WEBVTT 00:00:03.440 --> 00:00:05.600 Welcome to the At Any Cost Podcast. 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:06.560 I am Cory J. 00:00:06.560 --> 00:00:10.480 Mahler and it is the 4th of December, 2025. 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:14.560 This is episode six, which also happens to be the sixth QA 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:19.520 episode. I have a number of questions that were submitted very various 00:00:19.520 --> 00:00:22.160 ways, including via the forum, thankfully. 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:24.800 I'll go over that at the end. 00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:27.120 I think that I will be able to get through all of 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:29.200 the questions tonight, most likely. 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:32.000 I think that it won't take more than an hour or so. 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.000 Watch it wind up taking an hour and a half now that 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:35.280 I've said that. 00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:39.200 At any rate, I see green for all the platforms except for 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:42.320 kick. I know why that one's not working. 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:46.400 It's because apparently their bitrate cap is even lower than I thought 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:47.040 it was. 00:00:47.040 --> 00:00:49.840 So either I might not use them or I'll figure out some 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:55.760 way to transcode that so that the quality is not terrible elsewhere 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:59.360 because other platforms happily accept a higher bitrate. 00:00:59.360 --> 00:01:02.640 It's just apparently kick does not. 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:02.960 So 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:08.240 That being said, there will be links of course to where you 00:01:08.240 --> 00:01:12.560 can submit questions and everything like that in the description should already 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:14.160 be there in this case. 00:01:14.160 --> 00:01:18.560 And high quality audio is available after the fact, usually a day 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:22.160 or two lag for that, because I record the audio locally and 00:01:22.160 --> 00:01:24.480 then upload that high quality audio. 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:26.880 And you can subscribe to that the same way you would any 00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:27.600 other podcast. 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:31.360 You can use the direct RSS link which is obviously recommended because 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:32.960 that can't be censored. 00:01:32.960 --> 00:01:37.120 Unless Cloudflare decides to censor me in which case there's nothing I 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:38.480 can do about that. 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:45.280 So that being said, we will jump into the first question here. 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:51.120 The first question is about introductory resources for Lutheranism. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.560 What books would you recommend as an introduction to Lutheranism? 00:01:54.800 --> 00:01:57.760 Especially for someone from a reformed background. 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:01.520 I read long, dense books, so I'm open to reading such resources 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:04.080 if they are worthwhile. 00:02:04.320 --> 00:02:07.440 Now for that, obviously, the first recommendation is just going to be 00:02:07.440 --> 00:02:12.160 the Book of Concord, which will already get you about 1,000 to 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:16.160 1200 pages worth, so I guess that meets the requirement for long, 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:19.600 dense books, but parts of it aren't that dense. 00:02:19.600 --> 00:02:24.480 The Augsburg Confession is very readable, the catechism is very readable, but 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:26.080 it is a long book. 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.560 And so that would be my first recommendation. 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:30.080 I was going to see if I had it on my desk 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:32.960 here, but it's up on my shelf, so I won't bother grabbing 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:36.880 one. You can either read that via the physical book, you can 00:02:36.880 --> 00:02:39.920 purchase that from CPH, or find it second hand, you'll find it 00:02:39.920 --> 00:02:41.040 much cheaper. 00:02:41.040 --> 00:02:43.680 Any of the translations that exist in English are going to be 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:45.280 fine. You don't have to worry about those. 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:50.000 They have not played games with translating the Book of Concord yet. 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:52.320 So whichever one you want. 00:02:52.320 --> 00:02:56.800 I would recommend the Reader's Edition second, not because it's my favorite 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:02.320 in terms of the translation quality, and that's not and I by 00:03:02.320 --> 00:03:03.920 that I don't mean I want to be specific. 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:07.440 I don't mean that the other translations are inferior in terms of 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:11.520 accuracy, but the type of English that is used in the translation, 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:15.440 I prefer the older, more complex English of of the Triglotta. 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:18.000 Which is available free online. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:21.760 That's the website that I maintain, thebookofconcord.org. 00:03:21.760 --> 00:03:24.400 So either way is fine. 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:29.520 But in addition to that, you should grab Melancthon's and Caridian. 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:34.080 His basically small catechism, he has a condensed version of what Lutherans 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.520 teach. That has always been very highly recommended down through the centuries, 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:40.160 so I would definitely recommend grabbing that book. 00:03:40.160 --> 00:03:44.160 In addition to that, Luther on Galatians is an excellent book. 00:03:44.160 --> 00:03:47.040 That one is just a general recommendation for any Christian. 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:51.280 Luther treats the Gospel and the book of Galatians excellently in that 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:57.120 volume, so go ahead and grab his commentary on Galatians. 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:01.760 For those who want denser materials, and so that goes to sort 00:04:01.760 --> 00:04:04.800 of the the second part of this question or the subset of 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:05.920 the question. 00:04:05.920 --> 00:04:09.440 Martin Chemnitz is going to be the general recommendation. 00:04:09.440 --> 00:04:12.480 Now many things by Luther are of course worth your time, you 00:04:12.480 --> 00:04:13.760 can go and read those. 00:04:13.760 --> 00:04:15.280 Pick whichever one interests you. 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:18.080 He has collections of sermons, he has commentaries on various books, he 00:04:18.080 --> 00:04:21.600 has an eight volume set on Genesis, for instance, I have that 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:23.440 on my shelves here. 00:04:23.440 --> 00:04:27.520 But Martin Chemnitz is going to be the one you want for 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:32.240 sort of a dense theological treatment of these topics from a Lutheran 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.600 perspective. In particular, I'm looking at the set here on my shelves, 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:37.280 so I'm looking at direction. 00:04:37.280 --> 00:04:41.200 In particular, he treats the Council of Trent in four volumes, so 00:04:41.200 --> 00:04:44.080 that's a response to the Roman Catholics, the Council of Trent being 00:04:44.080 --> 00:04:47.120 their response to the Reformation, to the Lutherans. 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:52.080 He also has a multi volume, it's three volumes, but unfortunately CPH 00:04:52.080 --> 00:04:55.440 published it as two, which means the second one is enormous, quite 00:04:55.440 --> 00:05:02.000 frankly. His Los Theologic, which is various different subjects in theology. 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:03.680 That one is very worthwhile. 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:06.480 He has an apology of the Book of Concord which goes into 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:08.720 depth on some of those things a little bit. 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:10.480 Those are very worth grapping. 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:14.880 In addition to those resources, two that I would very highly recommend, 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:22.400 particularly for someone in the American context: Franz Pieper, his Christian Dogmatics, 00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:27.200 which is a three-volume, goes over basically all of theology in three 00:05:27.200 --> 00:05:30.720 volumes, does a very good job of it, many references in that, 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:32.800 so you can find additional resources. 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:36.400 And then CFW Volter, the founder of the founder of the LCMS. 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:38.640 He has a number of volumes. 00:05:38.640 --> 00:05:41.600 Really almost anything written by him you're going to enjoy reading and 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:43.520 it will be profitable. 00:05:43.520 --> 00:05:47.520 But particularly in this case I would say grab Law and Gospel 00:05:47.760 --> 00:05:50.640 and his book on predestination for obvious reasons. 00:05:50.640 --> 00:05:53.920 If you're coming from a reform background, you're going to have questions 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.960 about the differences with regard to our teachings on election. 00:05:56.960 --> 00:06:00.160 And so his volume on predestination is excellent. 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:04.880 And then finally, if you are really into sort of the getting 00:06:04.880 --> 00:06:09.280 into the weeds, Gerhard would be the recommendation from the Lutheran camp. 00:06:09.280 --> 00:06:12.320 That's not a general recommendation because most people will not read him 00:06:12.320 --> 00:06:16.320 very profitably, but it's there if you are deeply invested and interested 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:19.440 in these subjects, and he has many volumes. 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:22.720 They have not all been translated yet, so I guess bonus points 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:26.160 if you know Latin and German and a few other things, but 00:06:26.320 --> 00:06:29.200 if you don't know those, many of them have been translated. 00:06:29.200 --> 00:06:32.000 CPH is currently working through translating them, so you can grab many 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:32.720 of those volumes. 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:35.760 I have a number of those here on my shelves as well. 00:06:35.760 --> 00:06:37.440 Those are the basic recommendations. 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:41.360 And then probably grab a copy of the Lutheran Study Bible. 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:43.520 Because the notes in that are actually very good. 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:47.200 I object to relatively little in them, which is surprising. 00:06:47.200 --> 00:06:50.560 I'm sure you all know that's surprising, but it is a very 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.480 good resource, really for any Christian. 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:54.000 I I would highly recommend that. 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:57.680 It's probably the best study Bible currently available. 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:03.200 So moving on to the next question, this is a continuation from 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:04.000 last week. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:04.880 Someone asked a question. 00:07:04.880 --> 00:07:08.320 I didn't really answer the entirety of it. 00:07:08.320 --> 00:07:11.840 It was about Germany's alliance with Japan and why Japan didn't open 00:07:11.840 --> 00:07:13.520 a front with the Soviet Union. 00:07:13.520 --> 00:07:15.840 I answered the second part, but not really 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:23.120 the underlying question of when should Christians form alliances with non Christians? 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:27.760 Because obviously in this case, Germany a Christian country, Japan not a 00:07:27.760 --> 00:07:28.960 Christian country. 00:07:28.960 --> 00:07:33.600 Still to this day, Japan not a Christian country Unfortunately. 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.800 Largely due to MacArthur, of course. 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:42.400 But insofar as alliances are concerned, I guess the general way that 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:46.720 I could start would be by saying Christians are permitted to use 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:48.720 the imperial laws. 