WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.200 Just tech issues, just as it goes. 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:05.760 Anyway, it is the 8th of May 2026. 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:06.720 I am Cory J. 00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:09.680 Mahler and this is at any cost. 00:00:09.680 --> 00:00:13.200 So yeah, we love OBS and other problems as well. 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:16.480 And the mood lighting that is going on with the background lighting, 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:20.960 but not my front light, because apparently my front light has just 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:26.080 decided to disconnect from my Wi-Fi and I there's no manual button, 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:28.000 because that would make sense. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:34.720 But at any rate, things were slightly delayed today because I was 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:40.720 intending to record remotely because I had a location in mind. 00:00:40.720 --> 00:00:46.320 That did not pan out because the location that had Wi-Fi closes 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:48.000 at eight. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.680 The location that didn't close at eight didn't have Wi-Fi. 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:54.160 So that did not pan out, so I am back in my 00:00:54.160 --> 00:00:58.480 study because I have Wi-Fi and my study doesn't close at 8. 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:00.240 At any rate. 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:04.720 Before we get into the questions and the reason that I was 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:08.080 going out and driving is that as I was unloading groceries earlier 00:01:08.160 --> 00:01:14.000 earlier today, Gizmo got into the car and refused to get out. 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:17.280 And so I decided to take him for a drive and sort 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:21.600 of did multitasking and checked out some locations while I did that. 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:24.400 That didn't pan out, but Gizmo enjoyed himself and I had a 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:27.600 beer, so not too bad. 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:32.720 But before we get into the questions tonight, not really housekeeping, but 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:38.720 I would like to sort of give a recommendation for everyone. 00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:41.840 This is something that I would say take it or leave it, 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.000 but this is really something that you should take it. 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:45.760 This is something that would be good for you. 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:48.800 You should listen to this little bit of advice. 00:01:48.800 --> 00:01:49.360 And so 00:01:50.320 --> 00:01:54.000 you need to find an album that you enjoy. 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.840 And note specifically that I say find, don't pick one you already 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.160 like. At least probably don't pick one you already like. 00:02:00.160 --> 00:02:02.880 But find an album you enjoy. 00:02:02.880 --> 00:02:04.720 Plenty of ways to do that these days. 00:02:04.720 --> 00:02:06.080 There are plenty of 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.480 various algorithms and things that will suggest music for you, you can 00:02:10.480 --> 00:02:12.720 probably find something you'll like. 00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:17.520 So go ahead and find an album and then don't listen to 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:19.360 that album. 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:23.200 After you determine, of course, that you like it. 00:02:23.200 --> 00:02:24.640 With one exception. 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:28.400 And the exception is what the sort of psychological trick is and 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:31.120 why this is something that's worth doing. 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:33.280 Listen to it when you are on your way to 00:02:34.640 --> 00:02:38.960 not back from but on your way to something you enjoy. 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:41.840 Pick one, two, three things, it doesn't matter. 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:44.160 Just don't pick too many obviously. 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:46.240 In my case I pick hiking. 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:49.680 But listen to that album while you are on the way to 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:51.040 this thing that you enjoy. 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:55.520 What you're doing is you're building up a psychological connection between that 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:56.160 music 00:02:57.440 --> 00:03:03.520 and the psychological state lower stress, lower blood pressure, just a general 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:06.720 sense of calm that you naturally get from that activity. 00:03:06.720 --> 00:03:09.600 And so of course I d by activity you like I don't 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:12.000 mean something that is really high octane as it were. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.640 Pick something that's a little a little more sedate, a little more 00:03:14.640 --> 00:03:19.040 relaxing. And then what you can do is if you find yourself 00:03:19.040 --> 00:03:24.000 in the future in a situation where you are extremely stressed, you 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:27.280 can listen to that album and you will get the stress relief 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:30.480 effects. Now obviously you can't do that too much because every time 00:03:30.480 --> 00:03:33.680 you do it in a stressful situation you are weakening that connection 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:35.440 that you've built up. 00:03:35.440 --> 00:03:37.360 But this is very worth doing. 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:41.120 So just a little trick for those of you who are willing 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:44.000 to invest a little bit of time and effort into something that 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.800 will help you psychologically in the future. 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:50.480 But that being said, I think I will go ahead and get 00:03:50.480 --> 00:03:52.720 right into the questions now. 00:03:53.280 --> 00:04:00.000 Let me pull up my notes. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:01.600 The first question 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.520 How do you help a young man deal with lust when he 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:07.600 is not old enough to be married? 00:04:07.600 --> 00:04:10.320 And then the reasoning given for it. 00:04:10.320 --> 00:04:14.160 Many of us are adult converts who missed or sinfully dodged this 00:04:14.160 --> 00:04:15.760 lesson in our teen years. 00:04:15.760 --> 00:04:19.280 For those of us raising Christian sons, we have no practical advice 00:04:19.280 --> 00:04:20.000 for our sons. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.120 So this is a very real problem because of course we have 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:28.880 sort of a disconnect with regard to how Christian our society has 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:30.480 been over the past handful of generations. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:35.040 We had Christendom and then it dropped off with the boomers and 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:38.000 their parents and their grandparents and now we're sort of trying to 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:39.520 restore things, right? 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:45.680 Part of the problem is of course structural, and that you can't 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:51.280 really address, because you can't change the fact that promiscuity is no 00:04:51.280 --> 00:04:54.080 longer significantly frowned on in society. 00:04:54.080 --> 00:04:57.840 There are a lot of problems that you cannot personally fix. 00:04:57.840 --> 00:05:01.840 But I'm gonna turn down this side lamp because that that lighting 00:05:01.840 --> 00:05:03.280 is just crazy. 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:03.600 But 00:05:05.200 --> 00:05:08.000 the things that you can address and the things that you can 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.680 control are the ones that you should indeed address and control. 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:12.320 And so 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.120 one is removing temptations. 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.880 This is the same for men generally and for those raising sons, 00:05:18.880 --> 00:05:22.240 right? Don't have a personal computer in your room. 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:23.680 It makes a lot more sense. 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:27.360 It's a lot better for you to have not a family computer 00:05:27.440 --> 00:05:30.560 because I recognize we're not living in that era anymore. 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:34.000 For the zoomers and younger, you think family computer, what even is 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:34.880 that, right? 00:05:34.880 --> 00:05:37.120 There used to be one computer in the house, and everyone had 00:05:37.120 --> 00:05:38.400 to take turns using it. 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:41.040 And it was in a common area, that's how it worked. 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:44.880 That's not feasible these days, but you could have a computer room 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:48.560 or you can have a place where you use the computers. 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:53.280 Removing that temptation, or at least easy access to that temptation, is 00:05:53.280 --> 00:05:57.440 helpful. Your children are probably going to object, they're probably not going 00:05:57.440 --> 00:05:59.520 to like your plan. 00:05:59.520 --> 00:06:00.960 But it works. 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:05.360 And that is one thing that you can do in order to 00:06:06.320 --> 00:06:09.600 help your sons to avoid some of those temptations because it really 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:11.360 is just avoiding the temptation. 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:15.760 One of the recommendations of scripture, of course, is to flee temptation, 00:06:15.760 --> 00:06:17.840 particularly sexual temptation. 00:06:17.840 --> 00:06:20.800 And the way to do that is not to have it with 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:22.240 you 24-7. 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:26.480 It's to remove it as much as is possible. 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:31.120 You mentioned marrying or really being too young to marry, and that's 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:32.640 going to depend, right? 00:06:32.640 --> 00:06:34.880 Different cultures, different ages. 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:40.800 For Americans being largely Western European descended, the average age of marriage, 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:45.200 it's not in the late teens, as some influencers online will try 00:06:45.200 --> 00:06:46.320 to tell you. 00:06:46.320 --> 00:06:47.600 It is more 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:52.160 early twenties for women and mid twenties for men. 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:54.480 That is the historical norm. 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:57.120 So Mary young. 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:58.640 That resolves the problem. 00:06:58.640 --> 00:07:00.560 Maybe even marry a little younger than that. 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:02.560 There's nothing wrong with that. 00:07:03.200 --> 00:07:06.800 I happen to agree with Luther and a number of other commentators 00:07:07.280 --> 00:07:12.160 who have said that sort of as this world progresses and the 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:16.400 consequences of the fall compound and we're really moving away from God 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:21.680 in a certain sense, human humanity and human nature gets weaker. 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:25.120 And so the temptations are more pressing. 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:28.480 The temptations are more difficult to resist. 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:31.760 We give in more easily than some of our ancestors. 00:07:31.760 --> 00:07:36.880 So take the medicine that God recommended, because what did God say? 00:07:36.880 --> 00:07:41.760 God said the cure for sexual temptation is a wife. 00:07:41.760 --> 00:07:44.000 So every man should have his own wife. 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:45.840 There's nothing wrong with marrying young. 00:07:45.840 --> 00:07:49.360 In fact, marrying young is going to keep you away from a 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:50.320 number of these problems. 00:07:50.320 --> 00:07:52.160 It's not going to get rid of all of your problems. 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:53.440 It's not a cure all. 00:07:53.440 --> 00:07:55.440 Of course it's not. 00:07:55.440 --> 00:07:58.480 But it is certainly going to fix some of these. 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:04.160 Because the temptation the sexual temptation specifically, the only cure in scripture, 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:07.440 the only thing God recommends is marriage. 00:08:07.440 --> 00:08:11.120 Let each man have his own wife because of the temptation to 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:12.560 sexual immorality. 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:15.680 That's the only solution that God gives, and we shouldn't look for 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:17.680 other solutions where God is given one. 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:20.240 That doesn't mean, of course, that we can't do things to guard 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.360 ourselves against these temptations, but 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:28.080 given the reality of the era in which we live and society, 00:08:28.080 --> 00:08:31.600 until those things are changed and removed, one of the best things 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:35.120 you can do is arrange for your children to marry young and 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.600 then avoid all those temptations that would hit them hard in their 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:42.720 early 20s through, you know, early 30s. 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:45.520 That's really sort of the the peak for that. 00:08:45.520 --> 00:08:49.200 And obviously a little earlier as well, but there's only so much 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:50.400 you can do, right? 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:55.920 So basically in sum, remove the temptations and take the medicine that 00:08:55.920 --> 00:08:57.120 God has given. 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:04.960 That's the best that we can do. 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.120 Question two. 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:11.600 Does the office of hegemony, which is to say empire, come with 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:15.120 duties to our subordinate states similar to how a king would have 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.040 a duty to his subjects? 00:09:17.040 --> 00:09:20.160 Then the reasoning for it God gave America an empire, and I 00:09:20.160 --> 00:09:23.280 would rather not have my nation sin by having it forsake its 00:09:23.280 --> 00:09:27.680 station if the offices or if the office comes with duties we 00:09:27.680 --> 00:09:29.520 must fulfil. 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:33.280 So for me this is very easy to answer, as some of 00:09:33.280 --> 00:09:35.680 you undoubtedly already know, right? 00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:37.360 I'm an imperialist. 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:41.120 I do believe in empire, I believe in what we're really dealing 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:42.880 with here is suzerainty, right? 00:09:42.880 --> 00:09:47.840 You have the suzerain, which is just French for above sovereign, that's 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:50.000 all it is, sous sovereign. 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:52.640 And so that is the imperial authority. 00:09:52.640 --> 00:09:55.520 And then under that you have the vassal states. 00:09:55.520 --> 00:10:01.040 And so the vassals are internally sovereign to a certain degree, usually 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:06.560 with regard to things like their culture and maybe their internal politics, 00:10:06.560 --> 00:10:11.360 but their foreign or international politics is controlled by the suzerain and 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:13.840 their economics to some degree. 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:15.440 I think that is a fine system. 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.280 I think that's one of the best systems. 00:10:17.280 --> 00:10:19.520 And I happen to think it's also one of the only ways 00:10:19.520 --> 00:10:22.240 you have anything like a lasting peace. 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:24.720 I do believe in the hegemonic peace theory. 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:27.440 I'll link that in the the show notes for those who are 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:29.360 unfamiliar. But 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:35.120 I do think that we have certain duties with regard to our 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:35.520 position 00:10:36.400 --> 00:10:40.880 as the hegemon, because God has given us authority, he's given us 00:10:40.880 --> 00:10:47.360 power, he has given us headship over others, and anytime you have 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:52.960 headship, you are expected to exercise it in a way that is 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:58.080 consonant with God's law, with God's plan, and brings those who are 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.520 under your headship into into the kingdom. 00:11:01.520 --> 00:11:03.920 That is what we are required to do. 00:11:03.920 --> 00:11:07.040 And so one of the requirements of the hegemon would be to 00:11:07.040 --> 00:11:10.800 see that those under him are Christian. 00:11:10.800 --> 00:11:13.760 We are certainly not doing that. 00:11:13.760 --> 00:11:18.560 We We certainly failed with regard to World War II, and even 00:11:18.560 --> 00:11:21.840 at the end of World War II, because there's the obvious example 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:27.600 of not converting Japan to Christianity, which, regardless of the wickedness of 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:32.560 what happened in World War Two, not converting Japan to Christianity given 00:11:32.560 --> 00:11:37.200 the opportunity to do so is another level of wickedness compounding the 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:44.000 sin. So these days, the US is not as much of a 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:49.840 hegemon because we are sort of returning to a multipolar system instead 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:56.160 of a monopolar system for a very long time, relatively speaking, international 00:11:56.160 --> 00:12:00.320 affairs anyway, the US held a sort of supreme authority that has 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:05.200 been unrivaled in history at almost all times. 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:10.400 With the exception being certain empires in certain areas of the world 00:12:10.560 --> 00:12:15.440 at certain times historically had that level of power and control. 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:19.440 No empire ever exercised what the US had from the fall of 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:23.440 the Soviet Union, and really for a decade or so before that, 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:27.360 but certainly from the fall of the Soviet Union until really the 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:32.240 last handful of years, where we're returning to a multipolar system. 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:35.120 And yes, a multipolar system always ends up with chaos. 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.760 That's how we wound up with world wars and other things. 00:12:37.760 --> 00:12:41.360 In part, obviously, there's more to it. 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:44.240 But given that we are no longer the hegemon, then we are 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:44.640 going to have 00:12:45.520 --> 00:12:50.400 different considerations because we no longer have the same level of control, 00:12:50.400 --> 00:12:54.960 but it's sort of the same just on a larger scale, as 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:57.920 when you look at an individual person, right, God expects you to 00:12:57.920 --> 00:13:00.560 do what you can with what you've been given. 00:13:00.560 --> 00:13:04.400 This goes back to ties back into that first question, right? 00:13:04.400 --> 00:13:07.200 You can't change all of society overnight. 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:08.800 God doesn't require that of you. 00:13:08.800 --> 00:13:11.360 He hasn't given you that power. 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:14.640 So you do what you can with what you have been given. 00:13:14.640 --> 00:13:17.040 The same thing is true of nations, the same thing is true 00:13:17.040 --> 00:13:18.400 of the hegemon. 00:13:18.400 --> 00:13:23.280 And so we should do what we can as America with the 00:13:23.280 --> 00:13:28.000 power entrusted to us, entrusted to our control, to bring things in 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.000 line with God's desires. 