WEBVTT 00:01:57.280 --> 00:01:58.000 And uh 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:10.080 letters. 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:13.280 It is the 8th of October 2026. 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:14.480 I am Cory J. 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:17.120 Mahler and this is at any cost. 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:19.360 This is episode 43. 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:21.840 This is a QA episode. 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.400 And I don't really have any housekeeping. 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.360 There are a couple things that I am working on in the 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:30.480 background that I'll be announcing in the coming week or two. 00:02:30.480 --> 00:02:33.360 There's the app that I'm currently beta testing. 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:36.560 If you're subscribed to my telegram channel, you have seen that. 00:02:36.720 --> 00:02:39.440 There's an open beta for that. 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:42.400 Other than that, I really only have about an hour tonight, so 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:44.400 I'll probably get right into the questions. 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:49.280 And also OBS has decided to give me a a sort of 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.960 deadline we'll call it, because it has a memory leak and I 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:56.960 have only so much free RAM before it probably crashes itself. 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:59.840 So that being the case, we will just go ahead and get 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:04.560 right into the questions instead of trying to resume the stream. 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:06.640 Question one. 00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:10.080 You are obviously a very productive man while also making time for 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:12.080 recreation and I assume rest. 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:17.120 Do you have any methods you use to effectively manage your time? 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:20.960 So I guess this is actually somewhat related to some of the 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:25.280 things I've been working on today, and incidentally on a tangentially related 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:29.520 note. I guess we'll see how much Grokbot decides to charge me 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:33.680 for a QA stream because I hit my limit earlier and it's 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:37.120 managing some of the question stuff in the background for my board 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.440 that I have here in front of me. 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:44.080 But in so far as time management is concerned, first off, I 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:49.280 would say for rest, relaxation, things like that, you're supposed to be 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:51.440 taking Sunday off, right? 00:03:51.440 --> 00:03:54.480 We like to focus on the fact that Sunday you go to 00:03:54.480 --> 00:03:56.880 church, you hear the word of the Lord, things like that, and 00:03:56.880 --> 00:03:58.880 that's good, and that's part of what you're supposed to do as 00:03:58.880 --> 00:04:00.000 a Christian. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.520 But that's not the whole of it, because it's supposed to be 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:07.040 a Sabbath, it's also supposed to be a day of rest. 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:11.520 That is something that God does actually want for you and from 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:13.600 you. He expects that from you. 00:04:13.600 --> 00:04:16.880 So you should not be working on Sundays. 00:04:16.880 --> 00:04:19.600 Now the Now that doesn't mean that you can't do any labor, 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:21.680 right? We're not going overboard like the Jews. 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:24.160 I'm not going to tell you, oh, you you can't pick up 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:26.240 this book, it's too heavy, or anything like that. 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:31.600 No. You're not supposed to do your ordinary work, like laborious stuff 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:33.760 outside, things like that. 00:04:33.760 --> 00:04:36.320 Don't vacuum the house on Sunday. 00:04:36.320 --> 00:04:39.200 Keep that stuff for the other six days of the week. 00:04:39.200 --> 00:04:40.480 Relax on Sunday. 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:42.640 But insofar as 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:47.200 Just checking the chat quickly to make sure that none of the 00:04:47.200 --> 00:04:50.560 issues OBS is having or carrying over, it seems like we're fine. 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:55.200 But insofar as time management goes, one of the best things you 00:04:55.200 --> 00:04:59.360 can do is simply be organized, which is something that most people 00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:00.960 very much are not. 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:03.120 And it is not something that's going to be easy. 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:05.680 It's going to be something on which you are going to have 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:08.960 to focus and you'll have to spend some time and some effort 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:11.840 to devise a system that will work for you. 00:05:11.840 --> 00:05:16.720 These days, there's an additional bit of nuance to something that I've 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:22.160 always recommended, and that is if you can reasonably delegate a task 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:27.520 so if it belongs properly to someone else not to you. 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:32.080 This is perhaps more the case in the business sphere, but it's 00:05:32.080 --> 00:05:33.360 also the case in the home, right? 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:35.040 Because you have to have a division of labor in the home 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:36.400 as well. 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:40.320 But if something should be delegated to someone else, don't do it 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:46.160 yourself. If you have to review someone else's work, figure out a 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.880 way that you can do that that's more efficient than just redoing 00:05:48.880 --> 00:05:50.240 it yourself, right? 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:54.800 Sometimes there's this temptation, I certainly have it, to simply do everything 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:58.800 yourself because you are concerned about perhaps the quality of the work 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:02.880 product someone else will produce or having to deal with supervision, whatever 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:04.560 it happens to be. 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:06.640 Delegation is a part of life. 00:06:06.640 --> 00:06:09.200 And particularly for the men in the audience, right? 00:06:09.200 --> 00:06:11.360 You're always going to have delegation. 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:14.080 If you're not the bottom rung at work, you're going to have 00:06:14.080 --> 00:06:15.200 some delegation. 00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:17.920 At home, you're going to have a delegation of tasks, right? 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:19.520 Because you have a wife and children. 00:06:19.520 --> 00:06:21.040 You're going to delegate things to them. 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:23.120 So delegation is part of it. 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:27.680 But the not really a wrinkle, but the additional aspect of this 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.880 that is relevant these days would be automation. 00:06:30.880 --> 00:06:35.040 Now of course you could do automation historically, we've had automation for 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:38.240 thousands of years in some minor sense, right? 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.120 But there's a different kind of automation that you can do today, 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:43.040 certainly with AI. 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.160 And I'm not going to tell you don't use AI. 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:49.440 I'm going to say that using AI for certain tasks makes a 00:06:49.440 --> 00:06:50.240 lot of sense. 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:54.640 There are things that you can automate out of your day and 00:06:54.640 --> 00:06:58.320 get back hours for yourself where you can do other things that, 00:06:58.320 --> 00:07:02.720 you know, either the AI can't do or shouldn't be doing, right? 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:05.280 There are things you can't automate and there are things you can 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:07.120 automate. So 00:07:08.320 --> 00:07:11.360 when it comes to the stuff you can automate, go ahead and 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:12.800 do that in a reasonable fashion. 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.640 I'm not saying invest $10,000 in AI right away, unless you happen 00:07:16.640 --> 00:07:20.080 to have that much you know, capital lying around. 00:07:20.080 --> 00:07:20.240 But 00:07:21.760 --> 00:07:25.440 you can use these little bots and agents and things to automate 00:07:25.440 --> 00:07:28.960 away some of these tasks and get yourself time that you would 00:07:28.960 --> 00:07:32.320 not have had otherwise because that time would have been spent doing 00:07:32.320 --> 00:07:33.040 those tasks, right? 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:34.960 Like right now. 00:07:34.960 --> 00:07:40.000 I have a bot in the background that is ingesting through Restream 00:07:40.080 --> 00:07:43.680 the chat stream so that it can pop up questions on my 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:45.200 iPad here in front of me. 00:07:45.280 --> 00:07:49.120 That way I don't have to read the entire chat trying to 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:51.760 find those questions and make sure that I don't miss them. 00:07:51.760 --> 00:07:54.400 That saves me time and effort and makes it so that I 00:07:54.400 --> 00:07:57.200 can focus more on answering the questions, which is the point of 00:07:57.200 --> 00:07:59.760 the stream. 00:07:59.760 --> 00:08:00.080 But 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:05.440 generally speaking, those would be my major recommendations. 00:08:05.440 --> 00:08:08.400 In addition to that, and sort of on top of it, get 00:08:08.400 --> 00:08:12.000 yourself a very good application application or system, there are some people 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.760 that prefer pen and paper, pencil and paper, whatever it happens to 00:08:15.760 --> 00:08:20.000 be. For tracking tasks that you need to do and then tracking 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:21.120 that you have done them. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:22.640 And you want to have that log. 00:08:22.640 --> 00:08:24.240 It's important to have that as well. 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:28.400 So So some people really like the bullet journal system, things like 00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:32.320 that. I mostly use the application is just called Things. 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:36.960 It has been on basically the entire Apple ecosystem for a very 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:37.760 long time. 00:08:37.760 --> 00:08:38.640 It works really well. 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:39.920 I like it. 00:08:39.920 --> 00:08:43.440 It's not necessarily cheap for an app, but it is a one-time 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.080 purchase and I've used it for many years. 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:49.120 That's a good option if you are over on the Apple side 00:08:49.520 --> 00:08:49.920 of things. 00:08:49.920 --> 00:08:52.800 Otherwise, there are plenty of to-do apps you can find. 00:08:52.800 --> 00:08:56.960 And then I would recommend keeping a diary or a journal just 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:57.600 for yourself. 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:00.720 It helps to get some of those things out of your head 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:02.320 and onto the paper, right? 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:05.680 That's a very helpful thing to do psychologically. 00:09:05.680 --> 00:09:08.720 It can also help you work through things that maybe you missed 00:09:08.800 --> 00:09:12.240 or you need to review, something like that. 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:15.680 That's the basic contours of the system, and then you adapt it 00:09:15.680 --> 00:09:19.040 to yourself so that you have a system that truly works for 00:09:19.040 --> 00:09:19.680 you, right? 