WEBVTT 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:01.040 It 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:03.600 is the 10th of April 2026. 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:04.640 I am Cory J. 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:07.040 Mahler, and this is at any cost. 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:08.720 This is a QA episode. 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:13.760 It is episode 24, and I do not have any housekeeping, so 00:00:13.760 --> 00:00:17.760 I will get right into the questions assuming that there are no 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:21.600 tech issues and everything looks fine on my end, so hopefully that 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:23.920 means that it is. 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:29.840 The first question, I will actually just read the question. 00:00:29.840 --> 00:00:31.360 Question one. 00:00:31.360 --> 00:00:36.560 What are one or two one-stop shop Lutheran biblical commentary sets I 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:40.000 can get preferably on Lagos. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:44.880 So as far as Lutheran commentaries go, there are a number of 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:48.800 excellent ones over the centuries at this point. 00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:52.240 And of course you can go back further than that, because you 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:55.760 could go back to Augustine and Aquinas and you can go back 00:00:55.760 --> 00:01:00.720 to the Orthodox teachers of the Church as well, but specifically Lutheran 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:06.880 for a one-stop shop, probably Kretzman, but there are also some other 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:11.280 ones. It just depends on how much you want to read, really. 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:14.320 One of the things I would definitely recommend that you get is 00:01:14.320 --> 00:01:15.840 the Lutheran Study Bible. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:21.040 The footnotes are excellent and they have many citations to Lutheran theologians, 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.880 dogmaticians, church fathers, things like that, so you can always follow up, 00:01:24.880 --> 00:01:26.960 which is very helpful. 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:28.240 But as far as 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:33.920 various commentaries go, I will link in the show notes to that 00:01:34.080 --> 00:01:37.120 so you can look at sort of how many pages there are 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:39.360 and things like that and how much you want to read. 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:41.840 But obviously Luther is going to be high up high up in 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:47.360 the recommendation because of the AE, the American edition of Luther's works. 00:01:47.360 --> 00:01:50.880 You don't have to know German, it's in English, modern English. 00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:54.880 And that's up to 70 or 80 something volumes now. 00:01:54.880 --> 00:01:57.040 They've not translated all of his works. 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:01.760 The full Weimar edition is not translated, but many of them are. 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:04.400 It's not inexpensive, unfortunately. 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.840 Lagos charges a lot of money for them. 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:10.480 I know I've acquired most of them in Logos and I have 00:02:10.480 --> 00:02:13.360 many of them physically at this point, but for that I would 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:16.480 say buy the volumes that interest you, and then you can add 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:18.560 to it slowly over time. 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:22.320 His Genesis commentary, which is the first eight volumes in the American 00:02:22.320 --> 00:02:23.920 Edition, is excellent. 00:02:23.920 --> 00:02:27.760 His commentary on Galatians is excellent. 00:02:27.760 --> 00:02:32.800 Those are probably the two big recommendations for Luther. 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:33.760 And then And then 00:02:34.880 --> 00:02:36.640 from there you can sort of expand. 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.360 Romans is also a very good commentary for him, so maybe grab 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:40.560 that volume as well. 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:42.320 That one may be two volumes. 00:02:42.320 --> 00:02:43.600 I think that's two volumes. 00:02:43.760 --> 00:02:45.280 Maybe that's the Concordia series. 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:46.320 But at any rate. 00:02:46.320 --> 00:02:50.000 The other ones would be Vaulther, Walther, however you want to pronounce 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:51.920 it, CFW Vaulther. 00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:52.880 He is 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:59.760 an excellent writer, and his approach is going to be more pastoral, 00:02:59.760 --> 00:03:07.040 a little less heavy when it comes to not the accuracy 00:03:07.040 --> 00:03:11.520 and the value of his commentary and his theology, but he takes 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:14.560 a more practical approach many times, and some men find that very 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:17.360 useful, particularly pastors, obviously. 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.520 So basically any volume from him is worth grabbing. 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:27.040 His law and gospel is kind of a must-read among Lutherans, so 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:28.480 probably grab that one. 00:03:28.480 --> 00:03:31.040 There's a reader's edition of it, which is excellent. 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:33.920 It adds some additional notes for you, some background if you're not 00:03:33.920 --> 00:03:37.360 as familiar with sort of the disputes and the things to which 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:39.200 he's responding. 00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:44.320 Paper is an excellent one as well if you want 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:51.600 dogmatics. He's less of a commentary series and more dogmatics, so just 00:03:51.600 --> 00:03:52.320 depends on what you want. 00:03:52.320 --> 00:03:54.880 If you want the dogmatics, go with Peeper. 00:03:54.880 --> 00:03:57.600 Gerhard has many volumes. 00:03:57.600 --> 00:04:00.960 He's more theology than commentary. 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:03.680 So it depends if you want that, then that's an option. 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:05.760 I already said Kretzman. 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:09.360 Chemnitz is going to be probably one of the best recommendations if 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:13.360 you want a specific defense of Lutheran theology against Rome. 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:15.440 Against the Reformed as well to some degree. 00:04:15.440 --> 00:04:21.360 He has his four volume in the most recent translation of his 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:23.440 critique of the Council of Trent. 00:04:23.440 --> 00:04:24.400 So that's excellent. 00:04:24.400 --> 00:04:27.520 You can see why Lutherans believe what they believe and why we 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:30.160 do not agree with Rome, where we disagree, what we think they 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.320 believe is wrong. 00:04:32.320 --> 00:04:36.240 Melanchthon's Locy is excellent. 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:38.960 That is a one-volume, quite short. 00:04:38.960 --> 00:04:41.840 You can read that in an afternoon pretty easily. 00:04:41.840 --> 00:04:43.920 That's an excellent one to have. 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:44.560 And then 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:47.760 other than that, the last two I think I'd recommend would be 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:52.400 Loipold has some commentaries on Old Testament books and some other things. 00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:56.320 And then Lensky, but with some caveats, he's not my favorite. 00:04:56.320 --> 00:04:59.760 He goes off the rails sometimes, but overall pretty good. 00:04:59.760 --> 00:05:02.080 But I would put him at the bottom of that pile. 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:04.160 Again, I'll put that in the show notes so it's easier to 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:07.120 find than having to go back and look for all these German 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:11.840 names. But that will certainly get you started, that's probably at least 00:05:11.840 --> 00:05:16.320 a couple hundred volumes. 00:05:16.320 --> 00:05:18.640 Question two. 00:05:18.640 --> 00:05:22.560 I asked a similar question before, so I'll keep this one more 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:26.640 succinct. What are some ways that we, the right, in this case, 00:05:26.640 --> 00:05:28.960 can practically make political gains? 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:31.440 Do you recommend that those of us who are single men try 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:33.600 to run for a local political office? 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:35.600 Should we try to start our own business so that we can 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.400 participate in activism with fewer repercussions? 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:42.000 Should we consider moving to a state that is already majority white? 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.640 I'm failing to see how there is much of a political solution, 00:05:44.640 --> 00:05:47.440 if any, when most children currently be born in the US are 00:05:47.440 --> 00:05:50.880 non-white. I'm not trying to despair just being realistic and trying to 00:05:50.880 --> 00:05:52.400 brainstorm ideas. 00:05:52.400 --> 00:05:54.960 I did actually comment on this one in a previous episode and 00:05:54.960 --> 00:05:58.240 perhaps someone can link to that on the forum later. 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:00.480 I don't remember which exact episode that was. 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:03.280 There are transcripts though I could search those and find it. 00:06:03.280 --> 00:06:06.080 But I'll comment on it again because it's worth commenting on, it's 00:06:06.080 --> 00:06:08.240 an issue that comes up all the time and will continue to 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:08.800 do so. 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:11.600 I have a sip of tea first, and it's no longer hot 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:15.120 tea, it's already in the eighties here. 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:21.680 This is going to be one of those that depends on what 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:23.840 talents God has given you, right? 00:06:24.320 --> 00:06:27.360 Maybe you're the sort of man who can run for political office, 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:31.040 whether it's local or state, whatever it happens to be, and perhaps 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:34.240 that is a valid path for you and you can achieve things 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:34.960 doing that. 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:36.560 Not all men can. 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.880 Just like not all men can be, you know, rocket scientists, right? 00:06:40.880 --> 00:06:45.280 Or cancer researchers, or pick any job, really. 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:47.280 Not all men can do it. 00:06:47.280 --> 00:06:52.320 And that's from whatever job you consider to be just manual labor 00:06:52.320 --> 00:06:55.680 and not high skill to the other end of the spectrum. 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:58.640 Whatever that is for you, not every man can do everything on 00:06:58.640 --> 00:07:02.080 that. So it depends on the talents that God has given you 00:07:02.400 --> 00:07:05.280 and where he's placed you and what resources you have. 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:08.800 If you can run for political office, by all means do so. 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:13.040 We do actually need politicians and local office actually matters. 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:17.360 Now, everyone wants to have, you know, the senator, the congressman, or 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:19.680 president would be great, right? 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:25.440 But But by and large, for the average man, your local politician 00:07:25.440 --> 00:07:29.200 is going to have greater influence on your day to day life 00:07:29.280 --> 00:07:31.920 with the exception of, you know, things like gas prices, right? 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:34.880 That is pretty much what the president is currently doing. 00:07:34.880 --> 00:07:37.040 As much as he does not have a lever that he just 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:41.200 sets and you know chooses the price, his actions on the international 00:07:41.200 --> 00:07:44.800 stage do essentially determine the price of your fuel when you buy 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:46.320 it at the station. 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:52.880 But for things like approving building projects, approving a march or a 00:07:52.880 --> 00:07:57.120 rally, or speakers at a park, or any of a number of 00:07:57.120 --> 00:07:59.520 things, that's all local stuff. 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:04.000 And if you have your guys in those local offices, that's great. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:09.840 If you can get elected to depends on whether you're counting elects 00:08:09.840 --> 00:08:11.920 or not, but if you can get elected as sheriff, or if 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:14.640 you can get appointed as police chief, something like that. 00:08:14.640 --> 00:08:17.360 If we had more of our guys in those offices, that's great. 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:18.800 We have some of our guys there. 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.160 I know some of them, but more of that would be great. 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.320 So there are many paths. 00:08:24.320 --> 00:08:27.360 Don't think that there's no path to influencing things. 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:30.960 It's not that you have to change everything on the grand scale 00:08:30.960 --> 00:08:32.240 all at once. 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:36.560 Any man who's making progress in his own area with what God 00:08:36.560 --> 00:08:38.400 has given him is doing a good thing. 00:08:38.400 --> 00:08:40.080 You're doing your Christian duty. 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:44.800 This is similar to when people ask, how do I act as 00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:49.200 a good Christian in my occupation or whatever it happens to be? 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:52.720 And the answer, the correct answer is always it's not by putting 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.040 little crosses on every pair of shoes you make, right? 00:08:55.040 --> 00:08:56.960 That's not what the Christian does. 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.560 What the Christian does is lives a Christian life and makes good 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:03.760 shoes, assuming you're a shoemaker for the sake of the hypothetical. 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:05.600 Your neighbor needs good shoes. 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:08.000 He doesn't need shoes with little crosses on them. 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:11.680 There's a difference between being showy about it and just doing what 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:12.720 you need to do. 