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<v Speaker 2>Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I am Cory J.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Molly. And I'm still woe.</v>

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Today

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<v Speaker 3>Stone Choir will in all likelihood be our final episode.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Rather than simply disappearing, we wanted to explain why we wrap things</v>

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<v Speaker 3>up</v>

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<v Speaker 3>and why we're not doing any more particularly since when we last</v>

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<v Speaker 3>left you at the end of the Septuagint series we said we</v>

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<v Speaker 3>were gonna keep going.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Things have changed on the world since then.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The details don't matter.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But</v>

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<v Speaker 3>we, as a globe, are now in the after portion of one</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of those before and after inflection points in human history and getting</v>

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<v Speaker 3>into the details is irrelevant.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But when things change in the environment, as we discussed in the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>normalcy bias episode.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If you continue on as though nothing has changed, you are suddenly</v>

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<v Speaker 3>putting yourself in a worse position than you were doing exactly the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>same thing before things changed And so although we had intended on</v>

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<v Speaker 3>continuing after my surgery and a few other things that happened, our</v>

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<v Speaker 3>departure has nothing to do with personal circumstances.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It became clear to me, and I talked to Corey and we</v>

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<v Speaker 3>agreed that what we had set out to do with Stone Choir</v>

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<v Speaker 3>from the beginning for years before we even began doing this, when</v>

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<v Speaker 3>we had talked about it, we have effectively accomplished those goals.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And one of our explicit non-goals was to be content producers that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>sit here every week and talk in your ear to rattle off</v>

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<v Speaker 3>whatever the latest thing is and give you our hot takes.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Despite appearances to some, that is not what we intended.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And I don't think it's ever what we did.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I think that the reason that the library we have produced has</v>

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<v Speaker 3>stood the test of time for the past three years is that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>as new people discover us, which is most of you, you know,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>initially we had no listeners.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>When we began, it was just a few friends from a private</v>

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<v Speaker 3>group chat, and word spread and it quickly spread beyond anybody that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>we knew.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And yet the difference between the size of our audience in year</v>

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<v Speaker 3>one, when we did, frankly, some of the weightiest episodes in year</v>

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<v Speaker 3>three when we were wrapping things up without really realizing it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We hit some of the most important things when almost no one</v>

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<v Speaker 3>was listening, because we knew that we were building a library that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>people would refer back to in the future.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And And so every time we have sat down to record, one</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of the prominent things on our minds has been, is this worth</v>

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<v Speaker 3>your time listening to?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>To hear us talk for a couple hours?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Is it worth taking up your time?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Is it something that is going to stand the test of time?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Is it something that will actually pay dividends years in the future</v>

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<v Speaker 3>versus just being something that's momentarily interesting?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And I think that overwhelmingly we have succeeded in building a library</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of one hundred and seven episodes that do precisely that.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>What that means, however, is that there's really a finite set of</v>

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<v Speaker 3>things about which you can say that.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>There's always stuff to talk about.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And while we're not vanishing from the planet, we're going to keep</v>

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<v Speaker 3>posting and probably appearing elsewhere and doing other things.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The purpose of Stone Choir we now believe has been fulfilled.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You can look back at the hundred and seven episodes in the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>library and</v>

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<v Speaker 3>my belief when I began to come to the realization I think</v>

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<v Speaker 3>we were finished a month or so ago was that basically you</v>

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<v Speaker 3>could say Stonequire talks about this for pretty much anything that came</v>

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<v Speaker 3>across the transom, any new event on any particular day, there's probably</v>

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<v Speaker 3>gonna be an episode that would address some fundamental facet that would</v>

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<v Speaker 3>help anyone get from zero to having a good grasp of the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>situation unfolding in front of them.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so as that started to dawn on me, I applied that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>heuristic to just whatever popped up any given day.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And not once in the past few weeks has that statement failed</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to be true.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Every time anything interesting came up, not once have I ever thought</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to myself, we need to do an episode to address some underlying</v>

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<v Speaker 3>aspect of this.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>In every case, either it was meaningless because it was just sort</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of passing a fluvia, or we'd already dealt with it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And it's great to see so many people that we don't even</v>

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<v Speaker 3>know saying elsewhere online, yes, Tokware talks about this.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Here's the episode link.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>For us, that is mission accomplished.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The mission was never to have a bunch of people listening to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>us and thinking anything about us.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The purpose was to straighten people out about some things that were</v>

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<v Speaker 3>very important.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And looking back, we believe that we have succeeded in doing that.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So I say this will probably be last episode because we're not</v>

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<v Speaker 3>shutting anything down.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>My microphone's gonna stay where it is, the feed's gonna stay where</v>

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<v Speaker 3>it is and website's gonna stay up.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Nothing's going to change except that we don't plan on releasing another</v>

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<v Speaker 3>episode. Simple simply because we don't believe that there's anything else that's</v>

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<v Speaker 3>going to come up in the future that would rise to the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>level of, yeah, we need to expand the library.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's possible.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>There may be something that we have not foreseen in the future.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I don't think there are any subjects that are obvious today.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If we thought of anything that should have been addressed, we would</v>

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<v Speaker 3>keep going to address it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We've done that.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I'd give it a zero point zero five percent chance that there's</v>

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<v Speaker 3>some unforeseen circumstance that would both</v>

