy to. Remember, you can hashtag it.
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You can make it a thing, you can Trend it out if you want.
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Hashtag, not my call, not my haul, not my call.
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And I've done that before, and I've thought of it.
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And I I violated my own thought process this week by trying to
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infiltrate someone else's Hall someone else's in and guard.
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My intent was with, you know, nothing but the best intentions,
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you know, I had nothing but the most good interest in my mind,
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right? But it was not in line with
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their version of good or their views on things.
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And so my attempt to make a call, you know, from for someone
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else's whole I learned quickly that I was wrong for that and
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morals. Aside morals view worldviews you
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know ethics aside. If it's not your hall and it's
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not your call. Now.
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Because we live in the 21st century because everybody has a
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YouTube channel or everybody can make a podcast or everybody can
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post on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, and voice their
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opinions. We've kind of lost touch with.
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That sort of thing, you know, everybody's business is aired
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out in some sort of way. My business is aired out, and
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again, one of the big lessons that I learned from going to New
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York this past week was that? Stop it.
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Stop trying to be involved with things that you have no
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business. Being involved in, no matter
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what your intentions might be, no matter the reasons why you
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think it's a good idea, you know?
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You may have nothing, but the most honest of intentions.
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I surely did have nothing but the most honest of intentions
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when about it in a way that Made it clear that I was out of line.
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And I had I had the the gates shut on me.
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The gates were kept very Vigilant, you know, vigilantly
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strongly and as well. They should be As much as I
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disagree, as much as I would have as much as I stood there.
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All right, preferably as much as I stood there outside those
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Gates shaking. My head, shaking my fists.
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Feeling angry about the outcome. I won't you.
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Let me in damn it. You know, again within feeling
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those feelings, don't you see what I'm trying to do?
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Don't you understand what I'm trying to say?
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Can't you see, why can't you write all these things when we
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come from places like this, when we, when we think we know best
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Having not been a part of that in our society have not been
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involved in that to whatever degree.
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It is an inner yard and in guard when we have no I don't know.
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No obligation, no, real obligation.
30:15
We may think we do because of all, they're my family.
30:18
They're my blood right there. Mike in.
30:20
I should be doing something like this for them because then
30:22
they'll know how much I care for them how much I love them.
30:29
It's about perception. you know, and our best of our best
30:36
intentions are not always seen as as such and for a lot of
30:40
folks, I think that when stuff, what I'm describing Loosely, at
30:44
least happen for them, it's a It's like a trigger to put up
30:51
our defenses or put up their defenses.
30:53
Maybe, you know, when they feel like an outsider is trying to
30:59
breach. The walls instead of
31:05
approaching. The walls with.
31:10
Though, the the ways that they should be approached in order to
31:13
receive a welcoming entry? then of course, the defenses are
31:19
going to be, you know, increased and it's going to be made very
31:24
clear that You're not allowed in.
31:29
You're not allowed here. You're not wanted here.
31:33
You are not accepted here. Unless or until certain things
31:38
happen unto you line up with our customs until you align with our
31:45
ways until you change and become what we are. you're outside your
31:50
routing guard, you have no business being here because you
31:55
are not subject to our laws and therefore you are not welcome
31:59
here. So Again, very simple.
32:02
Very, very simple way of looking at things right up from a
32:04
society way. Back in the day 12 2012 18 years
32:08
ago whenever it's been since we see stuff like that.
32:14
It worked back then does it work now?
32:17
Should it work? Now I've literally been thinking
32:21
about this for the last couple of days after having experienced
32:24
it. And I'm a bit conflicted myself.
32:27
You know, I see where some of this has potential for for
32:36
working for good because You know, when when things are being
32:44
done, right? It's like you know you got to
32:46
play by the rules, you gotta, you want to join the club?
32:48
You got to agree to the terms and conditions, right?
32:52
Of of that agreement, it's like any other sort of contract that
32:56
you enter into terms and conditions apply.
32:58
So you store for details Batteries Not Included.
