WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:04.800 Welcome to the third QA episode of the At Any Cost Podcast. 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:07.920 This is the 13th of November, 2025. 00:00:07.920 --> 00:00:11.600 Hopefully, all of the audio and other issues from last time have 00:00:11.600 --> 00:00:12.400 been resolved. 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:14.240 Please let me know if not. 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:19.680 I know that the audio, the music during the countdown there was 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:21.920 playing mono on X. 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:23.840 I don't know exactly why it was doing that. 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:24.880 I'll solve that next time. 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:28.480 It seems to be fine on YouTube, so if you experience an 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:33.120 audio ish an audio issue on X, I guess hop over to 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:36.160 YouTube where everything seems to be fine. 00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:39.520 So no one has mentioned there are any audio issues yet, so 00:00:39.520 --> 00:00:42.000 I will assume that everything is broadcasting fine. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:44.560 Everything seems to be green on my end. 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:47.520 So I will do a little bit of housekeeping before I jump 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:48.400 into the questions. 00:00:48.400 --> 00:00:50.480 I have a handful of questions already. 00:00:50.480 --> 00:00:52.560 If some more pop up in the chat, I'll try to get 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:54.640 to those before the end. 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.280 So I'm hearing that it sounds better on YouTube. 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:59.920 Yes, hopefully I went through and read it all of my settings 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:03.680 in OBS, so hopefully that is much better this time. 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:06.800 It's about as good as I can get with my current hardware. 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:12.320 So but insofar as housekeeping goes, if you want to submit questions 00:01:12.320 --> 00:01:19.520 for future episodes, future QAs, then I linked the topic in the 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:21.840 forum where you can go and do that. 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:26.320 It's actually the category submit basically one question per topic. 00:01:26.320 --> 00:01:27.600 Other people can vote on it. 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:30.160 So that way if it winds up being a lot of questions, 00:01:30.160 --> 00:01:32.000 things can rise to the top and I can get to those 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.240 more quickly, at least in theory. 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:36.960 But that is the best way to ensure that I will see 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:39.520 your question and that I will actually get to it. 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:42.800 I guess I can take my headphones off since I'm not actually 00:01:42.800 --> 00:01:47.920 listening to anything on my end, so don't need those the camera 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:50.160 can deal with my shiny forehead. 00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:53.760 But the best way to submit the questions again is on Omniphora 00:01:54.080 --> 00:01:57.920 on in that category because that is going to be the guaranteed 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.200 way that I will see them. 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:02.080 If you submit them somewhere else, I will try to get them 00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:02.560 as well. 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:04.400 I will try to write them down and keep them for the 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.280 future. I have a list of questions here that I pulled from 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:08.800 other places for tonight. 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:09.280 And so 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:14.400 without any other real housekeeping for this time, because I think that's 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:17.280 pretty much it, I think I've covered it, I will jump right 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:19.840 into the questions and start with sort of a serious one. 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:22.800 I will begin with one that was actually submitted on the forum 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:24.400 because I want to encourage that. 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:28.960 It's easy for me because the overall goal of this is essentially 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:33.360 to create a catalog of questions and answers so that other people 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:37.920 can direct people in the future to my answers instead of having 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:41.840 to answer the same question five, six, seven, a hundred times, whatever 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:43.680 it happens to be. 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:45.360 The first question then. 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:48.080 This is a bit of a two pronged question. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:51.840 I'm in my mid thirties and have no immediate marital prospects. 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:56.080 This is primarily due to a hereditary genetic disorder that I have 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:57.760 that also affects my appearance. 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:02.080 Given the severity of it, biological children are completely out of the 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:06.240 question. I also have occasional stumblings in sexual purity about once every 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:07.360 three months or so. 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.160 How would you advise in this situation? 00:03:10.160 --> 00:03:13.280 So I guess we'll be starting off with a relatively serious question 00:03:13.440 --> 00:03:17.760 then. And there are really a number of parts to this question. 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:22.000 I think I will address the last one as it were first, 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:23.840 because it's sort of the easy one to address. 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.120 Not easy in the sense of dealing with the problem on the 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.760 end of those who have the problem, which is going to be 00:03:29.760 --> 00:03:32.080 most of those listening because most of the listeners are going to 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:32.960 be male. 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:34.960 And men in general are just going to struggle with this. 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:36.400 We all know what the question is. 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:38.560 And so I don't necessarily need to spell it out and get 00:03:38.880 --> 00:03:41.360 myself banned from whatever platform. 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:46.240 But generally speaking, the best way to avoid that sort of temptation 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:49.680 is simply to remove it as best you can. 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:54.720 Because insofar as that temptation is concerned, and I've written an article 00:03:54.720 --> 00:03:57.120 about this and I've commented on it a couple of times. 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:00.160 I'll put a link to that in the show notes when I 00:04:00.160 --> 00:04:03.760 put this up as a podcast episode, which I will do with 00:04:03.920 --> 00:04:07.920 high-quality audio because I am recording much higher quality audio on my 00:04:07.920 --> 00:04:10.880 end, at least as high quality as I can do with the 00:04:10.880 --> 00:04:13.600 mic that disappears into my beard instead of the one that takes 00:04:13.600 --> 00:04:14.960 up the full screen. 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.280 That'll be a podcast episode released separately. 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:20.880 So the high quality audio will always be available after this now 00:04:20.880 --> 00:04:23.120 that I've resolved some tech issues. 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:29.040 But to return to the question, the best way again to resolve 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.560 that temptation, to deal with that temptation, is to avoid it as 00:04:32.880 --> 00:04:33.520 best you can. 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:37.920 And so that may be if you are severely tempted by that, 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:40.960 put your computer in a common area of your house. 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:42.960 If you live with someone else, if you don't live with someone 00:04:42.960 --> 00:04:45.920 else that may make it a little more challenging for you. 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:47.520 Have an accountability partner. 00:04:47.520 --> 00:04:50.960 I know that that phrase, that term, tends to make some people 00:04:50.960 --> 00:04:53.280 feel a little uneasy, but it's not a bad thing, and I 00:04:53.280 --> 00:04:55.520 do not mean a woman. 00:04:55.520 --> 00:05:00.880 Absolutely this is not something for your wife, your girlfriend, whomever. 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:05.040 This is something you should be sharing with a male Christian friend 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:07.360 to keep each other accountable. 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:09.760 That is the sort of thing that Christian brothers are supposed to 00:05:09.760 --> 00:05:13.200 do. Again, do not share this with women in your life. 00:05:13.200 --> 00:05:15.360 That is going to cause you trouble, it's going to cause her 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:18.320 trouble. It's going to make everything worse if you do that. 00:05:18.320 --> 00:05:22.080 And women, if they're being honest with themselves, know that's the case. 00:05:22.960 --> 00:05:27.760 So put your computer in a common area as best you can. 00:05:27.760 --> 00:05:31.200 Locking down your computer is actually not going to help. 00:05:31.200 --> 00:05:35.600 And the reason that's not going to help is essentially psychology. 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:42.000 Because psychologically, if you have to surmount an obstacle in order to 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.280 achieve some goal, in order to obtain some thing that you want, 00:05:45.280 --> 00:05:47.840 even if in this case you kind of don't want it, but 00:05:47.840 --> 00:05:49.600 you also do. 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:50.640 You know, it's St. 00:05:50.640 --> 00:05:52.800 Paul saying the very thing I don't want to do is the 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:54.560 thing that I do. 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:59.120 But if you have that obstacle, surmounting that is going to give 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:01.200 you a greater psychological reward. 00:06:01.280 --> 00:06:01.840 And in 00:06:01.840 --> 00:06:05.600 giving yourself a greater psychological reward, a very easily obtained one, of 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:09.680 course, because you know how to surmount the obstacles that you put 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:10.640 in place. 