WEBVTT 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:13.760 It is the 13th of November 2026. 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:14.880 I am Cory J. 00:02:14.880 --> 00:02:17.120 Mahler, and this is at any cost. 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:21.280 This is episode 45, a QA episode. 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.160 And I have a little bit of housekeeping before we get into 00:02:24.160 --> 00:02:24.720 the questions. 00:02:24.720 --> 00:02:28.960 Everything looks good on my end, so I will presume that everything 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:32.160 is functioning until the chat tells me otherwise. 00:02:32.160 --> 00:02:35.200 I'm always a little suspicious when OBS just launches and I have 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:37.360 zero problems. 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:42.080 If you were expecting me to appear on Instagram at any point 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:45.520 in the near future and I mention that because when I opened 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:46.560 Restream today. 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:49.120 it said they streamed to Instagram now. 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:52.400 I tried to set up an account and I was immediately flagged 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:53.120 for review. 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:57.680 So odds of that are probably pretty low that I will be 00:02:57.680 --> 00:02:59.680 streaming on Instagram in the near future. 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.560 I think I'm probably pre-banned. 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:08.080 That aside, the actual housekeeping that I have is related to other 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:11.840 things. So let me go ahead and pull up a browser window 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:16.400 here. Just a few things on which I have been working that 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:20.320 I can now pretty much say are ready for use. 00:03:20.320 --> 00:03:21.760 I can announce them. 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:24.960 Of course I've dropped the cap on my pen. 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:28.000 Hmm, there we go. 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.320 So the things on which I've been working that I wanted to 00:03:30.320 --> 00:03:32.080 announce, a couple of free things. 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:33.440 Actually, they're all free. 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:35.920 One of them has a paid option. 00:03:35.920 --> 00:03:41.680 I created a printer management software that is called Zprint. 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.960 That is here, you can go to zsuite.cc. 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:48.080 You could probably also search for it as long as you also 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:50.560 include my name, I'm sure it'll come up. 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:54.720 But this is just printer management software, works under macOS and also 00:03:54.720 --> 00:04:00.000 Linux. I figured out that the code overlapped largely with Linux, and 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.880 so there's a Linux version as well. 00:04:02.880 --> 00:04:03.200 And 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:07.040 it's just a nice for it does a lot more than managing 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:10.720 printers. You can save to a file, you can make the file 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:12.720 searchable under Mac OS. 00:04:12.720 --> 00:04:15.360 You can print an image and save to photos. 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:16.800 Lots of options there for you. 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:18.240 Go ahead and play around with it, it's free. 00:04:18.320 --> 00:04:21.120 If you encounter any problems, let me know. 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:25.760 The second one I wanted to mention is ZDOCA, which is a 00:04:25.760 --> 00:04:30.960 software I made for contact management, basically so that you can keep 00:04:30.960 --> 00:04:32.560 more notes on your contacts. 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:36.080 You know, if you want another person's favorite food or favorite restaurant 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:40.240 or remember certain relationships, things like that. 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:44.320 And that's also free available on the app store. 00:04:44.320 --> 00:04:48.240 So Incidentally, this is one of those cases where if you would 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:51.600 like to support me in a way that does not cost you 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:55.440 anything, then you can certainly download this and leave a review, and 00:04:55.440 --> 00:04:56.880 that is certainly helpful. 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:00.160 I don't get anything monetarily from that, but it's certainly helpful. 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:02.000 And then more people can find the software. 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:04.080 The last item is Zfolio. 00:05:04.080 --> 00:05:05.280 I created a 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:11.440 WordPress editor sync engine, basically a WordPress 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:15.440 documentation suite also writing things like that. 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:17.280 So anything involving text. 00:05:17.280 --> 00:05:21.600 Largely because I wanted this for my own use and it has 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.880 an AI agent surface and MCP, things like that. 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:29.440 And I wanted to use this for my own purposes for documentation. 00:05:29.440 --> 00:05:31.200 Eventually the Septuagint. 00:05:31.200 --> 00:05:35.120 I'm going to use this as the backend for running that website. 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:36.800 Because I didn't like the one I was using. 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:38.320 It was annoying me. 00:05:38.320 --> 00:05:39.680 But at any rate, this one is free. 00:05:39.840 --> 00:05:42.800 It does have paid plans if you want some more features. 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:45.600 So go ahead and try that out as well. 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:48.480 One very nice thing about it is that as far as I 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:53.520 can tell, I've essentially solved the problem of syncing in in live 00:05:53.520 --> 00:05:57.520 sync which is an ongoing challenge for a lot of platforms. 00:05:57.520 --> 00:05:57.600 So 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:01.360 if you use this, go ahead and test it. 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:04.960 Open it on three or four, five, six if you feel like 00:06:04.960 --> 00:06:06.320 it devices. 00:06:06.320 --> 00:06:08.880 And try to cause a conflict. 00:06:08.880 --> 00:06:12.000 I don't think you'll be able to, because the engine is quite 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:16.640 robust. At any rate, that's pretty much all of the housekeeping that 00:06:16.640 --> 00:06:17.760 I have. 00:06:17.760 --> 00:06:18.080 So 00:06:19.200 --> 00:06:22.800 one last item actually, I will mention it because I mentioned it 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:25.680 in my chat on telegram, but I did not say it to 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.640 those of you who don't read the chat. 00:06:28.640 --> 00:06:34.160 I went through and organized basically, all of the past questions and 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:39.040 the topics on Omniphora for this show, all of that information should 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:41.600 now be up to date and accurate. 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.840 So I have a list of pending questions now that I have 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:47.760 not answered to my satisfaction. 00:06:47.760 --> 00:06:50.000 I will go through three of those today and I'll be working 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:52.080 through those in future shows as well. 00:06:52.080 --> 00:06:58.240 So if your question incorrectly got flagged as answered, please let me 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:00.080 know. Ask it again. 00:07:00.080 --> 00:07:03.280 That being said, I will go ahead and get into the first 00:07:03.280 --> 00:07:06.480 question, which is actually tangentially related to what I just said. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.960 And And this one was sort of a general one from a 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:13.920 previous session in the chat just about AI and my general view 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:15.840 of AI. 00:07:15.840 --> 00:07:16.160 And 00:07:17.760 --> 00:07:21.040 my view of AI really there are this is question one. 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:21.280 There are 00:07:22.640 --> 00:07:24.880 two layers to it. 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:30.000 One is that it is a very useful tool. 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.720 It has a great a great deal of potential. 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:35.920 I'm making great use of it, as you can probably tell from 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.120 the housekeeping there and things like that. 00:07:39.120 --> 00:07:44.560 And so obviously I am not 100% opposed to it because it 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:48.560 does have advantages, it does have utility, it is a very useful 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:52.320 tool. But it is one of those tools that is a double 00:07:52.320 --> 00:07:54.880 edged sword, and that's sort of the second aspect to it, and 00:07:54.880 --> 00:07:57.920 one that I have focused on in some writing and things like 00:07:57.920 --> 00:08:00.480 that Where I have mentioned the negatives. 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:03.920 I'll go ahead and bring up an article on that that I 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:07.360 wrote. This is probably the one that people are thinking of when 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.840 they ask me about AI and my views of it. 00:08:11.840 --> 00:08:15.280 I have written about it in a negative sense, and I wrote 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:17.360 this back in 2023. 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:17.680 And 00:08:18.640 --> 00:08:22.080 for I'll go ahead and reveal something about the article that most 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:26.320 people have missed so far, and perhaps ironically some of the modern 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:28.720 AIs would recognize. 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:32.480 This last line is meant to be sort of an ironic reference 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:37.040 to a particular philosophical tract, and I'll go ahead and let the 00:08:37.040 --> 00:08:40.000 reader, the listener, figure out which one. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:43.680 But the negative aspect, if you read the article carefully and some 00:08:43.680 --> 00:08:47.280 other things that I've written on the subject as well, would be 00:08:47.280 --> 00:08:48.880 the human aspect. 00:08:48.880 --> 00:08:52.800 And the reason that I have some negative views about what could 00:08:52.800 --> 00:08:56.320 happen with AI, and I've written a few articles on it, just 00:08:56.320 --> 00:09:02.640 the three so far, the ways in which humanity is going to 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:03.200 use AI 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:07.360 will be beneficial in some ways. 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.840 Certainly, there are good things we're going to do. 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.920 It makes it so that we can make more secure software more 00:09:13.920 --> 00:09:20.160 quickly. We can run certain medical analyses more readily and more accurately 00:09:20.160 --> 00:09:23.920 than human beings can do because AI can analyze more data than 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:25.920 any human being ever could. 00:09:25.920 --> 00:09:28.160 There are benefits, certainly. 00:09:28.160 --> 00:09:32.800 But we're also going to use it to develop things like bioweapons. 00:09:32.800 --> 00:09:36.400 And we are going to use it to develop new chemical weapons, 00:09:36.400 --> 00:09:40.960 and we're going to use it to build autonomous robotics that will 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:42.640 then be used on the battlefield. 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:45.760 We're going to use it to cause immense harm. 00:09:45.760 --> 00:09:48.000 And that's the problem that I see. 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.480 And some of those things, and as someone mentioned in the chat, 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:55.040 yes, it's also used for pornography. 00:09:55.040 --> 00:09:55.360 And 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:01.520 some of those things have such a huge negative potential that it 00:10:01.520 --> 00:10:06.000 is difficult to see AI as a good thing overall in the 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.080 context of how humanity will use it, right? 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:11.040 This is sort of just a basic game theory problem. 00:10:11.040 --> 00:10:18.320 If there is an immense payoff for something with a certain percentage 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:19.040 chance, right? 00:10:19.040 --> 00:10:21.760 It doesn't really matter what the percentage chance in the in this 00:10:21.760 --> 00:10:24.800 case because of the potential negative payoff. 00:10:24.800 --> 00:10:28.480 The potential negative payoff here is virtually infinite. 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:33.680 And if the potential negative payoff is virtually infinite, there is never 00:10:33.680 --> 00:10:37.600 a rational reason to choose that route. 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:41.520 Because the basically the outcome on balance is negative. 00:10:41.520 --> 00:10:43.280 Infinitely negative. 00:10:43.280 --> 00:10:46.480 And that's the danger that I see with AI. 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:51.680 Infinit it's probably worth noting that the infinite sadist, that article, is 00:10:51.680 --> 00:10:56.400 more of an argument against hedonism and things like that than specifically 00:10:56.400 --> 00:10:58.880 AI. It just happens to touch on AI, that's why it's tagged 00:10:58.880 --> 00:10:59.120 for that. 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:03.040 Really, it's two articles on AI on my site. 00:11:03.040 --> 00:11:04.640 But that's essentially my view. 00:11:04.640 --> 00:11:07.280 I don't think that it's inherently bad. 00:11:07.280 --> 00:11:12.400 I think that it provides such a capacity for immense harm that 00:11:12.400 --> 00:11:14.320 it will be a net negative. 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.480 But it's because of the way human beings will use it. 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:17.920 You can say, well, any tools like that. 00:11:17.920 --> 00:11:19.760 That's true, absolutely. 00:11:19.760 --> 00:11:23.360 But a crazy person can do only so much harm with a 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:27.120 knife. A crazy person can do a lot of harm with nuclear 00:11:27.120 --> 00:11:28.320 weapons, right? 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:33.600 And unlike nuclear weapons, I can run AI here. 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:38.160 I have AI running just down the hall in another room, right? 00:11:38.160 --> 00:11:41.200 Most Most of the work I'm doing is on various subscriptions and 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:45.280 things, but there's a fundamental difference between something like a nuclear weapon, 00:11:45.280 --> 00:11:48.240 which can do a great deal of harm, and something that literally 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:50.240 is already running on your phone. 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:52.480 So the risk there is just very different. 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:55.600 So that's essentially my view on AI. 00:11:55.600 --> 00:12:01.760 Again, not inherently negative, probably something that is inherently good, but you 00:12:01.760 --> 00:12:05.760 have to modulate that with regard to how humanity will inevitably use 00:12:05.760 --> 00:12:09.360 it. And of course, there are also the risks that I mentioned 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:13.440 in before the deluge with regard to knowledge and the way that 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:18.720 AI can basically be used, even unintentionally, to destroy the capacity to 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:20.240 relay knowledge. 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:23.760 And I think that's probably the strongest argument I would make against 00:12:23.760 --> 00:12:27.680 it. And the only way to deal with that is really gating 00:12:27.680 --> 00:12:30.720 it very heavily in a way that we don't have the capacity 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:32.880 to do because we don't have the systems in place. 00:12:33.040 --> 00:12:39.760 Those are political systems, notably, not AI or IT systems. 00:12:39.760 --> 00:12:46.640 Question two is a related question, is about really the subcontinent and 00:12:46.640 --> 00:12:50.960 how those from that region wind up in positions of power, particularly 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:54.240 in IT and related companies and certain corporations. 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:56.480 And perhaps this one is timely that I put it off to 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:01.360 answer it until today because Microsoft just had that enormous outage. 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.080 I was not impacted by it, but I have a lot of 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:08.320 attorney friends, and certainly most law firms use Microsoft products, and so 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:11.360 I was hearing about it all day. 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:16.160 But the reason they wind up in those positions is really 00:13:17.040 --> 00:13:20.960 there are two main ones and then there's sort of a third 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:25.520 point that I will bring up because it has more explanatory power. 00:13:25.520 --> 00:13:29.760 The first one is the most obvious, and it is nepotism in 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.960 the strict negative sense of the term. 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:37.680 They will always preference their own completely regardless of ability. 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:43.040 And so they will cause immense harm to others in order to 00:13:43.040 --> 00:13:45.200 preference their own people. 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:47.360 Now, is it bad to preference your own people? 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:50.160 No. But again, let's take an extreme example. 00:13:50.160 --> 00:13:54.720 Should you put your own people who are wildly incompetent in charge 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:57.920 of a nuclear power plant, one of the old style ones that 00:13:57.920 --> 00:13:59.600 has the potential to melt down? 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.320 The answer is no, you should not do that. 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:03.760 They do that. 00:14:03.760 --> 00:14:07.040 And so that form of nepotism, of course they wind up in 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:09.840 positions of power, because as soon as you get one, you get 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:12.160 two, and then you get four, and then you get eight, and 00:14:12.160 --> 00:14:14.400 that's how it goes, so on and so forth. 00:14:14.880 --> 00:14:18.160 The other part, the second point that I want to make that's 00:14:18.160 --> 00:14:23.920 very much related to that, the entire subcontinent is a mill for 00:14:23.920 --> 00:14:25.360 fake credentials. 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:30.480 And so we don't have great systems in place for checking fake 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:34.000 credentials. We just kind of accept you have a BA, a master's, 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:34.640 a PhD. 00:14:34.640 --> 00:14:37.840 Well, okay, it's a BA, a master's, or a PhD. 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:42.320 They churn out millions upon millions upon tens of millions of fake 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:43.840 ones all the time. 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:47.360 And so they apply with fake credentials, and then because of the 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:51.360 first point, if someone calls to verify them, they lie for each 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:52.480 other. And then 00:14:53.680 --> 00:14:58.640 the third part would be that again, it's kind of tied into 00:14:58.640 --> 00:15:01.600 what I just said, our systems don't have a way to really 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:02.800 deal with this. 00:15:02.800 --> 00:15:07.600 And it is partly because of capitalism, and it's partly because we've 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.440 lost the sort of tight-knit community you need in order to protect 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:12.480 your own people. 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:14.480 And immigration shouldn't be a thing. 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:18.000 So it's complicated why it happens, but it's also very straightforward. 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.000 They're liars and thieves. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:23.760 And being a liar to thief works really well if no one 00:15:23.760 --> 00:15:24.640 stops you. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.000 Question three is largely unrelated to the previous two, unless you want 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:33.920 to go on a true tangent. 