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:52.800 Now that's going to sound perhaps crazy to modern ears, but what 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:57.520 that means and the context in which that was said originally was 00:07:57.520 --> 00:08:01.360 during the Reformation, because you had the Anabaptists and others who were 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:05.200 basically saying that Christians shouldn't have any dealings with the world, they 00:08:05.280 --> 00:08:08.240 shouldn't use anything that is so called secular, which is kind of 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:10.880 ironic given they're dealing with the Holy Roman Empire at the time, 00:08:10.880 --> 00:08:14.880 it's not even actually truly secular like our modern government. 00:08:14.880 --> 00:08:19.680 But the general rule is that Christians are allowed to use the 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:23.280 secular courts, the secular laws, all of these things that are not 00:08:23.280 --> 00:08:28.640 independent, Christian, and today unfortunately are anti-Christian in many cases, you are 00:08:28.640 --> 00:08:30.640 permitted to live your life. 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:34.880 And states are also permitted to do things, like have alliances with 00:08:34.880 --> 00:08:37.200 other states, even if they are not Christian. 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:39.120 And so it's going to be a wisdom call. 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:40.240 This is a political call. 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:42.640 This is not really a Christian call. 00:08:42.640 --> 00:08:46.800 This is not really a religious or a theological question so much. 00:08:46.800 --> 00:08:48.480 This is politics. 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:51.440 Whether or not you have an alliance with another nation is a 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:53.120 matter of politics. 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:57.600 Now, as Christians, should we try to use that in order to 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:01.600 have missionaries in those lands to try to convert them to Christianity? 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:04.640 The answer of course is yes To go back to the example 00:09:04.640 --> 00:09:09.920 of Japan, MacArthur should have told the emperor, You're Christian now, convert 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:10.720 your people. 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:12.960 That would have been the Christian response. 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:15.680 In fact, that's how most Christians were converted. 00:09:15.680 --> 00:09:19.360 They didn't go around trying to convert every single man on the 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:20.960 street as it were. 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:24.560 They converted the kings, they converted the princes, they converted the tribal 00:09:24.560 --> 00:09:27.280 chieftains, who then converted their people. 00:09:27.280 --> 00:09:29.200 That is the usual way it goes. 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:30.640 And so politics has a role to play. 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:34.320 I could go back to the Book of Concord, which I just 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:38.080 mentioned. The documents in that are signed by Christian princes. 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:41.040 They're not signed by pastors in most cases, there are some documents 00:09:41.040 --> 00:09:44.480 that are, but the men who presented those things, the men who 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:49.840 advanced them, the men who championed them, made them possible, were politicians. 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:53.920 Were of course hereditary politicians because it was an aristocracy, this is 00:09:53.920 --> 00:09:55.760 the Holy Roman Empire. 00:09:55.760 --> 00:10:01.200 But those men were not first and foremost pastors or theologians. 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:02.880 This was a matter of politics. 00:10:02.880 --> 00:10:08.480 And so there is an intersection between Christianity and politics that many 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:12.000 men modernly do not want to recognize because it makes them uncomfortable. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:13.440 There are a number of reasons for that. 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.240 I won't get into them now, perhaps in response to a future 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:20.720 question, but I think that generally addresses the question here of what 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:26.000 Christian nations should do with regard to alliances specifically with non-Christian nation, 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:29.440 the answer is it's politics, it's a wisdom call. 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:36.880 The third question here I will read the content of that one. 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:40.320 Can you recommend works that explain to me why some art is 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:43.280 beautiful and some art is degenerate? 00:10:43.280 --> 00:10:46.160 What factors make art beautiful or degenerate? 00:10:46.160 --> 00:10:51.280 I know Jackson Pollock paintings are degenerate, but I cannot entirely explain 00:10:51.280 --> 00:10:55.040 why. Do the transcendentals play into this? 00:10:55.040 --> 00:10:58.400 And so the answer, of course, to the last question there is 00:10:58.400 --> 00:11:00.560 yes. The transcendentals play a role in this. 00:11:00.560 --> 00:11:06.240 In fact, the transcendentals are a huge part of this. 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:08.240 Because beauty is a transcendental. 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:11.840 And so what you're really recognizing is that some things are not 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:16.320 beautiful. And And there are a number of ways that Christians down 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:20.400 through the centuries have explained this, have addressed this topic, but to 00:11:20.400 --> 00:11:24.400 answer the question here for reading recommendations really, and then I'll get 00:11:24.400 --> 00:11:28.800 into the transcendentals a little more perhaps, you are going to find 00:11:28.800 --> 00:11:33.440 this in many of the church fathers and many theologians, but not 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.080 necessarily an in-depth treatment. 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:41.840 We're going to find a deeper treatment, perhaps more expansive, would be 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:46.880 Saint Augustine deals with this in his confessions. 00:11:46.880 --> 00:11:50.560 I believe it's book ten, but he deals with the issue 00:11:51.520 --> 00:11:55.120 of beauty and incidentally also the issue of art. 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:57.840 Because any time you're dealing with beauty, you're going to be dealing 00:11:57.840 --> 00:11:59.520 with art, because that's the question here. 00:11:59.520 --> 00:12:03.040 Is there a sort of connection between the two, a necessary connection? 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:04.720 The answer is yes. 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:07.840 Art that is beautiful is art. 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.720 Art that is ugly isn't actually art. 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.760 It's deliberately destructive, it's subversive. 00:12:13.760 --> 00:12:17.360 And of course you see the Jews involved very deeply in art 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:20.240 that is meant so meant so called art that is meant to 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:21.920 undermine society and destroy it. 00:12:21.920 --> 00:12:25.040 They'll call all sorts of things art, but really the goal is 00:12:25.040 --> 00:12:28.000 the destruction of the beautiful, so it's sort of the antithesis of 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:29.200 art. It's an anti art. 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.520 It's something deeply evil. 00:12:31.520 --> 00:12:35.760 But to keep up with the recommendations for readings, another one would 00:12:35.760 --> 00:12:36.320 be St. 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:37.520 Thomas Aquinas. 00:12:37.520 --> 00:12:42.400 In his Summa, he addresses this in the first part. 00:12:42.400 --> 00:12:46.000 Boethius is going to be a general recommendation here that you're going 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.520 to see from basically anyone who answers this question and is familiar 00:12:49.520 --> 00:12:52.880 with the literature, the consolation of philosophy. 00:12:52.880 --> 00:12:54.480 He deals with the issue in that book. 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:56.000 I would highly recommend that one. 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:01.040 Pseudodionysius is going to be another recommendation you'll see here. 00:13:01.040 --> 00:13:04.080 Somewhat of a mixed bag, he gets into the mysticism a little 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.480 bit more than I would prefer anyway. 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.280 Perhaps he will find something valuable there. 00:13:09.280 --> 00:13:11.200 That is another potential reading for you. 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:14.080 The Divine Names will be the book you want from him. 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:19.280 And then I actually have a specific recommendation, other than those ones 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:19.680 as well. 00:13:19.680 --> 00:13:22.160 I'll go into sort of the philosophy a little bit more in 00:13:22.160 --> 00:13:25.840 a second here, but another recommendation I have that came to mind 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:29.680 when I was looking at this question would be Leisure as the 00:13:29.680 --> 00:13:32.880 Basis of Culture and I would recommend getting the double volume that 00:13:32.880 --> 00:13:35.920 also has The Philosophical Act, which is an essay. 00:13:35.920 --> 00:13:38.240 Those are by Joseph Pieper. 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:42.640 I grabbed my copy off my shelves before I started recording here. 00:13:42.640 --> 00:13:47.440 I don't know that I would recommend it to everyone, but 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:52.720 any man who is Christian or even not a Christian and has 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:58.640 an interest in the transcendentals, in beauty, in art, in philosophy particularly, 00:13:58.640 --> 00:14:00.720 I would very highly recommend reading this book. 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:04.560 It is a very good, very important book. 00:14:04.560 --> 00:14:08.240 And you can think of it in some ways as sort of 00:14:08.880 --> 00:14:15.840 a superior philosophical, theological version of Hayek's road to serfdom. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:19.040 It's more than that, but that can sort of couch it for 00:14:19.040 --> 00:14:21.920 men who are f more familiar with that side of things than 00:14:21.920 --> 00:14:23.840 philosophy and theology. 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.480 But definitely highly recommend grabbing that book. 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:30.400 I think it's a pretty cheap book these days. 00:14:30.400 --> 00:14:32.160 But insofar as 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:34.640 I'll go with Thomas Aquinas. 00:14:34.640 --> 00:14:39.760 Insofar as Thomas Aquinas is concerned, he describes beauty and of course 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:43.920 the convertibility of the transcendentals because God's nature is one, God being 00:14:43.920 --> 00:14:47.680 one, he is not composed of parts, the transcendentals are all one. 00:14:47.680 --> 00:14:50.640 We speak of them in different terms because we're human and we're 00:14:50.640 --> 00:14:55.120 limited. We can only deal with them in this sort of partitioned 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:56.160 state and sense. 00:14:56.160 --> 00:14:59.520 We can't deal with them in terms of the to the totality 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:02.640 because that would be dealing with an infinite and we're a finite, 00:15:02.640 --> 00:15:05.680 we can't deal with the infinite, of course. 00:15:05.680 --> 00:15:09.840 But insofar as that goes, I actually want to pull up his 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:11.840 quote here. 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:14.000 I'll give it in Latin first. 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:20.320 But the the quote from Aquinas is Integritas Siva Perfectio Debita proportio 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:25.760 sive consonantia et cleritas, which translated as just integrity or perfection. 00:15:25.760 --> 00:15:29.760 This is speaking of the nature of the beautiful, and so it 00:15:29.760 --> 00:15:30.960 ties into artwork. 00:15:31.280 --> 00:15:35.840 Integrity or perfection, due proportion or harmony, and clarity. 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.120 That is how he described beauty. 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.120 Those are the things that go into making up what we perceive 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:44.640 as and call beauty. 00:15:44.640 --> 00:15:48.560 And so again we're dividing this into parts in order to speak 00:15:48.560 --> 00:15:52.400 of it in human comprehensible terms, because again God is infinite and 00:15:52.400 --> 00:15:55.120 we can only look at him in portion, we can look him 00:15:55.280 --> 00:15:58.480 in part, except of course beholding Christ, in which the fullness of 00:15:58.480 --> 00:15:59.600 deity dwells bodily. 