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<v Speaker 3>require our input and we would be around to possibly say anything.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If that happens, then we will pop back up.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So I would recommend to you don't delete your subscription.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Like it's free, it doesn't cost anybody anything for you to say</v>

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<v Speaker 3>subscribed. Maybe two, three years from now, there will be an emergency</v>

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<v Speaker 3>episode of Stone Choir.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If we ever pop up again, it's gonna be for a really</v>

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<v Speaker 3>good reason and it's probably gonna be an interesting episode.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Couldn't begin to tell you what that might be because if I</v>

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<v Speaker 3>knew we would just do it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The whole point has been to try to get ahead of things.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But stay subscribed if you wish, so that you can hear whatever</v>

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<v Speaker 3>happens on this channel in the future.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>At the same time don't expect anything.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So I'd like to say thank you to everyone who has shared</v>

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<v Speaker 3>all of our episodes over the last three years.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Thank you everyone, especially those who have supported us financially.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Some of you incredibly generously.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And as we've said before, any giving to a stranger is always</v>

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<v Speaker 3>generous. But some of you have given quite a lot, far more</v>

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<v Speaker 3>than I would ever even hope to have</v>

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<v Speaker 3>never asked for it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>In particular I want to mention because some of you also give</v>

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<v Speaker 3>on a recurring basis.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And if what you had in mind with those recurring donations was</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to encourage us to continue, I would suggest you need to go</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to the donations website and shut that off because we're not gonna</v>

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<v Speaker 3>be showing up anymore.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So we're not gonna deliver on your hope or you know, any</v>

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<v Speaker 3>perceived promise of future performance.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Please stop giving.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>On the On the other hand, we're gonna leave the donation website</v>

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<v Speaker 3>up along with the rest for now because people will be discovering</v>

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<v Speaker 3>us for years and if somebody wants to say thank you, far</v>

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<v Speaker 3>be it for me to say I'm too important to accept a</v>

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<v Speaker 3>gift from a stranger.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You know, if circumstances were to change for us such that we</v>

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<v Speaker 3>no longer needed any such thing, yeah, we would change things.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But for the time being, we have only accepted what has been</v>

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<v Speaker 3>offered freely because it really did matter to us personally.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Keep sharing episodes, keep saying, Hey, Stonequare talks about this.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Here you go.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Keep introducing new people to the podcast.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I realized a month or so ago, one of my only reasons</v>

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<v Speaker 3>remaining for doing the show was because people don't understand the concept</v>

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<v Speaker 3>of a defunct podcast.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Why would you go listen to some show that doesn't exist anymore?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's not really done because almost no one has ever tried to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>do what we have tried to do with the catalog of episodes.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So I thought that, you know, may we keep going just so</v>

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<v Speaker 3>people would have a reason to keep sharing, but realize that's that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>just turns us into content producers and that's not sincere or worthwhile</v>

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<v Speaker 3>your time or our time or our sanity.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I have poured everything that I have into this, to everything that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I've been able to give I have given.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If I had anything left, I would give that to if we</v>

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<v Speaker 3>had anything more to say, we would certainly say it, even if</v>

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<v Speaker 3>it was at the cost of not having anything to give, I</v>

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<v Speaker 3>would go negative if I haven't already to to do that because</v>

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<v Speaker 3>it's always been worth it to us.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But But at this point, the final message that we have for</v>

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<v Speaker 3>you from Stone Choir is that the time for talking is over.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>There is no new information that's going to change anything for anyone.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And this is the hardest lesson for the moderately intelligent man to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>process, because just like Paul talking about the guy sitting around in</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the Areopagus, talking about whatever came by day by day.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It was their thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They would sit there and just shoot the breeze.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And on one hand, that's fine and that's good.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And it's a wonderful blessing to sit around with friends and talk</v>

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<v Speaker 3>about things around a campfire with some beer.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's wonderful.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We're not saying stop doing that.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We're not saying that any of our other friends who have podcasts</v>

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<v Speaker 3>and shows that produce stuff daily should shut up like we are.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>When our friends do it, we're saying it's okay.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But for us in particular, fleshing out what is effectively a munitions</v>

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<v Speaker 3>factory that we have been equipping you for future circumstances that we</v>

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<v Speaker 3>have foreseen, some of you have foreseen some of them.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>The rest are gonna come probably sooner rather than later.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We have wanted you to be equipped such that when any situation</v>

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<v Speaker 3>arises, you as a Christian man are going to be able to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>face it boldly, faithfully, with clarity about what you need to do,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>not being confused, not being frightened, not having any no bearing on</v>

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<v Speaker 3>what is happening in front of you.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Our goal is to make sure that you hit those situations and</v>

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<v Speaker 3>you know what to do.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We wanted this to be a form of training.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And so for us to go away and to say that we're</v>

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<v Speaker 3>done training, we're done talking is</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to our enemies and to our haters going to seem like we're</v>

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<v Speaker 3>quitting, like we're giving up when the reality is nothing could be</v>

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<v Speaker 3>further from the truth.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Our silence is a testimony to the fact that we know that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>we have won.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We have set out to accomplish something that has now been accomplished.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Such that if you were to go back and re-listen to the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>three years of episodes, which I do highly recommend, especially if you</v>

