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<v Speaker 1>any rate, it is the twenty-fourth of April 2026, and after that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>short delay, this is at any cost, I am Cory J.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Mahler, and this is Episode 26, a QA episode.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have a number of questions ready to go.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I do not know if I will get through all of them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Fifteen is probably a little ambitious, but we'll see how it goes.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And of course I'll account for that wasted time there at the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>start trying to get the audio stack to work.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I did remember to reboot this time to try and not have</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a memory leak in OBS, but apparently it's going to have a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>novel problem instead because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Software. As any IT guy will tell you.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Anyway, question one, a nice easy question to start and also a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>nice thumbnail for the show art, which is why I picked it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Berlin style curry ketchup.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This sounds good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Would you mind sharing a favorite style of making this?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>A type of sausage, pork of course, that is a good pairing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So this one's actually fairly easy, although any answer I give is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>probably going to make someone mad.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But for the curry ketchup itself, if you've never had it, it's</v>

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<v Speaker 1>probably easiest to buy one than that is in the right style,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you know, right style insofar as that's concerned, so that you develop</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a sense for the taste, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I recreated it when I had some sausage I wanna use for</v>

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<v Speaker 1>curry burst, but that's because I ate it however many times while</v>

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<v Speaker 1>living in Berlin.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I knew the flavor and I could recreate that from memory.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Schaller und Schaller and Weber.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's so hard to say.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's I'll I'll spell it for everyone because I'm gonna wind up</v>

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<v Speaker 1>saying it is German.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's a New York based company.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>S C H A L L E R and Weber or Weber,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>depending if you want to pronounce it, is if it's German or</v>

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<v Speaker 1>not. I would just order their curry ketchup.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's the Berlin style.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's one of the best available ones in the US.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can get it a lot of different places.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think Amazon carries it.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They ship it from their own website.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's probably the go-to option for the curry ketchup itself.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And then of course you can make your own.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are a lot of recipes online for making your own, and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you can develop it to your taste.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>As far as the sausage is concerned, that's going to vary a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>little bit by region, but it's pretty much going to be brattwurst,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>knockwurst, or this'll make the Bavarians mad, viceverst.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They're going to say vice versa be served only with the spicy</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and sweet ketchup, or the spicy and sweet mustard rather, which is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>very good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Scholler and Weber had that as well.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But any of those sausage kinds and a few others will work</v>

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<v Speaker 1>as well.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So basically you just make that, prepare the sausage.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's usually grilled in Berlin, sometimes it's other prepared other ways.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Cut it into pieces, serve with French fries.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Very simple, easy meal.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Very common food stall item or quick lunch sort of thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But for getting the sausages, again it's going to be Scholler and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Weber, probably the best option.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And then the second best option would be Stiegelmeyer, which is in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Chicago. Those are pretty much the only two that actually ship in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the US unless you live in a part of the country where</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you have a German butcher, then by all means buy them fresh.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But they're going to be fresh from these butchers as well.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Just support the local business if it's an option.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There's unfortunately no German butcher anywhere near me, so I have to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>get them shipped if I want them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Or you know, acquire a sausage maker and make em yourself.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And though that's not a euphemism for a wife, but it can</v>

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<v Speaker 1>be if she knows what she's doing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question two.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Is violating copyright law ever morally permissible?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>For example, and he gives three examples.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Cracking a piece of software one is paid for, but the company</v>

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<v Speaker 1>which published it is now defunct, and the license servers are shut</v>

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<v Speaker 1>down, rendering the software otherwise unusable to distributing the aforementioned software.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>A common argument in favor of this is that it is the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>publisher developer is no longer in business or is not selling that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>software, then they are not incurring losses from distribution.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Three, scanning a particular Bible translation that currently has no extant Bible</v>

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<v Speaker 1>app module and building one so that I can read it on</v>

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<v Speaker 1>my phone instead of having to carry a book and distribute it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to friends.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I'll take the third one first, the th the third example</v>

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<v Speaker 1>there. I don't know what Bible version you're reading that doesn't have</v>

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<v Speaker 1>an electronic version available, because almost all of them do.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so if it's a really old one, it's in the public</v>

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<v Speaker 1>domain. If it is a really recent one, maybe just go with</v>

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<v Speaker 1>an older one that's in the public domain.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If there's some really compelling reason that you want to read this</v>

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<v Speaker 1>one, I'm not going to say you can't do that for yourself.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Now, are you violating the law at least if you distribute it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to friends?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The answer is probably yes.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so I guess there are really two answers to this sort</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There's the attorney answer I could give, none of this is legal</v>

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<v Speaker 1>advice, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Give the standard standard disclaimer, the caveat there, and then the moral</v>

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<v Speaker 1>answer, the the real answer as it were.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The attorney answer is that basically all of this is illegal.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The exception here would basically be number one, there is sort of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a carve-out for some software.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>For video games in particular, if a server has been shut down</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and you have to do something in order to play it still,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>there's kind of a carve out for that and so you can</v>

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<v Speaker 1>do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>For other software, it's more of a gray area, but the reality</v>

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<v Speaker 1>is if the company is defunct, there's no successor company.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Who's going to sue you?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>No one, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I don't have a moral objection to any of this.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Legally speaking, yes, some of it is going to be technically a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>violation of the law, whether or not you have any consequences from</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that, is going to depend on a number of factors.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And by and large, if it's again defunct company, probably no one</v>

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<v Speaker 1>around to sue you unless they have a successor that acquired the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>IP and perhaps they're litigious, but that's fact-specific.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You don't know the ex the successor company.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And if you do, then you can figure that out.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But morally speaking, no, I don't have an objection to any of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>these. I don't think that you should be able to copyright a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Bible translation.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think that it should be available for free, period.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So any of the translators should just make them available.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's completely ridiculous they copyright the word of God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And no, it doesn't matter.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If you put in the work as a translator, it still belongs</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to God, it should still be in the public domain.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So. At least have the kind of license where you just attribute,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>right? I don't mind that if you say translated by, that's even</v>

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<v Speaker 1>probably better because then you know who did the work, which is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>important. But no, I don't have a moral objection to these.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But legal caveats, because some companies are very litigious when it comes</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to IP.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's one of those areas where that is definitely a thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And IP was one of the areas I kinda specialized in, so.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question 3.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Spiritual gifts and addiction.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If the presence of spiritual gifts makes one's desire makes one desire</v>

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<v Speaker 1>more spiritual gifts, reading scripture makes one want to read more scripture,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>does this indicate that addiction which operates in the same way is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>spiritual in essence and not spiritual by accident?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There is a spiritual, at least you could call it spiritual aspect</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to things like addiction.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And the reason I could say you could call it that is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>because the mind is involved and good luck drawing a sort of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>firm or solid line between the mind and the spirit or soul,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>right? And it depends which one you mean here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If you mean spirit and mind, because it's one of those terms</v>

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<v Speaker 1>where I usually use soul because spirit is often used for both</v>

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<v Speaker 1>mind and soul, so you aren't really certain what the author means</v>

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<v Speaker 1>if he says spirit, but if you're making that tripartite division of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>man, body, mind, and soul, then good luck dividing between the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>mind and the soul, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We can't really do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe we can never do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe that's something that only God is able to do.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Or maybe we can do it in the next life.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We'll understand the tripartite division a little bit better.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But But given the limitations of technology and things like that, the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>nature of the soul, I'm not sure we can draw that firm</v>

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<v Speaker 1>distinction. So insofar as that's concerned, the mind is certainly involved, and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>perhaps the soul as well, when it comes to things like a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Addiction. And so</v>

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<v Speaker 1>is there some sort of analogy you can draw there?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's the case, but I don't think that it's necessarily</v>

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<v Speaker 1>what you would call an addiction when it comes to something positive.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Usually we call that a habit.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And habits are good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They're self-reinforcing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If you have good habits.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Bad habits are obviously bad.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is one of those things in psychology that's very important, harkens</v>

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<v Speaker 1>back to a question in a previous episode.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So forming new habits is a good thing if the thing you're</v>

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<v Speaker 1>doing is good.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So reading scripture, wanting these spiritual gifts, I don't think it's necessarily</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the same sort of thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The idiopathy's not the same, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>When it comes to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>addiction and involving yourself in good spiritual things, making you desire more</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's not an addiction to wanting good things, it's recognizing the goodness</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of the thing and pursuing the good instead of the evil.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Addiction is sort of a fundamentally different thing in some ways because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>addiction is latching on to some aspect in the human body or</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in the mind and then exploiting it, which this is an exploitation.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And of course, that's also touching on the fact that there's very</v>

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<v Speaker 1>much a physical aspect to most addictions, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Drinking caffeine is an addiction.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's a very mild addiction.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>No one really cares.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's not you're not going to ruin your life in theory anyway,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>because you drink caffeine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So there are some addictions like that where they really don't matter.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They're so trivial no one cares.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Using nicotine is an addiction.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't mean that nicotine is necessarily bad.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Now, smoking five packs of cigarettes a day, probably not a good</v>

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<v Speaker 1>idea. You have some of that here as well, where</v>

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<v Speaker 1>just because the thing makes you want more of the thing doesn't</v>

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<v Speaker 1>mean it's bad.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Doesn't mean it's an addiction even.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And if it is an addiction, it also doesn't mean it's bad,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>right? Again, the caffeine example.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I've got tea sitting here and I'm going to take a sip</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of tea.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's not bad that I drink tea just because caffeine is habit</v>

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<v Speaker 1>forming, which I don't get caffeine headaches, some people do, and for</v>

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<v Speaker 1>them obviously it's a you know a little bit bigger concern because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you have to drink the caffeine Caffeine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But no, I think you can definitely draw out that analogy there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's a useful illustration, but I don't think that they are identical,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>just somewhat similar in certain aspects.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So the spiritual habits are good, sort of again habits, and then</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the addictions are bad because addiction and to bad things is what's</v>

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<v Speaker 1>implied here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to take a second, copy some questions from the chat,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>just so I can get to them in the future.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I probably will not get to them tonight.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are a number of questions.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question four.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You've previously derided Hawaiian shirts in the pulpits, that's completely fair.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I've worn a Hawaiian shirt.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying they're always wrong.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I was in Hawaii, but not in church.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You are also a proponent of national churches reflecting their specific national</v>

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<v Speaker 1>character. Would you be opposed to regionally specific vestments for pastors that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>incorporate the local flora and fauna.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>As an example using the white hibiscus to decorate the pastor's stole</v>

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<v Speaker 1>for Easter and All Saints Day, but only in Hawaii, or an</v>

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<v Speaker 1>evergreen tree motif for the season of Pentecost in Appalachia.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have no problem with that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think that would be perfectly fine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Having different aesthetics for your church is completely fine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You're going to see different themes to some degree and different designs,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>certainly, in stained glass across different nations, you're going to see different</v>

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<v Speaker 1>materials to some degree in different designs in the vestments.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's completely fine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The sort of larger question is one of is it right decorum?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Are you showing proper respect for God in how you are undertaking</v>

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<v Speaker 1>things in the church, how you're dressing, how you're behaving, all these</v>

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<v Speaker 1>things? As long as what you're doing is the right mindset and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the right level of decorum.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And it's not just mindset exclusively.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't mean that you can show up to church in a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>speedo as long as you think you're doing a good thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You're not, don't do that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But I think it's completely fine to incorporate these local flourishes as</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it were.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Think about how the temple was designed.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It incorporated a lot of local flourishes, a lot of things that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>people would have seen in their life.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So I think that's pretty Perfectly fine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That would be a good thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>A similar note would be that not everyone has to dress the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>same across the whole world.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>In fact, not everyone should, because you have traditional dress in various</v>

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<v Speaker 1>places, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You have the sort of stereotypical one that people of which people</v>

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<v Speaker 1>think when they think of traditional dress for whites, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's usually Bavarians.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Chockton. It's the the Lederhosen and the Derndel, it's all of that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>stuff. If you want to wear that to church, because that's formal</v>

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<v Speaker 1>wear, culturally, historically for the Bavarians, if you want to wear that</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to church And you're in Bavaria or a German area, I think</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that's completely fine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because that is seen as the formalware of that culture, and it's</v>

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<v Speaker 1>not unduly revealing, it's appropriate, it is a right level of decorum</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and respect for God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's also incidentally what they would wear to their wedding.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So this is not something where it's just for a show.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is an important part of the culture.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And every culture has traditional dress, and there are different registers of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that traditional dress, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There's the everyday, there's the slightly more formal, there's the truly formal,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and then different levels of formal, usually based on wealth or rank</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in society.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>As long as you're dressing appropriate</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and you know dressing appropriately and not But</v>

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<v Speaker 1>engaging in the sort of showiness that is condemned in scripture, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The look at me sort of thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have no problem with local dress in church and local designs.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think that's a good thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's an expression of Christianity for that people, for that race.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And God clearly likes that kind of diversity.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There's nothing wrong with diversity when it remains diversity, which it can't</v>

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<v Speaker 1>remain if it's all brought to one place.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>one of the great ironies, as it were, between the right and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the left.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question five.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm currently attending this young adults group at this non denominational church</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in the hopes of meeting a girl who is actually a devout</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Christian. Unfortunately, this particular church used to be a United Methodist church.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So they permit women to teach men and practice open communion, even</v>

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<v Speaker 1>going so far as to serve communion, fluffy bread and grape juice</v>

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<v Speaker 1>at these young adult gatherings, which I of course not partake of.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Good idea.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think it is possible for a girl attending such a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>such a venue to make a good wife.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There's a lot in there on which I could comment, but the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>question itself, yes, of course, there are women in those churches who</v>

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<v Speaker 1>would make good wives.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They are going to have to unlearn some things probably.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And in many cases, they're probably just going to have to learn</v>

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<v Speaker 1>them for the first time because these churches don't teach people anything.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So at most, they're going to have this very superstitious sort of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>feminist infused set of talking points with nothing underlying them.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So will you have some work set out for you?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, probably.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Very probably.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But it doesn't mean that there are no women there</v>

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<v Speaker 1>who are wife material.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There very well could be.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>In fact, there probably are.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So if that is for whatever reason, logistically, it's close close to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you, it's a decent sized group, the right women are there, whatever</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it is.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If it makes sense to go there for that reason, I don't</v>

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<v Speaker 1>think it's necessarily a bad thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You know, hopefully attend a better church for actual church services, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>if you're just going to a place like this to try to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>meet women, there are a lot worse options, even than the United</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Methodist Church.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So there are probably some good women there, and best of luck</v>