00:06:10.640 --> 00:06:12.800 That's not going to stop you. 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:13.760 If you 00:06:14.640 --> 00:06:20.000 surmount that obstacle and get that psychological reward, it's going to reinforce 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.400 that pathway and make it harder psychologically to overcome what is essentially 00:06:24.400 --> 00:06:25.360 an addiction, because it is. 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:28.800 It's a dopamine addiction, a serotonin addiction, which which is built into 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:29.760 human physiology. 00:06:29.760 --> 00:06:32.480 I went over that in the article that I will again link 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:34.960 in the notes for this and hopefully get through and link it 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:37.120 on all the videos as well. 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:37.440 So 00:06:38.320 --> 00:06:42.960 the various systems that make it harder to access that content aren't 00:06:42.960 --> 00:06:44.160 necessarily going to help you. 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:48.000 Now, they can help you in not accidentally stumbling into it, which 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:51.840 certainly happens easily these days on social media and elsewhere, and perhaps 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:53.120 that can be useful. 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:57.520 But by and large, just make it more difficult in terms of 00:06:57.520 --> 00:07:00.480 not having your computer in your private space, have it in a 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:05.120 public space, or use it only during certain hours, cut yourself off 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:06.560 after a certain time. 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:09.440 It's going to require willpower, of course, but all of these things 00:07:09.440 --> 00:07:11.680 do. There's no way around that. 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.680 And so have that accountability partner, make it more difficult to access 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:21.280 these things privately, maybe limit your usage of computer, tablet, whatever it 00:07:21.280 --> 00:07:24.560 happens to be, during certain hours. 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:29.680 And beyond that, fill your time with something productive, cardio. 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:32.320 If you are capable of doing cardio anyway, I don't know what 00:07:32.320 --> 00:07:36.000 the health issues are in this case, but various things like that 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.760 can eat up your time and help you not be distracted and 00:07:39.760 --> 00:07:43.040 not be tempted by these other things. 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:46.160 And so to get to the next part of the question, what 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:50.480 do we do in cases where someone has a severe genetic disorder? 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:52.720 I don't know how severe this one is, but I'm sort of 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:56.240 taking the abstracted case here instead of the concrete one presented. 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:59.360 So what do you do when someone has a severe genetic disorder? 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.160 But it does not preclude the libido. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:06.080 It doesn't preclude that desire, which is a completely natural desire, and 00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:08.880 so those who go off the rails and say that, you know, 00:08:08.880 --> 00:08:11.600 this isn't an evil thing, it's not part of creation no it's 00:08:11.520 --> 00:08:12.640 obviously part of creation. 00:08:12.640 --> 00:08:15.360 God created man and woman from the beginning, this is part of 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:17.600 how men and women relate to one another. 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:21.440 Granted, it's supposed to be only your spouse, but we live in 00:08:21.440 --> 00:08:22.800 a fallen world. 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.240 But to answer the immediate question, how do you deal with the 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:30.880 issue of those who would produce children who would have a severe 00:08:30.880 --> 00:08:31.920 genetic disorder? 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:33.840 In this case, it's not as much of a problem, of course, 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:36.560 because he's saying that children are simply out of the question. 00:08:36.560 --> 00:08:40.000 And I will assume that that's because of the genetic disorder. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:43.120 If it's not because of the genetic disorder, then perhaps my question- 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:47.520 my answer to the question, the abstracted one, is more relevant here. 00:08:47.520 --> 00:08:52.480 But I don't believe there's anything wrong with avoiding having children if 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:56.000 you know you're going to pass something horrible on to them. 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:00.320 I don't think that you have any requirement from God to have 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.480 children and pass that to them. 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:05.120 There's nowhere in scripture where that's commanded. 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:07.680 Now it says that children are a blessing from the Lord, of 00:09:07.680 --> 00:09:11.200 course, but there's also a matter of wisdom when dealing with these 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:14.400 issues. And so for instance, if you knew that you had we'll 00:09:14.400 --> 00:09:18.560 take the extreme, because it's always kind of useful to start there. 00:09:18.560 --> 00:09:20.080 Take the extreme example. 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.400 Say there's a 100% chance that your child is going to suffer 00:09:24.400 --> 00:09:28.880 horribly and then die six months after being born. 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:32.160 You probably don't want to bring that upon a child. 00:09:32.160 --> 00:09:35.440 And so you would take measures to ensure that you do not 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:36.560 have children. 00:09:36.560 --> 00:09:40.880 Does that necessarily mean that you can't have a wife? 00:09:40.880 --> 00:09:42.720 I think the answer is no. 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.440 I think and this is sort of the short version of the 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.960 answer that all everything else I've said is building up to find 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:51.120 a woman who cannot have children. 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:54.240 There are plenty of those, just quite frankly, if you marry a 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.880 woman who is, say, late thirties, odds are she won't get pregnant, 00:09:58.880 --> 00:10:04.160 even if genetically, biologically, that's a possibility for the both of you. 00:10:04.160 --> 00:10:07.760 Find a woman who cannot get pregnant, who cannot have children, and 00:10:07.760 --> 00:10:10.880 who And live your life with her as your wife. 00:10:10.880 --> 00:10:12.480 There's nothing wrong with that. 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:16.480 There's absolutely nothing wrong with putting yourself into a position where you 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:20.000 know you will not have children because you have some morally valid 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.000 reason to avoid having them. 00:10:22.160 --> 00:10:24.240 And so I think that's the best case here. 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:28.720 And as you said, in your case, the genetic disorder leads to 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.440 some issues with regard to your physical appearance. 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:34.160 There are plenty of women who have those issues as well. 00:10:34.160 --> 00:10:37.120 Now it may be that what you hear and what some will 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:40.560 hear is I'm telling you to settle, and perhaps that's somewhat true. 00:10:40.560 --> 00:10:42.240 That is the reality of this life. 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:47.280 Sometimes there's going to be a requirement that certain men settle. 00:10:47.280 --> 00:10:49.920 That is just the reality of living in a fallen world. 00:10:49.920 --> 00:10:52.160 These are issues for this life. 00:10:52.160 --> 00:10:55.760 The goal is to get through this life to the next one. 00:10:55.760 --> 00:10:58.800 This one still matters, and I will never minimize how much this 00:10:58.800 --> 00:11:00.160 one matters. 00:11:00.160 --> 00:11:00.480 But 00:11:01.040 --> 00:11:01.360 these 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:01.680 issues 00:11:02.400 --> 00:11:04.560 will not exist in paradise. 00:11:04.560 --> 00:11:07.840 And so find a woman with whom you can spend your life, 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:12.000 whom you can love as your wife, and then make it to 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:15.280 paradise with her, and you will both have restored and perfect bodies 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:18.880 then. So I think that's the best answer for this, and I 00:11:18.880 --> 00:11:22.480 think that anyone who's in a similar situation that's sort of abstract 00:11:22.640 --> 00:11:25.760 at out a level, and then that's the answer to the problem, 00:11:25.760 --> 00:11:30.160 because if God has not given you the gift of celibacy, and 00:11:30.160 --> 00:11:33.280 basically no one has the gift of celibacy, there probably zero people 00:11:33.280 --> 00:11:36.240 who will ever listen to this who have been given the gift 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:37.280 of celibacy. 00:11:37.280 --> 00:11:40.160 And if you don't have that gift, you are going to find 00:11:40.160 --> 00:11:43.760 it very difficult to attempt to remain chaste. 00:11:43.760 --> 00:11:46.880 You're not going to remain celibate because you can't be celibate unless 00:11:46.880 --> 00:11:48.160 God gives you the gift. 00:11:48.160 --> 00:11:49.680 You can be chaste. 00:11:49.680 --> 00:11:53.440 That's going to be difficult to do over a course of many 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:56.480 years for any normal human being. 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:00.880 If you are a man in your late teens, twenties, early thirties, 00:12:00.880 --> 00:12:03.360 it gets a little easier as you get older, of course, but 00:12:03.520 --> 00:12:07.520 if you're in that prime territory with regard to biology, it's going 00:12:07.520 --> 00:12:10.880 to be very difficult to avoid these issues if you don't have 00:12:10.880 --> 00:12:15.200 the only cure God recommends in scripture, which is a wife. 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:19.520 And so yes, it's difficult to find good women these days, but 00:12:19.520 --> 00:12:21.200 they do exist. 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.080 And don't think that you're going to have to find woman who's 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:29.360 perfect because you're not perfect, she won't be perfect, no one is 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:31.760 perfect. We live in a fallen world. 00:12:31.760 --> 00:12:34.560 Find a woman you can love and with whom you can spend 00:12:34.560 --> 00:12:35.680 your life. 00:12:35.680 --> 00:12:40.240 That is the cure for the temptation in this case. 