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:04.400 So that's a different topic for a different time, perhaps, though. 00:16:04.400 --> 00:16:08.640 But insofar as the reading recommendations go, I think those are probably 00:16:08.880 --> 00:16:10.960 a good starting place. 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:16.080 And then you can get into a few of the other church 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:19.680 fathers deal with beauty, but I would say start there. 00:16:19.680 --> 00:16:22.160 And if you read through all of that and want more recommendations, 00:16:22.160 --> 00:16:23.520 I can maybe make some more recommendations. 00:16:23.520 --> 00:16:26.560 Recommendations or you'll find them along the way, because some of these 00:16:26.560 --> 00:16:30.000 men will reference other authors and then you can get into that 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.560 stuff as well, sort of like looking at the footnotes. 00:16:32.560 --> 00:16:36.160 They're not going to have footnotes in most cases, but effectively the 00:16:36.160 --> 00:16:37.280 same thing. 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:43.600 But insofar as beauty and artwork is concerned a little more generally, 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:49.600 yes, we're dealing with the transcendentals here, and so something that is 00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:53.120 not good ultimately, it is also not beautiful. 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:57.280 Something that is not true ultimately is not beautiful because of the 00:16:57.280 --> 00:17:00.400 convertibility of the transcendentals. 00:17:00.400 --> 00:17:06.640 So when you look at artwork that is degenerate, you recognize that, 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:08.080 hopefully, you recognize that. 00:17:08.080 --> 00:17:10.320 You should be very worried if you don't. 00:17:10.320 --> 00:17:15.760 Because if you don't recognize something as degenerate when you see it, 00:17:15.760 --> 00:17:19.760 then it means that your sense of the beautiful, the true and 00:17:19.760 --> 00:17:21.680 the good has been dulled. 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:25.680 You have been poisoned by the culture to the extent where you 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:28.640 no longer recognize these things when you see them. 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:32.160 And so I think, of course, as partly as an attorney and 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:35.280 partly as someone who's dealt with the philosophy and things, I think 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:38.960 uh the famous comment from one of our Supreme Court justices when 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:42.560 he was dealing with obscenity, speaking about porography, he said, I know 00:17:42.560 --> 00:17:47.120 it when I see it, and he's absolutely right, because you do 00:17:47.120 --> 00:17:49.840 know evil when you see it, and you do know the good 00:17:49.840 --> 00:17:52.480 when you see it, because God has given you those things. 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:53.840 He has built that into you. 00:17:53.840 --> 00:17:56.720 You have a conscience, and you have a sense of the beautiful, 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:58.720 you have a sense of the true, you have a sense of 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:03.440 the good, and things that run counter to those, which is to 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:06.960 say things that are opposed to God, things that run counter to 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:07.120 God 00:18:08.080 --> 00:18:10.560 are going to trigger that sense in you, and you're going to 00:18:10.560 --> 00:18:13.840 recognize them as degenerate as wicked as evil. 00:18:13.840 --> 00:18:17.920 And that's why when you see paintings and other things by these 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:20.000 evil men, and that's part of it, of course. 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:21.920 you can look at the nature of the man who created the 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:24.400 work. It is almost always going to follow. 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:26.560 Seldom is there going to be any disconnect there. 00:18:26.560 --> 00:18:29.040 I can't even think of an example as I sit here, I'm 00:18:29.040 --> 00:18:30.160 trying to think of one. 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:32.160 I can't bring one to mine. 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:32.240 But 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:34.480 Even 00:18:35.760 --> 00:18:38.960 I mean, maybe there are going to be men who are truly 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:42.800 wicked degenerates in their life and produce a great work of literature 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:44.720 that sometimes happens, but 00:18:45.600 --> 00:18:48.640 you're going to know it when you see it, when it comes 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:51.200 to artwork that is degenerate. 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:53.920 There are certain things, and of course, you can get into the 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.760 mathematics and you can start trying to break these things down, but 00:18:57.760 --> 00:19:00.800 ultimately it is a gestalt. 00:19:00.800 --> 00:19:03.680 It is something that is greater than the sum of its parts. 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:07.200 And so just looking at the fact that it has the golden 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.800 ratio, or it has these other proportions that are pleasing to the 00:19:10.800 --> 00:19:13.680 human eye, or it does this, that, and the other. 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:15.360 Those things are important. 00:19:15.360 --> 00:19:18.640 There's nothing wrong with studying it in that way, but you have 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:20.240 to recognize that it is 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:22.880 a larger whole. 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:25.600 There is more to it than just those parts. 00:19:25.600 --> 00:19:27.680 But it's sort of like studying God. 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:32.000 We can study the different aspects as we call them of God. 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:36.240 In an attempt to understand something of the totality, something of the 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:40.560 whole, you'll never get to the whole in that way, but you 00:19:40.560 --> 00:19:42.000 will gain something. 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:45.520 By studying God's goodness, you will gain something. 00:19:45.520 --> 00:19:48.240 It won't be a full understanding of God, but that's not the 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:52.240 point. It's sort of similar to when I make arguments for the 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:54.560 existence of God and someone will tell me, well you didn't prove 00:19:54.560 --> 00:19:56.000 the existence of the Christian God. 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:57.760 I'm not that's not what I'm doing. 00:19:57.760 --> 00:20:01.600 I'm proving the existence of God first, and then you build up 00:20:01.600 --> 00:20:02.000 from there. 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:04.320 It's similar to what you do here. 00:20:04.320 --> 00:20:07.600 So yes, you have a sense of the beautiful and when you 00:20:07.600 --> 00:20:11.840 recognize something is degenerate, it's because it's gone against that sense of 00:20:11.840 --> 00:20:12.720 the beautiful. 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:14.960 It's triggered a revulsion in you. 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:19.200 The same sort of thing that happens when functional men see homosexuality. 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:23.520 They respond in the same way they respond to literal garbage and 00:20:23.520 --> 00:20:24.800 rotting meat. 00:20:24.800 --> 00:20:28.160 That's because God has built that into you, unless society and your 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:32.880 own degenerate behavior have so dulled your sense of the beautiful of 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:36.880 the true of the good, you are going to recognize evil when 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:38.000 you see it. 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:42.560 And so that's sort of my short answer on artwork and beauty 00:20:42.560 --> 00:20:47.280 and related matters, the transcendentals, but definitely look at those reading recommendations. 00:20:47.280 --> 00:20:50.880 I think those are probably definitely the top ten in the top 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:55.760 ten, not the fullness of the top ten. 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:01.920 The next question is also a theological question, perhaps not surprisingly. 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:05.440 You have said that God hates sinners, not just sin. 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:09.200 How should we reconcile that with Romans 5:8, which says that God 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:12.960 loves sinners, and related to that, do you believe God has any 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:14.800 love for the damned? 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:19.120 So this one I actually want to start off by reading through 00:21:19.120 --> 00:21:20.400 a number of different verses. 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:22.400 So this is a little bit of a Bible study here. 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:26.400 I will pull up logos for that because I think that's going 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:29.840 to certainly help us here. 00:21:29.840 --> 00:21:30.480 And so 00:21:31.520 --> 00:21:35.920 probably helps if I have it open on my screen as well. 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:42.720 Okay. We will start in the New Testament. 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:45.840 We'll start with 1 John. 00:21:45.840 --> 00:21:49.040 And I'm sorry for the keyboard noise, but I have a mechanical 00:21:49.040 --> 00:21:54.160 keyboard. And I did not swap out for my quieter one. 00:21:54.160 --> 00:21:58.240 Anyone who does not love does not know God because God is 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:00.800 love. And I s that's an important place to start. 00:22:00.800 --> 00:22:04.080 We're sort of getting back to the previous question with the transcendentals 00:22:04.080 --> 00:22:08.400 and the nature of God, but God is his attributes. 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:11.360 But God is also described as hating, and there are many places 00:22:11.360 --> 00:22:12.240 in scripture for that. 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:15.600 I won't sort of jump ahead here but obviously the next one 00:22:15.600 --> 00:22:18.080 has to be John three sixteen. 00:22:18.080 --> 00:22:20.720 We have to deal with this one because obviously this is going 00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:23.120 to come up any time we're talking about love. 00:22:23.120 --> 00:22:25.600 For God so loved the world that he gave his only son 00:22:25.760 --> 00:22:29.520 that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 00:22:29.520 --> 00:22:32.160 And I'll stop there for now, although you should certainly go on 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:35.360 and read the rest of at least John three. 00:22:35.360 --> 00:22:36.880 Perhaps the whole book of John. 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:41.120 But then the verse from Romans here that was part of the 00:22:41.120 --> 00:22:45.040 question. But God shows his love for us and that while we 00:22:45.040 --> 00:22:50.080 were sinners, Christ died for us, which of course is true, absolutely, 00:22:50.080 --> 00:22:53.280 because we're all born in sin, and sin did my mother conceive 00:22:53.360 --> 00:22:54.960 me to quote the Psalms. 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:59.520 However, it's worth noting for this particular verse that it says while 00:22:59.520 --> 00:23:01.280 we were sinners. 00:23:01.280 --> 00:23:04.480 This is speaking of those who are among the elect, those who 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:08.720 are going to be justified before that happened. 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:12.000 And so is this speaking of all sinners? 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:13.440 Not necessarily in this case. 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:16.320 I'm not going to say, and I'm not saying here, that God 00:23:16.320 --> 00:23:20.320 doesn't love sinners in a certain sense. 00:23:20.320 --> 00:23:22.960 Because that is the ultimate conclusion here that I'm going to draw 00:23:23.040 --> 00:23:27.280 is that God both loves and hates sinners, those who are still 00:23:27.280 --> 00:23:29.360 in impenitent sin. 00:23:29.360 --> 00:23:34.080 But to continue the sort of hodgepodge Bible study here, we will 00:23:34.080 --> 00:23:39.760 go also in Romans, but back to chapter two. 00:23:39.760 --> 00:23:43.120 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:47.680 and patience Not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:48.880 to repentance. 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:51.840 And we'll come back to that one in just a little bit 00:23:51.840 --> 00:23:55.760 here. In fact, I'll open a new window so I don't have 00:23:55.920 --> 00:23:57.920 to type that one again. 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:03.840 But continuing on here, we'll go to Second Peter. 