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<v Speaker 1>with that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The only other thing on which I would comment is you don't</v>

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<v Speaker 1>have to use unleavened bread in the Lord's Supper.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can use regular bread, but not grape juice.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It has to be wine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So fluffy bread is fine, but grape juice is not.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Grape juice also did not exist in Christ's time unless you went</v>

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<v Speaker 1>out and squeezed it yourself and drank it room temperature right away.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Which I've never done, but I can't imagine is a pleasant experience</v>

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<v Speaker 1>with grape juice.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question six.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>IQ scaling question.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Obviously, a given delta isn't transitive because the higher you are, the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>fewer tasks are impossible.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So how would the 180 view of a 150 differ from the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>150 view of a 120?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is one of those I could comment on at great length</v>

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<v Speaker 1>or just sort of provide an overview, and I think I'll go</v>

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<v Speaker 1>with the overview instead in the interest of not spending too much</v>

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<v Speaker 1>time on the one question since I want to get to most</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of the questions on the list tonight at least.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The real difference is pretty much exactly what you observed in the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>introductory part of the question there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The higher you go with regard to intelligence, which again IQ is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>just a measure of intelligence, that all it is that's all it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>is, the greater the level of insight you generally have.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You see more and you recognize more things and you recognize them</v>

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<v Speaker 1>more accurately.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Now granted, there are some very highly intelligent men who are wildly</v>

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<v Speaker 1>deluded, but they've done that to themselves, which is kind of a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>danger for some intelligent men because one thing being intelligent gives you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the ability to do is lie to yourself a lot better than</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you would be able to do if you were not particularly bright.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You can convince yourself of some dumb stuff.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's why not all atheists are idiots.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But they are idiots.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Right? They've chosen to be idiots and then convince themselves to remain</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in that camp.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think that necessarily you have this fundamentally alien view of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>everyone else if you get high enough up the scale, as it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>were. You do understand a little bit more of the scope of</v>

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<v Speaker 1>humanity because you get to see more of the scale, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You if you're higher up the scale, you can look at the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>rest of the scale, and to some degree at least, maybe you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>don't have any idea what it's like to be 65 IQ, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's kind of Kind of alien.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But you see more of the scale, you see more of the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>possibility for humanity than someone a few standard deviations down the scale</v>

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<v Speaker 1>would see.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So it does give you a different perspective.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But like I've said before when the issue of IQ comes up,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it's not like a fundamentally alien thing, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>There are still ways in which, regardless of IQ, we all share</v>

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<v Speaker 1>some commonalities, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I was just drinking tea.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I share that with a huge chunk of the people who watch</v>

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<v Speaker 1>this, and if I had a British audience, I would share it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>with basically 100% of the people watching this.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Granted, the more southerners I have, the more tea drinkers I'll have,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>but they put sugar in theirs.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You won't get me on that yet.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But it does give you sort of a</v>

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<v Speaker 1>thirty thousand foot view of humanity, as it were, once you get</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to particularly the one hundred sixty plus range.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That does give you a perspective that other men don't have.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But I don't think that it makes you look down on other</v>

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<v Speaker 1>people, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You're not looking at them and going, well, that person's only one</v>

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<v Speaker 1>ten. It's not so much that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You recognize there's a difference there there's a distinction and that should</v>

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<v Speaker 1>feed into the way that hierarchy is built into our society because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>there are men who can do things at the top of the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>pyramid that men at the bottom don't have to do, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You probably want the king to be pretty bright.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You don't want the king to be 85 IQ.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He won't run anything except into the ground.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So</v>

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<v Speaker 1>you recognize that more firmly when you get higher up the scale.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You recognize where men should be in that hierarchy in society and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the consequences of them not being there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But it doesn't again, it doesn't mean that you look down on</v>

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<v Speaker 1>other men.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It just you recognize those differences.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Similarly, right, as men we recognize women aren't.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It doesn't mean we denigrate women, it doesn't mean we hate women,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>we think that they're, you know, all these things that you see</v>

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<v Speaker 1>online said about women, it's just they're different.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>They shouldn't be in charge, they shouldn't vote.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But God made them for us, and they're a great gift.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So we don't hate them because of what they are.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We just recognize those differences exist</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and should function as a way of determining hierarchy and structure and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>organization in society.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question seven Are our loved ones who were Christians, which is to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>say saved, who have died in paradise with Jesus or are they</v>

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<v Speaker 1>sleeping? What does it mean to be absent from the body is</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to be present with the Lord.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This one has</v>

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<v Speaker 1>really two answers.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So first off, we can just dismiss the whole soul sleep stuff</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that gets brought up in some denominations and is not warranted in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>scripture. When sleep is used figuratively, it just means death, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The body is sleeping in the ground to be born again.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's why you get all of these illustrations from Christ and others</v>

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<v Speaker 1>about gardens and plants, and because unless the seed falls into the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>ground, the plant cannot be born, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's symbolic death resurrection.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But with regard</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to what happens when we die, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Scripture does not give us an exact answer.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Scripture does not, in fact, say in any particular place, when you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>die, that exact instant or that exact next instant you appear before</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the Lord in paradise.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And the thing it doesn't tell us is how time works.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This</v>

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<v Speaker 1>gets a little complicated, but it can also be explained pretty simply,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>right? Time is an attribute of the universe.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>God isn't bound by time, and so that's part of the equation.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But also But also when this body dies, right, my soul continues</v>

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<v Speaker 1>on. It's not good to be separated from your body as your</v>

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<v Speaker 1>soul because you are a gestalt, you are greater than the sum</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of the parts.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's not a good thing to be separated Separated, if that does</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in fact happen and I'll get to that in a second.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But the issue is that we don't know how that time works,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and so the two possibilities are that God has a clock running</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in paradise, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>In the next world, in the renewed creation.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>You want to call it new or renewed, whichever one you want</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to call it, both are true.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If he has a clock running and then you die and you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>enter into that one at the same time, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So the clocks are running in parallel.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The alternative to that is that everyone who dies arrives simultaneously at</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the judgment, and then time in paradise starts.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We don't know which one it is because God doesn't tell us.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'm inclined toward the second one because I don't think that the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>time being bound together makes any real sense.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But I fully admit it could be either one.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So in either case, it's good news for those who die as</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Christian, for those who were saved, because they are either in paradise</v>

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<v Speaker 1>now, or they arrive at the same time we arrive, and we</v>

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<v Speaker 1>all enter paradise together.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So it doesn't really matter which one it is, and certainly for</v>

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<v Speaker 1>those of us still alive it doesn't matter, it doesn't influence us</v>

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<v Speaker 1>one way or the other.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The only thing it would mean is those in paradise, if they</v>

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<v Speaker 1>died five hundred years ago, would have sort of a head start,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>as it were, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Luther's had five hundred years of brewing beer and I have to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>catch up.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>However that works, we don't really know.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's not something about which we have to worry, because again, either</v>

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<v Speaker 1>case is good news.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's just that scripture doesn't tell us specifically which one it is.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And like I said, I'm inclined toward one, but you can believe</v>

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<v Speaker 1>whichever one you want because scripture does not manage Not mandate you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>believe one or the other.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But to be absent from the body is to be present from</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the Lord, regardless of either one, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>In either case, you die and you appear in paradise.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The only question is, does everyone appear at the same time?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Copula Copy a couple questions here from the chat.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I see someone has a sort of follow-up question.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I'll get to that before I get to the next question here</v>

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<v Speaker 1>just pasting these for myself.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So follow-up question to that one.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>For the instances where God returned people to earth temporarily to appear</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to men, would you feel that implies more of a concurrent clock?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I think that you could interpret it that way if you want,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>but I think you could also interpret it as time being so</v>

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<v Speaker 1>disjointed that there's no actual causal connection or relationship whatsoever between the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>clock in this universe and the clock in the next.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because if they're not related, then it doesn't actually matter what time</v>

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<v Speaker 1>as it were God takes someone from that one and has them</v>

00:27:14.320 --> 00:27:18.400
<v Speaker 1>appear back in this one because the time isn't related in any</v>

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<v Speaker 1>way. Time gets weird.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's just how it is.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>We still don't really fundamentally understand exactly how time works.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's mostly conjecture</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and relativity make relativity starts to make it very weird, of course.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And you start having different clocks for different people, including different clocks</v>

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<v Speaker 1>for different satellites.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Depending on number of factors.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And we know that's real because we have to account for it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>in GPS.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So time is a very weird thing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question eight.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Listening through your end times episode, I understand the one hundred and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>forty four thousand are not the literal tribes, but can you give</v>

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<v Speaker 1>your understanding of the purpose of Revelation 7, 5 through 8?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so of course Revelation 7, 5 through 8 is the listing</v>

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<v Speaker 1>of the 144,000 in</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Actually I will just pull this one up because it's good to</v>

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<v Speaker 1>look at the the text of this one.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because I want to point out</v>

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<v Speaker 1>a couple things, a few things about the text itself.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So let me just pull that up.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And we will see if logos cooperates.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I opened Logos to start recording and it decided to show me</v>

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<v Speaker 1>an ad.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>For Logos, granted, which made me a little annoyed, since it was</v>

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<v Speaker 1>an ad for have your whole congregation sign up for Logos and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>pay us some amount of money.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But we went into that in one of the episodes of Stone</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Choir, of course.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Paywall and God.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But anyway, this list of the tribes, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Twelve thousand from every tribe of the sons of Israel.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. So if it were in fact a literal listing of twelve</v>

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<v Speaker 1>thousand from every tribe of the sons of Israel, meaning Jacob, Israel,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>right? Because that's part of the equation here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Then we have a very real problem for the men who try</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to interpret it that way, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Well, we have Joseph, right?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Where's Ephraim?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He's not there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. Levi's here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, he's one of the tribe, but he didn't inherit, and so</v>

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<v Speaker 1>usually the listings of the tribes don't necessarily include him.</v>

00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:51.600
<v Speaker 1>We do have Manasseh, so we have the brother of Ephraim, but</v>

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<v Speaker 1>we don't have Ephraim.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Dan's not here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>He's disappeared.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Judah's listed first, which gives you your first hint, really, that this</v>

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<v Speaker 1>is symbolic, because he's not the firstborn, but he is the one</v>

00:30:07.520 --> 00:30:10.000
<v Speaker 1>from whom Christ is descended, and so it makes sense for him.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Then you've got Reuben, that makes sense.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But there are a number of things in this list that just</v>

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<v Speaker 1>don't make any sense if you take it as a literal list.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And that's true even for the dispensationalists who try to deal with</v>

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<v Speaker 1>this because you can tell them, well, why is this different from</v>

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<v Speaker 1>every list in the Old Testament?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And they hem and haw and they never give you an answer</v>

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<v Speaker 1>and then they probably scurry away.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But</v>

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<v Speaker 1>this is symbolic.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is Revelation.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is a symbolic book.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>It's a prophetic book.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>144,000 is twelve times twelve times a thousand.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>What are those numbers?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Why did why those numbers?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>A thousand is a number of God's perfection.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Because what is ten is a number of completion or perfection, and</v>

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<v Speaker 1>then cubed, which is to say the Trinity, one thousand.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I know this starts to sound a little weird, but it's revelation.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is what happens when you're dealing with prophetic books.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Twelve times twelve is one hundred and forty four.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is all of those who will be saved, and of course</v>

00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:08.320
<v Speaker 1>twelve representing the Old Testament, the twelve tribes, twelve representing the New</v>

00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:10.080
<v Speaker 1>Testament, twelve apostles.</v>

00:31:10.080 --> 00:31:13.600
<v Speaker 1>God likes to use numbers as symbols.</v>

00:31:13.600 --> 00:31:14.640
<v Speaker 1>So do we.</v>

00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:17.440
<v Speaker 1>So we can't really object to God liking to do it.</v>

00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:18.480
<v Speaker 1>We like to do it too.</v>

00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.040
<v Speaker 1>Granted, we like to do it because he likes to do it.</v>

00:31:21.040 --> 00:31:21.360
<v Speaker 1>But</v>

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<v Speaker 1>that's just part of creation.</v>

00:31:24.320 --> 00:31:26.240
<v Speaker 1>It's part of how God operates.</v>

00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:28.880
<v Speaker 1>So these are symbolic.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Again, this is all believers through all time, Old Testament, and New,</v>

00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.880
<v Speaker 1>and now at least my mouse is finally showing up in Logos,</v>

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<v Speaker 1>although still not the interstitial menu.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But at any rate, you know where the interpretation is for this</v>

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<v Speaker 1>because it's the very next paragraph.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>After this I looked and behold a great multitude that no one</v>

00:31:47.520 --> 00:31:52.720
<v Speaker 1>could number, from every tribe, nation, people, language, etc.</v>

00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:54.800
<v Speaker 1>That's what that is.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Those are the same.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This header should probably not be here.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This header is inserted to confuse people by those who want you</v>

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<v Speaker 1>to turn to Judaizing.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So usually, you know, you just go to formatting if you're in</v>

00:32:09.600 --> 00:32:12.160
<v Speaker 1>something like this and turn off the non-Bible text right there.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The distraction that isn't part of God's word is now gone because</v>

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<v Speaker 1>it doesn't belong there.</v>

00:32:16.320 --> 00:32:18.960
<v Speaker 1>And it's put there for a pernicious reason.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>In this case, not always, but in this case, yes.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>But the one hundred and forty-four thousand and the great multitude are</v>

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<v Speaker 1>the same.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And those are all of those who are saved, because they're the</v>

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<v Speaker 1>ones who are clothed in white robes and have washed themselves in</v>

00:32:31.840 --> 00:32:32.880
<v Speaker 1>the blood of the Lamb.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Those are believers.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's all this means.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>And so when someone tries to make some big deal about one</v>

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and forty four thousand, usually it's a dispensationalist trying to say</v>

00:32:42.560 --> 00:32:45.120
<v Speaker 1>it's a hundred and forty four thousand literal Jews.</v>

00:32:45.120 --> 00:32:48.000
<v Speaker 1>Literal Jewish men, they'll try to say literal Jewish men who have</v>

00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:49.920
<v Speaker 1>never known a woman.</v>

00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:51.040
<v Speaker 1>It's just absurd.</v>

00:32:51.040 --> 00:32:52.640
<v Speaker 1>It's not supported by the text.</v>

00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:56.560
<v Speaker 1>It is reading their eschatology into the text instead of reading the</v>

00:32:56.560 --> 00:32:59.680
<v Speaker 1>text and letting the text interpret itself in light of the rest</v>