00:15:33.920 --> 00:15:38.000 Someone asked about my audio setup, and so I will just run 00:15:38.160 --> 00:15:42.160 down very briefly what I use for anyone who wants to do 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:47.200 audio work, I I really should have a recommendation page for this. 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:49.600 In fact, I will go ahead and make that a note for 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:51.440 myself, so I will do that. 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:54.880 I have a recommendation page on my site for various things, but 00:15:54.880 --> 00:15:57.680 I don't have all of my audio hardware up there so I 00:15:57.680 --> 00:16:00.080 will update that. 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:00.400 But 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:04.640 let me see what I have on that page for recommendations. 00:16:04.640 --> 00:16:09.200 I'll pull that up quickly here. 00:16:09.280 --> 00:16:10.320 So for 00:16:11.520 --> 00:16:14.000 yes, I do have a little bit, but obviously I don't have 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:14.480 all of it. 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:18.640 You can see I have my headphone recommendations, and I would add 00:16:18.640 --> 00:16:21.920 to that obviously Apple AirPods are great, but if you want to 00:16:21.920 --> 00:16:28.240 do studio editing work, the Zennheiser 4090 pros are absolutely the best 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:29.280 thing you can get. 00:16:29.280 --> 00:16:31.680 They are fantastic. 00:16:31.680 --> 00:16:35.440 The only problem with them, and I will say this in the 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:38.480 sense that it is a problem sort of, but not a problem 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:39.840 with the product. 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:44.400 Once you have listened to audio on the Zenheiser 4090 pros, everything 00:16:44.400 --> 00:16:49.440 else will sound like garbage, comparatively, which is unfortunate, but it's the 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.600 reality. So that's what I use. 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:53.200 You've seen me with those on before. 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:55.840 That's what I use for all of my audio editing and listening 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:58.960 when at my desk because they're what's hooked up to my computer. 00:16:58.960 --> 00:17:03.360 My main microphone is the Xenizer E965. 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.160 It is not what I am using right now, because right now 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:09.200 I'm obviously using the lapel mic, which is one of these little 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:10.080 road units. 00:17:10.080 --> 00:17:13.760 You may know this from a certain infamous political incident, we will 00:17:13.760 --> 00:17:14.400 call it. 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:17.760 Thankfully, I do not have the massad special, so I should be 00:17:18.320 --> 00:17:22.640 fine. I ordered mine long ago before that sort of thing was 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:23.600 going on. 00:17:23.600 --> 00:17:26.560 Not before it was going on, before that particular incident. 00:17:26.560 --> 00:17:28.640 So I use the 00:17:29.600 --> 00:17:33.600 Rode lapel mic, the lavalier, whatever you want to call it, for 00:17:33.600 --> 00:17:35.840 stuff like this, because then you don't have the giant mic and 00:17:35.840 --> 00:17:37.600 the boom arm in my face, right? 00:17:37.600 --> 00:17:40.640 There's also a Zenheiser set for that that is very nice. 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:42.720 I would use one of those two if you need to do 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:44.480 something with a lavalier. 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:50.720 And then for the back end audio, someone asked about does the 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.280 Zennheiser need a separate power unit? 00:17:53.280 --> 00:17:56.400 And for the headphones, the answer is yes, they do need an 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.320 amp. And I am using an Evo 4 for that. 00:18:00.320 --> 00:18:03.760 That's probably one of the better options if you are just getting 00:18:03.760 --> 00:18:07.680 started and need something that really only has two inputs 00:18:08.640 --> 00:18:11.520 and I think it's two inputs on this one. 00:18:11.520 --> 00:18:15.040 Yes, it's two inputs, forty-eight volt, passive, right. 00:18:15.040 --> 00:18:16.400 That's what you're going to want. 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:17.200 Something like that. 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:19.280 There are a few other options that people like and you can 00:18:19.280 --> 00:18:20.400 find those easily online. 00:18:20.720 --> 00:18:23.440 I happen to like this one, it works quite well. 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:27.040 Road has one now that I'm sure is quite good as well. 00:18:27.040 --> 00:18:30.880 But for the audio software, which obviously is going to be a 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:34.720 big part of how this works and sort of where the magic 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:36.560 is for some of this stuff. 00:18:36.560 --> 00:18:40.160 I would definitely go with this setup. 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:44.000 This is what I recommend, period, because it is what's going to 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:49.280 work best for virtually anyone, certainly anyone asking me this question. 00:18:49.280 --> 00:18:52.880 If you think of you have something better, then by all means, 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:54.800 if you know that system, use it. 00:18:54.800 --> 00:18:57.120 But for anyone else, use this. 00:18:57.120 --> 00:18:58.560 You need a Mac. 00:18:58.560 --> 00:19:02.880 And you need a Mac just because Macs are quite frankly best 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:04.320 for A V stuff. 00:19:04.320 --> 00:19:06.240 That's just the reality of it. 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:09.840 You can disagree if you like, but go look what's in professional 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:10.800 level studios. 00:19:10.800 --> 00:19:13.440 In many cases, you're looking at a Mac. 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:16.240 And these days you can get a Mac Mini pretty cheap, and 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:19.200 they are certainly powerful enough to run this sort of thing. 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:22.240 On top of that, for the software, you want what is called 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:23.760 audio hijack. 00:19:23.760 --> 00:19:25.600 That is going to be your audio stack. 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:27.200 That's where all your plugins go. 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:31.200 That's where you do all of your tweaking of the audio stream 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:34.960 before it gets into your digital audio workshop, your DAW. 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:37.920 And for that, I'm going to say stick within the Mac system, 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:39.120 use Logic Pro. 00:19:39.120 --> 00:19:43.280 If you're already familiar with another one, that doesn't matter as much. 00:19:43.280 --> 00:19:45.760 I think Logic Pro is probably the most powerful. 00:19:45.760 --> 00:19:49.600 It tends to be what you see in actual professional studios again. 00:19:49.600 --> 00:19:52.560 So stay within the Mac ecosystem, use that. 00:19:52.560 --> 00:19:57.120 These days it's part of Apple's creative subscription or whatever, which includes 00:19:57.120 --> 00:19:59.200 pages and keynote and a bunch of other stuff. 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:01.440 So I would just do that. 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:03.680 For the plugins, you are going to want. 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:08.880 You're going to want two different groups or classes, as it were. 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:12.160 The first one is Rough Rider 3. 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:16.000 That is going to be a big part of just the initial 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:18.720 sort of tweaks of the audio stream to make sure that you 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:20.720 sound good on the other end. 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:23.520 And that one used to be free. 00:20:23.520 --> 00:20:27.440 There were some abuse issues with people abusing their website and things, 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:29.440 and you can still find it for free. 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:32.720 It was available for free at one point, so don't feel like 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:34.640 you're doing anything bad using it. 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:36.960 By all means, toss a little bit of money toward the developer 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:38.480 if you use it all the time. 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:39.440 I certainly do. 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:40.240 I use it all the time. 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:41.520 It's in my stack. 00:20:41.520 --> 00:20:43.760 And the other one would be 00:20:45.040 --> 00:20:50.080 The biggest one is Clarity VX, and the reason you want Clarity 00:20:50.080 --> 00:20:55.200 VX is that that is the one that eliminates all background noise. 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:58.000 And I mean all background noise. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:02.960 I have used this one to record at an Oktoberfest at an 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:07.280 outdoor bar, and you could still understand what people were saying. 00:21:07.280 --> 00:21:10.480 It is that good at eliminating background noise. 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:10.800 So 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:14.080 that's from Waves Audio. 00:21:14.080 --> 00:21:17.680 You can look at the plugins that they have there and determine 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:19.760 which ones you need, but really the big one you need is 00:21:19.760 --> 00:21:21.360 Clarity VX. 00:21:21.360 --> 00:21:24.480 Then probably just add a vocal writer. 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:26.640 Waves has one that's quite good. 00:21:26.640 --> 00:21:29.600 Other than that, that's really kind of about it, unless you have 00:21:29.600 --> 00:21:31.840 a problem with sibilance, which is to say if you make a 00:21:31.840 --> 00:21:35.600 lot of th those kind of noises, then by all means look 00:21:35.600 --> 00:21:40.320 at a plugin that cuts down on that just for audio quality. 00:21:40.320 --> 00:21:43.840 But that is probably about what you need to get started if 00:21:43.840 --> 00:21:45.920 you're doing actual audio work. 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:50.880 And then other than that, export in M4A, which is to say 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:56.080 automatic, you're going to use Apple lossless, but excuse me, make sure 00:21:56.080 --> 00:22:00.560 it is not the full file size, which would be for say 00:22:00.800 --> 00:22:04.560 a Stone Choir episode, you're looking at one to two gigabytes, use 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:08.240 the compressed version, which is again still lossless. 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:11.680 That will give you much better audio quality than basically anyone else, 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:16.480 because most everyone else uses MP3, horribly compressed down usually to 128 00:22:16.560 --> 00:22:19.600 kilobits per second, which is crazy in this day and age when 00:22:19.600 --> 00:22:21.200 everyone has more bandwidth. 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:25.360 So that will give you much better audio quality than everyone else 00:22:25.520 --> 00:22:30.240 and make people much happier to listen to you. 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:32.400 And that's basically my stack. 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:35.040 And other than that, I'm using an iPhone as my camera because 00:22:35.120 --> 00:22:38.080 quite frankly, you probably have it in your pocket and it's other 00:22:38.080 --> 00:22:41.520 than buying a DSLR for five thousand dollars, the best camera you're 00:22:41.840 --> 00:22:43.120 going to get for this. 00:22:43.600 --> 00:22:45.920 and so far as a DSLR is concerned, I don't think you'll 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:47.920 need to be counting how many pores I have in my nose. 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:49.360 So the iPhone is probably good enough. 00:22:49.360 --> 00:22:50.560 It does four K. 00:22:50.560 --> 00:22:54.000 It does eight K if you want, but I don't think any 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:55.600 platform supports that for streaming. 00:22:55.600 --> 00:22:58.880 Maybe YouTube if you're paying. 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:02.640 Question four is from the chat. 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:08.160 Is there a biblical slash Christian meaning of being an athlete? 00:23:11.040 --> 00:23:15.520 This one I'm going to pull up two different verses from scripture 00:23:15.520 --> 00:23:18.960 that are related because they certainly come to mind, and I'm sure 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:21.440 they come to mind for some of you when this question is 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:27.680 asked. So let me pull up logos here. 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:28.880 There we go. 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:31.840 The first one is from first Corinthians, of course. 00:23:32.080 --> 00:23:35.040 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, 00:23:35.040 --> 00:23:38.320 but only one receives the prize, so run that you may obtain 00:23:38.320 --> 00:23:42.080 it. Every athlete exercises self control in all things. 00:23:42.080 --> 00:23:46.240 They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:49.040 So I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one 00:23:49.040 --> 00:23:52.320 beating the air, but I discipline my body and keep it under 00:23:52.320 --> 00:23:56.880 control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:02.240 Right. And let me hope I didn't just push something there. 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:04.560 Second Timothy is the second one. 00:24:04.560 --> 00:24:07.920 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:10.160 It is the hard working farmer who ought to have the first 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:13.200 share of the crops, etc. 00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:16.080 And of course there is another verse of which you should think, 00:24:16.080 --> 00:24:19.120 which is saying that, you know, physical discipline and things like that 00:24:19.120 --> 00:24:23.760 is of some utility, but it's not everything is the gist of 00:24:23.760 --> 00:24:24.880 that verse. 00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:25.200 So 00:24:26.320 --> 00:24:28.320 what does it mean to be an athlete? 00:24:28.320 --> 00:24:33.600 An athlete isn't really necessarily technically a spiritual or, you know, a 00:24:33.600 --> 00:24:35.840 scriptural concept. 00:24:35.840 --> 00:24:37.760 It is good to be fit. 00:24:37.760 --> 00:24:40.720 I would have called myself an athlete, say, twenty years ago. 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:43.520 These days I could probably lose a little bit of weight, but 00:24:44.000 --> 00:24:46.240 it is a good thing to discipline the body, to keep the 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:48.080 body under control, to keep the body in shape. 00:24:48.080 --> 00:24:50.880 This is something God has entrusted to you, you should do the 00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:53.920 best job you can to keep it functioning for as long as 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:55.440 God gives you life, right? 00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:56.880 It benefits you as well, right? 00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:59.600 You're going to have a better life if you are in good 00:24:59.600 --> 00:25:01.440 shape than if you let yourself go. 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:02.960 That's just the reality. 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:06.800 Thin people have better lives than fat people. 00:25:06.800 --> 00:25:11.600 So is athlete though like a theological category? 00:25:11.600 --> 00:25:16.080 No, it's just something that is used as an illustration, as a 00:25:16.080 --> 00:25:19.600 metaphor, as an analogy, and Paul particularly likes it. 00:25:19.600 --> 00:25:20.640 It's used a lot. 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:28.640 It is useful, but it's not strictly a theological category. 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:35.520 Question five also from the chat. 00:25:35.520 --> 00:25:39.920 How would you say your beliefs regarding Christian nationalism have evolved? 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:47.040 So I don't know that my beliefs have necessarily evolved or changed. 00:25:47.040 --> 00:25:51.280 My views on these things have been pretty set for quite a 00:25:51.280 --> 00:25:54.320 while now, probably 30 years, realistically. 00:25:54.320 --> 00:25:58.000 So So and yes, I realize that sets me at r a 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:02.960 rather a fairly young age when I first developed these views. 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:03.280 But 00:26:05.360 --> 00:26:08.640 if anything has changed, it would be sort of nuance or little 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:11.600 polishing of the edges of my views, things like that. 00:26:11.600 --> 00:26:15.360 I wouldn't say that my views have really changed in any truly 00:26:15.360 --> 00:26:21.680 significant way, because I've always recognized that there is very clearly a 00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:28.000 religious element that is necessary for any sort of meaningful mass political 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:31.600 movement. And that's just a practical answer, even if you don't take 00:26:31.520 --> 00:26:35.200 into account that yes indeed the truth matters and you should worship 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:37.920 the Lord God because he is in fact God. 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:41.440 Practically speaking, you have to have that myth aspect is what I 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:43.360 would call it now, certainly. 00:26:43.360 --> 00:26:46.880 And religion is the biggest component of myth. 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:50.640 And that's why I keep saying that you need blood, soil, myth. 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:52.640 Blood and soil is not enough. 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:55.680 They're necessary, but they're not sufficient. 00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:58.960 All three are necessary and together are sufficient. 00:26:58.960 --> 00:27:00.640 And so you can't ignore the myth part. 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:06.080 And so you need the Christianity in order to have the nationalism, 00:27:06.080 --> 00:27:10.000 because you're not going to get any sort of meaningful nationalism without 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:10.720 the myth 00:27:16.800 --> 00:27:22.160 Question six I am the origin of the backlog note about the 00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:25.440 Orthodox. It was badly worded since I was tapping it out while 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:26.240 doing laundry. 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:31.040 I'd still like to know more detail about your opinion on them. 00:27:31.040 --> 00:27:33.680 So this one has come up a number of times and it 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:35.920 will probably continue to come up here and there, so I'll go 00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:40.480 ahead and answer it again and I suppose I will touch on 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:41.600 four points. 00:27:41.600 --> 00:27:44.000 And these aren't in any particular order. 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:47.520 I'm not saying these are hierarchical, like one is better than the 00:27:47.520 --> 00:27:51.360 other, or more strongly supportive of the conclusion, whatever. 00:27:51.360 --> 00:27:53.840 But these are the four points that I would make. 00:27:53.840 --> 00:27:56.240 And I've made various points against them. 00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:59.600 I have the article and we have the episode and I will 00:27:59.600 --> 00:28:03.200 go ahead and add that as a note for myself to add 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:06.400 that to the show notes. 00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.160 The four points that I would make. 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:12.800 One, the Eastern Orthodox in the West are a LARP. 00:28:12.800 --> 00:28:16.960 The West was Christian for well over a thousand years, nearly two 00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:20.080 thousand years, in some cases. 00:28:20.080 --> 00:28:26.240 The West was never Eastern Orthodox, as the name should probably imply, 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:29.280 right? West Eastern, not the same. 00:28:29.280 --> 00:28:33.200 And so those in the West who pursue that are LARPing. 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:34.240 They're not serious. 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:37.360 They're not taking the faith more seriously than you and I. 00:28:37.360 --> 00:28:40.160 They are not returning to tradition or anything like that. 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:44.480 They are pursuing a LARP because they have abandoned their own people 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:45.600 and their own history. 00:28:45.600 --> 00:28:47.920 And so I detest it for that. 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:52.400 Then there is also the fact that look at how they interact 00:28:52.560 --> 00:28:54.000 every opportunity they get. 00:28:54.000 --> 00:29:00.480 They are incredibly hostile to the West, to Western Christianity, to Protestantism, 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:02.480 and to Catholicism. 