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:34.560 And yes, that does include being a hegemon, being a suzerain and 00:13:34.560 --> 00:13:39.520 having vassal states that are subordinated to us because we have more 00:13:39.520 --> 00:13:42.880 power. We've been given that by God. 00:13:42.880 --> 00:13:46.160 A lot of this is going to have to play out over 00:13:46.160 --> 00:13:47.200 the next handful of years 00:13:48.400 --> 00:13:48.720 because 00:13:49.680 --> 00:13:51.600 some of this is up in the air, right? 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:55.680 China is trying to compete, Russia is trying to compete. 00:13:55.680 --> 00:14:02.880 We have competing powers that are vying for that title of hegemon. 00:14:02.880 --> 00:14:07.440 Russia's not much of a serious competitor, but China is seriously competing. 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.520 Question three. 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:17.840 The declining birth rates in the West, or the declining birth rate 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:20.400 in the West, is well known, and now it seems much of 00:14:20.400 --> 00:14:22.880 the third world is starting to follow suit. 00:14:22.880 --> 00:14:26.800 From what I've read on this and my own experience, shows the 00:14:26.800 --> 00:14:30.160 only groups that are having children any numbers are more conservative and 00:14:30.160 --> 00:14:34.480 religious. Thus the next generation will at least come from this more 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:36.640 conservative and religious stock. 00:14:36.640 --> 00:14:39.840 My question is do you believe that this imbalance in demographics and 00:14:39.840 --> 00:14:44.400 birth rates Will lead to a resurgence in Christendom in the West. 00:14:44.400 --> 00:14:47.600 This assumes that parents do not let their culture subvert the raising 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:49.920 of their children. 00:14:49.920 --> 00:14:55.760 So, this is in large part true, generally speaking, when you control 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:59.840 for other factors, which is sort of the key here, when you 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:05.360 control for other factors, those who are more religious, more conservative, are 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:07.040 going to have more children. 00:15:07.920 --> 00:15:11.920 The problem is controlling for those other factors, right? 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:17.840 Because currently, for instance, in the West, we have large numbers of 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:23.200 foreigners invading our countries having large numbers of children. 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:27.680 They're not conservative really in the sense we mean here. 00:15:27.680 --> 00:15:33.280 They are religious, to some degree, unfortunately, it's generally demon worship, but 00:15:33.280 --> 00:15:34.960 they're religious. 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:38.800 And so when you don't control for something like that, which is 00:15:38.800 --> 00:15:42.720 to say race in this case, then it doesn't hold. 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:47.920 Because you have these other groups having huge numbers of children who 00:15:47.920 --> 00:15:51.200 are not more Christian, are not more conservative in the sense we 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:54.160 mean when we use the term. 00:15:54.160 --> 00:15:59.520 And so it would hold if you had a homogeneous with regard 00:15:59.520 --> 00:16:04.640 to race, United States, or any other country, the more religious and 00:16:04.640 --> 00:16:08.400 more conservative would have more children, and over time things would shift 00:16:08.400 --> 00:16:11.840 in their direction just because of the nature of numbers, right? 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:18.240 If you have more people, you generally have more control. 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:20.800 Even if you're not in a democracy. 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:24.240 However, again, because of the fact that we have all of these 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:28.720 foreigners in our countries, it is not doing that. 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:32.000 It is not benefiting us in the way that it would. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:35.040 And so those problems have to be addressed, because if you don't 00:16:35.040 --> 00:16:41.440 address the immigration and other issues like that, you can't do anything 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:41.760 about 00:16:43.920 --> 00:16:45.360 these sorts of problems, right? 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.080 If you don't address the immigration, if you don't it's not even 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:49.040 right to call it an immigration. 00:16:49.040 --> 00:16:53.280 If you don't address the invasion, then it doesn't matter that within 00:16:53.280 --> 00:16:58.240 our portion of the population, our people are trending more conservative and 00:16:58.240 --> 00:16:59.280 more religious. 00:16:59.280 --> 00:17:01.520 And there's also the fact that it's just going to take too 00:17:01.520 --> 00:17:04.640 long. This is a multi-generational problem. 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:08.160 We have to solve a lot of problems within our generation. 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.280 So does this benefit us to some degree? 00:17:11.280 --> 00:17:15.600 Yes. But it doesn't benefit us enough that it's going to really 00:17:15.600 --> 00:17:21.040 help us in the overall fight. 00:17:21.040 --> 00:17:25.680 A second question from the same person, so this is question four. 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:28.000 Do you have a preference for tobacco? 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:32.400 The answer is no, because I've never really done much in terms 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:34.080 of any kind of smoking. 00:17:34.080 --> 00:17:36.720 I occasionally take a knick-knack. 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.520 Obviously I'm not you know sponsored, I don't get anything for saying 00:17:39.520 --> 00:17:43.040 that. I just like them because they're all natural and don't have 00:17:43.040 --> 00:17:45.120 weird stuff or come from India. 00:17:45.120 --> 00:17:47.200 Bonus points for that. 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:49.440 But I don't really smoke. 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:51.440 I'm not saying I'm against it. 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:54.480 I'm not saying I never have smoked I've ever smoked any illicit 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:55.280 drugs drugs. 00:17:55.280 --> 00:17:57.440 But I've smoked a handful of cigarettes over time. 00:17:57.440 --> 00:17:59.440 I went to law school, plenty of people smoked. 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.360 You occasionally get handed a cigarette. 00:18:01.360 --> 00:18:04.800 So and I've smoked a few cigars, but I d not enough. 00:18:04.800 --> 00:18:07.840 I don't know enough about it to have any real opinion on 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:12.800 like this region is great or this plantation has the best tobacco. 00:18:12.800 --> 00:18:16.640 I just don't know enough about it, and I probably never will. 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:18.720 Although I do have a handful of people who keep trying to 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:20.800 push me to take up smoking a pipe. 00:18:20.800 --> 00:18:24.960 I guess we'll see if that happens. 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:27.680 Question five and then I think I'll take a minute to note 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:30.560 down some questions from the chat. 00:18:30.560 --> 00:18:34.080 If God blessed you with children, how would you prepare them in 00:18:34.080 --> 00:18:37.920 material, monetary or non faith matters? 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:42.080 Faith matters are covered through scripture, church, the early church fathers, stone 00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:44.800 choir, etc. 00:18:44.800 --> 00:18:48.160 And then the reasoning for it, the silent greatest and boomer generation, 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:51.040 so the three I mentioned earlier, screwed the rest of us. 00:18:51.040 --> 00:18:53.040 That's that is true. 00:18:53.040 --> 00:18:56.880 Which is to say millennials and beyond must break that evil chain. 00:18:56.880 --> 00:18:59.360 I want to refine the work I do for my children and 00:18:59.360 --> 00:19:03.680 get more Christian men taking practical steps to improve their children's lives 00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:07.920 since they are the future of the church. 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:10.480 Now yes, they are the future of the church and you should 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:13.600 care for your children and scripture is very clear that a good 00:19:13.600 --> 00:19:19.280 man lays up wealth and good things for his children, his grandchildren 00:19:19.360 --> 00:19:21.200 for future generations, right? 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:25.280 The problem is that 00:19:26.320 --> 00:19:30.640 in modern parlance we hear that and we think that it is 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:32.080 just money. 00:19:32.080 --> 00:19:35.680 We have this tendency to think, well that means that he creates 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:38.960 a trust account and that all the the everyone else in his 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:40.400 line never has to work again, right? 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:42.480 We think we sort of hear that. 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:47.600 That's not necessarily what's in view, because there are many other things 00:19:47.600 --> 00:19:52.480 you can do that are in a way more important. 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:57.520 So the overarching goal is to create a better tomorrow. 00:19:57.520 --> 00:20:03.440 It's to create a world where your children, grandchildren, on into 00:20:04.320 --> 00:20:06.880 whenever God comes back, right? 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:10.960 So all of those individuals can live in a better world and 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:12.560 live better lives. 00:20:12.560 --> 00:20:14.960 And that is accomplished many different ways. 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:16.400 It's not just money. 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:19.760 Money is not unimportant, but it's not everything, right? 00:20:20.080 --> 00:20:23.360 You can leave them a house that's in good repair, you can 00:20:23.360 --> 00:20:27.200 leave them land that has been maintained, you can leave them tools, 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.880 you can leave them various goods and things, you can leave them 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:33.840 clothing, you can all of these different things. 00:20:33.840 --> 00:20:35.280 You plant trees. 00:20:35.280 --> 00:20:36.960 Think of the proverb, right? 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:39.600 There are all sorts of things you can do to create a 00:20:39.600 --> 00:20:42.000 better world for future generations. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:46.560 Not all of them are just passing down some sum of money. 00:20:46.560 --> 00:20:49.840 Now, saving up money for them and passing down some money is 00:20:49.840 --> 00:20:52.160 good, because that helps, obviously. 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:57.520 It's much nicer to have that security, that safety net, than not 00:20:57.520 --> 00:20:58.560 to have it. 00:20:58.560 --> 00:20:59.840 But it's not everything. 00:20:59.840 --> 00:21:04.720 So our goal needs to be to create a better society in 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:10.000 total, not just necessarily protecting our own little corner because you can't 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:11.680 really do that, right? 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.440 If you pass to your children a great nest egg and everything 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:20.480 around them collapses, that nest egg isn't worth anything. 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:24.000 Now, some physical things can still be worth something because if you've 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:27.760 passed you know land and tools and things like that, animals these 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:30.400 things have value, inherent value. 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.920 Whereas money necessarily does not have inherent value. 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:38.480 It has a sort of decided value by those who have decided 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:40.240 to use it. 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:43.680 That doesn't mean that you care for, you know, the world at 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:46.720 the expense of your own, but it means that we have to 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:51.680 recognize we have a duty, a higher duty, to our own, to 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:55.840 our family, our extended family, friends, others, right? 00:21:55.840 --> 00:21:59.440 But we also have a duty to try to create our society 00:21:59.600 --> 00:22:04.080 and to shift our society into being more in line with what 00:22:04.080 --> 00:22:08.800 God wants, into being more in line with the moral law, removing 00:22:08.800 --> 00:22:13.680 the wickedness from our society and thereby creating a better world for 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:15.280 these future generations. 00:22:15.280 --> 00:22:19.520 And so these future generations will benefit from that. 00:22:19.520 --> 00:22:24.160 And it's not just purely that monetary benefit, it's the benefit of 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:25.840 living in a better society. 00:22:25.840 --> 00:22:31.440 Because ask yourself, would you rather be an extremely wealthy man living 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:36.160 today or a man who was moderately well off living in Christendom 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:38.240 pick your favorite century? 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:42.880 I'm fairly certain most men in the chat would pick Christendom moderately 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:47.040 well off versus extremely wealthy today. 00:22:47.040 --> 00:22:50.960 Because the only reason you pick extremely wealthy today is if you 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:55.040 want to do something wildly degenerate with your life, because those options 00:22:55.040 --> 00:22:56.080 are on the table today. 00:22:56.080 --> 00:22:58.480 They weren't really on the table back then. 00:22:58.480 --> 00:22:58.800 So 00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:05.120 creating that overall better environment, obviously, this is all systemic stuff, right? 00:23:05.120 --> 00:23:07.680 We can only do what we can do with what God has 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:12.800 entrusted to our care in our own time and place, but working 00:23:12.800 --> 00:23:17.200 toward that better future when and where the opportunity arises. 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:21.200 But yes, obviously, don't do it the boomers did. 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:26.160 Don't drain all your wealth, and then the famous boomer saying they 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:28.880 all love, I want my last check to bounce. 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:30.400 Don't do that. 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:31.440 That's evil. 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:32.480 That's wicked. 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:37.600 That is directly contrary to what scripture says about good men. 00:23:37.760 --> 00:23:40.880 Going to copy a couple questions from the chat here so that 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:43.120 I can answer them. 00:23:43.120 --> 00:23:45.200 And And the future? 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:48.080 In the future in terms of this episode, not in the future 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:51.600 in terms of you know next time. 00:23:52.080 --> 00:23:54.000 That's the goal anyway. 00:24:09.120 --> 00:24:12.880 Someone asked about the audio equipment I used, which is almost a 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:16.240 little ironic after having audio issues, but yes, the audio equipment is 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:17.440 all quite good stuff. 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:21.440 It's just there are gremlins in the software and it was an 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:24.960 ongoing issue during Stone Choir, and I think most audio guys will 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:33.920 tell you that they always sort of have some problem with audio. 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:34.240 But 00:24:37.040 --> 00:24:41.360 Okay, I think I have copied down all of those 00:24:43.280 --> 00:24:46.960 questions so I can get to those at the end. 00:24:50.800 --> 00:24:58.240 The next question, question six, asking about Ohio. 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:01.600 Which I'm supposed to hate Ohio, right, since I went to University 00:25:01.600 --> 00:25:03.200 of Michigan. 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:05.840 I don't hate Ohio, I never got into that. 00:25:05.840 --> 00:25:09.200 As an Ohioan, it is apparent we are under God's judgment. 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:12.320 I will continue to pray for forgiveness in a Christian leader and 00:25:12.320 --> 00:25:14.480 encourage my brethren to join me. 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:17.520 While we do this, do you have any particular pieces of scripture 00:25:17.520 --> 00:25:23.280 to help give us wisdom under anti Christian princes? 00:25:23.280 --> 00:25:27.920 Really the wisdom literature, which, unsurprisingly, it's the wisdom literature that will 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:29.360 give you wisdom on these issues. 00:25:29.360 --> 00:25:35.120 So Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, you should be reading the Psalms daily. 00:25:35.120 --> 00:25:37.760 You can listen to the daily devotion, you can listen to me 00:25:37.840 --> 00:25:40.720 read them daily if you'd prefer, but these are things you should 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:42.080 read all the time. 00:25:42.080 --> 00:25:42.400 And 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:47.120 part of living in a fallen world is that we will not 00:25:47.120 --> 00:25:49.040 always have Christian rulers. 00:25:49.040 --> 00:25:51.440 We will not always be ruled by good men. 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:56.240 Many times we'll be ruled by evil men, and particularly when we 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:01.120 are living at hopefully the tail end of a number of generations 00:26:01.120 --> 00:26:06.080 of wickedness and suffering the consequences of that generational wickedness. 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:11.520 Because certainly there shouldn't even be an Indian in Ohio to run 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:16.880 for any sort of office in Ohio, and yet we all know 00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:19.680 what's happening there and elsewhere, right? 00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:23.280 That's the result of the wickedness of our forefathers. 00:26:23.280 --> 00:26:26.560 They are the ones who created the conditions that permitted all of 00:26:26.560 --> 00:26:27.920 this to happen. 00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:31.200 We should not be living in a society that is inundated with 00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:36.880 foreigners who are hostile and violent and otherwise detrimental, and yet we 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:43.040 are, because our fathers and grandfathers and great grandfathers completely failed to 00:26:43.040 --> 00:26:45.920 deal with these issues, and so it falls to us. 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:50.240 So insofar as scriptural wisdom is concerned, absolutely just read the wisdom 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:54.800 literature. Plenty of places in the Old Testament as well. 00:26:54.800 --> 00:26:59.760 Large chunks of the Old Testament are just history, but obviously not 00:26:59.760 --> 00:27:00.560 all. There are many where 00:27:01.600 --> 00:27:06.160 God is teaching us something via that history, right? 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:10.000 But definitely I would say read the Psalms every single day, read 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:12.800 Proverbs, read Ecclesiastes. 00:27:12.800 --> 00:27:14.960 Those are probably the top recommendations. 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:18.560 And then always keep in mind that lens of we live in 00:27:18.560 --> 00:27:19.520 a fallen world. 00:27:19.520 --> 00:27:21.840 Things are never going to be perfect here. 00:27:21.840 --> 00:27:26.000 But just because they're not perfect doesn't mean they can't be better. 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:28.320 There are too many who make that mistake. 00:27:28.320 --> 00:27:32.000 They think that because we can't make a perfect world here in 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:35.440 time, we should just give up, and that's completely ridiculous. 00:27:35.440 --> 00:27:38.800 Nothing we do is ever perfect, it doesn't mean that we never 00:27:38.800 --> 00:27:40.400 try, right? 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:44.560 When I handwrite my notes, my writing's not perfect, as anyone who's 00:27:44.560 --> 00:27:46.640 seen my handwriting can testify. 00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:48.560 It doesn't mean that I stop, right? 00:27:48.560 --> 00:27:50.080 That'd be completely ridiculous. 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:51.840 Your marriage will never be perfect. 