00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:00.640
<v Speaker 1>of scripture.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The next question, actually I have a sort of tangentially related one.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>This is not an official question as it were, but I know</v>

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<v Speaker 1>someone said that he was currently torrenting the archive of Stone Choir,</v>

00:33:24.320 --> 00:33:27.600
<v Speaker 1>and I just wanted to comment that if you have a torrent</v>

00:33:27.600 --> 00:33:31.760
<v Speaker 1>client that that supports URLs.</v>

00:33:31.760 --> 00:33:34.080
<v Speaker 1>Not all of them do, some of them do.</v>

00:33:34.080 --> 00:33:38.080
<v Speaker 1>Then you will get it much more quickly because the Stone Choir</v>

00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:42.400
<v Speaker 1>server also acts as a node, but only if your client supports</v>

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<v Speaker 1>URLs So I don't know what the health is of that torrent.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I have not looked at it recently, so I don't know if</v>

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<v Speaker 1>there are a lot of cedars or not.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Just copying a question from chat so that I will have it</v>

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<v Speaker 1>for later.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Next question.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question nine.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Do you enjoy singing?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Ever sing in the choir?</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I am new to Lutheranism and have quite enjoyed the hymns and</v>

00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:20.560
<v Speaker 1>trying to find my singing voice.</v>

00:34:20.560 --> 00:34:25.120
<v Speaker 1>My voice fluctuates between bass and an octave higher, and not sure</v>

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<v Speaker 1>how to find where my comfortable range is.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>So as far as finding your comfortable range, part of it's just</v>

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<v Speaker 1>going to be literally what's comfortable.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>I can probably get rid of Lagos now, we don't need that.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>If you find that when you are singing your voice gets scratchy,</v>

00:34:44.720 --> 00:34:46.560
<v Speaker 1>right, you're doing something wrong.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>That's a really good place.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>To start for figuring out what your range is.</v>

00:34:52.720 --> 00:34:56.960
<v Speaker 1>There's also just your natural singing range is going to be relatively</v>

00:34:56.960 --> 00:34:59.360
<v Speaker 1>close to your natural speaking voice?</v>

00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:01.200
<v Speaker 1>Probably. There are exceptions.</v>

00:35:01.200 --> 00:35:02.640
<v Speaker 1>There are some extreme exceptions.</v>

00:35:02.640 --> 00:35:06.640
<v Speaker 1>I can think of some opera singers who are night and day</v>

00:35:06.720 --> 00:35:08.720
<v Speaker 1>you hear them talking versus singing.</v>

00:35:08.720 --> 00:35:11.680
<v Speaker 1>But generally speaking, you're going to be in the same rough area</v>

00:35:11.680 --> 00:35:14.000
<v Speaker 1>with your speaking voice and your singing voice.</v>

00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.080
<v Speaker 1>And you're going to have some idea what that is.</v>

00:35:16.080 --> 00:35:18.800
<v Speaker 1>It's what's going to come naturally to you.</v>

00:35:18.800 --> 00:35:23.200
<v Speaker 1>If you want sort of a more in-depth analysis on that, go</v>

00:35:23.200 --> 00:35:25.520
<v Speaker 1>talk to a choir director.</v>

00:35:25.520 --> 00:35:29.040
<v Speaker 1>He or she is going to be the one who knows more</v>

00:35:29.040 --> 00:35:31.680
<v Speaker 1>about this and will have some good tips for you, and will</v>

00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:34.720
<v Speaker 1>probably be able right there to help you figure out sort of</v>

00:35:34.720 --> 00:35:36.960
<v Speaker 1>where your range is.</v>

00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:41.680
<v Speaker 1>For my part, yes, I have sung in a choir, but that</v>

00:35:41.680 --> 00:35:43.040
<v Speaker 1>was back in high school.</v>

00:35:43.040 --> 00:35:45.600
<v Speaker 1>Other than that, yes, I sing in church.</v>

00:35:45.600 --> 00:35:48.480
<v Speaker 1>For every man listening, you should be singing in church.</v>

00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:51.200
<v Speaker 1>Don't just stand there like a stone statue.</v>

00:35:51.200 --> 00:35:51.840
<v Speaker 1>Go ahead and sing.</v>

00:35:52.720 --> 00:35:57.760
<v Speaker 1>Doesn't matter if you're perfectly in tune, if you are perfect with</v>

00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:00.000
<v Speaker 1>all the notes and all that.</v>

00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:03.440
<v Speaker 1>If you find that you're struggling with a particular hymn, sing a</v>

00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:04.480
<v Speaker 1>little more quietly.</v>

00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:05.680
<v Speaker 1>That's fine.</v>

00:36:05.680 --> 00:36:06.720
<v Speaker 1>But sing.</v>

00:36:06.720 --> 00:36:10.080
<v Speaker 1>God is not judging you based on the quality of your singing.</v>

00:36:10.080 --> 00:36:15.200
<v Speaker 1>Now, would it be better if we had training for children and</v>

00:36:15.200 --> 00:36:18.320
<v Speaker 1>adults who are new to the faith when it comes to singing.</v>

00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:19.440
<v Speaker 1>Yes it would.</v>

00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.000
<v Speaker 1>We used to do that in the Lutheran church.</v>

00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.120
<v Speaker 1>We still do to some degree with those who attend Lutheran schools.</v>

00:36:25.120 --> 00:36:28.400
<v Speaker 1>That's one of the reasons I took actually did choir I guess</v>

00:36:28.720 --> 00:36:32.720
<v Speaker 1>in elementary school and middle school and then also in high school.</v>

00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:37.440
<v Speaker 1>But that's one of the reasons that you have Lutheran children tending</v>

00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:40.720
<v Speaker 1>to be a little better when it comes to reading music and</v>

00:36:40.720 --> 00:36:41.840
<v Speaker 1>singing hymns.</v>

00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:43.120
<v Speaker 1>They've just been trained.</v>

00:36:43.120 --> 00:36:45.200
<v Speaker 1>Whereas most others have not.</v>

00:36:45.200 --> 00:36:48.400
<v Speaker 1>If you go to a non-denominational church, they probably don't train the</v>

00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:50.400
<v Speaker 1>children in music at all.</v>

00:36:51.120 --> 00:36:54.400
<v Speaker 1>maybe they will teach them, you know, the bass in the treble</v>

00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:55.680
<v Speaker 1>clef at the most, right?</v>

00:36:55.680 --> 00:36:58.720
<v Speaker 1>They'll teach them the notes, and they will have forgotten it by</v>

00:36:58.720 --> 00:37:00.720
<v Speaker 1>the time they get to high school.</v>

00:37:00.720 --> 00:37:04.720
<v Speaker 1>It's trained, it's practiced, this is not something that necessarily you will</v>

00:37:04.720 --> 00:37:06.240
<v Speaker 1>just pick up and you're great at it.</v>

00:37:06.240 --> 00:37:08.160
<v Speaker 1>Some people are, very few.</v>

00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:10.640
<v Speaker 1>Singing is something where you have to develop it.</v>

00:37:10.640 --> 00:37:14.640
<v Speaker 1>So if you join the choir, that's probably good practice.</v>

00:37:14.640 --> 00:37:19.600
<v Speaker 1>They can certainly help you, and you probably will be able to</v>

00:37:19.600 --> 00:37:22.400
<v Speaker 1>sing well enough to be part of the choir with practice.</v>

00:37:22.640 --> 00:37:24.000
<v Speaker 1>Most people can.</v>

00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:35.840
<v Speaker 1>There are exceptions, but relatively few.</v>

00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:37.920
<v Speaker 1>Question 10.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Is there even one vaccine that I should give my child?</v>

00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:47.040
<v Speaker 1>I have two answers for this one.</v>

00:37:47.040 --> 00:37:48.320
<v Speaker 1>And the reason I have two answers</v>

00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:53.680
<v Speaker 1>is because of the current state of the medical field.</v>

00:37:53.680 --> 00:37:57.120
<v Speaker 1>The problem I'll get to the problem first before I give the</v>

00:37:57.120 --> 00:37:58.640
<v Speaker 1>sort of core answer.</v>

00:37:58.640 --> 00:38:05.360
<v Speaker 1>The problem is that they are pushing all of the various novel</v>

00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:10.880
<v Speaker 1>sorts of treatments and delivery methods, particularly RNA and things like that.</v>

00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:13.200
<v Speaker 1>And we could get into all of the new</v>

00:38:14.560 --> 00:38:18.480
<v Speaker 1>sort of designer viruses they're using to infect people with things.</v>

00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:21.280
<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying that that technology doesn't have promise.</v>

00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:22.960
<v Speaker 1>It certainly does.</v>

00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:26.480
<v Speaker 1>But I think that we have gone full bore with something that</v>

00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:32.640
<v Speaker 1>we do not yet understand and has the potential for disastrous consequences.</v>

00:38:32.640 --> 00:38:36.080
<v Speaker 1>This is the biological.</v>

00:38:36.080 --> 00:38:38.720
<v Speaker 1>I mean, the other's biological as well, but this is sort of</v>

00:38:38.720 --> 00:38:44.080
<v Speaker 1>the human body biology equivalent of what we've done many times historically</v>

00:38:44.240 --> 00:38:46.240
<v Speaker 1>with invasive species.</v>

00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:49.840
<v Speaker 1>Someone has said, wouldn't it be nice if</v>

00:38:51.680 --> 00:38:54.080
<v Speaker 1>You know, we didn't have this bug.</v>

00:38:54.080 --> 00:38:55.920
<v Speaker 1>We had more of this bug.</v>

00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:58.720
<v Speaker 1>We had this creature that we like.</v>

00:38:58.720 --> 00:39:00.560
<v Speaker 1>We had this tree that we like.</v>

00:39:00.560 --> 00:39:03.840
<v Speaker 1>We had this tree that grows as a windbreak, can be used</v>

00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:07.520
<v Speaker 1>as wood, whatever the excuse is, wouldn't it be nice?</v>

00:39:07.520 --> 00:39:10.240
<v Speaker 1>Turns out, didn't think it through.</v>

00:39:10.240 --> 00:39:12.080
<v Speaker 1>This is a problem in California.</v>

00:39:12.080 --> 00:39:14.240
<v Speaker 1>I've given this example before.</v>

00:39:14.240 --> 00:39:18.080
<v Speaker 1>California, actually not California the state, but a number of individuals</v>

00:39:19.120 --> 00:39:24.640
<v Speaker 1>imported a huge amount of eucalyptus from Australia.</v>

00:39:24.640 --> 00:39:26.480
<v Speaker 1>Planted it all over the place.</v>

00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:30.000
<v Speaker 1>It's in some campgrounds, it's all up and down the freeways in</v>

00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.880
<v Speaker 1>the central valley because they tried to use it as windbreaks.</v>

00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:35.840
<v Speaker 1>It's all over the place.</v>

00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:36.800
<v Speaker 1>The problem</v>

00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:42.160
<v Speaker 1>is that the Australians lied because they told the men who were</v>

00:39:42.160 --> 00:39:46.240
<v Speaker 1>buying these trees that they make great hardwood for furniture and other</v>

00:39:46.240 --> 00:39:51.280
<v Speaker 1>things. Which is true if a eucalyptus tree lives long enough.</v>

00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:53.360
<v Speaker 1>They don't, often.</v>

00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:57.120
<v Speaker 1>And then the other problem is that they are extremely flammable.</v>

00:39:57.120 --> 00:40:01.840
<v Speaker 1>California does not need more extremely flammable trees, right?</v>

00:40:02.080 --> 00:40:05.120
<v Speaker 1>They drop leaves, they kill other things.</v>

00:40:05.120 --> 00:40:06.560
<v Speaker 1>Those are flammable.</v>

00:40:06.560 --> 00:40:08.000
<v Speaker 1>Their sap is flammable.</v>

00:40:08.240 --> 00:40:10.320
<v Speaker 1>the tree itself is flammable.</v>

00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:14.880
<v Speaker 1>And bonus, they occasionally drop large limbs, and so there are campgrounds</v>

00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:17.520
<v Speaker 1>now in California that are closed, because</v>

00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:21.520
<v Speaker 1>if there's high wind, it might just drop a giant limb on</v>

00:40:21.520 --> 00:40:23.600
<v Speaker 1>you and crush you in your sleep.</v>

00:40:23.600 --> 00:40:26.000
<v Speaker 1>Probably not great for a campground.</v>

00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:31.040
<v Speaker 1>So thinking these things through and testing them in a rational and</v>

00:40:31.040 --> 00:40:34.960
<v Speaker 1>safe way is the approach we should take with most things.</v>

00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:37.360
<v Speaker 1>Certainly with novel medical treatments.</v>

00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:41.360
<v Speaker 1>For instance, I read through part of the information about the man</v>

00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:47.520
<v Speaker 1>who treated himself for cancer with DNA technology.</v>

00:40:47.520 --> 00:40:50.000
<v Speaker 1>We should probably not be doing that yet, but that's part of</v>

00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:50.320
<v Speaker 1>the problem.</v>

00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:52.880
<v Speaker 1>And this kind of gets into a larger area that I don't</v>

00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:54.960
<v Speaker 1>know that I want to cover all of it right now.</v>

00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:55.280
<v Speaker 1>But</v>

00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:58.960
<v Speaker 1>the issue with all of these things is that there is an</v>

00:40:58.960 --> 00:40:59.920
<v Speaker 1>appeal, right?</v>

00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:01.520
<v Speaker 1>It's sort of like sin.</v>

00:41:01.520 --> 00:41:04.880
<v Speaker 1>If sin had no appeal, no one would do it.</v>

00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:08.400
<v Speaker 1>If the only thing sin did was separate you from God and</v>

00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:10.640
<v Speaker 1>damn you, no one would sin.</v>

00:41:10.640 --> 00:41:13.680
<v Speaker 1>There's no appeal in that.</v>

00:41:13.680 --> 00:41:16.880
<v Speaker 1>But that's not all there is to sin, right?</v>

00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:18.720
<v Speaker 1>There's a peel of some kind.</v>

00:41:18.720 --> 00:41:22.080
<v Speaker 1>If someone gets addicted to drugs, they enjoy the high they get</v>

00:41:22.080 --> 00:41:23.120
<v Speaker 1>from the drugs.</v>

00:41:23.120 --> 00:41:25.920
<v Speaker 1>There's a whole bunch of downsides, but they like the high, and</v>

00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:27.120
<v Speaker 1>so there's a hook there.</v>

00:41:27.120 --> 00:41:28.960
<v Speaker 1>The same thing with regard to sin.</v>