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:14.880 This is the same sort of thing. 00:09:14.880 --> 00:09:18.960 You do what God has enabled you to do with your talents, 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.960 your resources, etc., and you do the best you can. 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:27.280 So any progress is still progress and is still a good thing. 00:09:27.280 --> 00:09:30.480 Yes, things aren't in a particularly great situation in the United States 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:34.000 right now, obviously, but it's not a reason for despair. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:38.080 It's just a reason for working toward a better tomorrow and then 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:40.400 a better next year and a better decade. 00:09:40.400 --> 00:09:44.480 And I'm not saying that it will all be incremental and we'll 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:46.160 just slowly win. 00:09:46.160 --> 00:09:48.480 Things will probably come to a head at some point in the 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:50.240 next handful of years. 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:50.560 But 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:53.840 like Luther said, even if I knew the world were going to 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:56.480 end tomorrow, today I would still plant my apple tree. 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:58.480 Just live a Christian life, do the best you can. 00:09:58.560 --> 00:10:01.680 So yes, run for political office and particularly if we can get 00:10:01.680 --> 00:10:04.000 guys into law enforcement, that's great. 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:06.400 So there are some challenges there. 00:10:06.400 --> 00:10:07.920 That's a matter of wisdom. 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:10.000 Do it only if you can, right? 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:14.640 And that sort of politics is kind of nasty politics sometimes, but 00:10:14.640 --> 00:10:16.240 those positions really matter. 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:21.040 They really do determine day-to-day life for many men. 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:23.520 So that's sort of the approach to take and then also the 00:10:23.520 --> 00:10:25.040 previous comments I made as well. 00:10:25.040 --> 00:10:28.560 Hopefully again someone will link to those. 00:10:28.560 --> 00:10:30.960 But yes, you mentioned the repercussions. 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:32.080 Bear that in mind. 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:34.560 You know, for the guys who are married, particularly if you have 00:10:34.560 --> 00:10:37.680 young children, that matters, there are risks you're going to take. 00:10:37.680 --> 00:10:41.040 There are risks single guys can take that you can't, right? 00:10:41.040 --> 00:10:45.760 If Wo and I had been married, children, all that, it would 00:10:45.760 --> 00:10:49.200 have made Stone Choir a lot more difficult because there would have 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:50.160 been considerations. 00:10:50.160 --> 00:10:52.800 You know, we have people running hit pieces on us and things 00:10:52.800 --> 00:10:55.280 like that, people doxing him, all of that. 00:10:55.280 --> 00:10:58.320 It makes things more challenging if you have those additional duties. 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:01.200 So if you're a single man, if you're younger And you're willing 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:04.400 to take that risk, then it's much easier for you. 00:11:04.400 --> 00:11:07.280 Particularly if it's not going to come back on family members and 00:11:07.280 --> 00:11:08.480 things like that. 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:11.200 But do bear in mind, the media will come after you. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:12.160 They're going to. 00:11:12.160 --> 00:11:14.640 You know, I've had hit pieces run on me for a number 00:11:14.880 --> 00:11:18.000 of years, including by defunct leftist outlets at this point, which is 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:21.920 ironic, but it happens. 00:11:21.920 --> 00:11:30.960 Question three What is your best couple of lines argument against pacifism? 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.280 Both biblical slash philosophical. 00:11:33.280 --> 00:11:35.280 So for philosophical 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:40.240 I know what answer I would usually give, but given that I 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:42.560 am streaming on a number of platforms, there's only so much I 00:11:42.560 --> 00:11:43.440 can say, but 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:49.600 generally speaking, most men who are pacifists, when they are punched in 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.600 the face, stop being pacifist 00:11:52.560 --> 00:11:53.680 pretty quickly. 00:11:53.680 --> 00:11:56.880 Now I'm not saying that that's a realistic approach, because you can 00:11:56.880 --> 00:11:57.760 still be arrested, right? 00:11:57.760 --> 00:12:00.320 Even if the guy doesn't fight back. 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:04.560 But what I'm saying there is that it's incoherent and no one 00:12:04.560 --> 00:12:06.240 really believes it or holds to it. 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:08.640 It's just complete and utter nonsense. 00:12:08.640 --> 00:12:10.080 It's absurd. 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:13.360 So philosophically it just completely falls apart. 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:17.280 And there are plenty of men who have published critiques of it 00:12:17.280 --> 00:12:18.560 philosophically, so 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:22.320 it's just not compelling at all in that. 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.280 But scripturally, there are a few things that I would like to 00:12:25.280 --> 00:12:28.240 mention as soon as I can pull up logos here. 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.640 I think I will actually just pull up the full screen logos 00:12:31.280 --> 00:12:32.080 for this. 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:36.240 So there are three verses that come to mind for this that 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:37.600 are going to be relevant. 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:40.240 The first one I want to bring up, I want to bring 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:44.800 it up because in the Septuagint it's different from in the Masoretic 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:46.080 text and 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:51.280 yes you could sort of play the game because most men are 00:12:51.280 --> 00:12:54.160 going to follow the Masoretic text and you can sort of bring 00:12:54.160 --> 00:12:57.520 up the Masoretic text and just say, aha, I I got you, 00:12:57.520 --> 00:13:01.760 right? And that would of course be Exodus fifteen three. 00:13:01.760 --> 00:13:06.240 And in Exodus fifteen three, and I have on the right side 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:08.960 here the Masoretic text and the left, the Septuagint. 00:13:08.960 --> 00:13:12.960 We'll go through the Masoretic text first, the ESV in this case. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.080 The Lord is a man of war, the Lord is his name. 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:19.920 Right? Pretty open and shut there if the Lord calls himself a 00:13:19.920 --> 00:13:20.800 man of war. 00:13:20.800 --> 00:13:23.520 It's not exactly what it actually says in the real text of 00:13:23.520 --> 00:13:27.920 Scripture. The Lord, when he shatters wars, the Lord is his name, 00:13:27.920 --> 00:13:29.520 in the wording of the Septuagint. 00:13:29.520 --> 00:13:33.840 Now, what this actually means in the Septuagint in the underlying Greek 00:13:33.920 --> 00:13:38.000 there is that the Lord ends wars, and of course he will 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:41.680 ultimately do that in the final day when he brings all war 00:13:41.680 --> 00:13:44.400 to an end for all time. 00:13:44.400 --> 00:13:48.080 But in order to do that, you can't be a pacifist. 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:51.200 Pacifists don't end wars, they invite them. 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:53.360 And so that would be one verse you could bring up to 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:56.400 argue against you can bring it up in either the Masoretic or 00:13:56.400 --> 00:13:59.440 the Septuagint, preferably the Septuagint, but you are going to have to 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:03.360 explain that little bit in the Septuagint, that just because the Lord 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.880 ends wars, not saying he's a man of war, well, he still 00:14:06.880 --> 00:14:09.280 has to be the kind of man who can wage war to 00:14:09.280 --> 00:14:10.640 end wars. 00:14:10.640 --> 00:14:13.200 Pretty straightforward logic there. 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:17.440 The next verse would be actually do the New Testament first, so 00:14:17.680 --> 00:14:20.960 open up another ESV window here. 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:22.560 That's not what I wanted. 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.520 Lagos is great when it cooperates. 00:14:27.520 --> 00:14:29.120 So So Luke 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.600 22, 36. 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:36.960 This one is going to be pretty obvious, and we all know 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:39.760 what this one is before I even bring it up, but it's 00:14:39.760 --> 00:14:43.600 worth mentioning for someone who says he's a pacifist, right? 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:47.040 Let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy 00:14:47.040 --> 00:14:50.720 one. If Christ is telling you to sell your cloak, and in 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:53.600 this case this is your most important garment, the most important thing 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.880 you possess it's what keeps you warm on cold nights and back 00:14:56.880 --> 00:14:59.440 then. Unless you were a very wealthy man, you did not have 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:00.800 a closet full of coats. 00:15:00.800 --> 00:15:03.200 This was the one you had to stay warm at night and 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:04.480 not freeze. 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:07.200 Christ says to sell it and buy a sword. 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:11.120 Okay, you can't be a pacifist and square that with what Christ 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:12.400 is saying. 00:15:12.400 --> 00:15:17.360 But insofar as these verses go, I think my personal favorite is 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:20.800 going to be back actually in Jeremiah forty-eight. 00:15:20.800 --> 00:15:23.440 And this one, right. 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:27.120 Actually I pulled up the wrong verse here, let me pull up 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:29.440 the right one. 00:15:34.640 --> 00:15:36.880 Why are we not pulling up? 00:15:36.880 --> 00:15:37.680 Yeah. 00:15:38.880 --> 00:15:40.800 Uh right, it's that's what it is. 00:15:40.800 --> 00:15:41.920 It's the numbering is different. 00:15:41.920 --> 00:15:44.000 That's I did pull up the right one, but I was thinking 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:48.080 the the maseric numbering and not the numbering in the Septuagint. 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.200 The Septuagint is Jeremiah 31 ten. 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:54.880 Accursed is the one who does the work of the Lord carelessly 00:15:54.880 --> 00:15:59.040 by keeping back his dagger from bloodshed. 00:15:59.040 --> 00:16:00.640 That's pretty open and shut. 00:16:00.640 --> 00:16:04.560 There's no way you can possibly look at that and think that 00:16:04.560 --> 00:16:08.960 pacifism is an acceptable position that you can square with scripture. 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:12.640 If someone wants to be a pacifist, he's not a Christian, he's 00:16:12.640 --> 00:16:13.360 something else. 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:17.200 So I think those three are probably sufficient. 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:20.720 You can do a much longer critique of pacifism, but you said 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:24.560 a short critique, so I think for this case, that's the way 00:16:24.560 --> 00:16:24.880 to go. 00:16:24.880 --> 00:16:27.040 Go with the those three passages. 00:16:27.040 --> 00:16:30.720 And again, it's Jeremiah 48.10 in the Masoretic or 31.10 in the 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:35.920 Septuagint. Generally use the Septuagint, unless someone is just very stuck on, 00:16:35.920 --> 00:16:38.320 you know, really I really like the King James, then fine use 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:42.800 the Masoretic. 00:16:42.800 --> 00:16:47.600 The fourth question, question four is is it worth the time and 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:52.080 effort to join a congregational church with a bunch of friends slash 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:55.520 families, elect each other to the boards and change the direction of 00:16:55.520 --> 00:16:56.320 the church. 00:16:56.320 --> 00:16:59.440 Many of the congregational churches in my area are shrinking in membership 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:00.720 and growing with age. 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:04.800 The polity of congregational churches certainly provides the opportunity. 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:08.080 I think that's perfectly valid in many cases. 00:17:08.080 --> 00:17:12.080 Particularly if you have, say, a smaller church that owns its land 00:17:12.080 --> 00:17:16.640 and its building, then by all means having a faithful group of 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:18.880 men take that over is a step in the right direction. 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.360 That's very much a way that you can take things. 00:17:21.360 --> 00:17:24.880 Just, you know, run the numbers as it were, figure out how 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:27.760 many men you need in order to enact that policy, how long 00:17:27.760 --> 00:17:33.360 it's going to take you and maybe check the constitution, bylaws, whatever 00:17:33.360 --> 00:17:38.400 the governing documents are, and see how that is going to either 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:40.560 help you or hinder you. 00:17:40.560 --> 00:17:45.840 And bear in mind, they may very well try to sue you. 00:17:45.840 --> 00:17:48.720 So think about whether or not they have a war chest for 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.040 that, just to sort of tidbit their uh 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.360 strategy recommendation. 00:17:55.360 --> 00:17:59.280 In some cases they probably won't because they don't have the capacity 00:17:59.280 --> 00:18:04.560 to sue you or they just aren't litigious, but generally speaking, the 00:18:04.560 --> 00:18:10.000 left leaning Christians Christians so called are going to be more litigious. 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.800 They're going to be more willing to take you to court to 00:18:12.800 --> 00:18:15.760 try and ruin you and make life difficult for you. 00:18:15.760 --> 00:18:18.480 So it's a it's a wisdom call. 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:21.440 You're going to have to run that assessment based on the men 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:24.320 in the congregation and how they behave. 00:18:24.320 --> 00:18:24.640 So 00:18:25.600 --> 00:18:27.360 just bear that in mind. 00:18:27.360 --> 00:18:30.320 But yes, this is a perfectly valid way to go about things 00:18:30.560 --> 00:18:33.840 and there's nothing morally objectionable about it as well. 00:18:33.840 --> 00:18:35.200 So absolutely. 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:37.680 If you have congregations in your area that you can take over 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:41.200 and turn back into Christian churches, definitely do so. 