00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:06.800 And you know, we have our differences there, our internecine conflict between 00:29:06.800 --> 00:29:10.960 Protestants and Roman Catholics, we don't need this alien third party coming 00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:13.040 in and making things worse. 00:29:13.040 --> 00:29:16.400 So I do not like them because of that. 00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:18.560 There is also the fact that 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:21.520 they are very much a PSyOP. 00:29:21.600 --> 00:29:26.960 And they are a PSYOP starting in the World War II period. 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:32.000 Because the communists basically destroyed Christianity in Russia and some other parts 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:34.480 of what would become the USS USSR. 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:37.600 You can see the consequences of this today on a map still. 00:29:37.600 --> 00:29:41.120 If you lay over it, you know, belief in God and things 00:29:41.120 --> 00:29:42.160 like that. 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:44.640 And then actual practice of Christianity. 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:46.400 Don't just go on self-report. 00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:47.520 Go on what they actually do. 00:29:47.520 --> 00:29:49.200 Do they attend church? 00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:51.920 Do they believe that abortion is morally impermissible? 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:53.600 Do they support the death penalty? 00:29:53.600 --> 00:29:56.080 Things like that. 00:29:56.080 --> 00:30:02.000 But the communists basically destroyed the Eastern churches, and then they figured 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:05.600 out, well, actually we need something to motivate these men to pick 00:30:05.600 --> 00:30:09.200 up guns and go murder other Europeans. 00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:11.520 And so they resurrected the churches. 00:30:11.520 --> 00:30:15.120 But they resurrected them under the control of the Communist Party, and 00:30:15.120 --> 00:30:19.440 they used them basically as a propaganda arm of the Communist Party. 00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:21.840 That has extended into today. 00:30:21.840 --> 00:30:25.680 It morphed, of course, from the USR to Russia, but Russia continues 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:29.520 to fund these things in the West as a destabilizing force. 00:30:29.520 --> 00:30:31.600 That is one of the tactics they used. 00:30:31.600 --> 00:30:34.640 They also funded the civil rights movement, so called. 00:30:34.640 --> 00:30:38.800 This is a divide and conquer tactic, a destabilization tactic they have 00:30:38.800 --> 00:30:41.440 used for many years. 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:43.920 And so I do not like them for that reason. 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:48.400 They are a foreign beachhead, made to cause problems, funded by foreign 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.920 interests. And then the final point, and I will say this one 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:54.640 is hierarchical because this is actually the most important one. 00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:56.960 I didn't save it for the last because it's most important. 00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:59.200 I just happened to save it for the last. 00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:01.600 I disagree with them doctrinally. 00:31:01.600 --> 00:31:07.600 Extremely strongly do I disagree with them doctrinally, because Palamus is a 00:31:07.600 --> 00:31:12.960 rank heretic, and Palamus is basically the architect of their theology. 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:16.240 He is the man who sets their doctrine of the theology. 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:19.200 He is the one, they will always say, This is what we 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:23.600 believe. And there are things in his book, The Triads, that are 00:31:23.600 --> 00:31:25.200 unbelievable rank heresy. 00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:29.360 Like I've said many times before, reading that book feels like reading 00:31:29.360 --> 00:31:33.680 something that someone found in hell and somehow brought back. 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:35.600 I do not recommend that you read it. 00:31:35.600 --> 00:31:36.640 It is an evil book. 00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:38.240 It is an evil work. 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:40.320 It is not good for men to read it. 00:31:40.320 --> 00:31:42.640 That is their theology. 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:46.480 And And the kind of man who can't recognize evil when he 00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:49.920 reads it, there's a real problem there. 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:54.560 And you have these men who are sons of the West, who 00:31:54.560 --> 00:31:58.640 are inheritors of the West, looking at this stuff and then saying 00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:02.320 they agree with it, there's something fundamentally wrong with the men who 00:32:02.320 --> 00:32:03.360 go East. 00:32:03.360 --> 00:32:07.520 And that's my biggest disagreement with the Eastern Orthodox is that they're 00:32:07.520 --> 00:32:09.520 doctrinally unsound. 00:32:09.520 --> 00:32:10.800 They are heretics. 00:32:10.800 --> 00:32:13.840 That does not mean, as I have said many times before, that 00:32:13.840 --> 00:32:17.360 everyone who is part of an Eastern Orthodox Church is damned. 00:32:17.360 --> 00:32:21.120 Lutherans have the ready answer, it's called felicitous inconsistency. 00:32:21.120 --> 00:32:25.520 Most of them, if you went into an Eastern Orthodox Church in 00:32:25.520 --> 00:32:30.400 Greece or pick any random country that is historically Eastern Orthodox, the 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:33.760 average man sitting in the pews will know nothing of Palamus. 00:32:33.760 --> 00:32:37.840 He may not even understand or recognize the name, but he knows 00:32:37.840 --> 00:32:40.480 Jesus, and he relies on Jesus. 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:42.320 That man is saved. 00:32:42.320 --> 00:32:46.640 The men who are teaching this stuff, I have significant doubts about 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:48.240 their salvation. 00:32:48.800 --> 00:32:53.760 But that is the summary of my problems with the Eastern Orthodox. 00:33:14.320 --> 00:33:17.840 Couple questions here about topics that I will have to look into 00:33:17.840 --> 00:33:21.280 before I answer because I just don't ha really have any opinion 00:33:21.280 --> 00:33:27.920 on them. 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:31.280 Okay, question seven. 00:33:31.280 --> 00:33:34.720 Is it cheating on my devotional reading since I try to listen 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:38.000 to all the confident faith episodes from all its podcasts if I 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:41.120 only listen to it when I also could be reading? 00:33:41.280 --> 00:33:46.800 No. And the easiest way to understand that is that through most 00:33:46.800 --> 00:33:50.560 of Christendom's history, most men were illiterate. 00:33:50.560 --> 00:33:52.560 They didn't read their daily devotions. 00:33:52.560 --> 00:33:55.760 At most, they memorized a handful of prayers and recited those, and 00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:58.400 then they listened to someone else read. 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:02.240 So it is it's perfectly fine to listen instead of reading. 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:04.080 It is good to read as well, right? 00:34:04.080 --> 00:34:09.840 Because we in Ingest things in different ways and the brain processes 00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:10.400 it differently. 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:15.600 It's just like handwriting things is fundamentally different for learning and retention 00:34:15.600 --> 00:34:20.880 than it is, say, listening or even breathing reading or whatever it 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:22.080 happens to be. 00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:23.840 And so do take notes when you read. 00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:27.600 That does help you memorize things just sort of as a tangent. 00:34:27.600 --> 00:34:29.840 But by all means, listening is fine. 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:34.080 And if you are listening to all of the stuff from Confident 00:34:34.240 --> 00:34:38.720 Faith, then that does wind up being forty-five minutes to an hour 00:34:38.720 --> 00:34:41.280 per day right now because I bumped up the reading on through 00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:43.200 the Bible in a year because I want to get it done 00:34:43.200 --> 00:34:44.160 before the end of the year. 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:46.880 hence in a year. 00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:47.200 So 00:34:48.640 --> 00:34:51.920 yes, listening is completely fine, but do a little bit of reading 00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:53.680 as well, and don't neglect your prayers, right? 00:34:53.680 --> 00:34:56.720 Say the Lord's prayers, say the creeds, things like that. 00:34:56.720 --> 00:34:59.840 At least the Apostles' Creed, say the Apostles' Creed at least once 00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:01.120 a day, right? 00:35:01.120 --> 00:35:06.240 Just the standard practice of the faith down through the centuries in 00:35:06.240 --> 00:35:06.960 the West. 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:09.200 So but yes, listening is great. 00:35:09.200 --> 00:35:12.960 And by all means, listening is something that gives you the opportunity 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:16.640 to ensure that you have that devotional time, even if you happen 00:35:16.640 --> 00:35:19.920 to have a frantic schedule or something and you can't necessarily make 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:21.600 the time to sit down and read. 00:35:21.600 --> 00:35:25.040 You can listen to me read whatever book I happen to be 00:35:25.040 --> 00:35:28.160 reading right now, I'm reading Ezekiel, you can listen to me while 00:35:28.080 --> 00:35:29.840 you're doing cardio or something. 00:35:31.680 --> 00:35:35.760 Probably not the most upbeat listening while doing cardio, but you get 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:53.360 the point. 00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:54.880 I have seen the question. 00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:56.480 I just want to note this for the record. 00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:58.320 I have seen the question about local currencies. 00:35:58.320 --> 00:35:59.760 I will get to that next week. 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:01.760 I'm going to make a note for myself on that one. 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:05.200 I do have it in my actually my PDF notes here for 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:14.000 my backlog of questions I want to answer. 00:36:14.160 --> 00:36:16.640 I will have to look into John McKenty. 00:36:16.640 --> 00:36:19.520 I do not have an opinion on him. 00:36:19.520 --> 00:36:24.960 I answered the question about the Zennheiser power and the Evo 4. 00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:26.000 So I will just 00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:32.880 go ahead and drop those two. 00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:35.360 I'll go ahead and add this one to the 00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:41.280 the questions for the episode just because someone certainly will find it 00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:43.760 funny. Have you ever thought about being a mall Santa? 00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:45.120 Is question eight. 00:36:45.120 --> 00:36:46.320 The answer is no. 00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:48.400 I've never thought about me being a Malsanta. 00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:52.080 I don't particularly like wearing very bright red. 00:36:52.080 --> 00:36:56.720 I have literally owned only one very bright red shirt in my 00:36:56.720 --> 00:37:00.960 entire life, and it's because an ex-girlfriend bought it for me. 00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:01.280 So 00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:05.040 I have never bought one for myself. 00:37:06.080 --> 00:37:08.560 Also, I'd have to gain more weight, and I'm trying not to 00:37:08.560 --> 00:37:10.400 go that direction with my weight, so 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:23.520 I'm not sure what I'm going to look up my backlog of 00:37:23.520 --> 00:37:27.120 questions here because I have cleared most of the questions from the 00:37:27.120 --> 00:37:28.800 chat, I believe. 00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:29.120 So 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:49.920 Oh of course the question about Nietzsche and John Calvin. 00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:51.440 I will get to that one eventually. 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:53.680 I I do have it in my list. 00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:06.880 Actually this one is a good one that I will bring out 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:09.840 here. Question nine. 00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:13.040 What do you think about the controversy concerned Concerning the lapsed, that 00:38:13.040 --> 00:38:16.960 is to say, those who complied with Emperor Decius's mandate to sacrifice 00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:18.480 to Roman gods. 00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:22.000 Is this sin forgivable by a bishop? 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:25.920 So I will go ahead and say that the sin is indeed 00:38:26.560 --> 00:38:29.600 forgivable and not just by a bishop. 00:38:29.600 --> 00:38:31.360 That is forgivable by 00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:34.560 any Christian, right? 00:38:34.560 --> 00:38:37.360 And it is certainly forgivable if you just pray for forgiveness to 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:40.800 God. It is not the unforgivable sin, it does not require some 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:45.680 special rank of clergy in order to forgive you for that particular 00:38:45.680 --> 00:38:51.280 transgression. Now, there is a second layer to that, and I think 00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:55.920 perhaps the second layer may be the more important one here, because 00:38:56.240 --> 00:39:01.280 the doctrine question, theolic theology question is very straightforward, right? 00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:03.120 Is there an unforgivable sin? 00:39:03.120 --> 00:39:05.600 Yes. What is the unforgivable sin? 00:39:05.600 --> 00:39:06.720 The sin against the spirit. 00:39:06.720 --> 00:39:08.960 What is the sin against the spirit? 00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:12.160 Unbelief. Because that's the only unforgivable sin, right? 00:39:12.160 --> 00:39:15.120 The only unforgivable sin is unbelief. 00:39:15.120 --> 00:39:19.680 And if you have committed the unforgivable sin, this is always worth 00:39:19.680 --> 00:39:22.320 mentioning, because people worry about it. 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:25.360 If you worry about it, that's good that's good news for you. 00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:27.760 Because if you can worry about it, you haven't committed it. 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:31.200 Because if you committed it, you won't worry because you will have 00:39:31.200 --> 00:39:34.640 a seared conscience and a charred heart. 00:39:34.640 --> 00:39:38.560 You will no longer worry about such things at all. 00:39:38.560 --> 00:39:42.000 Because you will be so confirmed and dead in your sin that 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:44.000 you are beyond saving at that point. 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.320 So if you can worry about it, you haven't committed the sin. 00:39:46.320 --> 00:39:47.360 Sort of irony, right? 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:49.280 Sort of like almost a catch-22. 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.240 If you can worry about it, you shouldn't worry about it, kind 00:39:52.240 --> 00:39:53.920 of thing. 00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:57.840 But the second part of the question that is perhaps important and 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:00.960 may become important in the future, right? 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:04.880 If you have fallen away from the faith during a time of 00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:07.840 persecution and then you want to come back to the faith, right? 00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:11.040 And in this case, the falling away is public, because these were 00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:13.440 individuals who sacrificed to the Roman gods. 00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:18.720 Today you can think of someone who goes and right, goes full 00:40:18.720 --> 00:40:22.880 tilt for you know Zionism or something like that, or goes Eastern 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:28.080 Orthodox. Something they've done publicly where they have renounced the faith and 00:40:28.080 --> 00:40:30.080 gone in some other direction. 00:40:30.080 --> 00:40:34.000 It is appropriate for the church to have some kind of canon, 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:38.080 some sort of rules For bringing them back in, having them publicly 00:40:38.080 --> 00:40:40.240 declare, repent, do things like that. 00:40:40.240 --> 00:40:43.040 It's for the sake of good order in the church. 00:40:43.040 --> 00:40:45.760 It is not necessary for forgiveness. 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:48.960 You are forgiven when you repent to God, you are forgiven when 00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:53.440 it is declared to you by your pastor or another Christian. 00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:57.120 But those are two sort of separate but related questions, right? 00:40:57.120 --> 00:40:58.960 When is it forgiven? 00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:02.480 Whenever you seek the forgiveness, whenever you repent. 00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:05.680 What should be done to bring you back into the church, into 00:41:05.680 --> 00:41:08.080 the corporate body of the church here on earth? 00:41:08.080 --> 00:41:11.760 There should be some rules for that, because that sort of public 00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:16.320 apostasy needs to be treated in a certain way in order to 00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:19.600 have good order in the church and in order to discourage people 00:41:19.600 --> 00:41:23.440 from going down that road in the future. 00:41:23.680 --> 00:41:28.160 Let me go ahead and copy that into my show notes here 00:41:28.240 --> 00:41:31.840 so I don't miss it. 00:41:59.520 --> 00:42:04.480 Okay, let's see. 00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:06.400 Question 10. 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:10.160 Are there any Lutheran groups you personally would endorse? 00:42:10.160 --> 00:42:15.120 And so the answer to that is absolutely yes. 00:42:15.120 --> 00:42:18.480 But it sort of depends on what you mean by groups. 00:42:18.720 --> 00:42:21.440 Are there Lutheran churches I would absolutely endorse? 00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:25.520 Yes. There are good LCMS churches, there are good Wells churches, there 00:42:25.520 --> 00:42:28.640 are even good churches in some of the other smaller synods. 00:42:28.640 --> 00:42:31.600 And I know some of those pastors and I would certainly endorse 00:42:31.600 --> 00:42:34.640 them. I won't mention them here for reasons that should be obvious 00:42:34.640 --> 00:42:36.720 to everyone. 00:42:36.720 --> 00:42:37.920 Now, are there 00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:41.600 those who are more public with the fact that they are Lutheran 00:42:41.600 --> 00:42:43.040 churches who are aligned with us? 00:42:43.040 --> 00:42:43.920 Yes, absolutely. 00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:46.800 Some of those are on social media and others. 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:50.000 I have endorsed them there and certainly I continue to endorse them 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:52.480 in their work. 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:57.600 Are there any Lutheran bodies that I would endorse? 00:42:57.600 --> 00:43:02.560 No. But that's true for literally every branch of Christianity right now. 00:43:02.560 --> 00:43:07.280 There's no Presbyterian overarching group, right, that I would endorse. 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:10.000 There's no Anglican group that I would endorse. 00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:13.840 Because as I've said many times before, all of the corporate bodies 00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:15.280 are largely apostate. 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:17.440 The leadership are wicked men. 00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:18.720 And so 00:43:19.680 --> 00:43:22.880 I'm not going to endorse a body or a group in that 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:24.320 sense, but there are certainly 00:43:25.520 --> 00:43:29.200 congregations, parishes, whatever you want to call them, that I would endorse, 00:43:29.200 --> 00:43:31.280 including in some of those those other traditions. 00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:37.200 I don't fully agree with them, certainly, but I do believe that 00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:42.240 they are there are good groups, there are good churches under those 00:43:42.240 --> 00:43:47.600 umbrellas, even if the groups themselves aren't good. 00:43:47.600 --> 00:43:50.320 In many parts of the country, if you're looking for a Lutheran 00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:53.680 church, you're going to find an LCMS church that is full of 00:43:53.680 --> 00:43:57.680 actual Christians, and many of them are good men and women. 00:43:57.680 --> 00:44:01.760 They will have their problems, but that's true of humanity everywhere. 