00:41:29.200 --> 00:41:32.720
<v Speaker 1>Some men are tempted toward certain sins more than others, some men</v>

00:41:32.720 --> 00:41:34.400
<v Speaker 1>toward other sins as well.</v>

00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:34.720
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

00:41:36.240 --> 00:41:41.600
<v Speaker 1>I understand why someone would want to cure his own cancer, or</v>

00:41:42.080 --> 00:41:43.680
<v Speaker 1>take the extreme example.</v>

00:41:43.680 --> 00:41:48.320
<v Speaker 1>Say you have a mother who has an advanced degree in biology</v>

00:41:48.640 --> 00:41:52.000
<v Speaker 1>and perhaps genetics, right?</v>

00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:55.520
<v Speaker 1>That's sort of the obvious field, statistics, something like that.</v>

00:41:55.520 --> 00:41:58.480
<v Speaker 1>Her child, young child, gets cancer.</v>

00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:02.240
<v Speaker 1>Think of the incentive she has, the pressure she has to do</v>

00:42:02.240 --> 00:42:05.920
<v Speaker 1>something, anything, to save her child.</v>

00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:10.000
<v Speaker 1>This is kind of why we need safeguards that are not just</v>

00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:13.440
<v Speaker 1>an individual deciding this would be bad to pursue this.</v>

00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:17.760
<v Speaker 1>The same thing happens with regard to technology and warfare and things</v>

00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:19.520
<v Speaker 1>that are can be</v>

00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:23.920
<v Speaker 1>reasonably legally deployed on the battlefield and things that cannot, right?</v>

00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:27.920
<v Speaker 1>There's certain weapons we've decided are too terrible to use.</v>

00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:29.760
<v Speaker 1>The same thing with these technologies.</v>

00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:33.520
<v Speaker 1>We don't yet know if it's safe or not.</v>

00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:38.000
<v Speaker 1>And once you start injecting yourself, where there's a man curing cancer</v>

00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:42.800
<v Speaker 1>in his dog, start injecting your dogs, your pets, your livestock, you've</v>

00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:46.800
<v Speaker 1>released this thing into the world.</v>

00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:49.040
<v Speaker 1>We don't know where it's going to go.</v>

00:42:49.040 --> 00:42:53.440
<v Speaker 1>Now, at the other end, right, there are some mild interventions that</v>

00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:55.920
<v Speaker 1>I don't think are necessarily quite that extreme.</v>

00:42:55.920 --> 00:43:02.720
<v Speaker 1>When you're using viruses to try to inject or modify DNA, you're</v>

00:43:02.720 --> 00:43:06.640
<v Speaker 1>using something that you can debate whether it's alive or not.</v>

00:43:06.640 --> 00:43:11.040
<v Speaker 1>You're using something that replicates so it can spread, right?</v>

00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:16.400
<v Speaker 1>If you have something that can't replicate, can't spread, that's different.</v>

00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:18.240
<v Speaker 1>That's a different risk profile.</v>

00:43:18.240 --> 00:43:20.960
<v Speaker 1>And no, I'm not talking about you know the Jurassic Park plot</v>

00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:21.760
<v Speaker 1>line, right?</v>

00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.080
<v Speaker 1>Something that actually can't spread.</v>

00:43:24.080 --> 00:43:25.520
<v Speaker 1>That's possible.</v>

00:43:25.520 --> 00:43:30.960
<v Speaker 1>Or something that is such a mild change that perhaps there's no</v>

00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:32.480
<v Speaker 1>risk attached to it.</v>

00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:38.000
<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking of, for instance, there's a glow-in-the-ark plant now.</v>

00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:41.440
<v Speaker 1>It has DNA from I believe it's a mushroom.</v>

00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:43.200
<v Speaker 1>So that's what they did.</v>

00:43:43.200 --> 00:43:46.560
<v Speaker 1>They took some DNA from the mushroom, spliced it into the plant,</v>

00:43:46.560 --> 00:43:49.680
<v Speaker 1>and now it is able to glow.</v>

00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:55.440
<v Speaker 1>That is less of a risk because one, you haven't created anything</v>

00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:56.400
<v Speaker 1>novel really.</v>

00:43:56.400 --> 00:44:00.800
<v Speaker 1>You've taken something that exists, added it to something else that exists,</v>

00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:02.800
<v Speaker 1>and now it has a new property.</v>

00:44:02.800 --> 00:44:04.000
<v Speaker 1>Is there some risk involved?</v>

00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:07.120
<v Speaker 1>Perhaps, but this is the sort of thing.</v>

00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:08.480
<v Speaker 1>It's a petunia.</v>

00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:10.160
<v Speaker 1>Like is there some risk?</v>

00:44:10.160 --> 00:44:11.440
<v Speaker 1>A little bit, sure.</v>

00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:18.080
<v Speaker 1>It's not the same level of risk as designing new genes or</v>

00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:25.600
<v Speaker 1>designing delivery vehicles that can replicate that alter the human genome.</v>

00:44:25.600 --> 00:44:31.200
<v Speaker 1>That can spread and cause disaster on an unprecedented scale.</v>

00:44:31.200 --> 00:44:31.520
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

00:44:33.600 --> 00:44:37.280
<v Speaker 1>that's sorta my caveat with the vaccines because they're starting to push</v>

00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.480
<v Speaker 1>these new vehicles to say, Oh, this is a better version of</v>

00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:42.080
<v Speaker 1>the vaccine, right?</v>

00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:44.400
<v Speaker 1>I don't trust any of that stuff.</v>

00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:48.080
<v Speaker 1>That stuff is insufficiently tested and has much too high of a</v>

00:44:48.080 --> 00:44:50.880
<v Speaker 1>risk. And we just went through COVID nineteen.</v>

00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:53.200
<v Speaker 1>Granted there were some other factors there.</v>

00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:58.720
<v Speaker 1>I can't possibly trust that stuff at this point.</v>

00:44:58.720 --> 00:45:03.520
<v Speaker 1>The problem, and this is the core answer, is that many of</v>

00:45:03.520 --> 00:45:06.080
<v Speaker 1>the vaccines I think are good.</v>

00:45:06.080 --> 00:45:07.600
<v Speaker 1>And I know there are going to be people who are angry</v>

00:45:07.600 --> 00:45:10.240
<v Speaker 1>at me about this and they're going to say that, you know,</v>

00:45:10.240 --> 00:45:13.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm believing in X, Y, and Z.</v>

00:45:13.680 --> 00:45:16.720
<v Speaker 1>When I look at the data, I do not see any way</v>

00:45:16.720 --> 00:45:22.960
<v Speaker 1>to interpret them other than some of the vaccines have been beneficial.</v>

00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:27.920
<v Speaker 1>Some of the vaccines have basically eradicated in the part of the</v>

00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:31.600
<v Speaker 1>world that vaccinates certain diseases.</v>

00:45:31.600 --> 00:45:36.000
<v Speaker 1>The diseases are still rampant in parts of the world that don't</v>

00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:39.840
<v Speaker 1>vaccinate. I don't know how you can look at these data and</v>

00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:44.880
<v Speaker 1>conclude that vaccines do nothing, or they're fictitious, or it's just nonsense,</v>

00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:46.000
<v Speaker 1>or whatever.</v>

00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:49.360
<v Speaker 1>And also, if you understand the biology and you look at what</v>

00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:51.520
<v Speaker 1>they do, it's not actually that complicated.</v>

00:45:51.520 --> 00:45:55.520
<v Speaker 1>We just needed the technology to be able to do it.</v>

00:45:55.520 --> 00:45:58.800
<v Speaker 1>Showing the immune system something that's very close to a thing you</v>

00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:00.400
<v Speaker 1>want it to fight.</v>

00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:03.200
<v Speaker 1>Is not a bad system because you're teaching it how to fight</v>

00:46:03.200 --> 00:46:06.480
<v Speaker 1>a thing without putting it in any real danger.</v>

00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:10.720
<v Speaker 1>Think of it like sparring at your dojo, right?</v>

00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:13.920
<v Speaker 1>That's different from a street fight with a knife.</v>

00:46:14.080 --> 00:46:16.640
<v Speaker 1>The latter one is pretty dangerous, you probably don't want to be</v>

00:46:16.640 --> 00:46:17.760
<v Speaker 1>involved in that.</v>

00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:22.800
<v Speaker 1>The former increases your odds of succeeding if the latter should come</v>

00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:23.440
<v Speaker 1>to pass.</v>

00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:25.120
<v Speaker 1>The same thing works with vaccines.</v>

00:46:25.120 --> 00:46:25.920
<v Speaker 1>That's all it is.</v>

00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:31.040
<v Speaker 1>It's a weakened version or a slightly modified version or a slightly</v>

00:46:31.040 --> 00:46:32.880
<v Speaker 1>different version of the disease, right?</v>

00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:35.520
<v Speaker 1>You know, cowpox versus something else.</v>

00:46:35.520 --> 00:46:40.320
<v Speaker 1>Helping to teach the immune system in order, in the hope that</v>

00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:44.320
<v Speaker 1>it will be ready to fight the other thing more quickly.</v>

00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:47.760
<v Speaker 1>And that gets complicated because the immune system is very complicated.</v>

00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:50.320
<v Speaker 1>I'm not getting into that right now because it's not really the</v>

00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:51.760
<v Speaker 1>core point here.</v>

00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:54.560
<v Speaker 1>But I think that some of those vaccines were good.</v>

00:46:54.560 --> 00:46:57.200
<v Speaker 1>And so I'm thinking of like rotavirus, right?</v>

00:46:57.200 --> 00:47:03.840
<v Speaker 1>And MMR, measles, bumps, rebella, and maybe meningacaucus, right?</v>

00:47:03.840 --> 00:47:06.320
<v Speaker 1>I just off the top of my head, those five, there are</v>

00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:10.400
<v Speaker 1>probably a few others, but some of those are horrible diseases.</v>

00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:13.760
<v Speaker 1>Measles is an awful disease.</v>

00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:17.600
<v Speaker 1>If you get meningitis, that's a terrible thing to get, and it</v>

00:47:17.600 --> 00:47:21.600
<v Speaker 1>might very well kill you, even today, with medical interventions.</v>

00:47:21.600 --> 00:47:24.480
<v Speaker 1>It is good not to have to deal with those diseases, and</v>

00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:28.800
<v Speaker 1>we basically don't have to deal with them in the Western world</v>

00:47:29.040 --> 00:47:32.320
<v Speaker 1>because we exterminated them with vaccines.</v>

00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:34.960
<v Speaker 1>So I think that those are good.</v>

00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:38.560
<v Speaker 1>And if we were still using sort of the classical formulation as</v>

00:47:38.560 --> 00:47:41.680
<v Speaker 1>it were, I don't have an objection to those.</v>

00:47:41.680 --> 00:47:46.640
<v Speaker 1>I don't trust the medical establishment not to start you using new</v>

00:47:46.640 --> 00:47:51.360
<v Speaker 1>and improved versions of those using these techniques that are highly suspect.</v>

00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:52.800
<v Speaker 1>That's my problem.</v>

00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:55.680
<v Speaker 1>So if I had children, I would be doing a great deal</v>

00:47:55.680 --> 00:47:59.920
<v Speaker 1>of research on which ones of these vaccines are still using a</v>

00:47:59.920 --> 00:48:03.680
<v Speaker 1>formulation that you know is 40 years old or something, not something</v>

00:48:03.680 --> 00:48:07.920
<v Speaker 1>that was cooked up by some lab for IP purposes in the</v>

00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:08.720
<v Speaker 1>past six months.</v>

00:48:08.720 --> 00:48:09.360
<v Speaker 1>I don't want that.</v>

00:48:09.360 --> 00:48:13.040
<v Speaker 1>I don't want that anywhere near me or anyone about whom I</v>

00:48:13.040 --> 00:48:16.960
<v Speaker 1>care. So the short answer is that yes, I still do firmly</v>

00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:19.920
<v Speaker 1>believe that there are some good vaccines.</v>

00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:22.160
<v Speaker 1>I don't believe that they have</v>

00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:27.040
<v Speaker 1>particularly severe, if any, side effects for most of them.</v>

00:48:27.040 --> 00:48:31.600
<v Speaker 1>Yes, rotavirus can give you diarrhea and occasional vomiting.</v>

00:48:31.600 --> 00:48:36.000
<v Speaker 1>And I think that there are some problems with the sheer number</v>

00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:40.400
<v Speaker 1>that we've started giving to children and perhaps the schedule needs to</v>

00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:41.280
<v Speaker 1>be modified.</v>

00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:43.600
<v Speaker 1>But if it were just some of these classical, the ones I</v>

00:48:43.600 --> 00:48:46.640
<v Speaker 1>listed, just like these classical ones that are horrible diseases you don't</v>

00:48:46.560 --> 00:48:50.240
<v Speaker 1>want and not and not, you know, HPV and adding on fifteen</v>

00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:53.040
<v Speaker 1>other vaccines, I don't think there's a problem.</v>

00:48:53.040 --> 00:48:55.600
<v Speaker 1>I think when you add a whole bunch of them all at</v>

00:48:55.600 --> 00:48:59.760
<v Speaker 1>once, yes, that probably causes some negative interaction with regard to the</v>

00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:03.920
<v Speaker 1>immune system and overloading and there's probably something there.</v>

00:49:03.920 --> 00:49:07.760
<v Speaker 1>I don't know exactly the etiology, I don't know how all those</v>

00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:08.960
<v Speaker 1>moving parts work together.</v>

00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:13.040
<v Speaker 1>I have not investigated enough personally.</v>

00:49:13.040 --> 00:49:18.400
<v Speaker 1>But But I still think that sort of those standard vaccines are</v>

00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:24.160
<v Speaker 1>beneficial. But with that enormous caveat of I don't trust the medical</v>

00:49:24.160 --> 00:49:25.680
<v Speaker 1>profession at all.</v>

00:49:25.680 --> 00:49:30.800
<v Speaker 1>Certainly not at this point.</v>

00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:32.720
<v Speaker 1>Question eleven, little</v>

00:49:33.600 --> 00:49:35.680
<v Speaker 1>change in gear, I guess.</v>

00:49:35.680 --> 00:49:39.840
<v Speaker 1>What is your take on near death experience stories.</v>

00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:44.160
<v Speaker 1>They obviously vary, but it seems the most common experience is nothingness</v>

00:49:44.160 --> 00:49:48.400
<v Speaker 1>or darkness akin to sleep without a dream.</v>