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:42.640 It is the only cure God recommends, and so it is the 00:12:42.640 --> 00:12:43.600 only cure we should seek 00:12:48.800 --> 00:12:52.560 The next question is a little bit easier, a little more lighthearted. 00:12:52.560 --> 00:12:56.880 Someone just asked what my musical tastes are, and the answer is 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:57.760 yes, you are correct. 00:12:58.080 --> 00:12:59.440 They are rather eclectic. 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:00.480 I do like Wagner. 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:01.840 I do like opera. 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:05.680 I don't have an opera company here anymore where I can go 00:13:05.680 --> 00:13:08.320 and attend the opera, but thankfully there are many places online where 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.800 you can watch very good Very good recordings and they're quite good 00:13:10.800 --> 00:13:14.800 quality and these headphones are actually pretty good quality, so I can 00:13:14.800 --> 00:13:15.600 do that. 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:18.640 It's not the same as going and seeing the opera, of course, 00:13:18.640 --> 00:13:21.200 but it is nice to have the option. 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:25.600 And the other question, sort of sub-question, was do I like metal? 00:13:25.600 --> 00:13:29.040 I do listen to some, perhaps less than the beard would indicate, 00:13:29.040 --> 00:13:31.920 but I do listen to some metal, and like I said, my 00:13:31.920 --> 00:13:33.440 musical tastes are quite eclectic. 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:36.320 As those who have listened to Stone Choir, undoubtedly no. 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:39.840 The intro and outro are electronica, and so yes, I've listened to 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.120 some of that, I guess to be the the German stereotype there, 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:48.080 but yes, eclectic music tastes. 00:13:48.160 --> 00:13:52.960 The next question actually has three parts, really kind of three separate 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.240 questions, one of which is very lighthearted again. 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.800 Is there any hope for the LCMS? 00:13:58.800 --> 00:14:01.200 Is the basic question. 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.760 And I think that the answer to that is it doesn't matter. 00:14:05.760 --> 00:14:08.320 And the reason that it doesn't matter is because 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:13.440 one of the advantages to being a Protestant of any Of any 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:15.120 sort of flavor of Protestant. 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:18.000 One of the major advantages is that we don't believe that the 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:21.040 Church is a corporate identity. 00:14:21.040 --> 00:14:25.600 We don't think that the Church is this physical earthly body that 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:27.520 has to be obeyed, has to be followed, you have to be 00:14:27.920 --> 00:14:31.040 part of this particular thing to be saved. 00:14:31.040 --> 00:14:33.440 Because that's not what the church is. 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:39.520 The church is all believers, from Adam, all the way to whatever 00:14:39.520 --> 00:14:42.400 man is last standing on the earth at the end of time 00:14:42.560 --> 00:14:44.800 and is a Christian. 00:14:44.800 --> 00:14:49.040 All of those believers are the church, because they are the mystical 00:14:49.040 --> 00:14:50.320 body of Christ. 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:52.000 That is what the church is. 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:55.440 And so does it matter what happens to a particular corporation? 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:59.360 The answer is of course it matters, because it's a terrible thing 00:14:59.360 --> 00:15:03.440 to see a church body go apostate and fall apart, particularly one 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:06.000 that used to be one of the most faithful ones on the 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:07.600 face of the planet. 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.040 Because people think that oh the LCMS it was just the American 00:15:11.040 --> 00:15:15.040 Lutheranism was never a very big thing and it had almost three 00:15:15.040 --> 00:15:17.040 million members at one point. 00:15:17.040 --> 00:15:19.680 I think it actually had more than that at one point, but 00:15:19.680 --> 00:15:21.600 it had about that many members. 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:25.200 It was one of the fastest growing church bodies in the world. 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:27.440 It was incredibly faithful. 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:30.240 And then the World War era happened and we all know what 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:31.120 happens there. 00:15:31.280 --> 00:15:34.240 Particularly when you have German-speaking Lutherans. 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:37.840 And so it's terrible what has happened to the LCMS. 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:42.080 But it does not ultimately matter if we salvage the LCMS or 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:43.920 if we have to start up new church bodies. 00:15:43.920 --> 00:15:46.240 And I think in many cases, and I've said this to many 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.240 men, in DMs and elsewhere. 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.400 In many cases you are going to have to start up a 00:15:50.400 --> 00:15:54.480 house church, and then from there, over time it will grow naturally. 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:58.800 You'll acquire a building, build it, buy it, whatever it happens to 00:15:58.800 --> 00:16:00.960 be, and you will start another church. 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:06.320 And then those congregations will group together along doctrinal and confessional lines, 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:08.160 and you have a new church body. 00:16:08.160 --> 00:16:09.760 There's nothing wrong with that. 00:16:09.760 --> 00:16:11.280 It is sometimes necessary. 00:16:11.280 --> 00:16:15.760 It's probably going to be necessary under current circumstances. 00:16:15.760 --> 00:16:21.360 Because the odds of running a conquest, of you know, retaking these 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:25.360 major church bodies Fairly low odds. 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:30.160 Because the men who are in positions of power are so entrenched 00:16:30.400 --> 00:16:34.480 and so contrary to the actual word of God, so contrary to 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:38.800 the gospel and right doctrine, right teaching, it's probably not worth the 00:16:38.800 --> 00:16:42.720 effort, and you probably won't succeed even if you manage to expend 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:43.600 the effort. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:49.440 Now, this comes with a really big caveat, because particularly for those 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.760 who are from the Roman Catholic view 00:16:52.960 --> 00:17:00.000 or some other more not magisterial but unitary church bodies, they're 00:16:59.920 --> 00:17:02.800 not going to see it in the same way that say Lutherans 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:04.640 in the US would. 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:07.280 This is of course not Elka, Elka's not even Christian, so they're 00:17:07.280 --> 00:17:10.160 they can go off in the corner with their pride flags. 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:10.480 But 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:16.560 we are congregationalist in terms of our polity, not in terms of 00:17:16.560 --> 00:17:20.720 our theology or doctrine, but in terms of our polity, which essentially 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:24.240 just means that the congregation typically owns the land in the building, 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.600 or at least rents it, leases it, whatever it happens to be. 00:17:27.600 --> 00:17:30.400 It's not synod, it's not the corporation that owns it. 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:35.120 Now make sure that your constitution for your congregation has not been 00:17:35.120 --> 00:17:38.400 changed, so that Synod has a whole bunch of power. 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:39.760 Make sure that doesn't happen. 00:17:39.760 --> 00:17:43.920 But by and large, the congregation owns the building. 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:48.160 What that means is the congregation could just leave synod. 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:50.560 The congregation can be completely faithful. 00:17:50.560 --> 00:17:54.560 You can have a faithful pastor, faithful elders, and you can just 00:17:54.560 --> 00:17:56.960 no longer be part of the LCMS. 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:59.920 Now that works, that is perfectly viable. 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:05.120 Taking faithful congregations out of these apostate corporate bodies, and then having 00:18:05.120 --> 00:18:08.240 entire congregations join new faithful bodies? 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:12.080 That is far preferable to having to spin up all new congregations 00:18:12.080 --> 00:18:13.520 and everything else. 00:18:13.520 --> 00:18:17.440 Much better to take the full congregation and save all of those 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:20.000 sheep in there because many of them have no idea what's going 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:21.920 on. Do also bear that in mind. 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:26.480 With regard to faithless congregations, many of the sheep may be faithful. 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:28.960 They just have no idea what's going on, or it may be 00:18:29.120 --> 00:18:32.720 my grandparents attended this church, my parents attended this church, I was 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:36.160 baptized in this church, I'm gonna keep attending this church. 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:40.720 So yes, congregations can be saved, but the corporate body probably not 00:18:40.800 --> 00:18:45.120 and probably not worth it. 00:18:45.120 --> 00:18:48.240 And the second question before I get to the the less serious 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:51.520 one, although as a German I can say very serious one, but 00:18:51.520 --> 00:18:53.280 you'll see why in a minute. 00:18:53.280 --> 00:18:58.000 What about worshiping with family members and friends and others who are 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:02.240 not, in this case Lutheran, but for whatever tradition to which you 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:04.240 adhere, that tradition. 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.600 Wells has some problems with that, and I think their doctrine is 00:19:07.600 --> 00:19:08.720 wrong on this point. 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:12.320 They object to praying with others and things like that, but that's 00:19:12.320 --> 00:19:16.480 The restriction, this part I do think is right, that the LCMS 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:22.640 has traditionally held, was that you cannot participate in a public worship 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:29.200 service as an ordained pastor, because that is showing your tacit approval 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:31.760 of the doctrine that we consider to be false. 00:19:31.760 --> 00:19:33.360 I think that's correct. 00:19:33.360 --> 00:19:36.160 I don't think that we should give a sign off in any 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:40.320 case, in any sort of way, with regard to false doctrine. 