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:44.880 Big bonus if you get a nice building in the process. 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:50.400 Those were the four questions that I had for today from the 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.440 forum. So now I'll move on to the questions from the chat. 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:56.560 I have a backlog of questions as well, I know that, but 00:18:56.560 --> 00:18:59.280 I did not have as much time to prepare questions this week. 00:18:59.280 --> 00:19:02.720 It is spring in earnest here, so I'm out in the garden 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:06.960 and doing stuff like that and it's been eating up my time. 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.880 Question five. 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:12.320 What is the correct method to judge a foreign community in a 00:19:12.320 --> 00:19:15.520 land as invaders versus multi-generational sojourners. 00:19:15.520 --> 00:19:17.920 Reference examples I was thinking of. 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:23.040 The German community in South slash Central America, Japanese community in the 00:19:23.040 --> 00:19:30.720 US, and the post-1979 Persians or Assyrians in the West. 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:34.720 This is going to have a number of factors that build into 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:36.800 it. I know this was asked previously. 00:19:36.800 --> 00:19:38.480 I did not read it, it's in my backlog. 00:19:39.600 --> 00:19:39.920 But 00:19:40.800 --> 00:19:45.200 you have a difference between people who go somewhere that is undeveloped 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:46.640 and develop a community, right? 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:51.200 That's basically most of South America didn't have much in the way 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:56.320 of civilization when the Europeans arrived, with the exception of a couple 00:19:56.320 --> 00:20:01.840 of rather barbarous, cannibalistic, human sacrificing civilizations. 00:20:01.840 --> 00:20:06.000 So they don't count because you don't have to consider them, because 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:10.160 God's solution to them is eradication. 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:14.880 So for the Germans moving to South or Central America, in the 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:18.320 South America case, they were setting up a new civilization in some 00:20:18.320 --> 00:20:21.360 cases. Some of them obviously moved after the war, and so they 00:20:21.360 --> 00:20:22.640 were sojourners. 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:24.560 That's different. 00:20:24.560 --> 00:20:30.240 South America is a complex question because it really it's the melting 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:32.400 pot that America is not. 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:35.840 It is a mixture of peoples who have intermarried to the point 00:20:35.840 --> 00:20:39.440 where you have an all new race of people, a couple of 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:41.760 them actually, in a few different places there. 00:20:41.760 --> 00:20:47.040 And they're part European, they're part native, depending on the country, they're 00:20:47.040 --> 00:20:48.800 part African as well. 00:20:48.800 --> 00:20:51.200 So that also plays into it because 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:56.400 how similar you are, how close you are to the people in 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:01.040 whose country you are sojourning is going to change things significantly, right? 00:21:01.040 --> 00:21:05.760 I don't think the South Africans who are moving to the United 00:21:05.760 --> 00:21:07.840 States need to be sojourners. 00:21:07.840 --> 00:21:11.920 I think they can stay here and become part of the population 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:14.480 because they are our close cousins. 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:17.040 They are compatible with Americans. 00:21:17.040 --> 00:21:19.520 They're not really aliens. 00:21:19.520 --> 00:21:21.840 So I have no problem with them coming here, staying here, becoming 00:21:21.840 --> 00:21:23.760 part of the nation. 00:21:23.760 --> 00:21:28.640 Does a South African who moves here become American just like that? 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:32.400 No. But his children could be, and his grandchildren certainly will be. 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:36.480 The same thing is true for a Brit or a German. 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:40.320 Even though they are genetically basically our brothers, moving here does not 00:21:40.320 --> 00:21:42.080 just make them an American, right? 00:21:42.080 --> 00:21:43.680 It's a different thing. 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:47.680 But because they are so close, their children or their grandchildren will 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:49.280 certainly be American. 00:21:49.280 --> 00:21:52.640 In the case of, say, the Japanese, right, they are more alien 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:57.040 because they're different people, they are a very different nation from Westerners, 00:21:57.040 --> 00:21:58.640 from Europeans. 00:21:58.640 --> 00:22:03.520 They are definitely sojourners, and so ideally a sojourner does return home 00:22:03.520 --> 00:22:04.960 at some point. 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:09.680 The Japanese behave themselves and don't cause problems, which certainly makes them 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:11.120 better sojourners, right? 00:22:11.120 --> 00:22:15.120 We don't necessarily really want them to leave because they're causing problems, 00:22:15.120 --> 00:22:17.600 because they aren't causing problems. 00:22:17.600 --> 00:22:22.160 There's also only about three-quarters of a million Japanese in the United 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:26.400 States, which is not a trivial number, but in the scope and 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:29.520 scale of the United States, it's a relatively small population. 00:22:29.520 --> 00:22:33.200 It's also concentrated in a handful of areas. 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:36.240 For the Persians, the Assyrians, I don't know the numbers of how 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:39.520 many of them there are, but ideally, yes, they would return home 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:42.560 and granted, that part of the world is just going to be 00:22:42.560 --> 00:22:44.880 a dumpster fire seemingly forever. 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:48.640 So the question is when and how, right? 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:52.800 Well, given the way that things are trending and given the way 00:22:52.800 --> 00:22:57.120 that the immigration debate we'll call it is developing. 00:22:57.120 --> 00:22:59.600 It's pretty clear that it's only going to turn out one of 00:22:59.600 --> 00:23:00.640 two ways, right? 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:02.800 The left's going to win or the right's going to win. 00:23:02.800 --> 00:23:05.360 And if the right wins, most people are going home. 00:23:05.360 --> 00:23:08.720 And that's going to include certainly both of the groups that you 00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:14.480 mention. But insofar as is someone a sojourner or is someone an 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:18.400 invader, part of the question is why is he here, right? 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:24.960 You know, if you are a German after World War Two, escaping 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:29.120 Victor's justice and you move somewhere, it's pretty clear that you're at 00:23:29.120 --> 00:23:32.080 least a sojourner, if not a refugee. 00:23:32.080 --> 00:23:32.400 And 00:23:33.360 --> 00:23:36.560 part of it is also that intention to return. 00:23:36.560 --> 00:23:40.640 Someone who has the intention to return can still qualify as a 00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:45.280 sojourner. Someone who has no intention to return is a different thing 00:23:45.360 --> 00:23:50.000 because he's no longer sojourning, he is now squatting or invading. 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:52.240 So part of it is that intention. 00:23:52.240 --> 00:23:57.200 People who do not have the intention to return are not sojourners. 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:00.480 So that's going to play into this as well. 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:04.080 I think really that intent is a big part of this. 00:24:04.080 --> 00:24:06.480 Obviously, that's more difficult to assess, right? 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:08.720 Because you're looking into someone's mind. 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:11.440 But you can tell intent from actions as well. 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:15.280 That is going to be the biggest part of this, other than 00:24:15.280 --> 00:24:17.040 that compatibility, right? 00:24:17.360 --> 00:24:22.160 Because determining whether or not someone's a sojourner or a rightful, not 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:26.160 necessarily rightful, but a permissible immigrant is a matter of race. 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:27.440 That's a matter of genetics. 00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:30.320 But Sojourner really is that matter of intent. 00:24:30.320 --> 00:24:32.080 Because it's the nature of the term. 00:24:32.080 --> 00:24:36.960 The thing is someone who is spending time somewhere with the intent 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:37.840 to return. 00:24:37.840 --> 00:24:41.600 And so you cannot, literally cannot be a sojourner, if you have 00:24:41.600 --> 00:24:46.000 no intent to return. 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:48.240 Question 6. 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:53.280 Once you get above 170s, what is the nature of the difference 00:24:53.280 --> 00:24:54.640 per IQ point? 00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:57.920 What is the general experience at 160 plus? 00:24:58.800 --> 00:25:02.720 That is quite the expansive question. 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:06.400 But I think to sort of 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.680 not necessarily deeply address it, but at least give a treatment of 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:18.880 it. One of the best ways to illustrate the difference between 00:25:19.040 --> 00:25:20.640 different levels of intelligence. 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:24.160 And this is going to work for any particular level of intelligence. 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:28.080 It's not just, you know, 100 versus 160 or whatever. 00:25:28.800 --> 00:25:32.000 As you go higher, or as you go to the right, depending 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:34.240 on want to look at the curve or you want to look 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:40.160 at a table, however, you're organizing your data here, you need less 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:44.880 information to arrive at an accurate conclusion because you are able to 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:47.920 extrapolate more and more accurately. 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:53.040 So, one of the definitions of genius that I have used in 00:25:53.440 --> 00:25:54.960 the past and I find it compelling. 00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:58.480 I don't know if anyone said it before in that way. 00:25:58.480 --> 00:26:01.680 Similar thoughts have been expressed by many men, so I'm not claiming 00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:03.280 that this is mine. 00:26:03.280 --> 00:26:05.760 But the way that I've chosen to express it in the past 00:26:05.760 --> 00:26:10.880 is that genius is the ability to draw sound conclusions from seemingly 00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:13.120 insufficient data. 00:26:13.120 --> 00:26:17.840 Because a person of average intelligence looking at the data set, whatever 00:26:17.840 --> 00:26:23.280 is available, is going to say you cannot draw an accurate conclusion. 00:26:23.280 --> 00:26:25.040 This is insufficient. 00:26:25.280 --> 00:26:28.240 But the genius is going to look at it and know, in 00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:31.920 many cases, immediately, this is the this is the right answer. 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:32.800 I know the answer. 00:26:32.800 --> 00:26:34.800 I have enough information. 00:26:34.800 --> 00:26:39.920 It looks like magic, but it's not magic because it's just an 00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:44.480 ability to predict the future based on the present, right? 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:49.360 It's extrapolation, it's forecasting, but accurately. 00:26:49.360 --> 00:26:53.360 This is one of the things that some AIs are pretty good 00:26:53.360 --> 00:26:56.480 at now and why some men are looking at them in the 00:26:56.480 --> 00:27:00.240 way they are, which is a discussion for another time, there's some 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:01.840 risk there. 00:27:01.840 --> 00:27:04.800 But I think that's one of the best ways to look at 00:27:04.800 --> 00:27:10.000 it. And then insofar as, you know, what is daily life like, 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:14.320 right? How is the general experience, no matter what your IQ is, 00:27:14.320 --> 00:27:15.760 you're still a man, right? 00:27:15.760 --> 00:27:19.360 You're going to have some different tastes, you're going to have some 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:20.960 different experiences. 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:26.320 Usually genius is also highly correlated with certain at least some of 00:27:26.320 --> 00:27:29.520 your senses being more attuned, so geniuses may have a better sense 00:27:29.520 --> 00:27:31.840 of smell, taste, things like that. 00:27:31.840 --> 00:27:37.840 Little differences like that, but those things also vary not necessarily all 00:27:37.840 --> 00:27:40.160 the Always connected with intelligence, right? 00:27:40.160 --> 00:27:44.960 There are men who are very exceptionally good at some particular thing 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:47.040 that is not connected to intelligence, right? 00:27:47.040 --> 00:27:49.920 And I'm not saying just the savant, right? 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:54.000 I'm not saying just the person who has severe deficits in other 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:57.600 areas and this extreme talent in one. 00:27:57.600 --> 00:28:01.200 But generally speaking, you know, the the genius is still a human 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:02.640 being. It's still going to be a 00:28:03.600 --> 00:28:05.600 general sort of experience everyone else has. 00:28:05.600 --> 00:28:08.480 You have to eat and sleep and, you know, drink caffeine and 00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:10.320 all those things. 00:28:10.320 --> 00:28:10.640 So 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:16.000 the difference is not going to be per IQ point, really. 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:17.760 It's very difficult to 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.000 determine with that sort of fine grain. 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:26.320 IQ tests should really be, you know, your IQ is this plus 00:28:26.320 --> 00:28:29.120 or minus some number, which the more accurate ones are going to 00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:29.440 give you that. 00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:32.400 You know, plus, minus five, six, seven, whatever it happens to be. 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:37.040 The real differences are those standard deviations, or maybe half a standard 00:28:37.040 --> 00:28:41.520 deviation. There is a real difference between 100 and 115. 00:28:41.520 --> 00:28:45.040 And there is a real difference between 115 and 130. 