00:27:51.840 --> 00:27:55.200 It doesn't mean you stop trying to improve that relationship with your 00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:59.840 wife and keep building that most important relationship in your life, other 00:27:59.840 --> 00:28:02.000 than the one with God, obviously. 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:05.280 Just because it won't be perfect doesn't mean you don't try. 00:28:05.280 --> 00:28:05.600 But 00:28:08.080 --> 00:28:12.800 when you read you know Ecclesiastes, and obviously Job is also included 00:28:12.800 --> 00:28:16.320 in the wisdom literature, so I'll explicitly say that, when you read 00:28:16.320 --> 00:28:21.040 something like Ecclesiastes or Job, it's not meant to be 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:23.440 a cause for despair. 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:25.280 You're not supposed to read it and go, well, I should just 00:28:25.280 --> 00:28:26.160 give up. 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:29.440 You're supposed to read it and recognize that even if you are 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:33.440 righteous, even if you are good, even if you obey God, there 00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:36.720 will still be trials and tribulations in this life because we live 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:40.720 in a fallen world, and we live around and amongst wicked men. 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:43.520 And they will continue to be wicked, and in fact they will 00:28:43.520 --> 00:28:47.920 be more wicked toward you if you are a Christian, because they 00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:52.960 recognize there's something different about you and they don't like it. 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:58.400 So don't let it be a cause for despair, but recognize the 00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:00.880 reality that we live in. 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:05.360 Recognize that there is going to be persecution, there's going to be 00:29:05.360 --> 00:29:07.440 tribulation, and we cannot avoid it. 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:09.440 in this life. 00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:15.680 But ultimately, and also here in time, God willing, we do win. 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:16.000 So 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:21.520 Problem with not having that front facing light is that every time 00:29:21.600 --> 00:29:27.120 I change the computer screen my face changes because dark mode versus 00:29:27.120 --> 00:29:30.800 light mode. 00:29:30.800 --> 00:29:32.640 But what can you do? 00:29:33.760 --> 00:29:36.560 Question seven. 00:29:36.560 --> 00:29:42.320 Are Christians permitted to partake in medical slash health practices that originated 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:44.400 from pagan religions? 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:46.880 Specifically Eastern religions. 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:50.560 The two practices that come to mind are yoga and acupuncture. 00:29:50.560 --> 00:29:53.520 I have no desire to do yoga, that makes two of us, 00:29:53.520 --> 00:29:57.120 but I have severe allergies and was told that acupuncture may be 00:29:57.120 --> 00:30:00.960 able to help with those. 00:30:01.280 --> 00:30:02.880 My position would be 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:08.240 do not participate in yoga. 00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:08.880 Because 00:30:09.840 --> 00:30:12.080 yoga is indeed 00:30:13.040 --> 00:30:14.960 a worship sort of thing. 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:19.200 It's connected to religious practices in Eastern religions. 00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:19.840 And so 00:30:20.800 --> 00:30:23.920 I would say that is unacceptable for 00:30:25.040 --> 00:30:28.160 a Christian to participate in that. 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:33.120 In so far as acupuncture is concerned, is that tied into some 00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:39.360 of the spiritual beliefs of some Eastern peoples, say the Chinese conception 00:30:39.360 --> 00:30:41.120 of Qi, right? 00:30:41.120 --> 00:30:43.440 Yes, it is. 00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:48.320 But at the same time, the modern practice of it has become 00:30:48.320 --> 00:30:53.200 so disconnected from that stuff that at this point it's basically just 00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:55.920 a pseudoscientific practice. 00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:58.640 That's also worth mentioning. 00:30:58.640 --> 00:31:02.720 Don't expect any results necessarily or go into it firmly expecting them 00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:06.480 and hope for the placebo effect, I guess, but there's no evidence 00:31:06.800 --> 00:31:11.040 showing that acupuncture actually necessarily does anything. 00:31:11.040 --> 00:31:13.280 The placebo effect is very real. 00:31:13.280 --> 00:31:15.840 That may work, and of course now that I've said that, it's 00:31:15.760 --> 00:31:17.920 not going to work as well for you, which sort sort of 00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:19.200 irony there, but 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:23.920 If you happen to be one of the people where somehow it 00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:26.960 helps, and I'm not saying it never helps, I'm not saying it 00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:29.920 can't help, I'm just saying we don't have enough firm evidence to 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:32.560 say yes, this is good we should do this. 00:31:32.560 --> 00:31:34.560 If we did we'd be doing it more. 00:31:34.560 --> 00:31:39.120 It's not uncommon, granted, it's a pretty big industry in some places. 00:31:39.120 --> 00:31:42.640 But we just don't have the sort of data we would want 00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:46.080 to say that this is conclusively something that can cure X, Y, 00:31:46.080 --> 00:31:47.200 and Z. 00:31:47.600 --> 00:31:50.160 If in your case it helps, great. 00:31:50.160 --> 00:31:53.840 If in your case it doesn't help, then all you've really done 00:31:53.840 --> 00:31:56.480 is waste a little bit of money and some time and got 00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:58.160 stabbed with some tiny needles. 00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:00.400 That's not so bad. 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:04.640 And for the opportunity of it maybe helping, maybe it's worth it. 00:32:04.640 --> 00:32:06.960 But in so far as something like yoga is concerned, just do 00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:10.080 Pilates. Pilates was just created by a German guy whose name was 00:32:10.080 --> 00:32:13.440 indeed Pilates, who wanted exercise. 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.040 There's no reason to do yoga. 00:32:15.040 --> 00:32:18.640 Yoga is mostly a meme for women with too much time on 00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:19.440 their hands. 00:32:28.080 --> 00:32:29.680 Question eight 00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:37.680 Are Japhethites forsaking a duty with roots in Genesis by refusing to 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:41.840 enslave the Hamites and bring them back to Christ Christ. 00:32:41.840 --> 00:32:44.880 The last few lines of your article seem to point to that 00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:46.880 conclusion, but it is not explicit. 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:48.160 I do that a lot. 00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:52.000 Obviously this does not mean keeping Hamites among the rest of us 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:54.640 but having us rule them. 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:58.000 And then he quotes part of my article on the curse of 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:02.400 Ham. Declaring a Hamite uncursed does not in any way whatsoever change 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:07.680 his fallen, wicked, corrupt, and accursed nature, but it does conceal the 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:12.880 one way scripture gives as a sanctifying path for him enslavement as 00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:17.440 a pies oikites, which is to say a household slave, in the 00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:22.160 house of his elder brother Japheth. 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:25.120 So my answer to this, I guess I would give it sort 00:33:25.120 --> 00:33:29.040 of two levels or two parts. 00:33:29.040 --> 00:33:32.960 The first would be I guess as an aside initially would be, 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:36.560 yes, obviously I'm implying very heavily that that would be the case, 00:33:36.560 --> 00:33:39.200 that they would be more Christian if they were enslaved, and that 00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:41.360 enslaving them would be good for them. 00:33:41.360 --> 00:33:45.200 I believe that I've stated that bluntly, so that's not really adding 00:33:45.360 --> 00:33:47.760 anything to the article there. 00:33:47.760 --> 00:33:52.160 The overwhelming majority of the sons of Ham who will be in 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:56.480 Paradise will be there because of the fact that they were conquered 00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:58.320 by sons of Japheth. 00:33:58.320 --> 00:34:03.040 And they were civilized, they were enslaved to varying degrees, and they 00:34:03.040 --> 00:34:04.560 were Christianized, right? 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:07.520 That is why many of them will be there, of the ones 00:34:07.520 --> 00:34:08.960 who will be. 00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:11.680 We could debate how many will be there. 00:34:11.680 --> 00:34:15.680 But at the same time, our duty to them, and so interpreting 00:34:15.680 --> 00:34:19.440 the prophecy from Father Noah, is not without conditions. 00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:22.880 You can think of this in a similar fashion to the fact 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:28.240 that the promises that God made to the Israelites, the Old Testament 00:34:28.240 --> 00:34:31.040 Israelites, were not unconditional. 00:34:31.040 --> 00:34:34.480 Now, there is the one that is that the Messiah would come 00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:37.760 from their line, and I don't mind using that one term because 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:44.000 the New Testament uses it too, so the Christ, the Messiah, interchangeable. 00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:46.640 Those promises had conditions. 00:34:46.640 --> 00:34:51.040 If they didn't do certain things, God would not do the things 00:34:51.040 --> 00:34:54.960 he promised to do, because the promise was conditional. 00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:59.200 This is very common in contract law and things like that. 00:34:59.200 --> 00:35:01.520 The same is true for us. 00:35:01.520 --> 00:35:08.480 We don't have this unconditional duty to try to repeatedly deal with 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:13.840 the sons of Ham and bring them into the kingdom via chains, 00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:16.000 regardless of what they do. 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:19.440 And at this point, I think our duty is complete. 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:24.400 We took the gospel to them, we enslaved them, fulfilling the prophecy, 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:26.720 we made many of them Christian. 00:35:26.720 --> 00:35:30.720 There are many in paradise, fewer than Europeans, of course, but there 00:35:30.720 --> 00:35:33.920 are many in paradise because of the efforts of Europeans. 00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:36.720 Ultimately, obviously God gets all the credit, right? 00:35:36.720 --> 00:35:40.560 The work is the Holy Spirit's, not our work, but He used 00:35:40.560 --> 00:35:42.560 us as means. 00:35:42.560 --> 00:35:46.480 I don't believe that we have a currently existing duty. 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:49.920 I don't believe we have a continuing duty to do so because 00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:51.520 of their behavior, what they've done. 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:57.760 They have done nothing but rebel and reject, and that's reject our 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.160 rule as well as God. 00:36:00.160 --> 00:36:03.120 And plus, on top of that, there's all of the violence and 00:36:03.120 --> 00:36:06.080 other problems attendant with having them around. 00:36:06.080 --> 00:36:09.200 I think that their wickedness at this point has risen to a 00:36:09.200 --> 00:36:12.880 level where we do not have any further duty toward them. 00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:15.680 If we were so inclined with some of the Some of the 00:36:15.680 --> 00:36:18.080 cream of the crop, as it were, some of the better ones 00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:21.600 to rule over them and make them Christian, okay, fine. 00:36:21.600 --> 00:36:24.560 Maybe there's some percentage of them where you could do that. 00:36:24.560 --> 00:36:27.600 But by and large, I think our duty is fulfilled. 00:36:27.600 --> 00:36:32.080 And the prophecy it with regard to that is fulfilled because he 00:36:32.080 --> 00:36:34.720 was indeed a household slave. 00:36:34.720 --> 00:36:39.120 He did indeed, to some degree, come to Christianity because of that, 00:36:39.120 --> 00:36:42.080 and there are some of them in paradise because of those facts. 00:36:42.720 --> 00:36:50.000 So I think the prophecy and our duty both are fulfilled. 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:56.080 Question nine, little change of pace here. 00:36:56.080 --> 00:37:00.480 Tangential relationship, which some of you will recognize and find funny, but 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:02.240 at any rate. 00:37:02.240 --> 00:37:06.800 As a Christian, I find female bodybuilders repulsive, and this muscular trend 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:08.960 is growing in our Christian circles. 00:37:08.960 --> 00:37:13.200 How should the church address it and explain why it contradicts God's 00:37:13.200 --> 00:37:18.880 design? So personally I haven't seen it growing in Christian circles. 00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:19.920 I'm not saying it's not. 00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:21.440 Maybe it is in some places. 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:26.240 It's just I have not seen that. 00:37:26.240 --> 00:37:30.800 But what I would emphasize would be that it runs afoul of 00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:35.920 all of the various rules in scripture where God is very clear 00:37:36.240 --> 00:37:36.560 that 00:37:37.680 --> 00:37:41.440 He has drawn a distinction between the sexes. 00:37:41.440 --> 00:37:45.120 Men are not women, women are not men, men cannot become women, 00:37:45.120 --> 00:37:46.800 women cannot become men. 00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:51.440 It is in fact an abomination to God for men to behave 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:54.640 like women or women to behave like men or even to dress 00:37:54.640 --> 00:37:57.360 like the opposite sex. 00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:00.720 God speaks of a man wearing the clothing of a woman or 00:38:00.720 --> 00:38:04.720 a woman wearing the clothing of a man as being abomination to 00:38:04.720 --> 00:38:08.560 God, not abomination to the Old Testament Israelites and so prohibited to 00:38:08.560 --> 00:38:13.840 a specific people for a specific time, but rather prohibited to all 00:38:14.080 --> 00:38:17.200 flowing from the fact that it is a transgression, a violation of 00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:19.280 the moral law. 00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:23.600 So even the fact that clothing has converged to the point where 00:38:23.600 --> 00:38:27.520 men and women wear very similar clothing these days, we shouldn't permit 00:38:27.520 --> 00:38:28.720 that either. 00:38:28.720 --> 00:38:32.320 You should be able to tell, at a pretty good distance, that's 00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:34.880 a woman, that's a man, and not just if they have a 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:38.000 beard. Hopefully the man, not the woman in that case, but 00:38:39.600 --> 00:38:46.240 we should not permit this narrowing of the sexual dimorphism of humanity, 00:38:46.240 --> 00:38:50.000 because that is something God prizes and something God wants us to 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:54.800 preserve It is a curse for the various races of this planet 00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:58.480 that have less sexual dimorphism than Europeans. 00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:00.560 We have the highest. 00:39:00.560 --> 00:39:04.800 They are degenerate insofar as they lack that, they have fallen from 00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:06.560 what they were meant to be. 00:39:06.560 --> 00:39:08.960 We should not follow after them. 00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:12.000 And that includes with regard to our culture, with regard to our 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:15.200 dress, with regard to behavior, all of these things. 00:39:15.200 --> 00:39:17.760 And so obviously what I'm building up to here with regard to 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:24.080 female bodybuilders is that what they are doing is effectively transgenderism, right? 00:39:24.080 --> 00:39:28.480 Now probably get penalized in some way for saying that naughty word 00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:32.160 on stream, but It is transgenderism. 00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:35.040 It is a woman pretending to be a man, or at least 00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:39.760 holding herself out to be after a fashion masculine. 00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:40.960 That's impermissible. 00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:41.760 That is wicked. 00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:43.520 That is not something a woman should do. 00:39:43.520 --> 00:39:46.640 The same as a man shouldn't hold him out as be himself 00:39:46.640 --> 00:39:48.640 out as being feminine. 00:39:48.640 --> 00:39:51.680 We are right to condemn men who wear makeup. 00:39:51.680 --> 00:39:55.680 We are also right to condemn women who attempt to look physically 00:39:55.680 --> 00:39:57.040 like men. 00:39:57.040 --> 00:40:00.480 Plus on top of the fact, you can't be a bodybuilder as 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:04.560 a woman unless you're taking substances to help you do it. 00:40:04.560 --> 00:40:08.560 Women do not have the biology to look like that. 00:40:08.560 --> 00:40:10.400 They're taking testosterone. 00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:13.440 It's literally transgenderism. 00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:16.480 Granted, they're taking it in the form of steroids, but they're doing 00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:22.400 the same thing. 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:26.480 And I suppose it should be stated as well that almost all 00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:28.960 of the women who are doing that, and it may very well 00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:31.200 be all of them, I give the caveat because maybe there's an 00:40:31.200 --> 00:40:34.720 exception somewhere, they have mental issues. 00:40:34.720 --> 00:40:38.000 Probably due to some sort of abuse in their past. 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:39.920 So that's another aspect of it. 00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:43.440 They probably need counseling and some sort of help, but it still 00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:44.560 should not be tolerated. 00:40:44.560 --> 00:40:47.280 It is certainly something Christians should not be tolerating. 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:50.160 Thankfully, again, it's not something I've really seen, but if you have 00:40:50.160 --> 00:40:53.920 seen it, if that's happening in your circles by in no uncertain 00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:55.920 terms, that needs to be condemned. 00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:59.040 Women should not be doing body I hate women's fighting sports as 00:40:59.040 --> 00:41:00.480 well, we're on the topic. 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:04.240 I think that it is perverse to want to watch women engage 00:41:04.240 --> 00:41:05.680 in physical combat. 00:41:05.680 --> 00:41:08.160 I have mixed feelings on men doing it. 00:41:08.160 --> 00:41:11.680 I don't really care that much, but women doing it is perverse. 00:41:11.680 --> 00:41:15.280 That is not something women should be doing. 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:22.160 Question 10. 00:41:22.160 --> 00:41:26.320 I recently heard a pastor claim that in the Psalms David acted 00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:31.120 in direct contradiction to Christ's teaching on blessing your enemies rather than 00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:32.160 cursing them. 00:41:32.160 --> 00:41:37.120 Obviously this is pitting scripture against scripture, so where is the line, 00:41:37.120 --> 00:41:41.360 especially in more personal circumstances like that which David faced? 00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:46.880 The The particular example that was given was Psalm 55, 12 through 00:41:47.040 --> 00:41:56.240 15. Let's see if Lagos will cooperate. 00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:08.640 And of course I want 00:42:10.720 --> 00:42:15.520 Psalm fifty-four twelve, I assume. 00:42:15.520 --> 00:42:16.480 Yes. 00:42:18.720 --> 00:42:22.880 Oddly enough, just sort of as an aside, sometimes in Logos, if 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:27.200 you type in the numbering from the Masoretic text in the Psalms, 00:42:27.200 --> 00:42:31.600 it takes you to the corrected numbering in the Septuagint, and sometimes 00:42:31.600 --> 00:42:32.960 it doesn't. 00:42:32.960 --> 00:42:36.240 And I have no idea what the logic is behind when it 00:42:36.240 --> 00:42:37.920 does and when it does not. 00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:39.200 It's very strange. 