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<v Speaker 3>haven't done it before, if you're Jonesing for more stone choir, the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>best thing to do is listen to the episodes again.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They're so dense you will find stuff that you didn't catch the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>first time, or even the second time.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>What's funny is that some of the things that we said in</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the first year that almost nobody else was saying, stuff that seemed</v>

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<v Speaker 3>edgy and controversial.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Today it's becoming normal.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So for us, the victory condition of what we set out to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>do is irrelevance.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We set out from the beginning to become irrelevant because rather than</v>

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<v Speaker 3>simply having two guys shouting in the wilderness with nobody listening, if</v>

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<v Speaker 3>somebody does come along, they're gonna hear two guys seemingly crazy saying</v>

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<v Speaker 3>things that nobody likes to hear, that doesn't sound like anybody else,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that's not convenient.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Why are they talking about this?</v>

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<v Speaker 3>This is the opposite of what I've been told.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Three years on, a lot of those things everybody's saying it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>My say everybody, I don't mean the majority, but I mean it</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is sufficiently common knowledge that there's nothing more for us to do</v>

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<v Speaker 3>because you have picked up the mantle.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You have taken these ideas, whether you got them from us or</v>

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<v Speaker 3>somewhere else, we've tried to help flesh them out, to give a</v>

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<v Speaker 3>really good form of the argument.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They can be taken to a normal man and say, look, here</v>

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<v Speaker 3>you go.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You thought one thing, it's actually another.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Straighten up.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Let's be serious about this and be honest and be faithful to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>God. And And do what's right and say what's true.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And three years on, the stuff that we were talking about the</v>

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<v Speaker 3>first year is now mainstream battles at the highest level of politics.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Stuff that was totally fringe when we began.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Another year it's gonna be totally obsolete.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But that means that we don't have to be the guys saying</v>

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<v Speaker 3>it anymore, which was always the goal.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We never wanted to do it in the first place.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We only did it because we realized that the men who came</v>

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<v Speaker 3>before us who had the aptitude and had the platforms and had</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the knowledge to say this stuff turned out to be cowards.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>They turned out not to be the guys who are gonna show</v>

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<v Speaker 3>up and do it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So Corey and I chose to be the first through the door</v>

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<v Speaker 3>knowing that we wouldn't survive the process.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And that's fine.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And many of you have piled through behind us and stepped over</v>

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<v Speaker 3>our bodies and continued to prosecute the fight in a way that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is succeeding.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And that was the entire point.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Not to be known or to be remembered, but to be so</v>

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<v Speaker 3>mundane that in a few more years, if someone does listen to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the catalog, we're gonna sound like a couple of boomer moderates.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I want to be obsolete.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I want people to go further than us to the point that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>what we have said seems totally generic.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's what winning looks like.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's what persuasion looks like.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You don't get to be special anymore.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And at this point, I don't think there's really anything special about</v>

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<v Speaker 3>us doing a bunch of new takes.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You guys are doing a great job.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>I love to see it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And crucially, as I said, I don't think that for new material,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>for new fights, new controversies, there's nothing else.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And that's the hard part of this.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's the last lesson in this brief episode.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>There's no new information that's going to change anything.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You have what you need to know.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Others can be handed what they need to know to get up</v>

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<v Speaker 3>to speed quickly.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>What is going to come in the future is not going to</v>

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<v Speaker 3>be dictated by guys sitting around and talking.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>It's going to be dictated by men acting in a manner that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is faithful to God, faithful to their duties, that is fearless, that</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is dedicated to the truth at all costs.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And that's what it's going to take for us to prevail in</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the end.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And God is with us.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And we see that now in the turn of the tide in</v>

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<v Speaker 3>events. Things have changed in a way that frankly I couldn't have</v>

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<v Speaker 3>hoped for.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>But it's gonna be ugly and it's gonna be hard, and there's</v>

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<v Speaker 3>going to be a high cost for many more men than just</v>

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<v Speaker 3>us, in far more serious ways and people saying mean things on</v>

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<v Speaker 3>the internet.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We have done everything that we can.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And now it's up to God, and it's up to you.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You have everything that we can possibly give you, and from here</v>

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<v Speaker 3>on out, Stone Choir is legacy.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>What is done with it is going to be what you see</v>

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<v Speaker 3>fit to do with it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We will not be here anymore to tell you what to do</v>

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<v Speaker 3>or how to do it or how to think.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You're gonna have to figure it out on your own.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And by saying that the training is over and that the library</v>

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<v Speaker 3>is closed, we're saying you have everything that you need.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You are ready.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>Even if you don't know it yet, even if you don't feel</v>

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<v Speaker 3>like it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>That's how training works.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You get to the end, and the guy who is training you</v>

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<v Speaker 3>says, okay, you're ready for the real thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>And you don't feel like it usually.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You're not going to feel like you have everything you need.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>You do.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>If we can tell you one last thing as we go silent,</v>

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<v Speaker 3>that is it.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We are ready for the next steps.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>We have been equipped, and what is left is the doing.</v>

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<v Speaker 3>So be faithful to God in all things, serve him in all</v>

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<v Speaker 3>things, and don't be afraid.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>There's always a temptation in this sort of episode to try to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>make things exhaustive, and instead, much like what we are doing with</v>

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<v Speaker 2>closing out Stone Choir, although again there could be a potential episode</v>

