We Asatru are a squabbling bunch. How many people have seen kindreds blow apart because of internal disagreements. In my 8 years of living in Maryland I've seen four of them blow apart
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The "day" remark was a facetious one. Of course I think it should be every day getting along.You are right that our ancestors tore each other apart by allegiance to a king and tribal warfare has always been a problem. What I meant by listening to the Gods is that they do speak to us. We have direct contact with them, we do not need a go-between, a priest, to talk to them. I think we ought to extend a helping hand to those of us who may not belong to our kindred or our group of ancestors. Odhinn disguised himself as a traveller in one of the sagas and went to the door of a stranger looking like a peasant. It was a test. I put the post up in order to have us all think about the virtue of hospitality. A real life situation happened to me. A total stranger showed up on our doorstep. He had heard we were Asatru (or what word you want to use) and wanted to chat with us. We invited him in. We fed him and we talked all night about our faith. He ended up joining another kindred but I hope that he never forgot that night, the kindness that we extended to him and how glad we were to do it. This is what I talk about when I say if we can't find a way to patch things up and fit under what seems to be a huge umbrella, we're going to marginalize ourselves. Remember what the founding fathers said: "If we don't hang together, we are going to hang apart."
What I meant by listening to the Gods is that they do speak to us. We have direct contact with them, we do not need a go-between, a priest, to talk to them.
I think we ought to extend a helping hand to those of us who may not belong to our kindred or our group of ancestors. Odhinn disguised himself as a traveller in one of the sagas and went to the door of a stranger looking like a peasant. It was a test. I put the post up in order to have us all think about the virtue of hospitality.
A real life situation happened to me. A total stranger showed up on our doorstep. He had heard we were Asatru (or what word you want to use) and wanted to chat with us. We invited him in. We fed him and we talked all night about our faith. He ended up joining another kindred but I hope that he never forgot that night, the kindness that we extended to him and how glad we were to do it.
This is what I talk about when I say if we can't find a way to patch things up and fit under what seems to be a huge umbrella, we're going to marginalize ourselves.
Remember what the founding fathers said: "If we don't hang together, we are going to hang apart."
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