00:42:39.200 --> 00:42:41.600 But at any rate. 00:42:41.600 --> 00:42:44.400 Because if an enemy had reproached me, I could have borne it, 00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:46.960 and if he that hates me had bragged against me, I could 00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:48.560 have hidden from him. 00:42:48.560 --> 00:42:51.760 But it is you, my fellow human, my leader and my familiar 00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:55.440 friend, who made food sweet together with me, in the house of 00:42:55.440 --> 00:42:57.200 God we walked in harmony. 00:42:57.200 --> 00:43:01.120 Let death come upon them, let them go down to Hades alive, 00:43:01.120 --> 00:43:06.320 because evils are in their sojournings in their midst. 00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:10.640 There are a number of layers to this one, and I think 00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:14.800 really three important ones I'll say. 00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:17.840 This is a wisdom call, first off, is sort of the starting 00:43:17.840 --> 00:43:20.400 point, and it is not an easy wisdom call. 00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:22.160 This is a hard wisdom call. 00:43:22.160 --> 00:43:24.160 This is This is one where 00:43:25.520 --> 00:43:31.280 if you can't find the line yourself, then don't try, right? 00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:36.480 If you find that you have trouble saying, I firmly believe that 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:41.840 this is a situation where if I were to call down curses 00:43:41.840 --> 00:43:44.400 on this person, I would be in the right. 00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:47.120 If you can't firmly say it, then don't do it. 00:43:47.120 --> 00:43:49.440 Because like I said, this is a wisdom call and it's a 00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:51.520 difficult wisdom call. 00:43:51.520 --> 00:43:56.000 And you don't necessarily ever need to do this. 00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:59.040 Now, maybe there's a man where you have a duty, you know, 00:43:59.040 --> 00:44:02.320 you're a prince, you're in control of a nation, you're Your nation 00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:06.320 has enemies, different considerations for that man. 00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:09.920 But for the average person, maybe this is something you never need 00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:10.320 to do. 00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.000 It's probably sufficient for most men to just pray the imprecatory psalms 00:44:14.240 --> 00:44:17.120 and sort of leave filling in the names as it were up 00:44:17.120 --> 00:44:17.920 to God. 00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:20.160 He'll get it perfectly right. 00:44:20.160 --> 00:44:22.400 Human beings make mistakes. 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.280 So there's no sort of general rule here, I can't give you 00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:28.720 a mathematical formula that says if x then y, but only for 00:44:29.200 --> 00:44:32.560 values in excess of, you know, whatever. 00:44:32.560 --> 00:44:34.640 I can't do that for you. 00:44:34.640 --> 00:44:37.920 But I can say that you will always be safe praying the 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:42.080 imprecatory psalms because you're praying God's Word, as He has invited you 00:44:42.080 --> 00:44:46.160 to do so, you will always be safe cursing the enemies of 00:44:46.160 --> 00:44:49.440 God, who are obvious enemies of God, which the obvious ones are 00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:50.720 easy to find, right? 00:44:50.720 --> 00:44:53.600 The ones who hate God, the ones who openly curse God, the 00:44:53.600 --> 00:44:56.960 ones who believe in demons, the ones who worship demons. 00:44:56.960 --> 00:45:00.720 You can always curse those individuals because those are God's enemies, not 00:45:00.720 --> 00:45:03.360 your enemies, which is one of the points I want to make 00:45:03.360 --> 00:45:07.680 here. It's that difference between the personal enemies and the public enemies, 00:45:07.680 --> 00:45:11.120 and I get into this later, I believe I will anyway, because 00:45:11.120 --> 00:45:12.880 someone asked about turning the other cheek. 00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:16.560 In fact, I think that's in a couple questions here. 00:45:16.560 --> 00:45:20.160 Your personal enemies, you forgive. 00:45:20.160 --> 00:45:26.480 Your public enemies you can't forgive because they're not really your enemies. 00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:27.600 They're public enemies. 00:45:27.600 --> 00:45:30.000 They're either enemies of God or enemies of the nation. 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:34.800 In neither case are you the person empowered to forgive them and 00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:37.040 it would be wrong for you to assume that role. 00:45:37.040 --> 00:45:38.960 You can't do that. 00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:43.760 So for your personal enemies, the general rule, and I'll get into 00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:47.440 that more with the upcoming question, is that you forgive them. 00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:51.280 You're not calling down curses on them, you're not asking God to 00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:56.880 destroy them, you are forgiving them and then commending their outcome to 00:45:56.880 --> 00:45:59.120 God. He will do what is perfect. 00:45:59.120 --> 00:46:01.520 And you want to make sure that you are not the unworthy 00:46:01.520 --> 00:46:02.560 servant, right? 00:46:02.560 --> 00:46:05.040 You are the one who has been forgiven much. 00:46:05.040 --> 00:46:09.360 You must forgive the very little that is owed you by this 00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:11.440 other servant, this other slave. 00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:15.840 The master forgave you an infinite debt regardless of the size of 00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:19.600 the debt of this personal enemy, it's nothing compared to the infinite 00:46:19.600 --> 00:46:20.960 debt that was forgiven you. 00:46:21.120 --> 00:46:23.360 So don't be the unworthy servant. 00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:28.400 But at the same time I recently did this, the equivalent of 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:35.840 this, with the baby boomers, because I essentially just wrote a version 00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:36.160 of 00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:43.280 one of the impregatory psalms, but swapped out for the various things 00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:44.400 there, the baby boomers. 00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:48.480 Let me see if I can pull that up real quick. 00:46:48.560 --> 00:46:51.440 See if I can remember a line that will come up quickly 00:46:55.520 --> 00:46:59.520 Yes, I can pull that up. 00:46:59.520 --> 00:46:59.840 So 00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:03.600 I felt comfortable doing this. 00:47:03.600 --> 00:47:05.920 I felt that what I was doing was perfectly permissible. 00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:09.920 I was doing it in a way that was aligned with God's 00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:13.760 desires and aligned with what a Christian should and should not do. 00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:16.640 So aligned with what a Christian should do and against what a 00:47:16.640 --> 00:47:17.680 Christian should not do. 00:47:17.680 --> 00:47:21.440 And so I said of the aboomers, the various things that we 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:24.800 see in the imprecatory Psalms. 00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:28.720 But it's because of the wickedness they have done that is contrary 00:47:28.720 --> 00:47:32.160 to God, not because of the personal harm they've caused me. 00:47:32.160 --> 00:47:35.280 If it were just a matter of personal harm caused me, I 00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:37.200 would forgive them and let it go. 00:47:37.200 --> 00:47:41.440 I am not going to call down curses on my personal enemies. 00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:46.000 I am not the anointed of God to rule this nation, and 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:49.520 so my personal enemies do not rise to the level of being 00:47:49.520 --> 00:47:51.600 enemies of God. 00:47:51.600 --> 00:47:55.040 You know, I am not going to call down curses on the 00:47:55.040 --> 00:47:59.040 head of the LCMS because he particularly dislikes me, which is true 00:47:59.040 --> 00:48:01.680 he does, for many reasons. 00:48:01.680 --> 00:48:06.240 But in his office, as one of the leaders of a major 00:48:06.240 --> 00:48:11.200 church, I am absolutely going to pray the imprecatory psalms against him, 00:48:11.200 --> 00:48:14.400 because what he is doing is evil and he's doing it in 00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:16.800 the name of God, and so he is God's enemy. 00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:20.240 Insofar as he is God's enemy, I will pray those psalms against 00:48:20.240 --> 00:48:24.560 him. Insofar as he is my personal enemy, I've let it go. 00:48:25.040 --> 00:48:27.040 it is what it is. 00:48:27.040 --> 00:48:29.920 Part of that's personal disposition, but part of that is because that's 00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:33.440 what God calls us to do. 00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:38.320 So the baseline and the basic rule there is basically to use 00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:42.400 that word a lot, pray the imprecatory psalms. 00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:46.480 And if you are uncomfortable going further than that, then leave the 00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:48.240 names up to you. 00:48:48.240 --> 00:48:52.320 He knows who deserves that treatment and he will get it right. 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:55.600 But yes, cursing is in this sense. 00:48:55.600 --> 00:48:58.480 Cursing is certainly part of the Christian life, right? 00:48:58.960 --> 00:49:02.640 The sort of extreme example that I like to give people to 00:49:02.640 --> 00:49:08.560 drive the point home is that you don't get to forgive Satan. 00:49:08.560 --> 00:49:11.280 God does not call you to pray for Satan. 00:49:11.280 --> 00:49:15.040 Praying for Satan would be sin, because you would be praying for 00:49:15.040 --> 00:49:18.080 God's enemies, which is praying against God. 00:49:18.080 --> 00:49:22.320 So obviously there are those for whom we do not pray, in 00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:26.000 the sense of them being forgiven or brought back into the tent, 00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:28.000 whatever it happens to be. 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:32.560 Satan is one, the demons, those who are so hard hearted that 00:49:32.560 --> 00:49:37.680 they are beyond redemption because their conscience is seared, their heart is 00:49:37.680 --> 00:49:39.920 stone, and they will never repent, right? 00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:44.400 They've committed the unforgivable sin, sort of thing. 00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:48.080 So, yes, cursing is a part of what it means to be 00:49:48.080 --> 00:49:53.200 a Christian, but it's a wisdom call and be careful. 00:49:53.520 --> 00:49:58.960 Grab a couple more questions here from the chat so I do 00:49:58.960 --> 00:50:00.480 not lose them in the scroll 00:50:22.080 --> 00:50:27.120 Of course, the forum software decided to copy some images too, which 00:50:27.120 --> 00:50:28.240 I do not need. 00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:43.920 Someone mentioned in the chat that the original Chinese practice practitioners of 00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:46.160 acupuncture thought they were casting out demons. 00:50:46.160 --> 00:50:49.280 That was certainly part of the praxis, certainly part of the I 00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:51.200 guess the theology of it. 00:50:51.200 --> 00:50:56.320 At some point, very far in the past, it really has sort 00:50:56.320 --> 00:50:59.600 of lost that even in the modern Chinese mind. 00:50:59.600 --> 00:51:03.680 At this point, it really is sort of just a pseudoscientific health 00:51:03.680 --> 00:51:10.400 practice. Which is not to say that you know it's entirely innocuous, 00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:15.600 but there are things that can lose their nature as theological or 00:51:15.600 --> 00:51:18.400 religious over a period of time. 00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:18.720 So 00:51:19.600 --> 00:51:22.400 there are certainly things that we probably do in our society that 00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:25.040 at some point in Point in the past may have had religious 00:51:25.040 --> 00:51:29.280 connotations and literally no one alive remembers any of them, they're no 00:51:29.280 --> 00:51:30.080 longer religious. 00:51:30.080 --> 00:51:32.160 They've lost it. 00:51:32.160 --> 00:51:36.240 Yes, there are some aspects of things related to demons that can 00:51:36.240 --> 00:51:39.040 be ex opera operato, which is Which is to say by virtue 00:51:39.040 --> 00:51:43.440 of doing the thing you accomplish something. 00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:46.640 But I don't think God is leaving landmines all over the place 00:51:46.640 --> 00:51:50.080 where we accidentally perform some action, you know, it summons a demon. 00:51:50.080 --> 00:51:52.640 I don't think God organized the world to do that. 00:51:52.640 --> 00:51:58.000 So I don't think that acupuncture is going to endanger your soul. 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:01.360 Unless you happen to think it's a religious practice, but that would 00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:05.120 come back to you know you have the various passages in scripture 00:52:05.120 --> 00:52:09.200 saying that you don't do something if you're the person for whom 00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:14.640 you believe it's a religious sort of act and so it endangers 00:52:14.640 --> 00:52:15.920 your conscience. 00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:16.880 You have a conscience. 00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:18.240 Listen to your conscience. 00:52:18.320 --> 00:52:21.360 It so It's you know you can think of eating meat, right? 00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:24.880 Usually in scripture that's in the context of meat having been sacrificed 00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:28.080 to an idol, because it'd be sacrificed to the idol, but not 00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:30.320 burnt up and then it would be sold in the meat market, 00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:33.200 and so you could buy it, but this had been sacrificed to 00:52:33.200 --> 00:52:36.720 an idol, and so if you were someone who had worshipped those 00:52:36.720 --> 00:52:40.320 idols, perhaps you had a guilty conscience because you thought of it 00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:43.920 as worship of the idol, whereas someone with a stronger faith might 00:52:43.920 --> 00:52:46.160 think, hey, cheap meat, right? 00:52:46.160 --> 00:52:49.120 I'm not going to be worried about the meat sacrificed to an 00:52:49.120 --> 00:52:51.520 idol because the idol is nothing. 00:52:51.520 --> 00:52:54.880 This meat isn't bad because it was sacrificed to an idol. 00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:59.120 It doesn't endanger my conscience or my soul, but for someone who 00:52:59.120 --> 00:53:01.840 would have a guilty conscience, he shouldn't pursue that 00:53:11.280 --> 00:53:13.920 Another little change of pace here. 00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:18.000 Next question about presuppositional apologetics. 00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:27.040 So a little more technical, perhaps. 00:53:27.120 --> 00:53:31.440 I spent some time studying it last summer and wanted your view 00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:32.800 concerning this approach 00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:42.960 So for those who don't know, presuppositional apologetics focuses on, unsurprisingly, presuppositions, 00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:48.880 which is to say foundational assumptions usually with regard to worldview. 00:53:48.880 --> 00:53:49.200 And 00:53:50.080 --> 00:53:52.080 this can be effective. 00:53:52.080 --> 00:53:57.040 Personally, I would say it has utility for a certain subset of 00:53:57.040 --> 00:54:01.600 men, a particular type of man, and I am thinking largely of 00:54:01.600 --> 00:54:05.040 the reformed here, but also professional philosophers. 00:54:05.040 --> 00:54:08.960 Men who are trained in these things, it can be very effective. 00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:13.040 But it is not going to be effective with most men. 00:54:13.040 --> 00:54:17.120 That's not to say you can't take things from it, because you 00:54:17.120 --> 00:54:21.680 can certainly take tools from an overall approach where the overall approach 00:54:21.680 --> 00:54:25.920 would not be effective, but the tool might be of utility So, 00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:28.800 I've done similar things, for instance. 00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:32.400 I will say things or take an approach to knock someone off 00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:36.960 balance. Because if you knock the person off balance, then he has 00:54:36.960 --> 00:54:40.240 to think, he has to do something in response to being knocked 00:54:40.240 --> 00:54:44.160 off balance, as opposed to just continuing merrily along his way. 00:54:44.160 --> 00:54:46.400 Which is sometimes the greatest challenge, right? 00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:50.000 You have to try to get someone into a state of mind 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:53.200 where he's where he's willing to listen to you. 00:54:53.200 --> 00:54:58.480 And if you can't do that, then he won't listen to you. 00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:00.000 Pretty obvious there. 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.800 So if you can use something like 00:55:03.680 --> 00:55:05.040 Apologetics 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:07.760 and get him to 00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:13.200 you know with presuppositional apologetics specifically if you can then get him 00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:17.520 to actually seriously think about his worldview and the gaps in it 00:55:17.600 --> 00:55:22.720 and maybe open a door there to continue the conversation about creationism, 00:55:22.720 --> 00:55:23.680 about God. 00:55:23.680 --> 00:55:25.200 There's utility in that. 00:55:25.200 --> 00:55:27.040 Certainly there's utility in that. 00:55:27.040 --> 00:55:30.320 I just think that with the average person you're not going to 00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:35.760 get very far because it takes a very sort of not necessarily 00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:40.080 cerebral but a very academic approach. 00:55:40.080 --> 00:55:43.280 It is very much a philosophical approach, and so it's worked with 00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:47.040 philosophers. There have been debates where philosophers have employed this and won 00:55:47.040 --> 00:55:49.920 the debate in a room of professional philosophers. 00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:56.000 So it's not wrong, but insofar as sort of a practical approach 00:55:56.000 --> 00:56:00.320 is concerned, I think classical apologetics is going to be more effective 00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:01.920 with most men. 00:56:01.920 --> 00:56:04.480 But this is certainly a tool to have in your toolkit, right? 00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:06.400 An arrow to have in your quiver. 00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:11.680 There is potential utility here, particularly among certain kinds of men. 00:56:11.680 --> 00:56:16.560 So if you spend a lot of time around academics, particularly those 00:56:16.560 --> 00:56:21.200 who are versed in philosophy, definitely something you should know. 00:56:21.200 --> 00:56:22.960 Because it's going to work with them. 00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:27.280 Perhaps it might even work better with them than classical apologetics. 00:56:27.280 --> 00:56:31.520 But if you're dealing with laymen who have no training in philosophy, 00:56:31.520 --> 00:56:35.520 no training in theology, you would You would probably be better served 00:56:36.160 --> 00:56:39.520 learning enough of this to use it to knock them off balance 00:56:39.680 --> 00:56:41.440 and then take the classical approach. 00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:48.000 That's probably going to be more effective for the common man. 00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:52.480 The next question is the one that I said was coming up 00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:58.480 about the Sermon on the Mount and Turn the Other Cheek. 00:56:58.480 --> 00:57:01.120 So question twelve. 00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:05.440 Will you share your exegesis of turn the other cheek? 00:57:05.440 --> 00:57:09.280 So commonly these words are used by pastors and others to imply 00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:13.520 or insist that Christian men should be weak, vulnerable, and winsome. 00:57:13.520 --> 00:57:17.120 I am certain that was not Christ's intent and would appreciate your 00:57:17.120 --> 00:57:24.240 thoughts. This is one of those cases where you have individuals who 00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:29.040 take a passage and then run with it because the they can 00:57:29.040 --> 00:57:32.160 get it to kind of say something they want it to say. 00:57:32.160 --> 00:57:34.320 It doesn't say that. 00:57:34.320 --> 00:57:38.960 But they can convince you that maybe it says that, right? 00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:39.760 That's the goal. 00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:42.160 It's the atheist meme guy, right? 