WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.120 It is the 12th of June 2026. 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:04.240 I am Cory J. 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:07.440 Mahler, and this is at any cost, and all of the levels 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:09.280 and everything look good. 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:11.760 So I think that I am ready to go, and we are 00:00:11.760 --> 00:00:13.440 not having any issues with OBS. 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:14.640 The chat is working, so 00:00:15.680 --> 00:00:18.320 I guess I should expect to be struck by lightning at some 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:19.360 point during this episode. 00:00:19.360 --> 00:00:22.960 At any rate, it's episode thirty-two and this is a QA episode 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:26.800 just copying over some of the questions coming in from the chat 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:33.680 and and we'll get into the questions here in just a minute. 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:38.080 Just don't want to miss these questions for later. 00:00:49.760 --> 00:00:54.480 So question one for today is a nice easy question to start 00:00:54.480 --> 00:00:56.720 off, as it were, I guess. 00:00:56.720 --> 00:01:00.160 As soon as the question loads here. 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:04.640 What is your opinion on invasive species of plants in America specifically 00:01:04.720 --> 00:01:08.320 but not limited to the yellow iris native to Europe, purple irises 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:10.080 are native to North America. 00:01:10.080 --> 00:01:12.960 We are trying to beautify the property and are wondering if we 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:17.280 should stick to more native North American plants like Echinacea, etc. 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:22.320 So generally speaking, I would say stick with native plants. 00:01:22.320 --> 00:01:26.320 That comes with sort of an enormous caveat, and that would be 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:29.760 some non native plants aren't a problem, right? 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:31.600 Some are, some aren't. 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:33.760 I have non-native plants. 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:37.360 Most of my non-natives, in fact I think all of my non-natives, 00:01:37.360 --> 00:01:42.000 other than obviously some crops, some things in the garden, are are 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:44.320 houseplants, right? 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:45.760 I have tropical houseplants. 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:49.840 I have peace lily and die and bakia, various other things that 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:52.880 are not native to this area, but they're houseplants. 00:01:52.880 --> 00:01:54.320 They're in a pot. 00:01:54.320 --> 00:01:55.520 They're not going to go anywhere. 00:01:55.520 --> 00:01:56.480 They're not a problem. 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.040 And so they can't become invasive, right? 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:04.480 Something that has the potential to become actually invasive and start spreading 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:05.440 and cause problems, right? 00:02:05.440 --> 00:02:06.160 I'm in the south. 00:02:06.160 --> 00:02:07.280 Kudzu is everywhere. 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:09.120 That's an enormous problem. 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:12.400 Eucalyptus is a problem in California. 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.360 Things like that probably don't import those. 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:18.080 In fact, we might just go ahead and say straight do not 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:19.600 import and plant those things. 00:02:19.600 --> 00:02:24.320 And unfortunately, there's still sold at many stores and you can buy 00:02:24.320 --> 00:02:28.960 them online and we have very poor regulation and certainly poor enforcement 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:33.280 when it comes to these things, and it causes massive problems all 00:02:33.440 --> 00:02:34.560 over the place. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.000 Because it's not just the issue of you have the non-native, the 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:42.480 invasive plant basically pushing out the native plant. 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:46.400 That has additional knock-on effects for the food chain, right? 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.920 There are animals that rely on the native plant, the native plant 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:51.040 gets pushed out. 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:52.400 Maybe it goes extinct. 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:54.720 And then there are animals that rely on that animal and so 00:02:54.720 --> 00:02:56.240 on and so forth. 00:02:56.240 --> 00:02:58.800 So generally speaking use native plants. 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:03.120 You can find great resources online for plants that are native to 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:06.480 your area, and there are probably plants that look like what you 00:03:06.480 --> 00:03:10.560 want that are native, instead of just going to the big box 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:13.760 store and getting the easy non native w option, right. 00:03:13.760 --> 00:03:18.320 And you can also check with at least in most states, whatever 00:03:18.320 --> 00:03:23.040 the agricultural or environmental authority is for your state, it's going to 00:03:23.040 --> 00:03:23.920 vary by state. 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:25.360 They all have different names. 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:30.880 They usually have a list of plants that they consider particularly problematic 00:03:30.880 --> 00:03:33.680 and a particular invasive issue. 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:35.360 Don't plant those. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.720 So Tennessee has that, California certainly had that. 00:03:38.720 --> 00:03:42.800 I would say check that list and then make a wisdom call 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:44.400 based on the nature of the plant. 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:48.240 If it's something that literally just particularly if it's you know an 00:03:48.240 --> 00:03:52.080 annual or something, if it grows up, dies, that's it. 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:53.600 okay fine, that one's not a problem. 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:58.720 If it's something that spreads thousands and thousands of seeds, probably don't 00:03:58.720 --> 00:04:00.000 go for that one. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.760 So it's a wisdom call, but definitely lean toward native plants because 00:04:03.760 --> 00:04:07.040 a lot of the problems we have are due to the importation 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:11.360 of non-native species, whether they are plant or animal. 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:20.400 Question two is tangentially related related. 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:26.160 The West, formerly Christendom, is heading into a racial war, already certainly 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:27.520 starting in Ireland. 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:31.280 Where do Christian men draw the line between theft and rightful plunder 00:04:31.280 --> 00:04:33.600 during the conquest of God's enemies? 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:37.440 Are there guidelines for when Christians should commit treasure and livestock to 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:41.040 destruction? As has sometimes been instructed. 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.880 So I think in the case of that kind of war, certain 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:49.040 a war of annihilation, let's just not be let's be blunt about 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:52.000 it. In that kind of war I think that theft is not 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:52.800 even on the table. 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:54.800 It's not even a consideration. 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.280 Unless you're you know You know, harming your own people, don't do 00:04:57.280 --> 00:04:59.760 that. Don't rage your own people. 00:04:59.760 --> 00:05:02.240 But I don't think theft is a concern. 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.920 The question that's sort of the live question here is about devotion 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:08.800 to destruction and should we do that and when should we do 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:12.640 that? I don't think that we're bound to do that with regard 00:05:12.640 --> 00:05:16.160 to, you know, livestock and things like that. 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:22.400 Enemies, religious sites, giant monkey statues, things like that, those should be 00:05:22.400 --> 00:05:23.840 devoted to destruction. 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:28.320 But livestock, gold, silver, all that stuff, I don't think that we 00:05:28.320 --> 00:05:29.200 have to do that. 00:05:29.200 --> 00:05:33.680 That was sort of a special command for just the degree and 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.080 the pervasiveness of the wickedness of the Canaanites 00:05:36.960 --> 00:05:40.560 So maybe that would be a concern if we were dealing with 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:44.240 some particularly nasty pagan area that had been pagan for a very 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:46.640 long time and these were ritual objects. 00:05:46.640 --> 00:05:50.960 Then sure, devote those to destruction as at least a show of 00:05:50.960 --> 00:05:53.280 loyalty to God, right? 00:05:53.280 --> 00:05:56.560 I don't think that we are absolutely required to do it, but 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:00.560 I think it's probably good praxis in certain circumstances with regard to 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.200 retaking the West, I don't think it's really a concern. 00:06:03.200 --> 00:06:06.880 I don't think we have places that are that bad, except for 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:12.480 obviously as Christians, under those conditions, yes we would be required to 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:16.240 destroy religious sites that are contrary to Christianity. 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:18.080 Those should be devoted to destruction. 00:06:18.080 --> 00:06:22.400 That's very clearly required by God in this sort of warfare. 00:06:23.840 --> 00:06:26.800 Going to cop copy a few more questions from the chat so 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:28.800 that I do not miss them. 00:06:39.200 --> 00:06:41.680 Need Need a producer to do this for me in the background 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:44.320 instead of doing it myself. 00:06:44.320 --> 00:06:51.440 However, question three is tangentially related to two actually. 00:06:51.440 --> 00:06:55.280 Germans have been a part of America since before the Revolution, and 00:06:55.280 --> 00:06:58.240 I know you're quite fond of them for obvious reasons. 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:02.080 Given I'm German, I don't necessarily have a choice in that, but 00:07:02.080 --> 00:07:04.640 I agree with your stance that Germans today are a part of 00:07:04.640 --> 00:07:06.240 the American founding stock. 00:07:06.320 --> 00:07:09.360 What I am curious about is your thoughts on the huge German 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.320 immigration boom in the eighteen hundreds and how most of them joined 00:07:12.320 --> 00:07:13.200 the Union. 00:07:13.200 --> 00:07:18.400 Were the southern states justified in having anti-German sentiment, especially during the 00:07:18.400 --> 00:07:24.400 war, when they were on opposite sides of the battlefield. 00:07:24.400 --> 00:07:28.560 This is sort of a complex question with regard to how you 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:32.320 view your enemy in warfare, and I think that a lot of 00:07:32.320 --> 00:07:36.480 times the anti-German sentiment, and also anti-Irish and some other things as 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:40.640 well, but in this war obviously largely anti-German, I think it goes 00:07:40.640 --> 00:07:42.560 overboard because it gets into 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:46.160 verging on what we would call genocidal, which it's not to say 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:49.280 genocide is always morally impermissible, because it's not. 00:07:49.280 --> 00:07:51.680 But this sort of war is not a genocidal war. 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:55.440 You are not authorized to erase your enemy in that kind of 00:07:55.440 --> 00:07:57.680 conflict. That conflict shouldn't have happened. 00:07:57.680 --> 00:07:59.600 Discussion for another time. 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:02.800 But I think the anti-German sentiment was just convenient. 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:06.560 It was a way to gin up the soldiers against the Northerners, 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:08.000 which they were invading. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:10.720 It I mean I think most Northerners would admit that as well. 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:12.160 I'm a Californian, right? 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:12.400 So 00:08:13.440 --> 00:08:16.000 in a certain sense I don't have a dog in the fight 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.080 because I wasn't born in the South. 00:08:18.080 --> 00:08:19.440 I wasn't born in the North. 00:08:19.440 --> 00:08:20.960 I was born in California. 00:08:20.960 --> 00:08:25.120 California sent some soldiers to fight for the South, not very many. 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:26.960 They didn't do that much. 00:08:26.960 --> 00:08:30.800 So I don't have the same sort of entrenched connection that some 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.840 people have where, you know, their family's been in the South for 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:34.960 four hundred years. 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:38.560 Mine has, but I had that sort of sojourn as it were 00:08:38.640 --> 00:08:39.440 in California. 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:42.240 So it's it's a different sort of relationship to it. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:46.800 But at the same time, I think that it was largely a 00:08:46.800 --> 00:08:48.160 matter of convenience, right? 