00:24:03.840 --> 00:24:07.760 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promises some count slowness, 00:24:07.760 --> 00:24:11.920 but is patient towards you, not wishing that any should perish, but 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:13.360 that all should reach repentance. 00:24:13.360 --> 00:24:19.200 And of course, this is a constant refrain throughout all of Scripture. 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:23.680 God does not desire that anyone spend eternity in hell. 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:28.000 God wants all to repent. 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:28.320 And 00:24:29.280 --> 00:24:32.720 in keeping with that theme, we'll go to basically what Peter is 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:35.520 paraphrasing here, which of course is Ezekiel. 00:24:35.520 --> 00:24:37.760 Actually, I will pull this up in the Septuagint. 00:24:37.760 --> 00:24:43.600 I'll open another new tab here. 00:24:43.600 --> 00:24:47.680 Always better to use the septuagent when the option is there. 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:49.920 Say to them, I live, says the Lord. 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:52.880 I do not wish the death of the impious. 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:56.480 Rather that the impious turn back from his way and live. 00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:59.600 Turn back from your way by turning back, and why are you 00:24:59.600 --> 00:25:01.760 dying, O house of Israel? 00:25:02.080 --> 00:25:05.360 This is essentially what Peter is paraphrasing. 00:25:05.360 --> 00:25:08.960 God wants the wicked to turn from their way. 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:11.520 He wants them to return to the right path. 00:25:11.520 --> 00:25:13.520 He wants them to repent. 00:25:13.520 --> 00:25:15.600 And that is for all sinners. 00:25:15.600 --> 00:25:18.560 God does not begrudge anyone's salvation. 00:25:18.560 --> 00:25:22.240 God has not damned anyone from eternity past. 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:23.760 That is not how this works. 00:25:23.760 --> 00:25:27.840 God wants everyone to repent, and so does he love them necessarily, 00:25:27.840 --> 00:25:30.720 of course, or he wouldn't want them to repent. 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:32.640 He would just cast them into hell and be done with it. 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:35.840 There wouldn't be any desire to see them turn from their wicked 00:25:35.840 --> 00:25:40.480 ways. And so yes, God does love sinners. 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:45.600 But of course we have to deal with verses like 00:25:48.320 --> 00:25:50.320 Actually I don't want that one. 00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:54.880 This is what happens when you are dealing with the Septuagint versus 00:25:55.200 --> 00:25:55.520 the 00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:00.000 Masoretic text, of course, the numbers are different. 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:03.520 But David, of course, you know which one I want here. 00:26:03.520 --> 00:26:05.680 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:08.080 I hate them with a perfect hatred, I count them Count them 00:26:08.080 --> 00:26:09.920 my enemies, right? 00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:10.480 And so 00:26:11.360 --> 00:26:16.480 when you're dealing with this, you have to deal with the fact 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:21.840 this is David speaking in the Spirit, saying what God desires. 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:24.080 God hates sinners. 00:26:24.080 --> 00:26:26.080 And this sort of gets into 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:31.040 sort of a philosophical problem here. 00:26:31.040 --> 00:26:33.440 For the other side of this, not on my side, because I 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:36.320 think my side's very consistent, and I will prove that here. 00:26:36.320 --> 00:26:41.920 If someone says that they hate murder, that doesn't really have any 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:47.680 meaning. Okay, you hate the abstraction that is murder. 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:53.920 Great. But murderers commit murder, and without a murderer, there is no 00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:56.320 murder. The same thing for sin. 00:26:56.320 --> 00:26:57.680 Without a sinner, there is no 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:02.720 sin, and so you can't just hate the sin, because you don't 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:05.840 just hate some abstraction. 00:27:05.840 --> 00:27:09.680 You hate the person who is doing the thing that you find 00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:16.160 detestable. And so God hates the sinner because God hates sin. 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:18.720 The sinner is the one who commits the sin. 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:20.400 Without the sinner, there is no sin. 00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:22.560 Back to the murderer example. 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:32.560 Then to go to Hebrews before I go back to Romans, for 00:27:32.560 --> 00:27:35.920 if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the 00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:40.480 truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for us, but a fearful 00:27:40.480 --> 00:27:44.480 expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume the 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:49.040 adversaries. So does God love sinners? 00:27:49.040 --> 00:27:52.480 Yes. Does God hate impenitent sinners? 00:27:52.800 --> 00:27:54.800 There's no other way to deal with this verse. 00:27:54.800 --> 00:27:56.960 The answer is yes, he certainly does. 00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.240 And then to go back as I said I would to the 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.680 book of Romans, starting with verse 5 this time. 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.760 But because of your hard and impenitent heart, you are storing up 00:28:07.760 --> 00:28:11.600 wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment 00:28:11.600 --> 00:28:14.000 will be revealed. 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:17.280 And so I guess that leads into the question, the last question 00:28:17.520 --> 00:28:20.400 there in the series of questions here. 00:28:21.520 --> 00:28:24.800 Does God have any love for the damned? 00:28:24.800 --> 00:28:30.160 I think that the necessary answer to that is yes, because God 00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:32.160 loves the good. 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:35.920 And I've gone into this previously in previous episodes, but I'll do 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:37.120 it here as well. 00:28:37.120 --> 00:28:40.160 Go over this again. 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:42.720 Everything that God creates is good. 00:28:43.600 --> 00:28:46.560 Sin is not part of your essence. 00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:50.400 Speaking in philosophical terms, we mean difference between essence and accident. 00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:52.640 An accident is a nonessential thing, basically. 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:54.320 It's the summary of that 00:28:55.600 --> 00:28:59.760 So your essence is good because your essence, your nature, these things 00:28:59.760 --> 00:29:03.120 created by God, corrupted by sin. 00:29:03.120 --> 00:29:07.040 So sin is the accident corrupting your nature. 00:29:07.040 --> 00:29:11.600 God does not love sin, God hates sin. 00:29:11.600 --> 00:29:17.200 And so insofar as those who are in hell are impenetent sinners, 00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:18.800 God hates them. 00:29:18.800 --> 00:29:21.360 But God loves them because they are his good creation. 00:29:22.320 --> 00:29:25.520 This is of course somewhat difficult to deal with, but we recognize 00:29:25.520 --> 00:29:28.080 that there are times where you can hate and love something at 00:29:28.080 --> 00:29:29.600 the same time. 00:29:29.600 --> 00:29:32.960 God can do it in an infinite way because God is infinite 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:34.640 and we're not. 00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:38.400 So the short answer is that yes, God loves sinners, but he 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:40.320 does also hate sinners. 00:29:40.320 --> 00:29:44.160 And of course it should be a call to repentance, because you 00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:47.200 want to be someone who is in Christ, someone who is no 00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:50.720 longer juridically someone who has been declared 00:29:51.840 --> 00:29:54.320 righteous for the sake of Christ. 00:29:54.320 --> 00:29:56.880 And so you are no longer counted a sinner, even though of 00:29:56.880 --> 00:29:59.680 course in this life you are still a sinner up to the 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:00.960 end, but you are not counted a sinner 00:30:01.840 --> 00:30:03.600 because you're in Christ. 00:30:03.600 --> 00:30:07.440 So all of these verses about wrath and eternal fire and all 00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.680 those things and God's hatred for sin and yes the sinner should 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.520 be a call to repentance, a call to be in Christ, to 00:30:15.520 --> 00:30:19.520 be someone who is no longer counted as a sinner, because you 00:30:19.520 --> 00:30:24.800 are covered by the blood of Christ. 00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:25.280 The The 00:30:27.120 --> 00:30:28.880 next question here. 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:32.640 Those are actually all the questions that I had from the forum 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:35.040 for this particular episode. 00:30:35.040 --> 00:30:37.760 I don't believe there were any that I missed. 00:30:37.760 --> 00:30:40.800 I will check just briefly here to make sure, but 00:30:41.760 --> 00:30:44.560 I saw a few in the chat, so I will address those 00:30:44.560 --> 00:30:49.600 now. Since I think we've got plenty of time right now, so 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.720 Those are all of the questions from the forum for this episode, 00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:59.440 so I will scroll through the chat to look for some other 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.880 ones. I noticed one before I started recording, so I will address 00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:05.200 that one first. 00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:08.320 The question that I noticed was about the Tish Raiden. 00:31:08.320 --> 00:31:12.320 And I've addressed this one a number of times, and I could 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:13.680 of course just point to that. 00:31:13.680 --> 00:31:18.240 I've posted about it on X and my Telegram channel, but what 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.760 One of the things you have to understand first and foremost about 00:31:21.760 --> 00:31:25.120 Tishraiden is that they're unreliable. 00:31:25.120 --> 00:31:28.640 Because what a Tishraiden is, is table talks. 00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:31.680 It's table speeches, but table talks, you can translate it either way 00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:32.400 into English. 00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:35.280 For those who are wondering what on earth I'm talking about here 00:31:35.280 --> 00:31:38.080 as I keep saying a German word, table talks. 00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:42.960 You've probably heard them only in regard to two men, Martin Luther 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:44.800 and Adolf Hitler. 00:31:44.800 --> 00:31:49.040 And they're almost always to use to attack those men by those 00:31:49.040 --> 00:31:51.680 who hate those men. 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:54.560 The problem is the essence of the thing. 00:31:54.560 --> 00:32:00.320 A table talk is basically a dinner conversation, often involving beer, particularly 00:32:00.320 --> 00:32:02.240 in Martin Luther's case, of course. 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:05.600 At this point, Adolf Hitler didn't drink, so not in his case, 00:32:05.600 --> 00:32:08.240 but in the case of Martin Luther, he was probably drinking beer 00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:09.280 while he was saying these things. 00:32:09.280 --> 00:32:12.320 If he said them, which is the problem here, he probably didn't 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:18.560 say them, because it is recorded second, third, sometimes fourth hand, sometimes 00:32:18.560 --> 00:32:22.800 many years after the fact, by someone who talked to someone who 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:28.400 perhaps another level of abstraction talked to someone who was there. 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:32.400 Probably not the most reliable memory if you spent an evening drinking 00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:37.280 beer and joking, and then someone records it years later after a 00:32:37.280 --> 00:32:39.360 game of telephone. 00:32:39.360 --> 00:32:39.680 So 00:32:40.560 --> 00:32:43.440 this is not the sort of source that a Christian should use 00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:45.040 or consider reliable. 00:32:45.040 --> 00:32:49.520 We should rely on the writings and the actual speeches of these 00:32:49.520 --> 00:32:54.000 men that we have in copious amounts in both cases instead of 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:55.920 relying on hearsay. 