00:57:42.160 --> 00:57:45.680 I despise your religion and I hate it, but maybe I can 00:57:45.680 --> 00:57:47.200 use it to manipulate you. 00:57:47.200 --> 00:57:51.040 That's the exact tactic being used here. 00:57:51.040 --> 00:57:51.360 So 00:57:53.120 --> 00:57:55.600 The first part you have to recognize is what I brought up 00:57:55.600 --> 00:57:57.440 earlier with that previous question. 00:57:57.440 --> 00:58:01.360 There's a difference between a personal enemy and a public enemy. 00:58:01.360 --> 00:58:04.400 Turn the other cheek applies to personal enemies. 00:58:04.400 --> 00:58:07.200 Turn the other cheek never applies to public enemies, never applies to 00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:11.040 pub to enemies of God, to enemies of your nation. 00:58:11.040 --> 00:58:14.320 It also doesn't apply to enemies of people who are entrusted to 00:58:14.320 --> 00:58:15.760 your care, right? 00:58:16.080 --> 00:58:19.760 If someone breaks into your home and punches your child in the 00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:22.880 face, if you turn the other cheek, you've just said you're not 00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:24.640 a Krishna is what you've said. 00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:27.280 Because you have a duty to defend your child, a duty to 00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:29.040 defend your family. 00:58:29.040 --> 00:58:32.640 And you can't set Scripture against Scripture. 00:58:32.640 --> 00:58:36.080 So in order to understand this rightly, it has to be consonant 00:58:36.080 --> 00:58:37.440 with the rest of Scripture. 00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:41.040 There are plenty of places where God commands us to defend those 00:58:41.040 --> 00:58:42.720 entrusted to our care. 00:58:42.720 --> 00:58:44.400 Abraham is called a righteous man. 00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:49.200 He raises his own army, pursues after those who had taken his 00:58:49.200 --> 00:58:53.520 cousin captive, and frees him, and slaughters a bunch of people in 00:58:53.520 --> 00:58:54.640 the process. 00:58:54.640 --> 00:58:55.680 That's righteous. 00:58:55.680 --> 00:58:56.320 That's godly. 00:58:56.320 --> 00:58:59.440 That's what men are supposed to do when the times call for 00:58:59.440 --> 00:59:02.720 it and when you're in the position to do it. 00:59:02.720 --> 00:59:06.080 So anyone who tries to get you to use turn the other 00:59:06.320 --> 00:59:11.600 cheek and use that as a political tool, is an enemy. 00:59:11.600 --> 00:59:13.760 That man is speaking with the mouth of Satan. 00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:16.960 You should never listen to anything he has to say. 00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:20.960 Because he is using this scripture and twisting it in an attempt 00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:25.280 to manipulate you to use God's word as a weapon against a 00:59:25.280 --> 00:59:28.400 Christian. We have a word for those who do that. 00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:31.920 It's called a demon, so never listen to a man who does 00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:37.600 that. Christian men aren't called to be weak and vulnerable and winsome. 00:59:37.600 --> 00:59:39.760 I hate the word winsome at this point. 00:59:39.760 --> 00:59:43.120 Winsome doesn't even have a meaning at this point in the modern 00:59:43.120 --> 00:59:47.600 context. It literally just means that whatever modern pastors 00:59:48.640 --> 00:59:54.160 think is not manly, is not all the things they hate, that's 00:59:54.160 --> 00:59:58.160 winsome, because you're being winsome when you're a floor mat, basically. 00:59:58.160 --> 01:00:01.280 And Christians aren't called to be that. 01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:04.400 Look at all of the men who were praised in Scripture. 01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:06.720 They weren't weak men. 01:00:06.720 --> 01:00:08.320 None of them were weak men. 01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:10.640 Look at the disciples, look at the apostles. 01:00:10.640 --> 01:00:14.480 Did Christ pick physically weak men to follow him. 01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:18.880 Was he being followed around by a bunch of academics who couldn't 01:00:18.880 --> 01:00:21.200 lift a fifty pound rock? 01:00:21.200 --> 01:00:22.400 The answer is no. 01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:25.120 He was being followed around mostly by men who worked with their 01:00:25.120 --> 01:00:27.520 hands. Yes, of course you had the tax collector who would have 01:00:27.920 --> 01:00:34.080 probably been physically weaker, but by and large, physically fit men. 01:00:34.080 --> 01:00:37.360 This ties into another issue when you get those who try to 01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:41.360 say, Well, meekness is an aspect of being yes, meekness is an 01:00:41.360 --> 01:00:47.280 aspect of being a Christian man, but meekness understood properly is strength 01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:48.880 under control. 01:00:48.880 --> 01:00:50.800 Well what does that require? 01:00:50.800 --> 01:00:52.480 You can't be meek if you're weak. 01:00:53.120 --> 01:00:55.840 You can only be meek if you have the strength to keep 01:00:55.840 --> 01:00:56.960 under control. 01:00:56.960 --> 01:01:00.720 And so necessarily to be meek you must be strong. 01:01:00.720 --> 01:01:06.000 Christ is meek, because Christ is strong, but keeps it under control. 01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:09.680 So being a wild crazy person going out and picking fights all 01:01:09.680 --> 01:01:12.880 the time and just being destructive because you have the physical strength 01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:15.600 to do it is not being meek. 01:01:15.600 --> 01:01:19.520 It's not being Christian, but being weak is not being Christian either. 01:01:19.520 --> 01:01:23.120 You cannot be a weak man and be a Christian. 01:01:23.120 --> 01:01:26.960 Unless obviously there's the exception for someone who has physical ailments or 01:01:26.960 --> 01:01:30.160 something where you literally can't be strong, right? 01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:31.680 But pursuing weakness 01:01:32.720 --> 01:01:38.480 and abhorring strength is anti Christian, it's an inversion, it's satanic. 01:01:38.480 --> 01:01:42.800 Because to be strong, to be physically fit is a good thing. 01:01:42.800 --> 01:01:46.160 That is to use the body that God has given you in 01:01:46.160 --> 01:01:49.040 a way he intended for you to use it. 01:01:49.040 --> 01:01:53.520 So the turn the other cheek thing is so incredibly transparent that 01:01:53.600 --> 01:01:56.880 generally speaking, just ignore the men who try to use it as 01:01:56.880 --> 01:01:59.760 a cudgel, they're evil men. 01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:01.360 You're not going to get through to them. 01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:03.520 You're not going to accomplish anything. 01:02:03.520 --> 01:02:05.040 The only men where 01:02:06.160 --> 01:02:10.640 maybe they deserve a response would be those who don't know really 01:02:10.640 --> 01:02:12.320 anything about Christianity. 01:02:12.320 --> 01:02:16.640 And so they have a false understanding of Christianity. 01:02:16.640 --> 01:02:20.640 And they have been told this is what Christianity is. 01:02:20.640 --> 01:02:23.680 So for those men you probably have to go through and build 01:02:23.680 --> 01:02:27.040 up the argument and explain, no, that's not what it means. 01:02:27.040 --> 01:02:29.040 The men who said that are evil. 01:02:29.040 --> 01:02:32.000 They're trying to mislead you because they don't want you to be 01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:33.280 a Christian. 01:02:33.280 --> 01:02:39.120 But turn the other cheek is not pacifism, obviously, because Christianity is 01:02:39.120 --> 01:02:41.280 not a pacifist religion. 01:02:41.280 --> 01:02:44.400 The same Christ who said turn the other cheek said sell your 01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:46.560 cloak and buy a sword. 01:02:46.560 --> 01:02:48.720 Not a very good pacifist. 01:02:48.720 --> 01:02:53.200 But But the enemies by and large just cherry pick various things 01:02:53.200 --> 01:02:57.360 in Scripture and expect you not to know anything about Scripture and 01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:00.240 so they expect you to fall for it. 01:03:00.240 --> 01:03:03.920 Because if you don't know the context, if you don't know the 01:03:03.920 --> 01:03:07.760 other verses in scripture that have to be consistent with it, it 01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:10.400 is going to be very easy to mislead you. 01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:12.400 That's what they're banking on. 01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:17.440 Because most Christians have a very shallow knowledge of the faith. 01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:26.080 But no, Christian men are not called to be a doormat. 01:03:26.080 --> 01:03:29.520 Let me make sure I didn't miss too much of the chat 01:03:29.520 --> 01:03:34.160 in the scroll there. 01:03:34.160 --> 01:03:36.400 Let's see. 01:03:39.600 --> 01:03:43.040 Take a sip of tea while I read through the chat. 01:04:02.880 --> 01:04:05.920 The next question as soon as this page is done refreshing so 01:04:05.920 --> 01:04:07.680 I can actually read it. 01:04:09.360 --> 01:04:12.240 Question thirteen from the chat 01:04:13.680 --> 01:04:18.320 Why did Satan allow the maintenance of high moral standards in Muhammadan 01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:19.520 civil law? 01:04:19.520 --> 01:04:24.080 Minus cousin marriage, which was clearly for dysgenics, was it simply for 01:04:24.080 --> 01:04:31.760 deception? So insofar as the Muhammadan 01:04:31.760 --> 01:04:35.280 or Islamic civil law is concerned. 01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:40.000 There are some moral standards that are high, and there are some 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:43.280 that are extremely low, right? 01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:45.760 And you mentioned, of course, cousin marriage, which is rampant in 01:04:46.800 --> 01:04:49.360 really most of the world except for here. 01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:53.760 The issue in Africa is slightly different, but India and the Middle 01:04:53.760 --> 01:04:57.760 East, the Near East have first cousin marriage runs rampant. 01:04:57.760 --> 01:05:01.600 In Jewish communities, uncle and niece marriages are common. 01:05:01.600 --> 01:05:04.400 They've actually changed the law in some US states in order to 01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:07.840 accomplish that because obviously it was anti Semitic not to permit it, 01:05:07.840 --> 01:05:13.440 right? But insofar as the Muslim civil law is concerned, it was 01:05:13.440 --> 01:05:15.840 for the purpose of deception. 01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:19.040 You can think of this in the sense of 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:27.040 if you want to accomplish something subversive or destructive, 01:05:27.040 --> 01:05:29.920 you don't just approach it head-on, right? 01:05:29.920 --> 01:05:35.680 If you're trying to destroy some group, right, you don't go up 01:05:35.680 --> 01:05:38.880 to the group, apply for membership, and say, I'm here because I'd 01:05:38.880 --> 01:05:41.280 like to burn this to the ground. 01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:45.200 What are the odds you'll succeed if you take that approach? 01:05:45.680 --> 01:05:46.720 There's zero, right? 01:05:46.720 --> 01:05:47.760 You won't you won't win. 01:05:47.760 --> 01:05:48.800 You will not succeed. 01:05:48.800 --> 01:05:50.320 Satan isn't stupid. 01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:53.040 Satan has had a very long time and a lot of practice. 01:05:53.040 --> 01:05:57.200 He knows what he's doing, and so what he's going to do 01:05:57.200 --> 01:06:02.320 is he's going to make something look appealing in some way, and 01:06:02.320 --> 01:06:05.120 then hide all the bad stuff under the rug. 01:06:05.680 --> 01:06:09.120 Because the goal, it's sort of the camel's nose analogy, right? 01:06:09.120 --> 01:06:11.760 You get the camel's nose in the tent, the whole camel's coming 01:06:11.760 --> 01:06:15.520 in. That's Satan's goal. 01:06:15.520 --> 01:06:19.280 If he didn't make didn't make the system appealing in some way, 01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:21.520 he would never get people to believe it. 01:06:21.520 --> 01:06:26.240 Now granted for relatively low IQ populations it was less challenging, and 01:06:26.240 --> 01:06:28.560 for many of them he just sold them on well, you get 01:06:28.560 --> 01:06:30.320 loot and women, that was enough. 01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:32.480 In some cases, you don't even get the women until you die, 01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:35.120 right? So 01:06:36.480 --> 01:06:42.240 you have the same thing in many places where you have deception, 01:06:42.240 --> 01:06:42.800 where you have 01:06:43.680 --> 01:06:46.720 some particular actor desiring to destroy something. 01:06:46.720 --> 01:06:49.920 The most obvious example is sin, right? 01:06:50.480 --> 01:06:56.560 If sin didn't have a superficial appeal, would anyone sin? 01:06:56.560 --> 01:06:57.520 Probably not. 01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:02.000 If the only sales pitch, as it were, for sin was, hey, 01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:04.400 you want to spend eternity in a lake of fire? 01:07:04.400 --> 01:07:06.720 I think most people would probably say no. 01:07:06.720 --> 01:07:10.320 In fact, I think everyone would say no, except maybe if there's 01:07:10.320 --> 01:07:13.600 someone who's completely insane he would say yes, but is he really 01:07:13.600 --> 01:07:16.080 saying yes if he's completely insane? 01:07:16.080 --> 01:07:20.880 No, the reason that people sin is because the sin looks attractive. 01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:25.120 And they don't run the calculation, they don't follow through the logic, 01:07:25.120 --> 01:07:29.600 they don't say, Yes, in the moment this seems great, but what 01:07:29.600 --> 01:07:31.760 are the consequences long term? 01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:35.360 What are the actual consequences of this action? 01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:40.880 It's the same thing with these various wicked systems that Satan and 01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:42.480 his demons have set up. 01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:47.440 In some cases it's just a matter of perverting things slowly over 01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:50.720 time, which is also in in view here, because 01:07:51.920 --> 01:07:55.520 all of the people who spread out from the Ark, right, had 01:07:55.520 --> 01:08:00.480 some knowledge of the moral law, had been taught by Noah, who 01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:04.640 had been taught by his ancestors all the way back to Adam. 01:08:04.640 --> 01:08:08.400 And so they knew the moral law to some degree, and what 01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:13.760 the demons did is they corrupted it over time little by little. 01:08:13.760 --> 01:08:16.720 You don't have someone coming in and all of a sudden instituting 01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:22.000 the moral law from this low point, and then, well, you hold 01:08:22.000 --> 01:08:25.520 this for a while and tape- No, you have people tapering off 01:08:25.520 --> 01:08:28.720 in certain areas in certain ways at certain times. 01:08:29.440 --> 01:08:32.880 And so you have a loosening of this law here and that 01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:34.160 law there. 01:08:34.160 --> 01:08:38.080 Over time that builds up and you wind up with a degenerate 01:08:38.080 --> 01:08:42.960 system. But what you can't do is just bring in a radically 01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:48.480 new system of supposed morality and then try to impose that. 01:08:48.480 --> 01:08:50.720 People will probably not follow you. 01:08:50.720 --> 01:08:54.000 Maybe you'll make a small cult, but you probably won't be very 01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:59.120 successful. To be successful it has to look like what everyone already 01:08:59.120 --> 01:09:02.080 knows, but a little better in some way. 01:09:02.080 --> 01:09:03.600 Arguably a little better. 01:09:03.600 --> 01:09:04.640 It's probably not. 01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:07.280 It's going to destroy things in other ways. 01:09:07.280 --> 01:09:11.680 That's how Satan works, and he does it because it works, because 01:09:11.680 --> 01:09:15.440 you can mislead and corrupt and deceive people in that way. 01:09:15.440 --> 01:09:18.080 You can't do it if you just bring in, you know, the 01:09:18.320 --> 01:09:23.520 the fullness of the morality morality of hell all at once. 01:09:23.520 --> 01:09:25.840 You have to bring it in a little at a time. 01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:29.600 You have to let the corruption seep into the system instead of 01:09:29.600 --> 01:09:32.880 being there from the beginning in its fullness. 01:09:37.600 --> 01:09:41.360 Question 14. 01:09:41.360 --> 01:09:44.640 What do you say to those who use the boomer generation as 01:09:44.640 --> 01:09:48.560 an argument for heathen levels of wickedness being much more a function 01:09:48.560 --> 01:09:54.080 of circumstance and taught culture than genetic. 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:01.680 So insofar as 01:10:03.280 --> 01:10:08.000 morality, which it's nice that this ties into the previous question, but 01:10:08.240 --> 01:10:13.760 insofar as morality and things like those, like that are concerned, part 01:10:14.240 --> 01:10:17.280 of it is genetic, but not all of it. 01:10:17.280 --> 01:10:19.840 Because a huge part of it is indeed culture. 01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:23.600 But culture is also downstream from genetics. 01:10:23.600 --> 01:10:26.960 And so I guess in some way the question is asking to 01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:29.280 run the thought experiment, right? 01:10:29.280 --> 01:10:29.760 Of 01:10:31.440 --> 01:10:34.800 if you took a bunch of children from a bunch of different 01:10:34.800 --> 01:10:40.080 races and then stuck them in controlled conditions, would you Would you 01:10:40.080 --> 01:10:41.840 have different outcomes 01:10:43.040 --> 01:10:46.000 just on the base of the genetics with regard to morality? 01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:48.000 I think the answer has to be yes. 01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:50.320 Obviously we can't run that experiment. 01:10:50.320 --> 01:10:51.840 It would be wrong. 01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:53.920 The IRB would never approve it. 01:10:54.320 --> 01:10:57.680 But I think obviously you'd have different outcomes, right? 01:10:57.680 --> 01:11:01.920 Because we know that culture is downstream from race. 01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:06.720 But culture is not 100% a product of race. 01:11:06.720 --> 01:11:11.200 For instance, there may be people listening to this right now who 01:11:11.200 --> 01:11:15.040 are not American or European and yet are wearing blue jeans. 01:11:15.040 --> 01:11:20.080 You have part of a culture of a different culture, but you've 01:11:20.080 --> 01:11:22.240 made it your own, right? 01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:25.680 To a certain degree. 01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:33.600 So that aspect of it, I think. 01:11:33.600 --> 01:11:37.440 I think that you have to tie the two together without discounting 01:11:37.440 --> 01:11:39.840 either one excessively. 01:11:39.840 --> 01:11:44.080 Because you can certainly have wicked aspects of a culture that are 01:11:44.080 --> 01:11:51.120 brought in externally, but unless they can find purchase in the genetic 01:11:51.120 --> 01:11:55.120 foundation of the people, they're not going to achieve anything. 01:11:55.120 --> 01:12:00.480 Take a sip of tea before I continue. 01:12:00.480 --> 01:12:04.800 And so I could tie this into the previous question. 01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:09.760 First cousin marriage is rampant among Muslims. 01:12:09.760 --> 01:12:12.160 It's not among Europeans. 01:12:12.160 --> 01:12:14.000 It's not among Americans. 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:19.600 And so if Satan had tried to introduce that foreign cultural element 01:12:20.160 --> 01:12:24.640 into the West, it would not have succeeded, because there is that 01:12:24.640 --> 01:12:30.960 genetic racial apprehension, that racial objection to it, that was not present 01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:32.960 in the parts of the world where he introduced it. 01:12:32.960 --> 01:12:35.600 He of course knew this, it's why he did it. 01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:35.920 So 01:12:37.120 --> 01:12:39.760 you do have both. 01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:44.320 But the more important thing here, I think really, is that this 01:12:44.320 --> 01:12:45.600 is related to 01:12:47.040 --> 01:12:50.720 the question of beauty and some other things, where people get so 01:12:50.720 --> 01:12:53.360 weird about things that I've said. 01:12:53.360 --> 01:12:55.840 Much of this is longitudinal. 01:12:55.840 --> 01:13:01.280 It is generational in terms of centuries, thousands of years in some 01:13:01.280 --> 01:13:02.560 cases. So 01:13:03.440 --> 01:13:05.280 it's not like you have 01:13:06.480 --> 01:13:11.520 one generation goes off the rails and everything is forever destroyed. 01:13:11.520 --> 01:13:13.920 One generation can do a lot of damage. 01:13:13.920 --> 01:13:17.680 Absolutely. We've certainly seen that, although it was really three or four. 01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:20.400 But one generation can do a great deal of damage. 01:13:20.400 --> 01:13:25.840 But you haven't lost that capacity with regard to genetics, the racial 01:13:26.480 --> 01:13:31.520 biological capacity to achieve good things again. 01:13:31.520 --> 01:13:33.760 IQ is the most obvious example. 01:13:33.760 --> 01:13:35.840 I get tired of it because it's the one that's used all 01:13:35.840 --> 01:13:38.640 the time and it makes people weird, but it's the easiest one 01:13:38.640 --> 01:13:41.040 for people to understand, right? 01:13:41.040 --> 01:13:43.280 To some degree. 01:13:43.280 --> 01:13:49.440 If you lose twenty IQ points out of a particular group, so 01:13:49.600 --> 01:13:52.960 you know, one and a third standard deviations, as it were, for 01:13:52.960 --> 01:13:54.800 at least European numbers. 