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<v Speaker 2>in the future if we deem it necessary, something needs to be</v>

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<v Speaker 2>addressed. Similar to what we are doing with the podcast, I will</v>

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<v Speaker 2>keep things brief with my comments.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But as I'm sitting here in my study, I have two of</v>

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<v Speaker 2>my bookshelves in this room.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Most of them are down the hall, another room, but I have</v>

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<v Speaker 2>two bookshelves here.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And on those shelves are a number of books.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I quite frankly don't know how many I've been going through and</v>

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<v Speaker 2>cataloguing my books recently, but I'm nowhere near done, so I I</v>

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<v Speaker 2>don't know how many volumes.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But just looking over the names of the authors as I'm sitting</v>

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<v Speaker 2>here and as well as speaking.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe ten of the books were were written by men who are</v>

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<v Speaker 2>still alive.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That may be an overestimate, but it seems to me that it's</v>

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<v Speaker 2>probably about right.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It seems about ten out of far more than ten volumes.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But it doesn't really matter that those men are no longer around</v>

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<v Speaker 2>producing content, as one might call it.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Many of the volumes are from Martin Luther.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I have about an entire shelf of his works in here.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Most of my volumes from Luther are again down the hall in</v>

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<v Speaker 2>another room, but I have maybe twenty volumes in here from Luther,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>maybe a little more than that.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>What Martin Luther produced for the church is still bearing fruit today.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Martin Luther has been gone for centuries.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>He is no longer producing sermons, he's no longer writing books, he's</v>

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<v Speaker 2>certainly not producing podcast episodes.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Although perhaps he would have, if he had been around at that</v>

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<v Speaker 2>time, in our day and age, perhaps he would have done such</v>

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<v Speaker 2>a thing</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But his works are still useful and they're still producing fruit.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And that's sort of the way that we want you to look</v>

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<v Speaker 2>at Stone Choir, at least for the foreseeable future.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>What we set about to do, I fully agree with Wo, we</v>

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<v Speaker 2>accomplished. Because our goal was to answer the fundamental questions, to answer</v>

00:19:07.760 --> 00:19:11.360
<v Speaker 2>things no one else even knew needed to be answered.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>To address the actual core problems, to build the foundation and the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>framework for not necessarily other men in all cases, but some other</v>

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<v Speaker 2>men and certainly other endeavors to take and build the future.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And again we accomplished that.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Now in the immediate aftermath of this episode's release, as, undoubtedly, many</v>

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<v Speaker 2>of you already know and as well commented on in his remarks,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the enemies, the opponents will believe that they've won some sort of</v>

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<v Speaker 2>grand victory.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But of course some of the demons believe the same thing at</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Calvary. And they haven't won.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>They've suffered a fatal wound and they don't know it yet.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That is what we set about to do, and that is what</v>

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<v Speaker 2>we accomplished, and that is why we don't feel any need to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>release future episodes.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>This was never going to be a matter of churning out content.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>If we were churning out content, then we went about it the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>entirely wrong way.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We didn't address the issues that attracted the most attention.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We didn't do it in a showy way.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We didn't do it in a way that was going to draw</v>

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<v Speaker 2>in listeners and advertisers and money and all of these other things</v>

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<v Speaker 2>that are so very important to other shows.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm not saying that's always wrong because of course many of</v>

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<v Speaker 2>those men make their living off of their content, and so they</v>

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<v Speaker 2>have to obviously pay the bills, feed their family.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not condemning that.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But that was never what we set about to do, because it's</v>

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<v Speaker 2>not the point of Stone Choir.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The point of Stone Choir is the creation of an armory or</v>

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<v Speaker 2>munitions factory as Woe said.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And that is what we have given you, and that will continue</v>

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<v Speaker 2>to function.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Long after we are no longer making episodes, even if we were</v>

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<v Speaker 2>gone and were no longer capable of making new episodes, it would</v>

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<v Speaker 2>continue to function because it will still be out there.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>The website will still be up.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I will have an archive ready for those who want to download</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the full thing, there's already an archive of most of the episodes,</v>

00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:26.000
<v Speaker 2>just not the full one yet.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And so you can pass those around, you can send people to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the website.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>All of the materials will still be available.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Now for my part, and Woe can choose what he wants to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>do, and he can choose how he wants to tell you he's</v>

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<v Speaker 2>going to do it.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But for my part, I'm not going anywhere.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because I've sort of already thrown the die, I've already cast the</v>

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<v Speaker 2>dice as it were.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I'm in this to the end, whether it is a sweet end</v>

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<v Speaker 2>or a bitter end.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That is the reality of it.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>What we're doing here is we're closing out specifically Stone Choir.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because Stone Choir has achieved its goal.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>And as Wo said, there is a transition now into other things.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Because the game board has changed.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>There are different considerations, the players are moving, and this is no</v>

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<v Speaker 2>longer what needs to be done, in part because we have already</v>

00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:26.720
<v Speaker 2>accomplished the goal, but in part because to some degree the time</v>

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<v Speaker 2>for talking is drawing to a close.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>That's not to say that the other podcasts and things need to</v>

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<v Speaker 2>end and that there's no space for these, because certainly amongst ourselves</v>

00:22:37.360 --> 00:22:41.040
<v Speaker 2>you have to continue talking, it's part of human existence.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But</v>

