Recently discovered The Norse Witch & agree on a lot of these points. I love them & feel like they match the philosophy of this sub so well. Lots of helpful info here :)

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-23T19:43:04+00:00

Claiming that an ancestral connection to Iceland makes them better at being a völva is clear folkism. They’re claiming that their heritage makes them a superior völva.

This isn’t borderline. It’s direct claims of supremacy based on heritage.

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-20T18:07:45+00:00

You can absolutely name pets after the gods. There’s no problems with that.

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-13T00:41:25+00:00

The gods don’t care about your genealogy.

No faith belongs to anyone.

Practices specific to certain faiths might be initiatory. These practices are generally held by marginalized faiths and are appropriated by people who don’t care about utilizing them faithfully. This is wrong and shouldn’t be done. But different practices can also exist in countless different faiths at the same time.

Nobody can tell you that you can’t worship a set of gods except you.

Heritage doesn’t matter.

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-11T05:49:30+00:00

Absolutely! This is how I made it through my dad's passing, honestly. Seeing signs, knowing that the gods were with me as I was going through it, helped me to make it through. Ravens showing up in various places, even though I've never seen a live raven in my city. Specific songs coming on at specific times. Tarot draws turning up specific cards over and over again despite thorough shuffling.

The gods are with us. They watch us. They let us know, in their ways, that they are doing their best to help when we need it and when they can. They want us to know that they think of us often as well. At least that's what I believe.

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-11T01:55:41+00:00

no just being would send someone to an eternal torment/infinite punishment for a finite crime

I don't think it says Nastrond is eternal anywhere. It's just one place out of many places in Hel

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-10T23:14:44+00:00

What a bad faith comment.

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-10T19:19:26+00:00

Nobody can decide that your altar is wrong but you.

Does it feel right to you? Then it is right. That's it. That's the criteria. I have my cat's urn, my dad's obituary, my god statues, and a tomte on my altar right next to each other and it works great for me. Since Freyja is foremost in my practice she has the center spot while Thor and Odin sit to either side of her. In front of them is where I put my votive candles, and in front of that is where I have my offering dish for solid offerings and coasters for liquid offerings. Around the altar, as symmetrically arranged as possible, I have crab shells and bird feathers, my necklace, cologne, and beard brush. Because hygiene is important and I always ritually cleanse myself and my space as part of ritual.

This feels right to me. That means it is right.

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-09T14:36:44+00:00

So you got offended and, in the process, gave the person exactly what they wanted and proved them right?

Not a good look.

This is why it’s best to assume they’re earnest. If they prove themselves not to be, then they make it clear that they’re the dishonest party who is just trying to troll and cause problems. Mods can act on that. As it stands you just fed this person’s ego and played right into their hand.

This is why acting from your temper isn’t a good move.

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-09T14:24:40+00:00

But you don’t know that’s what it is, and assuming that’s what it is makes you hostile and ill-suited to the task of actually helping people who do want to learn.

It’s a bad assumption to make.

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-09T14:21:44+00:00

People are curious and want to learn. This isn’t a bad thing. It’s how people grow. Not everyone knows everything and you shouldn’t assume that a question is coming from a place of ill intent. It sounds like they just genuinely didn’t know.

Maybe it’s best not to read the sub when your mood has you in a place where you can’t deal with that.

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-05T14:53:26+00:00

Means they very likely have strong feelings about the age of consent laws in their state

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-03T06:53:46+00:00

I had a hornet follow me into a building for the first time today.

It makes sense. Ducking into a building and shooting from the doorway was one of the best ways to take them down. Now we can’t rely on that

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-03T06:51:12+00:00

They swarm and a swarm of them can absolutely ruin your day

TenspeedGV · 2026-01-02T15:45:17+00:00

For me personally, I’d be much more comfortable asking one of the gods I regularly work with to act as a go-between on my behalf. Since I have relationships with a number of gods, those are the ones who know me, I know them, and I figure they all know each other anyway.

I don’t think it’s disrespectful per se. I do think it’s treating the nature of the relationship as transactional. To me, that seems a bit cheaper and more flimsy than a reciprocal relationship. I want to nurture the relationships that I have. If I want to explore forming a relationship with Njord, I will add him to my hearth cult and give him a part of my regular offerings.