01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:58.240 If you lose that, you can't regain it. 01:13:58.240 --> 01:14:00.080 It's gone. 01:14:00.080 --> 01:14:02.800 Because the genetics are gone. 01:14:02.800 --> 01:14:06.160 You have destroyed them, you've lost them out of the population. 01:14:06.160 --> 01:14:10.960 So no matter how long you left Africans alone, if you just 01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:16.320 cordoned off Africa, left them there, when you come back, they will 01:14:16.320 --> 01:14:18.640 not be smarter than when you left. 01:14:18.640 --> 01:14:20.560 Because we're not trending upward. 01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:24.320 Yes, there's the Flynn effect, but that's not really a change in 01:14:24.320 --> 01:14:26.320 genetics. It's that's been explained. 01:14:26.320 --> 01:14:28.320 So if you want to know the explanation for that, by all 01:14:28.320 --> 01:14:29.760 means, you can look that one up. 01:14:29.760 --> 01:14:33.200 It's been explained ad nauseum at this point. 01:14:33.200 --> 01:14:35.840 Human IQ does not trend upward. 01:14:35.840 --> 01:14:39.680 Human IQ can remain essentially level in a population if you do 01:14:39.680 --> 01:14:43.120 not do dys things that are dysgenic, or if you do things 01:14:43.120 --> 01:14:47.280 that are dysgenic, it can trend downward. 01:14:47.280 --> 01:14:49.440 But it doesn't go up. 01:14:49.440 --> 01:14:52.800 Because what you're doing is losing capacity. 01:14:52.800 --> 01:14:56.880 There's no method, there's no means by which to gain capacity. 01:14:57.200 --> 01:15:02.080 This is a fundamental problem with neo-Darwinian evolution or whatever system it 01:15:02.080 --> 01:15:05.920 is, modern synthesis, whatever one you want. 01:15:05.920 --> 01:15:10.720 We have not demonstrated a gain with regard to the creation of 01:15:10.720 --> 01:15:12.800 novel information. 01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:14.240 There's plenty of 01:15:15.120 --> 01:15:19.760 transfer of information between usually it's bacteria at that case, although viruses, 01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:22.320 there's that aspect for human beings. 01:15:22.320 --> 01:15:28.560 You see recombinations of pre-existing information, not the creation of novel information. 01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:31.760 Now, could you change this perhaps with things like CRISPR? 01:15:31.760 --> 01:15:33.360 Maybe in the future. 01:15:33.360 --> 01:15:38.640 But generally speaking, and naturally speaking, if you lose that capacity, it 01:15:38.640 --> 01:15:39.680 is gone. 01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:42.160 And so that's where the real 01:15:43.120 --> 01:15:45.280 problem crops up, right? 01:15:45.280 --> 01:15:52.320 This sort of generational wickedness and degeneration compounds over time and 01:15:52.320 --> 01:15:55.760 you continue to sink lower and lower and lower, and so you 01:15:55.760 --> 01:15:59.760 no longer have the capacity to rise back to that level of 01:15:59.760 --> 01:16:03.120 the better and higher behavior, the more moral behavior. 01:16:03.120 --> 01:16:06.880 Europeans have not sunk so low yet that we can't rise back 01:16:06.880 --> 01:16:08.560 to that level. 01:16:08.560 --> 01:16:13.760 The handful of previous generations before, you know, millennials, and obviously I'm 01:16:13.760 --> 01:16:18.000 including Gen X split in the middle, millennials and boomers. 01:16:18.000 --> 01:16:20.800 As I've mentioned many times. 01:16:20.800 --> 01:16:25.200 If you look at those handful of generations and the harm they 01:16:25.200 --> 01:16:29.280 caused, it is not yet sufficient to make it impossible for us 01:16:29.280 --> 01:16:32.160 to rise back to the level of our ancestors. 01:16:32.160 --> 01:16:36.880 If we continue in the same vein doing what they're doing, yes 01:16:36.960 --> 01:16:38.720 eventually we'll end up there. 01:16:39.520 --> 01:16:42.880 And for better or worse, when it comes to this, it is 01:16:42.880 --> 01:16:47.680 essentially sexual immorality that is the deciding factor. 01:16:47.680 --> 01:16:51.440 So cousin marriage, it's convenient, that was mentioned because it's one of 01:16:51.440 --> 01:16:54.800 the, and by cousin marriage, we of course mean first cousin marriage, 01:16:54.800 --> 01:16:57.600 not fourth cousin or fifth, because that's optimal. 01:16:57.600 --> 01:16:59.360 That's how God designed the system. 01:16:59.360 --> 01:17:02.880 We're talking about uncles marrying their nieces. 01:17:02.880 --> 01:17:05.200 That sort of thing. 01:17:05.200 --> 01:17:08.080 If you do that for a very long period of time, over 01:17:08.080 --> 01:17:15.840 many generations, you wind up with so much degeneration biologically speaking, 01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:19.840 so much degeneration in terms of your genetics that you can never 01:17:19.840 --> 01:17:23.120 return to what you once were, what your people once were. 01:17:23.120 --> 01:17:26.800 This was a one-way street, you've destroyed yourself. 01:17:26.800 --> 01:17:29.600 And it is sexual immorality that does that. 01:17:29.600 --> 01:17:34.400 One of the reasons it's so condemned so strongly in Scripture, from 01:17:34.400 --> 01:17:38.320 the beginning of Scripture to the end of Scripture is condemned because 01:17:38.320 --> 01:17:40.400 of the consequences. 01:17:40.400 --> 01:17:42.080 They are terrible consequences. 01:17:42.080 --> 01:17:46.320 I mentioned the difference between say the Near East, the Middle East, 01:17:46.320 --> 01:17:49.120 and India versus Africa. 01:17:49.120 --> 01:17:54.080 The difference there is that in Africa, promiscuity was so rampant and 01:17:54.080 --> 01:17:58.240 is still so rampant that paternity is unknown. 01:17:58.240 --> 01:18:01.600 And so what happens is unknowing incest. 01:18:01.600 --> 01:18:06.560 You have instances where siblings wind up having children because neither sibling 01:18:06.560 --> 01:18:09.360 knew his father, his or her father. 01:18:09.360 --> 01:18:13.600 That's one of the reasons that the Africans have so many problems. 01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:18.240 The promiscuity that is running rampant in the West will result in 01:18:18.240 --> 01:18:19.760 problems like those. 01:18:19.760 --> 01:18:23.040 It is not as bad as Africa yet, but the trend is 01:18:23.040 --> 01:18:24.640 certainly not positive. 01:18:24.640 --> 01:18:27.920 Granted, there's a little bit of an upward trend with regard to 01:18:27.920 --> 01:18:30.160 the younger generations right now. 01:18:30.160 --> 01:18:34.000 It's not necessarily due to moral concerns, but others. 01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:35.440 But this is biological. 01:18:35.440 --> 01:18:37.840 You get the benefit even if you don't have the right mindset, 01:18:37.840 --> 01:18:40.880 as long as you do the right thing. 01:18:40.880 --> 01:18:44.800 So if we continue down that path, we will wind up as 01:18:44.800 --> 01:18:46.000 bad as everyone else. 01:18:46.000 --> 01:18:48.400 This is something that many of those in the NeopAK and other 01:18:48.400 --> 01:18:52.800 camps don't understand because they all think of this upward trajectory. 01:18:52.800 --> 01:18:55.280 They think that we're getting better and that if we just do 01:18:55.280 --> 01:18:57.120 the right thing we can become superhuman. 01:18:57.120 --> 01:18:59.680 We'll all have an IQ of 350 and we'll be able to 01:18:59.680 --> 01:19:00.960 fly, right? 01:19:01.760 --> 01:19:03.280 That's not how it works. 01:19:03.920 --> 01:19:06.880 It's a one-way street, downward. 01:19:06.880 --> 01:19:10.240 You can maintain or you can degenerate. 01:19:10.240 --> 01:19:16.800 Now, can you improve the fitness of the overall population of course. 01:19:16.800 --> 01:19:20.400 Because you can remove those from the population, not in the sense 01:19:20.400 --> 01:19:24.160 of active euthanasia, but in the sense of removing them from the 01:19:24.160 --> 01:19:28.240 reproductive portion of the population, so sterilization. 01:19:28.240 --> 01:19:30.000 You can remove some of those bad genes 01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:35.840 and therefore raise the overall average level, but what you have not 01:19:35.840 --> 01:19:38.080 done is raise the cap, right? 01:19:38.320 --> 01:19:40.320 That's the fundamental difference. 01:19:40.320 --> 01:19:44.800 The Africans, because of their wickedness and many others, have lowered their 01:19:44.800 --> 01:19:48.320 cap so far that they can never rise again in this life 01:19:48.480 --> 01:19:51.760 to the level of behavior God intended for them. 01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:53.440 We have not gone as far. 01:19:53.440 --> 01:19:55.040 We have not fallen as far. 01:19:55.040 --> 01:19:58.000 We should be very careful that we do not do so. 01:19:58.000 --> 01:20:01.600 It is one of the reasons that these issues are so important. 01:20:01.600 --> 01:20:04.960 One of the reasons we touched on them so often in Stone 01:20:04.960 --> 01:20:09.040 Choir. Because if you ignore these things, you will wind up like 01:20:09.040 --> 01:20:10.480 everyone else. 01:20:10.480 --> 01:20:13.840 Africa should be a warning to us because we could become that, 01:20:13.840 --> 01:20:17.680 not us personally, but we don't want our great great great great 01:20:17.760 --> 01:20:19.600 great grandchildren to be that. 01:20:19.600 --> 01:20:24.320 However many greats it would take, we should try to solve the 01:20:24.320 --> 01:20:26.960 problems now and not keep treading down that path. 01:20:34.320 --> 01:20:37.120 Question fifteen, and then I think I'll look at the chat again 01:20:37.120 --> 01:20:39.520 for a second to make sure I try to make sure I 01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:40.320 didn't miss questions. 01:20:40.320 --> 01:20:42.880 Obviously, I will probably miss some questions, and if I do, by 01:20:42.880 --> 01:20:46.880 all means submit them in the various places you know to submit 01:20:46.880 --> 01:20:49.600 them. Question fifteen. 01:20:49.600 --> 01:20:54.160 A friend is being misled by teachers that teach dispensational salvation. 01:20:54.160 --> 01:20:57.280 Do you recommend any concrete places in the Old Testament where I 01:20:57.280 --> 01:21:03.600 can show people being saved By the proto-evangelium. 01:21:03.600 --> 01:21:03.920 So 01:21:05.200 --> 01:21:08.160 when it comes to dispensationalists, you 01:21:12.000 --> 01:21:15.360 really have to determine first what kind of dispensationalist. 01:21:15.360 --> 01:21:20.880 If it is someone who is a hardcore dispensationalist like pro Israel 01:21:21.440 --> 01:21:28.640 Israel, love the Jews, have you know a Star of David necklace, 01:21:28.640 --> 01:21:30.320 don't waste your time. 01:21:30.320 --> 01:21:32.960 You're bang your head on a wall, it's going to be more 01:21:32.960 --> 01:21:37.840 productive. But if you're dealing with the average person who's in a 01:21:37.840 --> 01:21:42.400 non-denominational church and the church just teaches poorly, and so he really 01:21:42.400 --> 01:21:46.800 doesn't know anything, that man can be saved. 01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:51.200 You can help that man to understand actual Christianity, become an actual 01:21:51.200 --> 01:21:54.320 Christian and do something important for him. 01:21:54.320 --> 01:21:56.160 He's worth the effort. 01:21:56.560 --> 01:21:59.200 the crazy guy is basically lost. 01:21:59.200 --> 01:22:02.400 His conscience is is seared. 01:22:02.400 --> 01:22:02.880 So So 01:22:03.840 --> 01:22:06.080 this man does not sound like that. 01:22:06.080 --> 01:22:09.760 He sounds like someone who is just attending a bad church, has 01:22:09.760 --> 01:22:14.000 bad teachers, but is not beyond the point where he can be 01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:14.880 redeemed, right? 01:22:14.880 --> 01:22:16.800 He can be brought back into the tent 01:22:18.960 --> 01:22:23.280 So where you start here isn't by showing places where 01:22:24.480 --> 01:22:29.600 Excuse me, some particular man was saved in the Old Testament by 01:22:30.240 --> 01:22:33.840 you can call it the Proto Evangelian, Proto Evangelium, whichever one you 01:22:33.840 --> 01:22:36.320 prefer, or you can just call it the Gospel, because it is 01:22:36.320 --> 01:22:37.120 the Gospel, right? 01:22:37.120 --> 01:22:41.760 The Gospel is before Christ, the Messiah, the Christ who is to 01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:44.560 come, and after the Messiah, the Christ who has come. 01:22:44.640 --> 01:22:47.680 It's just a matter of where you fall on the timeline. 01:22:47.680 --> 01:22:49.120 It's not really a different gospel. 01:22:49.120 --> 01:22:50.640 It's all the same gospel. 01:22:50.640 --> 01:22:54.800 And so where you start with these people, though, is you say, 01:22:54.800 --> 01:22:58.480 can anyone be saved without Christ? 01:23:00.400 --> 01:23:04.160 If he says yes, you have bigger problems. 01:23:04.160 --> 01:23:06.800 And then you have to start with the basics of the Christian 01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:11.920 faith, what Christianity is, what Christ, who Christ is, what Christ claimed, 01:23:11.920 --> 01:23:13.760 you have a lot of work to do. 01:23:13.760 --> 01:23:20.000 But if he says no, now you can say, okay, then in 01:23:20.000 --> 01:23:24.000 what way are the Jews chosen? 01:23:24.000 --> 01:23:30.240 Right? Because to be chosen ultimately means to be elect, means to 01:23:30.240 --> 01:23:31.200 be saved. 01:23:31.200 --> 01:23:32.480 Well they aren't. 01:23:32.480 --> 01:23:34.240 Because they don't believe in God. 01:23:34.240 --> 01:23:36.960 They hate Christ, and I can say they don't believe in God 01:23:36.960 --> 01:23:40.320 because he who denies the Son denies the Father. 01:23:40.320 --> 01:23:42.800 You cannot have the Father without the Son. 01:23:42.800 --> 01:23:46.000 Scripture is abundantly clear on that, and you can point to verses 01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:48.160 that explicitly say that. 01:23:48.160 --> 01:23:53.520 So So if they aren't saved, if they aren't elect, they're not 01:23:53.520 --> 01:23:55.680 chosen in any way that means anything. 01:23:55.680 --> 01:23:58.960 And then you can of course point out, they were chosen in 01:23:58.960 --> 01:24:03.840 the Old Testament to be the people, to maintain the line from 01:24:03.840 --> 01:24:05.760 which Christ would be born. 01:24:05.760 --> 01:24:07.120 That's it. 01:24:07.120 --> 01:24:08.560 Did they have promises? 01:24:08.560 --> 01:24:10.240 Yes, actually they do. 01:24:10.240 --> 01:24:12.000 Go look at the promises. 01:24:12.240 --> 01:24:16.800 Read the promises with this person and note that in almost every 01:24:16.800 --> 01:24:20.720 case where you have the promises, the very next section is if 01:24:20.960 --> 01:24:22.240 you do not. 01:24:22.240 --> 01:24:25.600 Because what it says first is if you obey me, if you 01:24:25.600 --> 01:24:29.120 follow my statutes, if you obey my rules, if you adhere to 01:24:29.120 --> 01:24:32.800 my precepts, whatever it happens to say in the particular part scripture, 01:24:32.800 --> 01:24:34.400 then all these blessings. 01:24:34.400 --> 01:24:38.560 And then the very next section says, if you do not, and 01:24:38.560 --> 01:24:41.040 then God basically says he's going to destroy them, set them on 01:24:41.040 --> 01:24:45.040 fire, send diseases after them, and have foreigners come and conquer them. 01:24:45.040 --> 01:24:47.200 And that's the good option. 01:24:47.200 --> 01:24:49.200 Because then they go to hell. 01:24:49.200 --> 01:24:53.040 So you have conditional promises, but they're conditional. 01:24:53.040 --> 01:24:55.520 And they're not always just for Old Testament Israel. 01:24:55.520 --> 01:24:58.800 In many cases, they're for any nation that will obey God, that 01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:00.000 will be faithful. 01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:03.440 If we were faithful, we would receive the same thing. 01:25:03.440 --> 01:25:07.680 Faithful nations are blessed by God because God is consistent, God is 01:25:07.680 --> 01:25:10.960 true, God is unchanging. 01:25:10.960 --> 01:25:15.040 And the other part that I would bring up here, don't bring 01:25:15.040 --> 01:25:17.680 it up unless he does, he probably will. 01:25:17.920 --> 01:25:20.560 You have the promises to Abraham, right? 01:25:20.560 --> 01:25:24.080 The way you deal with that is you point out, Paul very 01:25:24.080 --> 01:25:30.400 clearly teaches, the promises were to the seed one, not many. 01:25:30.400 --> 01:25:34.000 Quote from Paul, very clear in the New Testament. 01:25:34.000 --> 01:25:37.440 The promises to Abraham were first 01:25:38.560 --> 01:25:40.640 to him personal. 01:25:40.640 --> 01:25:46.480 He had promises in his person, second to Christ, and in and 01:25:46.480 --> 01:25:50.480 of Christ, and fulfilled by Christ, because all the promises of God 01:25:50.480 --> 01:25:53.200 are yes and amen in Christ. 01:25:53.200 --> 01:25:57.040 And so Christ is the one who fulfills it, and so if 01:25:57.040 --> 01:25:59.360 you are outside Christ, which is to say if you are an 01:25:59.360 --> 01:26:01.840 unbeliever, you don't benefit. 01:26:01.840 --> 01:26:05.360 The Jews are unbelievers, they don't benefit. 01:26:05.920 --> 01:26:08.880 But that's sort of the brief overview of how you deal with 01:26:09.200 --> 01:26:14.240 dispensationalism. It's going to depend on what sort of dispensationalist, it's going 01:26:14.240 --> 01:26:16.640 to depend how deep he is into it, how committed he is 01:26:16.640 --> 01:26:17.200 to it. 01:26:17.200 --> 01:26:21.520 Many hold it very lightly, and so maybe you can get them 01:26:21.520 --> 01:26:22.480 out of it pretty easily. 01:26:23.280 --> 01:26:26.880 Part of it is just getting into a better church. 01:26:26.880 --> 01:26:27.360 Because 01:26:29.200 --> 01:26:33.120 as long as you're sitting in a church that's all you know, 01:26:33.120 --> 01:26:38.160 rooting for Israel nonsense and send money to Jewish widows and all 01:26:38.160 --> 01:26:40.720 that crap. 01:26:40.720 --> 01:26:43.920 You're just poisoning yourself by being in that church. 01:26:43.920 --> 01:26:48.240 He's just receiving poison every Sunday instead of the word of God 01:26:48.240 --> 01:26:52.400 and God's flesh and blood, which is what he should be receiving. 01:26:52.400 --> 01:26:54.080 So you need to get in a better church. 01:26:54.080 --> 01:26:55.280 He needs to get in a better church. 01:26:55.280 --> 01:26:57.760 I assume you're not attending this church. 01:26:57.760 --> 01:26:58.080 So 01:27:00.080 --> 01:27:03.440 but yes, the issue is not a particular person being saved by 01:27:03.440 --> 01:27:08.240 the proto-evangelian because every man who has ever been saved was saved 01:27:08.240 --> 01:27:09.360 by the gospel. 01:27:09.360 --> 01:27:11.760 Because Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. 01:27:11.760 --> 01:27:13.280 There's no other way. 01:27:13.280 --> 01:27:17.200 And so Adam, all the way up to the last man on 01:27:17.200 --> 01:27:21.040 earth, although Abel because he died first, he counts as first. 01:27:21.040 --> 01:27:23.280 So Abel to the last man on earth. 01:27:23.280 --> 01:27:26.960 Every single one saved, saved by the blood of Christ. 01:27:26.960 --> 01:27:29.280 Nothing else, no other way. 01:27:29.280 --> 01:27:32.400 And if you can get the man to at least admit there's 01:27:32.400 --> 01:27:35.760 no other way to God, there's no other path to salvation, you're 01:27:35.760 --> 01:27:38.080 on the right path, and that is a major step. 01:27:38.080 --> 01:27:42.080 If you can't, like I said, it's a whole different problem and 01:27:42.080 --> 01:27:47.040 you got a lot more work. 01:27:47.040 --> 01:27:48.720 Question 16. 01:27:48.720 --> 01:27:52.160 Will you ever consider doing some kind of political lecture series as 01:27:52.160 --> 01:27:56.480 your breakdown on the effects of demon worship through Asia was very 01:27:56.480 --> 01:28:00.960 insightful and it would be a great help for young men. 01:28:00.960 --> 01:28:06.080 I hadn't really considered doing a lecture series. 01:28:06.080 --> 01:28:10.960 I've taught classes before and I've done lectures, but it's mostly been 01:28:10.960 --> 01:28:13.200 law and theology, not politics. 01:28:13.200 --> 01:28:15.280 I did a little bit of philosophy. 01:28:15.360 --> 01:28:15.680 I 01:28:16.640 --> 01:28:18.000 I don't object to it. 01:28:18.000 --> 01:28:19.840 I don't have any firm plans to do it. 01:28:19.840 --> 01:28:22.560 I would have to think about that and what exactly it is 01:28:22.560 --> 01:28:26.160 that I would teach and what would be of use to men. 01:28:26.160 --> 01:28:29.600 On a tangentially related note, it's not really answering the question, but 01:28:29.600 --> 01:28:32.880 it is related because it reminded me of it. 01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:37.120 I have thought of bringing back the Tish Raiden podcast, which is 01:28:37.120 --> 01:28:39.920 a more entertainment podcast than just 01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:45.600 you know, Stone Choir is hard information, this is questions and answers 01:28:45.760 --> 01:28:47.200 and more serious. 01:28:47.200 --> 01:28:51.760 Tish Raiden was more having some beers and having a fun discussion. 01:28:51.760 --> 01:28:52.800 People seemed to like it. 01:28:52.800 --> 01:28:54.080 I thought about bringing it back. 01:28:54.080 --> 01:28:59.680 The challenge is that in order to do that, I need to 01:28:59.680 --> 01:29:05.360 find at least one and preferably two or three like-minded men, that's 01:29:05.360 --> 01:29:09.520 easy, who are local, already done, but but 01:29:10.480 --> 01:29:12.480 are public with their views 01:29:13.760 --> 01:29:14.080 because 01:29:16.000 --> 01:29:21.440 even if it's audio only, which it would be audio only, you 01:29:21.440 --> 01:29:23.760 can be identified by your voice these days, right? 01:29:23.760 --> 01:29:25.760 You think, oh, well, just use a voice modulator. 01:29:25.760 --> 01:29:29.040 Okay. It's a public place still, unless we're doing this in my 01:29:29.040 --> 01:29:30.160 backyard or something, right? 01:29:30.160 --> 01:29:33.440 There are logistical and difficult questions that have to be answered in 01:29:33.440 --> 01:29:37.040 order to get that sort of thing up off the ground again. 01:29:37.040 --> 01:29:39.280 And you know, if we have it at a local brewery, there's 01:29:39.200 --> 01:29:42.160 always the chance that they'll ban you for life, right? 01:29:42.160 --> 01:29:44.240 Ask me how I know. 01:29:44.240 --> 01:29:47.120 Not necessarily for life, but you know they'll ban you. 01:29:47.360 --> 01:29:48.400 that happens. 01:29:48.400 --> 01:29:49.840 Because they get harassed. 01:29:49.840 --> 01:29:53.840 They start getting threatening phone calls from Antifa and others and they 01:29:53.840 --> 01:29:56.800 don't want their staff to be harassed and I understand. 01:29:56.800 --> 01:30:00.160 I understand why people would not want to be associated with that 01:30:00.160 --> 01:30:01.120 sort of thing. 