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:43.040 But can you pray with a family member? 00:19:43.040 --> 00:19:45.600 Absolutely. I think Wells is ridiculous on that. 00:19:45.600 --> 00:19:48.880 Can you go to a worship service at a church that is 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:51.440 not your denomination, not your tradition? 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:52.800 I think the answer is yes. 00:19:52.800 --> 00:19:56.240 There are caveats there, of course, because we have to say they 00:19:56.240 --> 00:20:01.360 still have to be Christian, obviously, and so if you are a 00:20:01.360 --> 00:20:04.640 traditional Lutheran, should you attend a Roman Catholic Mass? 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:09.520 The answer is probably no, because we consider their conception of the 00:20:09.520 --> 00:20:12.720 sacrifice of the Mass to be abominable. 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:15.520 So you probably should not attend that. 00:20:15.520 --> 00:20:18.320 But But can you go to a Baptist service? 00:20:18.320 --> 00:20:23.280 Sure. You're going to severely object, of course, if they start talking 00:20:23.280 --> 00:20:26.480 about the real presence because they don't believe in it. 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:30.400 But the only sort of limitation would be do not participate in 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:32.000 the Lord's Supper if it is offered. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:34.320 In a Baptist church, it probably won't be. 00:20:34.320 --> 00:20:36.480 And even if it is, it's not the real thing because they 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:39.360 don't use wine and they don't believe. 00:20:39.360 --> 00:20:43.200 So do not participate in that because you have to be in 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:48.560 unity with your brothers doctrinally, confessionally, if you are participating in the 00:20:48.560 --> 00:20:50.800 meal that is that show of unity. 00:20:50.800 --> 00:20:53.760 And so don't partake of the sacrament at a church with which 00:20:53.760 --> 00:20:57.040 you do not believe there you disagree with their doctrine, don't do 00:20:57.040 --> 00:20:59.200 that. But can you worship with them? 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:00.560 Absolutely. Can you pray with them? 00:21:00.560 --> 00:21:02.160 You absolutely should. 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:03.680 So there's nothing wrong with that. 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:08.000 And then the third question, the less serious one or extremely serious 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:11.360 one, depending how you view things, is what is my favorite beer? 00:21:11.360 --> 00:21:14.880 And I would say that my favorite beers would be any of 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.280 the dark ones from Weinstefana. 00:21:17.280 --> 00:21:18.960 That's probably my favorite brewery. 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:22.960 It used to be when I lived in Berlin, it was basically 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:26.880 only a handful of tram stops away from my apartment, their Berlin 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:30.320 location, obviously not the main one down in Bavaria, but I used 00:21:30.320 --> 00:21:32.720 to go and have lunch there and go to the museums because 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:36.240 the museum island, all museums are sort of grouped together in Berlin 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:39.440 with some satellite ones, but I used to go there and then 00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:42.640 go to the island and wander around the museums because it was 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:43.360 a very short walk. 00:21:43.360 --> 00:21:44.160 It was very nice. 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:48.240 So that's my favorite beer, a little tidbit about my previous life, 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:49.600 I guess it will be. 00:22:01.280 --> 00:22:05.440 Just a quick question here about whether or not I'm still practicing 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:08.160 law. The answer to that is yes and no. 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:10.240 Yes, I am still a licensed attorney. 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:12.880 Surprisingly, the bar has not opened an investigation into me. 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:14.240 I know they're going to eventually do that. 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:17.680 They've sort of been building up to it to sort of excise, 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:22.400 particularly in California, excise anyone with so-called far-right views. 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:24.000 I can see where the trajectory is going. 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:25.840 I know exactly the tactic they're going to take. 00:22:25.840 --> 00:22:27.760 It's they're not very subtle. 00:22:27.760 --> 00:22:28.480 They're not very 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:30.640 bright either, but we'll see how that goes. 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.680 I probably won't be the first attorney in California who we brought 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:37.600 up on charges for being racist or whatever it happens to be. 00:22:37.600 --> 00:22:41.040 But they will I know exactly what they'll do, and I may 00:22:41.040 --> 00:22:42.160 as well say what they're going to do. 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:44.240 Not how they'll build up to it, but the way that they 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:46.160 will enforce it. 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:50.240 And the way that they enforce it is this: they don't say 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.840 that, oh, you are a racist, and so we're going to kick 00:22:53.840 --> 00:22:54.640 you out. 00:22:55.040 --> 00:23:01.920 What they will say is that showing this form of racial discrimination 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:05.120 in your online behavior, whatever it happens to be, whatever argument they 00:23:05.120 --> 00:23:05.360 use 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:12.800 is contrary to the ethics rules with regard to impartiality in representation 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:14.720 or something similar to that. 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:18.880 And so we are going to fine you $50,000 and if you 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:21.520 don't pay the fine you can't keep your license. 00:23:21.520 --> 00:23:25.680 And so your options, of course, then are well, fight this fifty 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:27.280 thousand dollar fine 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:30.880 and probably spend a great deal of money doing so and have 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:33.760 to fly back to California incidentally in my case. 00:23:33.760 --> 00:23:37.360 Or pay the fifty thousand dollars and then they will probably fine 00:23:37.360 --> 00:23:40.480 you again unless you delete your entire online presence and give up 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:42.960 doing the sort of things that I do. 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:45.600 And so that's probably coming down the pipeline. 00:23:45.600 --> 00:23:48.400 Perhaps I'll get a Tennessee bar card instead and give up my 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:49.600 California one. 00:23:49.600 --> 00:23:52.080 I kinda like having the California one. 00:23:52.080 --> 00:23:53.920 It's my only tie left to California. 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:56.640 I've deliberately severed everything else because I didn't want them to try 00:23:56.640 --> 00:23:59.600 to tax me because it's California. 00:23:59.600 --> 00:24:03.360 But yes, I'm still a licensed attorney and I do practice law 00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:08.320 to some degree, but it is not exactly beneficial to have my 00:24:08.320 --> 00:24:11.280 notoriety with regard to practicing law. 00:24:11.600 --> 00:24:13.440 As you might imagine. 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:15.760 Except of course if you're practicing the sort of law where that 00:24:15.760 --> 00:24:17.120 benefits, which I'm not. 00:24:17.120 --> 00:24:20.720 I'm an expert technically in antitrust, or competition law as they call 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:22.320 it in the EU. 00:24:22.320 --> 00:24:28.720 And not necessarily beneficial to have my reputation because of Stone Choir 00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:31.360 and other things, and practice law. 00:24:31.360 --> 00:24:33.200 So yes and no. 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:34.640 Sort of the answer. 00:24:36.560 --> 00:24:41.520 And the next question is is a theology question, and it is 00:24:41.840 --> 00:24:45.760 what would be my argument against annihilationism? 00:24:45.760 --> 00:24:47.680 And I've answered this one a number of times. 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:49.440 Before I get into it, I'm going to drink a little bit 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:51.840 of tea here. 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:02.480 So the answer with regard to annihilationism 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:09.040 is that you cannot have annihilationism because the destruction of that which 00:25:09.040 --> 00:25:11.680 is good is itself evil. 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:15.520 Now, that's a philosophical argument and perhaps somewhat of a high level 00:25:15.520 --> 00:25:18.160 one, but I'll break down what that means. 00:25:18.560 --> 00:25:20.080 With regard to 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:22.080 I guess 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:22.400 we'll 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.200 go with existence of anything, you have the transcendentals. 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:27.120 There are things that are good in and of themselves. 00:25:27.120 --> 00:25:32.400 The transcendentals are convertible, which means that goodness, beauty, and truth, goodness 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:34.960 is beauty, beauty is truth, truth is goodness. 00:25:35.280 --> 00:25:35.600 So 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:40.960 human beings existing is good. 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:44.560 Partly because being is good, being and unity being the fourth and 00:25:44.560 --> 00:25:46.400 fifth transcendentals. 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:49.280 But being is good because it is a thing with regard to 00:25:49.280 --> 00:25:51.440 humanity that is created by God. 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:55.040 Everything God creates is good. 00:25:55.040 --> 00:26:01.440 And so the destruction of anything that is good is necessarily evil. 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:06.000 So if God were to destroy a human being in terms of 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:11.520 annihilationism, that would be evil, and God cannot commit evil because God 00:26:11.840 --> 00:26:13.280 is good. 00:26:13.280 --> 00:26:15.760 God is good, God is goodness. 00:26:15.760 --> 00:26:22.640 And so God actually cannot destroy humanity in terms of annihilating a 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:25.040 soul, in terms of annihilating a human being. 00:26:25.040 --> 00:26:26.560 And now I know there are those who will say, well you 00:26:26.560 --> 00:26:28.400 just said God cannot. 