00:28:45.040 --> 00:28:51.120 This also builds into relatability across those levels because the man who 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:54.960 is at 130 is generally going to find it easier to relate 00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:57.360 to someone at 115 than 100. 00:28:57.360 --> 00:29:01.440 And he is going to find it a world easier to relate 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:03.760 to the 100 than the 85. 00:29:03.760 --> 00:29:06.000 And that does sort of scale. 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:10.000 It's not that the person who's you know one sixty or one 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:14.320 eighty, whatever it happens to be, is so completely disconnected from reality 00:29:14.320 --> 00:29:16.560 and common men that he can't understand them. 00:29:16.560 --> 00:29:20.000 Because also bear in mind the person with the higher IQ can 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:23.120 more accurately simulate the mind of another man. 00:29:23.120 --> 00:29:26.880 And so the person with the higher IQ can have the argument 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:31.200 in his head with the other man before he has the argument. 00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:33.680 So he's really just replaying what he's already done. 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:35.600 It gives you some tactical advantages, certainly. 00:29:35.600 --> 00:29:39.520 You know, if you're an attorney, it has advantages in court, right? 00:29:39.520 --> 00:29:39.840 But 00:29:40.800 --> 00:29:46.160 there is a difference in comprehensibility once you get too distant. 00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:51.520 Certainly the man who is eighty five or seventy or whatever, God 00:29:51.520 --> 00:29:55.280 forbid, is not going to be able to understand the men who 00:29:55.280 --> 00:29:57.360 is at one hundred fifty at all. 00:29:57.360 --> 00:29:59.600 Other than the things that are common to humanity. 00:29:59.600 --> 00:30:03.840 Again, eating, sleeping, drinking, liking pretty women, right? 00:30:04.080 --> 00:30:05.040 That's universal. 00:30:05.040 --> 00:30:07.040 Up down the scale doesn't matter. 00:30:07.040 --> 00:30:11.520 But the experience of the world and the perception of the world 00:30:11.520 --> 00:30:14.800 is going to be so fundamentally alien for someone who is that 00:30:14.800 --> 00:30:19.360 far distant that there's going to be no real understanding. 00:30:19.360 --> 00:30:21.920 The person who's at the higher end of the spectrum can understand 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:26.160 a little bit, but not entirely, because there are some things where 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:28.480 you kind of have to live it to understand it in a 00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:29.440 certain way. 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.200 It's not because you necessarily have to do something to understand it 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:35.680 right. It's not the person who says, you know, how do you 00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:36.400 know drugs are bad? 00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:37.520 You've never tried them. 00:30:37.520 --> 00:30:39.120 It's a stupid argument. 00:30:39.120 --> 00:30:42.480 But do you gain something when you do something? 00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:43.600 In terms of knowledge? 00:30:43.600 --> 00:30:45.600 The answer is yes, and that's true for everything. 00:30:45.600 --> 00:30:48.400 Like, you know, if I stabbed my hand right now with any 00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.200 of the number of sharp things on my desk, I would gain 00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:53.520 knowledge of how that feels. 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:58.880 It's not knowledge I want, and I already understand it sufficiently without 00:30:58.880 --> 00:30:59.520 doing it, right? 00:30:59.520 --> 00:31:02.000 I know it's going to hurt, it's going to bleed, it's going 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:04.800 to be obnoxious, I know all that without doing it. 00:31:04.800 --> 00:31:08.640 But I would still gain some knowledge by doing the thing. 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:13.920 Similar there with the difference between the person living life at seventy 00:31:14.080 --> 00:31:18.160 ratey IQ, insofar as he's even aware of what's going on, versus 00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:20.400 the person living life at one sixty, right? 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:25.280 I think that's a a general overview of it, so there are 00:31:25.280 --> 00:31:27.600 very few men who are one sixty plus. 00:31:27.600 --> 00:31:30.000 I've given the numbers before, obviously in the episode we did an 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:32.720 IQ. It's not a lot of men there. 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:37.440 Most men really are in that, you know, 85 to 115 range. 00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:39.440 That's just how standard deviation works. 00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:42.320 It's just how a standard distribution works. 00:31:42.320 --> 00:31:45.840 But I think that pretty much covers that one. 00:31:45.840 --> 00:31:48.880 If you have a follow up, by all means let me know. 00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:50.480 Question seven. 00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:53.440 Two questions from the same person, unrelated though, so I will number 00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:54.800 them separately. 00:31:54.800 --> 00:31:56.000 Question seven. 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:01.360 What are the rights of the Amerindian descended North Americans? 00:32:01.360 --> 00:32:05.760 There are really I guess three parts to this answer. 00:32:05.760 --> 00:32:09.920 The first part to the answer that I would give is that 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:11.360 those 00:32:12.320 --> 00:32:16.800 who were here when we first encountered them and we had our 00:32:16.800 --> 00:32:20.480 conflicts with them and things like that, they were not Christian. 00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:25.040 They were in many cases vile pagans, many of them engaged in 00:32:25.040 --> 00:32:28.720 human sacrifice, some of them engaged in cannibalism. 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:31.440 We should have treated them like the Canaanites. 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:35.200 That is obviously back then, right? 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:38.560 It's sort of the same as the Israelites were commanded to wipe 00:32:38.560 --> 00:32:42.880 out the Canaanites, and then you have the book of Joshua and 00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:47.040 then Judges and right, it's the narrative, the litany of all the 00:32:47.040 --> 00:32:48.160 times they failed. 00:32:48.320 --> 00:32:50.240 Because they didn't do it. 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:51.520 So that's in the past. 00:32:51.520 --> 00:32:53.520 That's sort of the first part of it. 00:32:53.520 --> 00:32:58.320 The second part is really two parts to the same analysis, right? 00:32:58.320 --> 00:33:01.280 It's the question is what do we do with those who are 00:33:01.280 --> 00:33:02.480 currently here, right? 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:04.640 It's not like the sojourner. 00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:06.800 We can send him home, right? 00:33:06.800 --> 00:33:10.800 If we have someone who is here from you know, pick a 00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:12.000 country, it doesn't matter. 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.400 I won't even name one, just pick one in your head. 00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:18.240 We can send that man back to his country, because he has 00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:18.960 a country. 00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:20.800 The Amerindians don't. 00:33:20.800 --> 00:33:23.840 So there's nowhere we can send them. 00:33:23.840 --> 00:33:28.400 So that means we have to treat them differently just because there's 00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:29.840 no other option. 00:33:30.080 --> 00:33:33.760 I would I would say the assessment comes down to are they 00:33:33.760 --> 00:33:35.200 Christian? Right? 00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:38.400 There are some number of them, and it's in the millions. 00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:40.960 I think it's three or four million, it's something like that. 00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:43.520 Someone can correct me on that if I'm off by a little 00:33:43.520 --> 00:33:45.120 bit. I might be. 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:48.240 Three or four million of them claim to be Christian. 00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:49.840 That's non-trivial. 00:33:49.840 --> 00:33:54.160 Okay, we have individuals, whatever we should have done in the past, 00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:58.000 we did or didn't do, they're here now, they are Christians, they 00:33:58.000 --> 00:33:59.520 have nowhere else to go. 00:33:59.520 --> 00:34:03.440 I think those ones we have to give some chunk of territory. 00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:06.480 It doesn't have to be a giant chunk of territory, it doesn't 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:08.640 have to be their ancestral territory. 00:34:08.640 --> 00:34:12.560 It just has to be some territory somewhere that we give them 00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:16.080 because they're Christians at this point and we owe Christians a different 00:34:16.080 --> 00:34:19.280 duty than we owe to the heathen, to the vo to the 00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:22.000 pagan in the negative sense of the term. 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:26.480 Those who are still pagan, who are still worshipping demons, we owe 00:34:26.480 --> 00:34:27.360 them nothing. 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.080 And the previous solution that should have been enacted is still on 00:34:30.080 --> 00:34:30.880 the table. 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:34.240 I think that's the three part answer to that one. 00:34:34.240 --> 00:34:37.840 So for the ones who are Christian, give them territory. 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:39.760 Tell them to stop building casinos. 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:40.880 They're not allowed to do that. 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:43.040 If they do that, they keep doing it, it's an act of 00:34:43.040 --> 00:34:45.440 war. Then we handle it like we would any enemy. 00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:46.880 Any enemy. 00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:51.920 The second question from this individual, question eight. 00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:55.440 Is it wrong to have a queen like England did? 00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:58.560 This is another one of those where 00:35:00.160 --> 00:35:03.440 A man who is familiar with the Masoretic text is going to 00:35:03.440 --> 00:35:04.320 be tempted. 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:08.480 And he's going to be tempted because there is a passage in 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:15.520 scripture that says, My people are oppressed, and women are their rulers, 00:35:15.520 --> 00:35:24.400 right? It's in Isaiah, I believe. 00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:25.760 I will pull that one up. 00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:28.320 I don't remember the exact verse, I have to look it up. 00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:29.600 Isaiah 3.2. 00:35:29.600 --> 00:35:31.600 Okay. Good. 00:35:31.600 --> 00:35:34.480 I will pull up the text so we can look at it. 00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:37.120 And of course. 00:35:38.080 --> 00:35:41.280 We want to look at both the 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:44.640 septuagent wait, was 00:35:44.640 --> 00:35:44.720 it 00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:47.280 three two? 00:35:47.600 --> 00:35:49.520 312. That's what it is. 00:35:49.520 --> 00:35:50.800 Okay. 00:35:52.080 --> 00:35:54.240 So Isaiah 312, right? 00:35:54.240 --> 00:35:57.120 In the Masoretic, we have a pretty open and shut case. 00:35:57.120 --> 00:35:58.560 It makes very easy. 00:35:58.560 --> 00:36:02.400 My people, infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. 00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:03.280 Okay, that's negative. 00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:04.160 That's a curse. 00:36:04.160 --> 00:36:05.760 Women ruling is a curse. 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:07.840 Close case, we're done. 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:11.920 The problem is that's not what Scripture says, because the Septuagint says, 00:36:12.080 --> 00:36:17.200 O my people, your exactors strip you clean, and your creditors lord 00:36:17.200 --> 00:36:18.720 it over you. 00:36:19.680 --> 00:36:23.200 That doesn't give us a condemnation of women rulers. 00:36:23.200 --> 00:36:29.120 And so it seems like we're left with no condemnation, right? 00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:33.120 And there are no equivalent passages anywhere else in the Septuagint that 00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:36.160 would give us that, other than that one that I read from 00:36:36.160 --> 00:36:38.720 the Masoretic. 00:36:38.720 --> 00:36:43.200 However, the issue of whether or not someone should rule 00:36:44.080 --> 00:36:49.200 is not simply, can I find one verse that condemns this subgroup 00:36:49.200 --> 00:36:51.760 of people from doing this thing? 00:36:52.080 --> 00:36:54.160 What is the nature of ruling? 00:36:54.160 --> 00:36:57.600 The nature of ruling is exercising headship. 00:36:57.600 --> 00:37:01.840 And so go listen to the Stone Choir episode on headship. 00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:06.400 I will put that in the show notes, a link to that. 00:37:06.720 --> 00:37:08.880 A woman is never her own head. 00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:13.280 And so a woman exercising headship is per se wrongful. 00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:16.480 It is invalid, it's even incoherent. 00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:20.400 And so, you know, does a queen have a certain degree of 00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:24.480 authority by virtue of the fact that her husband is the king. 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:28.080 Yes. The same as the woman of the house, we used to 00:37:28.080 --> 00:37:31.280 say the mistress of the house, but that term has gained negative 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:32.880 connotations over the years. 00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:36.320 She She has a certain degree of authority over those in the 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:39.360 house by virtue of being the wife of the master of the 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:41.680 house, the term we used to use for the head of the 00:37:41.680 --> 00:37:46.960 house. So it's not wrong for women per se to exercise any 00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:50.400 authority. But a woman never has her own authority. 00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:54.320 It is always by virtue of her position with regard to her 00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:58.000 husband or in some cases, you know, the princess has some authority 00:37:58.000 --> 00:37:59.760 because her father's the king, right? 00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:05.280 It's her relationship to her head, whomever that happens to be, because 00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:06.720 she's not her own head. 00:38:06.720 --> 00:38:08.400 So should a woman rule? 00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:09.120 Absolutely not. 00:38:09.120 --> 00:38:10.080 Should we have a queen? 00:38:10.080 --> 00:38:11.200 Absolutely not. 00:38:11.200 --> 00:38:14.000 Does it mean that all women are bad rulers? 