00:08:48.160 --> 00:08:52.560 You can pick out something about the opposing forces that are different 00:08:52.640 --> 00:08:56.400 that is different from your people and so latch on to that 00:08:56.560 --> 00:08:58.160 and attack them for that. 00:08:58.160 --> 00:09:03.120 And so you had more recent immigrants in the northern military and 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:06.160 particularly Germans and some others as well. 00:09:06.160 --> 00:09:06.320 But 00:09:07.280 --> 00:09:10.160 I think that they probably would have done the same thing if 00:09:10.160 --> 00:09:13.920 it had been any other group, because it was a way to 00:09:13.920 --> 00:09:17.520 gin up war propaganda and to get people to go out and 00:09:17.520 --> 00:09:18.080 fight, right? 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:22.080 You say they're bringing in foreigners to conquer us, despite the fact 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:26.400 that how foreign or Germans to Americans not particularly. 00:09:26.400 --> 00:09:28.640 They probably would have done the same thing. 00:09:28.640 --> 00:09:30.400 It would have been a little more awkward, but I think they 00:09:30.400 --> 00:09:34.080 would have done the same thing if the North had brought in, 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:38.160 you know, history being otherwise than it was, if they had brought 00:09:38.160 --> 00:09:42.320 in a lot of English soldiers, or even Scottish s soldiers, right? 00:09:42.560 --> 00:09:44.640 I almost did the Scottish sh there. 00:09:44.640 --> 00:09:46.960 But I think they would have done the same thing, because they 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:50.800 would have said these are recent immigrants and so they're not American, 00:09:50.800 --> 00:09:54.160 they're Scottish instead, or they're English instead, and they're bringing in these 00:09:54.160 --> 00:09:56.880 foreigners to boost their numbers and come conquer us. 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:58.160 They would have done the same thing. 00:09:58.160 --> 00:10:01.200 It just happened to be that it was Germans. 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.880 Now the other aspect of this that's worth mentioning, obviously, is that 00:10:04.880 --> 00:10:07.760 you had not necessarily right at this time but a little bit 00:10:07.760 --> 00:10:12.800 later, some of the Germans who came over were revolutionary leftists, and 00:10:12.800 --> 00:10:15.520 that's a problem later on in later decades. 00:10:15.520 --> 00:10:17.440 Not because they're German. 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:19.760 A handful of them were Jews, not all of them were Jews. 00:10:19.760 --> 00:10:23.680 Some of them were German communists, so that's a problem Germany had. 00:10:23.680 --> 00:10:27.680 Germany essentially solved it, and then some of them fled. 00:10:27.680 --> 00:10:32.240 Unfortunately they let them flee, but things sometimes happen that way. 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:33.760 That was a separate problem. 00:10:33.760 --> 00:10:37.280 They were enemies because they were communists, they were leftists, not because 00:10:37.280 --> 00:10:38.560 they were German, right? 00:10:38.560 --> 00:10:42.320 If they had been anything, if they'd been English communists, they would 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:43.600 still be problems. 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:46.160 They would still have the same problems. 00:10:46.160 --> 00:10:48.720 The only difference would be they would have been able to read 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:49.680 the literature. 00:10:49.680 --> 00:10:54.480 It's one of the reasons that Lutherans responded to communism more early 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:57.360 on and more quickly than almost anyone else. 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:01.280 Because Lutherans in the US context could see what was coming from 00:11:01.280 --> 00:11:04.720 Germany, had been reading the papers and spoke German. 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:06.240 So they could read the materials. 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:10.400 They could read the materials published by the Marxists as they were 00:11:10.400 --> 00:11:11.200 being published. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:14.960 That's one of the reasons Walter, one of the the founder essentially, 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:18.720 of the LCMS, responded to this stuff because he was paying attention 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:19.360 to it. 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:20.800 He could read the newspapers. 00:11:20.800 --> 00:11:22.240 He knew what was happening. 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.080 So that language barrier did add a certain l layer to that, 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:27.680 a certain element. 00:11:27.680 --> 00:11:30.480 But I think it was largely just war propaganda. 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:33.920 We should be careful not to go overboard in our war propaganda 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:38.080 when, unfortunately, we're fighting a war against our brothers. 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:41.600 It's a different thing when we're fighting a war against truly alien 00:11:41.680 --> 00:11:46.640 hostile people, but we should not dehumanize and engage in basically genocidal 00:11:46.640 --> 00:11:50.400 war propaganda, atrocity propaganda against our brothers. 00:11:50.400 --> 00:11:53.440 So we shouldn't do that to the English, shouldn't the Scottish, shouldn't 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.840 it the Germans, shouldn't to any Europeans. 00:12:12.800 --> 00:12:18.160 Apparently the chat integration does not let me like comments, so I'll 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:21.520 just say thank you to the person who said the next Schweinsaches 00:12:21.760 --> 00:12:23.520 on him. 00:12:23.520 --> 00:12:26.400 The challenge is finding one here in the South, but I'm sure 00:12:26.400 --> 00:12:27.040 I can find one. 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.680 It's very odd to me as sort of an aside that the 00:12:29.680 --> 00:12:32.240 South didn't adopt more German cuisine. 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:35.040 I know there used to be more German restaurants and things, but 00:12:35.040 --> 00:12:38.000 it's weird that it didn't take hold. 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:42.160 Southerners love fried pork, and Germans love fried pork. 00:12:42.160 --> 00:12:46.240 That's what Schnitzel is, and Schweinsha is just pork knuckle that's cooked 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:48.160 in beer if it's done right. 00:12:48.160 --> 00:12:50.720 So hard not to like that. 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:55.840 But question four How would you recommend a young man temper his 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:57.200 political radicalism? 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:00.080 Part of me wants to forget about politics, find a wife, and 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:01.040 be a normal family man. 00:13:01.680 --> 00:13:04.880 Another part of me wants to go guns blazing against my enemies 00:13:04.880 --> 00:13:08.240 that seek to destroy my people, forsaking all else. 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:09.920 What should I do? 00:13:10.400 --> 00:13:12.880 This is a question that comes up a lot, and I've answered 00:13:12.880 --> 00:13:13.760 it many times. 00:13:13.760 --> 00:13:16.720 I not necessarily on here, but I've answered it in person, right, 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:18.160 many times. 00:13:18.160 --> 00:13:22.480 So the short answer and sort of the o overarching answer, the 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:26.880 outline as it were, is live a normal life but prepare for 00:13:26.880 --> 00:13:28.160 the worst. 00:13:28.160 --> 00:13:31.280 Not in the sense of you know, become a a crazy prepper, 00:13:31.280 --> 00:13:33.840 right? You're not Bert Gummer or something like that. 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:35.200 Don't do that. 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:38.560 But maybe a little bit of it, just to be safe. 00:13:38.560 --> 00:13:42.000 But the thing that I would say is go to the gym. 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:45.760 That's always a top recommendation for particularly young men, but all men. 00:13:45.760 --> 00:13:47.440 Older men should also be going to the gym. 00:13:47.440 --> 00:13:51.760 It's great for you as you'll age more gracefully, and it's often 00:13:51.760 --> 00:13:54.240 been said that you're only as old as your back. 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:56.880 Going to the gym and working out will help you not have 00:13:56.880 --> 00:13:59.520 back issues, as long as you're doing it right. 00:13:59.520 --> 00:14:02.240 If you don't know how to do it, then get some help. 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:06.000 But find a wife, have children, and 00:14:06.960 --> 00:14:11.520 probably before you do that, just because of practical considerations, find a 00:14:11.520 --> 00:14:15.600 group of like minded men and work with them on whatever it 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.480 happens. It Doesn't even matter that much what it is. 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:21.120 If you're doing activism stuff, great. 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:24.640 If you're just playing poker one night a week and going hiking 00:14:24.640 --> 00:14:27.120 one night a week, that's also great. 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:30.720 Men need to have men's clubs and have that sort of camaraderie. 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:32.000 Vitally important. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.280 But then yes, find a wife, have children, do all the normal 00:14:35.280 --> 00:14:36.480 things you're supposed to do. 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:39.200 Because ultimately all of this is in God's hands, right? 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:43.280 We're relying on God and so in having a wife and children 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:47.200 a normal life, you're telling God I trust in you to see 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:50.080 me through this regardless of what comes. 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:54.800 And there's also the practical consideration of when we win, and I 00:14:54.800 --> 00:15:00.160 believe that we will win, we need future generations, so our people 00:15:00.160 --> 00:15:02.080 need to be having children. 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:03.440 That's not an option, right? 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:04.800 There's that's not an optional thing. 00:15:04.800 --> 00:15:07.680 You can't go, well, we won't have children to win the war 00:15:08.400 --> 00:15:10.880 Then why are you winning and what have you won when you 00:15:10.880 --> 00:15:13.040 do? You need to continue to have children. 00:15:13.040 --> 00:15:14.240 That's an important thing to do. 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:17.040 So definitely don't forsake that. 00:15:17.040 --> 00:15:21.440 But at the same time, do prepare for things because we can 00:15:21.440 --> 00:15:22.640 see where things are heading. 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:24.880 And look at Ireland. 00:15:24.880 --> 00:15:26.640 That stuff is coming here as well. 00:15:26.640 --> 00:15:31.040 So don't let it discourage you from living a normal life normally 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:34.960 Normal as it were, but don't fall into the trap of normalcy 00:15:34.960 --> 00:15:37.840 bias. See the Stone Choir episode on that. 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:41.920 Don't fall into that trap because we do not live in normal 00:15:41.920 --> 00:15:46.720 times and there are problems ahead, but that doesn't mean that you 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:49.680 don't marry and have a wife and children, all those things. 00:15:49.680 --> 00:15:51.760 Do all of these things at once. 00:15:51.760 --> 00:15:54.720 It's not an either-or situation, it's a both and 00:15:58.400 --> 00:16:00.880 Question five. 00:16:00.880 --> 00:16:05.440 I think we need a new confession created for our time regarding 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:07.840 race, Jews, and interracial marriage. 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:10.560 I know of wicked men in groups performing such a task from 00:16:10.560 --> 00:16:12.480 the opposite of a biblical viewpoint. 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:14.240 There have been many of those. 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:17.520 Basically not one of them has gained traction, but they're they've been 00:16:17.520 --> 00:16:22.480 there. Who will make such statements mandatory in our denominations soon if 00:16:23.040 --> 00:16:24.720 they are not already. 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.520 They basically are in some cases, unfortunately. 00:16:27.520 --> 00:16:31.520 Would such an official document or confession be appropriate for our guys 00:16:31.680 --> 00:16:34.720 inside to make, and if so, who do you think these men 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:35.840 should be? 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:41.360 This is something that absolutely should be done. 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:43.280 It is something that needs to be undertaken. 00:16:43.280 --> 00:16:46.800 There are only a handful of men who can really do this 00:16:46.800 --> 00:16:49.200 and get it done correctly, and I will just be blunt and 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:50.960 say I need to be involved in it. 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:54.000 And And I'm not saying I need to be the sole author 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.320 of it, and I kind of would prefer not to be the 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:00.960 sole author of it, but I do need to block out the 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:05.280 time and work toward that and see which other men can helpfully 00:17:05.280 --> 00:17:09.600 contribute. I know some other men who are good on these issues 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:14.400 who have done the necessary reading and thinking and could contribute to 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:15.680 this in a useful way. 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.560 Woe obviously would also be involved in some capacity. 00:17:18.560 --> 00:17:20.960 I don't know that he would want to be, you know, necessarily 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:21.760 publicly involved. 00:17:21.760 --> 00:17:23.040 I'll let him comment on that. 00:17:23.040 --> 00:17:26.160 That's his decision. 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.240 But yes, that's something that I should dedicate more time to, which 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:33.520 you know it's same as everyone else, I only have so many 00:17:33.520 --> 00:17:36.240 hours in the day and a thousand different things dragging me in 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:39.120 different directions, but no, I need to prioritize that and it needs 00:17:39.120 --> 00:17:39.920 to be done. 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.520 It's not just something that's appropriate, it's something that's necessary. 