00:09:19.680 --> 00:09:20.800 Because that's what you need. 00:09:20.800 --> 00:09:23.680 You need a system that works the way you need it to 00:09:23.680 --> 00:09:25.440 work, not necessarily some 00:09:26.880 --> 00:09:29.200 just objective out there general system. 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:30.960 It has to adapt to what you're doing. 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:34.880 You have different demands on your time, you have different work from 00:09:34.880 --> 00:09:36.640 what, say, I'm doing. 00:09:36.640 --> 00:09:38.720 You need to have a system that works for you. 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:42.320 But that's the basic contours of it, so Take that and adapt 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:46.800 it to what you're doing. 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:47.760 Question 00:09:48.640 --> 00:09:56.320 two. I am writing in direct response to your recent post concerning 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:00.000 the duty to love our women, even when they have become enforcers 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.440 of the present system. 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:04.800 I find myself wrestling with how to apply this principle to a 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:06.240 particular reality. 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:09.360 We frequently see a type of woman today often cloaked in the 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:14.080 performative lukewarm Christianity of the modern evangelical milieu, who acts as a 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:16.560 militant agent of the feminist religion. 00:10:16.560 --> 00:10:19.920 These women are not merely passive victims of a failing system, they 00:10:19.920 --> 00:10:24.160 actively weaponized state and State and legal institutions to dismantle their own 00:10:24.160 --> 00:10:29.040 households through fabricated abuse claims, parental alienation, and the kidnapping of their 00:10:29.040 --> 00:10:33.440 own children, all while maintaining a facade of piety. 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.120 When a woman has consciously abandoned her head in the domestic order 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.200 to serve this other religion and continues to actively persecute the father 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:44.480 of her children through the state, how do we reconcile the duty 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:47.120 to will her good with the reality of her role as an 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.120 active adversary. 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.480 At what point does she move from being a fallen woman deserving 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:55.280 of our pity to being a willful enemy of the household in 00:10:55.280 --> 00:10:56.080 the faith? 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.880 I would appreciate your thoughts on where the boundary lies between a 00:10:58.880 --> 00:11:02.080 woman in need of restoration And a woman who has chosen the 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:05.440 path of the destroyer. 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:09.520 So to some degree, you already laid out kind of the two 00:11:09.520 --> 00:11:11.040 options here, right? 00:11:11.280 --> 00:11:17.280 There is the woman who has been misled, propagandized, deceived, and isn't 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:21.120 really acting with anything that we would really call intent. 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:25.600 She is more or less reacting to the system and going along 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:28.560 with it because that is in large part in her nature as 00:11:28.560 --> 00:11:30.960 a woman. 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.440 And then there's the other kind of woman, right? 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.440 The one who is acting with malice, who is doing things that 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:41.040 are evil, who's doing things that are sinful, things that should be 00:11:41.040 --> 00:11:46.080 punished. And in a proper society, that would essentially be the line, 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:49.440 right? It would be you have the evil woman who is punished 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:53.040 by the godly prince, and she's no longer a problem because the 00:11:53.040 --> 00:11:56.320 punishment for adultery, which is always going to be in view here, 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:57.360 is death. 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:01.600 And so she's not going to be a problem going forward if 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:07.600 we had actual Christian rulers enforcing the laws they should. 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:11.280 We of course don't have that, but the other kind of woman 00:12:11.280 --> 00:12:15.120 be the one who can be disciplined, brought back to her household, 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:15.440 and 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:18.880 made to do the thing she's supposed to be doing instead of 00:12:18.880 --> 00:12:22.080 the evil things that she had been doing. 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:26.720 So the question really is: how do we discern one from the 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:29.520 other? And then there's also a sort of subtext here: what do 00:12:29.520 --> 00:12:32.560 we do when we discover that she is the other one, right? 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:36.000 It's one of those times where yes, I'm going to say it 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:37.600 again, it is a wisdom call. 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.480 This is not something where I can simply give you a mathematical 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.040 formula and then you plug it in and you get a value 00:12:43.280 --> 00:12:46.080 and the value gives you an answer based on a table, right? 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:47.600 That's not how this works. 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:51.760 Because we're dealing with human beings, we're dealing with psychology, we're dealing 00:12:51.760 --> 00:12:56.480 with society, the legal system, a dozen other things, all of which 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:59.120 are more complicated than math. 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:04.000 And they require assessment according to the abilities that God has given 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:04.720 you, right? 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:06.960 You can seek counsel, of course, and you should do that if 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:09.840 you happen to have good, faithful, capable men in your life who 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.040 can give you counsel, it's always good to seek that, right? 00:13:13.040 --> 00:13:16.240 God is the one who gave them those abilities to help others, 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:18.800 and they happen to be in your life, you should use that 00:13:18.800 --> 00:13:25.840 resource. So a woman who is undertaking these 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.240 actions with malice. 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:31.280 And you can always kind of tell when there's malice involved. 00:13:31.280 --> 00:13:34.320 But a woman who is doing it with malice is one who 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:36.320 has definitely crossed that line. 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:39.760 And so she is still a fallen woman. 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:43.120 It is still a pitiable state, right? 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:46.960 And to some degree, yes, she's still a victim of the system 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.160 that turned her into that thing. 00:13:50.160 --> 00:13:53.680 But just because someone is in some ways a victim of a 00:13:53.680 --> 00:13:57.920 system, and even if it's our evil society today, that does not 00:13:57.920 --> 00:14:00.880 necessarily mean the person should not be punished, right? 00:14:00.880 --> 00:14:07.040 This is akin to that difference between Christian forgiveness and the duty 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:09.440 to seek and enforce justice, right? 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:13.920 You are to forgive those who transgress against you. 00:14:13.920 --> 00:14:18.080 That does not mean that the law should not still punish them, 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:18.400 because 00:14:19.280 --> 00:14:24.480 their transgression against you is minor compared to your transgression against God, 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:28.800 right? That's the whole point of of the wicked servant who's forgiven 00:14:28.800 --> 00:14:31.440 the great sum and then refuses to forgive his fellow servant the 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:32.800 small sum, right? 00:14:32.800 --> 00:14:37.600 You are the one forgiven the great sum with regard to God. 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:42.400 Any transgression against you is minor in comparison to the transgression that 00:14:42.400 --> 00:14:43.680 is sin. 00:14:43.680 --> 00:14:47.600 But that doesn't mean that we don't still have justice, right? 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:49.760 God's moral law is still enforceable. 00:14:49.760 --> 00:14:53.040 You still have to punish the murderer, even if he repents and 00:14:53.040 --> 00:14:56.160 you forgive him, he still has to be put to death because 00:14:56.160 --> 00:14:58.400 that is a requirement of God's moral law. 00:14:58.400 --> 00:14:59.760 That does not change. 00:14:59.760 --> 00:15:04.400 And so some of these women, the ones acting in malice, have 00:15:04.400 --> 00:15:05.520 to be punished. 00:15:05.520 --> 00:15:06.320 They have to be 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:11.600 punished by hopefully God will actually give us, you know, a Christian 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:15.200 state that will actually do what it is supposed to do, but 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:17.840 they still have to be punished. 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:21.120 Just because you are forgiving them for the things they have done 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:24.720 does not mean that the temporal consequences go away. 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:27.200 Now there's also the case where some of these women will not 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:28.560 repent, right? 00:15:28.560 --> 00:15:31.040 Not everyone repents and is then punished. 00:15:31.040 --> 00:15:34.480 Some people refuse to repent, and so in fact, one of the 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:38.000 most loving things you can do in that situation is punish them 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:42.000 swiftly so they do not continue to acquire and accumulate sins and 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.160 make their eternity worse. 00:15:44.160 --> 00:15:47.680 That is perhaps a hard truth for some people to accept, but 00:15:47.680 --> 00:15:49.200 that is the reality of it. 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:53.760 The longer a wicked person lives who will not repent, right? 00:15:53.760 --> 00:15:56.720 That's we don't know that, but that's a hard call. 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:58.400 Some people, it's kind of obvious, right? 00:15:58.400 --> 00:16:01.280 Some people have the hardened heart, the seared conscience, you can tell 00:16:01.280 --> 00:16:02.560 they will never repent. 00:16:02.560 --> 00:16:06.400 But the person who will never repent, this hypothetical person, it is 00:16:06.400 --> 00:16:10.240 worse for him to live longer because there are different levels as 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:11.120 it were in hell. 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.400 Not in the sense of, you know, Dante's Inferno, but in the 00:16:14.400 --> 00:16:17.440 sense of some parts of hell are worse than others. 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:21.280 Just like there are different rewards in Paradise, which I'll be getting 00:16:21.280 --> 00:16:23.200 into in a future question here pretty soon 00:16:24.800 --> 00:16:28.400 So the bottom line is that it is a wisdom call, and 00:16:28.400 --> 00:16:31.920 you have to determine if this is the woman who is acting 00:16:31.920 --> 00:16:36.880 with malice or if she is acting out because society has led 00:16:36.880 --> 00:16:40.640 her to believe that she should behave like that or it's acceptable, 00:16:40.640 --> 00:16:44.320 and none of the men in her life has ever told her 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:46.800 no. Because that's a big problem here. 00:16:46.800 --> 00:16:49.040 That's a big part of why we have the problems we have 00:16:49.040 --> 00:16:53.360 today Day because men don't tell women no. 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:54.560 They need to hear that. 00:16:54.560 --> 00:16:59.280 That's an important part of being a man is supervising, being the 00:16:59.280 --> 00:17:02.160 head of the women God has entrusted to your care. 00:17:02.160 --> 00:17:04.480 Typically that's going to be your wife, it's going to be your 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:08.800 daughters, but in some cases it's going to be other female relatives, 00:17:08.800 --> 00:17:13.200 say if your sister is a widow or something like that, right? 