00:32:55.920 --> 00:32:57.840 Which is what it would be called in a court of law, 00:32:57.840 --> 00:33:00.560 and it would not be admissible in a court of law. 00:33:00.560 --> 00:33:05.360 Because it's completely ridiculous the circumstances under which it was supposedly recorded 00:33:05.440 --> 00:33:06.960 and then transmitted. 00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:10.320 Does is that to say that there's nothing in there that either 00:33:10.320 --> 00:33:11.360 of those men said? 00:33:11.360 --> 00:33:14.480 No, the answer is probably they said some of those things. 00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:19.200 But we cannot possibly discern which the men said and which the 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:20.880 men did not say. 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:25.600 And so the Christian is going to want to rely on sources 00:33:25.600 --> 00:33:30.240 that are reliable, sources that are provable, and there are many of 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:34.880 those. In some case where Tish Raiden are all that you have, 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:38.240 that's a more difficult call because then it's the only resource you 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:39.600 have. What do you do? 00:33:39.600 --> 00:33:41.760 Well you probably as a Christian give the man the benefit of 00:33:41.840 --> 00:33:46.080 the doubt, but in the case of these two men, there's no 00:33:46.080 --> 00:33:49.120 reason to resort to table talks. 00:33:49.120 --> 00:33:53.760 There's an entire bookshelf, a large bookshelf worth of Martin Luther's writings. 00:33:53.760 --> 00:33:56.000 We can We can go to those to see what he actually 00:33:56.000 --> 00:34:00.800 thought. In the case of Hitler, of course, we have his book 00:34:00.800 --> 00:34:02.000 and many speeches. 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:04.080 We can go to those to see what he thought. 00:34:04.080 --> 00:34:08.080 And so, of course, the part of the question here is Gerbel's 00:34:08.080 --> 00:34:12.400 diary and the table talks dealing with supposed anti Christian sentiments, and 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:16.560 I'll deal with Gerbil's diary after this bit here about the table 00:34:16.720 --> 00:34:22.960 talks. When it comes to the table talks, again, unreliable, and so 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:25.440 we look at the words of the man, but one in particular 00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:29.360 that I want to turn to here, so I will actually pull 00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:29.680 up 00:34:30.640 --> 00:34:32.240 the browser here, let me 00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:34.320 pull that up. 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:38.400 I want to read just a little bit of a quote. 00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:42.560 The Almighty created our nation, by defending its existence we defend his 00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:46.960 work. The fact that this defense is linked with unspeakable misfortune, suffering 00:34:47.040 --> 00:34:51.520 and pain beyond compare, only makes us more attached to this nation, 00:34:51.520 --> 00:34:54.320 but it also gives us the hardness we need to fulfil our 00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:56.480 duty, even in the worst crises. 00:34:56.640 --> 00:35:01.600 Take a sip of tea here. 00:35:01.600 --> 00:35:04.240 He of course goes on to speak about the bomb that detonated 00:35:04.240 --> 00:35:06.720 one and a half meters away from me on july twentieth failed 00:35:06.720 --> 00:35:07.840 to wipe me out. 00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:10.560 I see the fact that the Almighty protected me on that day 00:35:10.720 --> 00:35:13.760 as a confirmation of the mission given to me. 00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:17.520 And of course he goes on, but this is the final radio 00:35:17.520 --> 00:35:20.320 broadcast to the German people. 00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:22.320 He had no reason to lie here. 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:25.120 He would be dead shortly after this. 00:35:25.120 --> 00:35:25.760 And so 00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:31.280 if he had actually believed the things that are claimed about him 00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:34.800 with regard to Christianity, this would have been the time to say 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:39.520 them. Because if you're going to be dead shortly, there's nowhere for 00:35:39.520 --> 00:35:43.360 propaganda at this point, because it doesn't matter any more, with regard 00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:45.520 at least to this subject. 00:35:45.520 --> 00:35:49.600 And I should be clear, this is the same thing that he 00:35:49.600 --> 00:35:53.040 said all through his political career, all through his life. 00:35:53.040 --> 00:35:56.720 And so I would recommend going reading that article that I wrote 00:35:56.720 --> 00:35:58.560 on Adolf Hitler's Christianity. 00:35:58.560 --> 00:36:00.960 It's conveniently titled Adolf Hitler Christian. 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:03.520 You can find that probably just by googling it and you can 00:36:03.520 --> 00:36:05.120 probably find it with that term. 00:36:05.120 --> 00:36:08.480 If you don't find it, then just go to my website directly 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:11.600 or add my last name and then you'll probably find it. 00:36:11.600 --> 00:36:15.120 But the second part of the question is the Gebel's diaries. 00:36:15.120 --> 00:36:17.440 Why do I not find those reliable? 00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:21.680 The reason I don't find those reliable is very straightforward, very simple. 00:36:21.680 --> 00:36:25.600 They were held for decades by the Soviets, and they did not 00:36:25.600 --> 00:36:28.400 permit anyone else to have access to them. 00:36:28.720 --> 00:36:32.720 I don't trust anything that comes out of the Soviets. 00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:38.640 These are the people who started and perfected, before Photoshop notably, editing 00:36:38.640 --> 00:36:41.680 political pictures to remove people they didn't like. 00:36:41.680 --> 00:36:44.720 I'm not going to trust something that they held for decades and 00:36:44.720 --> 00:36:47.840 say, oh no, of course, we took this, and notably they don't 00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:48.720 have the originals. 00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:52.160 They basically have the equivalent of the time of a scan. 00:36:52.160 --> 00:36:54.720 That's what they have in their archives. 00:36:54.720 --> 00:36:56.800 That's what they claim to have in their archives. 00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:57.600 I don't believe it. 00:36:57.600 --> 00:37:02.080 I simply do not believe that those men were trustworthy. 00:37:02.080 --> 00:37:03.760 Because those were evil men. 00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:06.160 Nothing the Soviets said is trustworthy. 00:37:06.160 --> 00:37:08.560 Nothing they said should be believed. 00:37:08.560 --> 00:37:12.240 In particular when you're dealing with someone again, who is a Christian 00:37:12.240 --> 00:37:14.960 brother, or at least someone we should give the benefit of the 00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:18.960 doubt about being a Christian brother, and has this wealth of resources 00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:22.480 on these specific questions, we should rely on the things that are 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:30.240 reliable, not the things that were held by godless communists. 00:37:30.240 --> 00:37:32.560 We see if there is another question here. 00:37:32.560 --> 00:37:34.560 Someone asked where to submit questions. 00:37:34.560 --> 00:37:36.560 That should be in the description. 00:37:36.560 --> 00:37:40.800 I see you are listening on X, so 00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:43.040 there should be a description there. 00:37:43.040 --> 00:37:46.560 If there's no description there, then you can just go to Omniphora.com 00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:52.080 and find the request category or any of the other platforms will 00:37:52.080 --> 00:37:53.680 have a description you can find it there. 00:37:53.680 --> 00:37:56.640 I will also link it in my telegram chat after this just 00:37:56.640 --> 00:37:58.240 to make that a little easier. 00:37:58.240 --> 00:38:01.840 My telegram channel, I should say. 00:38:09.040 --> 00:38:13.440 Is what David is saying about hatred descriptive or prescriptive? 00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:18.000 I think it is very clearly both, because God calls David a 00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:20.800 man after his own heart, and then he calls him a man 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:21.920 of blood. 00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:26.080 So I don't think that those are incompatible. 00:38:26.080 --> 00:38:29.200 It is possible to be the sort of man David was, a 00:38:29.200 --> 00:38:31.280 warrior who killed many thousands. 00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:34.880 We have no idea how many, quite frankly, but many thousands of 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:40.080 men himself, and then many more with his armies, and God calls 00:38:40.080 --> 00:38:41.920 him a man after his own heart. 00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:44.560 And don't forget, of course, this is the same God who told 00:38:44.560 --> 00:38:48.240 them to go in and wipe out the Canaanites, including men, women, 00:38:48.240 --> 00:38:49.920 children, and animals. 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:50.240 So 00:38:51.200 --> 00:38:54.400 God is not against hatred. 00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:57.840 God doesn't think that hatred is wrongful. 00:38:57.840 --> 00:38:58.800 Because it's not. 00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:04.080 If you don't hate that which is seeking to destroy the good, 00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:06.320 then you don't truly love the good. 00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:10.720 You cannot love without hate, because you must hate that which would 00:39:10.720 --> 00:39:13.040 destroy that which you love. 00:39:13.040 --> 00:39:18.640 So hatred is a necessary component of love in a fallen world. 00:39:18.640 --> 00:39:23.920 Now in perfection, in paradise, when there's no longer anything seeking to 00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:27.760 destroy, hatred, at least for us, God still has to deal with 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:30.160 hell, but hatred for us is no longer a thing. 00:39:30.160 --> 00:39:32.320 It's no longer some part of our life. 00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:35.920 It's no longer necessary because there's no longer any threat to the 00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:37.200 things we love. 00:39:41.120 --> 00:39:44.160 Woe mentioned having doubts about the great Isaiah Scroll, are you able 00:39:44.160 --> 00:39:46.800 to elaborate on those doubts about its authenticity? 00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:51.120 I will probably save that one for later, but it's sort of 00:39:51.120 --> 00:39:54.480 similar to the Gerble's diary question. 00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:56.160 It's a question of chain of custody. 00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:00.160 And do you trust the people who had it in custody? 00:40:00.160 --> 00:40:04.960 And the answer is no, because I don't trust godless communists, for 00:40:04.960 --> 00:40:11.680 the same reason I don't trust Jews, because of the same group. 00:40:11.680 --> 00:40:14.560 Do you believe that there is still Old Testament prophecy yet to 00:40:14.560 --> 00:40:15.200 be fulfilled? 00:40:15.200 --> 00:40:20.320 Well, we certainly have the apocalyptic visions of Daniel, and so the 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:23.440 eschaton is still out there somewhere in the future. 00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:24.320 We don't know how far. 00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:25.760 Scripture's very clear about that. 00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:29.200 No one knows when it's coming, so don't believe any man who 00:40:29.200 --> 00:40:34.640 tells you, Oh, I know, because he's lying, or he's insane. 00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:39.360 So that one's sort of easy to say that yes, there are 00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:41.840 things in the Old Testament that have not come to pass yet. 00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:46.400 The overwhelming majority of the prophecies were fulfilled in Christ, of course. 00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:48.240 But are there things that 00:40:49.120 --> 00:40:50.320 Have not been fulfilled? 00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:51.760 Yes, I think so. 00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:54.000 Does Wo have any plans for a podcast? 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:57.120 The answer to that is definitely no, he does not. 00:40:57.120 --> 00:40:59.040 He has no plans for that. 00:40:59.040 --> 00:41:02.160 I'm sure he may do an appearance here or there, but that's 00:41:02.160 --> 00:41:11.280 not really his desire at this point. 00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:13.680 What do you think of Vladimir Putin? 00:41:13.680 --> 00:41:17.920 I think Vladimir Putin is KJB. 00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:21.600 And not just KJB, but Berlinov is KJB. 00:41:21.600 --> 00:41:24.320 So he's not a good man. 00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:26.000 Is he doing some things 00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:28.640 that are good? 00:41:28.640 --> 00:41:30.480 In some cases, sure. 00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:33.360 But wicked men sometimes do good things. 