00:17:43.520 --> 00:17:47.440 We need it. 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:49.200 Question six. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:52.560 I'm now getting into some of the questions from the chat here 00:17:52.560 --> 00:17:54.080 at the beginning. 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:56.240 It's a two part question. 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.560 I have a very young nephew who probably has genius level IQ. 00:18:00.560 --> 00:18:04.400 Any tips on properly raising such young boys to become soldiers for 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:07.520 Christ? And then part two, if you don't mind sharing, what is 00:18:07.520 --> 00:18:08.240 your IQ? 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:09.840 Just curious. 00:18:09.840 --> 00:18:10.160 So 00:18:11.040 --> 00:18:13.120 I you well answer these in reverse order. 00:18:13.120 --> 00:18:15.040 I usually don't give a number. 00:18:15.040 --> 00:18:19.200 Woe actually did in one of our episodes, but he gave the 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.240 number combined with a tweet. 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.920 And so people had to be paying attention both to his Twitter, 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.320 I think it was still Twitter at the time, his ex as 00:18:28.320 --> 00:18:32.320 it were now, and the episode in order to get that number. 00:18:32.400 --> 00:18:34.000 number. It's not that hard to find. 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:38.160 His estimate was accurate enough, so I'm not going to quibble with 00:18:38.160 --> 00:18:40.560 it. I will comment that 00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:45.360 on IQ, and I've mentioned this before a number of other places, 00:18:45.360 --> 00:18:46.640 and you can find this really anywhere. 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:48.480 This is not contentious. 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:51.520 I'm not giving you novel information any sense here. 00:18:51.520 --> 00:18:56.400 Above about 160, the tests become decreasingly reliable. 00:18:56.400 --> 00:19:01.600 So the greater you are or the farther you are beyond one 00:19:01.840 --> 00:19:06.560 sixty, or I guess further it's more metaphysical than physical, the further 00:19:06.560 --> 00:19:10.320 you are be one beyond one sixty, the less accurate the test 00:19:10.320 --> 00:19:11.440 is going to be. 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:11.920 And so 00:19:13.120 --> 00:19:16.400 at that point it starts to have more fudge factor. 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:21.840 So if someone says that he has an IQ of 185, okay 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:25.040 he has a high IQ assuming it was a valid test conducted 00:19:25.040 --> 00:19:29.760 validly, but he doesn't know that it's exactly 185 because again, that's 00:19:29.760 --> 00:19:31.120 too far above 160. 00:19:31.120 --> 00:19:33.760 Right, standard deviation for Whites is 15. 00:19:33.760 --> 00:19:39.040 That's way too high above 160 to be reliable within one point. 00:19:39.040 --> 00:19:44.000 So, you know, Woe gave his number in the 160s. 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:49.360 That's one of those it's above one sixty is enough, right? 00:19:49.360 --> 00:19:51.920 Certainly you can say that there are menu of IQs that are 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:56.240 higher than that, but again, less and less reliable as you go. 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.680 But to answer sort of the core question here, the more important 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:06.720 question. Contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, men 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:11.760 with high IQs are not generally socially maladjusted, they don't generally have 00:20:11.760 --> 00:20:14.800 more mental problems or anything like that. 00:20:14.800 --> 00:20:19.600 If anything, they may develop a tendency to be 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:25.120 more focused on the inner world as it were, more reserved, after 00:20:25.120 --> 00:20:28.640 dealing with people for a long period of time. 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:32.880 It is a learned behavior, a learned response instead of something that 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:36.320 is necessarily native to those with high IQ. 00:20:36.320 --> 00:20:42.000 I do think that introversion versus extroversion does correlate with high IQ, 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:45.840 but at the same time, it's not always the case. 00:20:45.840 --> 00:20:48.640 Which is to say that he's going to be a normal boy, 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:49.680 generally speaking. 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:52.720 He will have friends, he'll have hobbies, he'll have interests, he will 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:55.040 like girls, all these various things. 00:20:55.040 --> 00:20:58.000 Going to be by and large normal, but he will be more 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.920 capable than his peers. 00:20:59.920 --> 00:21:02.480 He will get bored in school. 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:05.440 He will get through the material faster, he will find it trivially 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:08.560 easy, he will find it to be maddening that he is kept 00:21:08.560 --> 00:21:11.120 at the same pace as others. 00:21:11.120 --> 00:21:12.480 Take that into account. 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:15.680 Now obviously this is your nephew so you don't have total control 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:20.960 over raising him, but suggest very strongly to your brother, sister, whomever 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:22.960 it happens to be. 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:27.280 Teach him a second language, and maybe a third, and pick one 00:21:27.280 --> 00:21:32.560 that's truly useful, even Latin, German, French, anything like that. 00:21:32.560 --> 00:21:35.360 A structured language with the proper grammar. 00:21:35.360 --> 00:21:38.320 Get him to learn that very early on. 00:21:38.320 --> 00:21:40.240 Should already be starting probably. 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:41.760 Teach him an instrument. 00:21:41.760 --> 00:21:43.040 Probably piano. 00:21:43.040 --> 00:21:46.800 Generally one of the best ones for someone like that. 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:50.160 and then also a good basis for learning other things in the 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:54.720 future. These are things that he will maybe bristle out a little 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:57.680 bit initially, but he will thank you later in life. 00:21:57.680 --> 00:21:58.000 So 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:04.320 other than that, he's going to have hobbies and interests and just 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:06.480 you know, help him with those. 00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:09.280 Buy materials, whatever it happens to be for him so he can 00:22:09.280 --> 00:22:10.560 do that kind of thing. 00:22:10.560 --> 00:22:13.280 Because he's going to be bored going at the same pace as 00:22:13.280 --> 00:22:16.640 others because he doesn't need to go at their pace. 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:20.560 He will have already finished all the work for the year in 00:22:20.560 --> 00:22:23.520 school in the first semester, that sort of thing. 00:22:23.520 --> 00:22:25.520 So take that into account. 00:22:25.520 --> 00:22:30.960 Don't let the system that is designed to destroy men who are 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:33.840 exceptional destroy him in that way. 00:22:33.840 --> 00:22:37.840 But other than that he's going to be just another functional person. 00:22:37.840 --> 00:22:40.320 He's just going to understand more things than most men 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:49.280 Question seven Could you explain the teaching in Luke six to love 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:50.240 your enemies? 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:53.680 Are these personal enemies only as opposed to our public enemies who 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:55.680 are enemies of God. 00:22:55.680 --> 00:22:58.880 I've explained this one before, but it's worth going over again because 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:00.400 it's sort of relevant right now. 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:02.800 So let me pull up logos since 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:06.880 let me pull up the correct logos. 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:09.440 Just read the the relevant. 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:12.960 Don't read the second paragraph, I'll just read the first paragraph since 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:14.080 that's really the core of it. 00:23:14.080 --> 00:23:16.000 Obviously, everyone knows this one, right? 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:18.560 This is very well known. 00:23:18.560 --> 00:23:22.800 But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good 00:23:22.800 --> 00:23:26.240 to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:29.440 those who abuse you, to one who strikes you on the cheek, 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:32.880 offer the other also, and from one who does away your cloak 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:35.200 do not withhold your tunic either. 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:38.080 Give to every one who begs from you, and from one who 00:23:38.080 --> 00:23:40.880 takes away your goods do not demand them back. 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:44.320 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so 00:23:44.320 --> 00:23:45.520 to them. 00:23:46.560 --> 00:23:50.720 So the question about enemies, and obviously, it's a larger question about 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:53.440 this entire section of teaching, and I'll get into that another time. 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:55.520 I don't think I'll do that right now. 00:23:55.520 --> 00:23:58.240 But it is about your personal enemies. 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:00.880 This is not public enemies. 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:01.200 And 00:24:02.320 --> 00:24:05.840 I pointed out an article on my site last week, in fact, 00:24:05.840 --> 00:24:08.640 I would say go and read that in addition to my comments 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:11.440 here. I will note for myself to put that in the show 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:12.880 notes again. 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:13.280 So 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:19.840 But at the same time, there are three kinds of enemies, right? 00:24:19.840 --> 00:24:27.040 You have personal enemies, you have public enemies, and then you have 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:28.080 enemies of God. 00:24:28.080 --> 00:24:30.720 You don't really have those, but they're kind of your enemies as 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:34.000 well because they're enemies of God and you belong to God. 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:37.520 You are to forgive your public your private enemies, your personal enemies, 00:24:37.520 --> 00:24:40.480 whichever one you want to term, private personal, same thing. 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:42.720 You are to forgive those enemies. 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:47.200 So you know, don't plan the downfall of someone you just particularly 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:48.320 don't like at work. 00:24:48.320 --> 00:24:49.760 Forgive that man. 00:24:49.760 --> 00:24:51.520 That man you forgive. 00:24:51.520 --> 00:24:56.240 If your country goes to war with another country, you are not 00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:58.400 in the office of the prince. 00:24:58.400 --> 00:25:00.160 It is not incumbent on you. 00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:05.520 In fact you are not even permitted to forgive that enemy nation. 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:07.600 it's ridiculous even to say it, right? 00:25:07.600 --> 00:25:10.320 We can understand that's insane, right? 00:25:10.320 --> 00:25:12.720 If we go to war, say in the US, we go to 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:15.520 war with Mexico, can you stand up and say, Well, I'm a 00:25:15.520 --> 00:25:19.680 Christian, I forgive Mexico for these reasons that we went to war 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:20.800 with them and so 00:25:22.080 --> 00:25:23.200 what now? 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:24.640 The war is over? 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:25.760 That's not how it works. 00:25:25.760 --> 00:25:27.520 The enemy gets a vote. 00:25:27.520 --> 00:25:32.640 So your public enemies you can't forgive because you're not the one 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:33.600 in charge of the state. 00:25:33.600 --> 00:25:36.400 You're not the Christian prince, you're not the rightful ruler, you don't 00:25:36.320 --> 00:25:38.560 get to forgive public enemies. 00:25:38.560 --> 00:25:39.760 Okay, what about 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:41.920 God's enemies. 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:45.600 Well you can't forgive God's enemies because only God can forgive God's 00:25:45.600 --> 00:25:46.880 enemies, right? 00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:48.080 That's what sinners are. 00:25:48.080 --> 00:25:49.280 Sinners are God's enemy. 00:25:49.280 --> 00:25:51.360 Can you forgive your own sins? 00:25:51.360 --> 00:25:53.200 No God had to do that. 00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:56.560 And so the extreme example that I like to use here because 00:25:56.560 --> 00:26:00.480 it drives home the point, sometimes even with those who want to 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:04.320 use this not necessarily maliciously, because those who are malicious will never 00:26:04.320 --> 00:26:07.680 change, but very foolishly will say Say. 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:11.360 could you forgive Satan? 00:26:11.360 --> 00:26:12.720 The answer is no, right? 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:16.080 You can't say I forgive Satan and suddenly he springs out of 00:26:16.080 --> 00:26:19.280 his chains and he's no longer damned for all eternity, right? 00:26:19.280 --> 00:26:20.480 You can't do that. 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:22.400 You can't forgive God's enemies. 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:26.320 And so right off the bat we know it cannot possibly apply 00:26:26.320 --> 00:26:27.600 to all enemies. 00:26:27.600 --> 00:26:30.160 So the question is to which enemies does it apply? 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:32.000 It applies to your personal enemies. 