33:03
You know, all those funny messages but my point being
33:07
right is like you don't you don't you don't sign your name
33:11
on the dotted line, you don't enter into that kind of contract
33:15
when there are terms and conditions, without first
33:17
reading, the fine print. If you don't and you sign
33:20
anyway, then whose fault is it? When you violate the terms of
33:26
that agreement, it's your own fault for not having read and
33:29
understood the rules, right? So many people that That social
33:34
media is a big, you know, a very popular example.
33:36
I'll say for this especially on the Facebook or metal platform,
33:40
um, there's all these private groups and stuff that people
33:44
create and join for various reasons and they see a title of
33:49
a thing, right? Whatever the group's about maybe
33:51
it's a social interest or other sort of topic that they're
33:54
interested in and they join it. They like yes, yes, yes,
33:58
whatever. If there's questions that people
34:00
ask ahead of time if the group that, Try to join.
34:04
Ask questions about why are you joining?
34:05
What do you think about this etcetera?
34:07
They'll go through and they'll answer them, but they won't read
34:10
the fine print necessarily, they won't go through the group
34:13
rules, and then they'll do something.
34:15
I've been guilty of this in the past.
34:16
They'll do something that violates a rule and they'll get
34:19
booted, or they'll get put in timeout, or they'll get, you
34:22
know, punished as it were like, it'll their actions caused some
34:27
sort of corrective action to take place a behavior causes
34:31
corrective activities. And then to get up, Upset about.
34:33
Why did you do that? Didn't you read the rules, you
34:37
signed this agreement, you you entered into this place, you
34:42
know knowing what the rules were and you broke them.
34:46
What do you expect? And you're not allowed in until
34:50
you agree to those rules, right? So again, for, that's a stretch
34:55
and I were talking about, we're talking about societal tribal
34:59
customs, and things like that with a with actual people
35:02
face-to-face encounters. We're talking about that.
35:04
And now we're talking about, you know, social media groups that
35:07
have rules and regulations and things.
35:12
There's some similarities, right?
35:13
Nuances are our thing, but the there are similarities.
35:18
That, that should be considered. But as I was saying before, like
35:23
thinking about a couple days, you know, does what I'm what I'm
35:27
talking about. Does it apply in a practical
35:30
sense for heathens? Do you think it applies in a
35:33
practical sense for heathens? I'm curious to hear what you
35:36
know what everybody thinks. Because as I always do, you
35:39
know, this is a rambling session of my thoughts and ideas and
35:43
where my mind is at and here for one of the, you know, for for
35:47
not say, say the first time But here, now on this episode of the
35:52
random, healing Heathen ramblings podcast, I'm not 100%
35:59
set on it being one way or the other.
36:02
I'm still kind of trying to reach a conclusion myself and
36:08
that's what this Episode was intended for it was to talk
36:13
through things myself. Get your by in right.
36:17
Get your feedback if you're so inclined and you want to want to
36:20
share because this is how I think we advance and as and as
36:25
we grow or how we grow as as as people, you know A lot of a lot
36:34
of groups, I've friends with people that are in groups and
36:37
I'm friends with other neighboring, tribes have a
36:42
pretty good approach on keeping things, secular in the sense
36:49
that if you're not part of that group, you're not part of that
36:50
drive, then you're not a part of certain things, that, that group
36:53
does. You know, there's there's luck
36:57
to be preserved, there are things of that nature and and
37:01
that goes back to me as as someone who serves in the
37:05
capacity that I serve my tribe in.
37:08
You know, that's one of the biggest jobs that I have is to
37:12
ensure that our luck is safeguarded and preserved and to
37:15
not let people in that. Could damage that luck, you
37:21
know, it's a big responsibility. It's a huge task to undertake so
37:30
to what degree does all of this apply?
37:33
I don't think it should go away. I think it, I think it has You
37:39
know, I lean more towards have it having a place but carefully,
37:43
you know, being being careful to understand the purpose, the
37:46
reason why why are you putting up these these safeguards?
37:51
Why are you putting up things? Why aren't you just letting
37:53
anybody and everybody join your group?