00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:53.920
<v Speaker 1>There are a lot of different near-death experience stories and there are</v>

00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:54.960
<v Speaker 1>a lot of different patterns.</v>

00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:58.800
<v Speaker 1>There are obviously you see people who you hear from people who</v>

00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:01.280
<v Speaker 1>say they saw nothing, there was just blackness.</v>

00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:03.200
<v Speaker 1>There are people who say I saw a light.</v>

00:50:03.200 --> 00:50:05.360
<v Speaker 1>There are people who say they saw a loved one.</v>

00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:08.320
<v Speaker 1>There are people who say all sorts of things, but those are</v>

00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:09.280
<v Speaker 1>some of the calm ones.</v>

00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:11.520
<v Speaker 1>You do get some people who say they saw demons.</v>

00:50:11.520 --> 00:50:15.600
<v Speaker 1>Usually those people kinda change their lives when they make it back</v>

00:50:15.600 --> 00:50:16.960
<v Speaker 1>from that experience.</v>

00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:19.680
<v Speaker 1>So take that for what you will.</v>

00:50:19.680 --> 00:50:27.600
<v Speaker 1>I think that generally speaking, most of them are probably biological,</v>

00:50:27.600 --> 00:50:29.600
<v Speaker 1>but not all of them.</v>

00:50:29.600 --> 00:50:33.440
<v Speaker 1>Because some of them are just very strange, right?</v>

00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:36.640
<v Speaker 1>You'll get ones where they'll supposedly talk to a loved one, the</v>

00:50:36.640 --> 00:50:38.800
<v Speaker 1>loved one will tell them about things.</v>

00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:41.200
<v Speaker 1>And there's just somet there's something else there.</v>

00:50:41.200 --> 00:50:44.960
<v Speaker 1>There's something spiritual going on with at least some of some of</v>

00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:50.560
<v Speaker 1>them. And on a related note, death is actually a very interesting</v>

00:50:50.560 --> 00:50:57.120
<v Speaker 1>thing, and it's a huge problem for the materialists, for the Darwinians,</v>

00:50:57.120 --> 00:50:58.480
<v Speaker 1>the evolutionists.</v>

00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:05.920
<v Speaker 1>Because there are things that happen around death, perimortum, that don't</v>

00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:10.720
<v Speaker 1>make any sense biologically, evolutionarily.</v>

00:51:10.720 --> 00:51:13.840
<v Speaker 1>Two things in particular I'm thinking of.</v>

00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:17.680
<v Speaker 1>When you have someone who is near to death, very near to</v>

00:51:17.680 --> 00:51:22.880
<v Speaker 1>death, there's actually a huge spike in certain brainwaves.</v>

00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:25.920
<v Speaker 1>For instance, gamma, there's a huge spike.</v>

00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:30.720
<v Speaker 1>And this also happens in rats incidentally, unsurprisingly experiment on them first.</v>

00:51:30.720 --> 00:51:34.880
<v Speaker 1>But there are huge spikes in certain brain waves.</v>

00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:35.840
<v Speaker 1>That's weird.</v>

00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:40.560
<v Speaker 1>For what is a shutting down of the body, you have a</v>

00:51:40.560 --> 00:51:45.600
<v Speaker 1>huge spike in certain things beyond what you usually see even while</v>

00:51:45.600 --> 00:51:50.560
<v Speaker 1>alive. And notably this has also happened in coma patients.</v>

00:51:50.560 --> 00:51:54.560
<v Speaker 1>We've had recordings from coma patients who died and you saw the</v>

00:51:54.560 --> 00:51:58.320
<v Speaker 1>same sort of spike in activity right around the time of death,</v>

00:51:58.320 --> 00:51:59.520
<v Speaker 1>which is a little weird.</v>

00:51:59.520 --> 00:52:03.360
<v Speaker 1>There's also the fact the brain just has a huge rush of</v>

00:52:03.360 --> 00:52:08.000
<v Speaker 1>s of serotonin right near the time of death.</v>

00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:11.760
<v Speaker 1>That doesn't make any sense evolutionarily.</v>

00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:15.120
<v Speaker 1>That doesn't make any sense if you are a pure materialist.</v>

00:52:15.280 --> 00:52:17.280
<v Speaker 1>There's something else going on there.</v>

00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:22.400
<v Speaker 1>I think there's a an aspect of it that is spiritual.</v>

00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:25.680
<v Speaker 1>I think the serotonin might be in part just God sort of</v>

00:52:25.680 --> 00:52:30.240
<v Speaker 1>helping ease death for us because obviously if there's a huge rush</v>

00:52:30.240 --> 00:52:34.800
<v Speaker 1>of serotonin, it's somewhat easier we in theory anyway, because obviously none</v>

00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:40.640
<v Speaker 1>of us know, but that would seemingly understanding what serotonin does make</v>

00:52:40.640 --> 00:52:43.360
<v Speaker 1>it easier for the person who's passing.</v>

00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:49.760
<v Speaker 1>Right. So yes, I think that some near-death experiences are spiritual in</v>

00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:52.640
<v Speaker 1>some aspect, but I think a lot of them are just sort</v>

00:52:52.640 --> 00:52:56.240
<v Speaker 1>of how the brain functions in those final moments.</v>

00:52:56.240 --> 00:52:59.600
<v Speaker 1>But like I said, there's obviously something going on with death that</v>

00:52:59.600 --> 00:53:03.920
<v Speaker 1>can't be explained purely by the materialist standpoint.</v>

00:53:07.120 --> 00:53:09.440
<v Speaker 1>Question twelve.</v>

00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:13.760
<v Speaker 1>What do we do with the widespread use of abortifacience like the</v>

00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:17.840
<v Speaker 1>pill? Surely people should be held culpable, but very few people that</v>

00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:19.200
<v Speaker 1>use it truly understand it.</v>

00:53:19.360 --> 00:53:23.040
<v Speaker 1>What about the clerics that never condemn the pill in their support</v>

00:53:23.040 --> 00:53:26.640
<v Speaker 1>for contraception?</v>

00:53:26.640 --> 00:53:31.280
<v Speaker 1>This is a difficult question, and I actually have a partially written</v>

00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:33.440
<v Speaker 1>essay on it, and I know I mentioned it some weeks ago.</v>

00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:34.880
<v Speaker 1>I have not finished it.</v>

00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:37.840
<v Speaker 1>Not exactly a happy topic about which to write.</v>

00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:43.760
<v Speaker 1>If you start running the numbers, though, it's a little bleak with</v>

00:53:44.080 --> 00:53:50.320
<v Speaker 1>just the potential number of murders that have occurred because of hormonal</v>

00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:53.680
<v Speaker 1>birth control, among other things.</v>

00:53:53.680 --> 00:53:54.960
<v Speaker 1>And that is the problem.</v>

00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:58.960
<v Speaker 1>For those who don't understand, I'll explain how it works just briefly,</v>

00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:04.880
<v Speaker 1>there are a number of ways that hormonal birth control works to</v>

00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:06.720
<v Speaker 1>stop conception.</v>

00:54:06.720 --> 00:54:13.680
<v Speaker 1>However, it doesn't just stop conception, it also stops implantation.</v>

00:54:13.680 --> 00:54:17.760
<v Speaker 1>And I hope you remember enough of your high school biology or</v>

00:54:17.760 --> 00:54:21.280
<v Speaker 1>sex ed course to know what that is.</v>

00:54:21.280 --> 00:54:25.200
<v Speaker 1>The first thing it does is it makes the female body inhospitable</v>

00:54:25.840 --> 00:54:28.160
<v Speaker 1>to male gametes and so</v>

00:54:29.200 --> 00:54:33.840
<v Speaker 1>less likely that anything is going to reach the egg.</v>

00:54:33.840 --> 00:54:38.080
<v Speaker 1>Then it makes ovulation less likely.</v>

00:54:38.080 --> 00:54:40.080
<v Speaker 1>And I'm just giving the the short version of this.</v>

00:54:40.080 --> 00:54:43.040
<v Speaker 1>I'll give the the longer version of the article.</v>

00:54:43.040 --> 00:54:47.280
<v Speaker 1>But the part of it that is morally problematic, and there's actually</v>

00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:48.880
<v Speaker 1>a fourth way as well, but I'm just going to get into</v>

00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:50.080
<v Speaker 1>the three here.</v>

00:54:50.080 --> 00:54:55.440
<v Speaker 1>The other way is that it basically modifies the lining of the</v>

00:54:55.440 --> 00:55:01.040
<v Speaker 1>uterus and makes it less likely so that the fertilized egg, the</v>

00:55:01.040 --> 00:55:04.720
<v Speaker 1>child, this is now a child morally speaking from the Christian perspective,</v>

00:55:04.720 --> 00:55:10.080
<v Speaker 1>cannot successfully implant and so it causes a miscarriage.</v>

00:55:10.080 --> 00:55:13.920
<v Speaker 1>Now, miscarriage is one of those terms that That</v>

00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:19.200
<v Speaker 1>somewhat confuses people because it has a wide breadth of senses.</v>

00:55:19.200 --> 00:55:23.520
<v Speaker 1>The same as abortion, incidentally, because a miscarriage, if it is a</v>

00:55:23.520 --> 00:55:27.040
<v Speaker 1>natural one, is actually just a spontaneous abortion.</v>

00:55:27.040 --> 00:55:28.640
<v Speaker 1>Those terms are equivalent.</v>

00:55:28.640 --> 00:55:32.640
<v Speaker 1>So what we're obviously talking about here is more willful sort of</v>

00:55:32.640 --> 00:55:37.040
<v Speaker 1>thing. But if you take a pill and it causes a miscarriage,</v>

00:55:37.040 --> 00:55:38.880
<v Speaker 1>that is an abortion.</v>

00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:41.680
<v Speaker 1>That is morally culpable criminal.</v>

00:55:42.400 --> 00:55:44.640
<v Speaker 1>That's a murder.</v>

00:55:44.640 --> 00:55:49.360
<v Speaker 1>And the question then is, what do we do?</v>

00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:54.640
<v Speaker 1>Because our society has been engaged in this behavior for decades at</v>

00:55:54.640 --> 00:55:55.920
<v Speaker 1>this point.</v>

00:55:56.160 --> 00:56:01.520
<v Speaker 1>We all probably know women who have taken birth control.</v>

00:56:01.520 --> 00:56:03.760
<v Speaker 1>Many of them did not know.</v>

00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:07.120
<v Speaker 1>Because many of them know absolutely nothing about their own bodies and</v>

00:56:07.120 --> 00:56:10.640
<v Speaker 1>they learned absolute nothing in health class, as it were.</v>

00:56:10.640 --> 00:56:14.400
<v Speaker 1>So all they know is I take this pill, I can't get</v>

00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:16.080
<v Speaker 1>pregnant. And that's how they think about it.</v>

00:56:16.080 --> 00:56:18.000
<v Speaker 1>They think I can't get pregnant.</v>

00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:23.520
<v Speaker 1>They don't think I can get pregnant and have the child aborted</v>

00:56:23.680 --> 00:56:26.960
<v Speaker 1>and so I will not really be you know when they think</v>

00:56:26.960 --> 00:56:30.080
<v Speaker 1>of pregnant they think big belly and all that.</v>

00:56:30.080 --> 00:56:32.960
<v Speaker 1>That's not when pregnancy starts.</v>

00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:36.960
<v Speaker 1>It starts with conception because that's when you have that unique life,</v>

00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:38.560
<v Speaker 1>that's a human life.</v>

00:56:38.560 --> 00:56:41.520
<v Speaker 1>That is the morally salient point.</v>

00:56:41.520 --> 00:56:46.640
<v Speaker 1>And so a pill that causes that life to be terminated is</v>

00:56:46.640 --> 00:56:48.080
<v Speaker 1>a murder pill.</v>

00:56:48.080 --> 00:56:52.000
<v Speaker 1>It is morally impermissible to use it, it is morally impermissible to</v>

00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:55.840
<v Speaker 1>create it, it is morally impermissible to prescribe it.</v>

00:56:55.840 --> 00:57:00.720
<v Speaker 1>And so certainly the companies that are making it should be prosecuted,</v>

00:57:00.720 --> 00:57:03.840
<v Speaker 1>including including criminal penalties for their leadership.</v>

00:57:03.840 --> 00:57:08.240
<v Speaker 1>Many of them located in Israel, surprise, surprise.</v>

00:57:08.240 --> 00:57:11.760
<v Speaker 1>And certainly the doctors prescribing it should also be punished, because they</v>

00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:13.680
<v Speaker 1>know. They know exactly how it functions.</v>

00:57:13.680 --> 00:57:17.120
<v Speaker 1>They are prescribing it with full knowledge of how it works, and</v>

00:57:17.120 --> 00:57:19.920
<v Speaker 1>so they are mor morally culpable for each and every one of</v>

00:57:19.920 --> 00:57:21.680
<v Speaker 1>those murders.</v>

00:57:21.680 --> 00:57:25.200
<v Speaker 1>The girls themselves, by and large, do not know.</v>

00:57:25.200 --> 00:57:30.000
<v Speaker 1>And so there is an intent aspect to murder, right?</v>

00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:33.440
<v Speaker 1>Murder is not absent intent.</v>

00:57:33.440 --> 00:57:37.920
<v Speaker 1>There are intent crimes and there are crimes that don't involve intent.</v>

00:57:38.720 --> 00:57:42.320
<v Speaker 1>Or at least not always crimes in that case, sometimes they're just</v>

00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:43.280
<v Speaker 1>a civil wrong.</v>

00:57:43.280 --> 00:57:45.600
<v Speaker 1>It may not rise the level of a crime without intent.</v>

00:57:45.600 --> 00:57:48.800
<v Speaker 1>There are some, but most crimes involve intent.</v>

00:57:48.800 --> 00:57:51.200
<v Speaker 1>But there are different kinds of killing, right?</v>

00:57:51.200 --> 00:57:54.800
<v Speaker 1>And they're basically distinguished more or less by intent.</v>

00:57:54.800 --> 00:57:57.120
<v Speaker 1>There are some other factors there for some things, but it's usually</v>

00:57:57.120 --> 00:58:00.160
<v Speaker 1>intent. Murder is the highest one.</v>

00:58:00.160 --> 00:58:01.840
<v Speaker 1>At least murder one.</v>

00:58:01.840 --> 00:58:05.120
<v Speaker 1>Because that's the willful human that's the willful killing of one human</v>

00:58:05.120 --> 00:58:08.080
<v Speaker 1>being by another malice aforethought.</v>