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:36.560 The only ones that you can forgive in any meaningful way, and 00:26:36.560 --> 00:26:40.160 trying to exercise a power you don't have, say, to forgive Satan, 00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:42.160 is actually sin, is wrongful. 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:46.720 So forgive your enemies, your personal, your private enemies. 00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:50.240 Don't say that you can't go to war as a Christian, because 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:52.960 at other parts of scripture that what do they tell soldiers? 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:54.160 Do your duty. 00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:57.040 Well if soldiers are told to do their duty, then Christianity is 00:26:57.040 --> 00:27:01.280 not a pacifist religion and you don't forgive your public enemies. 00:27:01.280 --> 00:27:03.520 Also it calls the Emperor Supreme. 00:27:03.520 --> 00:27:07.920 That is another place that kind of flows from that, right? 00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:09.600 But yes, it's your private enemies. 00:27:09.600 --> 00:27:12.160 It's not your your public enemies, and it's certainly not the enemies 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:12.640 of God. 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:15.280 You don't forgive the Muslims for worshiping a false god. 00:27:15.600 --> 00:27:17.840 That's not your place to do that. 00:27:17.840 --> 00:27:22.000 That's God's place, and he doesn't do that unless they repent. 00:27:25.840 --> 00:27:27.600 Let's see. 00:27:29.520 --> 00:27:34.160 Question eight. 00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:38.800 I think I'll move this next one down one question. 00:27:40.080 --> 00:27:40.400 So 00:27:43.120 --> 00:27:45.840 I just cannot understand the fall. 00:27:45.840 --> 00:27:49.200 How did it affect the animals' physical mortality? 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:52.240 What did it mean to realize they are naked? 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:54.000 What was the nature of the fruit? 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:56.640 Does Stone choir cover this? 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.560 We cover this in bits and pieces here and there, but not 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:02.640 really in full 00:28:03.600 --> 00:28:08.240 However, we do answer in full, we answered in full the question 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:10.720 about the fall affecting everything, right? 00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:14.000 You can go and listen to the episode on headship for that, 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:15.920 primarily. The episode on headship. 00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:17.440 It's elsewhere as well. 00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:19.440 But But that's the issue. 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:22.400 Adam is the federal head of humanity. 00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:25.840 Adam is the head of all creation. 00:28:25.840 --> 00:28:30.240 Everything fell in Adam because everything follows the head, right? 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:32.800 Where your head goes, your body follows. 00:28:32.800 --> 00:28:35.360 And you can say, Well, my head's following my body, that's not 00:28:35.360 --> 00:28:37.680 really what's happening because your head's the one directing the body. 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:40.080 So where your head goes, your body follows. 00:28:40.080 --> 00:28:44.240 It's the same thing for all of creation. 00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:46.160 That's how it functions everywhere. 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:49.040 That's one of the reasons that you will have 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:52.480 corporate punishment in scripture. 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:55.040 And I know that we try to say that's wrongful now in 00:28:55.040 --> 00:28:58.480 our modern laws with regard to laws of war and things like 00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:01.200 that, but God engages in corporate punishment. 00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:04.240 You can think about the rebellion in the desert against Moses and 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:07.520 Aaron. He destroyed those men, their wives, their children, their lives Their 00:29:07.520 --> 00:29:09.120 livestock, their goods. 00:29:09.120 --> 00:29:09.440 So 00:29:11.120 --> 00:29:16.000 headship is a vitally important part of and a fundamentally important part 00:29:16.080 --> 00:29:18.880 of understanding how God's system works. 00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:21.840 If you don't understand headship, you're going to miss a lot of 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.640 things. And so the reason that everything fell in the fall is 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:29.280 because Adam was the head of everything. 00:29:29.280 --> 00:29:33.360 And that is essentially what is happening when you are joined with 00:29:33.360 --> 00:29:36.160 Christ. Christ is your new head. 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:40.240 And so instead of having fallen Adam as your head, you have 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:42.160 the risen Christ as your head. 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:46.480 And so being in Christ, having Christ as your head, you are 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:48.800 then part of the new creation. 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:51.680 You have the newness of life, you have the forgiveness of sins, 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:53.440 all these other things. 00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:54.720 It's headship. 00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:58.560 Headship is the core concept that you must understand. 00:29:58.560 --> 00:30:01.680 And so all of creation fell with Adam. 00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:03.360 It's not just the animals. 00:30:03.360 --> 00:30:05.040 It's the physical world. 00:30:05.040 --> 00:30:07.040 It's the planets, it's the stars. 00:30:07.040 --> 00:30:09.360 It's literally everything fell. 00:30:09.360 --> 00:30:13.040 And that's why it says creation is groaning together for the restoration 00:30:13.040 --> 00:30:14.480 of all things. 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:18.800 It's not just man, it's not just the animals, it's everything in 00:30:18.800 --> 00:30:23.360 creation. So you can think of why stars eventually run out of 00:30:23.360 --> 00:30:25.440 fuel and run down and burn out. 00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:27.120 That's because of the fall. 00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:32.560 Everything slowly winding down, coming to a close, is because of the 00:30:32.560 --> 00:30:35.040 fall. Yes, God's going to draw it to a close before the 00:30:35.040 --> 00:30:41.120 stars burn out, but all of that degradation, everything running down, is 00:30:41.120 --> 00:30:42.320 because of the fall. 00:30:42.320 --> 00:30:43.760 And it affects everything. 00:30:43.760 --> 00:30:48.560 It affects us, it affects animals, it affects the natural world. 00:30:48.560 --> 00:30:51.680 But the question of realize they were naked 00:30:53.120 --> 00:30:59.680 is a difficult one to interpret fully, because scripture doesn't tell us 00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:03.920 everything about that, but from the context you can take sort of 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.520 the core important points to take away. 00:31:07.520 --> 00:31:13.120 And by realizing they were naked, essentially it is them realizing 00:31:14.080 --> 00:31:16.160 not just the vulnerability, right? 00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:19.520 Because they now have a separation from God and a growing antagonism 00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:22.720 with a nature that is going to be at odds with them 00:31:23.120 --> 00:31:26.640 because before man was at peace with all the animals, right? 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:29.440 We're no longer at peace with bears, as anyone who goes hiking 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:30.880 knows full well. 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:32.560 Usually not at peace with bears. 00:31:32.560 --> 00:31:34.960 Some people try to pet them and some people succeed. 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:36.400 Don't try. 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:41.440 But realizing they're naked is going from that state of innocence and 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:47.360 having no awareness of sin, of fallenness, of imperfection, of any of 00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:53.600 these things, to the fallen state and recognizing all that comes along 00:31:53.600 --> 00:31:56.080 with that, including that loss of innocence. 00:31:56.080 --> 00:31:58.160 And so you can think of the loss of innocence as part 00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:00.160 of the core of this. 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:05.600 It is the fall from original righteousness into original sin. 00:32:05.600 --> 00:32:08.640 Not in the sense that it replaced our nature, because our nature 00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:11.680 is still made by God, our nature is still good, but in 00:32:11.680 --> 00:32:14.560 the sense that it's so corrupted our nature that it is only 00:32:14.560 --> 00:32:19.360 Christ's sacrifice that can restore that, and it is only ultimately restored 00:32:19.360 --> 00:32:24.640 in the resurrection of the just, the final resurrection, the last day. 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:29.280 Okay So that's essentially the core of realizing that they were naked. 00:32:29.280 --> 00:32:31.040 That's the the takeaway from that. 00:32:31.040 --> 00:32:35.280 It's what you want to read when you see that phrase. 00:32:35.280 --> 00:32:38.000 The nature of the fruit is just that God told them not 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.720 to eat it. 00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:39.280 The fruit 00:32:40.560 --> 00:32:44.400 probably was not special in any particular way. 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:47.360 The only thing that made it special was the attachment of God's 00:32:47.360 --> 00:32:48.240 commandment to it. 00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:50.480 It's the same as baptism. 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:52.800 The water in baptism isn't special. 00:32:52.800 --> 00:32:53.920 It's just clean water. 00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:54.800 That's it. 00:32:54.800 --> 00:32:56.080 That's all it is. 00:32:56.080 --> 00:32:59.200 If it's flowing water, maybe that's a little better, but it doesn't 00:32:59.120 --> 00:32:59.840 have to be, right? 00:32:59.840 --> 00:33:01.920 It doesn't even have to be a certain quantity of water. 00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:05.520 It just has to be enough water as it were for baptism 00:33:05.600 --> 00:33:09.520 to fulfill the fact that water is a requirement. 00:33:09.520 --> 00:33:12.320 And so the water is not special. 00:33:12.320 --> 00:33:14.880 That's why Luther says that without the Word it may as well 00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:19.360 be a bathkeeper's baptism, which is to say a bath. 00:33:19.360 --> 00:33:22.880 It is the water plus the word that makes it a sacrament, 00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:24.800 that makes it something special. 00:33:24.800 --> 00:33:28.320 In the case of baptism, it works forgiveness of sins, and all 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:30.080 that follows from that. 00:33:30.080 --> 00:33:33.840 In the case of the fruit, because God said, Do not eat 00:33:33.840 --> 00:33:37.440 this, it works damnation, it works the fall, it works corruption, all 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:38.560 these other things. 00:33:38.560 --> 00:33:41.760 And so, is it the fruit that does it or is it 00:33:41.760 --> 00:33:42.560 God's Word? 00:33:42.560 --> 00:33:45.760 The answer is yes, because it is the two of them together, 00:33:45.760 --> 00:33:48.800 the same as is it the water that works forgiveness of sins, 00:33:48.800 --> 00:33:51.920 or is it the word that works forgiveness of sins in baptism? 00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:55.600 Yes, because it is water and word together that make the sacrament. 00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:59.040 The same thing sort of in reverse as it were for the 00:33:59.040 --> 00:34:03.120 fruit. So you know, we don't know what fruit it was. 00:34:03.120 --> 00:34:04.240 Is it a pomegranate? 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:05.120 Is it an apple? 00:34:05.120 --> 00:34:06.480 Is it some fruit that no longer exists? 00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:08.720 That's not the point, it doesn't matter. 00:34:08.720 --> 00:34:11.120 The point is they were told not to eat it, and part 00:34:11.120 --> 00:34:13.920 of their worship of God was to obey what God had told 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:17.040 them. This was how they worshiped God, part of how they worship 00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:19.840 God. They decided not to do that. 00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:22.800 They decided to worship themselves, they decided to rebel. 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:28.480 Hence the fall. 00:34:28.560 --> 00:34:30.480 The next question 00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:34.880 I have to pull up the 00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:40.480 wording here because it was a previous question. 00:34:42.560 --> 00:34:43.680 There we go. 00:34:43.680 --> 00:34:58.240 Take a sip of my drink first. 00:34:58.240 --> 00:35:04.160 The challenge of staying hydrated in the south during a heat wave. 00:35:04.160 --> 00:35:05.360 Question nine. 00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:08.480 You have implied that the national debt is a triviality. 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:11.520 Could you elaborate on that? 00:35:11.680 --> 00:35:14.400 I think that is uh it's a two-part question, but I think 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:17.360 I'll take them separately, so I'll use that one and save the 00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:22.480 second one on insurance for a future episode. 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:28.240 So the issue with the national debt is is simultaneously complex and 00:35:28.560 --> 00:35:30.560 simple, right? 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:36.480 Think of it in analogous terms to an individual or a household. 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:42.080 An individual can declare bankruptcy and discharged, with the exception of student 00:35:42.080 --> 00:35:45.920 loans, his debts in that bankruptcy. 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:50.560 Modulosome government control. 00:35:50.560 --> 00:35:55.280 And so what happens then is it destroys his credit. 