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:13.520 So 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:18.720 I'm not saying that men are exclusively responsible, certainly not those of 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:21.680 us who are I'm not going to say younger, you know, I'm 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:27.280 forty, but in the sense of in the younger in the sense 00:17:27.280 --> 00:17:31.440 of having grown up under a system that will severely punish you 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:34.480 if you try to enforce any sort of moral norms, right? 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:39.360 That makes it much more difficult to do these things just because 00:17:39.360 --> 00:17:42.480 of the system that we live under these days. 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:48.000 And yet within the home, within the church and organizations, circumstances like 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:51.120 that, men still have some authority and it needs to be exercised, 00:17:51.120 --> 00:17:54.320 right? Women need to be told no, you do not get to 00:17:54.320 --> 00:17:58.080 read the scripture in church, no, you do not get to speak 00:17:58.080 --> 00:18:02.400 in the sanctuary, no, you do not get to teach Bible classes, 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:05.760 and so on and so forth, because that is in a small 00:18:05.760 --> 00:18:10.400 way setting that precedent that there is an authority over her, and 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.560 she has to act pursuant to what that authority says. 00:18:14.560 --> 00:18:17.600 These are problems that are going to take time to address, and 00:18:17.600 --> 00:18:22.480 they are a civilizational scale problem problem, but every minor step in 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:25.600 the right direction makes things just a little bit better. 00:18:25.600 --> 00:18:29.120 So when the opportunity arises, make sure that you nudge in that 00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:32.320 direction. or if you're in the position of authority, make sure that 00:18:32.320 --> 00:18:34.240 you enforce things as you should. 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:36.960 Because God is going to judge you whether you do or not. 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:39.440 He will judge you for the things you do and the things 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:41.280 you fail to do. 00:18:41.280 --> 00:18:47.040 So, bottom line, wisdom call, is this woman acting with malice? 00:18:47.040 --> 00:18:49.840 I think is kind of the dividing line there. 00:18:49.840 --> 00:18:52.160 And I think a lot of times malice is more often than 00:18:52.560 --> 00:18:59.840 more obvious than people often want to admit. 00:19:01.600 --> 00:19:02.560 Question 00:19:03.520 --> 00:19:10.720 three. I have always struggled with flying in commercial 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:14.160 airplanes. I have the feeling it is inappropriate fear that stems from 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:17.440 me not being in control and the terror of falling? 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:20.240 Do you have any advice for what I should pray and perhaps 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:23.200 some things I can do practically to get over this? 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:26.720 Is this a normal phenomenon as a Christian, or should I be 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:29.760 concerned with having this fear? 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:31.760 Fear of flying is normal. 00:19:31.760 --> 00:19:35.360 I don't personally have it, but it's up there with the most 00:19:35.360 --> 00:19:36.560 common fears, right? 00:19:36.560 --> 00:19:39.360 If you had a list of the ten most common fears, what 00:19:39.360 --> 00:19:40.800 are you going to find on it? 00:19:40.800 --> 00:19:43.200 The number one is public speaking. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:45.040 Death is actually second. 00:19:45.040 --> 00:19:49.520 And then spiders, heights, flying, those are all going to be in 00:19:49.520 --> 00:19:50.480 the top ten. 00:19:50.800 --> 00:19:54.480 So So that's a perfectly normal fear to have. 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:58.880 The question isn't so much is it inappropriate anxiety or fear? 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:00.960 Because I don't think it's necessarily that. 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:04.080 I think it's more psychological than spiritual, right? 00:20:04.080 --> 00:20:06.800 People have certain fears for various reasons. 00:20:06.800 --> 00:20:08.160 And you touched on part of it. 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:10.320 It's that lack of control. 00:20:10.320 --> 00:20:14.320 Right? Generally speaking, people who have a fear of flying don't necessarily 00:20:14.320 --> 00:20:16.080 have a fear of driving. 00:20:16.080 --> 00:20:20.240 Driving is statistically more dangerous, but right, we don't run that statistical 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:23.200 analysis when we're determining our irrational fears. 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:25.920 And this one's not even entirely irrational, right? 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:28.400 Flying is dangerous to some degree, right? 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:33.440 It's one of the safest forms of transportation But being at 30,000 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:38.240 feet in a metal tube is not inherently perfectly safe. 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:41.920 But also, nothing in life is inherently perfectly safe, right? 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:44.480 I could be hit by a meteorite sitting here right now or 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:46.560 struck by lightning or something. 00:20:46.560 --> 00:20:51.680 So life is not a matter of things that are perfectly safe 00:20:51.840 --> 00:20:55.520 or trying to always eliminate risk, right? 00:20:55.520 --> 00:20:57.280 We can minimize risk. 00:20:57.280 --> 00:20:58.720 We can do things that are reasonable. 00:20:58.720 --> 00:20:59.760 And we've done that with flying. 00:20:59.760 --> 00:21:03.840 We have plenty of safety measures and inspections and maintenance and all 00:21:03.840 --> 00:21:04.320 these things. 00:21:04.320 --> 00:21:05.040 These are important. 00:21:05.040 --> 00:21:06.720 It's good to have these. 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:09.680 But the goal shouldn't be to remove all risk, because if you 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:13.680 do that, you've kind of removed being alive. 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:18.720 You may live in the strictest biological sense, but you won't truly 00:21:18.720 --> 00:21:19.440 be alive. 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:23.760 So that could That kind of deals with that portion of the 00:21:23.760 --> 00:21:27.280 question. But then perhaps the more important one is what do you 00:21:27.280 --> 00:21:29.360 do as a Christian, right? 00:21:29.360 --> 00:21:30.720 I would say pray. 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:33.120 That's certainly important, and what can you pray? 00:21:33.120 --> 00:21:38.880 Well, one good example I actually believe I held this up as 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:42.720 an example last week, not last week, but two weeks ago as 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:46.160 well, and that is Stark's prayer book. 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:51.360 This one has excellent prayers for basically any occasion that might come 00:21:51.360 --> 00:21:52.320 to mind. 00:21:52.320 --> 00:21:57.360 So on page 361 in this particular edition, there are other ones 00:21:57.360 --> 00:22:00.240 as well, there is a prayer for believing Christians 00:22:01.120 --> 00:22:03.680 to pray to God before traveling. 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:07.360 I won't read the whole thing because you know it's couple pages 00:22:07.360 --> 00:22:10.320 long at least with some scripture notes and things like that, but 00:22:10.320 --> 00:22:11.600 I'll read a little bit of it. 00:22:11.600 --> 00:22:15.360 Just because this is the sort of thing that Christians used to 00:22:15.360 --> 00:22:16.480 consider normal. 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:18.240 You would pray something before you traveled. 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:20.480 You would pray something when you were sick. 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:23.280 Like I just opened up randomly, and it's morning prayer for a 00:22:23.280 --> 00:22:23.840 sick person. 00:22:23.840 --> 00:22:26.640 These are the things Christians used to do, and it's important to 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:30.640 bring the Bring these back into our Christian life because this is 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:36.400 the appropriate response to have, the appropriate mindset to have with regard 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:37.600 to God. 00:22:37.600 --> 00:22:41.200 So the prayer starts off with there's always a little scripture reading 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:43.520 and some exhortation, other things as well in this book. 00:22:43.520 --> 00:22:46.400 It's a very good book, and I by all means grab one. 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:49.360 They can usually be found quite cheaply. 00:22:49.360 --> 00:22:52.800 Gracious and merciful God, in your name I have resolved to be 00:22:52.800 --> 00:22:55.680 absent from my loved ones and from my home for a time, 00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:57.600 and so I come and pray to you. 00:22:57.600 --> 00:23:00.000 Bless my going out and my coming in. 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.280 In your name I begin my journey, let me accomplish it with 00:23:03.280 --> 00:23:06.320 you as my constant companion, and let me return to my home 00:23:06.800 --> 00:23:08.160 under your protection. 00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:11.520 Let the host of angels surround and guard me like Jacob. 00:23:11.520 --> 00:23:14.640 Let your angels stand by me in every danger as he stood 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:16.000 by Saint Paul. 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:19.120 Let the company of your angels travel with me going and coming, 00:23:19.120 --> 00:23:22.000 as with Joseph and Mary when they fled to Egypt with the 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:26.160 young child Jesus, that I may refrain, that I may remain safe 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:29.920 from all misfortune, from thieves, murderers, and any other injury 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:34.320 And it goes on and couple pages there. 00:23:34.320 --> 00:23:36.320 So excellent option. 00:23:36.320 --> 00:23:39.040 You can find it online for free, or you can buy a 00:23:39.040 --> 00:23:40.480 book, however you want to do that. 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:42.160 That's a great option. 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:46.240 And then just as a practical option, some people will surely think 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:50.400 this is at odds with the Christian answer, but Lutherans know better 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:52.720 and so do Presbyterians and some others. 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:55.600 Have a beer before you get on the plane, if you are 00:23:55.600 --> 00:23:58.400 the kind of person for whom that doesn't make you anxious, right? 00:23:58.400 --> 00:24:01.360 There are a handful, tiny percentage of people for whom that would 00:24:01.360 --> 00:24:02.720 make them more anxious. 00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:05.200 Most people, that'll calm your nerves a little bit. 00:24:05.200 --> 00:24:07.600 Nothing wrong with that, perfectly reasonable. 00:24:07.760 --> 00:24:10.160 There's kind of a reason they have bars and airports, right? 00:24:10.800 --> 00:24:13.120 It's not just because people who travel drink too much. 00:24:13.120 --> 00:24:16.960 It's also because sometimes a beer before you fly might help calm 00:24:16.960 --> 00:24:18.480 your nerves a little bit. 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:22.240 And then I guess as a little trick for flying if you 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:25.200 aren't aware, if you chew chewing gum, it will help you with 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:30.240 the equalization of the pressure in your inner ear, which that also 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.440 is a stress inducer if you have that constant pressure, so that 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:35.840 may help as well. 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:44.160 Question four 00:24:47.040 --> 00:24:48.080 and five. 00:24:48.080 --> 00:24:53.840 There are two questions here, actually. 00:24:53.840 --> 00:24:54.800 Question 00:24:55.920 --> 00:25:00.640 four. I have heard you and others mention that church pastors and 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:04.240 other church leaders Church leadership bring a harsh judgment upon themselves due 00:25:04.240 --> 00:25:07.600 to the responsibility that comes with shepherding of flock. 