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.400 No No, those are different things. 00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:20.960 This is related to a point that I've made many times. 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:23.760 When I say that women shouldn't go to university, I don't mean 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:25.120 because women are dumb. 00:38:25.120 --> 00:38:27.520 I don't mean because women are incapable. 00:38:27.520 --> 00:38:31.040 I mean because God made them to do something else and that 00:38:31.040 --> 00:38:33.360 thing is more important. 00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:38.000 Because without women being a wife and mother, without them caring for 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:41.280 the home and for children, there's no future. 00:38:41.280 --> 00:38:45.600 That's more important than whether or not she has a BA or 00:38:45.600 --> 00:38:49.120 a master's degree or whatever it happens to be. 00:38:49.120 --> 00:38:51.360 There are many women who are very capable. 00:38:51.360 --> 00:38:54.160 The IQ curves overlap significantly. 00:38:54.720 --> 00:39:00.080 Women and men are in the middle, so close over the course 00:39:00.080 --> 00:39:03.520 of the studies we've done over the decades, they may as well 00:39:03.520 --> 00:39:05.200 be identical. 00:39:05.200 --> 00:39:08.880 So one hundred is the average for men, and one hundred is 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:09.680 the average for women. 00:39:09.680 --> 00:39:12.000 There are some studies that have said women are a little higher, 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:14.720 and there are a couple studies said men are a little higher. 00:39:14.720 --> 00:39:17.520 It's a rounding error, it's a fudge factor. 00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:23.840 Men, however, produce more geniuses and were retards in the technical sense 00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:25.120 of the term. 00:39:25.120 --> 00:39:28.560 Because the curve for men extends further. 00:39:28.560 --> 00:39:29.840 For women, it's narrow. 00:39:29.840 --> 00:39:32.640 Which is say the standard deviation is smaller. 00:39:32.640 --> 00:39:34.720 Most women cluster in the middle. 00:39:34.720 --> 00:39:37.280 Men you get wider variety. 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:41.520 This is the same for men with regard to basically every attribute. 00:39:41.520 --> 00:39:46.240 You get significantly greater variance in height for men, in weight for 00:39:46.240 --> 00:39:49.280 men, in strength for men. 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:53.120 God did that with men because men need to serve a bunch 00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:54.320 of different roles. 00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:57.200 And so you have that variability in order to do that. 00:39:57.200 --> 00:40:00.880 You have the very highly intelligent men who can lead societies. 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:02.800 You have the very strong men and things like that. 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:05.200 They can fight for society, wherever it happens to be. 00:40:05.200 --> 00:40:07.360 You don't want them to be idiots, of course, when they're fighting. 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:10.240 You can think of a quote from a famous philosopher on that 00:40:10.240 --> 00:40:11.280 note But 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:14.480 women are not dumb. 00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.840 It's just that they need to be doing other things because only 00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:20.800 women can give birth to children, right? 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:24.560 So if women aren't giving birth to children raising them, there's no 00:40:24.560 --> 00:40:25.760 future for that nation. 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:28.480 That's more important than attending university. 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:29.120 And because 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:32.640 it's her place to be in the home. 00:40:32.640 --> 00:40:35.840 You don't want her out in the world doing the things a 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:38.800 man is supposed to do because it leads to problems. 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:41.040 You're inviting problems. 00:40:41.040 --> 00:40:41.360 So 00:40:43.200 --> 00:40:48.240 women ruling is bad because she's acting as her o own head 00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:51.840 and as the head of her nation when she cannot do that. 00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:54.000 By her nature she cannot do it. 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:56.960 But it does not follow from that that she can't be a 00:40:56.960 --> 00:40:57.440 good ruler. 00:40:57.440 --> 00:40:59.920 I'm thinking, for instance, of Catherine the Great, one of the best 00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:05.840 rulers of Russia was indeed a woman does not mean that she 00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:07.520 should have been there. 00:41:07.520 --> 00:41:10.400 So no, I do not think that having a queen is morally 00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:14.320 permissible. It is something that you're inviting judgment from God on yourself 00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:17.920 and you should not do it. 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:24.960 Let's see my next question here. 00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:27.680 Actually we'll scroll up in the chat for the next one I 00:41:27.680 --> 00:41:31.280 did not copy it down. 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:36.080 Right. Today Woke called Augustine's just war theory profoundly evil and used 00:41:36.080 --> 00:41:36.960 some strong words. 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:40.560 I was bothered by such language about Saint Augustine, could you provide 00:41:40.560 --> 00:41:41.440 your own thoughts on that? 00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:46.160 I am actually going to answer that one next time. 00:41:46.160 --> 00:41:50.880 So it's not really the question nine, but I want to give 00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:53.040 a fuller answer to that, so I'm going to answer that one 00:41:53.040 --> 00:41:53.920 next time. 00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:56.720 Since like I said, I did not have time to prepare as 00:41:56.720 --> 00:41:59.120 much this week and also this one came in in the chat 00:41:59.120 --> 00:42:01.920 while we were discussing previous questions. 00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:11.360 Any speculation on why the game of chess is so dominated by 00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:14.800 Jews? I've been bothered about playing chess since realizing that it is. 00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:17.360 Something about the nature of the game. 00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:19.600 I think that it's not necessarily 00:42:21.040 --> 00:42:23.120 I don't know that it's necessarily dominated by Jews. 00:42:23.120 --> 00:42:26.400 Yes, there are many good players who are Jews and they are 00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:29.280 statistically overrepresented. 00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.520 Chess is a game of memorization. 00:42:31.520 --> 00:42:34.560 I know that's going to make some men mad, but I feel 00:42:34.560 --> 00:42:40.160 like most people probably accept that fact now, given that AI is 00:42:40.160 --> 00:42:42.400 significantly better than human beings. 00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:45.760 I think more people are willing to accept that chess is not 00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:48.800 so much a game of strategy and thought as it is a 00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:52.800 game of memorizing how to respond. 00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:53.120 So 00:42:54.080 --> 00:42:57.680 if you get an individual with an exceptional memory, he could be 00:42:57.680 --> 00:42:58.720 a very good chess player. 00:42:58.720 --> 00:43:02.720 I'm thinking of a parallel in the gentleman who won the Scrabble 00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:08.640 tournament in French without speaking French, because he memorized the French dictionary, 00:43:08.640 --> 00:43:11.280 which seems like a weird way to do it, but it worked. 00:43:11.600 --> 00:43:16.160 So if you have the memory for it, you don't necessarily have 00:43:16.160 --> 00:43:17.760 to be good at strategy. 00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:21.520 There are other games that are more in terms of strategy. 00:43:21.520 --> 00:43:23.600 I'm thinking of Go, for instance. 00:43:23.600 --> 00:43:27.680 That one seems like it's also slowly moving toward being a solved 00:43:27.680 --> 00:43:30.480 game, in which case it's not a pure strategy game. 00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:34.080 But for practical purposes for a human being, that one's going to 00:43:34.080 --> 00:43:36.800 be a strategy game just because you can't memorize. 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:40.960 Chess, you can't effectively memorize enough that it's no longer a strategy 00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:46.880 game. Now, is it a strategy game for individuals who are new 00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:47.360 to it? 00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:51.440 Absolutely, because you're having to use strategy to determine what you're going 00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:51.600 to do 00:43:52.640 --> 00:43:54.640 because you don't know the responses. 00:43:54.640 --> 00:43:56.240 You haven't memorized them. 00:43:56.240 --> 00:43:59.600 So I think that in some cases it's just a matter of 00:43:59.920 --> 00:44:06.400 Jews definitely do push education and if you invest the hours in 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:11.360 doing chess, right, in memorizing how to respond and analyzing games and 00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:16.080 watching games, if you have the intellectual capacity to store all of 00:44:16.080 --> 00:44:18.400 that, you can become a good chess player. 00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:21.120 So I think it's time investment is a huge part of it. 00:44:21.120 --> 00:44:26.720 And certainly the Ashkenazi Jews do produce some intelligent individuals. 00:44:26.720 --> 00:44:29.760 Their IQ is overblown deliberately. 00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:31.760 I know how they fudged the statistics for that. 00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:33.600 I know how they played the game. 00:44:33.600 --> 00:44:36.800 But they're not dumb, right? 00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:40.080 They still produce some highly intelligent men. 00:44:40.080 --> 00:44:42.160 The Sephard and much less so. 00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:46.160 so if you have that combination of pushing education and all these 00:44:46.160 --> 00:44:50.400 hours invested in this thing, and bear in mind they don't play 00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:54.800 sports, so they're doing something else instead, usually it's music or something 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:56.320 like chess. 00:44:56.320 --> 00:44:58.480 Studying the Talmud. 00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:00.320 It makes perfect sense. 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:03.680 If it were a game of pure strategy, then there would be 00:45:03.680 --> 00:45:05.280 some other more interesting questions. 00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:08.800 But given that chess isn't I don't find it a particularly interesting 00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:11.680 thing. If you like chess, by all means play chess. 00:45:11.680 --> 00:45:14.240 Never was something that particularly interested me. 00:45:14.240 --> 00:45:17.600 I probably own a dozen chess boards because people have given them 00:45:17.600 --> 00:45:19.360 to me over the years for some reason. 00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:23.520 I mostly use them as a base for house plants. 00:45:23.520 --> 00:45:25.440 Just not my game. 00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:28.960 But I think that's basically the explanation of why you see that 00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:33.360 overrepresentation there. 00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:35.840 I'll actually write that down so I remember to put it in 00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:41.360 the show notes. 00:45:41.520 --> 00:45:43.120 Question ten. 00:45:43.120 --> 00:45:46.000 What do you think about the recent changes made to the US 00:45:46.080 --> 00:45:47.520 Forest Service? 00:45:47.520 --> 00:45:51.760 I cannot answer that one because I did not actually look at 00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:53.680 what they were. 00:45:53.680 --> 00:45:57.600 There were some sensationalist headlines, and then I saw that they are 00:45:57.600 --> 00:46:00.800 moving their headquarters and that they're restructuring, but I didn't look at 00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:04.480 the actual overall overall impact, so I can't really assess it in 00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.040 a fair way because I don't know what they're doing. 00:46:07.040 --> 00:46:10.240 I could say that hypothetically, if they are cutting the budget, that 00:46:10.240 --> 00:46:10.960 is bad. 00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:13.840 The Forest Service is one of the handful of things the government 00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:15.760 does that is actually very good. 00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:20.000 And I think that we should have better funding for the national 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:21.200 and state parks. 00:46:21.200 --> 00:46:22.560 National and state parks. 00:46:22.560 --> 00:46:24.480 They are a vital part of our country. 00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:25.680 They should be respected and protected 00:46:26.640 --> 00:46:32.880 And We should be punishing litterers significantly more heavily. 00:46:33.040 --> 00:46:34.000 Question 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:35.600 eleven 00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:44.480 Given that the mind is obsessed with origin stories, to what extent 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:47.040 is it knowable who or what was on the earth at the 00:46:47.040 --> 00:46:48.880 time of Adam and Eve? 00:46:48.880 --> 00:46:51.440 Surely it was not just two people in a garden where they 00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:53.520 God's creation is part of creation. 00:46:53.600 --> 00:46:56.080 Genesis is literal. 00:46:56.080 --> 00:46:57.920 The creation story is literal. 00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:02.320 Adam and Eve were the first two human beings, Adam being created 00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:04.880 first, Eve being created from Adam. 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:06.240 There were no other human beings. 00:47:06.240 --> 00:47:09.040 It is not, I this is referencing the theory that there were 00:47:09.040 --> 00:47:12.640 other hominids and that Adam and Eve were elevated from them and 00:47:12.640 --> 00:47:14.320 turned into human beings. 00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:20.320 And that's trying to square the Darwinian explanation for the origin of 00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:24.320 life with Christianity and the two are not compatible. 00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:30.080 Evolution and Christianity are compatible in the sense of microevolution and 00:47:31.600 --> 00:47:34.560 I don't know if we necessarily have a term for it, but 00:47:34.560 --> 00:47:41.600 not speciation, but the creation of essentially subspecies, breeds, races, whatever you 00:47:41.600 --> 00:47:42.160 want to call them. 00:47:42.160 --> 00:47:43.840 We use different terms for different creatures, right? 