00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:58.320 He has to climb out of a hole, but he doesn't have 00:35:58.320 --> 00:35:58.960 the debt. 00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:01.520 He doesn't have to pay back the debt. 00:36:01.520 --> 00:36:04.960 And as a side note, there are times where yes, it's permissible 00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:07.280 to declare bankruptcy as a Christian, certainly. 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:10.000 So don't think that you are prohibited from doing that as a 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:14.880 Christian because of the command to pay back your debts, generally speaking. 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:17.680 Our system is set up in such a way that many debts 00:36:17.680 --> 00:36:22.080 are extremely wicked and should not be collectible under any just law. 00:36:22.080 --> 00:36:24.000 A tangential issue, though. 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:28.160 For the national debt, a state can do effectively the same thing. 00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:31.600 The way that a state usually does it instead of just the 00:36:31.600 --> 00:36:36.000 state saying I declare bankruptcy, right, that sometimes that works, sometimes it 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:39.680 doesn't. If you're a small state, probably not going to work, you'll 00:36:39.680 --> 00:36:41.360 probably get invaded. 00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:46.960 But if you are the United States, who's coming to collect? 00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:51.200 Just as a practical matter, realpolitik, who's coming to collect if the 00:36:51.200 --> 00:36:55.120 US says, We're not paying that? 00:36:55.120 --> 00:36:56.640 No one. 00:36:56.640 --> 00:37:00.160 China is not going to wage a war against us because we 00:37:00.160 --> 00:37:02.800 decide not to pay our national debt. 00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:05.360 China would just stop selling stuff to us. 00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:07.520 And so are there considerations? 00:37:07.520 --> 00:37:12.320 Absolutely. You are going to damage your standing in the world, to 00:37:12.320 --> 00:37:14.800 some degree, with certain parties. 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:19.280 You are going to lose access to certain markets and certain goods, 00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:22.560 which is a very real concern with regard to China, particularly if 00:37:22.560 --> 00:37:27.680 they retake Taiwan, which they certainly will do, because of the percentage 00:37:27.680 --> 00:37:30.560 of the chip manufacture that is done in Taiwan. 00:37:30.560 --> 00:37:33.760 That's a very real concern, at least for national security, even if 00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:38.560 you don't consider, you know, consumer products to be as important as 00:37:38.560 --> 00:37:42.080 national security, which they're not. 00:37:42.080 --> 00:37:45.440 So the question is sort of to part. 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:46.480 Can it be done? 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:47.760 Yes, very easily. 00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:49.760 And I was going to get to before I went on that 00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:53.760 little tangent there, how it's usually done by a nation state. 00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:59.280 By a nation-state, it's usually you have one government is deposed and 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:03.440 a no and a new government, the next government is instituted. 00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:07.680 That government says, I don't recognize the debts of the previous government. 00:38:07.680 --> 00:38:10.800 Those were their debts, go collect from them. 00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:12.480 They no longer exist. 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:16.320 You've effectively abolished the national debt by doing that. 00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:20.240 Now, that's happened in history, and you can see what happens a 00:38:20.240 --> 00:38:21.040 lot of times. 00:38:21.040 --> 00:38:23.520 A lot of times they get attacked, they get invaded. 00:38:23.520 --> 00:38:27.120 But because the US is still effectively as close as you can 00:38:27.120 --> 00:38:31.680 be under present conditions to a hegemon in the system, no one 00:38:31.680 --> 00:38:33.840 can come collect from us. 00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:37.840 So all it would do, again, is har is harm our standing 00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:39.280 with certain parties. 00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:43.360 But what you can also do is as that new government say, 00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:47.760 I do not recognize the debts of the previous government, blanket statement. 00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:50.800 However, due to the historical relationship 00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:56.480 of this state with us, whatever it happens to be, you know, 00:38:56.480 --> 00:39:01.200 due to the historical relationship between the American nation and the British 00:39:01.200 --> 00:39:04.880 nation, we will honor our debts to the British nation. 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:07.040 We will honor our debts to the French nation. 00:39:07.040 --> 00:39:09.440 We will honor our debts to the German nation, right? 00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:10.960 Whichever groups you want. 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:16.080 So you honor those debts, continue trading with them, continue your international 00:39:16.080 --> 00:39:21.040 and your economic relationship with those parties, but wipe the slate clean 00:39:21.040 --> 00:39:22.560 with others. 00:39:22.560 --> 00:39:24.160 Again, does it come at a cost? 00:39:24.160 --> 00:39:26.480 Absolutely. But can it be done? 00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:28.240 The answer is yes. 00:39:28.240 --> 00:39:30.640 And so I think that it is something that a nationalist government 00:39:30.640 --> 00:39:32.320 should absolutely do. 00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:35.520 We should simply say we're not paying the national debt with regard 00:39:35.520 --> 00:39:37.120 to most parties. 00:39:37.120 --> 00:39:42.320 And certainly abolish certain institutions that should not exist and stop paying 00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:45.120 various various sums to foreign parties. 00:39:45.120 --> 00:39:48.240 So obviously a big part of that would be instituting a new 00:39:48.240 --> 00:39:48.960 currency, right? 00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:52.400 You can't do this sort of thing and expect the existing currency 00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:56.000 not to have some very serious repercussions, which is to say probably 00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:59.680 a collapse, hyperinflation, whatever it happened, however it happens to play out, 00:39:59.680 --> 00:40:01.280 probably hyperinflation. 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:03.360 So you institute new currency as well. 00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:08.720 But combining these methods, you can basically wipe the slate essentially clean. 00:40:08.720 --> 00:40:12.400 Except for the nations, with whom you would still like to deal. 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:14.080 So it's sort of a two for one. 00:40:14.080 --> 00:40:16.240 From a nationalist perspective, right? 00:40:16.240 --> 00:40:18.960 Obviously you get sort of the libertarian perspective. 00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:22.400 It sounds like I've said something that's absolutely insane. 00:40:22.560 --> 00:40:24.800 but libertarians, so 00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:32.880 I'm going to scroll through the chat now to pull out some 00:40:33.840 --> 00:40:35.680 additional questions here 00:40:37.680 --> 00:40:41.280 Someone asked about the the national debt question because it had been 00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:43.840 sitting in the queue, as it were, for a while the pending 00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:49.280 it the pending questions, and Musk has achieved the status of a 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:50.720 trillionaire, so you know 00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:55.120 he hasn't really personally achieved it, but we all know what he 00:40:55.280 --> 00:40:56.160 what is meant. 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:07.360 Someone asked about Luther's views on Mary. 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.960 I would want to look at his writings more before answering that 00:41:11.040 --> 00:41:14.080 because I don't want to say something that is not accurate to 00:41:14.080 --> 00:41:16.400 what he wrote and said. 00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:20.880 So I will save that one for the future and I will 00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:26.000 save it before I move on so that I don't forget it. 00:41:26.160 --> 00:41:27.920 Doesn't get lost in my 00:41:30.080 --> 00:41:36.000 copy history, copy and paste history. 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:39.360 A related question, an easy one, so I'll answer this one 00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:43.680 As soon as I copy it over so that it's in the 00:41:43.680 --> 00:41:46.640 show notes. 00:41:46.640 --> 00:41:47.840 Question ten. 00:41:47.840 --> 00:41:51.520 Do you believe Catholics, like myself, are true Christians and can be 00:41:51.520 --> 00:41:53.920 saved according to Lutheran theology? 00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:56.080 The answer is yes. 00:41:56.080 --> 00:41:58.800 Now does it come with some caveats? 00:41:58.800 --> 00:41:59.840 Of course it does. 00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:03.440 What Lutherans would say this is, and I will put a link 00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:06.560 in the show notes to this because this one comes up a 00:42:06.560 --> 00:42:09.360 decent amount and I'm sure many listening already know what I'm going 00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:10.080 to say. 00:42:10.080 --> 00:42:13.200 But what we call it is felicitous inconsistency. 00:42:13.200 --> 00:42:19.680 And so felicitous inconsistency essentially boils down to saying, despite the fact 00:42:19.680 --> 00:42:25.200 that this given church body, pick whichever one you don't like, teaches 00:42:25.200 --> 00:42:27.600 things that are contrary to scripture. 00:42:27.600 --> 00:42:31.120 Ultimately, at the end of the day, in his heart of hearts, 00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:34.720 this believer relies on Christ. 00:42:34.720 --> 00:42:38.960 He trusts in Christ alone for his salvation. 00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:43.360 He doesn't ultimately trust in the things that are taught contrary to 00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:48.800 Scripture, contrary to the truth by his denomination, by his tradition. 00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:55.200 And so we say we hope that these individuals are felicitously inconsistent. 00:42:55.200 --> 00:42:58.720 And I believe there are many in the Roman Catholic Churches, and 00:42:58.720 --> 00:43:03.840 I think plural is appropriate because there are faithful parishes and there 00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:08.560 are faithless parishes, just like almost every other Christian group on earth. 00:43:08.560 --> 00:43:12.800 I believe there are many Christians in those churches. 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:16.080 Is what is taught by Rome Christian? 00:43:16.080 --> 00:43:17.760 To that I have to say no. 00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:21.040 Because Rome teaches things that are contrary to Scripture. 00:43:21.040 --> 00:43:27.840 Rome teaches scripts Pelagianism, Rome teaches a sort of works salvation that 00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:32.160 is anathema, that is contrary to the clear word of God, because 00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:35.760 salvation is by faith alone. 00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:39.360 Your works are good, but your works are good because you are 00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:40.400 in Christ. 00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:42.000 Your works do not save you. 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:45.360 Your works cannot save you because the debt of sin is infinite, 00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:49.920 and you can never pay an infinite debt with finite contributions, which 00:43:49.920 --> 00:43:51.600 is what your good works are. 00:43:51.600 --> 00:43:55.200 And so it took the infinite sacrifice of Christ on the cross, 00:43:55.200 --> 00:43:59.280 and his perfect life, his perfect obedience, in order to pay that 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:00.720 infinite debt. 00:44:00.720 --> 00:44:05.840 So many things, not I don't want to say many necessarily, because 00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:09.200 many sounds to most people's ears probably more extreme than what I 00:44:09.200 --> 00:44:11.680 mean, but there are a handful of things that are taught by 00:44:11.680 --> 00:44:14.400 Rome that are very clearly contrary to Scripture. 00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:17.280 If you believe and rely on those things, I do not believe 00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:18.320 you are saved. 00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:20.560 But most Roman Catholics don't. 00:44:20.560 --> 00:44:24.720 Talk to Roman Catholics about the things that Rome actually teaches, particularly 00:44:24.720 --> 00:44:26.560 some of the things you can pick out of the Roman Catholic 00:44:26.560 --> 00:44:29.040 catechism saying that you know Muslims are included in the plan of 00:44:29.040 --> 00:44:33.840 salvation, which is obviously contrary to scripture. 00:44:33.840 --> 00:44:36.560 Most Roman Catholics don't believe it. 00:44:36.560 --> 00:44:41.680 Ultimately, they believe in Jesus Christ, they go to church because they 00:44:41.680 --> 00:44:46.160 think the Roman Catholic Church has historical claims that are something to 00:44:46.160 --> 00:44:48.480 be addressed another time. 00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:52.560 They go there for various reasons, many times because of family reasons, 00:44:52.560 --> 00:44:54.880 and ultimately they do rely on Christ. 00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:58.400 They like Mary a little too much, in a way it's a 00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:01.680 little weird, but I think they're Christians. 00:45:01.680 --> 00:45:04.560 So I think that there are many Roman Catholics in paradise, I 00:45:04.560 --> 00:45:07.200 think there are many living today who will be there as well. 00:45:07.600 --> 00:45:11.120 I do wish that they had better theology on certain things. 00:45:11.120 --> 00:45:15.360 But I also wish the LCMS had better theology on certain things. 