00:25:07.600 --> 00:25:14.000 How do I properly understand this without falling into works-based salvation? 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:18.560 And he the beginning of the question, the actual topic instead of 00:25:18.560 --> 00:25:21.440 the question content is about stricter judgment, which of course is what 00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:23.920 is in view here for a harsh judgment, right? 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:29.120 So there are really two aspects to this. 00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:33.040 The first part of it is that there is very clearly in 00:25:33.040 --> 00:25:37.120 Scripture a stricter judgment for those who are in positions of authority, 00:25:37.120 --> 00:25:39.520 particularly for those who teach the faith. 00:25:39.520 --> 00:25:43.440 And in essence, what this is, is that you are held to 00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:47.680 a higher standard with regard to the things you teach if you 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:49.680 hold the office of teacher. 00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:52.400 And that's not just pastors, that's many others as well. 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:55.280 Pastors do not exclusively hold that office. 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.640 You, if you have taken up that mantle, are expected 00:26:01.520 --> 00:26:04.240 to know the truth and to speak the truth, to teach the 00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:07.600 truth. You are expected to have put in the effort and to 00:26:07.600 --> 00:26:12.080 have the capacity to teach the things of God truthfully because you 00:26:12.080 --> 00:26:13.920 have accepted that role. 00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:17.920 If you do not have that capacity, then you should not accept 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:19.200 that role. 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:23.120 And so you will be subjected to a stricter judgment. 00:26:23.120 --> 00:26:25.680 Now, we have to be careful here, right? 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:26.320 Because 00:26:27.280 --> 00:26:29.760 there are two things in view. 00:26:29.760 --> 00:26:33.520 One, there is the judgment with regard to faith. 00:26:33.760 --> 00:26:36.720 That's whether or not you're saved, that's a matter of salvation. 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:39.920 And then there's the judgment with regard to works. 00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:44.880 These are both in view here, because it is, of course, possible 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:47.120 to reject Christ, right? 00:26:47.120 --> 00:26:49.840 Lutherans do not teach once saved, always saved. 00:26:49.840 --> 00:26:52.160 If you happen to believe that, I think you're wrong. 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:54.160 That's not what we're debating right now. 00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:58.160 But Lutherans agree with Scripture, and Scripture's pretty clear it is possible 00:26:58.160 --> 00:27:01.840 to say to lose your salvation in the sense of rejecting it, 00:27:01.840 --> 00:27:05.040 not in the sense of, you know, God changed his mind or 00:27:05.040 --> 00:27:08.080 something. That's not what we're talking about. 00:27:08.080 --> 00:27:12.080 You can deliberately reject God in the free gift of salvation. 00:27:12.080 --> 00:27:15.920 And if you are a teacher, you are going to be held 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:19.520 to a stricter standard with regard to that, right? 00:27:19.520 --> 00:27:22.080 Which perhaps the Lutheran 00:27:23.040 --> 00:27:26.400 way of wording it would be that felicitous inconsistency 00:27:27.520 --> 00:27:30.400 narrows as your 00:27:31.600 --> 00:27:36.080 office and your abilities increase, which is to say you have a 00:27:36.080 --> 00:27:40.000 higher duty to be truthful and to be accurate in the things 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:44.240 you believe, teach, and confess, if you have been given greater abilities 00:27:44.320 --> 00:27:47.040 and if you hold those offices. 00:27:47.040 --> 00:27:52.480 So what might be felicitous inconsistency for someone who has an IQ 00:27:52.560 --> 00:27:56.400 of seventy five and is never going to teach anyone would not 00:27:56.400 --> 00:28:01.440 be felicitous inconsistency for someone who is in the office of theologian 00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:03.920 and is actually capable. 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:06.960 The second part of that now, before I go on to the 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:11.280 second part, I should still say, absolutely, you are saved by the 00:28:11.280 --> 00:28:12.320 blood of Christ alone. 00:28:12.320 --> 00:28:13.440 That is what covers you. 00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:15.360 You are forgiven because of his perfect work. 00:28:15.520 --> 00:28:17.520 Work not on account of your works. 00:28:17.520 --> 00:28:18.960 That is still the case. 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.800 Regardless of the office you hold, the abilities you've been given, you 00:28:22.800 --> 00:28:26.960 are still saved on account of Christ's work. 00:28:27.040 --> 00:28:28.480 Nose itches. 00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:28.960 The 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:33.280 second part of that is the judgment according to works. 00:28:33.280 --> 00:28:37.520 And this is one where sometimes people will read a particular line 00:28:37.520 --> 00:28:40.960 from it's the table talks, not from Luther, necessarily, but they'll read 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:44.320 a line from the Table Talks about the Epistle of James and 00:28:44.320 --> 00:28:49.120 things like that, and no Epistle of Straw and those comments. 00:28:49.120 --> 00:28:53.040 Even if you take that to be Luther's statement, which it's the 00:28:53.040 --> 00:28:56.240 Table Talks, I think it best it is some sort of like 00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:57.760 third hand hearsay. 00:28:57.760 --> 00:29:01.120 But even if you took it to be his statement at face 00:29:01.280 --> 00:29:05.920 value, he's just referencing a passage in scripture that comments on the 00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:07.440 different grades or values of 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:09.840 works and things like that. 00:29:09.840 --> 00:29:11.840 He's making an analogy. 00:29:11.840 --> 00:29:16.640 And so if you are building on Christ as the foundation and 00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:21.040 you're doing it with fidelity and competence and all those things, then 00:29:21.040 --> 00:29:23.520 you're building with gold, right? 00:29:23.520 --> 00:29:27.360 In the sense of not obviously literal gold, because literal gold doesn't 00:29:27.280 --> 00:29:30.880 work as a building material in that way, but you know what 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:32.480 he's saying in that passage. 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:36.320 And if it's a little less good than that, then it's silver, 00:29:36.320 --> 00:29:40.560 and if it's garbage, then it's straw or something else that will 00:29:40.560 --> 00:29:44.800 be burned up, and you will not be rewarded for those works 00:29:44.800 --> 00:29:49.280 because they were worthless, but you won't be damned, right? 00:29:49.600 --> 00:29:54.480 And so for many of those who teach and do so say 00:29:54.640 --> 00:30:01.920 ineptly or they not necessarily falsely outright, because that's kind of difficult, 00:30:01.920 --> 00:30:05.360 right? You there's a line there, you cross the line into false 00:30:05.360 --> 00:30:09.760 teaching, and well, now you're a false teacher, it's a different thing. 00:30:09.760 --> 00:30:10.080 But 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:16.160 if instead you are just an incompetent teacher, say, and you're not 00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:21.120 acting in malice, you're acting in innocence, you're just an idiot, those 00:30:21.120 --> 00:30:23.120 works aren't going to benefit you. 00:30:23.120 --> 00:30:25.760 So you aren't going to get a crown for those works. 00:30:25.760 --> 00:30:28.880 God isn't going to say, Well done, good and faithful servant, for 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:30.560 these worthless works. 00:30:30.560 --> 00:30:34.160 But you aren't damned because your works were worthless. 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:37.520 That is the judgment according to works, and that is a matter 00:30:37.520 --> 00:30:41.520 of the rewards you receive in eternity, the crowns you receive. 00:30:41.520 --> 00:30:45.280 It's not a matter of whether or not you're saved. 00:30:45.280 --> 00:30:48.480 So it's basically there are two steps there. 00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:48.800 And 00:30:49.760 --> 00:30:53.680 before I get to question five, I just want to nudge a 00:30:53.680 --> 00:31:01.040 system here on my side. 00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:14.240 Question five pull that up. 00:31:14.560 --> 00:31:17.440 About the Lutheran calendar of the church calendar. 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:22.160 What calendar do you use for the daily devotions podcast, particularly in 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.200 relation to the feasts, festivals, and commemorations? 00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:28.000 So I actually use the treasury of daily prayer, which I am 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:30.560 not going to grab because it is on top of my bookshelf, 00:31:30.560 --> 00:31:33.680 on top of a stack of books right now. 00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:36.880 But I have most of my computer, so I actually have to 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:39.600 use the physical book that often. 00:31:39.600 --> 00:31:42.240 The Treasury of Daily Prayer is where I get most of that 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:45.520 from. I have modified a few things a little bit because a 00:31:45.520 --> 00:31:50.000 couple things were wrong and I decided to fix those. 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:56.240 And other than that, I've basically expanded some of the text of 00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:00.880 the commemorations, the feast, festivals with additional information, and things like that 00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:02.400 from church history. 00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:08.800 So it is essentially just the church year calendar, Lutherans, Roman Catholics, 00:32:08.800 --> 00:32:14.560 Anglicans, and a handful of others essentially agree on like 95% of 00:32:14.560 --> 00:32:15.920 this stuff. 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:16.240 So 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:19.760 a lot of it is not going to be different if you 00:32:19.760 --> 00:32:24.240 grab a Roman Catholic church year calendar versus a Lutheran church year 00:32:24.320 --> 00:32:27.760 calendar or an Anglican church year calendar. 00:32:27.760 --> 00:32:31.440 That being said, there are some caveats, of course, because for instance, 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:34.400 Rome will have more of the Mary stuff in it than we 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:37.280 would have as Lutherans or the Anglicans would have. 00:32:37.280 --> 00:32:42.560 So that being said, the second part of his question is I 00:32:42.560 --> 00:32:45.680 would like to hang a Lutheran ch calendar on my wall next 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:48.800 year, but the only one I can find is sold by CPH, 00:32:48.800 --> 00:32:52.160 and the one image they have advertising it displays their commemoration of 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:54.080 Martin Luther King Jr. 00:32:54.560 --> 00:32:58.000 That's I don't even know I didn't know that thing existed until 00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:58.720 I read this question. 00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:02.960 I'm not surprised, of course, it's CPH PH and the current leadership 00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:06.800 of the LCMS are a bunch of evil men. 00:33:06.800 --> 00:33:07.120 But 00:33:08.080 --> 00:33:11.760 there is a traditional Lutheran church year calendar, the one in the 00:33:11.760 --> 00:33:15.200 Treasury of Daily Prayer, does not have any of that nonsense in 00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:20.640 it. That's not suitable for display on your wall, of course. 00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:24.560 Now, as far as a poster or wall display goes, I have 00:33:24.560 --> 00:33:27.760 not really looked into it that much, so I'm not aware of 00:33:27.760 --> 00:33:30.480 of very many of them. 00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:34.640 That being said, I will pull up this one example of which 00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:36.480 I actually am aware. 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:40.560 Owen Cyclops made one some number of years ago and I happen 00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:42.960 to remember that I had seen it at the time when he 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:44.240 posted it. 00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:47.840 And it's one of the nicer looking ones. 00:33:47.840 --> 00:33:51.840 It follows the traditional church year calendar, and 00:33:52.800 --> 00:33:53.440 it is 00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:59.280 very close to identical to what I use for the daily devotions. 