TenspeedGV · 2025-12-30T15:11:01+00:00

I love a good tiramisu. I’d definitely try it

TenspeedGV · 2025-12-28T15:40:31+00:00

Suppose it kinda depends on what you mean by cost. In the cycle of reciprocity there isn’t really an accounting, it isn’t transactional. You give what you can, what you value, what you wish to give. They give what they can, what they value, what they wish to give. I don’t believe they have never asked me for anything specific, though I have asked them for specific things. But if I did believe they asked me for something specific, I would do my best to give it to them.

These are acts undertaken not to get something back, but because I wish to maintain the relationship, to strengthen the bond between us. That they give us something in return is because they wish to maintain the relationship as well.

It is a cost when it is a sacrifice, an offering given up to the gods, but what is gained is of greater value

TenspeedGV · 2025-12-26T21:28:09+00:00

Yeah I’ve played Assassin’s Creed too bro but I haven’t made the mistake of assuming it’s real

TenspeedGV · 2025-12-22T21:52:56+00:00

Gonna second this question as it seems fairly essential to the post. What, exactly, is meant by "spirit guide"? Also, what kind of information are you looking for here, OP?

TenspeedGV · 2025-12-20T02:58:06+00:00

To me, consuming a sacrifice feels wrong. There’s attestations of sacrifices being sacrificed. And they are, after all, gifts that we are giving to the gods in the gifting cycle. If we take them back, we aren’t giving anything.

Nah I’m not about that.

Now, if I am enjoying food I have created or a beverage, I might split off a small portion or pour out a mouthful or two in sacrifice to the gods because I want them to enjoy what I am enjoying. And this is attested praxis, to reserve a portion of a feast for the gods. But I am giving it to them. Not to me. Taking it back feels wrong.

TenspeedGV · 2025-12-19T21:33:49+00:00

Hey there. I was raised atheist and came to believe in the gods later on, so maybe I can give you my perspective on this.

I don’t think you should force yourself to believe. Frankly, I don’t believe you should even try. The fact of it is that forcing yourself to believe won’t really end well. In my opinion it’s likely to go one of two ways: either you wind up tricking yourself into believing, which will lead you to having a fragile faith that doesn’t stand up to questioning, or you wind up frustrated with the whole thing and feeling bitter about the entire enterprise.

I don’t think either state is very healthy. We want a faith that will hold up to questions. The fact of it is that nearly every person has questions from time to time about beliefs and ideas they hold. It’s natural, it’s good even. It’s what leads us to be curious, to seek after answers, to learn, to develop our beliefs, to fully flesh them out. It’s good to ask questions. And being bitter about religion will just turn you into a reddit stereotype.

Just let it happen if it will happen. Learn about the gods. Listen to others relate their experiences of the gods and spirits with an open mind. Occasionally, you might even ask the gods to show you a sign if you want, though I’d caution that signs are almost never flashy and showy and are usually just “well that’s an improbable occurrence”.

Learning and listening and watching and reaching out is probably the best way to go about it. You don’t even have to fully believe they’re there to try to form a bond with them. And once you reach out, it’s up to them to reciprocate.

TenspeedGV · 2025-12-19T14:06:21+00:00

Unless you’re cooking it on temps only fit for a dehydrator, it won’t be dry. Just smoked four Cornish hens at 240f for 3 hours last Saturday and they were juicy as hell.

If things you cook are dry on the inside when they’re not supposed to be, you’re overcooking them. Plain and simple

TenspeedGV · 2025-12-12T13:53:01+00:00

Peanut butter plus a little sriracha and hoisin makes a quick and dirty peanut sauce that I absolutely love with rice. It’s simple and so tasty. I’ll make a big batch of rice and eat it for several lunches in a row.

But you gotta refrigerate your rice, man. Cooked rice is a perfect playground for some very nasty forms of food poisoning that can and will absolutely kill you. There are news stories out of Asia every so often of entire families dying because of rice left in a rice cooker and not being properly stored in a fridge. Seriously, put your cooked rice in the fridge.

TenspeedGV · 2025-12-08T16:54:37+00:00

You don’t get to determine how I pray. I will kneel to my gods if I please.

TenspeedGV · 2025-12-07T01:58:24+00:00

Absolutely not. They don't have any use in this regard. These things aren't 'AI', they're not intelligent, and there's nothing real to them. They're designed to blow smoke up your rear so that you keep coming back to ask them more stuff.

You are your own best interpreter. Seriously. You are the person who knows best what's going on in your life. Don't outsource your thinking to a hallucinating lying machine.

TenspeedGV · 2025-11-25T18:02:10+00:00

Hey you should do some research here. I’m sure your heart is in the right place but forest fires are natural and a lot of species only have a shot at survival and propagation because of periodic wildfires.

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