01:30:01.120 --> 01:30:05.600 But at the same time, progress isn't made unless men start to 01:30:05.600 --> 01:30:09.360 stand up and tell Antifa and others, you know, go pound sand. 01:30:09.360 --> 01:30:12.240 It helps if you make friends with the local law enforcement so 01:30:12.240 --> 01:30:15.120 that they can deal with issues if they get out of hand, 01:30:15.120 --> 01:30:20.640 but tangentially related note, but I have thought about doing that. 01:30:20.640 --> 01:30:24.240 I certainly don't object to it, at least. 01:30:24.240 --> 01:30:26.000 Question seventeen. 01:30:26.000 --> 01:30:29.680 You mentioned briefly on an ex post about exorcism. 01:30:29.680 --> 01:30:32.960 What is the Lutheran position, how do they handle it, and why 01:30:32.960 --> 01:30:35.520 is the perception that Catholics are the best at it? 01:30:35.520 --> 01:30:39.920 It seems like there is a necessary ontological and anthropological framework you 01:30:39.920 --> 01:30:43.440 must adopt to be effective, that Chemnit seems to lay the groundwork 01:30:43.440 --> 01:30:44.400 for. 01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:49.120 I think the reason I'll answer this sort of in a random 01:30:49.120 --> 01:30:50.400 fashion, as it were. 01:30:50.400 --> 01:30:54.240 I think the reason that the Roman Catholics are perceived as the 01:30:54.240 --> 01:30:58.240 most effective with regard to exorcism is that they have the most 01:30:58.720 --> 01:31:02.400 ceremony. Ceremony is important. 01:31:02.400 --> 01:31:05.680 It's one of the reasons that we have a liturgy and that 01:31:05.680 --> 01:31:08.640 we have clothing that you wear to church and clothing you don't 01:31:08.640 --> 01:31:11.840 wear to church, and yes, you should be wearing appropriate clothing to 01:31:12.320 --> 01:31:16.160 church. Please don't wear sandals and Bermuda shorts. 01:31:16.160 --> 01:31:17.840 Please do not do that. 01:31:17.840 --> 01:31:19.360 I won't say I've never done that. 01:31:19.360 --> 01:31:24.000 I certainly did many, many years ago when I was, you know, 01:31:24.000 --> 01:31:25.520 in high school. 01:31:27.360 --> 01:31:30.400 Not Bermuda shorts, but you get the picture 01:31:33.280 --> 01:31:40.080 Ritual and liturgy and formality and the aesthetics, those things are important. 01:31:40.080 --> 01:31:43.680 Rome and the East are not wrong when they claim that aesthetics 01:31:43.680 --> 01:31:48.560 matter. They are wrong when when they try to tie being right 01:31:48.880 --> 01:31:50.960 to being aesthetic. 01:31:50.960 --> 01:31:52.720 Those are related. 01:31:52.720 --> 01:31:57.680 There is a relationship there, but just because something is aesthetically pleasing 01:31:57.680 --> 01:31:59.680 does not mean it is right. 01:31:59.680 --> 01:32:06.000 Now, at the same time, all else being held equal, something that 01:32:06.000 --> 01:32:10.560 is aesthetically pleasing that is beautiful is more right in so far 01:32:10.720 --> 01:32:16.080 as it is more aesthetically pleasing or more beautiful than another thing. 01:32:16.080 --> 01:32:20.320 But what we're dealing with under that level, or above that level, 01:32:20.320 --> 01:32:26.400 everyone look at it, is doctrine and dogma and theology and praxis. 01:32:26.400 --> 01:32:30.560 We're looking at more than just the surface level. 01:32:30.560 --> 01:32:33.840 Even if, yes, aesthetics and things like that go below the surface, 01:32:33.840 --> 01:32:35.360 we're not looking at that alone. 01:32:35.360 --> 01:32:37.920 We're not looking at that in isolation. 01:32:37.920 --> 01:32:42.160 But when you see the man in the robes and all the 01:32:42.160 --> 01:32:46.640 crucifixes and the gold and the pretty colours and, you know, the 01:32:46.640 --> 01:32:50.160 big hat, and he's chanting in Latin, because if you chant in 01:32:50.160 --> 01:32:52.400 Latin, it means you're serious, right? 01:32:52.400 --> 01:32:54.720 If I were to recite some Latin right now, people would think 01:32:54.800 --> 01:32:55.840 oh you're you're more serious. 01:32:55.840 --> 01:32:57.680 Armirumquegano, right? 01:32:57.680 --> 01:33:01.280 I the first three words of the Aeneid, it doesn't mean that 01:33:01.280 --> 01:33:03.520 what I'm saying is more serious or more important. 01:33:03.520 --> 01:33:05.920 I memorized the first, I don't know, twenty lines of it for 01:33:05.920 --> 01:33:08.560 Latin class in high school, and it will be with me till 01:33:08.720 --> 01:33:10.160 the day I die. 01:33:10.160 --> 01:33:10.480 But 01:33:11.440 --> 01:33:14.720 that works and it gives a certain impression. 01:33:14.720 --> 01:33:20.160 Doesn't mean that it's more effective're dealing with demons here. 01:33:20.160 --> 01:33:24.160 Do you think demons are impressed by human pomp? 01:33:24.160 --> 01:33:26.800 Do you think demons are impressed by whether or not you know 01:33:26.800 --> 01:33:28.640 how to tie a double windsor? 01:33:28.640 --> 01:33:30.000 I don't think so. 01:33:30.000 --> 01:33:32.800 I think they're pretty much not impressed by that at all. 01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:35.760 And so is that stuff unimportant? 01:33:35.760 --> 01:33:36.560 I don't think so. 01:33:36.560 --> 01:33:40.320 I think it's important because I think it serves as guardrails to 01:33:40.320 --> 01:33:43.360 keep you in line with what you are doing. 01:33:43.760 --> 01:33:45.360 But I think when they 01:33:46.240 --> 01:33:49.680 place the sort of emphasis on, you know, Latin as the chosen 01:33:49.680 --> 01:33:54.400 language, or certainly the prayers to Mary and things like that, they're 01:33:54.400 --> 01:33:55.840 missing the point. 01:33:55.840 --> 01:33:58.480 Just like when you have the people who try to say that 01:33:58.480 --> 01:34:01.920 the church service should be in Latin because it's more dignified or 01:34:02.160 --> 01:34:04.480 no, the church service should be in the language of the people 01:34:04.480 --> 01:34:05.840 sitting in the pews. 01:34:05.840 --> 01:34:07.840 Because you're supposed to understand it. 01:34:07.840 --> 01:34:13.440 The Christian faith has intellectual content, it has knowledge, and you cannot 01:34:13.440 --> 01:34:16.800 acquire that if someone is trying to teach you the Christian faith 01:34:16.800 --> 01:34:19.520 in a language you don't understand. 01:34:19.520 --> 01:34:20.480 That's absurd. 01:34:20.480 --> 01:34:24.000 It's actually an it's an enthusiastic claim ultimately. 01:34:24.000 --> 01:34:27.120 A discussion for their time, perhaps. 01:34:27.120 --> 01:34:30.160 But I think that's the reason you have that perception, and then 01:34:30.160 --> 01:34:33.920 the other part of that reason, sort of the I guess subsidiary 01:34:33.920 --> 01:34:34.400 part, but an important 01:34:35.280 --> 01:34:40.240 one. You just don't really have exorcists in other denominations, in other 01:34:40.240 --> 01:34:43.280 traditions. We largely abandoned it. 01:34:43.280 --> 01:34:45.200 And that is Lutherans included. 01:34:45.200 --> 01:34:48.480 There are some Lutheran exorcists, not very many of them Many of 01:34:48.480 --> 01:34:53.120 them. And good luck finding a non-denominational exorcist. 01:34:53.120 --> 01:34:55.680 I've literally never heard of one. 01:34:55.680 --> 01:35:01.200 Right? I don't think I've ever met a Presbyterian exorcist. 01:35:01.200 --> 01:35:06.080 I don't think they have a particularly extensive theology of it. 01:35:06.080 --> 01:35:10.080 There is some theology of it for Lutherans, and there's certainly a 01:35:10.080 --> 01:35:13.440 lot for the Roman Catholics, but for the Roman Catholics a lot 01:35:13.440 --> 01:35:15.280 of it is nonsense. 01:35:15.280 --> 01:35:19.360 Because like I said in that post, some of it they have 01:35:19.600 --> 01:35:21.520 taken from demons. 01:35:21.520 --> 01:35:26.720 They've literally asked demons questions and then written down the answers and 01:35:26.720 --> 01:35:28.800 made that part of their practice. 01:35:28.800 --> 01:35:32.080 That's completely absurd. 01:35:32.080 --> 01:35:37.520 There's an aspect here that also feeds into the Roman Catholic approach 01:35:37.520 --> 01:35:42.640 to it, because they build up this giant edifice on very little 01:35:42.640 --> 01:35:46.800 foundation, but it's that very little foundation that tends to be a 01:35:46.800 --> 01:35:48.560 problem for some men. 01:35:48.560 --> 01:35:51.120 God didn't tell us a lot about demons. 01:35:51.120 --> 01:35:54.640 God didn't tell us a lot about how to cast out demons. 01:35:54.640 --> 01:35:58.240 All he really told us is that we can cast out demons 01:35:58.240 --> 01:36:01.600 in his name by his power, he's the one doing it obviously, 01:36:01.600 --> 01:36:04.560 and that fasting and prayer are part of it. 01:36:04.560 --> 01:36:06.880 In some cases, at least. 01:36:06.880 --> 01:36:09.600 That's about all we know. 01:36:09.600 --> 01:36:13.520 That doesn't sound very impressive to the average person, right? 01:36:13.520 --> 01:36:18.560 You want something that is this grand ritual of candles and chanting 01:36:18.640 --> 01:36:25.840 and incense and that appeals to human beings more so than just 01:36:25.840 --> 01:36:30.560 saying you have to just read the gospel and you have to 01:36:30.560 --> 01:36:33.200 use the name of Christ to cast out the demon, you read 01:36:33.200 --> 01:36:37.120 the word of God, you pray and you fast, and you rely 01:36:37.120 --> 01:36:38.240 on God. 01:36:38.240 --> 01:36:40.080 That's not very impressive. 01:36:40.080 --> 01:36:43.280 That doesn't appeal to the senses in the same way as the 01:36:43.280 --> 01:36:49.680 pomp. And so it leaves those who want to be truer to 01:36:49.920 --> 01:36:53.520 God's word and what God has told us we can and cannot 01:36:53.520 --> 01:36:58.480 do in a weaker position with regard to the average man. 01:36:58.640 --> 01:37:02.160 But this is not something the average man should be seeing. 01:37:02.160 --> 01:37:05.200 This is not meant to be a public spectacle. 01:37:05.200 --> 01:37:06.240 It's important. 01:37:06.240 --> 01:37:07.680 We need to do more of it. 01:37:07.680 --> 01:37:11.120 I think we should have basically performed an exorcism on every square 01:37:11.120 --> 01:37:14.560 foot of this continent when we were done conquering it with what 01:37:14.560 --> 01:37:19.280 the Amerindians were up to worshipping demons, not mentioning all of the 01:37:19.280 --> 01:37:25.040 child sacrifice in many places, just rampant human sacrifice. 01:37:25.040 --> 01:37:30.320 And we really do ignore the demonic in the modern church. 01:37:30.320 --> 01:37:34.560 And I don't think that the Roman Catholics are necessarily better off 01:37:34.560 --> 01:37:35.440 with regard to this. 01:37:35.440 --> 01:37:39.600 Yes, they have some exorcists who are dedicated exorcists, they have some 01:37:40.000 --> 01:37:44.160 theology, some other things, some of it good, some of it bad. 01:37:44.160 --> 01:37:45.520 They have that. 01:37:45.520 --> 01:37:47.600 But I think the average person sitting in the pew 01:37:48.560 --> 01:37:50.880 still doesn't really take the demonic seriously. 01:37:50.880 --> 01:37:53.520 In fact, I think you probably have some over in the Protestant 01:37:53.520 --> 01:37:57.440 camp who take it more seriously, because you have a very 01:37:59.360 --> 01:38:02.000 sort of light touch approach as it were for many in the 01:38:02.000 --> 01:38:05.840 Roman Catholic pews, because they're going through the motions. 01:38:05.840 --> 01:38:09.360 Partly because their theology tells them that's sufficient. 01:38:09.360 --> 01:38:10.880 Ex oprioperato. 01:38:10.880 --> 01:38:13.920 You did the thing and therefore you received the thing. 01:38:13.920 --> 01:38:15.360 That's not how God works. 01:38:15.360 --> 01:38:16.480 God requires faith. 01:38:16.480 --> 01:38:19.600 And so there's a different that's the key difference really between the 01:38:19.600 --> 01:38:23.520 Roman Catholics and the Protestants on many of these issues. 01:38:23.520 --> 01:38:27.920 But we absolutely need to take exorcism more seriously. 01:38:27.920 --> 01:38:30.880 And I think the only way that we can do it is 01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:35.360 to be entirely faithful to what little God has told us, and 01:38:35.360 --> 01:38:40.400 then judge based on results, not on what the demon tells 01:38:41.280 --> 01:38:47.440 you, not on the demon, you know, pretending or but look at 01:38:47.440 --> 01:38:51.840 real concrete results because you can absolutely look at this person was 01:38:51.840 --> 01:38:58.320 possessed, we did this, this person is no longer possessed, and then 01:38:58.320 --> 01:39:02.080 follow up, and the person's not possessed in a year, two years, 01:39:02.080 --> 01:39:05.040 five years, ten years, right? 01:39:05.040 --> 01:39:06.800 That's concrete proof. 01:39:06.800 --> 01:39:08.960 There's nothing wrong with concrete proof. 01:39:08.960 --> 01:39:12.160 There's nothing wrong with a Christian as looking at concrete proof and 01:39:12.160 --> 01:39:13.600 giving it weight. 01:39:13.600 --> 01:39:19.360 God provided plenty of proof that Christ was God, right? 01:39:19.680 --> 01:39:23.680 He performed miracles, he rose from the dead, he did things that 01:39:23.680 --> 01:39:25.040 were concrete proof. 01:39:25.040 --> 01:39:28.160 So there's nothing wrong with concrete proof. 01:39:28.160 --> 01:39:32.960 But that doesn't appeal to human beings in the same way, in 01:39:32.960 --> 01:39:36.800 the same sort of visceral way, as all of the candles and 01:39:36.800 --> 01:39:38.800 the incense and the chanting. 01:39:38.800 --> 01:39:44.000 But I don't think we have any reason to believe that stuff 01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:46.080 does anything. 01:39:46.080 --> 01:39:50.640 Because Because Scripture doesn't say it does, and Rome has made such 01:39:50.640 --> 01:39:54.800 a hash of that theology and the dogma because of listening to 01:39:54.800 --> 01:39:58.960 demons and repeating things said by demons and the Mariolatry and other 01:39:58.960 --> 01:40:03.360 things that you can't possibly sift the good from the bad at 01:40:03.360 --> 01:40:04.000 this point. 01:40:04.000 --> 01:40:06.640 We're almost starting over from scratch. 01:40:06.640 --> 01:40:11.360 Which is not a good position when we're dealing with rampant demonic 01:40:11.360 --> 01:40:15.200 oppression. Maybe not outright possession as much these days, but oppression certainly. 01:40:16.240 --> 01:40:16.560 So 01:40:18.480 --> 01:40:20.880 no, we need to make take this more seriously. 01:40:20.880 --> 01:40:24.800 This needs to be something that is very much an active and 01:40:24.800 --> 01:40:29.440 real part of the Christian faith, and Protestants have fallen short here. 01:40:29.440 --> 01:40:32.160 I the Roman Catholics have fallen short in their own way, but 01:40:32.160 --> 01:40:36.400 Protestants have fallen short by just essentially ignoring it. 01:40:36.400 --> 01:40:40.240 And And when you ignore the demonic, it doesn't make it go 01:40:40.240 --> 01:40:43.680 away. There's an aspect, yes, of course, you know, Satan does something 01:40:43.760 --> 01:40:45.760 and go away. 01:40:45.760 --> 01:40:47.280 That's different, right? 01:40:47.280 --> 01:40:51.280 There's a difference between ignoring the temptations and the needling and the 01:40:51.280 --> 01:40:56.240 annoying things versus ignoring the person who suddenly knows how to speak 01:40:56.240 --> 01:41:00.640 Sumerian. That calls for something other than ignoring it. 01:41:00.640 --> 01:41:03.280 You need to address that issue, and we need to take it 01:41:03.280 --> 01:41:07.920 seriously. Look at how much of Christ's ministry in the New Testament 01:41:07.920 --> 01:41:10.240 was casting out demons. 01:41:10.240 --> 01:41:11.760 It's a very real thing. 01:41:11.760 --> 01:41:14.880 It's something that needs to be part of the Christian faith because 01:41:14.880 --> 01:41:17.120 it is part of the Christian faith. 01:41:17.120 --> 01:41:22.400 Deliverance from Satan and hell is the core of the Christian faith. 01:41:22.400 --> 01:41:25.840 That's what the gospel ultimately is. 01:41:25.840 --> 01:41:30.480 Satan didn't just give up after the cross. 01:41:30.480 --> 01:41:32.960 If anything, he redoubled his efforts. 01:41:32.960 --> 01:41:36.640 And at some point, maybe it's now, maybe it's in the future, 01:41:36.640 --> 01:41:40.160 he will be let off his chain for a period of time. 01:41:40.160 --> 01:41:43.920 As Christians, we need to be ready for that, and part of 01:41:43.920 --> 01:41:46.240 that is exorcisms. 01:41:46.240 --> 01:41:49.760 Because demons are real, demonic possession is real. 01:41:49.760 --> 01:41:54.320 In fact, I know men who have come to the Christian faith 01:41:54.320 --> 01:41:57.200 because they've looked into cases of demonic possession. 01:41:57.200 --> 01:41:59.520 I'm not saying you should look into this stuff. 01:41:59.520 --> 01:42:01.120 Most men should not. 01:42:01.120 --> 01:42:04.080 But they looked into it and there are things that cannot be 01:42:04.080 --> 01:42:08.160 explained in a materialist or a naturalistic frame. 01:42:08.160 --> 01:42:10.400 Because they are supernatural. 01:42:10.400 --> 01:42:14.480 And if there is something that is supernatural, then the question is, 01:42:14.480 --> 01:42:17.600 well, what else exists beyond our realm? 01:42:17.600 --> 01:42:21.200 Right? There are many men who look full on into the face 01:42:21.200 --> 01:42:24.480 of evil and go, if there's a devil, there's a God. 01:42:24.480 --> 01:42:27.200 And I think that's perfectly rational. 01:42:27.200 --> 01:42:29.520 But there is a devil. 01:42:29.520 --> 01:42:33.680 And so we have to rely on God in these exorcisms to 01:42:33.680 --> 01:42:36.480 deal with these issues, but we have to take it seriously at 01:42:36.480 --> 01:42:37.840 risk of ad nauseum. 01:42:37.840 --> 01:42:40.160 But this is not something that we have done. 01:42:40.160 --> 01:42:41.280 We have fallen short. 01:42:41.280 --> 01:42:45.200 Our four fathers and our forefathers fell short on this. 01:42:45.200 --> 01:42:48.640 We need to do whatever we can with what God has given 01:42:48.640 --> 01:42:51.040 us. And again, it's not very much. 01:42:51.040 --> 01:42:52.560 I know that. 01:42:52.560 --> 01:42:56.400 But He has given us enough tools to accomplish it because He 01:42:56.400 --> 01:42:58.960 said we'd cast out demons in His name. 01:42:58.960 --> 01:43:01.840 So we know that we can, we know that it works. 01:43:01.840 --> 01:43:06.880 It's a question of doing the work and then documenting it. 01:43:06.880 --> 01:43:10.880 I mean it's kind of the scientific approach almost for demons. 01:43:10.880 --> 01:43:12.320 But it is what it is. 01:43:12.320 --> 01:43:15.440 God has given us sufficient tools to address the problem. 01:43:15.440 --> 01:43:18.400 We should use the tools God gave us and then be sure 01:43:18.400 --> 01:43:22.000 that we document what it is that we did so that future 01:43:22.000 --> 01:43:27.120 generations have more information than we do. 01:43:30.240 --> 01:43:32.400 Question 18, a 01:43:33.840 --> 01:43:36.080 little shift in gears again. 01:43:36.080 --> 01:43:41.440 What are possible biological explanations for pre-fall immortality? 01:43:43.840 --> 01:43:46.320 So there are really two aspects to that, right? 01:43:47.200 --> 01:43:52.960 There is senescence, which is just to say aging, and then there 01:43:52.960 --> 01:43:56.000 is obviously injury, right? 01:43:56.240 --> 01:44:02.480 So you can die either from old age or from misadventure, we 01:44:02.480 --> 01:44:04.080 could say. 01:44:04.240 --> 01:44:06.480 Senescence is the easy one, right? 01:44:06.720 --> 01:44:12.160 If you have perfect replication of your DNA and the various cleanup 01:44:12.320 --> 01:44:16.160 systems in the body do a good job do a perfect job, 01:44:16.160 --> 01:44:18.880 right? Like, for instance, Alzheimer's. 01:44:18.880 --> 01:44:22.320 The current state of the research shows that part of the problem 01:44:22.320 --> 01:44:25.360 is a buildup of plaque and some other stuff in the brain, 01:44:25.360 --> 01:44:30.400 and that the cleanup systems in the brain are just not operating 01:44:30.400 --> 01:44:34.720 as well as they should in order to clean that stuff out. 01:44:34.720 --> 01:44:39.680 But we are learning ways that we can potentially boost those, probably 01:44:39.840 --> 01:44:43.760 tweak them maybe with some genetic tweaking other things and I don't 01:44:43.680 --> 01:44:46.160 want to get into all of that right now, but if we 01:44:46.160 --> 01:44:50.000 can do that, we can maybe even reverse Alzheimer's, and we can 01:44:50.000 --> 01:44:55.600 certainly prevent others from getting it and maybe other neurodegenerative disorders. 01:44:55.600 --> 01:44:55.920 So 01:44:57.040 --> 01:44:59.120 those systems are in place. 01:44:59.120 --> 01:45:00.720 They're still in place, right? 01:45:00.720 --> 01:45:02.560 Like I'm not dead right now. 01:45:02.560 --> 01:45:04.640 My body is replacing cells. 01:45:04.640 --> 01:45:05.920 It's maintaining itself. 01:45:05.920 --> 01:45:07.520 It's cleaning out waste. 01:45:07.520 --> 01:45:09.440 It's doing all those various things. 01:45:09.440 --> 01:45:12.640 It's just not doing it well enough to make me still look 01:45:12.640 --> 01:45:14.480 like I did when I was twenty one. 01:45:14.480 --> 01:45:17.200 You know, I had hair at one point, despite what some people 01:45:17.200 --> 01:45:18.320 may think. 01:45:18.320 --> 01:45:18.640 So 01:45:20.320 --> 01:45:23.120 senescence is the easy question, right? 01:45:23.120 --> 01:45:29.440 The hard question is how do you deal with acute injury? 01:45:29.440 --> 01:45:32.560 Because you know, take the extreme example, right? 01:45:32.560 --> 01:45:34.480 There were mountains and things. 01:45:34.480 --> 01:45:38.400 What would have happened to Adam before the fall if he had 01:45:38.400 --> 01:45:40.720 climbed to the top of a mountain and just jumped off and 01:45:40.720 --> 01:45:42.240 fell five thousand feet? 01:45:42.640 --> 01:45:45.440 Assume it's a mountain that has cliffs. 01:45:45.440 --> 01:45:48.560 I don't know how God would have dealt with that. 01:45:48.560 --> 01:45:49.440 I have no idea. 01:45:49.840 --> 01:45:53.040 I mean I could speculate, I could speculate for the next three 01:45:53.040 --> 01:45:57.040 hours on ways you could do that, but ultimately I don't know. 01:45:57.040 --> 01:45:58.960 God didn't tell us. 01:45:58.960 --> 01:46:03.520 All we know is that Adam would not have died. 01:46:03.520 --> 01:46:07.520 So would it been the case that Adam would have never made 01:46:07.520 --> 01:46:09.040 a mistake like that? 01:46:09.040 --> 01:46:12.400 Maybe. Would it been the case that God would have actively intervened 01:46:12.400 --> 01:46:14.640 and said, You're an idiot, but I will catch you? 01:46:14.640 --> 01:46:17.120 Maybe? We don't know. 01:46:17.120 --> 01:46:19.520 That is left up to God's wisdom. 01:46:19.520 --> 01:46:22.720 All we know is that will be the case in the new 01:46:22.720 --> 01:46:24.960 creation. We will all be immortal. 01:46:24.960 --> 01:46:26.080 We won't age. 01:46:26.080 --> 01:46:29.120 We won't fall ill, we won't have all the various problems we 01:46:29.120 --> 01:46:30.320 have today, right? 01:46:30.320 --> 01:46:34.800 I won't have a slight sniffle from whatever, probably you know, East 01:46:34.800 --> 01:46:36.000 Tennessee pollen or something. 01:46:36.000 --> 01:46:38.640 I don't have allergies, so I don't what it is, but at 01:46:38.640 --> 01:46:40.720 any rate, we will not have these things. 01:46:40.720 --> 01:46:46.080 We will not be affected by these things in the new creation. 