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:06.000 Don't go in and immediately, you know, reveal your power level as 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:06.960 it were. 00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:09.840 That's not necessarily the place to do it. 00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:15.040 But you certainly will find Christian men and Christian women there and 00:44:15.040 --> 00:44:17.440 have the fellowship that you should have as a Christian. 00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:22.240 So don't think that just because the leadership of the LCMS in 00:44:22.240 --> 00:44:25.680 particular happen to be wicked men that you can't find a good 00:44:25.680 --> 00:44:28.400 church under that umbrella. 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:46.400 I believe I answered this question about the difference between Matthew, Mark, 00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:48.640 and Luke and John. 00:44:48.640 --> 00:44:51.040 So Matthew, Mark, and Luke on the one hand, John on the 00:44:51.040 --> 00:44:52.400 other, last time. 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:54.080 So I'm going to go ahead and 00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:57.200 add that to my backlog. 00:44:57.200 --> 00:45:00.160 Please go and check last week's episode. 00:45:00.160 --> 00:45:02.160 That will be up after this stream. 00:45:02.160 --> 00:45:05.680 Probably give me about 30 minutes to get that episode back up. 00:45:05.680 --> 00:45:06.000 And 00:45:07.040 --> 00:45:11.520 If that is not answered in that episode, then go ahead and 00:45:11.520 --> 00:45:12.800 submit that again. 00:45:25.120 --> 00:45:26.160 Question eleven. 00:45:26.160 --> 00:45:29.920 I know you recently had a spat with Michael Spengler about marriage 00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:33.360 in heaven, but do you align with him on not celebrating Christmas? 00:45:33.360 --> 00:45:35.360 He believes it is pagan and man-made. 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:41.200 So I have actually not spoken with him about his views on 00:45:41.200 --> 00:45:44.400 Christmas, so I cannot speak to that. 00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:47.840 I will speak to the general question instead, but first I will 00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:51.680 comment we didn't really necessarily have a a spat, we just disagree 00:45:51.680 --> 00:45:52.960 to some degree. 00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:57.600 And I can't say that I his I can't say his disagreement 00:45:57.600 --> 00:45:58.880 is unexpected, right? 00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:02.560 Because Because most Christians, from my perspective, I believe, get this one 00:46:02.560 --> 00:46:06.080 wrong. And I understand why they do. 00:46:06.080 --> 00:46:12.400 Because the comments from Jesus to the Sadducees are easy to misread. 00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:15.760 And I think most men do in fact misread them, but that 00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:18.880 is a a separate question, and so I'm going to answer the 00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:21.840 the question that's actually posed here instead. 00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:25.760 I do not believe that Christmas is pagan or that it is 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:32.720 man-made. I believe that there are pagan festivals historically that happen to 00:46:32.720 --> 00:46:34.160 be around the same time. 00:46:34.160 --> 00:46:36.400 And to some degree there's a little bit of overlap, right? 00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:37.840 You have a winter festival. 00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:40.240 Well, any time you have a festival, what do human beings do 00:46:40.240 --> 00:46:40.960 for a festival? 00:46:41.200 --> 00:46:42.880 We eat and we drink, right? 00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:45.200 So you can't say oh they ate and they drank in the 00:46:45.200 --> 00:46:47.520 winter and so this is the same festival because you eat and 00:46:47.520 --> 00:46:48.960 drink and it's in the winter. 00:46:48.960 --> 00:46:50.480 That's absurd, right? 00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:53.360 By that logic you could say that every human festival is the 00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:54.800 same festival. 00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:56.400 That's just dumb. 00:46:56.880 --> 00:47:02.320 Many of the things we use specifically to celebrate Christianity are in 00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:05.840 fact explicitly Christian from historical practice. 00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:10.080 The lighting of candles on certain day comes from some Scandinavian traditions 00:47:10.080 --> 00:47:11.520 linked to saints. 00:47:11.520 --> 00:47:18.240 The commemoration of certain weeks and certain aspects of Christianity are from 00:47:18.240 --> 00:47:19.760 Christian history. 00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:22.080 The Christmas tree is from Martin Luther. 00:47:22.080 --> 00:47:26.400 The wreath is from again a Lutheran pastor. 00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:32.560 These things are all Christian and no, it's it's completely absurd to 00:47:32.560 --> 00:47:33.920 say that it's pagan. 00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:39.200 That is the neopagans, the bad ones, attempting to rewrite things and 00:47:39.200 --> 00:47:42.320 sow division and discord, and it's just complete nonsense. 00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:48.160 It's not a pagan holiday, it's a Christian holiday. 00:47:48.160 --> 00:47:51.200 So by all means go to the the Christmas market if you 00:47:51.200 --> 00:47:57.200 happen to have one and enjoy some mold wine. 00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:24.560 I'll go ahead and answer this one. 00:48:24.720 --> 00:48:28.480 This sort of complicated question, but it's it's one that warrants an 00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:29.120 answer. 00:48:33.600 --> 00:48:35.120 Question twelve. 00:48:35.120 --> 00:48:39.200 Many professionals are trapped in DEI captured firms. 00:48:39.200 --> 00:48:42.880 What is the strategy for quiet decoupling to build parallel networks that 00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:46.240 provide for our families without compromising our conscience? 00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:47.280 So So 00:48:48.720 --> 00:48:53.920 in many cases you can get by in these corporations, and it's 00:48:54.080 --> 00:48:57.200 of course large corporations typically we're speaking of here. 00:48:57.200 --> 00:48:59.680 You can get by in these corporations without doing something that is 00:48:59.680 --> 00:49:02.640 going to run specifically counter to your conscience? 00:49:02.640 --> 00:49:06.240 Now does the corporate culture, do the policies of the corporation, do 00:49:06.240 --> 00:49:09.200 things like that run counter to what we would want as a 00:49:09.200 --> 00:49:11.680 Christian? The answer is yes. 00:49:11.680 --> 00:49:16.160 But does that mean that you personally are actively participating in those? 00:49:16.160 --> 00:49:18.000 The answer is no. 00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:22.960 Right? You can think of Paul speaking of whether or not it's 00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:26.160 permissible to go to the market and purchase meat that came from 00:49:26.560 --> 00:49:29.360 an animal that was sacrificed to a pagan god. 00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:30.960 That's permissible for a Christian. 00:49:30.960 --> 00:49:32.320 That's explicitly in scripture. 00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:34.160 You're permitted to do that. 00:49:34.160 --> 00:49:38.320 Because you are not doing it in worship of that false god. 00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:40.400 So can you work for these Christians? 00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:42.720 Can you cash your paycheck and things like that? 00:49:42.720 --> 00:49:44.720 The answer is yes. 00:49:44.720 --> 00:49:44.880 But 00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:50.880 spend your money in places that advance the causes that actually matter 00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:51.920 as a Christian. 00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:56.800 So support our guys who have various businesses, right? 00:49:56.800 --> 00:50:01.040 You can buy I was going to say coffee, but coffee is 00:50:01.040 --> 00:50:04.800 and isn't a good option because by and large you generally kind 00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:09.040 of want to support the local business for coffee and maybe influence 00:50:09.040 --> 00:50:10.720 that business in our direction. 00:50:10.720 --> 00:50:13.040 But if you don't have one, then by all means there are 00:50:13.040 --> 00:50:14.560 coffee roasters in our space. 00:50:14.560 --> 00:50:15.680 You can support those guys. 00:50:15.680 --> 00:50:17.040 They're good guys. 00:50:17.040 --> 00:50:20.000 They've been at a number of events I've been to. 00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.400 So you can patronize them. 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:25.280 We got plenty of publishing businesses now on the right, so you 00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:26.960 can patronize them. 00:50:26.960 --> 00:50:28.800 And for various other things, right? 00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:32.560 You want to patronize our guys so that your money is going 00:50:32.560 --> 00:50:35.680 to Christian men, and then those Christian men can use it to 00:50:35.680 --> 00:50:38.000 spend money with other Christian men, right? 00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:39.600 That's how how money works, right? 00:50:39.600 --> 00:50:41.680 Velocity of money sort of thing. 00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:42.080 So 00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:48.000 I think I think the underlying question there really is, you know, 00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:52.080 can I work for this company without negatively affecting my conscience? 00:50:52.080 --> 00:50:55.200 And I think the answer, again, the answer to that is yes. 00:50:55.200 --> 00:50:59.120 But spend your money wisely and invest your time and your effort 00:50:59.120 --> 00:51:00.400 wisely as well. 00:51:00.720 --> 00:51:04.720 So right now can you fully decouple from something like this? 00:51:04.720 --> 00:51:05.920 Probably not, right? 00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:09.520 Because if you have a corporate job that's paying really well, are 00:51:09.600 --> 00:51:12.480 you Are you going to find a job in the 00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:16.160 far right or whatever you want to call it political space that 00:51:16.160 --> 00:51:16.960 pays as well? 00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:18.160 The answer is no. 00:51:18.160 --> 00:51:19.680 You just won't. 00:51:19.680 --> 00:51:22.800 So, with some very few exceptions. 00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:26.880 So by all means, use the resources God has entrusted to you 00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:30.480 with this job that hopefully is paying you well, and then use 00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:37.280 those resources wisely to support things that matter. 00:51:43.600 --> 00:51:45.840 Go ahead and answer this one because it is 00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:49.600 related to one I already answered. 00:51:49.600 --> 00:51:51.680 Sort of a follow-up on Christmas. 00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:57.920 Is celebrating Christmas, this question 13, is celebrating Christmas in a Christian, 00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:01.600 non-modern capitalist way something Christians are allowed to celebrate? 00:52:01.600 --> 00:52:03.360 The answer is absolutely yes. 00:52:03.360 --> 00:52:08.880 By all means celebrate Christmas, but listen to Christian Christmas music instead 00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:12.240 of all the stuff put out by Hollywood Jews that is deliberately 00:52:12.240 --> 00:52:15.200 designed to remove Christ from Christmas. 00:52:15.200 --> 00:52:17.120 And you're you're right. 00:52:17.120 --> 00:52:21.280 Don't try to focus so much on the capitalist elements of it. 00:52:21.280 --> 00:52:23.200 The reason for the season, right? 00:52:23.200 --> 00:52:25.520 It's not presents. 00:52:25.520 --> 00:52:26.800 It is a present. 00:52:26.800 --> 00:52:30.080 It is the biggest present the biggest present in all of history. 00:52:30.080 --> 00:52:33.600 So focus on that and celebrate it in the traditional way that 00:52:33.600 --> 00:52:34.960 Christians always have, right? 00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:37.280 Advent. Celebrate Advent. 00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:41.600 Get Advent candles and an Advent wreath, do the lighting, do whatever 00:52:41.600 --> 00:52:45.600 readings your tradition happens to have on the Sundays, gather your family 00:52:45.600 --> 00:52:47.440 around the table and do that. 00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:49.040 Make it a Christian celebration. 00:52:49.040 --> 00:52:52.480 But yes, of course, still give your children presents on the 24th 00:52:52.560 --> 00:52:55.920 or the 25th, whichever one you happen to do If you're European, 00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:59.040 it's earlier in the month, but there's nothing wrong with giving your 00:52:59.040 --> 00:53:00.640 children presents. 00:53:00.640 --> 00:53:03.680 Right? That is not a bad part of the year. 00:53:03.680 --> 00:53:05.680 A bad part of the celebration. 00:53:29.040 --> 00:53:32.320 Question 14. 00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:34.960 I also realized I have no idea how long I've been going, 00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:37.200 so we'll keep going for a while. 00:53:37.200 --> 00:53:38.560 Question fourteen. 00:53:38.560 --> 00:53:41.360 I am very capable mechanically and know a lot about machinery and 00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:45.600 electronics. Can I use these skills to help the nationalist cause? 00:53:45.600 --> 00:53:52.240 The answer is yes, I'm certain, but I don't know necessarily specifically 00:53:52.240 --> 00:53:55.440 what way you would use it right now. 00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:58.080 I think probably the best thing that you can do is find 00:53:58.080 --> 00:54:02.800 a good job with those skills and and get a wife, raise 00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:06.160 up children, and again it's sort of like the corporate job question, 00:54:06.160 --> 00:54:07.200 right? What do you do? 00:54:07.200 --> 00:54:11.600 You use the resources entrusted to you in order to help our 00:54:11.600 --> 00:54:14.240 guys, in order to help your own people. 00:54:14.240 --> 00:54:17.680 And then I am sure that opportunities will arise, right? 00:54:17.680 --> 00:54:21.280 Get involved in whatever your local group happens to be, make those 00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:24.720 connections, get that networking going, and then you know, it'll wind up 00:54:24.720 --> 00:54:27.520 being a friend of a friend of a friend who knows, hey, 00:54:27.520 --> 00:54:30.640 I know this guy who does the thing that you need. 00:54:30.640 --> 00:54:33.520 That's how it works in reality, right? 00:54:33.840 --> 00:54:37.040 So that's how a lot of the stuff that I have been 00:54:37.040 --> 00:54:40.720 able to do or gain access to for various projects, it's been 00:54:40.720 --> 00:54:42.320 a friend of a friend of a friend. 00:54:42.720 --> 00:54:44.160 that's how networking works. 00:54:44.160 --> 00:54:48.880 So build that up and the opportunities will present themselves in time. 00:54:50.240 --> 00:54:55.200 And if I happen to think of something, something that comes along, 00:54:55.200 --> 00:54:58.080 I will go ahead and mention that on the stream and you 00:54:58.080 --> 00:54:59.920 can go ahead and reply to me. 00:54:59.920 --> 00:55:02.480 I don't have anything in particular right now. 00:55:02.480 --> 00:55:09.200 Everything I'm personally doing is sort of software or not that at 00:55:09.200 --> 00:55:10.960 all political. 00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:13.360 But if something comes up, by all means 00:55:27.520 --> 00:55:29.920 Question fifteen. 00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:34.400 What do you think about the theory that civilization can only thrive 00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:38.240 when they have a race intertwined religion and the Westfell and Christianity 00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:40.640 separated race from the religion? 00:55:42.240 --> 00:55:47.440 I don't think that that's true in the sense the neo-pagans employ, 00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:51.680 but I think it is true in a more fundamental sense. 00:55:51.680 --> 00:55:55.920 In the sense the neo-pagans employ, they try to argue that, and 00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:58.640 I obviously don't mean all of the neopagans, it's mostly the very 00:55:58.640 --> 00:56:01.600 loud ones on X, but they try to argue that you have 00:56:01.600 --> 00:56:04.240 to basically make your race your religion, right? 00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:08.720 Your gods have to be like a manifestation of your race, sort 00:56:08.720 --> 00:56:09.280 of thing. 00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:12.560 Which you'd think they'd recognize the fundamental ridiculousness of that, right? 00:56:12.560 --> 00:56:15.040 If your gods are a manifestation of the race, then they aren't 00:56:15.040 --> 00:56:18.320 gods, they're something else. 00:56:18.320 --> 00:56:20.800 But at any rate, I think the 00:56:21.840 --> 00:56:25.440 sort of the more meaningful, the deeper sense here is that you 00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:28.640 do have to have a racial aspect to the practice of the 00:56:28.640 --> 00:56:34.320 religion. Because if you don't have that racial aspect to it, it's 00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:36.720 always going to be foreign to your people. 00:56:36.720 --> 00:56:38.480 It's not going to be your religion. 00:56:38.480 --> 00:56:40.640 And I don't think there's anything wrong with that. 00:56:40.640 --> 00:56:45.360 I think it is perfectly reasonable to have a racial aspect to 00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:47.920 your religion in terms of the practice. 00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:48.800 In terms of 00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:55.040 the doctrine or the theology, it's fundamentally absurd assertion, right? 00:56:55.040 --> 00:56:57.120 Because what is doctrine or theology? 00:56:57.120 --> 00:57:01.040 They are true propositions about reality. 00:57:01.040 --> 00:57:02.160 Is truth 00:57:03.200 --> 00:57:06.480 linked to race in a way that is causal? 00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:09.680 The answer is depending on the direction you're flowing. 00:57:09.680 --> 00:57:12.480 In the terms of from race to truth, the answer is no, 00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:17.360 right? The truth doesn't change if you're German or you're French or 00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:19.440 you're English or whatever, right? 00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:22.960 The laws of logic are the same for literally everyone. 00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:28.000 If you are a German with an IQ of 165 and you 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:31.040 are And you are or you are say a bushman somewhere in 00:57:31.040 --> 00:57:33.680 Africa with an IQ of sixty. 00:57:33.680 --> 00:57:37.760 Well, the law of identity is the law of identity because it's 00:57:37.680 --> 00:57:41.440 true. It doesn't depend on you in any fundamental way. 00:57:41.440 --> 00:57:44.240 It doesn't depend on you in any way whatsoever, because it depends 00:57:44.240 --> 00:57:45.600 upon God alone. 00:57:45.600 --> 00:57:50.240 And so for the truth claims of religion, no, race is not 00:57:50.560 --> 00:57:53.280 actually related in that sense. 00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:55.680 For the practice of religion, that's where it comes in. 00:57:55.680 --> 00:58:00.080 And Lutherans have historically recognized this, and even the Roman Church recognized 00:58:00.080 --> 00:58:04.160 it to an extent and then really started to tamp down on 00:58:04.160 --> 00:58:07.920 it during the Reformation, which was part of the animus there between 00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:11.200 the Germans and the Italians, because the Italians were basically telling the 00:58:11.200 --> 00:58:13.360 Germans to stop being German. 00:58:13.360 --> 00:58:14.720 Good luck with that. 00:58:14.720 --> 00:58:17.760 Right? And it wouldn't it would not work the other way either, 00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:20.400 right? The Germans can't tell the Italians to stop being Italian, and 00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:22.240 so I've said this many times. 00:58:22.240 --> 00:58:25.840 I think that the practice of Christianity should look different from one 00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:28.160 race, from one nation to the next. 00:58:28.160 --> 00:58:32.480 The English are going to be quieter and more orderly than, say, 00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:34.160 the Spanish, right? 00:58:34.480 --> 00:58:38.480 And the Spanish are going to be louder and more boisterous than 00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:39.680 the Swedes. 00:58:39.680 --> 00:58:42.800 That's just the reality of race and the reality of nation. 00:58:43.200 --> 00:58:44.800 There's nothing wrong with that. 00:58:44.800 --> 00:58:47.280 God designed us to be different like that. 00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:51.680 Insofar as that is an expression of the race and of the 00:58:51.680 --> 00:58:55.120 way that race relates to interacts with God, I think that's a 00:58:55.120 --> 00:58:55.520 good thing. 00:58:55.520 --> 00:58:58.720 And that should be upheld, that should be supported, that should be 00:58:58.720 --> 00:59:01.840 something that is part of Christianity. 