00:33:59.280 --> 00:33:59.600 So 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:04.320 you can go ahead and look at that and decide if some 00:34:04.320 --> 00:34:08.640 of the Roman-specific stuff is something you would not want on your 00:34:08.640 --> 00:34:08.960 wall. 00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:12.880 Last time I looked at it, I believe there was nothing particularly 00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:18.080 objectionable, so I don't think I would necessarily object to having it 00:34:18.080 --> 00:34:19.440 on my wall. 00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:22.240 Obviously there are some things that are 00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:24.800 a little off, right? 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:27.760 Like this one I found, you know, Feast of the Blessed Virgin 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:29.200 of the Rosary. 00:34:29.200 --> 00:34:32.640 We wouldn't have that on our calendar as Lutherans, and most of 00:34:32.640 --> 00:34:35.920 the Anglicans would probably not have it, but by and large it 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:40.320 is still going to be the church year calendar, on which again 00:34:40.720 --> 00:34:43.760 we agree, and by we I mean all of the high church 00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:47.440 denominations agree ninety-five plus percent. 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:47.760 So 00:34:48.720 --> 00:34:53.280 yeah, don't buy the the garbage modern one from CPH or anywhere 00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:57.120 else. If you want to church your calendar, get the traditional one. 00:34:57.120 --> 00:35:00.720 And if you can find one that is specific for your denomination, 00:35:00.720 --> 00:35:05.920 even better, but I have not personally particularly looked into it, so 00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:06.880 I don't know of them. 00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:09.680 I would say look at the Anglicans, they might have one, and 00:35:09.680 --> 00:35:13.680 it will probably be very similar to what we have as particularly 00:35:13.680 --> 00:35:15.440 American Lutherans. 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:20.480 In part, American Lutheranism, when it was switching from German to English, 00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:24.640 used the Anglican Book of Common Prayer as some of the material 00:35:24.640 --> 00:35:29.520 for modeling things like our hymnal and some of those materials. 00:35:29.520 --> 00:35:34.240 So you'll find a lot of similarity there. 00:35:34.240 --> 00:35:37.440 Now I will go ahead and pull some questions from 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:40.800 the chat. 00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:42.400 Question six 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:47.680 Do you agree that the US Constitution is a godless and anti 00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:49.280 natural law document that we need to 00:35:50.160 --> 00:35:53.680 move on from? 00:35:53.680 --> 00:35:57.760 The answer to that ultimately is yes, but not in the sense 00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:01.440 that everything in the document was bad, right? 00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:04.960 I don't think that so-called representative government is a good thing. 00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:06.080 I think it is unnatural. 00:36:06.080 --> 00:36:09.760 I think it goes against the hierarchy that God has built into 00:36:10.080 --> 00:36:11.600 creation everywhere. 00:36:11.600 --> 00:36:13.200 I think it leads to problems. 00:36:13.200 --> 00:36:16.880 I think where we are today was the inevitable outcome outcome of 00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:18.720 that sort of system. 00:36:18.720 --> 00:36:22.800 That doesn't mean that every single word, phrase, claim in the document 00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:23.680 is wicked, right? 00:36:23.680 --> 00:36:25.840 I can certainly think of some that are not. 00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:30.160 But I would not retain it as part of our 00:36:31.200 --> 00:36:34.240 national system, our legal code, or anything like that. 00:36:34.240 --> 00:36:37.520 I've even gone so far as to post before that I would 00:36:37.520 --> 00:36:40.640 burn the document as an offering to God because it has become 00:36:40.640 --> 00:36:41.920 an idol to many. 00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:44.640 And I don't think it would be wrong to do that. 00:36:44.640 --> 00:36:46.480 I don't think it's necessary to do that. 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:48.480 I think it could be put in a museum, I think that 00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:50.480 would be perfectly fine as well. 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:53.920 But if people are going to keep treating it as an idol, 00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:56.800 then the correct thing to do with an idol is burn it. 00:36:57.200 --> 00:37:01.600 So no, I don't think that we should retain the Constitution. 00:37:01.600 --> 00:37:07.280 I do not think it is a good thing. 00:37:07.360 --> 00:37:11.680 I am going to postpone this question about Confucianism because that is 00:37:11.680 --> 00:37:14.960 long and involved, and I am not going to 00:37:16.560 --> 00:37:19.280 take the time right now. 00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:30.160 I'll go ahead and address this one here 00:37:31.040 --> 00:37:31.360 because 00:37:33.200 --> 00:37:36.320 it has a lot of trolls who like to bring it up 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:38.480 in my chats all the time, so I'll just go ahead. 00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:40.800 And answer question seven. 00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:43.760 Would you ever debate Hitler hated Christ? 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:48.160 That of course is the Jew, who goes by that name on 00:37:48.160 --> 00:37:54.480 X and has been slowly enveigling himself into various circles on the 00:37:54.480 --> 00:38:01.360 right, mostly the so called and accurately called kosher right, unsurprisingly, he 00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:03.280 is not a good actor. 00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:07.360 He is a bad actor, he is acting with malice, and he 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:09.360 is not an honest individual. 00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:14.560 He has been offered many opportunities to debate individuals who are extremely 00:38:14.560 --> 00:38:19.040 knowledgeable about the topic, Karl Radl on X, for instance, and many 00:38:19.040 --> 00:38:23.360 others. He has been thoroughly refuted many times. 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:27.280 And insofar as the Christianity of Adolf Hitler is concerned, I published 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:30.160 an article on that, I consider that my final word. 00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:33.760 There would be no point in debating him. 00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:37.920 Because he is not going to behave in anything approaching an honest 00:38:38.560 --> 00:38:43.760 manner. And just as a general rule, debating Jews is almost always 00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:45.440 a net negative. 00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:47.360 I am not going to say you can never do it. 00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:50.240 Now I'm going to say actually most likely the you in the 00:38:50.240 --> 00:38:52.960 case of most of you listening should never do it. 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:57.680 But there are some small number of cases where I would take 00:38:57.680 --> 00:38:59.280 that sort of opportunity. 00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:01.600 And the reason I would do it, and I'm fine with saying 00:39:01.600 --> 00:39:05.120 this publicly, because anyone who's going to offer that debate is going 00:39:05.120 --> 00:39:08.560 to know why I would accept, and it won't change the calculation 00:39:08.560 --> 00:39:10.000 because of arrogance. 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:13.840 I would accept it if it were an opportunity to advance something 00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:17.360 beneficial. And so I would do an interview or a debate or 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:17.760 a discussion 00:39:18.720 --> 00:39:22.560 with a Jew or a number of Jews if it gave me 00:39:22.560 --> 00:39:29.120 an opportunity to explain Christianity or our positions, nationalism, all these various 00:39:29.120 --> 00:39:31.760 important things to an audience. 00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:33.680 That would be the only reason to do it. 00:39:33.680 --> 00:39:35.200 There's no benefit here. 00:39:35.200 --> 00:39:39.440 It's just a crazy guy on X who's obsessed with me and 00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:42.960 whose followers decide to post in my comments and stream all the 00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:45.680 time. There's no benefit. 00:39:45.680 --> 00:39:48.960 And again, he is just a bad actor, so there is no 00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:56.720 reason for me to do that. 00:39:56.720 --> 00:39:58.720 Question eight. 00:39:58.720 --> 00:40:02.720 What are your feelings on Christians engaging in Halloween festivities? 00:40:02.720 --> 00:40:04.960 Is it all or nothing, or does it depend on how you 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:06.480 treat the holiday? 00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:11.840 So traditionally Halloween is part of all hallow tide, which is 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:17.760 Depending on which system you're using, two or three days of Christian 00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:23.200 festivals. And they are remembrance of the departed, essentially. 00:40:23.200 --> 00:40:27.280 There's remembrance, there's memento mori, there's remember that you will die, and 00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:30.400 then there's remembrance of the Christian departed, right? 00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:32.960 That's basically the scope of the festival. 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:36.000 There's some other stuff in there as well, but that is the 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:37.920 core of what it was historically. 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:39.840 And I think that that's just fine, right? 00:40:39.840 --> 00:40:45.360 We still celebrate this in those churches that follow a liturgical calendar 00:40:45.680 --> 00:40:50.160 by singing particular hymns and focusing on certain scripture passages and the 00:40:50.160 --> 00:40:54.160 message, the sermon is usually on that topic, right? 00:40:54.160 --> 00:40:57.520 It's one of the days out the day that it's cl the 00:40:57.520 --> 00:40:58.960 Sunday that's closest. 00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:01.440 It is the day out of the year where basically you are 00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:04.640 focusing on the memory of the Christian departed, and I think that 00:41:04.640 --> 00:41:06.320 that's a good thing to do. 00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:12.160 Insofar as the Halloween festivities abstracted out from that are concerned, if 00:41:12.160 --> 00:41:16.560 you're doing all the fall festival stuff, no one can reasonably object 00:41:16.560 --> 00:41:17.680 to that. 00:41:17.680 --> 00:41:23.680 If you are getting into the stuff that is pretty clearly demonic, 00:41:23.680 --> 00:41:26.320 then I would say that's probably unwise. 00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:33.760 So So go for the like upper middle class main fall festival 00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:35.920 look, and you all know exactly what I mean when I say 00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:36.880 that, right? 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:44.640 Don't go for the sort of inner city zombie eight-foot-tall skeleton look. 00:41:44.640 --> 00:41:49.040 You know, being a Christian and holding the views we do should 00:41:49.040 --> 00:41:51.680 influence how we behave in society. 00:41:51.680 --> 00:41:53.360 So I think that a lot of 00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:58.640 what Halloween has become, and obviously it's been commercialized in the same 00:41:58.640 --> 00:42:03.200 way as Christmas by the same bad actors for similar reasons, I 00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:06.640 think that a lot of it has taken it away from the 00:42:06.640 --> 00:42:09.600 historical roots of what it is supposed to be and what it 00:42:09.600 --> 00:42:12.800 should be in a godly society. 00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:15.440 And I think it would be better to focus on those things 00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:21.520 instead of focusing on All of the modern stuff that's basically a 00:42:21.520 --> 00:42:24.080 horror movie made into scenery. 00:42:24.080 --> 00:42:26.720 Does that mean you can't go to a haunted house? 