00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:35.760 I hope that he becomes an actual Christian. 00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:38.480 I quite frankly don't think that he is. 00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:42.720 I think that I think that there's very little evidence of that, 00:41:42.720 --> 00:41:48.080 but I also am not particularly familiar with his statements on religion. 00:41:48.080 --> 00:41:50.080 I only know a little bit about it, so I'm not willing 00:41:50.080 --> 00:41:53.200 to conclude you know conclusively one way or the other. 00:41:53.200 --> 00:41:56.560 But But I do not find him to be a good man 00:41:56.560 --> 00:42:00.160 for the reasons stated, because someone who works in the KJB, particularly 00:42:00.160 --> 00:42:04.000 the Boleyn office, is not going to be someone I would certainly 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:05.840 trust with anything. 00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:07.280 I don't think I'd trust that kind of person. 00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:09.520 Maybe I'd trust him with my wallet just because it's trivial he 00:42:09.520 --> 00:42:12.480 wouldn't steal that, but not the kind of man I'm going to 00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:13.920 hold in high regard. 00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:16.960 And there's also the fact that he leads a nation that is 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:19.600 essentially apostate. 00:42:19.600 --> 00:42:24.320 I know that in the West, in certain subgroups anyway, Russia has 00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:29.600 this reputation as being a great defender of the Christian faith, the 00:42:29.600 --> 00:42:33.440 Christian religion, of all these things, blah blah blah. 00:42:33.520 --> 00:42:36.800 The problem is the Russians don't even attend church. 00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:39.680 They barely go on Christmas and Easter. 00:42:39.680 --> 00:42:44.400 And abortion, granted, I will point out, and this is something that 00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:48.560 you just definitely do when it happens, their numbers are improving, but 00:42:48.560 --> 00:42:53.840 the abortion numbers from Eastern Europe, particularly from Russia, are abhorrent. 00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:57.280 Russia was the worst example for many years. 00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:02.800 And so I don't see the actual Christianity playing out in Russia 00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:05.760 that is claimed to exist there. 00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:09.280 And to some degree, a leader is a reflection of the nation, 00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:11.280 and the nation is a reflection of the leader. 00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:11.680 And so 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:15.760 when I look at the nation, I don't see good things. 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.040 When I look at the leader, I don't see good things. 00:43:19.040 --> 00:43:22.000 And of course you have the problem of still kind of glorifying 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.120 the Soviet era and the communists and all the evils they did, 00:43:25.120 --> 00:43:29.120 because There's a very real problem with regard to Russia and getting 00:43:29.120 --> 00:43:32.480 over that and recognizing that what was done in that era was 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:37.280 evil. But this sort of gets off into the political weeds, obviously. 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:42.000 That starts to cause problems with how they have propped up their 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:46.720 government as legitimate over previous decades, and so that gets into a 00:43:46.720 --> 00:43:47.360 big mess. 00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:51.520 But that's my short version of what I think about Vladimir Putin. 00:43:51.600 --> 00:43:55.120 There's also the fact that he's very old at this point, for 00:43:55.120 --> 00:43:58.480 a politician, particularly one in such a stressful position. 00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:01.280 He'll probably be retiring at some point in the not too distant 00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:04.240 future, and so he won't be relevant forever. 00:44:04.240 --> 00:44:07.360 He's just been relevant for a large part of certainly my life, 00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:12.400 and undoubtedly for many of you listening, so I think that sort 00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:15.920 of covers my views on that subject, anyway. 00:44:18.080 --> 00:44:21.280 So I think I'll do maybe one or two more questions since 00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:23.920 I think we're right about at the hour mark here, if I'm 00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:24.560 not mistaken. 00:44:24.560 --> 00:44:27.200 Let me look up the actual recording here. 00:44:27.200 --> 00:44:31.040 Oh, I guess we're only at about the 45-50-minute mark, not counting 00:44:31.360 --> 00:44:34.160 the countdown, which it's not fair to include the countdown. 00:44:34.160 --> 00:44:34.480 So 00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:36.960 can you discuss swearing? 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:39.760 What words are swearing and who defines it? 00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:44.800 I think this is similar to the that's just as Potter Stewart, 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:48.000 I didn't mention his name last time, but I think it's similar 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:49.760 to the pornography question. 00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:52.000 You know it when you see it, and hopefully you don't see 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:56.720 it. With regard to swearing, however, I'm not saying that it's equivalent 00:44:56.720 --> 00:45:00.720 morally to pornography, because I don't think that it is something you 00:45:00.720 --> 00:45:01.680 should never do. 00:45:01.680 --> 00:45:03.440 You should never look at pornography. 00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:04.640 Pornography shouldn't exist. 00:45:04.640 --> 00:45:05.440 It should all be destroyed. 00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:06.880 It should be a capital crime. 00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:10.960 But But swearing is a time and a place. 00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:12.880 We have those words for a reason. 00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:15.760 That's not to say that everything that exists has a reason, because 00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:19.680 certainly there are combinations of words that should never be spoken. 00:45:19.680 --> 00:45:22.320 Ones that amount to blasphemy, for instance. 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:26.160 So the tendency of English speakers and some others to use Jesus 00:45:26.160 --> 00:45:30.400 as a swear word, as an expletive, you should not do that. 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:31.360 Ever, period. 00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:33.520 That should be a never thing. 00:45:33.520 --> 00:45:34.320 But with regard to 00:45:35.680 --> 00:45:38.320 other words that we consider to be swear words, and I'm not 00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:41.920 going to use them for obvious reasons, partly because I do think 00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:44.400 that you should not use them around women and children. 00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:47.600 And women and children may very well see this, so it would 00:45:47.600 --> 00:45:49.520 be inappropriate. 00:45:49.520 --> 00:45:55.200 But can you, particularly talking to men among other men, in certain 00:45:55.200 --> 00:45:57.360 circumstances use expletives? 00:45:57.360 --> 00:45:58.880 The answer is yes, and I think that they have a time 00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:00.960 have a time and a place and I think they are right 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:04.640 to use in certain times under certain conditions. 00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:09.840 I think that any ex military listening or active military listening are 00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:13.120 certainly going to agree with me on that one. 00:46:13.120 --> 00:46:16.080 So So who defines what they are? 00:46:16.080 --> 00:46:17.760 That's a cultural matter. 00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:20.160 These things are a natural outgrowth of the culture. 00:46:20.160 --> 00:46:23.120 They develop over time in the same way that language develops. 00:46:23.120 --> 00:46:25.120 And so a word that is 00:46:26.080 --> 00:46:31.280 totally innocuous five hundred years ago, maybe an expletive today, or vice 00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:35.600 versa. Or cross language, of course, because I won't say it because 00:46:35.600 --> 00:46:39.680 it's going to sound bad to English ears, but the Latin verb 00:46:39.680 --> 00:46:44.880 for to do sounds like an English swear word, but it's not 00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:46.480 in that context. 00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:50.880 And so, yes, these things are context specific, but I know some 00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:53.760 people who get into, you know, Chomsky or something else like that. 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.960 They start to think weird things, they have odd thoughts about, well, 00:46:56.960 --> 00:46:57.920 is it a swear word? 00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:01.840 Because it's not actually bad inherently, it's according to context. 00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:04.240 Well of course it's according to context. 00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:07.520 Almost everything in life is according to context. 00:47:07.520 --> 00:47:11.600 So, you know, if I toss water on you, just a glass 00:47:11.600 --> 00:47:15.840 of water on you, in the middle of you know, a meeting, 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:19.600 that's different from if I throw a water balloon at you during 00:47:19.600 --> 00:47:21.520 the summer out running around, right? 00:47:21.520 --> 00:47:23.600 Or at a water park. 00:47:23.600 --> 00:47:24.960 Does the context matter? 00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:26.880 Yes, the context matter for the act. 00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:30.560 Context also matters for the words being said Being said, there are 00:47:30.560 --> 00:47:34.080 things that are not appropriate in some places that are appropriate in 00:47:34.080 --> 00:47:36.960 others. And so, you know, there are things that you can say 00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:39.840 to your wife that you probably shouldn't say to people you pass 00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:40.720 in the street. 00:47:40.720 --> 00:47:42.560 And vice versa. 00:47:42.560 --> 00:47:47.120 So So just because things are context dependent does not mean that 00:47:47.120 --> 00:47:48.800 they aren't real. 00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:52.560 So that whole argument when you get into semiotics and stuff like 00:47:52.560 --> 00:47:55.680 that complete nonsense. 00:47:55.680 --> 00:48:01.200 It's not that the word in itself, the set of sounds, is 00:48:01.200 --> 00:48:05.040 essentially bad, is in and of itself bad. 00:48:05.040 --> 00:48:08.720 It's that in the context of the language you are speaking it 00:48:08.720 --> 00:48:12.800 has a certain meaning And that meaning is one that should not 00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:16.960 be spoken in certain company, but may be spoken in other company. 00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:21.200 And so that's basically my view of the use of expletives and 00:48:21.200 --> 00:48:23.120 swear words and things like that. 00:48:23.120 --> 00:48:26.000 I don't think that they're per se wrongful, but I think that 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:30.640 they should be used sparingly, partly because they don't have any power 00:48:30.720 --> 00:48:35.680 unless they're used sparingly, but also because it's inappropriate to use them 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:41.600 in certain places at certain times. 00:48:41.600 --> 00:48:46.640 Which SC episodes were your favorite to actually record? 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:52.080 I don't really know which were my favorite to record. 00:48:52.080 --> 00:48:52.480 They 00:48:54.080 --> 00:48:59.040 were all kind of similar, except for some were much less fun 00:48:59.040 --> 00:49:00.800 than others. 00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:05.280 So topics that are very serious, very weighty are going to be 00:49:05.280 --> 00:49:07.360 a little less fun, as it were, to record. 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:11.680 I'm not even sure fun is really the necessarily the right description 00:49:11.680 --> 00:49:15.360 here, but those are going to be a little less fun just 00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:17.840 because you have to take those more seriously. 00:49:18.080 --> 00:49:19.520 It's a heavier subject. 00:49:19.520 --> 00:49:23.680 When you deal with heavy subjects, they take a certain sort of 00:49:23.680 --> 00:49:26.400 toll. I'm not going to say that, you know, it took a 00:49:26.400 --> 00:49:30.160 years off my life or something like that, but I would think 00:49:30.160 --> 00:49:35.920 of sort of the analogy would be certain areas of law are 00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:39.200 harder to practice because of the subject matter. 