00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:46.000 We call dogs breeds and humans races. 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:48.080 Same thing. 00:47:48.080 --> 00:47:49.360 That happened. 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:50.960 That's microevolution. 00:47:51.040 --> 00:47:57.200 You do not have the macroevolution of going from a fish to 00:47:57.200 --> 00:47:58.560 a human being. 00:47:58.560 --> 00:48:00.880 That's nonsense, that didn't happen. 00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:03.440 But yes, Adam and Eve were the first two human beings, and 00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:05.520 we are all descended from them. 00:48:05.520 --> 00:48:09.440 And everything in scripture relies on that being the case. 00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:11.760 That is how original sin works. 00:48:11.760 --> 00:48:13.920 That is how the atonement works. 00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:16.320 Everything relies on that fact. 00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:20.800 So, yes, every single human being living today is a son or 00:48:20.720 --> 00:48:23.920 a son or daughter of Adam. 00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:25.600 For better or worse. 00:48:25.600 --> 00:48:29.760 Because if you're human being, then you have a final destination. 00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:32.480 For some people it would probably be better, it would definitely be 00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:34.720 better if they were not human. 00:48:34.720 --> 00:48:38.240 Because then they would not go to hell for eternity. 00:48:38.240 --> 00:48:41.040 And I can safely say that because you can think of course 00:48:41.040 --> 00:48:43.440 what Christ said about Judas, it would be better for that one 00:48:43.440 --> 00:48:47.680 if he had not been born. 00:48:47.680 --> 00:48:50.320 Question twelve. 00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:53.280 Have you ever had an encounter with an LDS missionary? 00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:55.280 It's almost like debating with a Muslim. 00:48:55.280 --> 00:48:58.240 That That's true actually in my experience. 00:48:58.240 --> 00:49:00.000 There's almost no getting through to them. 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.640 Any advice when running into those with false religions? 00:49:04.640 --> 00:49:11.360 So insofar as that last bit expands it to all false religions, 00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:14.320 it's going to depend on the religion, right? 00:49:14.640 --> 00:49:17.680 Muslims and Mormons are going to be very hard to reach. 00:49:17.680 --> 00:49:20.880 Incidentally, Jehovah's Witnesses are also pretty hard to reach. 00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:23.040 They are also quite stubborn 00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:25.840 and they're very bad at Greek. 00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:28.160 That doesn't help. 00:49:28.160 --> 00:49:30.320 Which is relevant for them, of course. 00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:33.680 When it the Mormons are the same actually, they also argue a 00:49:33.680 --> 00:49:35.440 little bit of that. 00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:38.080 The Mormons if you can get through to them with regard to 00:49:38.080 --> 00:49:42.400 the history, you can maybe make some progress. 00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:49.840 Because the history of the Mormon so-called church is crazy stuff that 00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:55.920 does not strike any sane man as being the behavior and the 00:49:55.920 --> 00:50:00.000 actions of a church. 00:50:00.640 --> 00:50:05.040 Like, the prophets were not good men in the the Mormon faith 00:50:05.200 --> 00:50:08.400 You know, you have them riding drunk through town, naked on a 00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:13.360 horse, womanizing, sleeping with wives of their followers. 00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:15.520 There's all sorts of horrible things going on there. 00:50:15.520 --> 00:50:17.680 These are not good men, these are not the men you want 00:50:17.680 --> 00:50:18.720 to follow. 00:50:18.720 --> 00:50:22.560 And the claims of Mormonism are absurd. 00:50:22.560 --> 00:50:25.440 Don't even get into the, you know, you get your own planet 00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:28.720 and a harem of wives, and they spend all of eternity pregnant, 00:50:28.720 --> 00:50:32.240 and then you have enough children, you basically start your own universe, 00:50:32.240 --> 00:50:37.280 and they s just you know it gets crazy. 00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:41.120 The historical claims are falsifiable, right? 00:50:41.120 --> 00:50:44.400 If you make historical claims, those are falsifiable 00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:46.400 to some degree, right? 00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:50.080 If you make a claim about this man like that person or 00:50:50.080 --> 00:50:52.320 dislike that man, that's harder to prove. 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:56.560 But if you say that a giant battle took place in Missouri, 00:50:56.560 --> 00:51:01.920 well we can go excavate Missouri, and if we don't find it, 00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:04.480 there's a problem with your religion. 00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:08.240 Every time they go and try to excavate something the Bible claims, 00:51:08.240 --> 00:51:09.920 they find the thing eventually. 00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:12.000 Sometimes it takes them a while to figure out where it is, 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:16.640 you know, Jericho or various battles or Egyptian cities and stuff like 00:51:16.640 --> 00:51:19.040 that. It takes them while to find it sometimes, but they eventually 00:51:19.040 --> 00:51:22.560 find it, and then lo and behold, it has the names we 00:51:22.560 --> 00:51:24.240 find in Scripture. 00:51:24.240 --> 00:51:27.680 It is the same timeline we find in Scripture. 00:51:27.680 --> 00:51:30.880 They find something that comes from Solomon or that comes from David 00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:33.440 or comes from a certain Pharaoh. 00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:35.760 That doesn't happen with Mormonism. 00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:40.720 The Mormon Church has spent untold amounts of money, because they have 00:51:40.720 --> 00:51:45.040 billions of dollars, trying to excavate things claimed by the Book of 00:51:45.040 --> 00:51:48.240 Mormon, and found nothing. 00:51:48.560 --> 00:51:49.520 It's not there. 00:51:49.520 --> 00:51:50.880 There's nothing there. 00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:55.360 There's also the fact that the Book of Mormon is weird fanfiction 00:51:55.760 --> 00:52:00.080 that was more or less originally a science fiction story that became 00:52:00.080 --> 00:52:00.480 a religion. 00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:01.520 So he kind of sounds like L. 00:52:01.520 --> 00:52:03.120 Ron Howard, but 00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:10.160 you kinda have to try to get through to them in whatever 00:52:10.160 --> 00:52:12.080 way is going to work for that person, right? 00:52:12.080 --> 00:52:14.800 You have to find the argument is most convincing for them. 00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:17.200 Some people, the history will work. 00:52:17.200 --> 00:52:20.320 Some are just going to say, well we haven't found it yet. 00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:24.800 Okay. That kind of person is going to be very hard to 00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:28.640 persuade because he's going to be persuaded by nothing he's always going 00:52:28.640 --> 00:52:31.040 to say, we haven't found it yet. 00:52:31.040 --> 00:52:34.240 It will always be yet for that person. 00:52:34.240 --> 00:52:40.080 And for Mormons, the biggest part actually isn't necessarily the theology and 00:52:40.080 --> 00:52:43.520 things like that, insofar as they have theology. 00:52:43.520 --> 00:52:49.920 It's more that if you leave the Mormon church, you lose everyone. 00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:53.680 They will all shun you, they will abandon you, in some cases 00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:58.720 worse, you lose your friends, you lose family, you lose connections. 00:52:58.720 --> 00:53:02.640 They lose their entire support structure, and that's very difficult. 00:53:02.640 --> 00:53:07.600 So, a big part of converting Mormons is 00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:13.280 coming alongside them when they convert and giving them a new support 00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:14.160 structure, right? 00:53:14.160 --> 00:53:17.680 They're going to need friends and connections and employment and all these 00:53:17.680 --> 00:53:21.760 things because they're going to lose that when they leave Mormonism. 00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:24.400 And in many cases, they're going to have to move physically physically 00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:28.640 relocate to not be in a Mormon part of the country. 00:53:28.640 --> 00:53:33.520 So that's a big part of evangelizing and converting Mormons is giving 00:53:33.520 --> 00:53:37.120 them another life essentially because they're going to lose the one they 00:53:37.120 --> 00:53:38.000 had in Mormonism. 00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:41.440 They need to have something else, or else they're very few men 00:53:41.440 --> 00:53:42.880 will make that jump, right? 00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:45.680 But there's nothing to catch them. 00:53:45.680 --> 00:53:46.000 But 00:53:47.520 --> 00:53:48.880 Persuading them is very difficult 00:53:50.080 --> 00:53:50.400 because 00:53:51.680 --> 00:53:58.000 they don't necessarily make a rational argument to each other. 00:53:58.000 --> 00:54:00.320 And so you're not addressing a rational argument. 00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:04.160 It's not that they have made this series of points and arguments 00:54:04.320 --> 00:54:07.120 and then concluded something based on that. 00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:10.320 Because if you have that, well you can attack the points, or 00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:13.360 you can attack the logic, you can attack the conclusion. 00:54:13.360 --> 00:54:16.640 The big thing for the Mormons is do you have a burning 00:54:16.640 --> 00:54:18.720 in the bosom? 00:54:18.720 --> 00:54:22.960 When we talk about this stuff, do you feel inside of you 00:54:23.200 --> 00:54:29.200 that it's real, that this is god and that's a manufactured feeling. 00:54:29.200 --> 00:54:36.560 It's the same reason that traditional Christians object to Pentecostalism, because Pentecostalism 00:54:36.560 --> 00:54:38.880 and Mormonism are brothers. 00:54:38.880 --> 00:54:40.080 They are related. 00:54:40.080 --> 00:54:43.920 I'm not saying Pentecostals go to hell, because Pentecostals happen to have 00:54:44.240 --> 00:54:47.520 better theology, I'm not going to say good theology, but better theology 00:54:47.680 --> 00:54:48.800 than the Mormons. 00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:51.200 They can be saved, they still trust in Jesus. 00:54:51.200 --> 00:54:51.520 But 00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:57.040 their arguments, their way of arriving at that, those are horrible. 00:54:57.120 --> 00:55:00.640 Because they do the same sort of burning in the bosom, right? 00:55:00.640 --> 00:55:03.280 The you feel a fire of the Holy Spirit, whatever it happens 00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:05.040 to be. 00:55:05.040 --> 00:55:07.120 You don't want to go down that road. 00:55:07.120 --> 00:55:10.720 And so, like I said for Mormons, it's very difficult to try 00:55:10.720 --> 00:55:12.240 to reach them. 00:55:12.240 --> 00:55:12.560 And 00:55:13.520 --> 00:55:16.880 I think part of it is going to be a state solution, 00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:20.880 because false religions are supposed to be suppressed by a Christian ruler. 00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:23.680 And I don't think there will ever be a true solution to 00:55:23.680 --> 00:55:27.440 the Mormons and other groups like that without a Christian prince. 00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:32.080 Without a Christian state enforcing punishments for false teachers. 00:55:32.080 --> 00:55:34.880 Because most of them you strike the shepherd, the sheep will flee, 00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:38.720 right? You're not going to have to convert every single individual. 00:55:38.720 --> 00:55:41.520 Usually when you get rid of a number of false teachers, the 00:55:41.520 --> 00:55:44.160 sheep will wander into some other pasture. 00:55:44.160 --> 00:55:44.480 So 00:55:46.080 --> 00:55:51.200 But insofar as trying to convert individual Mormons, you are probably going 00:55:51.200 --> 00:55:54.160 to have to figure out where the chink in the armor is, 00:55:54.160 --> 00:55:59.120 right? Where they have some doubt about the Mormon claims. 00:55:59.120 --> 00:56:03.520 And maybe it's the nature of the prophets, they were terrible men. 00:56:03.520 --> 00:56:07.680 Maybe it's the historical claims, none of them have proven true. 00:56:07.680 --> 00:56:14.560 Maybe it's the absurdity of the claims about essentially eschatology, right? 00:56:14.560 --> 00:56:16.560 You get your own planet and a harem of wives, you keep 00:56:16.560 --> 00:56:18.240 pregnant for eternity. 00:56:18.240 --> 00:56:21.840 This is not the sort of thing that someone takes seriously as 00:56:21.840 --> 00:56:23.280 a religion. 00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:26.240 That's more something that someone finds in 00:56:27.120 --> 00:56:30.320 a science fiction book written by someone in the sixties who was 00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:32.400 doing a number of substances. 00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:33.360 So it just depends. 00:56:33.360 --> 00:56:36.480 You're going to have to figure out How that man is going 00:56:36.480 --> 00:56:39.920 to respond to a particular argument, and part of it is just 00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:41.680 having the discussion with him. 00:56:41.680 --> 00:56:43.920 If this is someone who is a friend and that's going to 00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:49.120 make it a little easier, take your time, develop that argument, figure 00:56:49.120 --> 00:56:52.480 out what he believes about it, why he believes it. 00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:53.840 Figure out why he's a Mormon. 00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:56.720 Maybe he doesn't really believe, maybe it's just for business connections. 00:56:56.720 --> 00:56:57.920 That happens a lot. 00:56:57.920 --> 00:56:59.840 I know some men like that, unfortunately. 00:56:59.840 --> 00:57:02.640 I wish they wouldn't do that, but that's part of it. 00:57:02.640 --> 00:57:05.840 You have to figure out the man and the argument that will 00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:10.240 work for him. 00:57:20.080 --> 00:57:22.160 Question thirteen 00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:27.200 What prophecies need to happen before Jesus returns? 00:57:28.240 --> 00:57:32.320 I have touched on that one in a previous episode, so hopefully 00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:37.600 someone will link to that, but I'll also briefly address it here. 00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:44.160 There are a number of prophecies that have not yet come true. 00:57:44.160 --> 00:57:49.760 Some of them are up in the air because there are multiple 00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:55.760 potential interpretations that I think are equally valid, and we don't know 00:57:56.560 --> 00:57:58.400 which one is true, right? 00:57:58.640 --> 00:58:01.600 So for instance, the two prophets in Revelation. 00:58:01.600 --> 00:58:04.960 We don't know if those are actually two prophets or if they 00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:09.760 are symbolic of, say, institutions or something like that. 00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:12.080 So are they extant? 00:58:12.080 --> 00:58:15.920 Are they two physical men we're waiting for them to appear? 