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:32.800 I'm speaking in human terms because if you try to explain these 00:26:32.800 --> 00:26:36.000 things in terms that are perfectly accurate, you wind up having to 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:40.080 circumlocute and just in crazy ways, trying to explain this in a 00:26:40.080 --> 00:26:45.280 way that's absolutely perfectly accurate and technically correct. 00:26:45.280 --> 00:26:48.880 Because what I'm really saying is that it's incoherent. 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:53.040 You can't say God did X and X is evil. 00:26:53.040 --> 00:26:55.200 Because God doesn't do anything evil. 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:56.720 Everything God does is good. 00:26:57.040 --> 00:26:58.000 God is good. 00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:00.080 God is goodness And so 00:27:01.120 --> 00:27:05.440 when I say that God cannot do something that is evil, what 00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:10.000 I'm saying really is that it's incoherent to assert of God having 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:12.880 done or going to do that which is evil. 00:27:13.120 --> 00:27:20.640 So annihilationism is philosophically incoherent because it accuses God of 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:23.040 planning to do that which is evil. 00:27:23.040 --> 00:27:28.080 And then he wouldn't be God, because God is his nature. 00:27:28.080 --> 00:27:30.880 Part of his nature, of course, and of course I'm speaking in 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:34.480 parts because again speaking in a human manner, would be the transcendentals, 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:36.480 goodness, beauty, truth. 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:44.080 And so annihilationism is false because it is morally, philosophically, logically incoherent. 00:27:44.080 --> 00:27:46.640 It just appeals to people. 00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:49.200 This is sort of stepping back from the philosophical bit of it, 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:54.240 but it appeals to people because it sounds nicer to say that 00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:57.120 you simply I won't snap because it's a bad thing to do 00:27:57.120 --> 00:28:00.560 when you're wearing a mic, but it's not it seems nicer to 00:28:00.560 --> 00:28:01.920 say that you just disappear. 00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:02.800 You're just gone. 00:28:02.800 --> 00:28:04.000 That's just the end of it. 00:28:04.320 --> 00:28:07.920 Instead of you suffer for eternity in hell. 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:11.760 And to us it certainly sounds on the surface, until you again 00:28:11.840 --> 00:28:17.360 delve into that philosophy, it sounds better to simply cease to exist. 00:28:17.600 --> 00:28:19.360 Than to suffer for eternity. 00:28:19.360 --> 00:28:23.280 But it is actually worse because it is an evil to destroy 00:28:23.280 --> 00:28:25.200 something that is good. 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:28.640 Now, of course, it's better if people actually convert and believe in 00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:32.800 Christ and spend eternity in paradise instead of spending eternity in hell. 00:28:32.800 --> 00:28:36.400 But annihilationism is false for the reasons laid out. 00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:40.240 But I understand why it is appealing to some people, particularly because 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:43.680 if you have, for instance, loved ones who have died, and they 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:46.480 did not believe, you know they did not believe, in fact, maybe 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:48.400 they hated God. 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:51.840 It's much more comforting to some degree on a surface level to 00:28:51.840 --> 00:28:56.560 say that they were destroyed instead of saying that they are in 00:28:56.560 --> 00:28:57.760 hell. But that is the reality 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:01.600 of it, that hell is eternal. 00:29:01.600 --> 00:29:11.920 Hell is the fire that does not consume. 00:29:17.760 --> 00:29:20.640 I think I have gone over most of the questions now that 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:21.440 I had written down. 00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:24.480 I think there were a couple of questions in the chat so 00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:28.080 I will get to those. 00:29:28.080 --> 00:29:32.000 What are your thoughts on the Church of Christ denomination? 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.920 I do not have any particular thoughts on that denomination. 00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:37.680 I would have to look into their distinctives again. 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:40.000 I have not looked at them in many years, so I do 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:42.720 not remember exactly what it is that they hold. 00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:45.920 I will look into that and get to that next week. 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:48.560 So the next one. 00:29:48.560 --> 00:29:52.400 What is the biblical or wise way to get to the point 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:54.560 of Christian white nationalism? 00:29:54.560 --> 00:29:57.360 What are some practical things we can do? 00:29:57.360 --> 00:30:01.600 Insofar as the ideology is concerned, we already laid that out with 00:30:01.600 --> 00:30:02.640 Stone Choir. 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:06.000 Now there are some things that we did not address, of course, 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:09.600 with regard to the purely political, because that's a different thing. 00:30:09.600 --> 00:30:13.520 That's not the enterprise that we were undertaking with Stone Choir. 00:30:13.520 --> 00:30:16.960 And so we address the theology, we address the doctrine, all the 00:30:16.960 --> 00:30:19.680 practical parts of that. 00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:20.000 And 00:30:21.600 --> 00:30:25.680 I have an article that I have partially written on this and 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:28.720 I need to get around to finishing that and publishing it. 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:33.600 But insofar as the next steps are concerned, the next steps are 00:30:33.600 --> 00:30:38.800 political. Yes, we need to continue doing the things on the theology, 00:30:38.800 --> 00:30:42.560 the doctrinal front, getting men to believe in the truth, getting men 00:30:42.560 --> 00:30:46.800 to work together, getting men to form new congregations, or remove faithful 00:30:46.800 --> 00:30:51.360 congregations from faithless corporate bodies, as gone over in a previous answer 00:30:51.360 --> 00:30:56.240 to a previous question, but at this point we really are in 00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:58.640 the politics or bust. 00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:00.640 That's the only way forward. 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:04.080 And I do mean politics in sort of the Schmidtian sense. 00:31:04.560 --> 00:31:10.320 In the more realpolitik sense, not in the sense of necessarily simply 00:31:10.320 --> 00:31:14.480 electoral politics, because electoral politics is simply a subset of politics. 00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:16.560 It is not the fullness of it. 00:31:16.560 --> 00:31:20.720 And so the way forward is things that are indeed very concrete. 00:31:20.720 --> 00:31:23.600 It is the only way we are going to actually accomplish anything. 00:31:23.600 --> 00:31:26.880 It is the only way we are going to get anything done. 00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:31.360 And part of that, of course, is going to be forming actual 00:31:31.360 --> 00:31:36.960 political groups and engaging in politics. 00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:40.320 Now I can't go into all of the details of what all 00:31:40.320 --> 00:31:44.640 of these things are going to require for fairly obvious reasons to 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:45.200 most men. 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:46.320 But 00:31:47.600 --> 00:31:50.240 the years ahead are going to be difficult. 00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:54.800 There is no way around that, there is no ignoring that fact. 00:31:54.800 --> 00:31:55.920 We have no choice. 00:31:55.920 --> 00:32:00.400 It is our duty to do these things, and God has the 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:01.920 outcome in his hands. 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:06.960 I've been very clear about that all throughout from the very beginning 00:32:07.120 --> 00:32:09.520 when I started to be more public with my views on social 00:32:09.600 --> 00:32:12.240 media, all through Stone Choir. 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.440 The duty is ours, the outcome is God's. 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:18.960 So we don't have to fear what is going to happen. 00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:21.520 We don't have to fear what is going to happen to us 00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:25.360 or with regard to our nation, our people, anything like that. 00:32:25.360 --> 00:32:29.040 God has made promises to us and He will be faithful, He 00:32:29.040 --> 00:32:30.160 will be true. 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:33.680 It is simply our duty to do our duty, to do the 00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:37.760 things set before us that we are capable of doing, and that 00:32:37.760 --> 00:32:40.080 God has given us to do. 00:32:40.080 --> 00:32:43.200 And so what are the practical things we can do? 00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:44.400 Work together. 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:45.760 Support each other. 00:32:45.760 --> 00:32:49.520 Be there for your brothers when they need you because there are 00:32:49.520 --> 00:32:52.800 going to be men who are going to suffer heavier costs than 00:32:52.800 --> 00:32:56.400 others, and they need to have a support network there for them. 00:32:56.560 --> 00:32:59.760 We need to stop acting like individuals and act like we are 00:32:59.760 --> 00:33:01.200 actually in this together. 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:05.280 We are a group, Not individuals. 00:33:05.280 --> 00:33:07.920 We are a race, we are a nation, and we need to 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:09.040 support each other. 00:33:09.040 --> 00:33:12.240 Because if we don't do that, then quite frankly we deserve to 00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:16.320 lose. Because the group that acts like a group that recognizes it 00:33:16.320 --> 00:33:20.480 is a group, recognizes it is a collective, is going to be 00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:22.320 the one that succeeds. 00:33:22.320 --> 00:33:26.800 I want that to be us. 00:33:26.800 --> 00:33:29.840 What version of the Bible would you recommend I read? 00:33:29.840 --> 00:33:31.840 Is the NIV okay? 00:33:31.840 --> 00:33:35.440 The current answer to that is basically just read whatever version you 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:39.280 have. There are plenty of good modern ones in English with regard 00:33:39.280 --> 00:33:41.120 to the New Testament. 00:33:41.120 --> 00:33:43.840 With regard to the Old Testament, they're basically all based on the 00:33:43.840 --> 00:33:46.800 Masoretic, and so go see the series that we did for Stone 00:33:46.800 --> 00:33:48.800 Choir on the Septuagint. 00:33:48.800 --> 00:33:54.080 But there are translations of the Septuagint into English English, they're more 00:33:54.080 --> 00:33:55.120 or less good. 00:33:55.120 --> 00:33:56.400 They have various problems. 00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:59.600 The Lexum, for instance, is very stilted in some places because it's 00:33:59.600 --> 00:34:00.880 sort of academic. 