00:49:39.200 --> 00:49:42.640 And I am thinking specifically of the sex crimes unit in the 00:49:42.640 --> 00:49:43.920 DA's office. 00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:47.760 I know some people who have done that as their career choice, 00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:50.320 and it takes a toll on you, unless you're the kind of 00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:55.200 person who can really sort of partition your life and sort of 00:49:55.200 --> 00:49:58.640 tune those things out when you're no longer at work, but very 00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:00.400 few men can do that. 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:03.600 So certain subjects are going to be more difficult just because they 00:50:03.600 --> 00:50:04.320 are weightier. 00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:05.920 They are more They are more important. 00:50:05.920 --> 00:50:07.920 So I don't know if I would say that there's anyone that 00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:12.320 was like particularly fun to record, but it's not that I didn't 00:50:12.240 --> 00:50:15.120 like recording Stone Choir, of course, but 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:18.480 I don't know that I'd have like a top ten most fun 00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:23.680 to record episodes. 00:50:23.680 --> 00:50:26.960 Why do you think God permits the Jews to continue existing? 00:50:26.960 --> 00:50:29.520 Their sin is not yet complete, in quotes, worries me for the 00:50:29.520 --> 00:50:32.000 fate of all people, but not the Makes me wonder how sinful 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:35.760 the Jews can get. 00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:40.720 This is perhaps a difficult question, and one that I can't necessarily 00:50:40.720 --> 00:50:44.720 answer fully in this place at this time, but 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:48.560 part of it is judgment. 00:50:48.560 --> 00:50:52.160 If God permits a people to go on sinning, to fill up 00:50:52.160 --> 00:50:55.360 their cup of wrath, as he did with the Canaanites, as he 00:50:55.360 --> 00:50:58.320 did with many other groups, we see that in pages of scripture 00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:00.480 and the pages of history. 00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:02.880 It is a form of judgment. 00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:06.880 Because actually the greatest mercy God could have on you if you 00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:10.720 were never going to convert, like you are the sort of person 00:51:10.720 --> 00:51:16.320 who is just going to adamantly, persistently, defiantly walk contrary to God 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:20.480 your entire life, and you are going to waltz straight into hell. 00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:23.200 The kindest thing God could do would be to kill you in 00:51:23.200 --> 00:51:25.360 the womb. 00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:29.680 But God doesn't do that, because God permits us to live out 00:51:29.680 --> 00:51:33.920 our lives, to exercise our free will, and in some cases that 00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:36.320 is definitely not a good thing. 00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:40.480 Because some people use their free will to make their eternity much, 00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:41.280 much worse. 00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:44.000 And that is essentially what the Jews are doing. 00:51:44.000 --> 00:51:48.720 They are making their eternity worse every time they do something evil. 00:51:48.720 --> 00:51:49.920 And that is very unfortunate. 00:51:50.720 --> 00:51:53.440 For them and for everyone else, of course. 00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:55.440 But that is the reality of it. 00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:59.600 And it also falls to good men to stop evil men. 00:51:59.600 --> 00:52:02.960 And so one of the reasons, possibly one of the most important 00:52:03.040 --> 00:52:06.480 reasons, when you can say that evil men continue to exist and 00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:09.600 continue to do evil things in the world, it is because good 00:52:09.600 --> 00:52:12.320 men have failed to remove them. 00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:15.760 That is one of the reasons that we had capital punishment for 00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:19.600 centuries in Europe, and we basically just got rid of all of 00:52:19.600 --> 00:52:22.480 the men who are inclined toward criminality. 00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:25.520 And that's one of the reasons that European countries had such a 00:52:25.520 --> 00:52:28.880 very low crime rate prior to Prior to so called immigration. 00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:32.320 It is incumbent on good men, particularly the Christian prince to whom 00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:37.040 is entrusted the sword of state, to remove evil men from society. 00:52:37.040 --> 00:52:41.200 And when that does not happen, their evil continues to compound and 00:52:41.200 --> 00:52:44.400 grow over a course of centuries. 00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:50.800 And that is exactly what we see happening with the Jews. 00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:54.400 Do you foresee a rise in right wing paganism or Nietzscheanism In 00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:57.120 the future, or do you think it's more of internet LARP or 00:52:57.120 --> 00:53:01.440 fad? It's a LARP, to be completely blunt and honest. 00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:03.920 And the men who are in that who listen to me, and 00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:06.240 I know there may be some in the chat very well, but 00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:09.040 I've said that to their faces, they know what I think, so 00:53:09.040 --> 00:53:10.880 that's nothing new for them. 00:53:10.880 --> 00:53:12.880 I'm not going to sugarcoat it. 00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:16.320 And it is sort of ironic that some of them will hold 00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:20.480 up the National Socialists and try to tie them into paganism when 00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:24.400 Adolf Hitler is literally the source of calling them a LARP. 00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:28.560 That he's actually literally the source of that manti meme, as it 00:53:28.560 --> 00:53:31.840 were, or meme, whichever way you want to call it, of calling 00:53:31.840 --> 00:53:35.200 them just a weird, nonsensical, unserious LARP. 00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:38.560 That's not to say that I don't recognize why they do it, 00:53:38.560 --> 00:53:41.200 and I've gone into this before, but I'll go into it again. 00:53:41.200 --> 00:53:46.400 I recognize why they have the interest in those things, why they 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:49.360 have a distaste for the church is because the church is currently 00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:55.440 weak. The church is currently infested with weak men, with effeminate men, 00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:59.520 with men who are not Christians, and yet they're wearing the trappings 00:53:59.520 --> 00:54:02.240 of Christians and pretending to be Christians. 00:54:02.240 --> 00:54:04.880 And so when the church looks weak, it is going to drive 00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:10.720 away men who are disgusted rightfully by weakness, by that sort of 00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:15.360 just spinelessness that you see rampant in the churches. 00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:19.040 And so they're looking for something that is powerful, something that is 00:54:19.040 --> 00:54:21.840 strong. And there's nothing wrong with that. 00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:26.800 Because as I remind people all the time, God's power, God's position 00:54:26.800 --> 00:54:31.520 of authority, rests on his power, on his strength, on his ability 00:54:31.840 --> 00:54:36.720 to inflict infinite torture on all of his enemies. 00:54:37.040 --> 00:54:42.160 And so it's completely ridiculous to think that being strong is not 00:54:42.160 --> 00:54:43.200 part of Christianity. 00:54:43.200 --> 00:54:45.920 That's what God has designed men to be. 00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:50.320 And so men who are weak are actually condemned in the pages 00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:51.200 of scripture. 00:54:51.200 --> 00:54:54.240 Because if feminicy is condemned, and it's not just in the sexual 00:54:54.240 --> 00:54:57.920 context, if feminicy is condemned with regard to men, I want to 00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:00.000 be clear, I'm not saying with regard to women, because of course 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:01.680 it's praised for women. 00:55:01.680 --> 00:55:05.360 But for men It is a deep and abiding wickedness. 00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:09.600 And so when you have these men who recognize the evils that 00:55:09.600 --> 00:55:14.640 are taking place in the church and want to escape that evil, 00:55:14.640 --> 00:55:16.880 they're doing it the wrong way. 00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:19.520 But I understand why they're doing it. 00:55:19.520 --> 00:55:21.920 And the impulse is not wrong. 00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:29.200 They are drawing the wrong conclusion from the evidence. 00:55:29.200 --> 00:55:31.920 But no, I don't think it's going to be a serious long-term 00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:39.040 force. I think that as Christianity turns and becomes Christianity again, those 00:55:39.040 --> 00:55:41.200 men are going to come back to the churches, and we will 00:55:41.200 --> 00:55:45.440 welcome them back to the churches because sure they went on a 00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:48.080 detour for a while and I think that it was foolish and 00:55:48.080 --> 00:55:51.040 I think that it was wrong but they are my brothers and 00:55:51.040 --> 00:55:54.080 I want them back in the churches because that is one of 00:55:54.080 --> 00:55:57.120 my overriding goals is to get white men back into the churches 00:55:57.280 --> 00:56:01.280 churches.. 00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:13.680 Do you think that there is an opportunity for a new far 00:56:13.680 --> 00:56:16.400 right wing party in the United States? 00:56:17.360 --> 00:56:21.440 That one is somewhat difficult to answer because there are a lot 00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:24.480 of moving of moving parts there. 00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:25.920 But I think 00:56:26.800 --> 00:56:29.760 the first thing that I would say about it is sort of 00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:32.000 political science answer. 00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:36.240 The US does not have what is called party discipline. 00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:40.480 We could contrast this perhaps with Great Britain. 00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:45.520 The way that party discipline works in the UK context is that 00:56:45.520 --> 00:56:48.560 they have lists for politicians. 00:56:48.560 --> 00:56:52.800 And when they reach a certain level of votes, depending on where 00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:55.360 you are on the list, you may get an office. 00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:57.760 Now I'm simplifying it a little bit, but this is basically how 00:56:57.760 --> 00:56:58.560 it works. 00:56:58.560 --> 00:57:02.800 And so part of how they have party discipline, which I'll define 00:57:02.800 --> 00:57:05.040 that briefly so people know what I'm talking about before I keep 00:57:05.040 --> 00:57:06.960 talking about something that makes no sense. 00:57:07.200 --> 00:57:12.080 Party discipline is the ability of the party authorities to get the 00:57:12.080 --> 00:57:16.400 party members, in this case politicians, not individual voters, to follow the 00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:19.600 party line, to do what they want, to follow orders. 00:57:19.600 --> 00:57:23.040 So how they do that is they determine your place in the 00:57:23.040 --> 00:57:26.880 list. If you don't follow orders, you get bumped down the list, 00:57:26.880 --> 00:57:29.040 and then you probably don't get elected. 00:57:29.040 --> 00:57:31.920 Very easy for them, very good party discipline. 00:57:31.920 --> 00:57:34.400 The party higher-ups can tell you what to do, and you either 00:57:34.400 --> 00:57:36.720 play ball or you get kicked out. 00:57:36.720 --> 00:57:39.920 We don't really have that in the U.S context. 00:57:39.920 --> 00:57:45.520 Because the central parties, so the GOP and the DNC, don't actually 00:57:45.520 --> 00:57:49.120 have enforcement mechanisms except money. 00:57:49.120 --> 00:57:52.880 And so if you can raise money in a grassroots fashion, if 00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:56.480 you can raise it through many small donations, you are not ultimately 00:57:56.480 --> 00:57:58.560 beholden to the national party. 00:57:58.560 --> 00:58:02.640 All they can do is, you know, maybe censure you or publish 00:58:02.640 --> 00:58:06.080 a mean media piece about you, whatever it is, a hit piece. 00:58:06.080 --> 00:58:08.640 They can't actually tell you what to do. 00:58:08.640 --> 00:58:12.800 Because we don't have the enforcement mechanisms because of the way our 00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:14.080 system is built. 