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<v Speaker 2>the time for action is coming.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It is a different thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Now, what we have done with Stone Choir was not exclusively, say,</v>

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<v Speaker 2>religious or theological or doctrinal or political or any of those things.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It was a combination of those and more.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But what is coming in the years ahead is certainly political.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It is a different beast.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It is something that needs to be addressed in a different way.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We have given the foundation that is necessary to ensure that those</v>

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<v Speaker 2>things are done in accordance with God's will, God's desires, what Christian</v>

00:23:19.280 --> 00:23:22.800
<v Speaker 2>men must do.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But what needs to be done on that field, what needs to</v>

00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:31.760
<v Speaker 2>be done by men in that battle is different from what we</v>

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<v Speaker 2>did with Stone Choir.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Stone Choir is a necessary part of it.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It is a foundational part of that future.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>But it is not that future.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Our goal was never to create a church.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>I know some have asked us to do that, and we will</v>

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<v Speaker 2>not. That's not to say that we won't help others when they</v>

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<v Speaker 2>are building those sorts of things.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Certainly we intend to do that.</v>

00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:58.000
<v Speaker 2>But we were never going to build a church.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>We have been very clear.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Neither one of us is a pastor.</v>

00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:02.720
<v Speaker 2>I have zero intention of her being a pastor.</v>

00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:06.000
<v Speaker 2>I've joked before that God would have to send a giant fish,</v>

00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.960
<v Speaker 2>and now that I live in landlock, Tennessee, perhaps that's a little</v>

00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:13.440
<v Speaker 2>more challenging than it would have been in California.</v>

00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:15.840
<v Speaker 2>We're also not a political movement.</v>

00:24:15.840 --> 00:24:19.680
<v Speaker 2>That was never our goal with Stone Choir.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It's not to say that we won't take part in coming political</v>

00:24:22.800 --> 00:24:26.640
<v Speaker 2>movements. For my part I certainly intend to do so, and I</v>

00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:29.440
<v Speaker 2>already have begun to do so.</v>

00:24:29.840 --> 00:24:34.800
<v Speaker 2>But Stone Choir set out to achieve certain discreet goals.</v>

00:24:34.800 --> 00:24:37.840
<v Speaker 2>We knew exactly what we wanted to do when we started, before</v>

00:24:37.840 --> 00:24:40.640
<v Speaker 2>we started, as Will mentioned, because we put this off for years</v>

00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:42.080
<v Speaker 2>at the beginning.</v>

00:24:42.080 --> 00:24:44.240
<v Speaker 2>We achieved those goals.</v>

00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:48.000
<v Speaker 2>And in achieving those goals, it would be wrong for us to</v>

00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:52.240
<v Speaker 2>continue implying that there is more that needs to be said on</v>

00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:57.280
<v Speaker 2>this front, because that simply gives men a reason, an excuse to</v>

00:24:57.280 --> 00:25:00.000
<v Speaker 2>continue to delay instead of acting.</v>

00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.760
<v Speaker 2>And that is not what we want, because that would be wicked,</v>

00:25:03.760 --> 00:25:06.320
<v Speaker 2>and so we will not take part in that.</v>

00:25:06.320 --> 00:25:11.120
<v Speaker 2>If there is by some small chance, I largely agree with Wo's</v>

00:25:11.120 --> 00:25:13.520
<v Speaker 2>assessment on the likelihood of that.</v>

00:25:13.520 --> 00:25:17.280
<v Speaker 2>If there is by There is by some small chance something, some</v>

00:25:17.280 --> 00:25:22.560
<v Speaker 2>topic, whatever it happens to be that we missed, that we were</v>

00:25:22.560 --> 00:25:25.040
<v Speaker 2>not able to bring to mind that no one else happened to</v>

00:25:25.040 --> 00:25:28.320
<v Speaker 2>mention and we saw it, whatever that may be, then yes, we</v>

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<v Speaker 2>will release an episode in the future so long as we are</v>

00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:33.840
<v Speaker 2>capable of doing so.</v>

00:25:33.840 --> 00:25:38.800
<v Speaker 2>We have zero intention of just ignoring that sort of thing.</v>

00:25:38.800 --> 00:25:41.360
<v Speaker 2>And again, specifically for my part, I have zero intention of</v>

00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:46.080
<v Speaker 2>stopping doing related things.</v>

00:25:46.080 --> 00:25:50.160
<v Speaker 2>Not the same, not stone choir, because again, this is a time</v>

00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:53.600
<v Speaker 2>of transition into something else, because it is something else something else</v>

00:25:53.600 --> 00:25:56.160
<v Speaker 2>that needs to be done going forward.</v>

00:25:56.160 --> 00:26:01.040
<v Speaker 2>Before we started recording this episode, and almost ironically, but in a</v>

00:26:01.040 --> 00:26:05.200
<v Speaker 2>way not and in a way yes, I had a package arrive</v>

00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:08.400
<v Speaker 2>from someone sent me a present, someone sent me a gift, and</v>

00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:12.080
<v Speaker 2>I opened it, and it happens to be a microphone.</v>

00:26:12.080 --> 00:26:15.680
<v Speaker 2>Now, if I were inclined, and to some degree I am, to</v>

00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:18.160
<v Speaker 2>take things as a sign, because sometimes they're a little on the</v>