00:42:26.720 --> 00:42:28.320 No, I'm not saying that. 00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:31.040 Does it mean that you probably shouldn't go to the one that's 00:42:31.040 --> 00:42:34.640 gruesome and gory and over the top, yes, I think that you 00:42:34.640 --> 00:42:36.880 should probably avoid that one. 00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:41.920 But generally celebrating the Halloween as a fall festival, I don't think 00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:42.880 it's wrong to do that. 00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:46.800 I think it can be that in the sort of it's a 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:50.320 misnomer but the secular sphere and then you can still have that 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:55.120 Christian focus with Christian church services and we should have multiple services. 00:42:55.120 --> 00:42:57.120 It should not just be Sunday. 00:42:57.120 --> 00:43:01.600 It should be multiple services in that period in the calendar. 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:19.280 Question nine. 00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:23.520 What should a Christian government do about drug addicts and homeless? 00:43:23.520 --> 00:43:26.400 In quotes, that is correct, but that they're who roam the streets 00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:30.000 and usually refuse to go to rehab or receive help from those 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:32.160 who want them to live good lives. 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:36.000 I've answered this one before but I'll answer it again because it 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:39.360 is worth repeating because it is a question about a problem that 00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:43.840 has not been solved in the sense of the solution being applied, 00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:46.880 not in the sense of the solution being known. 00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:50.080 They should be rounded up and given the treatment they need, which 00:43:50.080 --> 00:43:55.360 is probably going to include psychological treatment in some cases, some psychiatric 00:43:55.360 --> 00:44:00.400 drugs, because some of them are legitimately insane, and so often drug-induced 00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:05.200 or demonically possessed, and so obviously they'll need Christian counseling as well, 00:44:05.200 --> 00:44:07.600 and then forced to work. 00:44:07.600 --> 00:44:11.760 Because, you know, he who does not work, let him not eat. 00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:12.720 They need to work. 00:44:12.720 --> 00:44:15.280 So I don't believe in handouts, but I also don't think that 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:20.080 the Christian answer is just letting them roam the streets and destroy 00:44:20.080 --> 00:44:22.640 themselves and cause problems for everyone else. 00:44:22.640 --> 00:44:22.960 So 00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:26.960 we're back to something similar to what's been asked before in a 00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:28.720 number of other context, right? 00:44:28.720 --> 00:44:33.360 They are in many cases both victims of the current system and 00:44:33.680 --> 00:44:36.480 malefactors. They are bad actors in many cases. 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:38.480 They are not just victims. 00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:40.880 And so they have to be treated accordingly, right? 00:44:41.040 --> 00:44:45.120 For those who are clearly victims, maybe they've had a truly horrible 00:44:45.120 --> 00:44:48.720 life, and in some cases they have, particularly some of the women. 00:44:48.720 --> 00:44:51.280 They should be taken care of as best we can. 00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:54.720 They should still be given something productive to do, but for those 00:44:54.720 --> 00:44:59.600 who are just drug addicts who are out making a mess of 00:44:59.600 --> 00:45:04.640 society, stealing, causing problems, just generally being a nuisance, round them up 00:45:04.640 --> 00:45:06.240 and put them in work camps. 00:45:06.240 --> 00:45:08.320 And get them I do believe we should get them the treatment 00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:09.280 they need as well, right? 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:12.240 I'm not saying just treat them like prisoners. 00:45:12.240 --> 00:45:15.920 You know, we shouldn't even have prisons, but work camps are fine 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:19.440 and they're a good solution for that problem. 00:45:20.160 --> 00:45:22.880 Someone asked me asked me about if I were the supreme leader 00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:23.520 for twenty years. 00:45:23.520 --> 00:45:26.160 I would hope that I would live longer than that, but I'll 00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:28.720 I'll postpone that one. 00:45:28.720 --> 00:45:32.240 I do actually believe that the the leader should hand off power 00:45:32.240 --> 00:45:35.440 to his son before he is, you know, eighty years old or 00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:38.640 something. We don't want rule by the elderly. 00:45:38.640 --> 00:45:40.560 That's never good for a society. 00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:47.920 Do you like Dostoyevsky? 00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:51.440 I guess that is question ten. 00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:55.280 The answer is yes, I do like a number of his novels. 00:45:55.280 --> 00:46:01.280 I did not get necessarily as deep into reading The Russian authors, 00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:03.680 as Wo did, he got a little more into that than I 00:46:03.680 --> 00:46:05.920 did. I was reading other stuff at the time. 00:46:05.920 --> 00:46:09.680 But yes, I think that they're worthwhile to read. 00:46:09.680 --> 00:46:12.560 And enjoyable to read, in some cases. 00:46:12.560 --> 00:46:19.120 Enjoyable intellectually in others, if not necessarily an enjoyable read. 00:46:19.120 --> 00:46:23.280 Question actually going to check the chat over here just to make 00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:28.240 sure things are syncing correctly. 00:46:28.240 --> 00:46:30.160 Okay, I think that's good. 00:46:33.600 --> 00:46:37.120 Question eleven. 00:46:37.120 --> 00:46:40.240 How much of a Much of a problem is the national debt? 00:46:40.240 --> 00:46:42.000 How would you solve this problem? 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:43.920 Can we really just say no? 00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:48.080 And what would be the repercussions of that? 00:46:49.040 --> 00:46:54.000 So I'm going to answer this one in the context of the 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:57.680 United States and the context of America because it differs depending on 00:46:57.680 --> 00:47:01.280 your country, and it'll be very obvious why when I answer. 00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:04.640 So in the context of the United States, could we simply say 00:47:04.640 --> 00:47:07.040 no we are not going to pay this? 00:47:07.040 --> 00:47:10.160 The answer is yes, we could. 00:47:10.160 --> 00:47:11.680 Should we do that? 00:47:11.680 --> 00:47:15.280 The answer is yes, but with exceptions. 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:20.000 We should say that we will continue to uphold and honor the 00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:23.200 debt that is owed to allies, and I mean that in the 00:47:23.200 --> 00:47:26.880 full sense, not in just the positive law legal sense. 00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:27.200 So 00:47:28.160 --> 00:47:31.520 countries that are actually our allies should be treated well. 00:47:31.520 --> 00:47:35.760 We should not just erase the debt that we owe them. 00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:38.480 That would not be the right thing to do. 00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:41.600 Countries that are not allies, countries that are hostile, we should just 00:47:41.600 --> 00:47:46.320 tell them go pound sand, and we're not paying a cent. 00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:50.240 Now, there are some other ways, of course, that you can solve 00:47:50.240 --> 00:47:52.880 the national debt without doing that. 00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:58.960 One is obviously if you grow the economy, then what are you 00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:01.040 doing effectively? 00:48:01.040 --> 00:48:05.760 The percentage of the economy relative to the national debt, right? 00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:08.640 Which is say what percent of the economy is the national debt 00:48:08.720 --> 00:48:12.480 or debt service, depending how you want to calculate this. 00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:16.160 If you grow the economy, the debt doesn't matter. 00:48:16.160 --> 00:48:21.040 On the smaller scale, this is like having various expenditures as a 00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:22.960 person or a household, right? 00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:27.280 If you have to pay, we'll pick a large number just for 00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:28.720 the sake of the example. 00:48:28.720 --> 00:48:34.800 If you're currently paying $10,000 a month in just generic recurring stuff, 00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:36.880 you have to pay it every single month, right? 00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:38.800 And I know in a lot of places that's not a high 00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:41.280 number, but for much of the country that's pretty high. 00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:43.920 You know, $120,000 a year. 00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:47.360 If you are making a hundred thousand dollars a year, you now 00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:49.120 have a very big problem. 00:48:49.120 --> 00:48:52.400 If you are making a million dollars a year, you do not 00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:53.840 have a problem. 00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:55.440 You can see the solution there, right? 00:48:55.440 --> 00:48:57.600 So one of the ways that you can now obviously as an 00:48:57.600 --> 00:48:59.200 individual that's very hard. 00:48:59.200 --> 00:49:02.880 And it's not easy as a country, but it's doable. 00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:08.560 The US should have an immense economy. 00:49:08.560 --> 00:49:12.320 And it does, but not at the level we should be. 00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:14.880 And the reason for that is all of the policies of which 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:16.240 we're all aware, right? 00:49:16.240 --> 00:49:21.200 It's importing people who cause problems, and suck up social services, are 00:49:21.200 --> 00:49:24.480 in a net drain on the economy, and are just generally a 00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:27.120 nuisance to have here, to say the very least. 00:49:27.040 --> 00:49:30.160 That's an immense anchor on our economy. 00:49:30.160 --> 00:49:34.960 If that were solved, the economy would skyrocket and we wouldn't have 00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:38.160 a debt problem, because the economy would be much bigger compared to 00:49:38.160 --> 00:49:40.160 the current state of the debt. 00:49:40.160 --> 00:49:42.960 So there are a number of different ways you can solve the 00:49:42.960 --> 00:49:46.880 national debt, but they all depend on solving other problems. 00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:51.200 Because ultimately, the national debt is not a math problem or an 00:49:51.200 --> 00:49:54.960 economic problem, it's a political problem, and so it has to be 00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:58.320 solved with politics like so many other problems we face. 00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:02.640 You can't solve it just by tweaking the economics of the country. 00:50:02.640 --> 00:50:06.640 You have to fundamentally change some things, and that requires political power 00:50:06.640 --> 00:50:09.280 and political will. 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:13.760 But yes, to answer the the core question there, the secondary one, 00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:15.840 can we say that we're not going to pay the debt? 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:17.040 Absolutely we can do that. 00:50:17.040 --> 00:50:19.200 And the reason we can do that, which is the part of 00:50:19.200 --> 00:50:22.960 the equation I want to draw out, here is my final point, 00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:26.640 is that we have a very powerful military. 00:50:26.640 --> 00:50:31.440 And ultimately the debt only matters if it can be collected. 00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:32.000 So So 00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:37.440 most nations cannot collect, and most nations would not try. 00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:40.960 The only nation that could really mount an attempt would be China, 00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:45.360 and that would be an enormous gamble for them, and one that 00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:49.360 they would probably not be willing to take unless we did it 00:50:49.360 --> 00:50:52.480 in such a way that it crashed their economy and their only 00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:55.360 choice to maintain power, in this case I mean the CCP of 00:50:55.360 --> 00:50:59.680 course, their only choice as a viable avenue to maintain power 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:04.480 would be a foreign war, then they would pursue it. 00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:08.320 So obviously I don't want someone who is incompetent trying to pursue 00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:09.440 this politically. 