00:58:08.080 --> 00:58:11.760
<v Speaker 1>It's that malice aforethought that matters in our criminal justice system.</v>

00:58:11.760 --> 00:58:15.200
<v Speaker 1>If you're talking about morally, then it is the insufficiently morally warranted</v>

00:58:15.200 --> 00:58:17.200
<v Speaker 1>killing of one human being by another.</v>

00:58:17.200 --> 00:58:19.360
<v Speaker 1>And then of course you get to debate over what is sufficient</v>

00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:20.800
<v Speaker 1>moral warrant.</v>

00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:22.640
<v Speaker 1>This is not.</v>

00:58:22.640 --> 00:58:23.440
<v Speaker 1>So So</v>

00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:27.360
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I think it is a very real problem for our society.</v>

00:58:27.360 --> 00:58:30.080
<v Speaker 1>The best thing we could do is stop producing that pill and</v>

00:58:30.080 --> 00:58:31.760
<v Speaker 1>bomb any country that produces it.</v>

00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:35.120
<v Speaker 1>Just Just absolutely get rid of it, destroy it from the face</v>

00:58:35.120 --> 00:58:35.600
<v Speaker 1>of the earth.</v>

00:58:35.600 --> 00:58:37.280
<v Speaker 1>It is a great</v>

00:58:38.160 --> 00:58:40.320
<v Speaker 1>unbelievable wickedness.</v>

00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:47.280
<v Speaker 1>Satan designed something that results in more human sacrifice than than what</v>

00:58:47.280 --> 00:58:52.160
<v Speaker 1>the Aztecs and the Mayan Empires achieved over a course of centuries.</v>

00:58:52.160 --> 00:58:56.000
<v Speaker 1>And many Christians use it and they think what they're doing is</v>

00:58:56.000 --> 00:59:00.000
<v Speaker 1>perfectly morally fine because they don't understand what they're doing.</v>

00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:00.320
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

00:59:02.560 --> 00:59:04.880
<v Speaker 1>No, it it is a great evil for which God is certainly</v>

00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:05.440
<v Speaker 1>punishing us.</v>

00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:08.480
<v Speaker 1>And part of the punishment is just not having children.</v>

00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:08.800
<v Speaker 1>But</v>

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<v Speaker 1>Question 13.</v>

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<v Speaker 1>The Dead Sea Scrolls, Enoch, Jubilees, etc., were they removed?</v>

00:59:20.560 --> 00:59:21.840
<v Speaker 1>Do they belong?</v>

00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:24.560
<v Speaker 1>Is Scripture being withheld from us.</v>

00:59:24.560 --> 00:59:26.080
<v Speaker 1>This one comes up a lot.</v>

00:59:26.080 --> 00:59:28.880
<v Speaker 1>I see this all the time in various places.</v>

00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:33.280
<v Speaker 1>I think the best way to explain it, and the specific example</v>

00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:37.040
<v Speaker 1>you give is going to change from audience to audience, but for</v>

00:59:37.040 --> 00:59:40.400
<v Speaker 1>this audience and because I'm me, I'm going to use Dune.</v>

00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:44.480
<v Speaker 1>Frank Herbert wrote six books in the Dune series, the core six</v>

00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:51.360
<v Speaker 1>books. He took a ton of notes, and then his son and</v>

00:59:51.360 --> 00:59:57.120
<v Speaker 1>another science fiction author wrote a bunch more books, mostly prequels, I</v>

00:59:57.120 --> 00:59:59.600
<v Speaker 1>think some of our sequels as well, but a bunch more books</v>

00:59:59.600 --> 01:00:01.200
<v Speaker 1>in the Dune universe.</v>

01:00:01.680 --> 01:00:04.560
<v Speaker 1>And then you have fanfiction.</v>

01:00:04.560 --> 01:00:07.920
<v Speaker 1>People who have just wrote their own stuff, supposedly set in the</v>

01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:11.360
<v Speaker 1>Dune universe, and said this is part of it, right?</v>

01:00:11.360 --> 01:00:13.520
<v Speaker 1>Same thing happens with Lovecraft.</v>

01:00:13.520 --> 01:00:17.520
<v Speaker 1>You have the novels and the essays and the things that Lovecraft</v>

01:00:17.520 --> 01:00:20.000
<v Speaker 1>wrote, and then you have some stuff that's based off some of</v>

01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:25.280
<v Speaker 1>his notes, and then you have just fanfiction set in his universe.</v>

01:00:25.280 --> 01:00:29.920
<v Speaker 1>When it comes to scripture, the stuff written by the original author</v>

01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:34.240
<v Speaker 1>is the analogous thing here for scripture.</v>

01:00:34.240 --> 01:00:38.000
<v Speaker 1>So the six core novels of Dune would be the scripture of</v>

01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:39.840
<v Speaker 1>the Dune universe.</v>

01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:45.040
<v Speaker 1>Then you have the stuff that is related but not scripture.</v>

01:00:45.040 --> 01:00:47.360
<v Speaker 1>And so I'm thinking of Maccabees, right?</v>

01:00:47.360 --> 01:00:52.400
<v Speaker 1>Maccabees is a history text recorded by people who lived around the</v>

01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:56.400
<v Speaker 1>time of the events and they weren't writing scripture.</v>

01:00:56.400 --> 01:01:01.520
<v Speaker 1>They were writing something about stuff that happened in an area relevant</v>

01:01:01.520 --> 01:01:04.000
<v Speaker 1>to scripture, but not scripture.</v>

01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:07.760
<v Speaker 1>And then you have people who go off and write crazy fanfiction</v>

01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:09.520
<v Speaker 1>like the Mormons.</v>

01:01:09.520 --> 01:01:15.680
<v Speaker 1>Right? Just because it says it exists in the universe of something</v>

01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:17.520
<v Speaker 1>doesn't mean it does.</v>

01:01:17.520 --> 01:01:22.400
<v Speaker 1>So some person could write an essay right now, publish it, say,</v>

01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:24.400
<v Speaker 1>This is part of the Dune universe.</v>

01:01:24.400 --> 01:01:26.800
<v Speaker 1>Does it make it part of the Dune Universe?</v>

01:01:26.800 --> 01:01:28.240
<v Speaker 1>The answer is no.</v>

01:01:28.240 --> 01:01:30.240
<v Speaker 1>The same thing with regard to scripture.</v>

01:01:30.240 --> 01:01:35.840
<v Speaker 1>Some random person Publishing a book, putting out a papyrus, whatever it</v>

01:01:35.840 --> 01:01:39.920
<v Speaker 1>happens to be, given the age, does not mean it is part</v>

01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:43.040
<v Speaker 1>of scripture just because it asserts that it is.</v>

01:01:43.040 --> 01:01:47.360
<v Speaker 1>And you have very clear passages in scripture saying that, you know,</v>

01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:50.400
<v Speaker 1>if someone should preach to you another gospel, even if it were</v>

01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:54.080
<v Speaker 1>I or an angel from heaven, let him be accursed.</v>

01:01:54.080 --> 01:01:57.280
<v Speaker 1>Right? Okay.</v>

01:01:57.680 --> 01:02:00.720
<v Speaker 1>You have other gospels in many of these things.</v>

01:02:00.720 --> 01:02:01.040
<v Speaker 1>And</v>

01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:04.800
<v Speaker 1>the other part of this that I would look at, I always</v>

01:02:04.800 --> 01:02:09.360
<v Speaker 1>like to run the analysis of what happens to men who become</v>

01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:11.040
<v Speaker 1>interested in this thing.</v>

01:02:11.040 --> 01:02:14.800
<v Speaker 1>I think it's a good way to look at sort of the</v>

01:02:14.800 --> 01:02:18.160
<v Speaker 1>general moral tenor, perhaps, of a thing.</v>

01:02:18.160 --> 01:02:21.760
<v Speaker 1>You could do this with hobbies, you can do this with fictional</v>

01:02:21.760 --> 01:02:24.640
<v Speaker 1>universes, you can do this with books that claim to be part</v>

01:02:24.640 --> 01:02:26.000
<v Speaker 1>of scripture.</v>

01:02:26.160 --> 01:02:29.840
<v Speaker 1>If every man who reads it starts to go off the rails,</v>

01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:31.520
<v Speaker 1>you should probably avoid it.</v>

01:02:31.520 --> 01:02:35.760
<v Speaker 1>I have never found a man who is really obsessed with Enoch</v>

01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:40.960
<v Speaker 1>and Jubilees and all that stuff and isn't off the rails so</v>

01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:44.000
<v Speaker 1>far he can no longer see them.</v>

01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:48.640
<v Speaker 1>I think that's probably sufficient as warrant to condemn this stuff, because</v>

01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:52.880
<v Speaker 1>reading scripture doesn't drive you insane and make you want to be</v>

01:02:52.880 --> 01:02:54.000
<v Speaker 1>a hermit.</v>

01:02:54.240 --> 01:02:57.440
<v Speaker 1>Thinking that angels are going to hunt you or something.</v>

01:02:57.440 --> 01:02:59.600
<v Speaker 1>That's the kind of stuff you start to see from men who</v>

01:02:59.600 --> 01:03:00.720
<v Speaker 1>get obsessed with this stuff.</v>

01:03:00.720 --> 01:03:03.600
<v Speaker 1>You get they get really into the Nephilim and they start thinking</v>

01:03:03.600 --> 01:03:06.720
<v Speaker 1>that like there are angels that are taking women from the earth,</v>

01:03:06.720 --> 01:03:10.480
<v Speaker 1>and then it somehow gets tied into UFOs sometimes.</v>

01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:14.320
<v Speaker 1>This is not what you see from people who are reading God's</v>

01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:17.840
<v Speaker 1>word. And so I think that you can look at the fruit</v>

01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:20.640
<v Speaker 1>and tell the tree is poisonous.</v>

01:03:20.640 --> 01:03:23.920
<v Speaker 1>And there's also the fact if you read them, they don't sound</v>

01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:24.960
<v Speaker 1>like scripture.</v>

01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:28.080
<v Speaker 1>You get a very good sense for what is and isn't scripture</v>

01:03:28.240 --> 01:03:30.880
<v Speaker 1>when you've read scripture a lot.</v>

01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:34.720
<v Speaker 1>When I yeah, someone mentioned in the chat that Super Luther did</v>

01:03:34.720 --> 01:03:36.480
<v Speaker 1>a deep dive on some of these things.</v>

01:03:36.480 --> 01:03:39.600
<v Speaker 1>I I would recommend that for those who are more for interested</v>

01:03:39.600 --> 01:03:41.360
<v Speaker 1>in going into it a little bit more.</v>

01:03:41.360 --> 01:03:44.640
<v Speaker 1>That's a few more hours of listening for you, probably quite a</v>

01:03:44.640 --> 01:03:46.000
<v Speaker 1>few at this point, but</v>

01:03:47.040 --> 01:03:50.480
<v Speaker 1>I just don't think that looking at the fruit produced</v>

01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:54.560
<v Speaker 1>warrants paying any attention to the tree, or certainly conserving the f</v>

01:03:54.720 --> 01:03:55.440
<v Speaker 1>consuming the fruit.</v>

01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:59.280
<v Speaker 1>But like I was going to say, if you read scripture, you</v>

01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:02.960
<v Speaker 1>develop a very clear sense for what is and isn't scripture.</v>

01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:06.720
<v Speaker 1>And this is incidentally something that comes up when you see pastors</v>

01:04:06.720 --> 01:04:08.000
<v Speaker 1>and others on social media</v>

01:04:09.680 --> 01:04:13.760
<v Speaker 1>Presented with a chunk of scripture, not in quotation marks, and they</v>

01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:14.800
<v Speaker 1>don't recognize it.</v>

01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:18.480
<v Speaker 1>That seems alien to me because if I read something, it reads</v>

01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:21.680
<v Speaker 1>like scripture or it doesn't read like scripture to me.</v>

01:04:21.680 --> 01:04:24.560
<v Speaker 1>I've read Enoch, I've read Jubilees, I've read these things.</v>

01:04:24.560 --> 01:04:26.000
<v Speaker 1>They don't read like scripture.</v>

01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:28.320
<v Speaker 1>They read like fan fiction.</v>

01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:32.400
<v Speaker 1>They read like something that is really it's a Gnostic text.</v>

01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:36.400
<v Speaker 1>This is secret knowledge that you gain this secret knowledge if you</v>

01:04:36.400 --> 01:04:39.040
<v Speaker 1>read this and then you really understand what's going on in the</v>

01:04:39.040 --> 01:04:39.760
<v Speaker 1>old test.</v>

01:04:39.760 --> 01:04:41.680
<v Speaker 1>That's the Talmud too.</v>

01:04:41.680 --> 01:04:44.160
<v Speaker 1>If you read this it gives you secret knowledge and now you</v>

01:04:44.160 --> 01:04:46.080
<v Speaker 1>really know what's going on in the Pentateuch.</v>

01:04:46.080 --> 01:04:49.920
<v Speaker 1>You didn't know before because you needed this stuff.</v>

01:04:49.920 --> 01:04:55.280
<v Speaker 1>The church does not call this part of scripture.</v>

01:04:55.280 --> 01:04:58.960
<v Speaker 1>The church fathers, by and large, don't consider this stuff part of</v>

01:04:58.960 --> 01:05:03.040
<v Speaker 1>scripture. The Reformation Fathers, by and large, don't consider this part of</v>

01:05:03.040 --> 01:05:08.400
<v Speaker 1>scripture. This has just become a modern obsession because of a number</v>

01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:12.560
<v Speaker 1>of novels and movies and things like that, and people just looking</v>

01:05:12.560 --> 01:05:16.240
<v Speaker 1>for some sort of hidden knowledge that will make everything fall into</v>

01:05:16.240 --> 01:05:19.440
<v Speaker 1>place and all the pieces fit together.</v>

01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:23.120
<v Speaker 1>Scripture already gives us all the information that we need.</v>

01:05:23.120 --> 01:05:27.200
<v Speaker 1>Not one of these books gives us anything beneficial that we don't</v>

01:05:27.120 --> 01:05:28.640
<v Speaker 1>have in scripture.</v>

01:05:28.640 --> 01:05:31.920
<v Speaker 1>So and I want to be clear here, when I'm talking about</v>

01:05:31.920 --> 01:05:36.720
<v Speaker 1>the fan fiction books, not the historical ones that are sort of</v>

01:05:36.720 --> 01:05:40.480
<v Speaker 1>tangentially related You can read Maccabees and it can be good because</v>