00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:06.560 So is part of the problem with the modern practice of Christianity 00:59:06.560 --> 00:59:08.400 that it's been decoupled with race? 00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:11.440 I think the answer is yes, but in the sense that basically 00:59:12.080 --> 00:59:15.200 everything has been decoupled from race in the West. 00:59:15.200 --> 00:59:19.600 We no longer recognize that everything around us is a racial construct, 00:59:19.600 --> 00:59:23.040 right? You know look at all the things that are around me 00:59:23.040 --> 00:59:23.600 in this room. 00:59:23.600 --> 00:59:26.080 You can't see that many from this view of the camera, but 00:59:26.080 --> 00:59:29.440 I mean I have a a tea kettle and I have, you 00:59:29.440 --> 00:59:32.480 know, silverwork, a crucifix. 00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:38.080 These are things that are a product of of Western European culture. 00:59:38.080 --> 00:59:40.880 I mean, you know, this is borosilicate glass. 00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:43.440 This is not something that other peoples historically produce. 00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:45.440 This is a product of our culture. 00:59:45.440 --> 00:59:50.480 And you can't decouple culture from race because culture is a product 00:59:50.480 --> 00:59:51.520 of race. 00:59:51.520 --> 00:59:56.320 And insofar as a nation is blood soil and myth, the myth, 00:59:56.320 --> 00:59:59.760 the religion being the largest aspect of that, is inevitably going to 00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:01.120 be tied to the race in some way. 01:00:01.600 --> 01:00:05.600 But again, not with regard to truth claims, but with regard to 01:00:05.600 --> 01:00:06.800 the praxis. 01:00:20.080 --> 01:00:24.240 I actually had to turn the the stand for my tea kettle 01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:27.200 because the light from the candle was a little bit too bright 01:00:27.200 --> 01:00:28.880 in the background there. 01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:38.800 It was a little too aggressively focal in the camera. 01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:41.680 I think I actually have answered this one previously, but I'll go 01:00:41.680 --> 01:00:44.320 ahead and answer it again because I I don't assume that people 01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:48.400 have listened to absolutely everything that I've ever said and managed to 01:00:48.400 --> 01:00:50.800 remember every question and answer right. 01:00:50.800 --> 01:00:53.760 That would be absurd to expect that of people. 01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:56.000 Question sixteen. 01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:58.400 At what age did you find out the truth about World War 01:00:58.400 --> 01:01:01.520 II and how you hinted at it vaguely before but never was 01:01:01.520 --> 01:01:04.960 quite clear, and I'm kind of curious. 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:07.760 So So the answer is fifth grade. 01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:10.080 I remember distinctly, very distinctly. 01:01:10.080 --> 01:01:15.280 And my school was starting to go over the Holocaust and the 01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:18.560 standard narrative and you know all the books they make you read 01:01:18.720 --> 01:01:22.960 Night by Eli Weasel, which is it's appropriate his last name is 01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:25.920 Weasel, but he admitted it's fake. 01:01:25.920 --> 01:01:28.960 Like he even admitted that that book is fiction. 01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:31.920 He's not even trying to say that it's real when it's false, 01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:35.840 he's saying it's fiction, but you know, ignore that. 01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:38.640 and Frank and all that crap. 01:01:38.640 --> 01:01:42.480 But I was looking at this narrative they were trying to tell 01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:47.840 me was true and going, okay, this doesn't really seem to make 01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:48.320 any sense. 01:01:48.560 --> 01:01:50.640 And so I started reading primary sources. 01:01:50.640 --> 01:01:54.080 I managed to find a copy of Mein Kampf in English, which 01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:58.240 was both a little easier and a little harder back then. 01:01:58.240 --> 01:02:01.360 I'm forty-one, so this has been a while ago, it's been thirty-one 01:02:01.520 --> 01:02:03.040 years ago. 01:02:03.040 --> 01:02:03.360 So 01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:10.080 I started reading those primary sources and came very quickly to the 01:02:10.080 --> 01:02:13.200 conclusion that this stuff was just false. 01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:18.160 This was complete and utter nonsense, and so I 01:02:19.040 --> 01:02:22.080 just figured out the truth because the truth is pretty obvious if 01:02:22.080 --> 01:02:24.000 you start looking at the actual evidence. 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:26.080 And then you look at the claims of the one side, and 01:02:26.080 --> 01:02:29.200 then you look at what's actually written in Mein Kampf and the 01:02:29.200 --> 01:02:34.480 other primary sources and you go, someone is clearly v lying here. 01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:36.800 Someone is telling a very big lie. 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:38.800 And I didn't find it that hard to figure out which side 01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:43.040 was actually lying, despite the propaganda. 01:02:43.040 --> 01:02:46.400 But yes, I figured that out quite early on. 01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:50.160 And like I said, it was from reading the primary sources and 01:02:50.160 --> 01:02:52.400 just just applying logic to the problem, right? 01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:54.400 Some of these claims are just outlandish. 01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:57.120 I mean even then, like I I had a calculator, I could 01:02:57.120 --> 01:03:01.360 run the numbers and figure out something doesn't add up here, right? 01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:04.080 This is this doesn't work. 01:03:04.080 --> 01:03:06.640 The math year makes no sense. 01:03:06.640 --> 01:03:08.960 Which is one of the reasons, you know, you get banned for 01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:12.640 the the math year makes no sense sort of assertions on certain 01:03:12.640 --> 01:03:13.600 platforms. 01:03:16.880 --> 01:03:18.880 L'univers 01:03:26.320 --> 01:03:28.320 Question seventeen 01:03:32.640 --> 01:03:35.600 Would you be interested in running for political office? 01:03:35.600 --> 01:03:38.640 I have commented on this before, and my answer is still I 01:03:38.640 --> 01:03:44.960 don't have any objections to it, but that is quite the undertaking, 01:03:44.960 --> 01:03:49.040 and just to be blunt, right, it's an expensive undertaking too. 01:03:49.040 --> 01:03:52.880 I have also just so that I have a good idea of 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:55.120 how these things work, I I 01:03:56.640 --> 01:04:00.960 ran the numbers and ran an analysis of the state law, particularly 01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:03.600 here in Tennessee and some other places nearby. 01:04:03.600 --> 01:04:08.000 And it is not a cheap undertaking by any means, particularly if 01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:10.320 you're doing it in the sort of way that would be a 01:04:10.320 --> 01:04:13.600 meaningful pursuit, you are looking at 01:04:15.200 --> 01:04:17.520 we'll say a non-trivial amount of money. 01:04:17.520 --> 01:04:19.840 I won't give a hard number here because there's kind of a 01:04:19.840 --> 01:04:22.640 wide range, but I don't object to it. 01:04:22.640 --> 01:04:26.880 I would not object to doing that, certainly, if the conditions were 01:04:27.520 --> 01:04:28.800 right for doing it. 01:04:28.800 --> 01:04:31.360 And by conditions were right, I'm not saying, you know, there's no 01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:32.640 threat or anything like that. 01:04:32.640 --> 01:04:36.800 I I recognize that there are going to going to be threats 01:04:36.800 --> 01:04:37.680 and things like that. 01:04:37.680 --> 01:04:40.080 I mean I have a ton of death threats in my X 01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:41.360 DMs and places like that. 01:04:41.360 --> 01:04:42.800 I'm used to it at this point. 01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:45.760 Doesn't that doesn't bother me, doesn't even faze me. 01:04:45.760 --> 01:04:48.800 But no, I have no objection running for political office, and probably 01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:50.640 will at some point in the future. 01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:11.520 Question eighteen. 01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:14.960 You have talked before about the disadvantages of interracial marriage from the 01:05:14.960 --> 01:05:16.800 point of view of the individuals involved. 01:05:16.800 --> 01:05:22.240 How much importance is there in the effect on the race itself? 01:05:22.240 --> 01:05:28.320 That is arguably the more important effect, the more important consequence of 01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:32.880 that, because when you're talking about the race, right, if a race 01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:35.120 disappears, it's never coming back. 01:05:35.120 --> 01:05:39.040 And if you lose certain aspects of your race, you probably cannot 01:05:39.040 --> 01:05:42.480 regain them, at least if you're losing them genetically, we'll leave aside 01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:46.240 the possibility of genetic engineering right now because that's a completely different 01:05:46.240 --> 01:05:50.160 can of worms with a lot of other considerations. 01:05:50.160 --> 01:05:54.240 So the consequences on the race are essentially the reason that you 01:05:54.240 --> 01:05:57.600 would have laws against interracial marriage, and I think that we should 01:05:57.600 --> 01:05:58.400 have those. 01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:03.280 And that you have restrictions on, you know, whether or not someone 01:06:03.280 --> 01:06:09.440 can join your nation in the sort of formal sense depending on 01:06:09.440 --> 01:06:11.360 the blood composition of that individual. 01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:12.720 I don't think that's wrongful either. 01:06:12.720 --> 01:06:14.560 I think we should have those as well. 01:06:14.560 --> 01:06:19.600 So I think it is the more important consequence for the race 01:06:19.600 --> 01:06:22.720 as a group than it is for the individual, in the sense 01:06:22.720 --> 01:06:25.680 of the collective in some cases, and in some senses being more 01:06:25.680 --> 01:06:28.240 consequential than the individual. 01:06:28.240 --> 01:06:30.720 And you can find this in scripture as well, right? 01:06:30.720 --> 01:06:34.880 God speaks of nations as being an individual in some cases. 01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:40.000 He addresses Israel in the singular as Israel his or her, depending 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:42.240 on the writer, right? 01:06:42.240 --> 01:06:42.720 But But 01:06:43.920 --> 01:06:47.120 yes, I think that that is one of the reasons these laws 01:06:47.120 --> 01:06:49.920 should be in place, in order to preserve the race into the 01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:51.200 future in perpetuity. 01:06:51.200 --> 01:06:53.760 It is something that God created for good and something that we 01:06:53.760 --> 01:06:54.480 should not destroy. 01:06:54.480 --> 01:06:56.400 It's something we should preserve. 01:06:56.400 --> 01:07:00.320 And And obviously there's a numbers question here, right? 01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:05.680 If you have one person who marries outside his race and you 01:07:05.680 --> 01:07:09.680 know, let's say we'll take the easiest example, it's not far outside 01:07:09.680 --> 01:07:10.720 his race, right? 01:07:10.720 --> 01:07:16.160 You have a Spaniard marrying a Russian woman, or vice versa. 01:07:16.160 --> 01:07:17.920 Is that going to change things? 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:20.160 This is sort of the mild version of interracial, mind you. 01:07:20.160 --> 01:07:22.720 I'm not taking the extreme one right, which would be a European 01:07:22.720 --> 01:07:25.360 and an African, a sub-Saharan African. 01:07:25.600 --> 01:07:29.360 Is that going to change either race? 01:07:29.360 --> 01:07:35.040 Very minimally, because you're talking about one person in tens of millions, 01:07:35.040 --> 01:07:37.280 right? It's a different thing. 01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:40.080 So it does depend to some degree on the numbers. 01:07:40.080 --> 01:07:43.120 But just because something is a numbers problem doesn't mean you should 01:07:43.120 --> 01:07:44.000 permit it. 01:07:44.000 --> 01:07:48.560 Because any amount of something that dilutes or harms is still harmful. 01:07:48.560 --> 01:07:51.520 It doesn't mean that if you're in one of those marriages right 01:07:51.520 --> 01:07:52.640 now, you should get a divorce. 01:07:52.640 --> 01:07:53.120 You shouldn't. 01:07:53.120 --> 01:07:57.120 Divorce is morally impermissible except in cases of infidelity. 01:07:57.120 --> 01:08:00.960 Or the equivalent of infidelity, so abandonment, things like that. 01:08:00.960 --> 01:08:05.280 I don't think that that is going to be something, this minor 01:08:05.280 --> 01:08:09.120 dilution is going to be something that fundamentally changes the race. 01:08:09.120 --> 01:08:12.240 But it still doesn't mean it's something you should do, right? 01:08:12.560 --> 01:08:16.240 Some small amount of harm should still be avoided if you can 01:08:16.240 --> 01:08:16.720 avoid it. 01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:19.520 And there's no reason to permit this sort of thing. 01:08:19.520 --> 01:08:22.080 I don't believe that you have people who are like, oh, I've 01:08:22.080 --> 01:08:24.800 fallen madly in love with X. 01:08:24.800 --> 01:08:30.160 I don't think that really ever happens, honestly, just to be blunt. 01:08:30.160 --> 01:08:35.040 So the greater harm is to the race, obviously, but in the 01:08:35.040 --> 01:08:40.560 sense of the magnitude of the immediate harm, the individual certainly suffers 01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:43.680 in a greater sense because the individual carries it around for his 01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:47.280 entire life in his essence and cannot escape it until the next 01:08:47.280 --> 01:08:49.920 life. It is a problem for this life only. 01:08:49.920 --> 01:08:52.880 I don't know how it exactly God solves it in paradise, but 01:08:52.880 --> 01:08:55.600 he's God, He's infinite, I don't have to worry about it. 01:08:55.600 --> 01:08:58.160 Right? Those are all those are God's problems. 01:08:58.160 --> 01:09:00.080 I'm glad they're his and not mine. 01:09:00.080 --> 01:09:03.760 But yes, the greater harm is the harm to the race because 01:09:03.760 --> 01:09:07.760 the group is superior to the individual in many senses. 01:09:19.840 --> 01:09:26.080 Someone asked something about a snake from and referenced the last stream. 01:09:26.080 --> 01:09:28.000 If you would go ahead and 01:09:29.440 --> 01:09:33.120 specify exactly what you mean, that would be very helpful because I 01:09:33.120 --> 01:09:35.920 don't know that I know the exact question you are referencing. 01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:39.040 I would have to look back through the notes, which I am 01:09:39.040 --> 01:09:40.720 not going to do right now on stream. 01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:44.080 So if you could specify that would be very helpful. 01:09:44.160 --> 01:09:47.840 That's from the YouTube comments, just so I'm more specific about which 01:09:47.840 --> 01:09:50.960 one I mean. 01:09:50.960 --> 01:09:53.120 While I'm waiting on that. 01:09:53.120 --> 01:09:57.440 Question 19: How do we push church leadership to formalize mutual aid 01:09:57.440 --> 01:10:01.520 and commerce networks as a core congregational duty, rather than leaving it 01:10:01.520 --> 01:10:05.200 to these sporadic, uncoordinated efforts of individuals. 01:10:05.200 --> 01:10:08.720 So I think that the way that you do that is by 01:10:08.720 --> 01:10:10.800 taking over the leadership. 01:10:11.200 --> 01:10:13.040 Just to be blunt, right? 01:10:13.040 --> 01:10:13.920 If you 01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:20.640 and several of your friends all push to become elders, many churches 01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:22.560 have significant 01:10:23.680 --> 01:10:29.200 gaps in their leadership because they have lots of men who are 01:10:29.200 --> 01:10:32.320 just not stepping up and taking on these offices despite the fact 01:10:32.320 --> 01:10:33.200 that they should. 01:10:33.200 --> 01:10:37.520 This is incidentally part of why sometimes women step into those positions, 01:10:37.440 --> 01:10:38.480 the women shouldn't. 01:10:38.480 --> 01:10:42.480 The impulse isn't entirely wrong because they see a a gap, they 01:10:42.480 --> 01:10:44.400 see a need, and they try to fill it. 01:10:44.400 --> 01:10:48.480 That's innate to women in some ways, but it doesn't mean they 01:10:48.480 --> 01:10:50.640 should do it because they're not permitted to do that in that 01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:52.000 case. So 01:10:53.200 --> 01:10:57.920 make yourself useful to the church, make yourself available, participate in the 01:10:57.920 --> 01:11:02.000 church, be active in the church, become a leader in your church, 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:04.800 and then start the program yourself. 01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:08.160 If you happen to have a good pastor, recommend it to him. 01:11:08.160 --> 01:11:10.800 If you have good elders, recommend it to them. 01:11:10.800 --> 01:11:14.320 There may be a congregational meeting where you can make a proposal. 01:11:14.320 --> 01:11:18.000 Make it Make it in a way that people will accept it. 01:11:18.000 --> 01:11:21.520 And then of course you can, you know, start help to guide 01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:23.600 things as they progress. 01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:27.840 But there are many ways that you can do this, but by 01:11:27.840 --> 01:11:31.600 and large, the fundamental way that we change these congregations is by 01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:35.040 showing up and becoming the leadership of these congregations. 01:11:35.040 --> 01:11:38.960 And particularly for those of us 01:11:39.920 --> 01:11:40.880 who are 01:11:41.760 --> 01:11:43.280 you know, millennials, right? 01:11:43.280 --> 01:11:47.280 We're now in our late thirties, forties, that range. 01:11:47.280 --> 01:11:50.480 We should be taking over these positions of authority in the congregation. 01:11:50.480 --> 01:11:52.800 That's about the right age where that should happen. 01:11:52.800 --> 01:11:56.800 Because that's where the you know seventy five, eighty year olds are 01:11:56.800 --> 01:11:58.880 starting to be a little too tired and they need to hand 01:11:58.880 --> 01:12:00.640 off the reins to younger men. 01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:02.880 And even if they're not too tired, they still need to hand 01:12:02.880 --> 01:12:04.080 off the reins to younger men. 01:12:04.080 --> 01:12:06.640 That's how human society, that's how human groups work. 01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:10.480 You have men who are, you know, one or two generations older 01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:12.640 handing down the reins. 01:12:12.640 --> 01:12:14.640 And they should do it sooner than eighty. 01:12:14.640 --> 01:12:16.960 They can stay on it as an advisor, certainly. 01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:20.160 That's a great thing to have elders who can advise the handful 01:12:20.160 --> 01:12:23.200 of good ones we have left, that's their role. 01:12:23.200 --> 01:12:24.080 That is a good thing. 01:12:24.080 --> 01:12:25.360 They should continue to do that. 01:12:25.360 --> 01:12:28.960 But younger men should be taking over the leadership, the control of 01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:30.240 the organization. 01:12:30.240 --> 01:12:32.000 So that's how you do it. 01:12:32.000 --> 01:12:33.040 Take over. 01:12:33.040 --> 01:12:36.640 And then guide the congregation. 01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:40.560 But to some degree, not all of these things are things that 01:12:40.560 --> 01:12:42.080 the church needs to be doing. 01:12:42.080 --> 01:12:45.760 Many of these things are, for lack of a better term, secular, 01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:50.160 but the church should be encouraging them because the church should be 01:12:50.480 --> 01:12:54.320 an extended part of your local family, and that's where everything should 01:12:54.320 --> 01:12:55.040 start, right? 01:12:55.040 --> 01:12:59.920 It's family, extended family, your town, your city, your state. 01:12:59.920 --> 01:13:02.720 Those concentric circles are how everything should work. 01:13:09.280 --> 01:13:12.400 And I just as a sort of side note, I would certainly 01:13:12.400 --> 01:13:15.680 be personally pushing for more of this stuff if it weren't the 01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:19.360 case that if I get involved in anything related to churches, it's 01:13:19.360 --> 01:13:21.920 probably going to bring down your leadership on your head. 01:13:21.920 --> 01:13:25.680 So I am by all means willing to help behind the scenes, 01:13:25.680 --> 01:13:30.960 but I can't really right now push many of these things publicly, 01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:34.320 even the things in which I am still and have become involved 01:13:34.320 --> 01:13:38.240 recently. I can't push them publicly because of, you know the obvious 01:13:38.240 --> 01:13:42.240 reasons. For those of you who are Lutheran, if I am helping 01:13:42.240 --> 01:13:45.040 you with something in your church or you need me or want 01:13:45.040 --> 01:13:47.600 me to help you with something in your church, there are cases 01:13:47.600 --> 01:13:50.480 where I'm doing that, I'm happy to do that, but I won't 01:13:50.480 --> 01:13:54.560 say anything about it publicly because then Matt Harrison will be trying 01:13:54.560 --> 01:13:57.040 to crawl in your chimney at night or something. 01:13:57.040 --> 01:13:57.280 So 01:13:58.640 --> 01:14:02.160 You know, obviously be wise about these things. 01:14:20.320 --> 01:14:24.320 Okay, I see the question about the snake. 01:14:24.320 --> 01:14:26.240 I am going to save that one for next time because I 01:14:26.240 --> 01:14:28.480 want to go into that one in greater depth, but I do 01:14:28.480 --> 01:14:30.320 have that question now. 01:14:30.320 --> 01:14:32.320 And now I have it on my board. 01:14:32.320 --> 01:14:34.800 So now we're good. 01:14:34.800 --> 01:14:38.000 At least I will have it on my board when the AI 01:14:38.320 --> 01:14:41.440 updating my board triggers in a minute here. 01:14:43.360 --> 01:14:46.320 I guess tying back into the earlier AI question. 