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:04.000 Nets is also a little bit stilted in some places because they're 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:08.800 extremely literal, To the point where some of the name translations are 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:12.640 pretty funny because they're just so ridiculous. 00:34:12.640 --> 00:34:16.240 I I can't even think of some of the best ones because 00:34:16.240 --> 00:34:19.200 they're just so crazy that I don't have them memorized. 00:34:19.200 --> 00:34:23.760 It's fine to read, it's accurate, it's faithful to the underlying Greek, 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:26.480 but it's not a very good English translation because that wasn't the 00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:30.000 purpose. That one was meant to be for study, so that's fine. 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:34.640 The Breton is antiquated because it's sort of the KJV the original 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:39.760 KJV version of the translation of the Septuagint into English. 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:42.480 So they all have some problems. 00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:45.200 We have some other ones in the pipeline. 00:34:45.200 --> 00:34:47.600 Hopefully some of those will be very good. 00:34:47.600 --> 00:34:50.000 Eventually we will have a definitive answer. 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:53.520 This is the English translation of the Septuagint. 00:34:53.520 --> 00:34:54.240 Read this. 00:34:54.240 --> 00:34:57.920 But insofar as the New Testament is concerned, we will Plenty of 00:34:57.920 --> 00:34:58.560 great options. 00:34:58.560 --> 00:35:00.560 NASB, NIV's fine. 00:35:00.560 --> 00:35:02.640 It's not my favorite, it's not bad. 00:35:02.640 --> 00:35:05.920 ASV, ESV, all sorts of options. 00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:08.560 Pick the one that you like, pick the one that you have. 00:35:08.560 --> 00:35:09.360 Read it. 00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:11.120 The best thing you can do is read it. 00:35:11.120 --> 00:35:14.320 I typically am reading the ESV, it just happens to be the 00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:18.320 one that I have probably too many copies of, but for the 00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:22.720 daily devotions, for the through the Bible series, I read the ESV. 00:35:22.720 --> 00:35:26.400 Next year I will switch to some translation. 00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:29.040 Hopefully there's a good one by then. 00:35:29.040 --> 00:35:31.360 Or I'm going to have to do some edits, which is going 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:33.760 to make it a lot longer for me to record every day, 00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:38.000 but I'm going to switch to reading a translation of the Septuagint 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:39.040 for the Old Testament portion. 00:35:39.040 --> 00:35:42.400 I'll probably keep reading the ESV for the New Testament because it's 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:46.320 fine. I make some edits on the fly mentally when I'm going 00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:50.240 through it because for instance, the word Gentiles should not be used 00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:52.720 because because that's weird. 00:35:52.720 --> 00:35:56.080 We just kept a Latin word around because it's Judaizing, that's the 00:35:56.080 --> 00:36:01.760 reason. But the word means either heathen or nations, depending on the 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:05.600 context, and seeing as I just said both of those words, we 00:36:05.600 --> 00:36:06.560 have them in English. 00:36:06.560 --> 00:36:08.400 It should have been translated, it should not have been left in 00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:09.280 the Latin. 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:13.840 Luther didn't leave it in the Latin when he translated into German, 00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:16.720 when he translated from the Greek into the German, he didn't randomly 00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:18.800 translate into Latin instead. 00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:23.120 He used the German words for heathen and nation, which is what 00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:24.400 we should be doing in English. 00:36:24.640 --> 00:36:26.240 Some minor things like that. 00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:36.000 If I got a full ride scholarship, should I continue to go 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:36.640 to college? 00:36:36.640 --> 00:36:41.280 Also follow up, what are your recommendations for someone possibly seeking ordination? 00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:45.280 Should I keep this stuff under wraps or what? 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:47.920 I'll answer the second one first. 00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:51.120 It is going to depend partly on the church body in which 00:36:51.120 --> 00:36:54.480 you are seeking ordination, but the general answer is yes. 00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:57.760 You should hide your power level as it were. 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:00.640 Because they are going to persecute you, they are going to drive 00:37:00.640 --> 00:37:03.360 you from the church, and they are going to try to destroy 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:07.120 your life if they can, if they figure out what you actually 00:37:07.120 --> 00:37:13.360 believe. Because most of the church corporations, the large bodies, are run 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:16.960 by evil men and they want to do evil things. 00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:22.880 So if you are pursuing ordination in one of those bodies, and 00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:25.760 there's nothing necessarily wrong with that because in some cases, some of 00:37:25.760 --> 00:37:30.480 the seminary classes, not all, they're bad professors, certainly, some very bad 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:33.840 professors in some traditions, in some seminaries. 00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:34.800 Some of them are still good. 00:37:35.680 --> 00:37:39.040 And so you may very well get a worthwhile education. 00:37:39.040 --> 00:37:44.880 Is it necessarily worth your time, probably money, in order to go 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:47.120 to seminary? 00:37:47.120 --> 00:37:48.400 Maybe not. 00:37:48.640 --> 00:37:51.360 You can do a lot of that studying on your own. 00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:53.200 There are plenty of good resources. 00:37:53.200 --> 00:37:58.400 You can go and basically be tutored by a very good pastor 00:37:58.480 --> 00:37:59.920 if you can find a good pastor. 00:37:59.920 --> 00:38:02.320 There are still good pastors out there. 00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:05.520 That's probably so the apprenticeship route basically. 00:38:05.520 --> 00:38:08.720 That might be better at this point. 00:38:08.720 --> 00:38:11.760 And that's I'm saying that as a Lutheran where traditionally we've been 00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:15.920 very big on seminary and the whole proper ordination, all that sort 00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:21.600 of thing, but That's not necessarily a requirement to be a properly 00:38:21.600 --> 00:38:26.000 ordained pastor, a properly trained, fit-for-the-office pastor. 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:28.480 That may not be the best route these days. 00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:32.880 If you happen to get into a seminary that is in your 00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:36.880 tradition, that you know has some faithful pastors at least, some faithful 00:38:37.040 --> 00:38:41.440 faithful professors, you can befriend them and you know learn from them, 00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:44.400 and it's not going to cost you a bunch of money, or 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:46.320 money's not an object for you, which you said you had a 00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:49.120 scholarship, so I assume that money is an object. 00:38:49.120 --> 00:38:50.480 Sure, pursue that. 00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:51.760 It's probably worth it. 00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:56.160 Insofar as college is concerned, if you have a full ride, absolutely 00:38:56.160 --> 00:38:57.360 continue to pursue that. 00:38:57.360 --> 00:38:59.760 It is worth having that degree. 00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:03.200 Just, you know, hide your power level, get through. 00:39:03.200 --> 00:39:06.720 Your goal is to get through, get the degree, and get a 00:39:06.720 --> 00:39:07.280 good job. 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:08.480 Right? That's your goal. 00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:09.520 And there's nothing wrong with that. 00:39:09.520 --> 00:39:13.680 I have never been one to tell men avoid college. 00:39:13.680 --> 00:39:18.240 Now, too many men go to college, certainly, but those who have 00:39:18.240 --> 00:39:21.680 been given the intellectual gifts by God to do that sort of 00:39:21.680 --> 00:39:23.520 thing, and college used to be exceptional. 00:39:23.520 --> 00:39:27.440 It used to be only the very upper echelons went to college. 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:30.800 Certainly university, if you want to draw that sort of distinction, the 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:33.840 hierarchical distinction. 00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:37.520 If you have been given those gifts, if you have those capabilities, 00:39:37.520 --> 00:39:39.840 then absolutely you should go to university. 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:41.600 It is still a worthwhile thing. 00:39:41.600 --> 00:39:44.000 Again, you can still find good professors. 00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:47.440 I granted in my case it's been a number of years now 00:39:47.680 --> 00:39:52.080 because you know I graduated in two thousand eight but there were 00:39:52.080 --> 00:39:53.520 still very good professors. 00:39:53.520 --> 00:39:54.880 There still are good professors. 00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:57.760 I'm friends with uh some people, some men who are good professors 00:39:57.760 --> 00:39:58.320 at universities. 00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:00.960 Of course not going to name them because the last thing they 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:02.000 want is that. 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:07.360 But you can find that, and you can find advantages there. 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:08.640 It can be beneficial. 00:40:08.640 --> 00:40:11.760 It can be a good thing to go to university. 00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:16.320 Just again, hide your power level, probably don't cause too many trouble, 00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:20.720 too many problems, too much trouble for yourself before you graduate. 00:40:20.720 --> 00:40:30.240 At least before you graduate. 00:40:30.240 --> 00:40:34.720 Looks like someone submitted a question on Omniphora but wasn't sure it's 00:40:34.640 --> 00:40:35.520 in the right place. 00:40:35.520 --> 00:40:38.160 If it was submitted recently, as in the last few hours I 00:40:38.160 --> 00:40:40.320 have not checked, so I may not have seen it, or it 00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:42.160 may be in a category where I didn't. 