00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:21.200
<v Speaker 2>nose, God isn't always particularly subtle.</v>

00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:25.600
<v Speaker 2>I would take receiving a microphone on the day that we're recording</v>

00:26:25.600 --> 00:26:29.520
<v Speaker 2>the last episode of Stone Choir as a pretty clear indication that</v>

00:26:29.520 --> 00:26:30.960
<v Speaker 2>I shouldn't stop.</v>

00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:33.440
<v Speaker 2>But the question is what should I not stop?</v>

00:26:34.320 --> 00:26:37.600
<v Speaker 2>I don't think that I should take this to mean we should</v>

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<v Speaker 2>continue Stone Choir.</v>

00:26:39.280 --> 00:26:41.120
<v Speaker 2>That's a different thing.</v>

00:26:41.120 --> 00:26:44.800
<v Speaker 2>But I am going to continue doing the Q<unk>A's which I intend</v>

00:26:44.800 --> 00:26:49.600
<v Speaker 2>to do weekly weekly, because I recognize that while we believe that</v>

00:26:49.600 --> 00:26:53.520
<v Speaker 2>we answered all of the fundamental questions and things like that, laid</v>

00:26:53.520 --> 00:26:59.280
<v Speaker 2>the groundwork, all of that important and inevitable and absolutely vital work,</v>

00:26:59.280 --> 00:27:02.160
<v Speaker 2>well I believe we already did that with Stone Choir.</v>

00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:06.400
<v Speaker 2>I recognize that there are still questions, legitimate questions, not just inane</v>

00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:11.200
<v Speaker 2>ones, but legitimate questions some of you may have, or that may</v>

00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:14.480
<v Speaker 2>arise in the future, that don't rise to the level of requiring</v>

00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:19.200
<v Speaker 2>a stone choir episode, but still deserve to have an answer.</v>

00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:22.240
<v Speaker 2>That's the reason that I am going to set aside about an</v>

00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:24.160
<v Speaker 2>hour, basically every week.</v>

00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:27.920
<v Speaker 2>At this At this point on Thursdays I'm not dedicated to that</v>

00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:32.960
<v Speaker 2>day, but I will set that time aside so that you can</v>

00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:37.680
<v Speaker 2>ask those questions and so that I can give answers.</v>

00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:42.080
<v Speaker 2>By the time you hear this episode, I will have already recorded,</v>

00:27:42.080 --> 00:27:45.040
<v Speaker 2>broadcast, and recorded another QA session.</v>

00:27:45.040 --> 00:27:48.160
<v Speaker 2>In fact, I intend to do that not so long after we</v>

00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:50.800
<v Speaker 2>record this episode.</v>

00:27:51.120 --> 00:27:54.240
<v Speaker 2>Because again this is not a matter of the two of us</v>

00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:57.280
<v Speaker 2>disappearing into the woods off the face of the earth, as tempting</v>

00:27:57.280 --> 00:27:59.600
<v Speaker 2>as that may be from time to time.</v>

00:27:59.600 --> 00:28:02.480
<v Speaker 2>That's not what I intend to do, it's not what Woe intends</v>

00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:03.200
<v Speaker 2>to do.</v>

00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:06.800
<v Speaker 2>You're not going to see us deleting our social media and disappearing</v>

00:28:06.800 --> 00:28:10.400
<v Speaker 2>into the ether.</v>

00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:14.160
<v Speaker 2>We're highlighting that it is a time of transition, and I think</v>

00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:21.680
<v Speaker 2>we have both made that point very clear at this point.</v>

00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:26.080
<v Speaker 2>And so in drawing Stone Choir to a close, I also want</v>

00:28:26.080 --> 00:28:29.120
<v Speaker 2>to thank all of you for the support that you have given</v>

00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:33.440
<v Speaker 2>us, not just in terms of monetary support, which some of you</v>

00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.520
<v Speaker 2>certainly have in sending gifts like one of the bookcases I have</v>

00:28:37.600 --> 00:28:40.640
<v Speaker 2>was sent as a gift, the microphone, and so many other things</v>

00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:44.480
<v Speaker 2>that have been sent over the years of Stone Choir, but also</v>

00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:48.080
<v Speaker 2>those of you who have supported us in terms of sharing the</v>

00:28:48.080 --> 00:28:52.320
<v Speaker 2>episodes, in terms of thanking us, it's always great to hear from</v>

00:28:52.320 --> 00:28:55.280
<v Speaker 2>those of you who have benefited from what we have taught, from</v>

00:28:55.280 --> 00:28:59.200
<v Speaker 2>the work that we have done, because that's a big part of</v>

00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:02.640
<v Speaker 2>why we are doing it, a big part of why we kept</v>

00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:03.520
<v Speaker 2>doing it.</v>

00:29:03.520 --> 00:29:06.960
<v Speaker 2>Now of course we were compelled to do it because God gave</v>

00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:10.800
<v Speaker 2>us the abilities, God gave us the resources to get it done,</v>

00:29:10.800 --> 00:29:12.240
<v Speaker 2>and we felt that we had no choice.</v>

00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:14.960
<v Speaker 2>We still believe that, of course, but it is still nice to</v>

00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:19.440
<v Speaker 2>hear from those of you who benefited from Stone Choir along the</v>

00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:23.360
<v Speaker 2>way. And so just for any of you who supported Stone Choir</v>