01:05:40.480 --> 01:05:42.480
<v Speaker 1>it gives you some historical context.</v>

01:05:42.480 --> 01:05:43.680
<v Speaker 1>Nothing wrong with that.</v>

01:05:43.680 --> 01:05:50.080
<v Speaker 1>Not scripture, but a history book, very biased, but gives you some</v>

01:05:50.080 --> 01:05:53.520
<v Speaker 1>information about the period from the point of view of people living</v>

01:05:53.520 --> 01:05:54.400
<v Speaker 1>through it.</v>

01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:58.480
<v Speaker 1>That has utility, but it doesn't make it scripture.</v>

01:05:58.480 --> 01:06:03.760
<v Speaker 1>The same as when we find various archaeological records from various empires</v>

01:06:04.080 --> 01:06:05.840
<v Speaker 1>in that part of the world.</v>

01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:08.640
<v Speaker 1>Just because they're set in the same place at the same time</v>

01:06:08.640 --> 01:06:10.880
<v Speaker 1>as scripture doesn't make them scripture.</v>

01:06:10.880 --> 01:06:14.640
<v Speaker 1>They can be useful because we can find things like here's Moses'</v>

01:06:14.720 --> 01:06:18.320
<v Speaker 1>name on something, where scripture said his name would be found, things</v>

01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:19.520
<v Speaker 1>like that.</v>

01:06:19.520 --> 01:06:23.360
<v Speaker 1>They're useful, they're good, it's good to know them, read some of</v>

01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:26.560
<v Speaker 1>them, like I said, you know, Maccabees and the Apocrypha is fine.</v>

01:06:26.560 --> 01:06:27.600
<v Speaker 1>Go ahead and read it.</v>

01:06:27.600 --> 01:06:32.160
<v Speaker 1>The Apocrypha is profitable to read, as Luther would say.</v>

01:06:32.160 --> 01:06:33.920
<v Speaker 1>It's just not scripture.</v>

01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:38.080
<v Speaker 1>And I was looking for my copy, I was going to set</v>

01:06:38.080 --> 01:06:39.600
<v Speaker 1>it show to the camera.</v>

01:06:39.600 --> 01:06:44.320
<v Speaker 1>But anyway, the CPH created a version that's a reader's edition, has</v>

01:06:44.640 --> 01:06:47.200
<v Speaker 1>some notes, explanatory essays, things like that.</v>

01:06:47.200 --> 01:06:48.320
<v Speaker 1>Great edition.</v>

01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:50.960
<v Speaker 1>By all means grab it used if you can, they charge too</v>

01:06:50.960 --> 01:06:52.000
<v Speaker 1>much for their books.</v>

01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:54.000
<v Speaker 1>But that's a great option.</v>

01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:57.280
<v Speaker 1>It's worth reading, but it's not scripture.</v>

01:06:57.280 --> 01:06:57.600
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

01:06:58.560 --> 01:07:00.480
<v Speaker 1>nothing is being withheld from us.</v>

01:07:00.480 --> 01:07:02.000
<v Speaker 1>We have the word of God.</v>

01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:04.000
<v Speaker 1>God said he would preserve his word.</v>

01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:05.280
<v Speaker 1>He did preserve it.</v>

01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:06.960
<v Speaker 1>He preserved it faithfully.</v>

01:07:06.960 --> 01:07:10.080
<v Speaker 1>He read from it when he was on earth.</v>

01:07:10.080 --> 01:07:15.360
<v Speaker 1>This stuff that is sort of in the orbit of scripture is</v>

01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:17.120
<v Speaker 1>not what he preserved.</v>

01:07:17.120 --> 01:07:21.120
<v Speaker 1>This is, again, fan fiction written by men who are trying to</v>

01:07:21.120 --> 01:07:26.800
<v Speaker 1>lead people astray in many cases because there is a constant thread</v>

01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:31.360
<v Speaker 1>down through history of various Gnostic groups saying, No, we have the</v>

01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:33.840
<v Speaker 1>real truth, you have to follow us.</v>

01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:37.360
<v Speaker 1>We'll tell you what this really means.</v>

01:07:37.360 --> 01:07:38.880
<v Speaker 1>Don't read it.</v>

01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:40.640
<v Speaker 1>Don't just read the Pentateuch.</v>

01:07:40.640 --> 01:07:41.920
<v Speaker 1>Don't just read the Word of God.</v>

01:07:41.920 --> 01:07:44.720
<v Speaker 1>You have to come to us so we can give you the</v>

01:07:44.720 --> 01:07:48.000
<v Speaker 1>actual insight into what the words really mean.</v>

01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:50.400
<v Speaker 1>Never trust someone who does that.</v>

01:07:50.400 --> 01:07:53.360
<v Speaker 1>By and large, God's word can be read and understood by a</v>

01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:55.200
<v Speaker 1>man of average intelligence.</v>

01:07:55.200 --> 01:07:57.760
<v Speaker 1>Are there some things that are harder to understand than others?</v>

01:07:57.760 --> 01:08:01.200
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely. There are some things no man can understand.</v>

01:08:01.200 --> 01:08:10.400
<v Speaker 1>But the core of Scripture is very comprehensible.</v>

01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:12.400
<v Speaker 1>And then a related question from the same person.</v>

01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:16.000
<v Speaker 1>I know I've answered this one before but I'll answer.</v>

01:08:16.000 --> 01:08:17.440
<v Speaker 1>Question 14.</v>

01:08:17.440 --> 01:08:20.480
<v Speaker 1>Is the KJV really the most accurate translation?</v>

01:08:20.480 --> 01:08:22.240
<v Speaker 1>How can we trust King James?</v>

01:08:22.240 --> 01:08:25.600
<v Speaker 1>He has a bad reputation.</v>

01:08:26.240 --> 01:08:29.040
<v Speaker 1>Try not to cough into the mic, but I think my mute's</v>

01:08:28.960 --> 01:08:33.360
<v Speaker 1>not working, so sorry.</v>

01:08:33.360 --> 01:08:38.160
<v Speaker 1>It's the it's the revenge from King James for reading that he's</v>

01:08:38.320 --> 01:08:39.760
<v Speaker 1>got a bad reputation.</v>

01:08:40.960 --> 01:08:44.560
<v Speaker 1>Or the the revenge of the Baptist for saying King James has</v>

01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:45.360
<v Speaker 1>a bad reputation.</v>

01:08:45.360 --> 01:08:47.360
<v Speaker 1>Anyway, King James</v>

01:08:48.480 --> 01:08:49.920
<v Speaker 1>has a mixed reputation.</v>

01:08:49.920 --> 01:08:51.440
<v Speaker 1>That's certainly true.</v>

01:08:51.440 --> 01:08:51.760
<v Speaker 1>But</v>

01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:56.560
<v Speaker 1>just because he has a mixed reputation does not mean that the</v>

01:08:56.560 --> 01:09:01.280
<v Speaker 1>translation that he funded is flawed.</v>

01:09:01.280 --> 01:09:01.600
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

01:09:03.040 --> 01:09:07.440
<v Speaker 1>I don't believe that the King James is like a fundamentally flawed</v>

01:09:07.440 --> 01:09:12.800
<v Speaker 1>translation. I don't believe it's the best translation, because it is it</v>

01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:16.560
<v Speaker 1>with the Old Testament obviously based on the Masoretic text instead of</v>

01:09:16.560 --> 01:09:18.720
<v Speaker 1>being based on the Greek, which it should be.</v>

01:09:18.720 --> 01:09:20.800
<v Speaker 1>It should be based on the Septuagint.</v>

01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:23.200
<v Speaker 1>So it's not the most accurate.</v>

01:09:23.200 --> 01:09:24.880
<v Speaker 1>There are better translations.</v>

01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:27.520
<v Speaker 1>It has some known quirks, but</v>

01:09:29.200 --> 01:09:31.440
<v Speaker 1>I think that it is fine to use it.</v>

01:09:31.440 --> 01:09:34.560
<v Speaker 1>It's not like a bad translation.</v>

01:09:34.560 --> 01:09:37.520
<v Speaker 1>Like I pointed out many times before, the problem with the King</v>

01:09:37.520 --> 01:09:44.000
<v Speaker 1>James is largely that the English is now so antiquated, so outdated</v>

01:09:44.080 --> 01:09:48.880
<v Speaker 1>that most people cannot read it and really understand it well.</v>

01:09:48.880 --> 01:09:50.320
<v Speaker 1>Some men can.</v>

01:09:50.320 --> 01:09:52.080
<v Speaker 1>If you can, by all means use it.</v>

01:09:52.080 --> 01:09:53.920
<v Speaker 1>I've read the King James a lot.</v>

01:09:53.920 --> 01:09:56.160
<v Speaker 1>That was certainly the version I was using in school.</v>

01:09:56.160 --> 01:10:00.720
<v Speaker 1>It's what my father used, it's what my grandfather used.</v>

01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:05.040
<v Speaker 1>Obviously, the King James has a place in Christian history.</v>

01:10:05.040 --> 01:10:09.520
<v Speaker 1>Now we need a better translation because we need a full translation</v>

01:10:09.520 --> 01:10:14.240
<v Speaker 1>of the Septuagint, not the Masoretic text, right?</v>

01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:16.880
<v Speaker 1>So it's not a bad version.</v>

01:10:16.880 --> 01:10:20.240
<v Speaker 1>Like I've said many times before, the best Bible is the one</v>

01:10:20.240 --> 01:10:22.160
<v Speaker 1>you haven't actually read.</v>

01:10:22.160 --> 01:10:26.000
<v Speaker 1>Now, if you haven't actually read one that is a good faithful</v>

01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:27.840
<v Speaker 1>translation, that's obviously best.</v>

01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:31.760
<v Speaker 1>But if the only thing you have available is the message, it's</v>

01:10:31.760 --> 01:10:34.160
<v Speaker 1>better that you read that than nothing.</v>

01:10:34.160 --> 01:10:40.880
<v Speaker 1>Although please go buy something other than the message.</v>

01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:45.040
<v Speaker 1>Like the the Baptist in chat telling me that I'm I've got</v>

01:10:45.040 --> 01:10:46.240
<v Speaker 1>a curse from King James.</v>

01:10:46.240 --> 01:10:47.280
<v Speaker 1>I yes.</v>

01:10:48.640 --> 01:10:51.600
<v Speaker 1>No, I think it's just I spent a lot of time in</v>

01:10:51.600 --> 01:10:54.320
<v Speaker 1>the sun because it's spring here and I'm out gardening and I</v>

01:10:54.320 --> 01:10:56.560
<v Speaker 1>think I'm a little dehydrated.</v>

01:10:56.560 --> 01:10:59.680
<v Speaker 1>So probably also a a little red from the sun.</v>

01:11:09.280 --> 01:11:13.360
<v Speaker 1>Someone in chat said please read the part of scripture where God</v>

01:11:13.360 --> 01:11:14.480
<v Speaker 1>turns his face to us.</v>

01:11:14.480 --> 01:11:17.920
<v Speaker 1>Is that I think you're just referencing the ironic blessing, right?</v>

01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:27.600
<v Speaker 1>Which is I can never remember which chapter in numbers, number six.</v>

01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:30.080
<v Speaker 1>So I think that is is the one you mean.</v>

01:11:30.080 --> 01:11:33.680
<v Speaker 1>So yes, that that is of course a a great passage from</v>

01:11:33.680 --> 01:11:37.200
<v Speaker 1>scripture and that is used all the time.</v>

01:11:37.200 --> 01:11:41.600
<v Speaker 1>That is still used in our I'm typing in Greek, no wonder</v>

01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:42.880
<v Speaker 1>it's not working.</v>

01:11:42.960 --> 01:11:47.440
<v Speaker 1>That is used in church services all the time still.</v>

01:11:47.440 --> 01:11:49.760
<v Speaker 1>Let me look at the chat here.</v>

01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:53.040
<v Speaker 1>I actually got through the the questions that I intended, so I'll</v>

01:11:53.040 --> 01:11:56.400
<v Speaker 1>see if there are some more of them.</v>

01:11:56.400 --> 01:11:59.280
<v Speaker 1>But I can I can say the ironic blessing at the end</v>

01:11:59.280 --> 01:12:01.680
<v Speaker 1>of this if that provides you some comfort.</v>

01:12:11.280 --> 01:12:15.120
<v Speaker 1>Actually I think I will answer maybe a couple more questions from</v>

01:12:15.120 --> 01:12:15.440
<v Speaker 1>my</v>

01:12:16.640 --> 01:12:21.120
<v Speaker 1>pending list as it were get cut that down a little bit.</v>

01:12:21.120 --> 01:12:23.920
<v Speaker 1>Some of the shorter ones, there are some in that pending list</v>

01:12:23.920 --> 01:12:27.120
<v Speaker 1>that are going to take quite a while.</v>

01:12:37.840 --> 01:12:40.160
<v Speaker 1>I'll just answer briefly this question from the chat.</v>

01:12:40.160 --> 01:12:43.600
<v Speaker 1>Is there a version that I use right now for the Septuagint?</v>

01:12:43.600 --> 01:12:44.560
<v Speaker 1>The answer is yes.</v>

01:12:44.560 --> 01:12:46.800
<v Speaker 1>I usually use the Nets.</v>

01:12:46.800 --> 01:12:48.400
<v Speaker 1>That's the NETS.</v>

01:12:48.640 --> 01:12:52.400
<v Speaker 1>It is a little academic, it's a little stilted in places.</v>

01:12:52.400 --> 01:12:56.240
<v Speaker 1>The logos version does not have full logos support, so you can't</v>

01:12:56.160 --> 01:12:57.760
<v Speaker 1>click and see the underlying Greek word.</v>

01:12:57.760 --> 01:13:01.200
<v Speaker 1>You have to go over to the the LES2, which is the</v>

01:13:01.440 --> 01:13:04.400
<v Speaker 1>Lexum, which is the one put out by Logos.</v>

01:13:04.400 --> 01:13:08.000
<v Speaker 1>Between those two, you're pretty good.</v>

01:13:08.000 --> 01:13:11.840
<v Speaker 1>They're not perfect, like I said, it's very academic, it's dry, it's</v>

01:13:11.760 --> 01:13:15.680
<v Speaker 1>stilted language, but it works well enough and it's faithful to the</v>

01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:20.000
<v Speaker 1>underlying Greek, which is essentially what I wanted, which is why it's</v>

01:13:20.000 --> 01:13:24.960
<v Speaker 1>what I'm using now for the daily devotions for the old testament</v>