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:16.000 So. 00:45:23.120 --> 00:45:24.080 Question 00:45:25.040 --> 00:45:28.560 11. We're going to ask the questions that require me to give 00:45:28.560 --> 00:45:31.600 careful answers so I don't get banned tonight, I see. 00:45:31.600 --> 00:45:33.440 It's going to be an ongoing thing. 00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:34.560 It has been for years. 00:45:34.560 --> 00:45:35.360 Question eleven. 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:38.720 How do we as Christians justify violence like what we are seeing 00:45:38.720 --> 00:45:39.840 in Belfast? 00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:44.720 At what point is it justified when the government is so irredeemably 00:45:44.720 --> 00:45:49.600 corrupt? So if I had seen this in the chat, it came 00:45:49.600 --> 00:45:53.280 in in the chat, not before I started recording, I would have 00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:57.680 grabbed my copy of the Magdebird Confession, which I think is on 00:45:57.920 --> 00:45:58.800 this bookshelf. 00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:00.080 I do not see it though. 00:46:00.240 --> 00:46:02.160 I will put a link to that. 00:46:02.160 --> 00:46:04.800 You should go and read the Magdeburg Confession. 00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:10.960 That is sort of the Lutheran, the Protestant answer to it, and 00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:14.560 it is still sound for our time. 00:46:14.560 --> 00:46:17.120 We also did an episode on it for Stone Choir, so I 00:46:17.120 --> 00:46:18.320 would say go and listen to that. 00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:20.320 That is a fuller treatment of it than I am going to 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:21.440 give here. 00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:25.280 But the basic fact of the matter is that Christians are not 00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:28.720 pacifists. Christianity is not a pacifist religion, right? 00:46:28.720 --> 00:46:32.560 Sell your cloak and buy a sword and your cloak. 00:46:32.560 --> 00:46:37.120 Modern Christians, modern people hear that, the modern ear hears it and 00:46:37.120 --> 00:46:39.120 thinks, ah, sell your cloak, whatever. 00:46:39.120 --> 00:46:43.280 Your cloak was your most important possession in many cases. 00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:45.520 Other than like your house. 00:46:45.520 --> 00:46:49.200 So your cloak is what you slept in, your cloak is what 00:46:49.200 --> 00:46:50.720 protected you from the elements. 00:46:50.720 --> 00:46:54.000 This was not like you went to your wardrobe and picked what 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.320 coach you wanted to wear that day. 00:46:56.320 --> 00:47:01.520 This was a vitally important part of your everyday attire in that 00:47:01.520 --> 00:47:02.640 part of the world. 00:47:02.640 --> 00:47:06.000 It would be like selling your great coat in certain parts of 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.480 Europe back when you only had one of them. 00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:14.640 So something that has greater import than what we necessarily hear as 00:47:14.640 --> 00:47:16.480 moderns when we hear sell your cloak. 00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:18.080 This is something that is very Is very important. 00:47:18.080 --> 00:47:22.320 This would be like sell your house and buy a sword, almost 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:22.960 to that level. 00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:25.440 Not quite, but almost to that level. 00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:28.000 So Christianity is not a pacifist religion. 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:33.520 Christianity has always been a religion that that is willing to employ 00:47:33.520 --> 00:47:37.120 violence when it is moral to do so, and it is moral 00:47:37.120 --> 00:47:40.960 to do so under certain circumstances that are again discussed at length 00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:44.800 in the Magdeburg Confession and the episode that we did on this 00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:48.320 topic. So I would say go and listen to those, and I 00:47:48.320 --> 00:47:54.800 will put links to that in the show note the show notes. 00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:59.920 But yes, what is happening in Ireland right now is morally justified 00:47:59.920 --> 00:48:02.240 and Christian, and it should continue. 00:48:15.120 --> 00:48:17.200 Question twelve. 00:48:17.200 --> 00:48:21.520 Do you have any advice or recommendations for making like-minded friends as 00:48:21.520 --> 00:48:22.640 a young man out of college? 00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:26.240 I was homeschooled, so I don't really have any friends and not 00:48:26.240 --> 00:48:29.760 really sure how to find or make any. 00:48:29.760 --> 00:48:34.240 So the easiest way to do that these days is probably going 00:48:34.240 --> 00:48:38.000 to be joining an active club or similar. 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:41.280 That's where you're going to find like-minded men. 00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:43.840 And there's probably one in your area. 00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:46.720 So Patriot Front is a good option. 00:48:46.720 --> 00:48:50.080 That is in many parts of the country at this point. 00:48:50.080 --> 00:48:51.600 You can find a chapter near you. 00:48:51.600 --> 00:48:54.480 They'll do vetting and things like that. 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:57.040 So that's a good way to meet like-minded men. 00:48:57.040 --> 00:49:00.400 Other than that, you have some chance. 00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:03.600 chance of finding them at church, if you can find a good 00:49:03.600 --> 00:49:05.840 church near you, even if you find a church that's a little 00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:10.080 wobbly, there may be a group of younger men who are definitely 00:49:10.240 --> 00:49:14.480 our guys, definitely on side, and just fly under the radar to 00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:17.120 stay at peace with their congregation. 00:49:17.120 --> 00:49:19.200 Not necessarily a bad thing to do. 00:49:19.200 --> 00:49:21.440 Sometimes that's the way to go. 00:49:22.160 --> 00:49:26.960 Probably those are the two best places to go looking for like-minded 00:49:26.960 --> 00:49:28.000 individuals these days. 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:30.080 Otherwise it's kind of difficult. 00:49:30.080 --> 00:49:32.960 You know, some mentals they try to find them online. 00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:36.640 That's a little sketchy sometimes a little difficult, but it works out 00:49:36.640 --> 00:49:38.400 occasionally. I won't say it never does. 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:42.400 But I think active clubs, things like that, and then church groups, 00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:46.720 probably your best bet, and then maybe get into a hobby that 00:49:46.720 --> 00:49:50.560 you enjoy in your local area and you'll probably meet some men 00:49:50.560 --> 00:49:54.800 who are more like minded than you may expect whatever hobby it 00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:55.920 happens to be, right? 00:49:55.920 --> 00:49:59.600 If it's you know collecting things or a certain game or gardening 00:49:59.680 --> 00:50:00.800 or anything like that. 00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:05.520 You'd be surprised where you'll find men who are definitely our guys 00:50:05.600 --> 00:50:07.280 very like-minded. 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:12.320 I've certainly met them in some places where you wouldn't necessarily expect 00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:13.200 to find them. 00:50:17.680 --> 00:50:21.600 Let's see. 00:50:21.680 --> 00:50:23.840 Question 13. 00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:26.080 I guess I will address this one now. 00:50:26.080 --> 00:50:29.360 I was tempted to leave it for next week, but I'll address 00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:31.360 it. Question 13. 00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:34.160 Are you able to give any insight on the Chinese and any 00:50:34.160 --> 00:50:38.000 major cultural reasons why it's a bad idea for a white girl 00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:39.760 to marry a Chinese man? 00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:43.760 My sister was not interested in my biblical arguments. 00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:44.080 So 00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:49.760 you don't see many pairings of Chinese men and white women, that's 00:50:49.760 --> 00:50:53.840 pretty unusual, so that seems like she's probably just rebelling for the 00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:55.520 sake of rebelling. 00:50:55.520 --> 00:50:58.880 So maybe try to address that as sort of an initial point, 00:50:58.880 --> 00:50:59.200 but 00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:06.000 In so far as cultural incompatibility is concerned, I'm sure you've already 00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:09.280 gone over some of the issues of genetic incompatibility and things like 00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:12.320 that. The fact that the children will have genetic issues, will be 00:51:12.320 --> 00:51:16.160 less likely to be able to receive donated blood or organs, will 00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:20.160 have all the various problems that go along with that, fewer certainly 00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:23.600 than you know, marrying a black if you have a pairing of 00:51:23.600 --> 00:51:28.080 black and white or black and Asian, the resulting offspring have significantly 00:51:28.080 --> 00:51:33.680 more genetic and other issues than usually the mixture of East Asian 00:51:33.680 --> 00:51:36.960 and White usually causes fewer of those problems. 00:51:37.040 --> 00:51:38.640 Not zero. 00:51:38.640 --> 00:51:41.840 More than if you married within your own people, like God intends 00:51:41.840 --> 00:51:43.920 for you to do. 00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:46.320 But I'm sure you've gone over that stuff with her as well. 00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:50.160 You should probably continue to do so because women should generally care 00:51:50.160 --> 00:51:53.040 about what happens to their children Children. 00:51:53.040 --> 00:51:56.640 Not always the case these days, but hopefully, since she wants to 00:51:56.640 --> 00:51:57.920 get married, and 00:51:59.040 --> 00:52:02.400 certainly probably considering children, maybe it'll help. 00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:07.760 But insofar as cultural incompatibility goes, show her videos of how the 00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:10.240 Chinese behave in China. 00:52:10.240 --> 00:52:13.520 I think that'll probably drive home the point better than necessarily arguing 00:52:13.520 --> 00:52:16.960 with her, show her a Chinese wet market, right? 00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:21.200 Show her the food customs they have, show various videos of them 00:52:21.200 --> 00:52:24.320 consuming live animals in restaurants. 00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:28.400 Their culture is deeply evil in many ways because it has been 00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:32.480 has been contrary to Christ for millennia. 00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:36.640 It is not as evil in the same sort of depraved ways 00:52:36.640 --> 00:52:42.320 as certainly African culture or Indian culture, but there's sort of a 00:52:42.560 --> 00:52:48.640 almost banal or just everyday sort of evil that perfuses Chinese culture. 00:52:48.640 --> 00:52:52.720 There's cruelty everywhere you look in Chinese culture. 00:52:52.720 --> 00:52:56.720 They don't come to the aid of people when someone is injured. 00:52:56.720 --> 00:52:59.760 You can find plenty of videos online of someone who gets injured 00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:02.080 in public in China and no one comes down they'll just stand 00:53:02.080 --> 00:53:03.360 there and watch him die. 00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:06.480 The same thing has happens in Africa and India. 00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:11.120 So So, you want to drive home that, and generally speaking, when 00:53:11.120 --> 00:53:13.360 you're dealing with a woman, you're going to want to try more 00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:18.800 emotional appeals, and video is more emotional than words, generally speaking. 00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:22.720 So, I think probably showing her those differences in culture that are 00:53:22.720 --> 00:53:25.120 extreme differences in culture. 00:53:25.120 --> 00:53:28.640 And you know, ask her does she want her children to not 00:53:28.640 --> 00:53:32.960 only be half that, but be raised into that. 00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:34.800 The answer should be no. 00:53:34.800 --> 00:53:39.040 She should want to marry among her own people and have children 00:53:39.040 --> 00:53:41.360 who look like her, and also drive home that point, right? 00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:44.240 You want your children to look like your parents and your grandparents 00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:45.440 and your great grandparents. 00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:49.520 So find a family album and show that you have that consistency 00:53:49.520 --> 00:53:53.840 across however many generations where, you know, this is great great great 00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:56.960 grandpa, whatever his name is, and he looks exactly like me when 00:53:56.960 --> 00:53:58.720 I was a child I can do that. 00:53:58.720 --> 00:54:02.960 I've got family photo albums where I've got, you know, five, six 00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:04.720 generations back, whatever it happens to be. 00:54:04.720 --> 00:54:08.000 Some cases you start getting back into paintings instead of pictures, but 00:54:08.560 --> 00:54:10.800 we look the same as children. 00:54:11.040 --> 00:54:15.680 There are times where I have had my siblings in fact have 00:54:15.680 --> 00:54:19.840 mistaken pictures of me as a child for pictures of my father 00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:21.200 or vice versa. 00:54:21.200 --> 00:54:24.320 That's what happens when you do what God tells you to do 00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:28.720 and you marry among your own people and reproduce according to kind, 00:54:28.720 --> 00:54:31.200 as God commanded us to do. 00:54:31.200 --> 00:54:35.280 But I think generally speaking, go for that emotional appeal, probably going 00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:39.360 to help you more dealing with a woman. 00:54:39.360 --> 00:54:42.160 That's just men and women are different. 00:54:42.160 --> 00:54:45.440 Rational, logical arguments are not always going to win as well with 00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:48.000 women as more emotional arguments. 