37:56
So, you can become a big group and have a bigger Society, have
37:58
a bigger, you know, Community to work with, you know, bigger is
38:04
not always better. The size of of, the, of the
38:08
group is not reflect the quality, right?
38:12
So it's quality over quantity, it's the Focus right?
38:17
But, yeah, so introductory or re introductory episode for this
38:23
week. Not an exceptionally long one,
38:26
but after having traveled round trip in the last week and a
38:32
half, you know, well over, I think we probably put I would
38:40
say we had to put, you know, probably 4,000 miles on our
38:46
vehicle. My wife, and I, her vehicle
38:48
really because we use her car to go up there.
38:52
It's the one that's in the best condition for our trip.
38:58
This is what you got. You got, you got an episode that
39:03
was recorded on the day that I return back to the land of
39:07
Tennessee. You know, that was another that
39:11
was another really interesting thing is, you know, I've gone
39:13
back and forth to New York for a long time.
39:18
Decades. You know, I've been living
39:20
living in tenant living in Tennessee.
39:22
This year will be 17 years that I've lived here in this state
39:28
and I've gone back to New York, you know, dozens of times.
39:32
Every time I left New York to come back to Tennessee, you
39:34
know, it was always like a Bittersweet thing like I I'm
39:38
anxious to get get back to where I live, but I also feel this
39:42
sort of sadness From leaving my home state.
39:47
You know, this return trip was the first time ever, that I've
39:52
left New York and headed back to Tennessee.
39:55
And I wasn't sad if anything. I was like, I cannot wait to get
39:59
back home. I can't wait to get back to
40:01
Tennessee. you know, and that sense of home that sense of
40:06
where family is, where tribe is where our people are, you know,
40:11
doesn't it at least for me, you know it no longer is anchored or
40:18
you know pulling towards a geographical location that I was
40:24
born in or where I was native to, you know, where I am native
40:29
to, I guess is there was no was You know, I was born there.
40:33
I'm a New Yorker. For all intents and purposes.
40:37
That's that's, you know, I talk a certain way, I have certain
40:41
mannerisms that don't align with Southern tradition.
40:44
So I'm a Northman, I'm literally a northerner.
40:47
I'm I'm from the Northern State in our country northern region.
40:53
But I walked in rivers up there, I put my bare feet on the ground
41:01
up there, I drummed, the near the water's, to to heal, and
41:04
then do all the things like I alluded to earlier for the
41:07
reasons that I alluded to or talked about my father's death.
41:13
And there was some healing that took place there were.
41:15
There were there was definitely things that needed to happen
41:17
that did happen while I was there.
41:21
And But it doesn't have the same sense of feeling like home that
41:28
that Tennessee does anymore. Like, my people are here, my
41:32
family is here in Tennessee. My blood kin.
41:40
Are still in New York. you know, and if there's anybody, that is
41:45
my blood can that watches this my family is in Tennessee.
41:56
And that can change. Sure can change things can
41:59
happen. And I hope things do happen that
42:05
need to happen. I hope that there are changes
42:09
that take place for the good. Of our respective in and guards
42:17
our respective inner yards, our respective inner sanctums, our
42:21
circles are people, and that's all I ever want for anybody.
42:26
You know what I mean? Like, I want.
42:27
I want good to happen. Four people.
42:33
That is their good. What is good for them?
42:37
As long as it doesn't harm anybody else.
42:40
So long as it doesn't. Put other people In Harm's Way
42:45
or hurt other people, you know, if it doesn't so closely or
42:50
exactly line up with my worldviews, my ethics, my
42:52
morals, as long as it's not hurting anybody else.
42:58
Then I hope it happens for you. I hope the things that you need
43:02
to be successful prosperous. Life fulfilling that are good
43:08
for you, that happen for you again so long as nobody else has
43:11
hurt. And I wish that for all So think
43:20
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43:55
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43:58
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44:00
Does it work for you and your Heathen practices or any other
44:05
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44:06
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44:10
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46:30
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46:34
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46:48
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nearest and dearest foe. Am I in your yard, you know,
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47:58
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