00:58:14.080 --> 00:58:20.000 Now, if you get to the national system, it's a little different 00:58:20.160 --> 00:58:23.680 because they can shut you out of, say, committees and things in 00:58:23.680 --> 00:58:28.000 Congress, and they can very much limit your authority or your ability 00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:29.920 to exercise your authority at least. 00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:34.160 But But at the state level, and particularly at say the city 00:58:34.160 --> 00:58:37.520 level or the county level, the national parties don't have that much 00:58:37.520 --> 00:58:42.320 power. So can you run as a Republican in a county and 00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:46.240 actually attain office and have some autonomy and do something good? 00:58:46.240 --> 00:58:52.240 Absolutely. So if that stuff starts happening, then there is a chance 00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:56.400 at least particularly develop a regional power base for our people. 00:58:56.400 --> 00:59:00.880 And And for the actual right wing, not the establishment, the kosher 00:59:01.040 --> 00:59:02.400 right wing. 00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:07.200 But if you could do that in a regional area, then sure 00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:11.280 you can be the Republican Party, but are you really the Republican 00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:14.560 Party? The answer is yes and no. 00:59:14.560 --> 00:59:17.440 No, in the sense that you're not obeying the party leadership, but 00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:20.000 yes in the sense that who cares what they say, they don't 00:59:19.920 --> 00:59:22.640 have an enforcement mechanism to force you to do it. 00:59:22.640 --> 00:59:27.360 The alternative is, of course, starting up a new party, which is 00:59:27.520 --> 00:59:30.800 somewhat difficult, and you wind up doing the same thing. 00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:33.280 And the reason you wind up doing the same thing is because 00:59:33.520 --> 00:59:36.160 in the US, if you were to start up a new party, 00:59:36.160 --> 00:59:40.080 it would not initially at least be a national undertaking, it would 00:59:40.160 --> 00:59:44.080 inherently just by the nature of our system be regional. 00:59:44.080 --> 00:59:47.600 Particularly focused in some state, I would say is probably best. 00:59:47.600 --> 00:59:51.280 I'm personally going to say Tennessee, partly because I live here, partly 00:59:51.280 --> 00:59:53.760 because that's just where I see things going. 00:59:53.760 --> 00:59:57.680 Tennessee seems to be a Nexus for whatever reason. 00:59:57.680 --> 01:00:02.160 Couple dozen different reasons, but topic for another time, perhaps. 01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:08.080 If you have that national goal in mind, then you can start 01:00:08.080 --> 01:00:10.000 with a regional buildup. 01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:13.440 And so you know if you start in East Tennessee and then 01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:20.160 you associate Associate with middle and West Tennessee, and then Kentucky, right, 01:00:20.160 --> 01:00:23.040 and then the rest of the deep south, and you know, you 01:00:23.040 --> 01:00:26.160 build up a network in that sort of way, you can absolutely 01:00:26.160 --> 01:00:27.680 do that with a new party. 01:00:27.680 --> 01:00:29.120 Do I think that a new party is 01:00:30.720 --> 01:00:34.000 optimal or necessary? 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:38.880 I think that it's probably more likely that is the route than 01:00:39.040 --> 01:00:41.920 taking over the Republican Party. 01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:45.600 So So maybe sixty-forty if I were to assign numbers to it, 01:00:45.600 --> 01:00:47.920 percentages, likelihoods. 01:00:47.920 --> 01:00:52.160 So not a hundred percent, but certainly more likely than the alternative, 01:00:52.160 --> 01:00:55.680 just because the structure of the Republican Party is going to shut 01:00:55.680 --> 01:00:59.360 you out of funding and certainly out of committees and things if 01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:01.840 you happen to get someone into the national government. 01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:04.960 And so that's an additional hurdle to overcome. 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:07.600 But at the same time, they're going to do the same thing. 01:01:07.600 --> 01:01:10.640 If you send someone to Washington, D.C. 01:01:10.720 --> 01:01:14.640 as a representative who's part of the nationalist party or whatever you 01:01:14.640 --> 01:01:16.320 happen to call your party. 01:01:16.320 --> 01:01:19.120 Those are very real hurdles you have to overcome. 01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:23.280 The way forward for the right ultimately, and I'm not revealing anything 01:01:23.280 --> 01:01:27.360 great here, plenty of men can recognize this is going to happen. 01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:32.240 You need to have a number of leaders who are gifted at 01:01:32.240 --> 01:01:39.440 speaking, who are able to cogently, coherently broadcast our points, our talking 01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:43.840 points, our position to the masses, and get those men to come 01:01:43.840 --> 01:01:44.800 on board. 01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:48.880 And it shouldn't be that hard in some cases because we are 01:01:48.880 --> 01:01:51.280 the ones who actually want what is best for them. 01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:54.800 We are the ones who have policies that will actually benefit them. 01:01:54.800 --> 01:02:00.160 The average American would have a far better life if so-called far 01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:02.480 right men were in charge running the country. 01:02:02.480 --> 01:02:06.800 But it's a matter of getting them to recognize that. 01:02:06.800 --> 01:02:09.120 And the thing is I don't think that it's going to be 01:02:09.120 --> 01:02:13.280 that difficult in many cases, because I've been putting up feelers as 01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:17.440 it were and looking at politics and how things are on the 01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:22.640 ground. Men who you would not expect are very willing to hear 01:02:22.640 --> 01:02:27.280 our talking points these days, even among the baby boomer generation. 01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:29.840 So things are definitely shifting. 01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:33.280 So I guess that's sort of a meandering answer to your question, 01:02:33.280 --> 01:02:37.600 but it's sort of a nebulous question and a necessarily nebulous answer 01:02:37.600 --> 01:02:42.480 for that. 01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:46.080 Why did you only make X episodes of your Tish Raiden podcast? 01:02:46.080 --> 01:02:48.240 I really enjoyed those and it sounded like you were going to 01:02:48.240 --> 01:02:51.760 make more I I guess I can actually just go ahead and 01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:55.600 share because I think people probably find it funny and I am 01:02:55.600 --> 01:02:57.840 not legally bound not to share it. 01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:01.600 I got banned from that brewery for that podcast. 01:03:01.600 --> 01:03:04.160 So recording that podcast in particular 01:03:05.040 --> 01:03:07.760 cost me the ability to go to a brewery that I actually 01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:11.840 like. I do not call and harass them, do not pester them 01:03:11.840 --> 01:03:12.960 about that. 01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:14.560 I know why they did it. 01:03:14.560 --> 01:03:16.640 I understand why they did it. 01:03:16.640 --> 01:03:18.960 They weren't like mean about it. 01:03:18.960 --> 01:03:24.640 So I 100% understand their position and why they did what they 01:03:24.640 --> 01:03:26.800 did. So do not harass them, don't pester them. 01:03:26.800 --> 01:03:28.720 I don't hold it against them. 01:03:29.440 --> 01:03:33.760 They were being harassed by Antifa and others and having nasty messages, 01:03:33.760 --> 01:03:36.160 and I don't even know the nature of the voicemails and things 01:03:36.160 --> 01:03:39.840 that were being left, but that sort of thing was happening. 01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:42.400 Am I against recording something like that in the future? 01:03:42.400 --> 01:03:43.280 I would say no. 01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:48.160 I might take a few more measures to sort of disambiguate things, 01:03:48.160 --> 01:03:52.960 or at least to sort of attenuate the connection between me and 01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:55.280 whatever place happens to be hosting it. 01:03:55.280 --> 01:04:00.960 I don't object to doing that, but I don't necessarily see doing 01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:04.080 that in the immediate future because that would require me to find 01:04:04.080 --> 01:04:06.720 some people who are also willing to do that who are public 01:04:07.360 --> 01:04:08.720 with their views as well. 01:04:08.720 --> 01:04:11.280 And there are some of those, so maybe that's something for the 01:04:11.280 --> 01:04:14.000 future. But yes, the reason that I stopped doing that is quite 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:18.400 literally because we got banned from that location. 01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:18.720 So 01:04:19.680 --> 01:04:20.720 it happens. 01:04:20.720 --> 01:04:24.640 That's part of being a a dissident movement, as it were. 01:04:24.880 --> 01:04:27.760 And if you are very public with your views, you're going to 01:04:27.920 --> 01:04:34.240 sort of pay for them every so often in some ways. 01:04:36.640 --> 01:04:40.480 I am going to leave this question about book recommendations for understanding 01:04:40.480 --> 01:04:43.920 the modern West until next time, because I do have some of 01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:45.680 those in mind, but I want to think about that question a 01:04:45.680 --> 01:04:53.120 little bit, so I will wait until next time. 01:04:53.120 --> 01:04:56.240 And I think I will also leave the question about the tetragrammaton 01:04:56.320 --> 01:04:58.560 because I have a short answer to that, but I think I'd 01:04:58.560 --> 01:04:59.920 want to expand on that a little bit. 01:04:59.920 --> 01:05:04.080 So I think I will call it here for this week since 01:05:04.080 --> 01:05:08.640 I think we're just over an hour of actual QA now, not 01:05:08.640 --> 01:05:12.640 counting that countdown, which again shouldn't be counted. 01:05:12.640 --> 01:05:14.240 So thank you all for your time. 01:05:14.240 --> 01:05:16.720 Thank you for those who submitted questions. 01:05:16.720 --> 01:05:20.080 Again, if you would like to submit questions, there is a link 01:05:20.080 --> 01:05:21.360 in the description. 01:05:21.360 --> 01:05:25.200 I will also be posting that in my telegram channel. 01:05:25.200 --> 01:05:30.560 But it is just omniphora.com and it is the request category. 01:05:30.560 --> 01:05:31.760 Please put it in that category. 01:05:31.760 --> 01:05:32.800 If you don't, I can move it. 01:05:32.800 --> 01:05:33.840 It's not a big deal. 01:05:33.840 --> 01:05:36.960 It just saves me, you know, 10 seconds. 01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:40.080 But if you submit a question there, just submit the question 01:05:41.120 --> 01:05:43.440 and then you can vote on other ones that are there. 01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:46.240 Currently, I've answered basically all of the ones that are there, so 01:05:46.240 --> 01:05:48.320 there's no need to vote on them right now. 01:05:48.320 --> 01:05:51.120 But if you vote on them, then as they rise to the 01:05:51.120 --> 01:05:53.280 top, say if there are a lot of questions in the future, 01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:56.080 I can prioritize them, that will help me. 01:05:56.080 --> 01:05:58.800 And like I've said before, the reason I do that is because 01:05:58.800 --> 01:06:02.240 I'm creating a library, and then I can point people and other 01:06:02.240 --> 01:06:04.960 men can also point other men to my answers. 01:06:05.120 --> 01:06:07.920 So they can find them more easily instead of sort of the 01:06:07.920 --> 01:06:09.440 ephemera that is social media. 01:06:09.440 --> 01:06:12.000 This is something that has a little more staying power. 01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:16.240 And unlike other platforms, I actually have control over it, so I 01:06:16.240 --> 01:06:19.200 don't have to worry about someone deleting all my content or shutting 01:06:19.200 --> 01:06:20.880 me down or what have you. 01:06:20.880 --> 01:06:24.800 Like, you know, you cook YouTube, as it were, could tomorrow delete 01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:26.720 all my videos and give me no recourse. 01:06:26.720 --> 01:06:29.200 With this, I don't have that problem. 01:06:29.200 --> 01:06:32.640 I still have all the local recordings so I could theoretically make 01:06:32.640 --> 01:06:34.000 them all available that way. 01:06:34.000 --> 01:06:37.040 It's a lot of bandwidth, but if necessary, I would do that 01:06:37.040 --> 01:06:37.840 in the future. 01:06:37.840 --> 01:06:40.560 So that's how you submit questions. 01:06:40.560 --> 01:06:42.000 I will get to them as I can. 01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:44.480 I'll write down the couple of questions I see here in the 01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:47.280 chat so that I do have those for next time. 01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:50.880 But again, thank you for your time and I hope that I 01:06:50.880 --> 01:06:54.480 answered the questions satisfactorily for those of you who whose questions I 01:06:54.480 --> 01:06:56.560 actually answered this time. 01:06:56.560 --> 01:06:58.800 And I will see you next week. 01:06:58.800 --> 01:06:59.840 God bless you all. 01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:01.440 Have a nice evening.