00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:50.960 It is similar to how when a woman is telling you her 00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:56.560 problems, she wants you to listen generally, not solve them. 00:54:56.560 --> 00:54:59.840 You can solve them later, but if you spend the whole time 00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:03.520 trying to solve them, you're not doing what she wants and she 00:55:03.520 --> 00:55:04.320 wants you to listen. 00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:06.560 So if there's a woman you care about and a woman, you 00:55:06.560 --> 00:55:10.080 know, to whom you have some sort of duty, your wife, mother, 00:55:10.080 --> 00:55:13.120 sister, whatever it happens to be, sometimes you just listen to the 00:55:13.120 --> 00:55:15.360 problem and commiserate. 00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:18.960 You can solve it later, but don't necessarily do it right then 00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:19.360 in the moment. 00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:20.560 It's not what she wants. 00:55:20.560 --> 00:55:22.320 Men and women are different. 00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:25.280 You know, if your male friend comes to you and says, I 00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:29.280 have X problem and it's due to these factors, he wants you 00:55:29.280 --> 00:55:30.880 to help him solve it. 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:34.880 Men don't usually want to commiserate, men want to fix the issue. 00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:35.920 Fundamentally different. 00:55:35.920 --> 00:55:37.680 God made the sexes different. 00:55:37.680 --> 00:55:42.480 That's just how it is. 00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:51.760 A follow-up question to the earlier question about forgiving your enemies. 00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:53.600 I think it's a fair question. 00:55:53.600 --> 00:55:55.520 Question fourteen. 00:55:55.760 --> 00:55:58.960 How can you forgive someone who stole all your money and caused 00:55:58.960 --> 00:56:02.000 you to lose your home, life, girlfriend, etc? 00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:04.480 It's difficult. 00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:05.760 Excuse me. 00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:07.760 That's obviously very difficult. 00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:08.080 And 00:56:09.520 --> 00:56:13.360 what you want to do is go read the parable of the 00:56:13.360 --> 00:56:15.520 unworthy servant, right? 00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:17.760 To make sure we all know which parable. 00:56:17.760 --> 00:56:22.480 That's the one where you have the king, the master, forgives the 00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:28.160 one servant an enormous sum, a sum that is effectively infinite. 00:56:28.160 --> 00:56:29.600 This is God, right? 00:56:29.600 --> 00:56:32.080 This is God forgiving you your sin. 00:56:32.080 --> 00:56:37.120 And then the servant turns around and refuses to forgive his fellow 00:56:37.120 --> 00:56:40.080 servant a relatively trivial sum. 00:56:40.080 --> 00:56:45.120 Not trivial in the sense of pocket change, but trivial certainly compared 00:56:45.120 --> 00:56:50.240 to the sum that had b been forgiven him by his master. 00:56:50.240 --> 00:56:54.240 That is the wicked servant, the unforgiving servant. 00:56:54.240 --> 00:56:56.720 You don't want to be that man. 00:56:56.720 --> 00:57:01.440 God has forgiven you an infinite debt, and so you turn around, 00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:05.280 and even when it is difficult, and particularly when it is difficult, 00:57:05.280 --> 00:57:09.840 you forgive others their debts against you, even when they are indeed 00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:15.280 extreme. Now that doesn't mean that if someone, you know, stole all 00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:18.960 of your money, you are not allowed to go to the court 00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.560 and get your money back because theft is still a crime. 00:57:22.560 --> 00:57:24.160 Theft is still illegal. 00:57:24.160 --> 00:57:26.080 You are permitted to do that. 00:57:26.400 --> 00:57:28.720 Now you you can't go to court and say give me my 00:57:28.720 --> 00:57:32.080 girlfriend back, we don't have laws to help you with that, but 00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:36.320 if someone actually stole your money and you have a claim there, 00:57:36.320 --> 00:57:39.200 then yes, you should see an attorney and deal with that You 00:57:39.200 --> 00:57:40.640 still forgive him. 00:57:40.640 --> 00:57:43.440 You don't hold it against him in the sense of like this 00:57:43.440 --> 00:57:45.920 man is my enemy, I want to destroy him, I want to 00:57:45.920 --> 00:57:46.720 harm him. 00:57:46.720 --> 00:57:51.360 You forgive him, but forgiving someone does not always erase the punishment, 00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:55.280 right? We know this because you forgive someone who commits a crime, 00:57:55.280 --> 00:57:58.800 but it is still incumbent on the prince to punish him. 00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:03.040 You don't get out of the punishment just because you're forgiven. 00:58:03.040 --> 00:58:04.560 These are separate concepts. 00:58:04.560 --> 00:58:07.840 These get conflated all the time in modern culture for malicious reasons, 00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:11.680 because they want you to think that Christianity just lets murderers walk 00:58:11.680 --> 00:58:15.360 free. No God commands that they should be put to death. 00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:18.320 You forgive them for their wickedness. 00:58:18.320 --> 00:58:22.800 You hope that they repent, but the executioner still has to do 00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:24.160 his job. 00:58:24.160 --> 00:58:27.520 So yes, you do have to forgive those who have even done 00:58:27.520 --> 00:58:31.200 horrible things, but it doesn't mean that you know you bring this 00:58:31.200 --> 00:58:34.000 person back into your life and trust this person again and forego 00:58:34.240 --> 00:58:37.440 all sort of sorts of remedies against him. 00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:39.760 Those are separate things. 00:58:39.760 --> 00:58:40.080 But 00:58:41.280 --> 00:58:43.760 it wouldn't be a commandment and it wouldn't be a commandment worth 00:58:44.080 --> 00:58:45.920 issuing if it were always easy, right? 00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:50.000 Sometimes it's going to be very difficult because some personal enemies have 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:51.520 done great harm. 00:58:58.080 --> 00:59:02.720 Question fifteen. 00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:05.760 Guess I'll do a few more questions here, try to get through 00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:06.080 a 00:59:07.920 --> 00:59:11.200 try to get through through most of the questions on the in 00:59:11.200 --> 00:59:12.560 the chat at least. 00:59:12.560 --> 00:59:17.920 Question fifteen What will what position will America have towards Canada under 00:59:17.920 --> 00:59:20.240 a future Christian prince? 00:59:20.240 --> 00:59:22.880 Would it be annexed, get a puppet ruler, or would the status 00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:27.120 quo be maintained? 00:59:27.120 --> 00:59:29.920 This is one of those questions that I almost should save it 00:59:30.240 --> 00:59:34.480 because it gets into a lot of related things that are more 00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:37.040 expansive than the core question, right? 00:59:37.040 --> 00:59:38.160 The core question is easy. 00:59:38.160 --> 00:59:39.840 Canada should be annexed. 00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:42.000 Canada should never have been separate. 00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:47.680 The Canadian people and the American people are basically one nation, right? 00:59:47.680 --> 00:59:51.040 Yes, they have Quebec and they have more French, but we have 00:59:51.040 --> 00:59:53.760 Louisiana that has more French, right? 00:59:53.760 --> 01:00:00.960 So they are by and large English, Scottish, German. 01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:06.240 We are by and large, English, Scottish, German. 01:00:06.240 --> 01:00:10.720 We are basically the same nation, we're just split in two for 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:15.200 essentially political reasons historically. 01:00:15.200 --> 01:00:19.920 So So international political reasons, incidentally, but we should not be separate. 01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:22.480 We should be the same people, and I mean the actual Canadian 01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:26.160 people, not the invading brown horde that should be repulsed. 01:00:26.160 --> 01:00:31.200 The actual Canadian people are our brothers, and they should be part 01:00:31.200 --> 01:00:32.720 of our nation. 01:00:32.720 --> 01:00:36.720 Those who are of one stock should be under one government, should 01:00:36.720 --> 01:00:38.560 live together in peace and harmony. 01:00:38.560 --> 01:00:39.520 That's how it should be. 01:00:39.520 --> 01:00:42.640 You can think of some things that happened in the past century 01:00:42.640 --> 01:00:44.800 related to that. 01:00:44.800 --> 01:00:48.080 So they shouldn't have a a puppet governor or anything like that. 01:00:48.080 --> 01:00:52.240 I think that without getting too deeply necessarily into the issues right 01:00:52.240 --> 01:00:55.600 now, but I think that essentially the best system that we've come 01:00:55.600 --> 01:00:59.680 up with for dealing with the way that human beings actually are, 01:00:59.680 --> 01:01:02.640 the way that we will always be, because God made us this 01:01:02.640 --> 01:01:09.360 way, is to have an imperial power, and then devolve certain things 01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:12.640 to the local level with princes or dukes or whatever you want 01:01:12.640 --> 01:01:13.120 to call them. 01:01:13.120 --> 01:01:15.120 The title doesn't matter, right? 01:01:15.120 --> 01:01:15.200 So 01:01:16.400 --> 01:01:20.720 Quebec should have its own ruler because they are distinct enough that 01:01:20.720 --> 01:01:24.320 they should have their own ruler but still be part of whether 01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:26.800 we call it the American Empire or something else. 01:01:26.800 --> 01:01:29.920 I think that's probably a fine name, but they should be part 01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:32.880 of that and then have some local control. 01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:37.200 So you have a greater allegiance at the top level to this 01:01:37.680 --> 01:01:41.600 higher authority, to the emperor as supreme, to use the words of 01:01:41.600 --> 01:01:46.320 scripture. But then you also have your regional identity. 01:01:46.320 --> 01:01:48.160 And historically that's how it's always been. 01:01:48.160 --> 01:01:51.200 I don't think we can actually make it otherwise because I think 01:01:51.200 --> 01:01:57.680 that we are so linked intimately, inextricably, and naturally to our geographical 01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:02.880 region that over a not very long period of time we become 01:02:02.880 --> 01:02:04.960 distinct sub peoples. 01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:10.320 We're still part of the greater nation, but we're a distinct subset 01:02:10.320 --> 01:02:10.800 of it. 01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:13.600 And you can think of that in the US context, right? 01:02:13.600 --> 01:02:16.240 Despite the fact that you've had a lot of modern moving around 01:02:16.240 --> 01:02:20.160 and shuffling and things, the South is still the South in some 01:02:20.160 --> 01:02:24.800 ways. The Northeast is still the Northeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, California 01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:28.320 is sort of its own thing, the Pacific Northwest. 01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:33.120 You have these different sub regions that because of the nature of 01:02:33.120 --> 01:02:36.080 the region, the people are shaped according to it. 01:02:36.080 --> 01:02:40.480 Right? We're not just a spirit, we're also body, we're flesh, and 01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:43.200 it's blood, soil, myth. 01:02:43.200 --> 01:02:45.520 You can't ignore the second one. 01:02:45.520 --> 01:02:47.040 You can't ignore soil. 01:02:47.040 --> 01:02:51.280 So I think that inevitably you're going to have regional distinctions that 01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:56.160 develop over relatively short periods of time, and to account for that, 01:02:56.160 --> 01:03:00.240 you devolve some things to local control. 01:03:00.240 --> 01:03:05.040 For matters like defense of the larger entity, that should be at 01:03:05.040 --> 01:03:07.680 the national or the supranational, however you want to term it. 01:03:07.680 --> 01:03:12.480 It's really national level, in this case the imperial level. 01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:16.560 But other things than that should be Should be regulated more locally, 01:03:16.560 --> 01:03:19.440 in so far as it makes sense to do that. 01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:23.120 Because that's just the way God made us, right? 01:03:23.120 --> 01:03:26.640 God made us to be tribal in a certain sense, and so 01:03:26.640 --> 01:03:31.520 some things should be devolved down to that almost not quite but 01:03:31.520 --> 01:03:33.200 almost tribal level. 01:03:33.200 --> 01:03:37.120 But yes, the Canadians are our brothers and they should be part 01:03:37.120 --> 01:03:40.800 of this same nation and I hope that we get things under 01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:43.440 control here soon enough and quickly enough that we enough that we 01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:46.560 can help them with the many problems they have up there. 01:03:46.560 --> 01:03:49.200 Because I think they're going to need help. 01:04:14.560 --> 01:04:19.680 I think I'll answer two more questions here from the chat and 01:04:19.680 --> 01:04:23.040 then call it for this week. 01:04:23.040 --> 01:04:28.080 Sort of related questions, not exactly follow-ups, but 01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:31.360 follow-ups to things previously. 01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:32.960 One is anyway. 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:35.360 Question sixteen. 01:04:35.360 --> 01:04:39.120 Can you deny Christ to save your family from the axe murderer? 01:04:39.120 --> 01:04:41.040 The answer is no. 01:04:41.040 --> 01:04:46.400 I also don't see how that hypothetical would necessarily play out. 01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:51.280 It's almost one of those hypotheticals where it's deliberately set up such 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:56.720 to be a scenario that will never come to pass, and yet, 01:04:56.720 --> 01:05:00.160 you know, you have various philosophy professors and others who try to 01:05:00.160 --> 01:05:03.600 use it and think that they've discovered something unique about human psychology 01:05:03.600 --> 01:05:05.760 by setting up this impossible scenario. 01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:09.200 All you've done is create an impossible scenario and then try to 01:05:09.200 --> 01:05:09.840 get an answer. 