01:15:05.040 --> 01:15:06.160 Question twenty. 01:15:06.160 --> 01:15:08.240 I'll go ahead and answer this one, even though it's sort of 01:15:08.240 --> 01:15:08.560 a 01:15:09.680 --> 01:15:13.120 a hard question, and it's a it's a warranted hard question. 01:15:24.400 --> 01:15:27.520 This is one of those questions where it sort of has two 01:15:27.520 --> 01:15:30.960 layers to it, but I will go ahead and read the question 01:15:30.960 --> 01:15:32.640 first. Question twenty. 01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:35.680 Can you blame young men for having enmity with the church? 01:15:35.680 --> 01:15:38.880 Christians lost their identity a long time ago, and the church has 01:15:38.880 --> 01:15:43.040 functioned as a collaborator with the enemies of these men. 01:15:43.040 --> 01:15:46.880 Actually I think it's really three two layers, but a third point 01:15:46.880 --> 01:15:47.520 I want to make. 01:15:48.080 --> 01:15:50.560 And the I'll make the third point first. 01:15:50.560 --> 01:15:53.840 And this is that I have mentioned many times, the churches fell 01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:58.480 last. It is worth repeating, it is worth remembering, because by the 01:15:58.480 --> 01:16:02.800 time the churches fell, Well, the enemies had already taken over our 01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:08.240 institutions. They'd taken over Hollywood, certainly, our media, the propaganda. 01:16:08.240 --> 01:16:11.280 They'd taken over large chunks of our government. 01:16:11.280 --> 01:16:15.920 They'd taken over the academy, which is to say, the universities. 01:16:15.920 --> 01:16:20.080 They had taken over the social institutions, they had taken over basically 01:16:20.080 --> 01:16:21.280 every single lodge system. 01:16:21.280 --> 01:16:24.400 I mean obviously they took over the Masons a long time ago, 01:16:24.400 --> 01:16:26.480 but the list goes on and on. 01:16:26.480 --> 01:16:29.600 The churches kept fighting and fell last. 01:16:29.600 --> 01:16:31.520 That is worth remembering. 01:16:31.520 --> 01:16:36.160 The people who fight until the last, or even if they eventually 01:16:36.160 --> 01:16:41.440 capitulate, which is certainly an unworthy thing for a church, but They 01:16:41.440 --> 01:16:42.560 fought the longest. 01:16:42.560 --> 01:16:43.600 That is worth remembering. 01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:46.160 That is a worthwhile thing to note. 01:16:46.160 --> 01:16:48.720 And then there are two layers to this, right? 01:16:48.720 --> 01:16:54.240 There's enmity with the state of the churches, the corporate leadership of 01:16:54.240 --> 01:16:58.640 the churches, the wicked corporate bodies that currently govern the churches. 01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:01.200 And then there's enmity with the church. 01:17:01.200 --> 01:17:03.280 You must never have the latter. 01:17:03.280 --> 01:17:06.560 The former is required of you as a Christian. 01:17:06.560 --> 01:17:10.160 If you are a Christian, you should be at enmity with those 01:17:10.160 --> 01:17:13.520 who have corrupted the church, those who are leading the church falsely, 01:17:13.520 --> 01:17:16.800 those who are teaching false doctrine, because those men are enemies of 01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:20.640 God, and as a Christian, you are required to consider the enemies 01:17:20.640 --> 01:17:22.320 of God to be your enemies. 01:17:22.320 --> 01:17:26.080 And so having enmity with the leadership of the church, the wicked 01:17:26.080 --> 01:17:28.480 leadership, because let's not forget there are a handful of good men 01:17:28.480 --> 01:17:29.360 here and there. 01:17:29.360 --> 01:17:32.880 At the highest levels, the wicked leadership of the churches, you should 01:17:32.880 --> 01:17:34.640 be at enmity with those men. 01:17:34.640 --> 01:17:35.920 That's a good thing. 01:17:35.920 --> 01:17:39.200 As a Christian you must do that. 01:17:39.200 --> 01:17:42.560 But that does not mean that you will be at enmity with 01:17:42.560 --> 01:17:46.640 the church in the sense of the uppercase C Church Catholic. 01:17:46.640 --> 01:17:49.280 And I mean by Catholic just to clarify for those who will 01:17:49.280 --> 01:17:52.160 try to take me out of context, universal. 01:17:52.160 --> 01:17:56.160 All those believers down through history, Adam onward, right? 01:17:56.160 --> 01:17:58.400 Or if you want to count from Abel because he was the 01:17:58.400 --> 01:18:03.040 first one to enter paradise. 01:18:03.040 --> 01:18:06.720 I could even make an argument along the lines of what Paul 01:18:06.720 --> 01:18:07.680 says, right? 01:18:07.680 --> 01:18:12.080 Paul speaks to those who want to consider themselves holy under the 01:18:12.080 --> 01:18:12.960 law, right? 01:18:12.960 --> 01:18:17.120 In the sense of H O L Y, not W. 01:18:17.120 --> 01:18:20.240 Those who want to consider themselves holy because they obey the law, 01:18:20.240 --> 01:18:23.120 right? He says, Well, I am a Pharisee of Pharisees. 01:18:23.440 --> 01:18:29.280 Circumcised, uh child of Pharisees, I obey the law, all these things, 01:18:29.280 --> 01:18:33.840 right? He lists out how he is very clearly the epitome of 01:18:33.840 --> 01:18:36.880 what they want to be, and he still considers it all to 01:18:36.880 --> 01:18:40.800 be nothing and loss compared to Jesus Christ, right? 01:18:41.120 --> 01:18:44.160 I could make a similar argument in this vein, right? 01:18:44.400 --> 01:18:47.120 There are young men who say they have enmity with the church. 01:18:47.120 --> 01:18:51.200 Okay. I have been persecuted by the church. 01:18:51.200 --> 01:18:54.800 I have been ambushed by the church. 01:18:54.800 --> 01:18:57.920 Granted, they weren't very subtle, so I knew the ambush was coming, 01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:00.000 but I've been ambushed by the church. 01:19:00.000 --> 01:19:02.960 I have been excommunicated by the church, so-called. 01:19:03.280 --> 01:19:05.840 I have had police called on me by the Church. 01:19:05.840 --> 01:19:08.320 I have had police threatened to be called on me by more 01:19:08.320 --> 01:19:09.440 than one church. 01:19:09.440 --> 01:19:13.200 And yet I am not at enmity with the uppercase C Church. 01:19:13.200 --> 01:19:16.480 And the reason I am not is that I recognize that it 01:19:16.480 --> 01:19:21.840 is still the church of Christ, it is still God's representative on 01:19:21.840 --> 01:19:25.360 earth, and we are part of that because we are part of 01:19:25.360 --> 01:19:29.280 Christ. We are not part of the church because it's a corporate 01:19:29.280 --> 01:19:31.840 body, because it's headquartered whether it's in St. 01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:34.480 Louis or whether it's in Rome. 01:19:34.480 --> 01:19:36.320 We are not part of that church. 01:19:36.320 --> 01:19:39.120 We are part of the church universal. 01:19:39.120 --> 01:19:43.040 And I am at enmity with the leadership of these churches, and 01:19:43.040 --> 01:19:46.400 my enmity is very public, and I am very clear about it. 01:19:46.400 --> 01:19:49.200 And I have written letters to these men, so I have explained 01:19:49.200 --> 01:19:52.000 it to them in person as best I could as well. 01:19:52.000 --> 01:19:54.800 I have not hidden my enmity in any way, shape, or form, 01:19:54.800 --> 01:19:57.280 and I won't, because it is my duty as a Christian to 01:19:57.280 --> 01:19:59.440 be at enmity with these wicked men. 01:19:59.440 --> 01:20:05.200 But I am absolutely not at enmity with the church, because the 01:20:05.200 --> 01:20:08.400 church is Christ's body and I am part of Christ's body. 01:20:08.400 --> 01:20:12.000 I can't be at enmity with myself and my Lord. 01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:16.160 And so is it right that these men have enmity and that 01:20:16.160 --> 01:20:18.480 they harbor a hatred for these wicked men? 01:20:18.480 --> 01:20:21.520 Absolutely. You are supposed to hate wickedness. 01:20:21.520 --> 01:20:25.680 But do not let that transfer over into hating the body itself 01:20:25.760 --> 01:20:27.440 which is a different thing. 01:20:27.440 --> 01:20:32.000 Right? A corrupt shepherd does not mean you hate the sheep. 01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:35.040 And certainly does not mean that you hate the good shepherd. 01:20:35.040 --> 01:20:38.400 You hate that wicked under shepherd, and you seek to have him 01:20:38.400 --> 01:20:40.080 removed. That is your duty. 01:20:40.080 --> 01:20:43.920 So young men should absolutely have enmity with the current corporate bodies 01:20:43.920 --> 01:20:46.800 and their leadership, but not with the church itself and not with 01:20:47.360 --> 01:20:50.560 Christianity, because those are not the same thing. 01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:54.720 The corporation claiming to represent the church is not the church. 01:20:54.720 --> 01:20:58.640 The corporation can be wicked, the corporation can be fallen, the corporation 01:20:58.640 --> 01:21:02.240 in many cases and today certainly needs to be destroyed. 01:21:02.240 --> 01:21:05.200 But that does not mean that the church that is the body 01:21:05.200 --> 01:21:09.040 of all believers is itself wicked in any way, shape, or form, 01:21:09.040 --> 01:21:11.440 or has been destroyed or subverted. 01:21:11.440 --> 01:21:14.960 The church is always holy, the church is always true and right. 01:21:14.960 --> 01:21:19.200 And so be part of the true church and be at enmity 01:21:19.200 --> 01:21:22.640 with these wicked men, because that is your duty as a Christian. 01:21:45.360 --> 01:21:48.720 I tapped the wrong button, but the good news is I memorized 01:21:48.720 --> 01:21:50.080 the question before I did. 01:21:50.080 --> 01:21:54.000 Would it be this is question twenty-one, would it be appropriate for 01:21:54.000 --> 01:21:57.840 only government officials to be checked for white ancestry? 01:21:57.840 --> 01:22:01.120 And then the example given was that it is already sixty percent 01:22:01.120 --> 01:22:04.800 non-white. I do not know exactly what is being referenced by that, 01:22:04.800 --> 01:22:09.520 but sixty percent sounds probably about right for certain government agencies in 01:22:09.520 --> 01:22:10.000 the U.S. 01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:11.920 and probably other parts of the West as well. 01:22:11.920 --> 01:22:14.800 So I'll assume that that's what that is. 01:22:18.000 --> 01:22:21.120 And I believe that I remembered enough of that question to state 01:22:21.120 --> 01:22:21.760 it correctly. 01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:24.400 So obviously I did not remember it word for word because I 01:22:24.400 --> 01:22:27.600 barely saw it when I clicked the wrong button. 01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:29.680 So that being said. 01:22:31.600 --> 01:22:34.880 I think that it absolutely should be limited to members of the 01:22:34.880 --> 01:22:38.800 race with regard to positions of government power. 01:22:38.800 --> 01:22:43.360 Absolutely. But I don't think that's sufficient because you are going to 01:22:43.360 --> 01:22:50.560 have a dilution and a not necessarily corruption, but just 01:22:51.360 --> 01:22:55.040 it's going to change the way that members of the race interact 01:22:55.040 --> 01:22:58.240 with one another and live their lives to have foreigners among them. 01:22:58.240 --> 01:23:01.120 It is not good to live among foreigners or to have foreigners 01:23:01.120 --> 01:23:02.320 live among you. 01:23:02.320 --> 01:23:04.560 That is true for all peoples. 01:23:04.560 --> 01:23:05.200 Because 01:23:06.320 --> 01:23:08.880 you are going to behave differently among your own. 01:23:08.880 --> 01:23:10.720 This is very easy to see, right? 01:23:10.720 --> 01:23:14.800 Go find a bar or something that is all your own people 01:23:14.880 --> 01:23:19.840 and go there and get a general feel for the atmosphere, how 01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:20.880 people interact. 01:23:21.200 --> 01:23:25.280 Just the general feel of the environment, and then go somewhere that 01:23:25.280 --> 01:23:26.880 is a mixed multitude. 01:23:26.880 --> 01:23:28.240 It will be fundamentally different. 01:23:28.240 --> 01:23:29.280 Go to the DMV. 01:23:29.280 --> 01:23:32.480 It'll be a wildly different experience because 01:23:33.440 --> 01:23:36.640 you are going to behave among your own people in one way 01:23:36.800 --> 01:23:38.800 and among foreigners another. 01:23:38.800 --> 01:23:41.200 You should not have to do that in your home country. 01:23:41.200 --> 01:23:46.240 And so we need to change immigration so-called policies, and we need 01:23:46.240 --> 01:23:50.400 to not have this flow of people between and among the nations. 01:23:50.400 --> 01:23:53.920 People need to be sent home to where they belong. 01:23:53.920 --> 01:23:58.080 There are people who do not belong in America and simply should 01:23:58.080 --> 01:23:58.800 not be here. 01:23:58.800 --> 01:24:01.520 And it should not be limited just to government officials, it should 01:24:01.520 --> 01:24:03.920 not be limited just to officials in the church, which I also 01:24:03.920 --> 01:24:05.280 think that is permissible. 01:24:05.280 --> 01:24:09.200 It should be limited to being in the nation itself, in the 01:24:09.200 --> 01:24:11.680 land itself, in the country. 01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:13.600 Now, does that mean we can't have visitors? 01:24:13.840 --> 01:24:15.200 No, I've been very clear about that. 01:24:15.200 --> 01:24:17.840 We you can certainly have visitors, you can have sojourners for a 01:24:17.840 --> 01:24:18.560 period of time, right? 01:24:18.560 --> 01:24:21.120 I'm not going to say that and I'll use the obvious example. 01:24:21.120 --> 01:24:23.280 I'm not going to say the Japanese can't continue to visit the 01:24:23.280 --> 01:24:24.720 US to visit the national parks. 01:24:24.720 --> 01:24:26.000 They really like doing that. 01:24:26.080 --> 01:24:27.760 I'm not going to say we should stop them. 01:24:27.760 --> 01:24:28.320 That's fine. 01:24:28.320 --> 01:24:30.800 A certain number of them can come here every year and visit 01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:31.680 the national parks. 01:24:31.680 --> 01:24:33.760 They don't cause problems, they don't litter. 01:24:33.760 --> 01:24:37.200 Great. But it is up to the nation to determine which peoples 01:24:37.200 --> 01:24:39.200 can visit and which cannot. 01:24:39.200 --> 01:24:42.640 So No one else should be moving here and living here. 01:24:42.640 --> 01:24:44.640 That is a fundamentally different thing. 01:24:51.840 --> 01:24:52.880 Let's see. 01:24:56.240 --> 01:24:58.880 I now see that I am going to have to 01:25:00.080 --> 01:25:03.440 update this. 01:25:03.440 --> 01:25:04.160 There we go. 01:25:04.160 --> 01:25:06.560 Actually, I grabbed the text of the question and I pretty much 01:25:06.560 --> 01:25:09.120 remembered it exactly, so that was that's good. 01:25:09.120 --> 01:25:11.200 I see I'm going to have to update this because it did 01:25:11.200 --> 01:25:13.120 not show me certain things from the chat. 01:25:13.120 --> 01:25:16.000 Like I cannot see super chats on this. 01:25:16.000 --> 01:25:18.800 I do see them in in OBS though, which the chat is 01:25:18.800 --> 01:25:23.600 working in OBS for once, which is a delightful change. 01:25:23.600 --> 01:25:25.840 But question 22. 01:25:25.840 --> 01:25:29.840 Does the Christian Prince have a duty to actively protect his nation's 01:25:29.840 --> 01:25:33.280 traditional language even when it only has a tiny minority of speakers 01:25:33.360 --> 01:25:42.320 like Gaelic in Ireland. 01:25:42.320 --> 01:25:43.600 This one is 01:25:44.560 --> 01:25:47.520 on the one hand easy to answer, but on the other hand, 01:25:47.520 --> 01:25:50.320 somewhat difficult to answer. 01:25:50.320 --> 01:25:50.640 And 01:25:51.600 --> 01:25:55.280 the reason that it's difficult to answer is that 01:25:57.360 --> 01:26:03.520 Language can change over time, a people can sort of lose one 01:26:03.520 --> 01:26:05.840 language and adopt a new one, or the language can just change 01:26:05.840 --> 01:26:07.600 so much it becomes a new one, right? 01:26:07.600 --> 01:26:08.480 Think of English. 01:26:08.480 --> 01:26:11.440 English has gone through a number of iterations. 01:26:11.440 --> 01:26:15.440 But you do lose something fundamental about who and what you are 01:26:15.440 --> 01:26:17.920 when you stop speaking your native tongue. 01:26:17.920 --> 01:26:22.720 And that was part of what was done to Germans and Scandinavians 01:26:23.120 --> 01:26:28.960 in the United States during the interwar period, German in particular was 01:26:29.120 --> 01:26:30.880 persecuted and stamped out. 01:26:30.880 --> 01:26:35.440 In fact, the image for the Wikipedia article for Tarred and Feathered, 01:26:35.360 --> 01:26:38.720 used to be a German farmer who was tarred and feathered for 01:26:38.880 --> 01:26:43.680 being seen as not sufficiently pro-American for not buying enough war bonds. 01:26:43.680 --> 01:26:46.960 Really, it was because he was German and probably spoke German. 01:26:46.960 --> 01:26:51.360 And an example that I've given is the Lutheran church that I 01:26:51.360 --> 01:26:56.640 attended in California had a capstone on it that was in German. 01:26:56.640 --> 01:26:59.440 And it was in German because it's an old brick church built 01:26:59.440 --> 01:27:01.360 by Germans, German Lutherans. 01:27:01.360 --> 01:27:05.760 And it has stained glass windows from Germany, from a factory that 01:27:05.760 --> 01:27:08.640 was destroyed in World War II, unfortunately. 01:27:08.640 --> 01:27:11.360 Some of the last ones that made it out. 01:27:11.360 --> 01:27:15.360 And they had to cover that capstone during the interwar period and 01:27:15.360 --> 01:27:18.000 the World War II period, in order to not have people smash 01:27:18.000 --> 01:27:20.160 the stained glass windows into other things. 01:27:20.160 --> 01:27:23.200 Didn't stop the government from violating the Constitution as much as that 01:27:23.200 --> 01:27:27.840 matters, and billeting troops in the church, but and particularly in the 01:27:27.840 --> 01:27:30.320 social hall next to the church. 01:27:30.320 --> 01:27:34.480 But the German language was something that was fairly widely spoken in 01:27:34.480 --> 01:27:39.440 the US until relatively recently, and we certainly lost things when we 01:27:39.440 --> 01:27:41.840 lost that language. 01:27:41.920 --> 01:27:44.800 Now, in a country like the US, it is perhaps a little 01:27:44.800 --> 01:27:45.840 more complicated, right? 01:27:45.840 --> 01:27:50.080 Because if we were speaking our native tongues, we would have at 01:27:50.080 --> 01:27:56.720 least three of them, according to the traditional initial competition of the 01:27:56.720 --> 01:27:58.800 United States of America. 01:27:58.800 --> 01:28:01.680 Granted these days obviously we'd have a few others because we have 01:28:01.680 --> 01:28:05.360 a large Italian composition in certain cities and things like that, but 01:28:05.360 --> 01:28:11.680 it would by and large be English, German, and Gaelic, Scots, incidentally, 01:28:11.680 --> 01:28:14.640 specifically Scots-Gaelic. 01:28:14.640 --> 01:28:14.960 But 01:28:15.920 --> 01:28:18.880 I do believe that it is a good thing for a country 01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:21.840 to preserve its language, and I actually agree with the French and 01:28:21.840 --> 01:28:26.080 the German approach, which is to have a body that basically regulates 01:28:26.080 --> 01:28:29.040 the use of the language and says this is the standard, as 01:28:29.040 --> 01:28:32.320 opposed to the English approach, which is just sort of let things 01:28:32.320 --> 01:28:33.360 go and hope for the best. 01:28:33.360 --> 01:28:35.840 I don't think that always works out very well. 01:28:35.840 --> 01:28:36.160 So 01:28:37.680 --> 01:28:43.440 I do think that we should absolutely have a body that regulates 01:28:43.440 --> 01:28:47.760 our language and we should also seek to preserve our language Because 01:28:48.320 --> 01:28:51.680 your language is an enormous part of who and what you are. 01:28:51.680 --> 01:28:54.000 And psychology is also very clear on this. 01:28:54.000 --> 01:28:58.320 We have great studies showing that the language that is particularly your 01:28:58.320 --> 01:29:02.160 mother tongue, but any language in which you are fluent, does influence 01:29:02.160 --> 01:29:06.960 your thinking and actually to some degree dictates the things about which 01:29:06.960 --> 01:29:09.440 you can think and the depth to which you can think about 01:29:09.440 --> 01:29:13.280 them. There are languages that bound what you are able to do 01:29:13.280 --> 01:29:16.160 by nature of the structure of the language. 01:29:16.160 --> 01:29:20.560 Which is one of the reasons that Western Europeans have been capable 01:29:20.560 --> 01:29:22.240 of producing such great works. 01:29:22.240 --> 01:29:24.240 Now, of course, there's a feedback loop there, right? 01:29:24.240 --> 01:29:27.760 Because the language is a product of the mind, and then the 01:29:27.760 --> 01:29:31.520 language influences the mind in turn, so you have that cycle going 01:29:31.520 --> 01:29:34.800 there. But preserving a language is absolutely something that is a duty 01:29:34.800 --> 01:29:36.000 of a Christian prince. 01:29:36.000 --> 01:29:39.920 And I do think it would be good if the Irish and 01:29:39.920 --> 01:29:44.560 the Scots were more widespread in terms of their knowledge of their 01:29:44.560 --> 01:29:45.600 native tongue. 01:29:45.600 --> 01:29:47.520 I think that they should probably speak too. 01:29:47.520 --> 01:29:49.360 I think it's a good thing for them to speak English as 01:29:49.360 --> 01:29:52.720 well, because there's that sort of awkward relationship right in the United 01:29:52.720 --> 01:29:55.040 Kingdom. So I do think it would be good if they spoke 01:29:55.040 --> 01:29:56.880 Gaelic as well as English. 01:29:56.880 --> 01:29:58.960 Just like in the US context, I've been very clear. 01:29:58.960 --> 01:30:01.360 I think it would be good if we spoke English and German, 01:30:01.360 --> 01:30:02.160 because I think that 01:30:03.360 --> 01:30:06.960 we have a huge chunk of our history that is essentially closed 01:30:06.960 --> 01:30:11.040 off now, obviously with AI translations, not as much, but historically, we 01:30:11.040 --> 01:30:13.680 had a huge chunk of our history that was closed off to 01:30:13.680 --> 01:30:16.720 Americans because they couldn't read it. 01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:19.360 I think it's also part of the reason it was so easy 01:30:19.360 --> 01:30:22.640 to get Americans into World War II, and indeed World War I 01:30:22.800 --> 01:30:26.240 as well, with propaganda, because they couldn't read the German materials by 01:30:26.240 --> 01:30:27.280 and large. 01:30:27.280 --> 01:30:32.640 And translation was laborious and difficult, and so the German-speaking contingent in 01:30:32.640 --> 01:30:36.000 America could not produce the materials fast enough to get the rest 01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:39.520 of the population to understand what was actually going on across the 01:30:39.520 --> 01:30:44.960 Atlantic. And even And even with the advent of AI translations, obviously, 01:30:44.960 --> 01:30:47.600 there are things that just are not the same, unless you know 01:30:47.600 --> 01:30:48.560 the language, right? 