01:13:25.040 --> 01:13:28.480
<v Speaker 1>and for the Psalms and for the through the Bible in a</v>

01:13:28.480 --> 01:13:33.840
<v Speaker 1>year podcast, I'm in first Samuel now.</v>

01:13:33.840 --> 01:13:36.720
<v Speaker 1>So I'm using nets for that.</v>

01:13:46.960 --> 01:13:49.440
<v Speaker 1>I have some very long questions here.</v>

01:13:49.440 --> 01:13:52.240
<v Speaker 1>I saw that one earlier in the chat asking about the opium</v>

01:13:52.240 --> 01:13:57.680
<v Speaker 1>wars and the relationship to the opium wars and how that influenced</v>

01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:03.280
<v Speaker 1>the relationship between the West and China and specifically Britain and impliedly</v>

01:14:03.280 --> 01:14:05.200
<v Speaker 1>Germany since the question was asked in German.</v>

01:14:05.200 --> 01:14:07.200
<v Speaker 1>So I I think I will have to put that one off</v>

01:14:07.200 --> 01:14:12.080
<v Speaker 1>for a future episode since that's a little involved for just off</v>

01:14:12.080 --> 01:14:13.920
<v Speaker 1>the top of my head as it were.</v>

01:14:20.240 --> 01:14:24.080
<v Speaker 1>I am collecting questions that are going to take me time to</v>

01:14:24.080 --> 01:14:24.960
<v Speaker 1>answer.</v>

01:14:28.560 --> 01:14:34.240
<v Speaker 1>Someone asked about how certain ethnic groups wind up getting into</v>

01:14:35.200 --> 01:14:39.520
<v Speaker 1>positions of authority at the top of corporations and the short answer</v>

01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:42.320
<v Speaker 1>and really the fullness of the answer is just corruption.</v>

01:14:42.800 --> 01:14:46.560
<v Speaker 1>Nepotism in the fullest negative sense of the term.</v>

01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:49.280
<v Speaker 1>That is exactly how that happens.</v>

01:14:49.760 --> 01:14:51.440
<v Speaker 1>And it happens a lot.</v>

01:14:58.480 --> 01:15:05.920
<v Speaker 1>Just noting down the question for the show notes.</v>

01:15:06.000 --> 01:15:08.160
<v Speaker 1>But I think that is going to be about it.</v>

01:15:08.320 --> 01:15:11.920
<v Speaker 1>I'd like to find one more question to answer, just one that</v>

01:15:11.920 --> 01:15:12.960
<v Speaker 1>isn't too long.</v>

01:15:12.960 --> 01:15:15.600
<v Speaker 1>Someone asked about my favorite caliber of bullet.</v>

01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:18.240
<v Speaker 1>I don't want that to be the last question, and I don't</v>

01:15:18.240 --> 01:15:20.720
<v Speaker 1>really have one, because it depends what you're doing.</v>

01:15:20.960 --> 01:15:26.000
<v Speaker 1>I am not taking a 9mm if I am worried about bear.</v>

01:15:26.000 --> 01:15:30.400
<v Speaker 1>Because I kinda want the bear to not charge me instead of</v>

01:15:30.400 --> 01:15:33.600
<v Speaker 1>be more annoyed with me when he gets to me.</v>

01:15:35.920 --> 01:15:40.160
<v Speaker 1>On a related note, if you hike, camp, etc., the 10 mil</v>

01:15:40.400 --> 01:15:43.040
<v Speaker 1>is great, but carry bear spray.</v>

01:15:43.040 --> 01:15:48.400
<v Speaker 1>The data very clearly show the best outcome, the best likelihood of</v>

01:15:48.400 --> 01:15:50.160
<v Speaker 1>a good outcome is bear spray.</v>

01:15:50.160 --> 01:15:53.920
<v Speaker 1>Doesn't matter what caliber when it comes to the firearm, bear spray</v>

01:15:53.920 --> 01:15:55.120
<v Speaker 1>is the way to go.</v>

01:15:55.120 --> 01:15:57.360
<v Speaker 1>Surprisingly, even worked for</v>

01:15:58.320 --> 01:16:02.000
<v Speaker 1>polar bears, which I'm glad I am not the man who had</v>

01:16:02.000 --> 01:16:04.720
<v Speaker 1>to test that.</v>

01:16:04.720 --> 01:16:07.920
<v Speaker 1>Whew. Here's an easy one.</v>

01:16:07.920 --> 01:16:09.920
<v Speaker 1>I think I'll end with this one for this week.</v>

01:16:09.920 --> 01:16:12.400
<v Speaker 1>My husband and I would like to do our ancestry test to</v>

01:16:12.400 --> 01:16:15.520
<v Speaker 1>see our heritage, but can we trust the companies?</v>

01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:19.920
<v Speaker 1>If so, which company do you recommend?</v>

01:16:19.920 --> 01:16:23.200
<v Speaker 1>I think the best one's probably Ancestry.</v>

01:16:23.200 --> 01:16:26.080
<v Speaker 1>Used to be largely owned by the Mormons, now I think they</v>

01:16:26.080 --> 01:16:28.560
<v Speaker 1>have some venture capital ownership and some other things.</v>

01:16:28.560 --> 01:16:32.240
<v Speaker 1>So you can't trust any of these companies 100%, obviously.</v>

01:16:32.240 --> 01:16:34.640
<v Speaker 1>Generally that's true of most corporations, but</v>

01:16:36.160 --> 01:16:39.200
<v Speaker 1>I think people get a little paranoid about it.</v>

01:16:39.200 --> 01:16:44.880
<v Speaker 1>And I think it's largely undue paranoia because at this point they</v>

01:16:44.880 --> 01:16:49.760
<v Speaker 1>have collected enough DNA that you can do population level analysis.</v>

01:16:49.760 --> 01:16:53.520
<v Speaker 1>So they don't really need your specific DNA because they already have</v>

01:16:53.520 --> 01:16:57.440
<v Speaker 1>it from so many other people who are related to you, at</v>

01:16:57.440 --> 01:16:59.280
<v Speaker 1>least at some level of cousin.</v>

01:16:59.280 --> 01:17:00.480
<v Speaker 1>They just don't need it.</v>

01:17:00.480 --> 01:17:04.000
<v Speaker 1>And there's also the fact you shed your DNA all over the</v>

01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:05.840
<v Speaker 1>place every single day.</v>

01:17:05.840 --> 01:17:09.600
<v Speaker 1>So if So if someone really wanted your DNA, it would be</v>

01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:10.800
<v Speaker 1>trivial to get it.</v>

01:17:10.800 --> 01:17:14.560
<v Speaker 1>Like I've shed my DNA on this pen I've been holding, on</v>

01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:17.840
<v Speaker 1>the hydro flask out of which I'm drinking, you know, in the</v>

01:17:17.840 --> 01:17:19.120
<v Speaker 1>garden while gardening.</v>

01:17:19.120 --> 01:17:22.560
<v Speaker 1>Like you shed DNA all over the place because your skin cells</v>

01:17:22.560 --> 01:17:24.240
<v Speaker 1>have your DNA.</v>

01:17:24.240 --> 01:17:26.320
<v Speaker 1>So you can't avoid it.</v>

01:17:26.320 --> 01:17:29.440
<v Speaker 1>And you know, if woodworking is your hobby, then blood.</v>

01:17:29.440 --> 01:17:30.720
<v Speaker 1>You're spreading that all over.</v>

01:17:30.720 --> 01:17:30.960
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

01:17:32.560 --> 01:17:37.040
<v Speaker 1>I don't think the the the risk of it is so significant</v>

01:17:37.280 --> 01:17:39.440
<v Speaker 1>that you can't send off your DNA to be tested.</v>

01:17:39.440 --> 01:17:40.240
<v Speaker 1>I think it's fine to do.</v>

01:17:40.240 --> 01:17:43.200
<v Speaker 1>I had mine tested many years ago now at this point.</v>

01:17:43.200 --> 01:17:46.400
<v Speaker 1>I've had my results public just because just because people like to</v>

01:17:46.400 --> 01:17:48.880
<v Speaker 1>annoy me about things sometimes and it's always good to point to</v>

01:17:48.880 --> 01:17:53.920
<v Speaker 1>something that's been publicly available for more than a decade.</v>

01:17:53.920 --> 01:17:57.440
<v Speaker 1>But I think Ancestry is probably still one of the best ones.</v>

01:17:57.440 --> 01:17:59.120
<v Speaker 1>I'm not as familiar with</v>

01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:03.680
<v Speaker 1>A lot of them, but I would not trust 23 and me.</v>

01:18:03.680 --> 01:18:06.320
<v Speaker 1>They seem to like to play games and their ownership is very</v>

01:18:06.320 --> 01:18:09.360
<v Speaker 1>questionable. Very Jewish.</v>

01:18:09.360 --> 01:18:12.320
<v Speaker 1>So I would say Ancestry is probably the best one.</v>

01:18:12.640 --> 01:18:15.520
<v Speaker 1>And they also have some of the best records.</v>

01:18:15.520 --> 01:18:19.200
<v Speaker 1>So you get access to a bunch of their records when you</v>

01:18:19.200 --> 01:18:22.400
<v Speaker 1>do a DNA test for free for a certain period of time.</v>

01:18:22.400 --> 01:18:24.320
<v Speaker 1>And every now and then they run that as well.</v>

01:18:24.720 --> 01:18:29.760
<v Speaker 1>So if you can grab some sort of software to do your</v>

01:18:29.760 --> 01:18:35.040
<v Speaker 1>family history, your family tree, and then get the free deal with</v>

01:18:35.040 --> 01:18:38.640
<v Speaker 1>Ancestry. Just import as much information as you can and you basically</v>

01:18:38.640 --> 01:18:40.000
<v Speaker 1>get it all done for free.</v>

01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:43.120
<v Speaker 1>Instead of signing up for the whatever their monthly is now, I</v>

01:18:43.120 --> 01:18:44.880
<v Speaker 1>have no idea.</v>

01:18:44.880 --> 01:18:47.840
<v Speaker 1>So Mac Family Tree is the way to go if you're on</v>

01:18:47.840 --> 01:18:50.720
<v Speaker 1>a Mac a Mac I don't know for Windows software.</v>

01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:54.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure someone can make a recommendation.</v>

01:18:54.160 --> 01:18:57.200
<v Speaker 1>But I think that will be it for this week.</v>

01:18:57.200 --> 01:18:59.120
<v Speaker 1>I did get to 16 questions.</v>

01:18:59.120 --> 01:19:01.520
<v Speaker 1>That's a little more than I thought I would get done, which</v>

01:19:01.520 --> 01:19:02.800
<v Speaker 1>is always nice.</v>

01:19:04.400 --> 01:19:07.760
<v Speaker 1>As always, if you would like to submit a question, you can</v>

01:19:07.760 --> 01:19:09.440
<v Speaker 1>submit those on the forum.</v>

01:19:09.440 --> 01:19:11.440
<v Speaker 1>You can of course submit them in chat as well.</v>

01:19:11.440 --> 01:19:12.960
<v Speaker 1>I try to catch those.</v>

01:19:12.960 --> 01:19:17.280
<v Speaker 1>If you submit them on X or via Telegram, I try to</v>

01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:21.600
<v Speaker 1>take all of those and put them into the future topic slash</v>

01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:22.560
<v Speaker 1>question list.</v>

01:19:22.560 --> 01:19:24.080
<v Speaker 1>It's a topic on the forum.</v>

01:19:24.080 --> 01:19:26.880
<v Speaker 1>So if you do not see your question in that list, it</v>

01:19:26.880 --> 01:19:28.400
<v Speaker 1>means that I missed it.</v>

01:19:28.400 --> 01:19:30.880
<v Speaker 1>And so please get it to me some other way.</v>

01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:34.000
<v Speaker 1>Preferably on the forum, but again you can send other ways as</v>

01:19:34.000 --> 01:19:37.360
<v Speaker 1>well. Thank you for those who submitted questions and of course for</v>

01:19:37.360 --> 01:19:39.200
<v Speaker 1>participating in the chat.</v>

01:19:39.200 --> 01:19:42.000
<v Speaker 1>And like I say every week, I'm glad to do this.</v>

01:19:42.000 --> 01:19:45.520
<v Speaker 1>It's nice to have the opportunity to answer some of these questions.</v>

01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:45.840
<v Speaker 1>So</v>

01:19:47.120 --> 01:19:48.320
<v Speaker 1>it's Friday.</v>

01:19:48.320 --> 01:19:50.560
<v Speaker 1>I try to do this on Thursday, but it usually winds up</v>

01:19:50.560 --> 01:19:52.880
<v Speaker 1>being Friday, just depends how my week goes.</v>

01:19:52.880 --> 01:19:55.200
<v Speaker 1>Like I said, it's spring here in earnest.</v>

01:19:55.360 --> 01:19:56.400
<v Speaker 1>Feels like summer.</v>

01:19:56.400 --> 01:19:58.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm spending a lot of time outside.</v>

01:19:58.480 --> 01:20:02.080
<v Speaker 1>So that's been absorbing my time.</v>

01:20:02.080 --> 01:20:04.880
<v Speaker 1>And I think that's it for this week.</v>

01:20:04.880 --> 01:20:09.200
<v Speaker 1>I am going to go and have a Manhattan and fiddle with</v>

01:20:09.200 --> 01:20:13.760
<v Speaker 1>electricity. Thankfully it's just low voltage, so don't worry, there will be</v>

01:20:13.760 --> 01:20:15.040
<v Speaker 1>another episode next week.</v>

01:20:15.360 --> 01:20:17.760
<v Speaker 1>there's no danger on my part.</v>

01:20:17.760 --> 01:20:20.240
<v Speaker 1>But I said that I would read the Ironic Blessing, and so</v>

01:20:20.240 --> 01:20:22.720
<v Speaker 1>I'll do that.</v>

01:20:22.720 --> 01:20:24.720
<v Speaker 1>May the Lord bless you and keep you.</v>

01:20:24.720 --> 01:20:27.440
<v Speaker 1>May the Lord make his face shine upon you and show mercy</v>

01:20:27.440 --> 01:20:28.080
<v Speaker 1>to you.</v>

01:20:28.080 --> 01:20:31.120
<v Speaker 1>May the Lord lift up his face upon you and give you</v>

01:20:31.120 --> 01:20:34.640
<v Speaker 1>peace. Go to church on Sunday, and may God bless you.</v>

01:20:34.640 --> 01:20:36.160
<v Speaker 1>See you all next week.</v>