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:44.880 I'll move it if it happens to be somewhere that it probably 00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:45.760 shouldn't be. 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:51.360 In our modern age of usury, cryptocurrency, 50-year mortgages, and global banking 00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:55.680 schemes, how would you recommend being a good financial steward? 00:40:56.480 --> 00:41:00.880 This is a difficult one, and I had another question that was 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.080 related to that. 00:41:02.080 --> 00:41:05.120 It was with regard to savings and things like that. 00:41:05.120 --> 00:41:07.440 So these are sort of two related questions. 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:09.600 I'll answer them together. 00:41:09.600 --> 00:41:13.280 What do you do financially, given that we live under a system 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:19.120 that is openly and actively evil and getting worse? 00:41:19.120 --> 00:41:24.000 That's a hard question, and there is no good answer. 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:29.280 There are answers I can give you a sort of general answer, 00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:31.280 a general approach. 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:33.680 It's a question of wisdom ultimately. 00:41:33.680 --> 00:41:37.680 It is a question of what do you do with the resources 00:41:37.680 --> 00:41:40.720 that God has given you because you are a steward of those 00:41:40.720 --> 00:41:42.960 resources. God expects you to use them wisely. 00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:45.280 This is the parable of the talents. 00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:49.600 And a number of other things as well, but that one primarily. 00:41:49.600 --> 00:41:52.960 What do you do with the financial resources God has given you? 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:56.320 And the answer is that you use them, of course, wisely, and 00:41:56.320 --> 00:41:59.920 you use them in the best possible way you can. 00:41:59.920 --> 00:42:03.680 I would say avoid engaging in some of these things that are 00:42:03.680 --> 00:42:06.320 just extreme in terms of their wickedness. 00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:07.200 You can't avoid it. 00:42:07.200 --> 00:42:09.120 You can't avoid all of it. 00:42:09.120 --> 00:42:12.720 Because of course, if you use a credit card, right? 00:42:12.720 --> 00:42:16.160 Well credit cards exist on the back of usury, on the back 00:42:16.160 --> 00:42:18.320 of those who do not pay off their balances, and by the 00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:21.280 way, pay off your balance every month if by any means you 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:25.120 can. But they exist off the backs of those who cannot pay 00:42:25.120 --> 00:42:28.160 their balances every month and therefore pay interest charges. 00:42:28.160 --> 00:42:31.200 And so when I use my credit card, I am engaging in 00:42:31.200 --> 00:42:35.200 a system that is based on wickedness at its core. 00:42:35.200 --> 00:42:38.720 But I don't have a choice in this day and age because 00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:42.400 many places you could never even buy things if you don't use 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:43.040 a credit card. 00:42:43.040 --> 00:42:44.960 And I know that some are going to be thinking, well, doesn't 00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:46.080 that sound like the mark of the beast? 00:42:46.080 --> 00:42:48.080 And it sounds like it a little bit, yes. 00:42:48.080 --> 00:42:50.000 I don't think credit cards are the mark of the beast, I 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:51.280 want to be clear. 00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:54.800 And so I don't think that as a Christian living in this 00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:59.360 system, you are categorically prohibited from using things like that. 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:02.160 So I don't think you're prohibited from having a savings account or 00:43:02.560 --> 00:43:04.160 investments and things like that. 00:43:04.160 --> 00:43:08.160 You have to engage with the world as you find it with 00:43:08.160 --> 00:43:13.680 wisdom. And so avoid the things that trouble your conscience. 00:43:13.680 --> 00:43:16.880 That's one of the general rules that's just a blanket rule across 00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:18.320 the board for everything. 00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:21.440 Avoid the things that trouble your conscience. 00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:25.680 Can you use the financial instruments and vehicles that our system has 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:28.720 in clean conscience as a Christian? 00:43:28.720 --> 00:43:30.560 I think the answer is yes. 00:43:30.560 --> 00:43:33.040 I think that it comes with a caveat that you should still 00:43:33.040 --> 00:43:34.320 want to change the system. 00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:37.280 You should never buy into it to the point where, well, I'm 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:40.720 so heavily invested in the system now I can't possibly say that 00:43:40.720 --> 00:43:41.920 we should change this. 00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:44.560 And so for instance, don't be the kind of person who looks 00:43:44.560 --> 00:43:47.120 at student loan forgiveness and says, well, if they do that, it's 00:43:47.040 --> 00:43:50.400 going to hurt my 40K four oh one K or whatever it 00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:51.440 happens to be. 00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:54.160 Don't be that man. 00:43:54.160 --> 00:43:56.160 Can you use the system? 00:43:56.160 --> 00:43:59.920 Yes. Should you want to change the system? 00:43:59.920 --> 00:44:03.360 Yes. It is a wisdom call. 00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:06.960 You have to do the best that you can with the resources 00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:10.320 entrusted to your care and the people entrusted to your care. 00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.400 Because of course, if you just go out there and are a 00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:16.320 complete fool with your money. 00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:20.960 And you know, don't use any of the financial instruments, don't take 00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:24.000 advantage of any of these sorts of programs and offers and all 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:24.720 these things. 00:44:24.720 --> 00:44:29.040 And you say that I'm just being a perfectly moral man, and 00:44:29.040 --> 00:44:32.880 you wind up driving your family to poverty, you go bankrupt and 00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:34.000 they're starving on the streets. 00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:35.440 Have you actually accomplished anything? 00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:37.200 The answer is no. 00:44:37.200 --> 00:44:39.520 Sometimes there are no good options. 00:44:39.520 --> 00:44:42.480 And I think when it comes to this sort of thing, there 00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:45.280 is no this is the definitive good answer. 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:48.160 I think it is do the best you can with the measure 00:44:48.160 --> 00:44:50.240 of wisdom that God has given you. 00:44:55.840 --> 00:45:00.000 Can you imagine a scenario where I have to scroll so my 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.360 camera is not blocking? 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:04.880 A large portion of the public is able to break programming and 00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:08.080 see that we have been massively lied to about World War II 00:45:08.240 --> 00:45:12.320 and the I will say national socialists, but he has evil Nazis 00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:13.040 in quote. 00:45:13.040 --> 00:45:13.920 In quotation. 00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:18.320 Marks. I think that the average person just sort of goes along 00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:20.800 with whatever he's told. 00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:24.160 Talk to someone who watches a lot of news programs and you 00:45:24.160 --> 00:45:29.520 will simply hear CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, second hand, or third hand, 00:45:29.520 --> 00:45:31.280 whatever it happens to be. 00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:34.400 So I don't think that the average person is really doing much 00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:37.440 in terms of processing when it comes to this stuff. 00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:42.000 So the question then is, sort of stepping back a couple paces, 00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:48.400 how do you change those views with regard to that standard narrative. 00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:50.400 Well, you have to change the system. 00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:52.560 You have to change the education system. 00:45:52.560 --> 00:45:55.120 You have to have political control. 00:45:55.120 --> 00:45:59.520 And so is it worth talking to those in your personal life 00:45:59.520 --> 00:46:00.160 about that? 00:46:00.160 --> 00:46:01.280 It's a wisdom call. 00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:04.000 Sometimes the best answer I can give you sort of sounds like 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:06.960 the Weasley Attorney answer, it depends, but it does. 00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:08.320 It's a wisdom call. 00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:11.600 Because as you full well know, there are those in your life 00:46:11.600 --> 00:46:14.480 who will be open to discussing these topics and those who will 00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:16.720 absolutely not be, those who will cut you out of their life 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:20.480 and call you evil and probably try to get you fired. 00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:22.720 So there's wisdom involved. 00:46:22.720 --> 00:46:25.760 Do I think that we can have a mass awakening? 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:28.960 I don't think that there's really going to be a mass awakening 00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:32.880 where people just suddenly recognize that, oh well, this was false and 00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:36.240 I was lied to because the evidence is all there. 00:46:36.240 --> 00:46:39.600 Anyone who's inclined to actually look at the evidence and examine the 00:46:39.600 --> 00:46:43.360 facts arrives at the conclusion that all this stuff is a lie. 00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:46.080 It's very straightforward, it's very simple to follow. 00:46:46.080 --> 00:46:49.360 Even for those who know nothing about, you know, chemistry and cyanide 00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:51.600 gas and Prussian blue and all these things, even those who know 00:46:51.600 --> 00:46:54.480 nothing about that stuff, it's not that hard to follow. 00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:56.640 It's not that hard to figure it out. 00:46:56.640 --> 00:47:00.640 You know, use a calculator and some very simple division. 00:47:00.640 --> 00:47:04.720 So most men are not going to figure that out. 00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:07.200 They're not going to do it on their own. 00:47:07.200 --> 00:47:10.880 If you had a leader who rose to a position of prominence 00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:14.400 and started questioning that stuff publicly, absolutely you would have men who'd 00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:15.280 follow him. 