01:30:48.560 --> 01:30:53.120 Poetry is not the same in translation, and that goes for theatre 01:30:53.120 --> 01:30:53.680 as well, right? 01:30:53.680 --> 01:30:55.120 Opera things like that. 01:30:55.120 --> 01:30:58.480 So yes, the short answer is preserving the language is absolutely a 01:30:58.480 --> 01:31:01.680 duty of the Christian prince because it is essential to the character 01:31:01.680 --> 01:31:04.560 of the nation itself, of the race itself. 01:31:08.880 --> 01:31:11.040 And I will say that I am glad I am not the 01:31:11.040 --> 01:31:13.440 one having to learn Gaelic because 01:31:14.960 --> 01:31:18.160 I do not like the way the letters are used. 01:31:18.160 --> 01:31:20.880 I it's kind of like with Greek I don't mind because Greek's 01:31:20.800 --> 01:31:24.720 a different alphabet and so I understand these are pronounced differently foreign 01:31:24.720 --> 01:31:27.520 language. The problem I've always had with Gaelic is that I am 01:31:27.520 --> 01:31:30.800 looking at letters I know and they do not make the sounds 01:31:30.800 --> 01:31:32.080 I want them to make. 01:31:32.080 --> 01:31:35.200 So it's a very different sort of mental state to try to 01:31:35.280 --> 01:31:37.520 learn a language like that. 01:31:37.520 --> 01:31:39.760 If they would just use a different alphabet, I would be very 01:31:39.760 --> 01:31:41.600 happy about it. 01:31:41.600 --> 01:31:45.760 I'm sure that they will take my critique under advisement. 01:31:45.760 --> 01:31:46.240 So So 01:31:59.040 --> 01:31:59.280 see 01:32:02.880 --> 01:32:03.840 Question 01:32:04.720 --> 01:32:07.440 I'm gonna have to change that. 01:32:07.440 --> 01:32:13.440 Question twenty-three Who from the non-Christian right do you respect the most? 01:32:16.240 --> 01:32:20.800 I don't know that I would necessarily assign the rank of someone 01:32:20.800 --> 01:32:24.320 I respect the most, but I can certainly 01:32:25.840 --> 01:32:31.280 give some examples of men who are doing good things on the 01:32:31.280 --> 01:32:35.920 right who are not necessarily Christian men, or at least not explicitly 01:32:35.920 --> 01:32:36.720 Christian men. 01:32:36.720 --> 01:32:39.600 I think the most obvious example, right, would be Rousseau, the leader 01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:40.640 of Patriot Front. 01:32:40.640 --> 01:32:42.240 He is doing great work. 01:32:42.240 --> 01:32:46.560 And he has not really said anything publicly about his religious beliefs, 01:32:46.560 --> 01:32:48.240 or at least he said very little publicly. 01:32:48.240 --> 01:32:50.800 I know he said a little bit, but he said relatively little 01:32:50.800 --> 01:32:51.280 about his public 01:32:52.240 --> 01:32:54.560 in public about his religious beliefs. 01:32:54.560 --> 01:32:56.240 But he is still doing good work. 01:32:56.240 --> 01:32:59.040 Like I've said before, he owes me a conversation about religion at 01:32:59.040 --> 01:33:02.160 some point, so hopefully that will be fruitful and I'm certain that 01:33:02.160 --> 01:33:03.360 it will be with God's blessing. 01:33:03.360 --> 01:33:06.800 He's a smart man, he understands the the reality of what we 01:33:06.800 --> 01:33:10.800 face and understands that it's not purely a physical conflict and I 01:33:10.800 --> 01:33:15.280 think the inevitable conclusion from that is that Christianity is right because 01:33:15.280 --> 01:33:17.440 the enemies we're fighting are 01:33:18.640 --> 01:33:24.400 The enemies of Christendom, ultimately, of Christianity. 01:33:24.400 --> 01:33:30.800 But insofar as other non-Christian men on the right, you have a 01:33:30.800 --> 01:33:35.600 handful of good leaders in other countries, Australia, Britain, Germany, who are 01:33:35.600 --> 01:33:38.720 not necessarily explicitly Christian in their beliefs, but they're still doing good 01:33:38.720 --> 01:33:39.840 work politically. 01:33:39.840 --> 01:33:43.200 I do hope that they will continue to do that. 01:33:57.840 --> 01:34:08.560 Let's see. 01:34:10.400 --> 01:34:12.800 There are a few questi there are a few questions here that 01:34:12.800 --> 01:34:14.800 I know I'm going to save for next time. 01:34:14.800 --> 01:34:16.960 I already know what it is I want to say on them, 01:34:16.960 --> 01:34:19.520 but there are a couple of quotes from the Church Fathers I 01:34:19.520 --> 01:34:21.200 want to pull up and read those and I don't want to 01:34:21.200 --> 01:34:23.920 spend the time looking through logos for them right now. 01:34:23.920 --> 01:34:30.160 So I will save those for next time. 01:34:30.480 --> 01:34:34.400 See we'll answer this one question. 01:34:34.400 --> 01:34:37.360 Question twenty-four. 01:34:37.360 --> 01:34:38.240 Then I have a 01:34:41.280 --> 01:34:44.720 On the topic of Patriot Front, what do you think of the 01:34:44.720 --> 01:34:47.680 National Socialist Movement in America? 01:34:51.440 --> 01:34:57.120 I think the issue with any sort of explicitly national socialist movement 01:34:57.120 --> 01:34:58.080 in America 01:34:59.440 --> 01:35:03.760 is that you are going to have immense hurdles to overcome. 01:35:03.760 --> 01:35:08.000 Now, I obviously don't shy away from those symbols and that symbolism. 01:35:08.000 --> 01:35:09.920 I don't think that they are wrong. 01:35:09.920 --> 01:35:13.040 I think that they I mean, aesthetically they're great symbols, and I 01:35:13.040 --> 01:35:16.960 think that we ultimately stand for the things for which they stood. 01:35:16.960 --> 01:35:21.280 And so I don't think it's wrong to employ those. 01:35:21.280 --> 01:35:23.600 I don't think that we should shy away from those. 01:35:23.600 --> 01:35:28.320 I don't think that's good strategy because that is seeding territory to 01:35:28.320 --> 01:35:30.720 the enemy, it's handing them a weapon and they are going to 01:35:30.720 --> 01:35:32.320 bludgeon you with it. 01:35:32.320 --> 01:35:36.400 So I think it's unwise to hand the enemy that. 01:35:36.400 --> 01:35:39.280 Because if you take that away from them, they have nothing left, 01:35:39.280 --> 01:35:45.200 right? Their ultimate weapons are the so-called Holocaust and Nazis bad. 01:35:45.200 --> 01:35:46.880 Those are their arguments, basically. 01:35:46.880 --> 01:35:50.080 And if you take those away from them, they can't do anything 01:35:50.080 --> 01:35:52.320 to you now because they've lost all their power. 01:35:52.320 --> 01:35:55.040 They have no rhetorical power left, they have nothing left in their 01:35:55.040 --> 01:35:57.120 bag. That's what they do. 01:35:57.120 --> 01:35:57.440 And 01:36:00.000 --> 01:36:04.080 that being said, I do think that you have to have a 01:36:04.080 --> 01:36:08.480 movement that is explicitly American that just doesn't shy away from that 01:36:08.480 --> 01:36:13.120 stuff as opposed to being explicitly national socialist and happens to be 01:36:13.120 --> 01:36:17.840 American. Because ultimately, right, we're not German national socialists. 01:36:17.840 --> 01:36:20.880 I mean, I'm German and I believe in nationalism and that kind 01:36:20.880 --> 01:36:24.800 of socialism, so okay, in my case, but I'm American. 01:36:24.800 --> 01:36:25.680 I'm an American. 01:36:25.680 --> 01:36:28.640 My family has been American for a very long time. 01:36:28.640 --> 01:36:31.040 I have family who've been buried out in the hills here 01:36:31.920 --> 01:36:34.800 since before this state existed, right? 01:36:34.800 --> 01:36:35.120 So 01:36:37.280 --> 01:36:41.040 we have to be American because we are American. 01:36:41.040 --> 01:36:44.720 Just like you couldn't have German National Socialism in England. 01:36:44.720 --> 01:36:45.520 It would have to be English 01:36:46.400 --> 01:36:48.880 nationalism. And you couldn't in Spain. 01:36:48.880 --> 01:36:50.320 You have Spanish nationalism. 01:36:50.320 --> 01:36:52.240 You need American nationalism. 01:36:52.240 --> 01:36:54.880 It is a distinct thing because we are distinct people. 01:36:54.880 --> 01:36:57.920 This sort of harkens back to the earlier question about right the 01:36:57.920 --> 01:37:00.480 national practice of the religion. 01:37:00.480 --> 01:37:01.760 That should be distinct. 01:37:01.760 --> 01:37:03.920 Politics is the same sort of thing. 01:37:03.920 --> 01:37:07.840 So you need to be an American movement that doesn't shy away 01:37:07.840 --> 01:37:11.920 from that history, that doesn't shy away from the truth, but without 01:37:11.920 --> 01:37:16.800 making that who you are essentially, because that's just shock and awe 01:37:16.880 --> 01:37:18.000 sort of politics, right? 01:37:18.000 --> 01:37:22.000 That's like the radio shock jock kind of thing, but in politics, 01:37:22.000 --> 01:37:24.320 it may get you a little bit of media coverage, but it 01:37:24.320 --> 01:37:27.760 is not ultimately something that is going to be successful. 01:37:27.760 --> 01:37:31.520 And politics is the art of the possible, to quote Bismarck, right? 01:37:31.760 --> 01:37:34.800 You have to make sure that what you are pursuing, that what 01:37:34.800 --> 01:37:38.480 you are doing, can yield the results you want to obtain. 01:37:38.480 --> 01:37:40.880 And so like I said, you can't shy away from it because 01:37:40.880 --> 01:37:44.160 it's handing the enemy a weapon they will use to beat you 01:37:44.160 --> 01:37:45.120 to death. 01:37:45.120 --> 01:37:46.800 So you can't do that. 01:37:46.800 --> 01:37:49.280 But you also can't make it the core of what you are, 01:37:49.200 --> 01:37:51.440 because the core of what we are is American. 01:37:51.440 --> 01:37:53.280 We are American nationalists. 01:37:53.280 --> 01:37:56.000 Or if you are something else, then you are some kind of 01:37:56.000 --> 01:38:01.600 other nationalist for your own country. 01:38:04.880 --> 01:38:06.640 Let's see. 01:38:06.640 --> 01:38:15.280 Question twenty five. 01:38:15.280 --> 01:38:20.240 Do you agree with Justin Martyr's view that the law of circumcision 01:38:20.240 --> 01:38:24.320 and Sabbath observance were a curse God put on the Hebrews in 01:38:24.320 --> 01:38:28.000 the Old Testament as punishment for their disobedience? 01:38:29.680 --> 01:38:30.320 I have not 01:38:31.520 --> 01:38:35.440 I don't think I've read that passage from Justin Martyr, and if 01:38:35.440 --> 01:38:37.120 I have, it's been a very long time. 01:38:37.120 --> 01:38:40.480 So I would have to look at the passage, but I can 01:38:40.480 --> 01:38:41.440 comment on 01:38:42.880 --> 01:38:47.520 the general conclusions instead of just the specifically the Justin Martyr treatment 01:38:47.520 --> 01:38:48.720 of it. 01:38:48.720 --> 01:38:52.400 I'll treat the easy case first, the Sabbath observance. 01:38:52.400 --> 01:38:53.680 No, that's not a curse. 01:38:53.680 --> 01:38:57.440 I think that Sabbath observance is very clearly something that God wants 01:38:57.440 --> 01:38:58.880 all men to do. 01:38:58.880 --> 01:39:01.920 And so yes, I do think that we should have businesses closed 01:39:01.920 --> 01:39:04.320 on Sundays, including restaurants and things like that. 01:39:04.320 --> 01:39:07.920 I think everything should be closed on Sundays except for necessary services, 01:39:07.920 --> 01:39:11.520 right? You can think of God saying that the priests profane the 01:39:11.520 --> 01:39:14.480 Sabbath and yet are guiltless, right? 01:39:14.720 --> 01:39:16.720 I think doctors can do that too, right? 01:39:16.720 --> 01:39:22.720 Emergency room doctors, surgeons, firefighters, police, people who have to be working 01:39:22.720 --> 01:39:27.120 on Sunday because certain things don't conveniently wait till Monday, right? 01:39:27.120 --> 01:39:30.240 Fires don't all wait till Monday to happen. 01:39:30.240 --> 01:39:33.760 And criminals don't wait until Monday to do their business. 01:39:33.760 --> 01:39:36.480 So There are things that you have to do. 01:39:36.480 --> 01:39:39.760 They can go to services on Saturday night instead. 01:39:39.760 --> 01:39:41.200 That's perfectly permissible. 01:39:41.200 --> 01:39:44.560 But I think as a society, as a civilization, we should go 01:39:44.560 --> 01:39:46.080 back to having Sunday laws. 01:39:46.080 --> 01:39:47.760 Everything should be closed on Sunday. 01:39:47.760 --> 01:39:50.240 You should exercise that as a day of rest. 01:39:50.240 --> 01:39:53.520 You go to church, and then you don't do manual labor on 01:39:53.520 --> 01:39:56.160 Sundays. I'm not saying you can't do any work, right? 01:39:56.160 --> 01:39:59.440 We're not going into legalism here, but I do think that it 01:39:59.440 --> 01:40:00.400 should be a day of rest. 01:40:00.640 --> 01:40:04.400 God is very clear about that, that He wants to have one 01:40:04.400 --> 01:40:06.240 day of the week be a day of rest. 01:40:06.240 --> 01:40:11.440 And it's not just with regard to the specific observance of the 01:40:11.440 --> 01:40:15.200 Old Testament and it's not ceremonial law. 01:40:15.200 --> 01:40:18.240 Some of the things related to it were ceremonial law, but the 01:40:18.240 --> 01:40:21.600 general rest on the Sabbath is something Christians should observe. 01:40:21.600 --> 01:40:23.760 And we should observe it at a society level. 01:40:23.760 --> 01:40:26.560 It should be It should be the law of our land. 01:40:26.560 --> 01:40:29.600 So I don't think that is a curse. 01:40:29.600 --> 01:40:32.960 But is circumcision a curse? 01:40:33.440 --> 01:40:36.560 I don't know that I would necessarily go so far as to 01:40:36.560 --> 01:40:38.880 call it a curse, and bear in mind this is This is 01:40:38.880 --> 01:40:41.920 worth mentioning here because it comes up all the time. 01:40:41.920 --> 01:40:47.120 Circumcision that was practiced in the ancient world, very different from today. 01:40:47.120 --> 01:40:51.200 It was either a cut in the foreskin or a small piece 01:40:51.200 --> 01:40:54.320 of the tip of the foreskin being removed, not the removal of 01:40:54.320 --> 01:40:57.840 the foreskin, and you can see this very clearly in the treatment 01:40:57.840 --> 01:41:01.200 of it in certain instances in the Old Testament, where men recovered 01:41:01.200 --> 01:41:03.440 from it quickly. 01:41:03.440 --> 01:41:07.120 You don't recover from circumcision quickly as an adult male if it 01:41:07.120 --> 01:41:09.040 is the full removal of the foreskin. 01:41:09.040 --> 01:41:11.920 And we know this because we have people dumb enough to go 01:41:11.920 --> 01:41:13.040 through that today. 01:41:13.040 --> 01:41:15.680 And so we know exactly how long it takes to recover. 01:41:15.680 --> 01:41:18.640 It takes longer than the cases in scripture. 01:41:18.640 --> 01:41:21.200 So not the same practice. 01:41:21.200 --> 01:41:23.760 It was meant to set them apart. 01:41:23.760 --> 01:41:25.440 It's typological. 01:41:25.440 --> 01:41:27.520 It has the shedding of blood. 01:41:27.520 --> 01:41:29.040 It is part of the covenant, right? 01:41:29.040 --> 01:41:33.280 There's a whole there's a whole universe of things there to draw 01:41:33.280 --> 01:41:36.640 out in terms of the relationship of the sign to the sign 01:41:36.880 --> 01:41:38.560 the things signified, right? 01:41:38.560 --> 01:41:41.600 It's it is typology, a large large part of it. 01:41:41.760 --> 01:41:44.000 But is it a curse from God? 01:41:44.000 --> 01:41:46.240 I don't think it's a curse from God. 01:41:46.240 --> 01:41:50.160 Now, are we cursed from God for letting Jews come in and 01:41:50.160 --> 01:41:51.840 say you should practice this modern form? 01:41:51.840 --> 01:41:54.400 Yes, I think our version of it is a curse. 01:41:54.400 --> 01:41:57.200 But that's because we have tolerated the wicked Jews. 01:41:57.200 --> 01:42:01.520 I don't think what God did to the Old Testament Hebrews was 01:42:01.520 --> 01:42:02.320 a curse. 01:42:02.320 --> 01:42:02.640 So 01:42:03.520 --> 01:42:06.640 some of the things that he made them do might have been 01:42:06.640 --> 01:42:07.520 a curse. 01:42:07.520 --> 01:42:10.000 I mean he said that they weren't allowed to eat bacon. 01:42:10.000 --> 01:42:12.080 That sounds like a curse to me, right? 01:42:12.080 --> 01:42:13.680 They couldn't eat seafood. 01:42:13.680 --> 01:42:15.520 That kind of sounds like a curse to me too. 01:42:15.520 --> 01:42:18.320 Like you you can't have bacon wrapped shrimp if you're an old 01:42:18.320 --> 01:42:19.520 testament Hebrew. 01:42:19.520 --> 01:42:23.120 So some of those things may have been had a curse element 01:42:23.120 --> 01:42:23.840 to them. 01:42:23.840 --> 01:42:28.240 They were by and large because God was setting them apart in 01:42:28.240 --> 01:42:32.720 their practices and testing them to see if they would obey him. 01:42:32.720 --> 01:42:34.400 He knew they wouldn't but he was testing them Testing them to 01:42:34.400 --> 01:42:35.680 see if they would obey him. 01:42:35.680 --> 01:42:37.600 And they didn't, of course. 01:42:37.600 --> 01:42:42.080 But circumcision and Sabbath observance, I don't think those are curses. 01:42:42.080 --> 01:42:44.560 But I would like to see the the treatment from Justin Martyr, 01:42:44.560 --> 01:42:48.320 so I will actually look that one up. 01:42:55.200 --> 01:42:57.600 I see an easy question for me in the chat, but it 01:42:57.600 --> 01:42:59.760 has not shown up in my pad yet, so I don't want 01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:02.800 to take it out of order because then the the numbering gets 01:43:03.200 --> 01:43:04.240 wonky. 01:43:16.800 --> 01:43:17.920 I'll answer this one. 01:43:17.920 --> 01:43:27.360 It's I've I've touched on this before, but I'll answer it. 01:43:27.360 --> 01:43:29.280 I think maybe a couple more questions here. 01:43:29.520 --> 01:43:30.240 I think we're 01:43:31.760 --> 01:43:34.000 what are we getting into here about an hour and a half? 01:43:34.000 --> 01:43:35.680 Give or take. 01:43:35.680 --> 01:43:37.600 Question twenty-six. 01:43:37.600 --> 01:43:40.400 Do you believe that in order for the US to move forward 01:43:40.480 --> 01:43:42.880 all the Protestant churches must become one? 01:43:42.880 --> 01:43:47.760 He says under Lutheranism in parentheses, because having four thousand plus denominations 01:43:47.760 --> 01:43:50.640 isn't doing white Christians favors. 01:43:50.640 --> 01:43:53.920 The four thousand number is typically somewhat overblown. 01:43:53.920 --> 01:43:55.520 I don't think that we are 01:43:56.480 --> 01:43:59.440 really at 4,000, right? 01:44:00.000 --> 01:44:01.920 But it depends how you number them, right? 01:44:01.920 --> 01:44:04.480 If you numbered according to the umbrella, which is to say the 01:44:04.480 --> 01:44:06.880 to say the large denominational groups. 01:44:06.880 --> 01:44:12.160 And it's really maybe like a dozen, maybe twenty, if you're being 01:44:12.160 --> 01:44:14.720 sort of not generous, because w what do you have, really? 01:44:14.720 --> 01:44:18.960 Lutheranism, Methodism, Anglicanism, Presbyterianism, Episcopalianism 01:44:20.480 --> 01:44:22.640 I'm not going to name them all because I can't remember them 01:44:22.640 --> 01:44:26.560 all, and there's honestly really only those is kind of the big 01:44:26.560 --> 01:44:29.920 ones. Obviously the Baptists, yes, I'm not forgetting the Baptists. 01:44:29.920 --> 01:44:33.280 But I don't think that we can really unify to answer the 01:44:33.280 --> 01:44:34.320 question itself. 01:44:34.320 --> 01:44:38.480 I don't think that we can really unify under one form of 01:44:38.480 --> 01:44:45.040 Protestantism because we have so many men who cling vehemently to to 01:44:45.360 --> 01:44:48.000 their team flag, their team color. 01:44:48.000 --> 01:44:50.160 And I think that's the right way to describe it because a 01:44:50.160 --> 01:44:52.400 lot of the men who do it in that way don't cling 01:44:52.400 --> 01:44:56.000 to it because they necessarily believe that it is inherently true or 01:44:56.000 --> 01:44:58.240 is the one true form of Christianity. 01:44:58.240 --> 01:45:01.280 It's just the team they have selected or the team into which 01:45:01.280 --> 01:45:04.400 they were born, and so they support it. 01:45:04.400 --> 01:45:06.240 That's not always wrong, right? 01:45:06.240 --> 01:45:10.800 My parents, if you're saying right, hypothetically, my parents have always been 01:45:10.800 --> 01:45:13.280 ex tradition, and so I am going to be that as well. 01:45:13.520 --> 01:45:14.480 That's not entirely wrong. 01:45:14.480 --> 01:45:16.880 That's a good thing, that's a good impulse. 01:45:16.880 --> 01:45:20.800 But you should also desire to be following the truth, the following 01:45:20.800 --> 01:45:23.920 the the truest statement of the religion. 01:45:23.920 --> 01:45:24.240 And 01:45:25.520 --> 01:45:28.480 I think that probably the way it's going to have to go 01:45:28.800 --> 01:45:34.080 is not Balkanization, but a sort of federalization in which we go 01:45:34.080 --> 01:45:37.360 back to the solution that we had For a little period of 01:45:37.360 --> 01:45:42.000 time that worked pretty well during the Reformation, where the ruler of 01:45:42.000 --> 01:45:44.720 a region chose the religion of his region. 01:45:44.720 --> 01:45:48.880 And so you'll have a territory that's Lutheran and a territory that's 01:45:48.880 --> 01:45:51.920 Presbyterian. I think that is one of the best ways we can 01:45:51.920 --> 01:45:55.200 do it because then we don't have the negative impact on our 01:45:55.200 --> 01:46:00.400 conscience of living under a king who we believe is following a 01:46:00.400 --> 01:46:04.000 false version of Christianity, or at least is doing things that are 01:46:04.000 --> 01:46:10.080 not 100% consonant with true practice of the faith, and yet not 01:46:10.240 --> 01:46:13.040 engaging in conflict with our brothers. 01:46:13.040 --> 01:46:17.680 And like I've said, if God wants to clearly demonstrate which one 01:46:17.680 --> 01:46:21.200 is correct, he can bless that group more than all the others. 01:46:21.200 --> 01:46:25.280 Right? It's not tempting God, it's just sort of presenting the opportunity 01:46:25.360 --> 01:46:25.920 as it were. 01:46:25.920 --> 01:46:28.640 Maybe he doesn't intervene, maybe he does. 01:46:28.640 --> 01:46:30.960 It will be very obvious in time. 01:46:30.960 --> 01:46:33.760 I think that's the best solution because then we don't have those 01:46:33.760 --> 01:46:35.200 sort of internecine conflicts. 01:46:35.200 --> 01:46:38.480 We should not be shedding our brothers' blood just because we don't 01:46:38.400 --> 01:46:40.240 agree with them on election. 01:46:40.240 --> 01:46:42.400 Right? I'm not going to say we have to kill all the 01:46:42.400 --> 01:46:44.720 Presbyterians because they're wrong on election. 01:46:44.720 --> 01:46:46.000 I don't believe we should do that. 01:46:46.000 --> 01:46:49.280 I think that would be a greater wickedness than letting them have 01:46:49.280 --> 01:46:49.920 that error. 01:46:49.920 --> 01:46:51.760 I view it as an error very clearly. 01:46:51.760 --> 01:46:53.840 I'm not going to sugarcoat that for them. 01:46:53.840 --> 01:46:57.040 But I don't think that we persecute them for that. 01:46:57.040 --> 01:47:00.400 I think that having that little bit of separation is the better 01:47:00.400 --> 01:47:01.120 way to do it. 01:47:01.120 --> 01:47:04.640 And in the US we can sort of fracture along natural lines. 01:47:04.640 --> 01:47:09.840 Then you have the regions that do that, and then the overarching 01:47:09.840 --> 01:47:12.400 government, the it would be an empire at that point. 01:47:12.400 --> 01:47:18.000 The imperial government would be sort of Protestant but tolerant of other 01:47:18.000 --> 01:47:22.400 things, or it could even be specifically one denomination, say the ruler 01:47:22.400 --> 01:47:23.920 winds up being Lutheran, right? 