00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:17.760 We don't really know. 00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:23.040 And so maybe it's fulfilled, maybe it's not. 00:58:23.040 --> 00:58:26.720 I don't think things are bad enough for this to be the 00:58:26.720 --> 00:58:28.560 end of the period of tribulation, right? 00:58:28.560 --> 00:58:33.120 And you can interpret the tribulation as being seven literal years or 00:58:33.120 --> 00:58:35.760 being a perfect time because seven's symbolic. 00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:39.600 However you interpret that, things get worse near the end. 00:58:39.600 --> 00:58:43.680 I don't think they're bad enough yet that it qualifies as the 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:46.480 end. So they're going to get worse. 00:58:46.480 --> 00:58:51.360 Not necessarily for us, because maybe it's the end, maybe it's not. 00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:54.160 If it's not the end, perhaps it's cyclical. 00:58:54.160 --> 00:58:56.160 Things will get better and get worse and get better and get 00:58:56.160 --> 00:59:00.000 worse. Get worse and eventually they get so bad it's the end. 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:02.960 So if it's the end, they're going to get worse. 00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:06.000 If it's not yet the end, I think they'll get better. 00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:08.400 I don't know which one of those it is. 00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:10.560 That's right, that's in God's wisdom. 00:59:10.560 --> 00:59:14.080 No man knows the hour of the day. 00:59:14.080 --> 00:59:14.400 But 00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:20.320 there are some signs that do not seem like they have taken 00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:22.880 place in their fullness yet. 00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:28.320 Which is related to how scripture is often fulfilled in terms of 00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:29.840 prophecies in scripture. 00:59:29.840 --> 00:59:33.920 There's often cyclical fulfillment, which is to say that there are lesser 00:59:33.920 --> 00:59:38.960 fulfillments or typological fulfillments, and then the greater and full, as it 00:59:38.960 --> 00:59:42.320 were, complete fulfillment at some point in the future, right? 00:59:43.200 --> 00:59:47.920 This is similar to how you have typology with reference to types 00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:50.160 of Christ in the Old Testament. 00:59:50.160 --> 00:59:51.840 David is a type of Christ. 00:59:51.840 --> 00:59:53.360 Solomon is a type of Christ. 00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:54.960 Joshua is a type of Christ. 00:59:54.960 --> 00:59:57.680 Joshua, incidentally, his name is Jesus. 00:59:57.680 --> 01:00:01.760 That's just translated differently because someone felt like doing that. 01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:04.800 I've been reading through the Septuagint for the through the Bible in 01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:07.040 a year podcast, and I've been calling him Jesus. 01:00:07.040 --> 01:00:09.760 We're in judges now, but I was calling him Jesus when I 01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:12.400 was reading through Joshua Jesus, whichever one you want to call the 01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:16.320 book. You have these types of Christ, and then Christ is the 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:19.120 fulfillment. Christ is the antitype. 01:00:19.120 --> 01:00:24.560 You have the same thing with regard to various fulfillments of prophecies 01:00:24.560 --> 01:00:25.920 about the end times. 01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:30.000 You have some that are basically typological echoes of that. 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:36.240 And so to some degree, 70 AD is a type of the 01:00:36.240 --> 01:00:38.960 last day of the final judgment. 01:00:38.960 --> 01:00:40.560 That's a fulfillment of prophecy. 01:00:40.640 --> 01:00:41.840 It's a partial fulfillment. 01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:44.240 The full one hasn't happened yet. 01:00:44.240 --> 01:00:47.440 So some of these are going to be wisdom calls. 01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:51.360 Some of these we're probably not going to know until the trumpets 01:00:51.520 --> 01:00:53.520 sound and it's the final day. 01:00:53.520 --> 01:01:00.480 So So, practically speaking, for Christians, it doesn't matter. 01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:02.320 It just doesn't really matter. 01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:02.880 If 01:01:04.080 --> 01:01:07.280 the last day, if the final judgment is going to come in 01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:11.760 783 days, or if it's going to be in six hours, again, 01:01:11.760 --> 01:01:13.760 I don't think they're all the signs are fulfilled, so I don't 01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:16.800 think it can be in six hours, but regardless of when it's 01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:20.320 going to come, how much does it really change your life? 01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:23.360 I can hearken back to what I said from Luther earlier. 01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:26.320 Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, 01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:29.520 I would still plant my apple tree today, right? 01:01:29.760 --> 01:01:30.560 Same thing. 01:01:30.560 --> 01:01:34.080 You live your life as a Christian even if it looks like 01:01:34.080 --> 01:01:36.240 everything is drawing to a close. 01:01:36.240 --> 01:01:39.280 Because your duty is still to live your life as a Christian. 01:01:39.280 --> 01:01:42.160 And maybe it's the end, maybe it's not. 01:01:42.160 --> 01:01:45.520 It doesn't really matter for how you live your life because you 01:01:45.520 --> 01:01:49.200 certainly shouldn't be waiting the last minute to repent. 01:01:49.200 --> 01:01:54.400 And another salient point that I've brought out many times before is 01:01:54.800 --> 01:01:59.520 for all of us, heaven is an instant away, or hell. 01:01:59.520 --> 01:02:02.560 Hopefully not hell for anyone listening, but heaven or hell is an 01:02:02.560 --> 01:02:04.080 instant away, right? 01:02:05.600 --> 01:02:09.200 Just because the end times aren't going to happen soon, maybe they 01:02:09.200 --> 01:02:13.680 are, maybe they aren't, doesn't mean that I'm going to live forever. 01:02:13.680 --> 01:02:14.800 I'm mortal. 01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:17.040 I could have a heart attack while I'm recording this or an 01:02:17.040 --> 01:02:19.920 aneurysm. I could any number of ways I could die while I'm 01:02:19.840 --> 01:02:21.200 sitting here. 01:02:21.200 --> 01:02:26.480 So you should always live your life as you should. 01:02:26.480 --> 01:02:28.400 Right? You should live your life as a Christian. 01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:31.920 You don't try to wait and have the deathbed repentance because you 01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:34.640 could get hit by a semi tomorrow on the highway. 01:02:34.640 --> 01:02:36.800 Increasing odds of that due to immigration. 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:36.960 But 01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:42.560 you live your life as a Christian and God takes care of 01:02:42.560 --> 01:02:43.840 the rest. 01:02:43.840 --> 01:02:48.160 You can't guard against every sort of harm, you can't hedge your 01:02:48.160 --> 01:02:53.360 bets on everything So you do your duty and you let God 01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:55.600 take care of the things like when he's going to draw the 01:02:55.600 --> 01:02:57.360 universe to a close. 01:02:57.360 --> 01:02:58.880 Is it interesting? 01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:02.560 Sure, there's some interest there, but I find that when people focus 01:03:03.040 --> 01:03:07.600 too heavily on revelation and things like that, Daniel, it pulls them 01:03:07.600 --> 01:03:10.320 away from the things that truly matter, the things that are more 01:03:10.320 --> 01:03:14.640 important, and the things that are actually about living a Christian life, 01:03:14.640 --> 01:03:19.200 instead of being obsessed with, you know, the secret counsel of God. 01:03:19.200 --> 01:03:22.240 God reserved those things for himself in large part, and when he 01:03:22.240 --> 01:03:25.520 wrote about them, he wrote about them in a way that in 01:03:25.520 --> 01:03:28.080 some ways is open to interpretation. 01:03:28.080 --> 01:03:30.080 I think he did that deliberately. 01:03:30.080 --> 01:03:33.680 He's very clear about the parts of scripture where he wants us 01:03:33.680 --> 01:03:38.960 to have no question, and then he deals with all the figurative 01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:40.800 stuff in Revelation. 01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:43.600 So just don't put too much emphasis on it. 01:03:43.600 --> 01:03:47.520 Focus on living a Christian life instead, and things will end when 01:03:47.520 --> 01:03:50.240 they do. 01:03:50.240 --> 01:03:53.280 Hopefully the dog's barking is not coming through. 01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:02.400 Okay, question 01:04:03.920 --> 01:04:09.520 fourteen. 01:04:09.520 --> 01:04:09.840 How 01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:14.880 are we as Christians to view historical leaving of infant abandonment in 01:04:14.880 --> 01:04:18.960 the context of rural populations in countries such as Iceland? 01:04:18.960 --> 01:04:21.280 So exposure. 01:04:21.280 --> 01:04:27.040 This is a way that They used to deal with unwanted infants, 01:04:27.040 --> 01:04:31.840 which is to say that it was effectively a post-birth abortion, which 01:04:31.840 --> 01:04:34.240 sort of gives away my answer. 01:04:34.240 --> 01:04:41.600 It is not morally permissible to leave in infants or invalids, others 01:04:41.920 --> 01:04:46.400 out in nature and let them die from exposure. 01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:49.680 Anyone who is born, we have a duty to care for that 01:04:49.680 --> 01:04:51.760 person as best we can. 01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:56.240 Now, under starvation conditions, which certainly have occurred in some of those 01:04:56.240 --> 01:05:00.000 countries, for obvious reasons, you know, the crop fails and you don't 01:04:59.920 --> 01:05:03.360 have sufficient stores, then yes, you're going to have to make some 01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:04.320 hard calls. 01:05:04.320 --> 01:05:10.560 But you do not deliberately start killing members of your population in 01:05:10.560 --> 01:05:13.920 order to deal with that. 01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:16.720 It doesn't mean that there's an easy solution. 01:05:16.720 --> 01:05:19.360 Because often in life there are no easy solutions. 01:05:19.360 --> 01:05:22.640 These days we don't have those problems, thankfully. 01:05:22.640 --> 01:05:27.360 But it was not a morally permissible thing to do. 01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:29.920 That is not an acceptable form of eugenics. 01:05:29.920 --> 01:05:32.560 So no, they should not have been doing that. 01:05:37.600 --> 01:05:39.840 I'm not going to number this one, but someone asked my way 01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:40.800 to shave my beard. 01:05:40.800 --> 01:05:42.240 Very unlikely. 01:05:55.440 --> 01:05:57.440 The question what is this? 01:05:57.440 --> 01:05:59.120 Fifteen. Question fifteen. 01:05:59.120 --> 01:06:01.600 How did Cain find a wife? 01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:07.120 Not all of the children of the patriarchs are recorded in Scripture. 01:06:07.120 --> 01:06:12.640 There are individuals for whom Scripture records all of their children, and 01:06:12.640 --> 01:06:16.080 there are those for whom Scripture does not record all their children. 01:06:16.080 --> 01:06:19.520 And in many cases it says that the person lived X years 01:06:19.520 --> 01:06:20.960 and had other sons and daughters. 01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:22.880 That's the case for Adam and Eve. 01:06:22.880 --> 01:06:26.400 So he married a daughter of Adam and Eve. 01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:29.760 Which yes means he married a sister. 01:06:29.760 --> 01:06:34.080 But back then they did not have the genetic problems that populations 01:06:34.080 --> 01:06:35.200 have today. 01:06:35.200 --> 01:06:36.480 And this is 01:06:40.080 --> 01:06:44.480 this is an important point to make because one of the reasons 01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:47.600 that we have so many problems in certain populations in the world 01:06:47.600 --> 01:06:52.400 is because they've engaged in inbreeding, usually first cousin marriage, over many 01:06:52.400 --> 01:06:53.920 hundreds of years. 01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:56.560 That leads to the genetic issues they have. 01:06:56.560 --> 01:07:00.800 The reason it does that is that if you have a defective 01:07:01.120 --> 01:07:05.520 gene, right, or you have some part of your DNA has some 01:07:05.520 --> 01:07:10.960 problem, and then you pair off with someone who also has that 01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:16.240 problem, you pass on the problem guaranteed to your children. 01:07:16.240 --> 01:07:21.680 But say, if you have one defective gene from one parent and 01:07:21.680 --> 01:07:25.440 a non-defective one from the other parent, and assuming that the non-defective 01:07:25.520 --> 01:07:30.880 one expresses itself, assuming how the dominance works, then you're still fine. 01:07:30.880 --> 01:07:36.000 And if you pass on the defective gene to your child, but 01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:38.880 you have paired off with someone who does not have the defective 01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:43.040 gene, the child doesn't have the problem, assuming again dominance of the 01:07:43.040 --> 01:07:44.400 non-defective gene. 01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:47.520 Or maybe you don't pass on the defective one. 01:07:47.680 --> 01:07:52.240 These problems, as you can see, concentrate if you have a population 01:07:52.240 --> 01:07:55.600 where there is a defective version of the gene and then they 01:07:55.600 --> 01:07:59.680 inbreed. That's the issue in places like India and large parts of 01:07:59.680 --> 01:08:02.640 Africa. For related but different reasons. 01:08:02.640 --> 01:08:05.120 They're distinct there. 01:08:05.120 --> 01:08:08.080 This was not a problem back at the time of Adam and 01:08:08.080 --> 01:08:13.040 Eve. God even hadn't enacted the laws yet against marrying your close 01:08:13.040 --> 01:08:14.880 relatives because it was not a problem 01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:17.440 at the time. 01:08:17.440 --> 01:08:22.320 It has become a problem due to G due to degeneration after 01:08:22.320 --> 01:08:23.280 the fall. 01:08:23.280 --> 01:08:29.440 If we were still perfect, unfallen, like Adam and Eve, maybe God 01:08:29.440 --> 01:08:32.640 would have enacted that law for other reasons. 01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:36.800 Maybe he would not have done so, but the biological issues would 01:08:36.800 --> 01:08:37.760 not have arisen. 01:08:37.760 --> 01:08:41.600 They have arisen due to the fact that we are degenerating, which 01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:43.680 is incidentally a condemnation of evolution. 01:08:43.680 --> 01:08:45.840 We're not getting better, we're getting worse. 01:08:45.840 --> 01:08:48.720 So yes, he married his sister. 01:08:48.720 --> 01:08:50.960 Incidentally, so did Abraham. 01:08:50.960 --> 01:08:54.000 But it was not morally impermissible at the time, so he was 01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:55.040 not sinning when he did 01:08:55.040 --> 01:08:55.360 it 01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:06.640 Question sixteen 01:09:11.040 --> 01:09:11.360 I think 01:09:11.440 --> 01:09:15.200 I'll maybe answer probably one or two more tonight. 01:09:15.200 --> 01:09:16.640 Scroll through the chat quickly. 01:09:16.640 --> 01:09:20.240 I'll I'll copy the ones that I don't answer tonight. 