00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:11.600 But these are all options that should be on the table and 00:51:11.600 --> 00:51:16.160 they can be used together, not necessarily you have to pick one. 00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:32.480 Question twelve. 00:51:32.640 --> 00:51:38.720 Can note for myself here. 00:51:41.120 --> 00:51:46.640 What do you think about the hypothesis that feminism or female empowerment 00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:51.040 is the root cause of all modern problems, and if corrected, many 00:51:51.040 --> 00:51:54.160 of our issues would self-fix. 00:51:54.160 --> 00:51:58.640 I think that the conclusion is overstated, I don't think the warrant 00:51:58.640 --> 00:52:02.080 supports it, which is to say I don't think that feminism or 00:52:02.080 --> 00:52:06.560 female empowerment is the cause of all of our problems. 00:52:06.560 --> 00:52:11.920 I think it is a consequence of our problems that then in 00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:15.360 turn is a cause of many additional problems. 00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:17.680 And you can see this if you look back through history and 00:52:17.680 --> 00:52:24.320 you look at where and when the laws granting women the so 00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:27.120 called right to vote were passed, right? 00:52:27.120 --> 00:52:29.760 Passed basically in the wake of World War One. 00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:35.600 And so that was a consequence of a much bigger problem, but 00:52:35.600 --> 00:52:38.880 it then led to additional problems down the road. 00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:41.360 So is part of what needs to be done 00:52:42.560 --> 00:52:44.800 disempowering women politically? 00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:45.680 Absolutely, yes. 00:52:45.680 --> 00:52:48.240 The nineteenth Amendment, that one at the very least we can, you 00:52:48.240 --> 00:52:50.800 know, cut out of the paper and burn that one. 00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:53.120 Obviously I know it's not part of the original constitution, but we 00:52:53.120 --> 00:52:55.200 have the the document, right? 00:52:55.840 --> 00:52:59.680 So can we get rid of that and solve a lot of 00:52:59.680 --> 00:53:00.720 problems pretty easily? 00:53:00.720 --> 00:53:04.800 Yes. Because a lot of things will actually sort themselves out naturally 00:53:05.040 --> 00:53:09.280 if you get rid of these sort of perverse incentives. 00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:14.480 I have pointed this out many times before with regard to family 00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:18.560 formation, fertility rate, and many related problems, right? 00:53:18.640 --> 00:53:21.040 One of the ways you can solve that is by making it 00:53:21.040 --> 00:53:23.920 illegal for women to work outside the home. 00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:25.360 What have you just done? 00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:27.360 They're no longer competing with men. 00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:30.960 Men's salaries have to go up because the labor market has just 00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:31.840 shrunk, right? 00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:34.480 The supply of labor shrank. 00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:38.240 So the demand didn't go anywhere, right? 00:53:38.240 --> 00:53:39.280 What happens? 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:40.640 Wages go up. 00:53:40.640 --> 00:53:42.240 Very simple economics. 00:53:42.240 --> 00:53:44.400 It's not a hard problem to solve. 00:53:44.400 --> 00:53:44.720 So 00:53:45.600 --> 00:53:48.480 that is one of the things you can do, and that almost 00:53:48.560 --> 00:53:51.920 quite literally is just making it illegal for women to work outside 00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:52.400 the home. 00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:53.360 One change. 00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:56.320 Obviously I recognize it's a big change, right? 00:53:56.320 --> 00:54:01.040 But it is certainly not an impossible change, and it is something 00:54:01.040 --> 00:54:02.000 that we should do. 00:54:02.000 --> 00:54:06.800 So, yes, I do 100% believe that women should not be involved 00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:09.760 in politics, women should not vote, most men shouldn't vote either. 00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:12.640 Women shouldn't be allowed to own property in their own name, they 00:54:12.640 --> 00:54:15.280 shouldn't allowed to work outside the home. 00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:19.280 These are all traditional Christian positions that if they were enacted would 00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:21.040 solve a lot of our problems. 00:54:21.040 --> 00:54:23.040 Would they solve all of our problems? 00:54:23.040 --> 00:54:24.320 The answer is no. 00:54:24.560 --> 00:54:27.280 And the answer is no because there are a lot of problems 00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:29.440 with men as well, right? 00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:33.120 You can point to many of the problems we have today, even 00:54:33.120 --> 00:54:36.480 some of the problems that people will try to pin exclusively on 00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:39.680 women, and there is a male part of the problem. 00:54:39.680 --> 00:54:42.720 Right? Is female promiscuity a huge problem? 00:54:42.720 --> 00:54:46.960 Yes. Is it possible to be promiscuous as a female if there 00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:49.360 are no men willing to say yes? 00:54:49.600 --> 00:54:51.280 The answer is no. 00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:53.920 And so men are part of the problem. 00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:58.160 And obviously, yes, men are going to have a harder time saying 00:54:58.160 --> 00:54:59.600 no to that in some cases. 00:54:59.600 --> 00:55:03.520 But one of the problems with that is you abstract that out 00:55:03.520 --> 00:55:08.320 to the societal level, the cultural level, and what's not being done. 00:55:08.320 --> 00:55:12.400 The men are not supervising the women in the way they are 00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:13.520 supposed to. 00:55:13.520 --> 00:55:18.880 You don't have wild, promiscuous women running around in society, when fathers 00:55:18.880 --> 00:55:22.480 are doing what they are supposed to do and supervise their daughters, 00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:25.360 keep them under their roof, don't allow them to go to university. 00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:30.400 All these things that encourage that problem are downstream from men failing 00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:32.320 to do their duty as men. 00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:35.440 And so many times I find there are those who will try 00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:40.480 to pin everything on women, and they're really just trying to shirk 00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:44.560 responsibility. They're trying to say that it's all women's fault when in 00:55:44.560 --> 00:55:49.200 reality that's not the case because the man is the head, woman 00:55:49.200 --> 00:55:50.880 is never her own head. 00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:54.240 God is going to ask men why did you not do what 00:55:54.240 --> 00:55:57.840 I told you to do and control the women in your lives. 00:55:57.840 --> 00:55:59.520 They were entrusted to you. 00:55:59.520 --> 00:56:00.560 They're headless. 00:56:00.560 --> 00:56:02.240 You're the head. 00:56:02.240 --> 00:56:04.720 You know, it's the buck stops here kind of thing, right? 00:56:04.720 --> 00:56:07.760 It is the head who answers for what has happened. 00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:10.480 Does that absolve women of all responsibility? 00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:12.400 Absolutely not. 00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:15.520 The example I've given, and it makes some people mad, which kind 00:56:15.520 --> 00:56:19.600 of makes me like the example more, if your neighbor's dog defecates 00:56:19.600 --> 00:56:23.760 on your porch, which party do you blame? 00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:27.680 Well obviously the dog has to be punished, reprimanded, and taught not 00:56:27.680 --> 00:56:28.640 to do that. 00:56:28.640 --> 00:56:32.160 But your neighbor's responsible because it's his dog. 00:56:32.160 --> 00:56:34.800 The same thing is true with regard to women. 00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:37.920 Women are responsible for their own actions, and they should be held 00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:40.240 accountable, at least in many cases. 00:56:40.240 --> 00:56:44.720 But the men who should have been controlling them are ultimately responsible 00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:46.880 and should also be punished. 00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:52.560 So do we solve all problems by getting rid of female empowerment? 00:56:52.640 --> 00:56:54.400 So-called? No. 00:56:54.400 --> 00:56:56.400 Do we solve a lot of problems? 00:56:56.400 --> 00:57:00.720 Yes. But not the root problem, which has to be addressed as 00:57:00.720 --> 00:57:01.120 well. 00:57:02.560 --> 00:57:04.000 The root problem of course is sin. 00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:05.520 It's always sin, but 00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:27.520 Let's see. 00:57:27.520 --> 00:57:29.920 Question thirteen. 00:57:29.920 --> 00:57:33.360 I think I can just answer this one 00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:34.640 with 00:57:37.600 --> 00:57:42.640 what is What is a good response to evangelicals who claim that 00:57:42.640 --> 00:57:45.760 all races are God's children? 00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:49.440 And the question actually disappeared from my pad, so I'm just reading 00:57:49.520 --> 00:57:52.320 I'm reciting it from memory of the three seconds it was on 00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:53.120 my screen. 00:57:53.120 --> 00:57:55.440 So hopefully I didn't miss any elements of that. 00:57:55.440 --> 00:57:58.560 I think I got the gist of it though. 00:57:58.560 --> 00:58:00.560 Something to fix later. 00:58:00.560 --> 00:58:00.880 But 00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:04.080 see if I can pop it up. 00:58:04.080 --> 00:58:04.400 Nope. 00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:08.640 So the response to that, the longer response, as it were, would 00:58:08.640 --> 00:58:12.080 of course be what we did with Stone Choir, right? 00:58:12.080 --> 00:58:18.080 Because Stone Choir has the series on race was which explains what 00:58:18.240 --> 00:58:23.920 race is biologically, explains how race interacts with salvation, explains all of 00:58:23.920 --> 00:58:28.320 these things, explains away the so-called sin of racism, all these things 00:58:28.480 --> 00:58:31.040 are important to understand, but 00:58:32.640 --> 00:58:35.440 It's going to depend how you respond to this person. 00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:39.040 It's going to depend what exactly he's saying, right? 00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:44.960 If he's saying that all races are potentially God's children in the 00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:49.360 sense of can come to a saving faith in Christ, then he 00:58:49.360 --> 00:58:50.560 is correct. 00:58:50.560 --> 00:58:53.280 If he goes on to say that that means we should erase 00:58:53.280 --> 00:58:56.800 national borders and permit anyone to move here who wants to do 00:58:56.800 --> 00:59:00.640 so, then he is incorrect and he has gone back into a 00:59:00.640 --> 00:59:02.800 particularly pernicious sin. 00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:05.120 So it depends what he's saying. 00:59:05.120 --> 00:59:09.920 Because it's not just any one race that can be saved. 00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:13.040 Anyone can come to saving faith. 00:59:13.040 --> 00:59:17.360 The offer of salvation is open to all men. 00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:21.280 And so obviously there's also the sort of abstracted out, like Adam 00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:25.600 is the Son of God, and so all human beings are sons 00:59:25.600 --> 00:59:26.880 of God, right? 00:59:26.880 --> 00:59:28.400 He's probably not saying that. 00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:31.840 And that would be a very technical point that doesn't actually really 00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:36.080 get you anywhere, unless you're arguing against certain people. 00:59:36.080 --> 00:59:36.400 So 00:59:37.520 --> 00:59:40.160 it really depends on what exactly it is he's saying. 