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.520 So I don't think it's a question of sort of mass awakening 00:47:19.680 --> 00:47:22.800 or the public suddenly deciding to change what it believes. 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:24.560 I think it's a matter of leadership. 00:47:24.560 --> 00:47:28.800 And it's largely in line with my general view of history. 00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:30.400 I believe in the great man theory. 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:32.720 I believe that that is just how history works out. 00:47:32.720 --> 00:47:36.320 That's how God has built the system, because there's the hierarchy. 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:38.880 And so the man at the top determines a lot. 00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:41.120 It's one of the reasons that I am so disappointed in our 00:47:41.120 --> 00:47:46.880 current leadership because because the opportunities that have been squandered would be 00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:50.240 difficult to overstate. 00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:51.120 Sort of 00:47:51.120 --> 00:47:51.440 the 00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:52.880 general answer to that question. 00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:56.080 So it's it's a leadership question, like so many other things. 00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:02.960 I see we have some people saying I should debate Sam Shamoon. 00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:05.360 I have absolutely no idea who that is. 00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:07.440 So sure. 00:48:13.040 --> 00:48:15.680 Yeah, I have I have literally no idea who that is. 00:48:15.680 --> 00:48:17.600 So I don't see any other 00:48:19.520 --> 00:48:21.280 questions here. 00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:24.560 I think that may 00:48:25.520 --> 00:48:29.120 be the end of the questions for this week unless there are 00:48:29.120 --> 00:48:32.080 any questions that pop up in chat in the next minute or 00:48:32.080 --> 00:48:36.960 two. I will quickly tab over and look at a couple other 00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:42.720 places where questions have been submitted. 00:48:42.720 --> 00:48:45.440 Assuming that my notifications will load 00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:56.320 Looks like I mostly have people asking me questions about the picture 00:48:56.320 --> 00:48:58.240 of a pizza that I posted earlier. 00:48:58.240 --> 00:49:00.880 So I think that is probably the end of the questions for 00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:04.320 this week since I am not intending on starting up a cooking 00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:06.640 show. I don't think that anyone would necessarily want to watch that 00:49:06.640 --> 00:49:10.160 anyway, because my measurements are usually do what feels right, and that 00:49:10.160 --> 00:49:13.120 is not very helpful to most other men. 00:49:13.120 --> 00:49:15.120 So let's see. 00:49:17.200 --> 00:49:20.320 I don't see any other questions, so I think that that is 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:21.920 the end for this week. 00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:26.400 If you have any questions, again, please submit those via the forum 00:49:26.400 --> 00:49:27.840 link that I provided earlier. 00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:30.080 I will put that in the show notes of course when I 00:49:30.080 --> 00:49:33.920 release the episode and I will put that in the various places 00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:36.560 across the handful of platforms. 00:49:36.560 --> 00:49:39.520 I guess it's now five platforms to which I'm streaming, assuming that 00:49:39.520 --> 00:49:41.520 the streams are still working. 00:49:41.520 --> 00:49:44.240 And so I will put in that URL so you can go 00:49:44.240 --> 00:49:45.120 and submit those questions. 00:49:45.120 --> 00:49:48.240 Please use that because it's the best way for me to track 00:49:48.240 --> 00:49:51.840 it. Yes, there is a ten dollar account creation fee and the 00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:53.600 reason that I did that, I meant to address this at the 00:49:53.600 --> 00:49:56.000 beginning, but I want to address it now before I close this 00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:59.200 out. The reason that I did that, it's the only way that 00:49:59.200 --> 00:50:00.720 I can avoid spam. 00:50:00.720 --> 00:50:02.880 It's literally the only way that I can do it. 00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:07.120 Without investing an enormous amount of my time or finding someone willing 00:50:07.120 --> 00:50:07.840 to moderate it. 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:10.320 And I don't have anyone who's willing to at least I haven't 00:50:10.240 --> 00:50:13.280 found anyone yet, who's willing to do that sort of moderation. 00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:18.480 And if you have a ten dollar fee, it means that most 00:50:18.480 --> 00:50:21.760 people will not be willing to make a bunch of new accounts 00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:23.040 to cause trouble. 00:50:23.040 --> 00:50:26.640 Now there are people who hate me enough to spend two, three, 00:50:26.720 --> 00:50:30.320 four hundred dollars to just annoy me and waste my time. 00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:31.840 But not that many of them. 00:50:32.080 --> 00:50:36.560 Enough of them that the account creation fee basically avoids the problem. 00:50:36.560 --> 00:50:40.240 The other half of that is that I never want to make 00:50:40.240 --> 00:50:44.080 this or anything else I do into a matter of pay the 00:50:44.080 --> 00:50:47.200 fee, get the answer, or whatever it happens to be. 00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:50.480 It's not going to be super chats or whatever they're called on 00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:52.800 these various other platforms. 00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:57.200 If you stand up and say, I am a theologian, if you 00:50:57.200 --> 00:51:00.480 stand up and say that people should listen to you on theological, 00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:05.840 doctrinal, religious, other issues like that, you don't get to charge for 00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:07.680 your answers and your time. 00:51:07.680 --> 00:51:10.480 Now I know that that flies in the face of capitalism and 00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:12.720 everything else that oh you don't get a charge for your time. 00:51:12.720 --> 00:51:14.080 No, you don't. 00:51:14.080 --> 00:51:18.480 Because if God has given you certain abilities, it is your duty 00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:19.440 to use those. 00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:23.680 And with regard to things like this, I I have no right 00:51:23.680 --> 00:51:24.640 to charge for this. 00:51:24.640 --> 00:51:26.880 It's one of the reasons that I'm doing it because I don't 00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:29.840 have a right not to answer these questions. 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:31.840 And so I will continue to answer them. 00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:33.920 And I will not make it a matter of, oh, I have 00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:35.200 someone who gave me $50. 00:51:35.200 --> 00:51:36.320 I'll answer his question. 00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:38.000 I'm not going to do that. 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:40.960 I want people to use the forum because it helps me to 00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:43.120 organize the questions and the answers. 00:51:43.120 --> 00:51:45.840 It helps me to be able to point back to them and 00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:49.440 it also helps so that I have a central repository of them 00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:50.960 that I control. 00:51:50.960 --> 00:51:54.000 So that I don't rely on some third party platform that may 00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:58.480 deplatform me or delete things or just they magically disappear, whatever it 00:51:58.480 --> 00:51:59.600 happens to be. 00:51:59.600 --> 00:52:01.920 That's the reason that I've set it up in that way. 00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:03.760 Because it's the best way I could find to do it, to 00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:07.520 avoid the spam problem and also make it so that I'm not 00:52:07.520 --> 00:52:10.640 just saying, Oh well pay me and I'll answer your questions. 00:52:10.640 --> 00:52:12.240 That's not what this is going to be. 00:52:12.240 --> 00:52:15.920 I will never be charging for any of this stuff. 00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:19.120 All of as I've said all along, all of the content I 00:52:19.120 --> 00:52:20.720 produce will be free. 00:52:20.720 --> 00:52:23.360 All the podcasts I produce will be free. 00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:26.480 If I write a book, I will give away the PDF. 00:52:26.480 --> 00:52:29.040 All of my articles are on my site for free, there will 00:52:29.040 --> 00:52:32.320 never be a paywall, I will never do any of that stuff. 00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:35.280 Regardless of what it costs me and regardless of what I could 00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:36.640 be paid to do it. 00:52:36.640 --> 00:52:40.320 We didn't go into Stone Choir and think, oh well, the opportunity 00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:44.240 cost of Stone Choir is thousands of hours times an hourly rate 00:52:44.240 --> 00:52:46.720 with No That's not it. 00:52:46.720 --> 00:52:48.800 That's not what this is, and it's not what it will ever 00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:54.080 be. So please do submit them on the forum simply because it 00:52:54.080 --> 00:52:57.680 is the best way that I have found in order to organize 00:52:57.680 --> 00:53:00.720 this and avoid all the many problems of which we're all very 00:53:00.720 --> 00:53:04.240 aware on the internet. 00:53:04.240 --> 00:53:09.760 So I don't see anything else, any last minute questions there, mostly 00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:10.400 just some 00:53:12.240 --> 00:53:15.840 I will say not the most useful comments right now about again 00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:17.520 the man whom I don't know. 00:53:17.520 --> 00:53:18.640 So I don't know who he is. 00:53:18.640 --> 00:53:21.360 I can't sell debate him because I don't know him. 00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:23.600 So I guess I'll be looking up that name as soon as 00:53:23.600 --> 00:53:24.480 I close this out. 00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:26.720 But I believe that's all for this week. 00:53:26.720 --> 00:53:29.120 So thank you for those of you who attended. 00:53:29.120 --> 00:53:31.280 Thank you for those of you who submitted questions. 00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:34.160 Again, please submit questions for next week. 00:53:34.160 --> 00:53:37.840 And if there were any problems with the audio, video, whatever it 00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:39.760 happens to be, please let me know. 00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:43.760 I can be contacted of course my telegram channel, I'm on X, 00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:47.280 at least until I get banned again because that might happen but 00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:49.440 I can be contacted in any of a number of different ways 00:53:49.600 --> 00:53:52.080 so thank you for your time and I hope you have a 00:53:52.080 --> 00:53:52.880 great evening. 00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:55.200 God bless you all.