01:09:20.240 --> 01:09:23.920 What are the benefits of exclusively using pen and paper, which you 01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:24.640 seemingly do? 01:09:24.640 --> 01:09:29.200 There must be sufficient advantages that compensate for the transcription time. 01:09:29.200 --> 01:09:33.520 I do actually type some things, but certainly essays and things like 01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:35.440 that I handwrite them first. 01:09:35.440 --> 01:09:40.000 If I have a homily, which I do every so often. 01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:43.440 More often than I actually type them up and read them, but 01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:47.440 those I handwrite, essays again I handwrite. 01:09:47.440 --> 01:09:51.360 All my articles were handwritten first, except I think maybe one was 01:09:51.360 --> 01:09:55.360 not. The benefits of pen and paper. 01:09:55.360 --> 01:09:59.120 These days you have the benefit of a physical copy, right? 01:09:59.120 --> 01:10:01.120 So you could do the same thing if you print it off, 01:10:01.120 --> 01:10:03.760 except then you have to fight with a printer, which worst piece 01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:06.400 of hardware ever invented by humanity. 01:10:06.400 --> 01:10:14.400 But that aside, there are psychological benefits to physically writing. 01:10:14.400 --> 01:10:16.720 Yes, it helps with fine motor control. 01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:18.800 That's more of a concern for small children. 01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:22.160 One of the reasons we should still teach children cursive, it teaches 01:10:22.160 --> 01:10:23.840 that fine motor control. 01:10:23.840 --> 01:10:28.960 You see greater problems with that in Gen Alpha and even Gen 01:10:28.960 --> 01:10:32.640 Z because they did not learn cursive versus millennials and older we 01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:33.680 did learn cursive. 01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:38.480 Not all millennials, some schools had abandoned it, mine had not. 01:10:38.480 --> 01:10:43.760 But you actually think about things and process them differently when you 01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:48.800 are forced to slow down and you're also engaging more of your 01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:54.720 senses. You're engaging physically with the work that you are doing. 01:10:54.720 --> 01:10:57.360 And human beings are physical, right? 01:10:57.360 --> 01:10:58.400 We are our bodies. 01:10:58.400 --> 01:11:01.040 We're not, again, I say this all the time, but you are 01:11:01.040 --> 01:11:04.240 not a spirit piloting a meat mech, or however you want to 01:11:04.240 --> 01:11:05.120 think about it. 01:11:05.120 --> 01:11:08.400 You are your body, you are your soul, you are your mind, 01:11:08.400 --> 01:11:10.480 you are all of those things, you are the sum of them 01:11:10.640 --> 01:11:14.000 greater than the part than the parts, right? 01:11:14.320 --> 01:11:16.880 Engaging those additional senses is important. 01:11:17.680 --> 01:11:22.480 And on a practical note, or perhaps impractical note, depending on how 01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:24.960 you want to look at it, it's just more pleasant. 01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:25.840 It's nice. 01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:30.640 It's a hobby to some degree collecting, you know, pens and inks 01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:31.520 and things like that. 01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:32.960 It's nice to have the options. 01:11:32.960 --> 01:11:35.680 You can pick what color, you know, if you happen to like 01:11:35.680 --> 01:11:37.440 one color more than the other. 01:11:37.440 --> 01:11:42.000 I had someone who was asking me about the the sailor ink 01:11:42.080 --> 01:11:46.880 that I just started using and so I have certainly that color 01:11:47.040 --> 01:11:49.440 now, so that's the the color of it. 01:11:49.440 --> 01:11:53.760 It's actually quite quite nice light blue, sort of a almost turquoise. 01:11:53.760 --> 01:11:55.040 It's just more pleasant. 01:11:55.040 --> 01:11:58.160 But I do think it is also beneficial, so I think people 01:11:58.320 --> 01:12:00.960 would benefit from at least writing a little bit, even if it's 01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:03.120 just keeping a journal, that's perfectly fine. 01:12:03.120 --> 01:12:05.840 Journal, diary, whatever you want to call it. 01:12:05.840 --> 01:12:07.920 It does not make it feminine if you call it a diary. 01:12:07.920 --> 01:12:09.760 Diary just means a day book, right? 01:12:09.760 --> 01:12:11.920 It's from Latin for day. 01:12:11.920 --> 01:12:14.080 But that's basically the reason that I do it. 01:12:14.080 --> 01:12:17.040 And like I said, it is nice to have the physical archive 01:12:17.120 --> 01:12:21.040 because I do keep the the physical notebooks and just store them. 01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:45.280 I think 01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:51.600 that is pretty much it for the questions in chat for this 01:12:51.600 --> 01:12:57.920 week. Let me see if there's one more. 01:12:57.920 --> 01:12:59.440 One more questional answer. 01:12:59.440 --> 01:13:00.560 Someone asked about 01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:07.600 I will be charitable questi countries like Somalia and Congo that have 01:13:07.600 --> 01:13:10.560 problems, which is an understatement. 01:13:10.800 --> 01:13:14.240 Will their IQs increase if they ban first cousin marriage? 01:13:14.240 --> 01:13:15.840 How many decades will it take? 01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:19.840 This is actually maybe I shouldn't have opened this can of worms 01:13:20.080 --> 01:13:24.000 this time, but because it's an important question and I think I 01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:25.200 will touch on it later 01:13:27.360 --> 01:13:32.320 in greater fullness, but I will touch on it briefly right now. 01:13:32.320 --> 01:13:32.640 This 01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:41.120 is a fundamental issue with regard to the difference between Christians and 01:13:42.080 --> 01:13:43.520 Darwinians, right? 01:13:43.520 --> 01:13:46.160 Darwinists, whatever you want to call them. 01:13:46.160 --> 01:13:50.560 Many of the neo-pagans, of course being Darwinian in their views. 01:13:50.560 --> 01:13:57.600 The The Darwinian, the evolutionist, the atheist, believes that we are trending 01:13:57.600 --> 01:14:04.720 upward. He believes that given sufficient time, we can simply get 01:14:04.720 --> 01:14:06.400 better. Right. 01:14:06.400 --> 01:14:12.080 The humanity of three thousand twenty six will be superior to the 01:14:12.080 --> 01:14:15.920 humanity of two thousand twenty six. 01:14:15.920 --> 01:14:18.000 That is not the case. 01:14:18.000 --> 01:14:19.840 We are not getting better. 01:14:19.840 --> 01:14:21.760 We are getting worse. 01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:26.400 Because, and this is the Christian view, due to the fall and 01:14:26.400 --> 01:14:31.840 due to the separation from God, creation is falling to chaos, it 01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:35.440 is falling apart, things are coming undone. 01:14:35.440 --> 01:14:39.440 And so we have more problems than our ancestors. 01:14:39.440 --> 01:14:42.320 We have health problems they did not have. 01:14:42.320 --> 01:14:45.040 They were superior to us in some ways. 01:14:45.040 --> 01:14:50.240 I don't necessarily think that our intellectual capacity has decreased too much 01:14:50.400 --> 01:14:53.520 because I can look at, you know, writings from thousands of years 01:14:53.520 --> 01:14:56.640 ago and they don't seem to be wildly more intelligent than we 01:14:56.640 --> 01:14:58.080 are we are, but 01:14:59.040 --> 01:15:03.040 things are running down in a very real way. 01:15:03.040 --> 01:15:05.120 So you have this sort of 01:15:06.080 --> 01:15:10.640 biological optimism over in the Darwinian camp that if we just enact 01:15:10.640 --> 01:15:13.360 the right policies, things will get better. 01:15:13.360 --> 01:15:16.640 And this bleeds over into Christian views as well. 01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:20.320 Because you'll get Christians who think if these countries that have all 01:15:20.320 --> 01:15:20.720 these problems 01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:26.160 would simply enact policies X, Y, and Z or you get the 01:15:26.160 --> 01:15:30.240 really simplistic, crazy ones who they they adopt the Constitution, right, then 01:15:30.240 --> 01:15:31.520 all their problems go away. 01:15:31.520 --> 01:15:37.120 And then you look at Liberia and well Liberia. 01:15:37.120 --> 01:15:42.640 Those measures will not solve the problem because the degeneration and the 01:15:42.640 --> 01:15:46.080 loss is a one-way street. 01:15:46.080 --> 01:15:51.360 The races of men, the nations that have degenerated to the point 01:15:51.360 --> 01:15:56.080 of somewhere like Somalia, will never rise back to what they could 01:15:56.080 --> 01:16:00.720 have been if they had not been demon worshipping savages. 01:16:00.720 --> 01:16:02.400 That is a one way street. 01:16:02.400 --> 01:16:05.040 The loss is permanent in this life. 01:16:05.040 --> 01:16:08.960 God will restore the ones that convert to Christianity in the next 01:16:08.960 --> 01:16:13.680 life, and so they'll be what they would have been, absent that 01:16:13.920 --> 01:16:18.720 long chain of wickedness that turned them into what they are today. 01:16:18.720 --> 01:16:22.400 But no, if you ban first cousin marriage, it does not increase 01:16:22.400 --> 01:16:25.920 the IQ of your country, it just stops the slide. 01:16:25.920 --> 01:16:27.680 That's all you can do. 01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:30.400 You can arrest the descent. 01:16:30.400 --> 01:16:33.520 You cannot reverse it in most cases. 01:16:33.520 --> 01:16:38.320 That doesn't mean, of course, that you can't increase the overall population 01:16:38.320 --> 01:16:39.280 to some degree, right? 01:16:39.280 --> 01:16:46.560 Because you can incentivize the more intelligent, healthier, more capable individuals in 01:16:46.560 --> 01:16:48.320 your population to have more children. 01:16:48.320 --> 01:16:52.720 That's eugenics, and that does work, but you will note you are 01:16:52.720 --> 01:16:56.400 not rising above the level of the best in your population. 01:16:56.400 --> 01:16:59.920 You are just bringing up the average in your population to what 01:16:59.920 --> 01:17:01.840 is the best in your population. 01:17:01.840 --> 01:17:03.520 Because there's a ceiling. 01:17:03.520 --> 01:17:06.480 The same thing is true for somewhere like Somalia, it's a much 01:17:06.480 --> 01:17:08.000 lower ceiling. 01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:08.320 So 01:17:09.280 --> 01:17:13.760 this is why we touched on the issue of race and things 01:17:13.760 --> 01:17:19.040 like that and treated it so extensively with Stone Choir. 01:17:19.040 --> 01:17:23.280 Because once these things are lost, they are lost forever in this 01:17:23.280 --> 01:17:25.520 life. You cannot bring them back. 01:17:25.520 --> 01:17:28.320 Now, yes, someone's going to say, well, what about CRISPR? 01:17:28.320 --> 01:17:35.840 And okay, assuming we somehow somehow achieve perfect insight into our genome, 01:17:35.840 --> 01:17:41.280 yes, in theory you can craft an artificial human being that is 01:17:42.400 --> 01:17:45.520 better in the sense of not having some of these defects. 01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:48.800 That is an entirely different can of worms, there are many problems 01:17:48.800 --> 01:17:51.440 there, and that is a pretty big assumption that we could even 01:17:51.440 --> 01:17:52.400 do it. 01:17:52.400 --> 01:17:54.080 Can we cure some small things? 01:17:54.080 --> 01:17:56.560 Absolutely. But what are we doing? 01:17:56.560 --> 01:17:59.760 We're curing the defect. 01:17:59.760 --> 01:18:02.640 We're not making humanity better. 01:18:02.640 --> 01:18:05.280 We're not creating a superior human being. 01:18:05.280 --> 01:18:07.280 Again, a topic for another time. 01:18:07.280 --> 01:18:12.640 But the basic answer here, and sort of the foundational the fundamental 01:18:12.640 --> 01:18:18.560 issue is that it is a one-way street which is why it 01:18:18.560 --> 01:18:23.280 is so important to enact policies that prevent us from becoming 01:18:24.320 --> 01:18:29.600 that. Because if we become that, we're never getting back to where 01:18:29.600 --> 01:18:31.040 we are. 01:18:31.040 --> 01:18:35.520 If Europe were to pursue the same sort of wickedness and evil 01:18:35.520 --> 01:18:39.760 over thousands of years or hundreds of years, depending on the intensity 01:18:39.760 --> 01:18:45.120 of the wickedness, that say India and some parts most of Africa, 01:18:45.120 --> 01:18:48.480 some parts of Asia, most of the New World, if we did 01:18:48.480 --> 01:18:51.360 the same thing and ended up like them, we would never get 01:18:51.360 --> 01:18:53.440 back to what our ancestors were. 01:18:53.440 --> 01:18:56.960 Because those individuals and those other nations will never get back to 01:18:56.960 --> 01:18:59.680 what their ancestors were. 01:18:59.680 --> 01:19:02.640 Ham was not a Somalian, right? 01:19:02.800 --> 01:19:04.480 The father of all Africa. 01:19:04.480 --> 01:19:06.880 He did not have an IQ of seventy. 01:19:06.880 --> 01:19:12.480 His progeny have IQs of 70, sometimes lower. 01:19:12.480 --> 01:19:17.440 Because of the effects of that accumulated wickedness and in large part 01:19:17.600 --> 01:19:20.480 the harsh reality of biology. 01:19:20.480 --> 01:19:28.240 Particularly sexual sins wind up with these dire consequences biologically. 01:19:28.240 --> 01:19:32.560 And this touches back on the issue of cousin marriage, right? 01:19:32.560 --> 01:19:34.000 That's a problem today. 01:19:34.000 --> 01:19:37.280 If you pursue that, if you engage in first cousin marriage for 01:19:37.280 --> 01:19:39.920 many, many years, you will wind up with the same sort of 01:19:40.160 --> 01:19:43.760 problems that you have in parts of the world doing that. 01:19:43.760 --> 01:19:47.120 India being one of the chief among them. 01:19:47.120 --> 01:19:49.920 Which again is why this issue is so important. 01:19:49.920 --> 01:19:54.160 Because if you don't stop that sort of slide into evil and 01:19:54.160 --> 01:19:58.640 degeneration, you will never crawl out of that pit because it's a 01:19:58.640 --> 01:19:59.920 one-way street. 01:19:59.920 --> 01:20:02.400 And like I said, I'll probably touch on that more in the 01:20:02.400 --> 01:20:07.600 future, but it's a large topic because it's so important and it's 01:20:07.840 --> 01:20:12.720 part of what so many miss when looking at why different groups 01:20:12.720 --> 01:20:14.560 believe what they do, right? 01:20:14.560 --> 01:20:19.280 If you believe that simply enacting the right policies can make humanity 01:20:19.280 --> 01:20:24.240 better in terms of biology, you're going to have a different outlook 01:20:24.240 --> 01:20:28.160 on what we should be doing, versus someone who believes, in line 01:20:28.160 --> 01:20:31.520 with scripture, that all we can do is arrest the slide. 01:20:31.520 --> 01:20:34.080 We can prevent things from getting worse. 01:20:34.080 --> 01:20:41.360 Because there's a greater urgency when any fall is permanent versus 01:20:41.360 --> 01:20:44.480 someone who thinks that, oh it's fine, we'll just enact better policies 01:20:44.560 --> 01:20:49.040 and we'll get better over if that is impossible, then it's more 01:20:49.040 --> 01:20:54.960 important to prevent that fall from happening. 01:20:54.960 --> 01:20:59.600 But I think that will probably be it for this week. 01:20:59.600 --> 01:21:02.720 I did see that there were some other questions and I've noted 01:21:02.720 --> 01:21:05.600 them for next week. 01:21:05.600 --> 01:21:10.000 As always, if I missed your question or didn't answer your question, 01:21:10.080 --> 01:21:12.240 you have a follow up by all Up by all means please 01:21:12.240 --> 01:21:15.440 post it on the forum that is preferred because it just helps 01:21:15.440 --> 01:21:18.800 me to prepare the answers and other people to find them and 01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:19.360 things like that. 01:21:19.360 --> 01:21:22.240 It's just for the sake of cleanliness as it were, for the 01:21:22.240 --> 01:21:23.920 sake of order. 01:21:24.240 --> 01:21:27.040 Germanic love of order, right? 01:21:27.680 --> 01:21:30.960 But that is omniphora.com is the site. 01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:33.680 It should be in the description for all of the streams. 01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:37.280 It's in the show notes for each of the shows after the 01:21:37.280 --> 01:21:42.240 show. 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