01:46:46.080 --> 01:46:48.960 God is the one who has to solve that problem, I don't. 01:46:48.960 --> 01:46:51.280 So I don't know, he hasn't told me. 01:46:51.280 --> 01:46:52.720 And I'm just not worried about it. 01:46:52.720 --> 01:46:56.160 Because Because what God will do is perfect, it is certainly better 01:46:56.160 --> 01:46:58.480 than any answer I could give. 01:47:06.400 --> 01:47:12.880 Question nineteen sort of a related question from the same person here. 01:47:12.880 --> 01:47:17.200 Is it plausible that soul generation has Lamarkian inheritance? 01:47:17.200 --> 01:47:23.520 It would explain how quickly moral degradation compounds nationally over generations. 01:47:23.520 --> 01:47:27.520 And for those who don't know, the we're really dealing with kind 01:47:27.520 --> 01:47:28.800 of two different systems here. 01:47:28.800 --> 01:47:32.000 You have sort of Darwinian, we'll call it inheritance and Lamarchian inheritance 01:47:32.720 --> 01:47:37.200 and so Darwinian is according to your DNA. 01:47:37.200 --> 01:47:41.680 You inherit certain things and then you can have mutations and those 01:47:41.680 --> 01:47:45.120 mutations get inherited and though then the build up of those is 01:47:45.120 --> 01:47:46.800 what causes changes over time, right? 01:47:46.800 --> 01:47:48.880 That's the Darwinian case. 01:47:49.200 --> 01:47:55.920 Lamarckian is that you have intra-generational changes that are then passed on. 01:47:55.920 --> 01:48:01.680 And so you'll have an acquired trait by an individual, an existing 01:48:01.680 --> 01:48:04.480 individual, that is then passed on. 01:48:04.480 --> 01:48:06.480 So you can see the difference, obviously, right. 01:48:06.480 --> 01:48:08.320 You have the the difference is 01:48:09.200 --> 01:48:15.280 basically, conception is the transmission of the genetic information for the first 01:48:15.280 --> 01:48:19.440 system, and the mutations, the recombinations, things like that are what cause 01:48:19.440 --> 01:48:25.840 those differences in subsequent generations versus an individual that is alive acquiring 01:48:25.840 --> 01:48:28.800 a trait in some way or some aspect of a trait and 01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:30.400 then passing that on. 01:48:30.400 --> 01:48:34.160 And so we know of course that it is the former one 01:48:34.160 --> 01:48:37.920 that generally happens biologically, although there's a little bit of the latter 01:48:38.240 --> 01:48:43.120 with regard to expression of genes and things like that, and you 01:48:43.120 --> 01:48:47.280 have. We got into the issue a little bit with various things 01:48:47.280 --> 01:48:50.640 about sexual immorality, for instance, right? 01:48:50.640 --> 01:48:56.720 But at any rate, is there an aspect of Lamarckian inheritance for 01:48:57.040 --> 01:48:59.840 the soul? 01:49:00.160 --> 01:49:01.840 There could be, but 01:49:02.800 --> 01:49:08.000 I think I would probably on the basis of twin studies and 01:49:08.000 --> 01:49:14.720 things like that conclude that much like biology, certain aspects of this 01:49:14.720 --> 01:49:15.360 are tied 01:49:16.560 --> 01:49:21.920 much more strongly to what you are physically than what you have 01:49:21.920 --> 01:49:24.880 acquired from another individual in time. 01:49:24.880 --> 01:49:32.560 But with the important caveat, fathers tend to produce sons like themselves. 01:49:32.560 --> 01:49:36.320 And so an evil man tends to produce evil sons. 01:49:36.320 --> 01:49:38.400 That compounds over generations. 01:49:38.400 --> 01:49:41.680 And so you do have an aspect of a transmission of sin 01:49:41.760 --> 01:49:45.120 and evil from one generation to the next. 01:49:45.440 --> 01:49:50.160 With it being living individuals instead of during the generation of the 01:49:50.160 --> 01:49:53.440 soul, which I believe happens at the same time as conception. 01:49:53.440 --> 01:49:57.360 You can believe plus or minus a little bit, whatever you want. 01:49:57.360 --> 01:50:01.600 At any rate, I do think that there's sort of that aspect 01:50:01.600 --> 01:50:06.000 of a Lamarkian sort of inheritance with regard to the soul, because 01:50:06.000 --> 01:50:11.040 the evil of the fathers continues through the sons and the grandsons, 01:50:11.040 --> 01:50:14.400 and so if you have a man who goes off the rails 01:50:14.400 --> 01:50:18.240 and becomes, you know, use an old timey term a rogue or 01:50:18.480 --> 01:50:22.400 you know a cutthroat or whatever he happens to become, this man 01:50:22.400 --> 01:50:27.120 becomes a particularly nasty criminal, and then raises his son, which, you 01:50:27.120 --> 01:50:29.760 know, whether or not he does that is an open question with 01:50:30.000 --> 01:50:33.600 that kind of criminal, but if he has that involvement in his 01:50:33.600 --> 01:50:37.120 son's life, he raises his son to be like he was, and 01:50:37.120 --> 01:50:38.800 then his son does the same. 01:50:38.800 --> 01:50:42.480 And so you wind up with a greater sort of progression of 01:50:42.480 --> 01:50:46.640 the degeneration due to that evil that is passed on focused on 01:50:46.880 --> 01:50:52.160 not just genetically, not just biologically, but culturally, because what they're doing 01:50:52.160 --> 01:50:55.840 is they're building a family or a lineal culture there. 01:50:55.840 --> 01:50:58.800 So I do think there is an aspect of that kind of 01:50:59.120 --> 01:51:04.720 descent, that kind of transmission of information, that sort of inheritance. 01:51:04.720 --> 01:51:07.760 It's not exactly Lamarkian, but it is very much related to it, 01:51:07.760 --> 01:51:12.800 very similar to it. 01:51:12.800 --> 01:51:14.160 Question 20. 01:51:14.160 --> 01:51:17.040 I think I will at least answer maybe a few more questions 01:51:17.040 --> 01:51:19.920 here. I said I would go for two hours to make up 01:51:19.920 --> 01:51:22.320 for missing last week, and I think I'll try to hit that 01:51:22.320 --> 01:51:23.600 target here. 01:51:26.320 --> 01:51:29.920 Despite be despite starting a a little bit late there, although some 01:51:29.920 --> 01:51:33.360 of you got uh a little bonus audio at the beginning there 01:51:33.440 --> 01:51:37.840 since apparently my wireless mic decided to stay live on me since 01:51:38.160 --> 01:51:40.480 OBS was passing you the raw audio instead of 01:51:41.360 --> 01:51:41.680 the 01:51:42.560 --> 01:51:46.320 processed output. 01:51:46.320 --> 01:51:48.800 Do you think Judas was ever forgiven? 01:51:48.800 --> 01:51:53.440 This is question twenty, since he expressed remorse and regret before hanging 01:51:53.440 --> 01:51:57.760 himself. I don't think so. 01:51:57.760 --> 01:51:59.840 And well actually I 01:52:00.720 --> 01:52:01.920 know so. 01:52:01.920 --> 01:52:05.680 Scripture's very clear on this one, and I'll I'll give the explanation 01:52:05.680 --> 01:52:08.400 of why I don't think so first and then why I don't 01:52:08.400 --> 01:52:10.960 know why I know it's not so. 01:52:10.960 --> 01:52:16.560 I don't think so because going out and hanging yourself, as Judas 01:52:16.560 --> 01:52:23.200 did, is an act of despair, is an act of just completely 01:52:23.200 --> 01:52:25.760 abandoning any and all hope. 01:52:25.760 --> 01:52:31.440 Which, if he had truly repented, if he truly believed that the 01:52:31.680 --> 01:52:35.120 forgiveness was on offer, it was possible for him, then he would 01:52:35.120 --> 01:52:36.560 not have done what he did. 01:52:36.560 --> 01:52:40.480 And so I don't think that he truly repented. 01:52:40.480 --> 01:52:42.800 I don't think he had true remorse. 01:52:42.800 --> 01:52:47.520 That's why I would say I believe he did not. 01:52:47.520 --> 01:52:50.880 But now the reason I know he did not is that Christ 01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:53.440 explicitly says it would be better for that one 01:52:54.320 --> 01:52:55.600 with regard to Judas. 01:52:55.600 --> 01:52:57.840 It would be it would be better for that one if he 01:52:57.840 --> 01:53:00.320 had never been born. 01:53:00.320 --> 01:53:02.640 There's only one way to interpret that. 01:53:02.640 --> 01:53:07.680 Judas is definitely in hell. 01:53:07.680 --> 01:53:08.800 I think I will 01:53:10.560 --> 01:53:17.040 look through the chat now to grab a few more questions. 01:53:17.040 --> 01:53:21.440 Someone asked what is sort of a legal question, but I I 01:53:21.440 --> 01:53:23.600 guess I'm comfortable answering it. 01:53:23.600 --> 01:53:26.720 How do I make a trust to leave my house to my 01:53:26.720 --> 01:53:29.520 sons? Do I have to go through a lawyer? 01:53:29.520 --> 01:53:36.240 When it comes to issues like taxes and inheritance and trusts and 01:53:36.240 --> 01:53:39.840 things like that, to hire a lawyer. 01:53:39.840 --> 01:53:44.560 You can often get it done relatively cheaply, but it is worth 01:53:44.560 --> 01:53:47.120 hiring an attorney, and I'm not saying that just because I am 01:53:47.120 --> 01:53:50.800 an attorney I'm saying it because that area of the law, it's 01:53:50.800 --> 01:53:52.960 easy to make mistakes. 01:53:52.960 --> 01:53:57.600 And it's not necessarily mistakes that will cause the outcome to change 01:53:57.840 --> 01:53:58.160 because 01:53:59.360 --> 01:54:03.200 laws for that, particularly when it's you know You know, parents to 01:54:03.200 --> 01:54:04.560 children, things like that. 01:54:04.560 --> 01:54:07.200 The defaults are usually decent. 01:54:07.200 --> 01:54:09.920 You can get a lot of tax advantages and other things if 01:54:09.920 --> 01:54:12.640 you don't use the defaults as it were and have an attorney 01:54:12.640 --> 01:54:16.560 actually craft various vessels, documents, things for you in order to 01:54:17.520 --> 01:54:21.680 pass that property on after you pass on. 01:54:21.680 --> 01:54:24.800 But what can happen if you make mistakes or don't do it 01:54:24.800 --> 01:54:28.240 right is that you can open it up to litigation and everyone 01:54:28.480 --> 01:54:32.560 always thinks, oh, that would never happen with these people and it 01:54:32.560 --> 01:54:38.080 happens. What you're doing, even if it's not something that is likely 01:54:38.080 --> 01:54:41.760 in your case, you're removing the temptation of someone might have to 01:54:41.760 --> 01:54:44.640 sue. So involve an attorney. 01:54:44.640 --> 01:54:48.000 That's generally that's one of the few things where it's pretty safe 01:54:48.000 --> 01:54:50.560 to give le legal advice is when the answer is hire an 01:54:50.560 --> 01:54:51.680 attorney. So 01:54:57.760 --> 01:55:00.000 Question twenty two 01:55:01.520 --> 01:55:04.640 With the internet contributing to a global awareness of the Jews and 01:55:04.640 --> 01:55:07.920 their wickedness, how do you see this impacting events in the next 01:55:07.920 --> 01:55:12.800 decade. The biggest aspect of that I would say is actually generational 01:55:13.440 --> 01:55:19.520 more than informational because the baby boomers are the ones who love 01:55:19.520 --> 01:55:23.760 Israel because they just fell hook, line, and sinker, they fell hard 01:55:23.760 --> 01:55:26.880 for dispensationalism and all that stuff. 01:55:26.880 --> 01:55:30.800 Millennials and younger, and again, the Gen X thing, right, split between 01:55:30.800 --> 01:55:34.000 the two don't have that problem. 01:55:34.000 --> 01:55:37.040 And so I think the biggest factor is going to be as 01:55:37.040 --> 01:55:41.360 the boomers age out, which includes, of course, dying, but also includes 01:55:41.360 --> 01:55:44.960 just being too old to hold any power anymore and actually wield 01:55:45.040 --> 01:55:45.840 the power. 01:55:45.840 --> 01:55:49.840 As they continue to age out, that's the bigger change. 01:55:49.840 --> 01:55:53.680 It's one of the reasons that the Jews are pushing things like 01:55:53.680 --> 01:55:58.400 the Iran War and the various bombings and trying to expand things. 01:55:58.400 --> 01:56:01.520 They know their time is short with regard to support from the 01:56:01.520 --> 01:56:03.200 un from the United States. 01:56:03.200 --> 01:56:06.400 They know that America will not be supporting them in the future, 01:56:06.400 --> 01:56:08.880 and so they know they have to push through as much as 01:56:08.880 --> 01:56:13.200 they can before they lose that particular support. 01:56:14.080 --> 01:56:16.880 But yes, I think in short, the the bigger change is the 01:56:16.880 --> 01:56:23.200 generational change. 01:56:26.640 --> 01:56:30.240 Question twenty three. 01:56:30.240 --> 01:56:33.120 Do you think the theory that whites and Asians had to plan 01:56:33.120 --> 01:56:37.200 more for the future due to changing seasons led to generally higher 01:56:37.200 --> 01:56:41.360 IQs than for blacks and Hispanics. 01:56:41.360 --> 01:56:41.440 So 01:56:42.400 --> 01:56:45.280 in the case of Hispanics, it's largely a matter of what the 01:56:45.280 --> 01:56:48.480 admixture is because Hispanic is such a broad term, right? 01:56:48.720 --> 01:56:52.640 It's going to depend on how much African admixture and which Amerindian 01:56:52.720 --> 01:56:54.720 tribe, because some tribes are brighter than others. 01:56:54.720 --> 01:56:59.200 But to get to the actual question here, I think that it 01:56:59.200 --> 01:57:05.040 created a positive pressure in terms of preservation of of that intellectual 01:57:05.040 --> 01:57:08.480 capacity. Because again, like I've said many times before, I don't think 01:57:08.480 --> 01:57:09.680 that we're trending upward. 01:57:09.680 --> 01:57:13.920 I don't think that we have improved or acquired abilities over time 01:57:13.920 --> 01:57:14.880 to include 01:57:16.400 --> 01:57:21.040 additional capacity, as it were, for certain attributes, so additional IQ points. 01:57:21.040 --> 01:57:25.920 I do think that it was a pressure for the more intelligent 01:57:25.920 --> 01:57:29.680 individuals to have more children, and so the average of the whole 01:57:29.680 --> 01:57:34.960 population could have increased without that ceiling increasing, as I explained earlier, 01:57:34.960 --> 01:57:39.920 right? But I do think that there was also a negative not 01:57:40.080 --> 01:57:45.760 sort of pressure, I guess, but that lack of a positive pressure. 01:57:45.760 --> 01:57:50.000 You had in the equatorial, the easier parts of the world to 01:57:50.000 --> 01:57:53.840 live where, you know, the weather doesn't kill you. 01:57:53.840 --> 01:57:58.240 They didn't have the same pressure to maintain that ability, and so 01:57:58.240 --> 01:58:02.320 they had the freedom, as it were, not to do so. 01:58:02.320 --> 01:58:06.080 The less intelligent could have as many children as they wanted because 01:58:06.080 --> 01:58:08.240 they weren't going to die in the snow. 01:58:08.240 --> 01:58:10.880 So So I think it's a combination of those things. 01:58:10.880 --> 01:58:15.280 I do not believe that the weather caused an increase in IQ 01:58:15.280 --> 01:58:20.160 for Europeans and Asians, but I do believe that it created pressure 01:58:20.160 --> 01:58:25.520 that maintained IQ, whereas the lack of that pressure another part lack 01:58:25.520 --> 01:58:28.480 of that pressure in other parts of the world permitted them to 01:58:28.480 --> 01:58:30.320 have that downward trend. 01:58:36.320 --> 01:58:38.800 I'm actually going to take a sip of my Manhattan that's been 01:58:38.800 --> 01:58:41.040 sitting here and just melting. 01:58:49.520 --> 01:58:50.240 Could have it. 01:58:50.320 --> 01:58:51.120 Bonus question. 01:58:51.120 --> 01:58:53.280 Is it a sin for Christians to drink alcohol? 01:58:53.280 --> 01:58:54.800 The answer is no. 01:58:54.800 --> 01:58:56.720 But I'll not number that one. 01:58:56.720 --> 01:58:58.240 Question 24. 01:58:58.240 --> 01:59:00.960 I am currently studying for the LSAT. 01:59:00.960 --> 01:59:04.560 Would you recommend law school as a career path? 01:59:05.360 --> 01:59:07.360 I get asked this one a lot. 01:59:07.360 --> 01:59:09.520 I think the answer is 01:59:11.360 --> 01:59:15.200 Law can be a very important and rewarding career. 01:59:15.200 --> 01:59:19.360 And obviously, if we do not have attorneys, we're in a worse 01:59:19.360 --> 01:59:22.800 position than if we have attorneys on our side. 01:59:22.800 --> 01:59:27.200 At the same time, you are going to be around terrible people 01:59:27.520 --> 01:59:31.680 all of the time, at least while you are in law school 01:59:31.760 --> 01:59:35.600 and then while you are in your first couple years, assuming you 01:59:35.600 --> 01:59:38.880 go into big law or something like that, and it is going 01:59:38.880 --> 01:59:42.880 to make immense demands on your time and your sanity and your 01:59:42.880 --> 01:59:44.560 stress level. 01:59:44.560 --> 01:59:47.600 The general joke is that 01:59:48.560 --> 01:59:51.200 the first year in law school, they try to scare you to 01:59:51.200 --> 01:59:52.800 death, the second year they try to work you to death. 01:59:53.040 --> 01:59:54.240 And that's not entirely false. 01:59:54.240 --> 01:59:56.480 That's kind of how it goes for most law schools and most 01:59:56.480 --> 01:59:58.800 programs, most men. 01:59:58.800 --> 01:59:59.120 But 02:00:00.000 --> 02:00:02.800 if you are the sort of man for whom there is an 02:00:02.800 --> 02:00:08.560 appeal for being an attorney, and you have a pretty good set 02:00:08.640 --> 02:00:12.240 of potential paths in mind where you can build a career for 02:00:12.240 --> 02:00:15.600 yourself, then I think it's fine to pursue it. 02:00:15.600 --> 02:00:17.920 You know the LSAT's going to determine part of it, right? 02:00:17.920 --> 02:00:19.360 How well you do on the LSAT. 02:00:19.360 --> 02:00:23.440 That is actually important for law school, particularly if you're white. 02:00:23.520 --> 02:00:23.840 So 02:00:25.680 --> 02:00:28.400 I don't think that I'm going to discourage people from going into 02:00:28.400 --> 02:00:30.880 law, but I am definitely going to say that there are some 02:00:30.880 --> 02:00:35.040 very real considerations and there are some very real costs for going 02:00:35.040 --> 02:00:36.160 into law. 02:00:36.160 --> 02:00:39.280 And it partly also depends on what state you're in, right? 02:00:39.280 --> 02:00:42.560 If you're in a state like New York or California or New 02:00:42.560 --> 02:00:46.640 Jersey, the bar is probably in the next handful of years going 02:00:46.640 --> 02:00:50.480 to try to come down pretty hard on guys who are you 02:00:50.480 --> 02:00:52.080 know far right wing. 02:00:52.080 --> 02:00:53.280 I see the writing on the wall. 02:00:53.280 --> 02:00:56.560 I know the California bar will eventually try to come after me, 02:00:56.560 --> 02:00:59.440 but that's just another thing to consider. 02:00:59.440 --> 02:01:00.800 Some states are better than others. 02:01:00.800 --> 02:01:03.280 I'll probably, you know, get a bar card here in Tennessee and 02:01:03.280 --> 02:01:05.280 avoid the California issue. 02:01:05.280 --> 02:01:09.600 Even though I like the privileges from California more because the attorney 02:01:09.680 --> 02:01:12.000 client privilege in California is the strongest one 02:01:12.880 --> 02:01:15.040 probably in the world, I think at this point. 02:01:15.040 --> 02:01:17.920 Maybe some little island somewhere as a stronger one, but 02:01:18.880 --> 02:01:22.560 the basic recommendation is if you are the sort of man who 02:01:22.560 --> 02:01:24.480 is fit for it, it appeals to you, you do well on 02:01:24.480 --> 02:01:28.080 the L set, and you have a career path, by all means 02:01:28.240 --> 02:01:29.040 go for it. 02:01:29.040 --> 02:01:32.800 But that career path is pretty important. 02:01:32.800 --> 02:01:36.560 And the school you attend is going to determine at least the 02:01:36.560 --> 02:01:39.200 first, say, five to ten years of your career. 02:01:39.200 --> 02:01:39.520 So 02:01:40.400 --> 02:01:42.240 go to the best school you can. 02:01:51.760 --> 02:01:53.760 Let's see. 02:01:53.760 --> 02:01:58.320 Thank you for the person who just said blessings from New York. 02:01:58.320 --> 02:02:01.920 That does not make me necessarily like New York City. 02:02:02.800 --> 02:02:04.960 I have driven through it a few times and I've had a 02:02:04.960 --> 02:02:07.760 number of friends who live there, but just it's never appealed to 02:02:07.760 --> 02:02:08.640 me that much. 02:02:08.640 --> 02:02:11.440 I understand why some people like it, and I would like to 02:02:11.440 --> 02:02:13.840 see it restored to you know, it's former glory. 02:02:13.840 --> 02:02:15.680 But obviously don't hate big cities. 02:02:15.680 --> 02:02:19.040 I lived in LA and I lived in Berlin, but haven't lived 02:02:19.040 --> 02:02:26.320 in a a big city on the east coast. 02:02:26.720 --> 02:02:30.320 Which is why I have coyotes outside instead of car noise. 02:02:31.920 --> 02:02:35.680 But I think that may be about it for now. 02:02:35.680 --> 02:02:40.160 I think I hopefully noticed all the questions in the chat or 02:02:40.160 --> 02:02:41.840 at least copied them over. 02:02:42.320 --> 02:02:45.280 So made up for that. 02:02:45.280 --> 02:02:47.120 Missed episode last week. 02:02:47.120 --> 02:02:51.200 Hopefully I can figure out how to maybe record this remotely, or 02:02:51.200 --> 02:02:54.240 maybe I'll just keep doing it in my study But I think 02:02:54.240 --> 02:02:58.000 I'll probably have to do a Starlink mini or something because I 02:02:58.000 --> 02:02:59.520 do now not live in LA. 02:02:59.520 --> 02:03:03.200 I live in East Tennessee, and Wi-Fi is not always a guaranteed 02:03:03.200 --> 02:03:05.440 thing at certain places. 02:03:05.440 --> 02:03:08.800 At any rate, thank you for everyone who submitted questions. 02:03:08.800 --> 02:03:12.000 As always, you can submit questions on the forum. 02:03:12.000 --> 02:03:13.680 That is the preferred way to do that. 02:03:13.680 --> 02:03:17.360 The link is in the video description elsewhere. 02:03:17.360 --> 02:03:19.920 You can submit them via Telegram or X. 02:03:20.400 --> 02:03:21.920 I try to notice them there. 02:03:21.920 --> 02:03:24.480 I don't always notice all the ones on X. 02:03:24.480 --> 02:03:27.440 X does not always give me all my notifications. 02:03:27.440 --> 02:03:30.480 So if I don't reply to you, it may very well be 02:03:30.480 --> 02:03:33.760 that I just never saw it because apparently now our lives are 02:03:33.760 --> 02:03:35.840 dictated by Grok. 02:03:35.840 --> 02:03:36.160 But 02:03:37.040 --> 02:03:40.960 the best way, yes, the the forum definitely, because that's mine. 02:03:40.960 --> 02:03:42.560 I can organize it better. 02:03:42.560 --> 02:03:45.440 It's easier going forward for people to find things and see my 02:03:45.440 --> 02:03:46.240 answer to certain questions. 02:03:47.120 --> 02:03:51.360 That's the preferred way, but again, in the chat, elsewhere, comments on 02:03:51.360 --> 02:03:53.600 videos, those are all fine. 02:03:53.600 --> 02:03:56.480 So again, thank you for those who submitted questions. 02:03:56.480 --> 02:03:59.040 I'm always glad to do this and I try to do this 02:03:59.040 --> 02:03:59.760 on Thursdays. 02:03:59.760 --> 02:04:02.960 I keep saying that, but it always winds up being Friday. 02:04:02.960 --> 02:04:04.400 At any rate. 02:04:04.400 --> 02:04:07.760 I hope you all have a great weekend, at least what is 02:04:07.760 --> 02:04:10.640 left of the weekend, since it's obviously Friday night. 02:04:10.640 --> 02:04:13.040 Go to church on Sunday, and I will see you all next 02:04:13.040 --> 02:04:16.320 week. Until then, God bless you.