00:29:23.360 --> 00:29:27.120
<v Speaker 2>in any fashion, whatever it happens to be, for those who were</v>

00:29:27.360 --> 00:29:30.160
<v Speaker 2>happened to be driving through Knoxville and bought me lunch as some</v>

00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:33.520
<v Speaker 2>of you did, thank you to all of you.</v>

00:29:33.520 --> 00:29:35.440
<v Speaker 2>And this is not goodbye.</v>

00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:39.520
<v Speaker 2>It is simply It is a time of transition.</v>

00:29:39.520 --> 00:29:41.280
<v Speaker 2>Things are changing.</v>

00:29:41.280 --> 00:29:44.800
<v Speaker 2>And it is important that each and every one of you recognizes</v>

00:29:44.800 --> 00:29:47.440
<v Speaker 2>that. And one of the best ways that we can drive that</v>

00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:47.920
<v Speaker 2>point home</v>

00:29:49.120 --> 00:29:51.440
<v Speaker 2>is what we're doing here today.</v>

00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:53.920
<v Speaker 2>We accomplished our goal.</v>

00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:58.000
<v Speaker 2>We set about to do a certain set of discrete things.</v>

00:29:58.000 --> 00:29:59.280
<v Speaker 2>We accomplished that.</v>

00:29:59.280 --> 00:30:04.080
<v Speaker 2>We've inflicted fatal damage on the enemy, with regard to the enemy's</v>

00:30:04.080 --> 00:30:07.520
<v Speaker 2>ideology, theology, doctrine, all of those things.</v>

00:30:07.520 --> 00:30:09.200
<v Speaker 2>They don't realize it yet.</v>

00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:11.840
<v Speaker 2>Some men on our side do.</v>

00:30:11.840 --> 00:30:15.360
<v Speaker 2>So we accomplished what we set out to do, and now it</v>

00:30:15.360 --> 00:30:21.280
<v Speaker 2>is time for other things, for other ventures, for other undertakings, and</v>

00:30:21.280 --> 00:30:24.160
<v Speaker 2>in many cases for other men to step up and do what</v>

00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:26.480
<v Speaker 2>needs to be done.</v>

00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:32.480
<v Speaker 2>And so in closing out this episode and also the Stone Choir</v>

00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:37.360
<v Speaker 2>Podcast at the same time, I would like to end with saying</v>

00:30:37.760 --> 00:30:38.080
<v Speaker 2>that</v>

00:30:39.040 --> 00:30:45.200
<v Speaker 2>this has been all along one about the gospel because everything we</v>

00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:50.000
<v Speaker 2>have done has been essential to the gospel, and that is my</v>

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:51.840
<v Speaker 2>second point.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>It is not only about the gospel.</v>

00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:58.480
<v Speaker 2>Because there are so many who want to be gospel reductionists and</v>

00:30:58.480 --> 00:31:03.040
<v Speaker 2>they just want to be Christ and him crucified and nothing else.</v>

00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:05.680
<v Speaker 2>And there's more to life than that.</v>

00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:08.800
<v Speaker 2>Scripture is very clear that there is more to life than that,</v>

00:31:08.800 --> 00:31:12.480
<v Speaker 2>because if it were just Christ and Him crucified, then it wouldn't</v>

00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:14.960
<v Speaker 2>say that those who do not care for their own family are</v>

00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:17.200
<v Speaker 2>worse than unbelievers.</v>

00:31:17.360 --> 00:31:19.840
<v Speaker 2>Because that's not the gospel.</v>

00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:22.640
<v Speaker 2>That's your family, that's something else.</v>

00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:25.280
<v Speaker 2>And so many of the things that we have addressed, and many</v>

00:31:25.280 --> 00:31:28.480
<v Speaker 2>of the most important things going forward, are in fact going to</v>

00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:32.560
<v Speaker 2>look an awful lot not like the gospel.</v>

00:31:32.560 --> 00:31:38.080
<v Speaker 2>You can't lose that in what's coming, because that's absolutely vital.</v>

00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:42.320
<v Speaker 2>You can't lose sight of Christ and Him crucified.</v>

00:31:42.320 --> 00:31:44.560
<v Speaker 2>But that can't be everything.</v>

00:31:44.560 --> 00:31:48.400
<v Speaker 2>Because if that were everything, then there would be no other important</v>

00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:49.120
<v Speaker 2>things in the world.</v>

00:31:49.120 --> 00:31:51.120
<v Speaker 2>There would be no other problems, and we know that there are</v>

00:31:51.120 --> 00:31:52.080
<v Speaker 2>other problems.</v>

00:31:52.080 --> 00:31:54.640
<v Speaker 2>Those are the ones that we have to address in the coming</v>

00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:58.720
<v Speaker 2>years. So remember your faith.</v>

00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:00.160
<v Speaker 2>Focus on your faith.</v>

00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:01.280
<v Speaker 2>Keep your faith alive.</v>

00:32:01.280 --> 00:32:04.640
<v Speaker 2>Do the things that a Christian man must do.</v>

00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:07.440
<v Speaker 2>Go to church, whether it happens to be a home church or</v>

00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:10.720
<v Speaker 2>if you are lucky enough to have a faithful congregation nearby, or</v>