01:47:24.160 --> 01:47:28.560 He can be Lutheran, but part of the understanding is that he 01:47:28.560 --> 01:47:32.480 is Lutheran but will not enforce that on the territories that are 01:47:32.480 --> 01:47:35.360 not. I think that is the best way forward just because of 01:47:35.360 --> 01:47:39.840 the reality of how things have developed over time. 01:47:39.840 --> 01:47:42.960 We're not going to get men to all agree, right? 01:47:43.200 --> 01:47:48.000 I do think that whatever winds up being the tradition of the 01:47:48.000 --> 01:47:52.080 man who is the leader will see a huge influx of men 01:47:52.080 --> 01:47:55.520 into those churches, and I think that will be a good thing, 01:47:55.520 --> 01:47:59.200 but it will not be 100%. 01:47:59.200 --> 01:48:02.880 So avoiding conflict is sort of the the major goal though there 01:48:02.960 --> 01:48:10.960 while remaining as faithful to God as we possibly can. 01:48:14.080 --> 01:48:14.880 There we go. 01:48:15.120 --> 01:48:20.880 the easy question popped up, so I'll go ahead and answer that. 01:48:21.200 --> 01:48:22.640 Do you like Gaeta? 01:48:22.640 --> 01:48:24.080 The answer is yes. 01:48:24.480 --> 01:48:26.720 he is an excellent writer, very worth reading. 01:48:26.720 --> 01:48:31.200 This very much ties into the earlier answer about language, right? 01:48:31.200 --> 01:48:33.760 If you know German, you are going to get a much better 01:48:33.760 --> 01:48:38.000 experience reading Goethe or, you know, Schiller or someone than you are 01:48:38.000 --> 01:48:41.760 going to get reading it in translation. 01:48:41.760 --> 01:48:45.440 Different between prose and poetry, obviously. 01:48:45.440 --> 01:48:50.160 You can carry over most of prose, although sometimes you have to 01:48:50.160 --> 01:48:54.000 your use circumlocution that gets a little wonky, but you can bring 01:48:54.000 --> 01:48:57.200 over basically everything in prose from one language to another, as long 01:48:57.520 --> 01:49:00.400 particularly when they're closely related, like English and German. 01:49:00.400 --> 01:49:05.440 But it is incredibly difficult to translate poetry without losing something. 01:49:21.200 --> 01:49:24.240 I'll answer this one too because this one's also easy. 01:49:24.240 --> 01:49:25.680 Question twenty-eight. 01:49:25.680 --> 01:49:28.640 What do you think is a bigger problem, feminism or Jewish power 01:49:28.640 --> 01:49:29.360 in our countries? 01:49:29.360 --> 01:49:32.880 Well, I think that feminism is a direct consequence of Jewish power, 01:49:32.880 --> 01:49:36.400 and so I would always say you should treat the disease, not 01:49:36.400 --> 01:49:38.080 just the symptoms. 01:49:38.080 --> 01:49:41.120 You don't go for just for palliative care, right? 01:49:41.120 --> 01:49:44.800 And so the the biggest problem we have is in fact Jewish 01:49:44.800 --> 01:49:48.880 power because the Jewish influence is what has led to all of 01:49:48.880 --> 01:49:51.120 these downstream negative consequences. 01:49:51.120 --> 01:49:55.680 And the episode that we did on feminism, on women, feminism for 01:49:55.920 --> 01:49:59.520 Stone Choir goes into the fact that it is very much a 01:49:59.520 --> 01:50:04.400 Jewish psyop top to bottom, made designed from the deepest pits of 01:50:04.400 --> 01:50:07.600 hell, to make women hate men and in turn to make men 01:50:07.600 --> 01:50:08.800 hate women. 01:50:08.800 --> 01:50:20.160 So So, yes, obviously the disease is worse than the symptoms. 01:50:20.160 --> 01:50:23.600 I am going to save this reading recommendation on philosophy for next 01:50:23.600 --> 01:50:26.560 time because that is quite the question to ask. 01:50:26.560 --> 01:50:28.960 Where do you start in philosophy? 01:50:28.960 --> 01:50:32.320 And it will make people angry at me regardless of what I 01:50:32.320 --> 01:50:35.440 say. Because you know, if I say start with the Greeks, it'll 01:50:35.440 --> 01:50:37.840 make the people who love the German writers say that no, you 01:50:37.840 --> 01:50:38.640 should start with the Germans. 01:50:38.640 --> 01:50:41.200 And if I say the Germans, it'll make people who prefer the 01:50:41.200 --> 01:50:44.320 English or the analytic versus the continental, right? 01:50:44.560 --> 01:50:46.400 So on and so forth. 01:50:57.520 --> 01:51:02.320 Someone asked me about Judith Cohen and I honestly do not remember 01:51:02.320 --> 01:51:03.600 who that is. 01:51:07.680 --> 01:51:09.360 Or are we talking about the engineer? 01:51:19.600 --> 01:51:22.160 I'm just going to assume that this question is about the engineer, 01:51:22.160 --> 01:51:24.400 and I'll just answer the question generally. 01:51:24.640 --> 01:51:27.760 Uh assume I'm right about the woman. 01:51:27.760 --> 01:51:28.800 Question twenty-nine. 01:51:28.800 --> 01:51:31.600 What would you say to those who say there have been a 01:51:31.600 --> 01:51:34.160 lot of good Jews like Judith Cohen? 01:51:34.160 --> 01:51:36.720 And again, I assume that is the woman who was an engineer 01:51:36.720 --> 01:51:40.560 who worked on the Minuteman missile and is the mother of a, 01:51:40.560 --> 01:51:45.200 I think, a couple of Hollywood actors or something. 01:51:45.200 --> 01:51:49.040 The issue with regard to the Jews 01:51:50.480 --> 01:51:54.000 is not that the Jews never produce anything good. 01:51:54.000 --> 01:51:56.400 That's a ridiculous argument, right? 01:51:56.400 --> 01:51:59.120 And I don't think anyone really advances that seriously. 01:51:59.120 --> 01:52:02.240 The issue with the Jews is that the Jews as a group, 01:52:02.240 --> 01:52:06.720 and also by a large part, and obviously to varying degrees, as 01:52:06.720 --> 01:52:08.480 individuals, are evil. 01:52:08.480 --> 01:52:09.840 They are wicked. 01:52:09.840 --> 01:52:13.360 Because they have worshipped demons for a very long time, in a 01:52:13.360 --> 01:52:18.320 very active way, like they were involved in human sacrifice for centuries, 01:52:18.320 --> 01:52:19.600 they're still involved in it. 01:52:19.600 --> 01:52:21.440 Now they just call it abortion. 01:52:21.440 --> 01:52:22.640 And birth control. 01:52:22.640 --> 01:52:24.000 And things like that. 01:52:24.000 --> 01:52:28.080 And it's worth mentioning again that hormonal birth control is an abortive 01:52:28.080 --> 01:52:30.240 facient. So if you know a woman who is on it, you 01:52:30.240 --> 01:52:31.840 need to get her to stop. 01:52:31.920 --> 01:52:34.000 Because that is a grave sin. 01:52:34.000 --> 01:52:35.760 She needs to repent. 01:52:35.760 --> 01:52:36.080 But 01:52:36.960 --> 01:52:39.440 the issue with the Jews is that when you tolerate the Jews, 01:52:39.440 --> 01:52:42.720 you bring wickedness into your country because they will always engage in 01:52:42.720 --> 01:52:46.720 this wickedness, because it has become their essential character as a race, 01:52:46.720 --> 01:52:47.680 as a people. 01:52:47.680 --> 01:52:49.600 And that's why we have communism. 01:52:49.600 --> 01:52:51.040 That's why we have feminism. 01:52:51.040 --> 01:52:52.640 That's why we have the sexual revolution. 01:52:52.640 --> 01:52:54.560 That's why we had the civil rights movement. 01:52:54.560 --> 01:52:56.800 And I could keep listing things. 01:52:56.800 --> 01:52:59.600 All of these things were backed by the Jews. 01:52:59.600 --> 01:53:03.120 And they will continue to behave in that way because it is 01:53:03.120 --> 01:53:06.960 who and what they are essentially, and so they cannot be tolerated. 01:53:06.960 --> 01:53:11.680 So even if you have individuals, part of that group, who produce 01:53:11.840 --> 01:53:15.200 good things here and there, which does happen, you can't tolerate the 01:53:15.200 --> 01:53:18.400 group, and you can't tolerate any of them because they will continue 01:53:18.400 --> 01:53:21.120 to do those evil things and they will continue to be part 01:53:21.120 --> 01:53:24.000 of this foreign subversive element. 01:53:24.000 --> 01:53:27.200 And go and listen to the episodes that we did on that. 01:53:27.200 --> 01:53:29.280 They go into it in much greater depth. 01:53:29.280 --> 01:53:34.000 So the Stone Choir episodes on that, I will add those to 01:53:34.000 --> 01:53:35.200 the show notes. 01:53:35.200 --> 01:53:37.920 So go ahead and re-listen to those or listen to those for 01:53:37.920 --> 01:53:50.400 the first time if you did not. 01:54:14.400 --> 01:54:16.640 I have one more question that I think I will answer this 01:54:16.640 --> 01:54:19.440 week. I'm going to answer it in a general form because it 01:54:19.440 --> 01:54:21.440 showed up a few times in the chat, but I'll go ahead 01:54:21.440 --> 01:54:22.560 and answer that one. 01:54:22.560 --> 01:54:26.800 I think this will be the last question for this week since 01:54:26.800 --> 01:54:29.760 we've ran a little long, which was my intention anyway. 01:54:29.760 --> 01:54:34.160 And it is of course is a question on interracial marriage which 01:54:34.160 --> 01:54:36.800 comes up all the time. 01:54:36.800 --> 01:54:39.360 The question essentially is about what 01:54:40.240 --> 01:54:43.520 sort of percentages are we dealing with, right? 01:54:43.520 --> 01:54:45.200 And how should 01:54:46.080 --> 01:54:49.040 I just smell could smell the candle just went out, so just 01:54:49.040 --> 01:54:53.280 checking. But sort of what percentages are involved and what should be 01:54:53.280 --> 01:54:55.920 tolerated and what should not. 01:54:55.920 --> 01:55:00.240 Generally speaking, I haven't drawn up, you know, Nuremberg two point oh. 01:55:00.240 --> 01:55:02.160 No one I don't think anyone has done that yet. 01:55:02.160 --> 01:55:04.080 And I don't think that we're in a position where we should 01:55:04.080 --> 01:55:05.200 be doing that. 01:55:05.200 --> 01:55:09.280 But we can certainly lay out some general guidelines. 01:55:09.280 --> 01:55:13.920 And so I think that there is a fundamental difference, right, depending 01:55:13.920 --> 01:55:15.360 on the admixture. 01:55:15.360 --> 01:55:20.960 If you're talking about anyone who's European, we can pretty much just 01:55:20.960 --> 01:55:26.560 accept any European in the US at this time. 01:55:26.560 --> 01:55:30.400 And then going forward, we can set our immigration laws so that 01:55:30.400 --> 01:55:35.680 we don't have people who are not compatible with America racially nationally 01:55:36.000 --> 01:55:40.080 coming here, at least not in large numbers, right? 01:55:40.080 --> 01:55:43.600 And then we should set our laws such that no one is 01:55:43.600 --> 01:55:47.440 coming here from an incompatible or a truly foreign or alien group, 01:55:47.440 --> 01:55:53.600 which means everyone who is not European and specifically Western European, because 01:55:53.600 --> 01:55:55.760 America is a Western European nation. 01:55:55.760 --> 01:55:58.640 And so I just like I don't believe that Spain should be 01:55:58.640 --> 01:56:02.160 admitting Russians, and I don't think that Russia should be admitting Frenchmen, 01:56:02.160 --> 01:56:06.240 right? I think that it we should keep these nations distinct. 01:56:06.240 --> 01:56:09.600 And that includes America in its current state. 01:56:09.600 --> 01:56:13.520 You can say whatever you want about history and historical immigration policy, 01:56:13.520 --> 01:56:16.720 but those who are here of European descent, I think we should 01:56:16.720 --> 01:56:20.000 allow them to remain, unless they decide to be subversive, then they 01:56:20.000 --> 01:56:23.120 can be sent home to their f their actual countries of origin, 01:56:23.120 --> 01:56:26.320 right? Because subversives that's a different thing. 01:56:26.320 --> 01:56:30.240 But we should not be permitting anyone else from anywhere else into 01:56:30.240 --> 01:56:31.520 the country. 01:56:31.520 --> 01:56:34.400 The question really, though, is about what do we do with those 01:56:34.400 --> 01:56:38.960 who are mixed who are already here I think that if you're 01:56:38.960 --> 01:56:44.000 dealing with someone who is, say, fifty percent, some of those will 01:56:44.000 --> 01:56:46.960 have to be sent back to their countr their country of origin, 01:56:46.960 --> 01:56:49.360 their non-American portion. 01:56:49.360 --> 01:56:51.280 I think that is the case for all of those who are 01:56:51.680 --> 01:56:54.400 admixed with African blood. 01:56:54.400 --> 01:56:58.720 If we have some who are here who are, say, 50% Japanese, 01:56:58.720 --> 01:57:02.480 I think by and large, those individuals have to choose which one 01:57:02.480 --> 01:57:03.120 they are, right? 01:57:03.120 --> 01:57:04.160 Are you Japanese? 01:57:04.160 --> 01:57:05.440 Are you American? 01:57:05.440 --> 01:57:09.360 If they are married to an American and have American children, right, 01:57:09.360 --> 01:57:12.960 they're three quarters American, then I think that we should allow them 01:57:12.960 --> 01:57:13.920 to stay. 01:57:13.920 --> 01:57:17.280 I think that that is not going to influence us negatively as 01:57:17.280 --> 01:57:19.680 a nation, as a race, as a polity. 01:57:19.680 --> 01:57:21.200 I think that we can tolerate that. 01:57:21.200 --> 01:57:26.320 And I think that we're doing is recognizing that previous generations made 01:57:26.320 --> 01:57:29.200 a mess for us and we are cleaning it up as best 01:57:29.200 --> 01:57:35.360 we can without running afoul of God's laws without causing future harm 01:57:35.360 --> 01:57:37.440 to other individuals. 01:57:37.440 --> 01:57:39.760 We can tolerate some percentage of that. 01:57:39.760 --> 01:57:45.520 I think the percentage we can tolerate with regard to Hamidic mixture 01:57:45.680 --> 01:57:46.880 is much lower. 01:57:46.880 --> 01:57:50.160 I don't know exactly what that percentage is, but I can certainly 01:57:50.160 --> 01:57:52.720 say if I had a daughter, I would not let her marry 01:57:52.720 --> 01:57:55.920 a man who was a quarter African That would be too high 01:57:55.920 --> 01:57:56.800 in my book. 01:57:56.800 --> 01:57:57.920 One eighth. 01:57:57.920 --> 01:58:00.640 I think maybe that might be the point where you're starting to 01:58:00.640 --> 01:58:03.360 have some questions about which way you go or not, right? 01:58:03.680 --> 01:58:04.000 But 01:58:04.960 --> 01:58:09.600 as a nation, as a race, as a polity, we will have 01:58:09.600 --> 01:58:14.000 to set these rules in a way that is consonant with the 01:58:14.000 --> 01:58:19.920 preservation of our nation and without running afoul of God's law by 01:58:19.920 --> 01:58:24.240 mistreating others in a way that is not morally permissible. 01:58:24.240 --> 01:58:27.680 I think that by and large we can solve those issues with 01:58:27.680 --> 01:58:32.080 giving individuals who would be affected the option to self-deport. 01:58:32.080 --> 01:58:35.360 And if they take that option, then great, there's no problem. 01:58:35.360 --> 01:58:37.920 We depart ways as amicably as possible. 01:58:37.920 --> 01:58:41.200 If they don't take the option, then they have chosen to be 01:58:41.200 --> 01:58:44.880 in enmity with us, and that is a fundamentally different thing. 01:58:44.880 --> 01:58:48.160 But like I said, that is sort of just a general overview. 01:58:48.160 --> 01:58:49.120 I have not 01:58:50.080 --> 01:58:54.480 spent the time to draw specific numbers for this or to run 01:58:54.480 --> 01:58:57.920 all of the analysis because obviously, right, there's a difference whether it's 01:58:57.920 --> 01:59:02.000 your mother or your father, who is from the foreign group, because 01:59:02.000 --> 01:59:05.520 right, you inherit different things from your mother versus your father. 01:59:05.520 --> 01:59:09.360 And sometimes the mother matters more, sometimes the father matters more. 01:59:09.360 --> 01:59:12.000 And it matters if you are a leader or not a leader 01:59:12.080 --> 01:59:14.640 and leader and right this is not an easy question. 01:59:14.640 --> 01:59:15.760 It's complicated. 01:59:15.760 --> 01:59:18.480 I have not dedicated the time and the effort to drawing up 01:59:18.480 --> 01:59:19.600 specific rules. 01:59:19.600 --> 01:59:23.520 Maybe I will eventually, but you know we're not in that position 01:59:23.520 --> 01:59:24.000 right now. 01:59:24.000 --> 01:59:27.840 That's the sort of question when you have political power and you 01:59:27.840 --> 01:59:29.200 decide what you're going to do. 01:59:29.200 --> 01:59:31.680 I think it would be good to have general rules in place 01:59:31.680 --> 01:59:34.000 so that we can tell people this is what we want to 01:59:34.000 --> 01:59:34.960 do, right? 01:59:34.960 --> 01:59:38.720 This is our idea, how to make things better, how to improve 01:59:38.720 --> 01:59:42.000 the nation, how to preserve the nation that has been entrusted to 01:59:42.000 --> 01:59:42.720 us by God. 01:59:42.720 --> 01:59:45.360 He is the one who created it, and we should not destroy 01:59:45.360 --> 01:59:48.720 it or permit it to be destroyed. 01:59:48.720 --> 01:59:53.120 But we're not in the position to draw, you know, very specific 01:59:53.120 --> 01:59:55.200 laws and enact those right now. 01:59:55.200 --> 01:59:58.800 I think that gives a general overview and a good general sense 01:59:58.800 --> 02:00:03.920 of how things should be conducted, gives individuals guidelines in their life. 02:00:03.920 --> 02:00:06.560 But by and large, most of these issues 02:00:07.440 --> 02:00:09.120 hopefully can be 02:00:10.320 --> 02:00:13.600 you know, despite some of the questions about things I've said on 02:00:13.600 --> 02:00:14.160 X, right? 02:00:14.160 --> 02:00:15.840 People are always concerned about that, right? 02:00:15.840 --> 02:00:16.720 X is different. 02:00:16.720 --> 02:00:20.720 X is the political square, it's polemical, it's a different thing. 02:00:20.720 --> 02:00:27.840 In practice, would we prefer to have most problems resolved without resort 02:00:27.840 --> 02:00:29.680 to you know, violence? 02:00:29.680 --> 02:00:34.160 The answer is yes, because any time you can resolve a problem 02:00:34.160 --> 02:00:37.520 without resort to war, that is the better option. 02:00:37.520 --> 02:00:41.200 But you do that without taking war off the table, because sometimes 02:00:41.200 --> 02:00:43.120 war is morally required. 02:00:43.120 --> 02:00:46.880 But where it is not morally required, if you can avoid it, 02:00:46.880 --> 02:00:48.000 you should. 02:00:48.000 --> 02:00:50.720 War always costs more than you think it's going to cost. 02:00:50.720 --> 02:00:53.920 It always causes greater harm than you think it's going to cause, 02:00:53.920 --> 02:00:58.000 so don't pursue it except where it is morally required of you, 02:00:58.000 --> 02:01:00.560 in the defense of your people, in the defense of your God, 02:01:00.560 --> 02:01:02.320 whatever it happens to be. 02:01:02.320 --> 02:01:08.160 So that is the general outline of those rules, and I'm sure 02:01:08.160 --> 02:01:10.640 there'll be more questions about it in the future. 02:01:10.640 --> 02:01:13.680 Perhaps I will write something on it to sort of forestall those 02:01:13.680 --> 02:01:15.840 questions and answer them more completely. 02:01:23.520 --> 02:01:27.360 I think that is going to be it for 02:01:28.320 --> 02:01:34.960 tonight. Someone asked me about Rabbi Jeff on X. 02:01:34.960 --> 02:01:36.320 I have seen his account. 02:01:36.320 --> 02:01:39.200 I don't believe I'm following it, but I he seems like he 02:01:39.200 --> 02:01:40.880 has been putting out some useful content. 02:01:40.880 --> 02:01:45.440 Making some excuse me, making some good use of usage of AI 02:01:45.440 --> 02:01:46.720 and Grok, right? 02:01:46.720 --> 02:01:49.280 Always a good thing to do. 02:01:49.280 --> 02:01:51.360 And it's one of those cases, right? 02:01:51.360 --> 02:01:54.720 People will believe what the AI says and is that good or 02:01:54.720 --> 02:01:55.600 is that bad? 02:01:55.920 --> 02:01:57.440 You could debate it one way or the other. 02:01:57.440 --> 02:01:59.680 There are benefits and their detriments. 02:01:59.680 --> 02:02:03.280 But at the very least it is good rhetorically and it is 02:02:03.280 --> 02:02:07.680 effective, which is part of the measure of being good rhetorically. 02:02:07.680 --> 02:02:10.560 But that being said, I think that is it for tonight. 02:02:10.560 --> 02:02:12.960 I'm going to take a sip of my tea before I wrap 02:02:12.960 --> 02:02:14.400 up here. 02:02:16.800 --> 02:02:19.440 Since my candle burned out for some reason and that means my 02:02:19.440 --> 02:02:21.600 tea is going to get cold. 02:02:21.600 --> 02:02:25.520 Oh, I guess the candle actually burned all the way out. 02:02:25.520 --> 02:02:27.440 So it did its job. 02:02:28.400 --> 02:02:32.560 That being said, I try to do these QA's on Thursday or 02:02:32.560 --> 02:02:36.000 Friday. I'm going to just say or now because it winds up 02:02:36.000 --> 02:02:38.480 being however my week goes, and 02:02:39.760 --> 02:02:42.640 they tend to be a little later in the evening, but I 02:02:42.640 --> 02:02:45.040 tried to do it earlier this time because I have some things 02:02:45.040 --> 02:02:47.920 I need to get done later this evening and so I was 02:02:47.920 --> 02:02:50.960 trying to get the QA finished up. 02:02:50.960 --> 02:02:53.200 I try to do this every week, it winds up being every 02:02:53.200 --> 02:02:55.040 other week often. 02:02:55.040 --> 02:02:57.200 I guess my dogs are now barking at something. 02:02:57.200 --> 02:02:58.400 Good timing. 02:02:58.400 --> 02:03:01.440 That being said, thank you for those of you who contributed questions 02:03:01.680 --> 02:03:04.160 and thank you for participating in the chat. 02:03:04.160 --> 02:03:06.240 I will try to get to the other questions. 02:03:06.240 --> 02:03:10.640 I do have them in my intake system here, so hopefully I 02:03:10.640 --> 02:03:13.280 did not miss anything and hopefully I won't miss anything. 02:03:13.280 --> 02:03:15.200 Like I said, on 02:03:16.160 --> 02:03:20.800 my telegram channel and the beginning I did a large cleanup of 02:03:20.800 --> 02:03:25.840 the backlog of questions and episodes and so the transcripts, the questions, 02:03:25.840 --> 02:03:31.040 the wikis, all of that information should now be up to date. 02:03:31.040 --> 02:03:35.280 And so you should be able to look at that information. 02:03:35.280 --> 02:03:38.800 If your question got incorrectly flagged, please go ahead and ask it 02:03:38.800 --> 02:03:40.480 again. There's nothing wrong with that. 02:03:40.480 --> 02:03:42.400 Questions can be submitted on the forum. 02:03:42.400 --> 02:03:45.520 That is preferable, but you can also submit them on X via 02:03:45.520 --> 02:03:47.440 Telegram or in the chat. 02:03:47.440 --> 02:03:49.520 Whatever way you can get them to me is fine. 02:03:49.520 --> 02:03:52.400 If you are so inclined, you may even write them and send 02:03:52.400 --> 02:03:53.200 them to my P.O. 02:03:53.280 --> 02:03:54.560 box, which is public. 02:03:54.560 --> 02:03:57.520 That will probably take longer for me to notice. 02:03:57.520 --> 02:03:59.440 But that being said, it is Friday evening. 02:03:59.440 --> 02:04:01.760 I hope you all have a good weekend. 02:04:01.760 --> 02:04:04.240 Go out and enjoy God's beautiful creation. 02:04:04.240 --> 02:04:06.400 It's finally nice and cool, so you can go on a nice 02:04:06.400 --> 02:04:07.680 long hike or something. 02:04:07.680 --> 02:04:09.120 Always good to enjoy that. 02:04:09.120 --> 02:04:10.960 Take your dog with you. 02:04:10.960 --> 02:04:14.000 At any rate, go to church on Sunday, and I will see 02:04:14.000 --> 02:04:15.040 you all next week. 02:04:15.040 --> 02:04:17.760 Until then, God bless. 02:08:19.520 --> 02:08:19.920 yeah, yeah.