01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:12.240 And so some men would just say, well, I can't answer that. 01:05:12.240 --> 01:05:12.640 Answer that. 01:05:12.640 --> 01:05:13.760 That's crazy. 01:05:13.760 --> 01:05:16.560 But in this case, we can answer it because you are never 01:05:16.560 --> 01:05:18.640 permitted to deny Christ. 01:05:19.200 --> 01:05:24.080 Whatever the outcome, whatever you are going to suffer, you are required 01:05:24.080 --> 01:05:25.760 to affirm Christ. 01:05:25.760 --> 01:05:28.880 If you are going to be tortured to death, you are still 01:05:28.880 --> 01:05:32.560 required to say that Christ is your Lord, that He died on 01:05:32.560 --> 01:05:35.840 the cross for you, and that you believe in Him. 01:05:35.840 --> 01:05:38.720 You are never given an out for that. 01:05:38.720 --> 01:05:41.520 To some degree, that should make you more comfortable, because as a 01:05:41.520 --> 01:05:44.320 Christian, it means that you certainly have at least one thing in 01:05:44.320 --> 01:05:46.640 your life that is absolutely certain. 01:05:46.640 --> 01:05:52.240 You know for an absolute fact that your only response when challenged 01:05:52.560 --> 01:05:57.120 to affirm Christ, to affirm that you're a Christian, is to do 01:05:57.120 --> 01:05:58.720 so, regardless of the outcome. 01:05:58.720 --> 01:06:00.640 You don't have to think about it. 01:06:00.640 --> 01:06:00.960 So 01:06:02.880 --> 01:06:07.200 I also just Also just don't think that that's very likely to 01:06:07.200 --> 01:06:10.880 happen and the only scenario in which that generally happens you can 01:06:10.880 --> 01:06:15.120 think of some things historically when there have been things like that. 01:06:15.120 --> 01:06:19.040 It's going to be under an anti-Christian, wicked government that is going 01:06:19.040 --> 01:06:23.040 to say if you do not deny Christ, we're going to execute 01:06:23.040 --> 01:06:23.920 your family. 01:06:23.920 --> 01:06:26.080 I have good news and bad news. 01:06:26.080 --> 01:06:30.480 The good news is you may as well just affirm Christ and 01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:33.920 don't even consider the alternative because the bad news is they're going 01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:36.080 to kill your family anyway. 01:06:36.080 --> 01:06:40.320 If the communists take over, they're not going to give you real 01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:43.040 options. They're going to give you false options. 01:06:44.160 --> 01:06:49.200 And also, realistically speaking, what's better? 01:06:49.200 --> 01:06:54.560 Denying Christ and then setting that example for your family and probably 01:06:54.560 --> 01:06:58.640 causing them to fall away, and so damning them, or just having 01:06:58.640 --> 01:06:59.600 them die. 01:06:59.600 --> 01:07:01.440 What's better, death or eternal death? 01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:03.440 It's not a very hard question, I don't think. 01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:07.200 So always affirm Christ, you have no other choice. 01:07:07.200 --> 01:07:14.000 Question seventeen Is a follow-on from something I've said previously about sort 01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:20.400 of an exception with regard to interracial marriages. 01:07:20.400 --> 01:07:23.040 Because the example that I gave previously 01:07:24.080 --> 01:07:28.960 was a white missionary moving to Japan, marrying a Japanese woman, and 01:07:28.960 --> 01:07:34.560 then all of his subsequent children generations marrying Japanese and essentially fading 01:07:34.560 --> 01:07:38.160 into the Japanese, disappearing into the Japanese population. 01:07:38.160 --> 01:07:41.200 It's one of the instances where I think that it is morally 01:07:41.200 --> 01:07:43.280 permissible, and also 01:07:45.200 --> 01:07:47.840 probably something historically I would not even condemn. 01:07:47.840 --> 01:07:49.600 Today I don't think it's necessary. 01:07:49.600 --> 01:07:53.440 So as a live question, I don't think it's live because there 01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:57.600 are Japanese Christians, and we can bring the Japanese here or we 01:07:57.600 --> 01:08:01.680 can go there and train them and proselytize to their own people. 01:08:01.680 --> 01:08:04.400 They don't need us to convert them. 01:08:04.400 --> 01:08:07.600 They may need us to help them with some stuff, but I 01:08:07.600 --> 01:08:10.960 don't think they need us to be the ones doing all of 01:08:10.960 --> 01:08:12.080 the teaching and things. 01:08:12.080 --> 01:08:14.960 The Japanese are perfectly competent to do that themselves. 01:08:14.960 --> 01:08:18.560 But the question would it not be impermissible for the Japanese woman 01:08:18.560 --> 01:08:20.640 to marry the missionary? 01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:23.680 I think today it would generally be unwise it should not be 01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:29.520 done. Historically speaking, I think that it was probably just fine to 01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:32.400 do that, because historically that is the only way you would have 01:08:32.400 --> 01:08:34.800 been able to transmit the faith. 01:08:34.800 --> 01:08:36.720 Because you would have had a man who would have gone over 01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:41.840 as a missionary, basically, no men have the gift of celibacy. 01:08:41.840 --> 01:08:44.640 So he's going to want a wife. 01:08:44.640 --> 01:08:49.280 If he brings his own wife with him, then all you've done 01:08:49.280 --> 01:08:51.600 is move the question one generation down. 01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:52.080 Right, okay. 01:08:52.640 --> 01:08:54.320 what it was children do, right? 01:08:54.320 --> 01:08:58.320 So his option is to either return or to stay there. 01:08:58.320 --> 01:09:02.080 I think that historically it was a morally permissible option to stay 01:09:02.080 --> 01:09:05.440 there and become part of that population over a number of generations, 01:09:05.440 --> 01:09:07.680 right? He's never going to be Japanese. 01:09:07.680 --> 01:09:11.760 His children aren't really Japanese, but his grandchildren are pretty much Japanese. 01:09:11.760 --> 01:09:12.080 So 01:09:14.320 --> 01:09:18.400 I think that is essentially the best way to break that down, 01:09:18.400 --> 01:09:22.240 the distinction between the historical and the present day, present day, these 01:09:22.240 --> 01:09:24.400 issues aren't live, right? 01:09:24.400 --> 01:09:30.480 Because present day, people like the Japanese are perfectly competent to train 01:09:30.480 --> 01:09:31.840 up their own teachers. 01:09:31.840 --> 01:09:35.040 Maybe they need our help with materials and things like that. 01:09:35.040 --> 01:09:39.520 We have a much longer history with regard to Christianity and all 01:09:39.520 --> 01:09:41.680 of the things that undergird it, right? 01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:44.080 So certainly we can train those men and then send them back 01:09:44.160 --> 01:09:46.080 and they can teach their own people the faith. 01:09:46.080 --> 01:09:48.400 I think that's how it should be done today. 01:09:48.400 --> 01:09:48.720 But 01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:54.720 so I guess the edge case then would be historically would it 01:09:54.720 --> 01:09:58.960 have been impermissible for the Japanese Japanese woman to consent to that 01:09:58.960 --> 01:10:02.080 marriage or for her father to consent to that marriage, I don't 01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:04.720 think that it necessarily would have been. 01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:09.440 Would it be unwise, given everything that we know today? 01:10:09.440 --> 01:10:11.040 I think the answer is yes. 01:10:11.760 --> 01:10:16.080 But back then, they didn't know about DNA. 01:10:16.080 --> 01:10:19.840 They didn't know about all of these other issues that arise from 01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:21.280 these interracial pairings. 01:10:21.280 --> 01:10:26.480 And so her father, because who he's really the truly concerned party, 01:10:26.480 --> 01:10:29.360 right? Here's one consents to the marriage. 01:10:29.360 --> 01:10:33.760 He would have only been able to act on knowing the cultural 01:10:33.760 --> 01:10:37.200 differences and the obvious racial differences, right? 01:10:37.200 --> 01:10:40.080 He would not have known all of the other things. 01:10:40.080 --> 01:10:43.760 And so I think given the information that he had at the 01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:47.760 time, he could have consented to it, I think, both morally, and 01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:51.280 also according to wisdom, because I don't think that he had enough 01:10:51.280 --> 01:10:54.800 information where it would have been unwise for him to veto it 01:10:54.800 --> 01:10:56.160 in all cases. 01:10:56.160 --> 01:10:56.480 So 01:10:57.360 --> 01:11:00.320 But today obviously we have more information. 01:11:00.320 --> 01:11:04.640 And when you have more information, you are expected to employ that 01:11:04.640 --> 01:11:06.400 in making your decision. 01:11:06.400 --> 01:11:09.520 It's scriptures abundantly clear on that, right? 01:11:09.520 --> 01:11:13.360 A man who is given much will have much demanded of him. 01:11:13.360 --> 01:11:16.960 So if God has given you great intelligence, great knowledge, whatever it 01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:19.360 happens to be, it's not optional. 01:11:19.360 --> 01:11:22.560 You must employ that when making decisions because God has given you 01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:24.320 the ability to do so. 01:11:24.320 --> 01:11:30.720 So the short answer, historically, morally fine, not necessarily unwise because they 01:11:30.720 --> 01:11:32.880 lacked the knowledge we have today. 01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:36.640 Today, don't do it because it's unwise. 01:11:36.640 --> 01:11:40.560 Even without getting into the moral issue, which I think it would 01:11:40.560 --> 01:11:45.920 also be morally impermissible today because both the Japanese and the white 01:11:45.920 --> 01:11:49.920 race are in danger with regard to things like this and it 01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:52.720 is turning your back on your people at a time when they 01:11:52.720 --> 01:11:54.160 most desperately need you. 01:11:54.160 --> 01:11:56.880 So I don't want to see the Japanese disappear either. 01:11:56.880 --> 01:11:59.280 I certainly don't want to see the white race disappear, but I 01:11:59.280 --> 01:12:00.720 don't want to see the Japanese disappear. 01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:04.400 And so the Japanese need to marry Japanese to make more Japanese. 01:12:04.400 --> 01:12:06.400 That's the only way that works. 01:12:06.400 --> 01:12:09.840 Just as, you know, earlier, your white sister needs to marry a 01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:14.880 white man to make white children, because God told us to reproduce 01:12:14.880 --> 01:12:17.040 according to kind. 01:12:17.040 --> 01:12:19.600 And that includes your race. 01:12:19.600 --> 01:12:23.040 As is made obvious by the many, many things that have been 01:12:23.040 --> 01:12:26.800 said many times about how God built that into the system. 01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:32.080 Not least of all, you know, fertility, being the peak around third 01:12:32.080 --> 01:12:38.000 cousin. Pretty obvious for anyone who recognizes the natural world is a 01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:42.880 source of genuine information, of revelation from God to us. 01:12:42.880 --> 01:12:45.680 God made all of these things obvious. 01:12:45.680 --> 01:12:50.880 They've been subverted by false teachers and malicious actors over a period 01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:52.640 of centuries at this point. 01:12:52.640 --> 01:12:56.080 That's the only reason we're having to have these discussions now because 01:12:56.080 --> 01:12:57.920 of what evil men have done. 01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:01.520 No one historically had to ask these questions because people historically just 01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:03.840 knew no, you you marry your own people. 01:13:03.840 --> 01:13:07.680 You don't go halfway around the world and pick up a random 01:13:07.680 --> 01:13:10.880 wife. Like the only men who did that were sailors and they 01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:13.840 were looked down upon for doing it and usually they picked up 01:13:13.840 --> 01:13:14.960 prostitutes, so 01:13:16.160 --> 01:13:19.440 but I think that pretty much covers the the answer to that 01:13:19.440 --> 01:13:23.360 topic and some tangentially related things. 01:13:23.360 --> 01:13:27.040 I think I covered all the questions from the chat. 01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:32.800 If I missed any questions in the chat, let me know. 01:13:32.800 --> 01:13:35.760 As always, I'm going to close it out here, I think that's 01:13:35.760 --> 01:13:38.240 it for this week, so I try to go just about Just 01:13:38.240 --> 01:13:40.320 about an hour, usually run a little bit over, but 01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:44.960 as always, thank you for contributing questions. 01:13:44.960 --> 01:13:47.920 There are multiple ways you can contribute questions. 01:13:47.920 --> 01:13:51.440 The easiest way for me and the best way, because I can 01:13:51.440 --> 01:13:54.880 link things together and people can find them is to submit them 01:13:54.880 --> 01:13:55.840 on the forum. 01:13:55.840 --> 01:14:00.240 But you can of course always submit them via the chat, Telegram, 01:14:00.240 --> 01:14:01.200 on X. 01:14:01.200 --> 01:14:03.760 If I do not notice it on X, then by all means 01:14:03.840 --> 01:14:06.880 please tag me again, I get a lot of notifications. 01:14:06.880 --> 01:14:11.920 That is particularly true today because I posted something about, of all 01:14:11.920 --> 01:14:17.440 things, regulatory law and Papa John's garlic sauce And last I checked 01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:19.360 it had 9 million views. 01:14:19.360 --> 01:14:19.680 So 01:14:20.720 --> 01:14:25.360 my notifications are a bit of a dumpster fire right now. 01:14:25.360 --> 01:14:28.400 So if I do not notice your comment, please tag me again 01:14:28.400 --> 01:14:30.640 in a couple of days when things calm down. 01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:34.400 But at any rate, thank you for contributing your questions. 01:14:34.400 --> 01:14:36.960 I always like getting the opportunity to answer these. 01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:40.320 I do this on it usually winds up being Fridays, but it's 01:14:40.320 --> 01:14:43.520 Thursday or Friday, depending on how my week goes. 01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:47.520 It is of course Friday this time as it usually is. 01:14:47.520 --> 01:14:50.640 But given that it's Friday, I hope you all have a good 01:14:50.640 --> 01:14:53.760 weekend. Go out and do something fun, maybe go for a hike, 01:14:53.760 --> 01:14:55.520 take your dog for a hike if you if you happen to 01:14:55.520 --> 01:14:56.800 have a dog and you probably should. 01:14:56.800 --> 01:14:58.640 It's good to have a dog. 01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:02.320 Go to church on Sunday and I will see you all next 01:15:02.320 --> 01:15:04.480 week, Thursday or Friday. 01:15:04.480 --> 01:15:07.040 Until then, God bless.