00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:15.920
<v Speaker 2>in the future, new congregations started up that are faithful, deliberately and</v>

00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:20.560
<v Speaker 2>intentionally, contrary to the faithless congregations that plague our country and the</v>

00:32:20.560 --> 00:32:23.520
<v Speaker 2>entire world at this point.</v>

00:32:23.520 --> 00:32:25.120
<v Speaker 2>Make sure that you continue to pray.</v>

00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:29.840
<v Speaker 2>That is something that all of us let fall away far too</v>

00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:33.120
<v Speaker 2>often. We lose focus on how important that is.</v>

00:32:33.120 --> 00:32:34.880
<v Speaker 2>It is important to talk to God.</v>

00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:36.400
<v Speaker 2>God is your heavenly Father.</v>

00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:38.960
<v Speaker 2>He wants to hear from you.</v>

00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:40.960
<v Speaker 2>He invites you to pray.</v>

00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:42.640
<v Speaker 2>At the absolute least.</v>

00:32:42.640 --> 00:32:43.760
<v Speaker 2>Pray the Lord's Prayer.</v>

00:32:43.760 --> 00:32:46.720
<v Speaker 2>It is the prayer that Christ instructed us to pray.</v>

00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:49.440
<v Speaker 2>His disciples asked him, How should we pray?</v>

00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:52.160
<v Speaker 2>And God answered, pray like this.</v>

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<v Speaker 2>Don't neglect to use that.</v>

00:32:57.280 --> 00:33:00.880
<v Speaker 2>Serve your neighbor, which has always been one of the major points</v>

00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:04.720
<v Speaker 2>that we have attempted to drive home with Stone Choir, that is</v>

00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:06.400
<v Speaker 2>part of the Christian life.</v>

00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:09.520
<v Speaker 2>The Christian life is lived out in good works.</v>

00:33:09.520 --> 00:33:13.440
<v Speaker 2>Yes, it is absolutely essential to have faith, but it is lived</v>

00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:18.400
<v Speaker 2>out, it is experienced, it is proven in good works.</v>

00:33:18.400 --> 00:33:23.120
<v Speaker 2>Those are a necessary part of the Christian life.</v>

00:33:23.120 --> 00:33:25.120
<v Speaker 2>That is what we want you to do.</v>

00:33:25.120 --> 00:33:27.120
<v Speaker 2>We intend to leave you with that.</v>

00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:31.920
<v Speaker 2>That is how we intend to close out Stone Choir.</v>

00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:34.720
<v Speaker 2>Move forward as Christian men.</v>

00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:38.400
<v Speaker 2>Do what needs to be done in order to preserve Christendom and</v>

00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:39.920
<v Speaker 2>all of the things that have been entrusted to</v>

00:33:41.040 --> 00:33:45.280
<v Speaker 2>your care by God, all of the things that He will demand</v>

00:33:45.280 --> 00:33:50.560
<v Speaker 2>at the judgment from your hand, because you will be judged according</v>

00:33:50.560 --> 00:33:53.520
<v Speaker 2>to what you have been given and what you did with it.</v>

00:33:53.520 --> 00:33:57.120
<v Speaker 2>Christ is abundantly clear about that in so many parables.</v>

00:33:57.120 --> 00:34:02.400
<v Speaker 2>Scripture is clear about that, from beginning to end.</v>

00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:07.360
<v Speaker 2>Live your life as an actual Christian man, not with lip service,</v>

00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:13.120
<v Speaker 2>but with but with actual Christian living, Christian good works.</v>

00:34:13.120 --> 00:34:16.880
<v Speaker 2>Because the world will tell you that Christianity is something fundamentally different</v>

00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:20.720
<v Speaker 2>from what it is, and if you follow the world, you will</v>

00:34:20.720 --> 00:34:26.880
<v Speaker 2>certainly tread downward on the broad path that leads to destruction, because</v>

00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:31.280
<v Speaker 2>the way is narrow that leads to eternal life, but it is</v>

00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:35.120
<v Speaker 2>worth the effort, and it is worth the suffering that will certainly</v>

00:34:35.120 --> 00:34:39.840
<v Speaker 2>come. To go back to Luther and his volumes sitting on my</v>

00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:44.320
<v Speaker 2>shelves in here, one of his most famous comments that I think</v>

00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:48.240
<v Speaker 2>is perfect for closing this out before I move on to a</v>

00:34:48.240 --> 00:34:55.120
<v Speaker 2>little bit of scripture, is peace if possible, truth at all costs.</v>

00:34:55.120 --> 00:34:57.280
<v Speaker 2>That is the mindset we need.</v>

00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:00.400
<v Speaker 2>That is the mindset we've had with Stone Choir.</v>

00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:03.600
<v Speaker 2>That is the mindset that we commend to each and every one</v>

00:35:03.600 --> 00:35:07.040
<v Speaker 2>of you going forward.</v>

00:35:07.040 --> 00:35:12.320
<v Speaker 2>And so we will end with a blessing from Scripture.</v>

00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:15.600
<v Speaker 2>The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make his face</v>

00:35:15.600 --> 00:35:19.040
<v Speaker 2>to shine upon you and be gracious unto you, the Lord lift</v>

00:35:19.040 --> 00:35:23.360
<v Speaker 2>up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.</v>

00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:24.640
<v Speaker 2>Amen.</v>