00:59:40.160 --> 00:59:42.720 He's probably using it, and I'm going to assume that is sort 00:59:42.720 --> 00:59:45.760 of the subtext of the question from what I saw. 00:59:45.760 --> 00:59:48.640 I am going to assume he is trying to use it to 00:59:48.640 --> 00:59:53.440 say that race isn't real and you know the we're all just 00:59:53.520 --> 00:59:56.800 there's the race of Christians and the race of unbelievers or something 00:59:56.800 --> 00:59:57.520 like that. 00:59:57.520 --> 01:00:00.320 And for that I would say the Stone Choir series on race 01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:04.160 is what you really need to go through because that gives you 01:00:04.160 --> 01:00:05.680 all of the information. 01:00:05.680 --> 01:00:09.120 Hopefully he'll be willing to listen to that, but you can at 01:00:09.120 --> 01:00:14.160 least start off by saying that you agree that the gospel is 01:00:14.160 --> 01:00:16.480 for all men from all nations. 01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:19.120 It doesn't mean that all men will be equally open to it. 01:00:19.120 --> 01:00:20.800 We see that historically, right? 01:00:20.800 --> 01:00:24.320 It was the sons of Japheth, which means Europeans who were most 01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:25.280 open to it. 01:00:25.280 --> 01:00:27.280 Most of the rest of the world did not convert. 01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:31.200 They converted only when we went and colonized them and made them 01:00:31.200 --> 01:00:36.320 convert. So it depends what he's saying, so feel free to ask 01:00:36.320 --> 01:00:40.160 a follow up question, perhaps after you've clarified with him or s 01:00:40.640 --> 01:00:46.320 gauge his response to the offer of more information. 01:00:50.720 --> 01:00:53.280 Actually while I'm thinking about it, I should probably check what the 01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:56.080 memory leak is doing. 01:00:56.080 --> 01:01:00.640 Yeah, I am going to have to probably bring this to a 01:01:00.640 --> 01:01:05.520 close real soon here because OBS is using 120 gigabytes of memory. 01:01:06.080 --> 01:01:08.800 And my system is about out. 01:01:08.800 --> 01:01:13.440 So I will answer one more question and call it for tonight 01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:16.320 before my system crashes and OBS closes. 01:01:21.840 --> 01:01:25.280 Do you believe question fourteen do you believe that some level of 01:01:25.280 --> 01:01:30.960 federalism would be necessary for American government even under a Christian government? 01:01:31.840 --> 01:01:35.440 The easy answer to this is yes. 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:40.240 And there are a number of reasons for that, right? 01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:44.080 I think that it is important to 01:01:45.040 --> 01:01:48.320 have things locally when and where it is possible. 01:01:48.320 --> 01:01:50.400 I don't think everything should be local. 01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:52.640 I don't you know, subsidiarity basically. 01:01:52.640 --> 01:01:56.480 I don't think that you have to make decisions as close to 01:01:56.640 --> 01:01:58.400 the local as possible. 01:01:58.400 --> 01:02:02.400 I think some decisions are naturally made at the higher level, but 01:02:02.720 --> 01:02:05.840 many decisions need to be devolved. 01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:12.400 Just the same as Lutherans fully believe that different churches in different 01:02:12.400 --> 01:02:16.640 nations are going to have different customs, different traditions, and that's just 01:02:16.640 --> 01:02:18.800 fine, because they're different people. 01:02:18.800 --> 01:02:22.400 I don't expect the Russians to worship in the exact same way 01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:26.320 as the Germans or the Germans as Germans as Americans, or Americans 01:02:26.480 --> 01:02:27.840 as the French, right? 01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:32.160 We are different nations, we're different people, we are related, but different 01:02:32.160 --> 01:02:34.560 races, for those examples. 01:02:34.560 --> 01:02:37.680 So we are going to express things differently. 01:02:37.680 --> 01:02:39.120 I don't think that's wrong. 01:02:39.120 --> 01:02:42.080 The same thing is going to be true in society, in the 01:02:42.080 --> 01:02:46.240 culture, and we see that in the United States, right? 01:02:46.240 --> 01:02:51.600 The South and the Pacific Northwest, they're both American, but they're very 01:02:51.600 --> 01:02:57.360 different. The culture's not the same, the ideas, the mindset, many of 01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:00.000 these things are very different, and that should be recognized. 01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:04.640 And I think it's also inevitable because we have to remember, right, 01:03:04.640 --> 01:03:08.080 we don't believe that race is just a matter of blood, right? 01:03:08.080 --> 01:03:11.760 It's blood soil and myth, as I keep saying. 01:03:11.760 --> 01:03:13.760 Well that soil part matters. 01:03:13.760 --> 01:03:16.960 And the reason it matters is that if you take a population 01:03:17.200 --> 01:03:21.120 and move it to different soil and wait long enough, they will 01:03:21.120 --> 01:03:24.960 become distinct from the founding population. 01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:27.440 And I don't think there's any way to avoid it. 01:03:27.440 --> 01:03:30.320 I think that's how God designed humanity. 01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:34.480 And so given the size of the United States of the American 01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:38.880 nation, I think you are going to inevitably have these regional differences, 01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:42.080 and they should be recognized and so far as they are good 01:03:42.240 --> 01:03:44.560 celebrated. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. 01:03:44.560 --> 01:03:50.720 And so we'll have a form of federalism inevitably, but perhaps something 01:03:50.720 --> 01:03:54.240 in the sense of like the Holy Roman Empire had, right? 01:03:54.240 --> 01:04:00.240 You had the Empire, then you had nations, you had principalities, you 01:04:00.240 --> 01:04:04.080 had cities in some cases that were independent to some degree. 01:04:04.080 --> 01:04:06.960 I don't think that system is necessarily the wrong way to do 01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:08.480 it. In fact, I think that's probably one of the best systems 01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:10.080 we could use. 01:04:10.080 --> 01:04:11.920 So will we have federalism? 01:04:11.920 --> 01:04:13.920 Yes, I think it is inevitable. 01:04:13.920 --> 01:04:16.400 And I think it's also a good thing to have that. 01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:20.240 Some things should be devolved and there should be some leeway permitted 01:04:20.320 --> 01:04:33.120 regionally given those distinctions that seem like God built them into humanity. 01:04:33.360 --> 01:04:36.560 I just want to comment that I do see the question about 01:04:36.720 --> 01:04:39.840 anxiety. I am going to leave it for next week, but I'm 01:04:39.760 --> 01:04:43.360 going to make a note that I will answer that next week. 01:04:55.760 --> 01:04:57.760 Okay, I'm going to answer one more question. 01:04:57.760 --> 01:05:01.680 I'm going to risk this computer crashing thanks to whatever memory leak 01:05:01.680 --> 01:05:04.400 is currently going on. 01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:06.240 Question fifteen. 01:05:06.240 --> 01:05:10.480 Do you think that the Septuagint is uniquely an inspired translation, or 01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:13.040 can we be said to hold the very words of God in 01:05:13.040 --> 01:05:14.160 English? 01:05:15.520 --> 01:05:21.360 So I do believe that the Septuagint is uniquely inspired because it 01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:25.600 is the version that God caused to be created so that he 01:05:25.600 --> 01:05:28.720 himself could use it, and so that it could be used to 01:05:28.720 --> 01:05:35.680 fulfill the prophecy from Noah, to spread God's word and the church 01:05:35.680 --> 01:05:38.960 back to the sons of Japheth, who largely knew Greek, at least 01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:43.280 in the Mediterranean area area, and that it was easier to spread 01:05:43.280 --> 01:05:45.840 from Greek northward, right? 01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:48.800 So I believe it was uniquely inspired because it was part of 01:05:48.800 --> 01:05:50.160 God's plan. 01:05:50.160 --> 01:05:54.000 Does that mean that we can't hold the very words of God 01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:57.520 in our hands in our language, in English, or German or French, 01:05:57.520 --> 01:05:59.120 or whatever it happens to be. 01:05:59.120 --> 01:06:02.000 I don't think that that necessarily follows. 01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:05.600 Is it inspired in the exact same sense as the Greek? 01:06:05.600 --> 01:06:07.760 I don't believe that is the case. 01:06:07.760 --> 01:06:09.120 Could it be? 01:06:09.120 --> 01:06:11.680 I am not willing to say it could not. 01:06:11.680 --> 01:06:18.400 I think that perhaps God would bless a translation undertaking in one 01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:21.280 of our languages the same way that he blessed the Greek. 01:06:21.280 --> 01:06:23.200 I don't know that he would not do that, so I'm not 01:06:23.200 --> 01:06:25.120 willing to say one way or the other. 01:06:25.120 --> 01:06:29.200 I will say that none of our existing translations are uniquely inspired 01:06:29.200 --> 01:06:32.080 in the same way as the Septuagint. 01:06:32.080 --> 01:06:35.680 That being said, they are still the Word of God, because by 01:06:35.680 --> 01:06:40.720 and large these translations are still faithful, and God's promise that His 01:06:40.720 --> 01:06:43.840 Word will not pass away still stands. 01:06:43.840 --> 01:06:48.800 And I think that promise does carry down two translations. 01:06:48.800 --> 01:06:52.320 God preserves the translations of his word. 01:06:52.320 --> 01:06:54.640 Because look at the kind of men who conducted some of these 01:06:54.640 --> 01:06:59.440 translations. And they've still wound up overwhelmingly faithful. 01:06:59.440 --> 01:07:01.120 Does that mean there are no problems? 01:07:01.120 --> 01:07:02.160 No, of course not. 01:07:02.160 --> 01:07:03.120 There are problems. 01:07:03.120 --> 01:07:04.880 There are things that need addressed. 01:07:04.880 --> 01:07:08.800 I wouldn't be working on translating the Psalter if I thought that 01:07:08.800 --> 01:07:12.240 there were an existing perfect translation in English. 01:07:12.240 --> 01:07:13.600 I don't believe that there is. 01:07:13.600 --> 01:07:16.640 Also I just want one that's better for reading aloud because I 01:07:16.640 --> 01:07:18.000 read it aloud every single day. 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:22.000 So partly it's a personal concern, but not entirely, because it's meant 01:07:22.000 --> 01:07:22.960 to be read aloud. 01:07:22.960 --> 01:07:24.080 That's how you memorize things. 01:07:24.080 --> 01:07:27.280 We should be memorizing scripture by doing that. 01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:31.200 But the bottom line is yes, I believe the Septuagint was an 01:07:31.200 --> 01:07:32.720 uniquely inspired translation. 01:07:32.720 --> 01:07:35.440 I think that it is a uniquely inspired translation. 01:07:35.680 --> 01:07:38.720 But I don't know that God wouldn't do the same thing for 01:07:38.720 --> 01:07:42.080 us if we undertook that task with the same level of solemnity 01:07:42.080 --> 01:07:45.680 and care as the Septuagint translation. 01:07:45.680 --> 01:07:48.960 And the versions that we have are still God's word and are 01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:52.720 still quite faithful, even if they do have some deficits. 01:07:52.720 --> 01:07:56.240 Thankfully, we generally know the deficits now, so you can account for 01:07:56.240 --> 01:07:57.520 that while reading. 01:08:00.560 --> 01:08:06.480 But that is going to be it for this week because OBS 01:08:06.480 --> 01:08:09.040 is now at 135 gigabytes of RAM. 01:08:09.040 --> 01:08:12.640 I'm not sure what it's doing, but it should probably stop. 01:08:12.640 --> 01:08:15.920 Thank you for those of you who submitted questions and thank you 01:08:15.920 --> 01:08:17.520 for participating in the chat. 01:08:17.520 --> 01:08:20.480 As always, you can submit questions on the forum. 01:08:20.480 --> 01:08:21.680 That is the preferred method. 01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:24.000 It's just the easiest way for me to organize them. 01:08:24.000 --> 01:08:28.000 Although now with my system that ingests the stream and numbers and 01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:30.880 catalogs them for me, the chat's a pretty good way as well 01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:33.680 because now I am much less likely to miss them in the 01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:37.840 scroll. That being said, it is Thursday. 01:08:37.840 --> 01:08:40.160 I actually managed to do one of these on Thursdays. 01:08:40.160 --> 01:08:41.520 It just sort of depends. 01:08:41.520 --> 01:08:42.960 It's usually Thursday or Friday. 01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:44.560 Depends how my week goes. 01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:48.160 This time I am not available tomorrow, so I had to do 01:08:48.160 --> 01:08:49.280 it today. 01:08:49.280 --> 01:08:51.120 Glad to take the time as always. 01:08:51.120 --> 01:08:54.480 I hope you all have a good rest of your evening and 01:08:54.480 --> 01:08:55.600 a good weekend. 01:08:55.600 --> 01:08:59.600 And of course, as always, go to church on Sunday, and until 01:08:59.600 --> 01:09:02.240 I see you next week, God bless.