# AAC: 12 Jun 2026 (Q&A) **URL:** \ **Category:** At Any Cost\ **Created:** [June 12, 2026, 9:46pm UTC](https://omnifora.com/t/aac-12-jun-2026-q-a/5459 "2026-06-12T21:46:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
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# Episode Information - **Date** : 2026-06(Jun)-12(Fri) - **Number** : `e0032` - ### Links - Episode: [12 Jun 2026 (Q&A) | Corey J. Mahler Podcasts](https://podcasts.coreyjmahler.com/2026/06/12-jun-2026-qa/) - Transcript: [e0032.vtt](https://aac.cdn.coreyjmahler.com/transcripts/e0032.vtt) - #### Other Platforms - Video: - YouTube: - X: - Rumble: - #### Original Broadcasts **YouTube** **X** ---
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# Episode Wiki _This is the episode wiki — trusted users can edit it._ ## Topics Covered 1. [Opinion on invasive plant species](https://omnifora.com/t/opinion-on-invasive-plant-species/5444) - `::`–`::` 2. [Plunder or theft?](https://omnifora.com/t/plunder-or-theft/5457) - `::`–`::` 3. [CSA Anti-German Sentiment](https://omnifora.com/t/csa-anti-german-sentiment/5451) - `::`–`::` 4. How would you recommend a young man temper his political radicalism? - Part of me wants to forget about politics, find a wife, and be a normal family man. - Another part of me wants to go guns blazing against my enemies that seek to destroy my people. Forsaking all else. - What (should I) do? - `::`–`::` 5. I think we need a new confession created for our times regarding race, Jews, and interracial marriage. - I know of wicked men and groups performing such a task from the opposite of a Biblical viewpoint who will make such statements mandatory in our denominations soon if they aren’t already. - Would such an official document/confession be appropriate for our guys and side to make, and if so, who do you think those men should be? - `::`–`::` 6. a) I have a very young nephew who probably has genius level IQ, any tips on properly raising such young boys to become soldiers of Christ? b) If you don’t mind sharing, what is your IQ? Just curious. - `::`–`::` 7. Could you please explain the teaching in Luke 6 to love your enemies? Are these personal enemies only, as opposed to our public enemies who are enemies of God? - `::`–`::` 8. I just can’t understand the fall. How did it affect the animals physical mortality? What did it mean to “realize they are naked”? (What was the nature of the fruit?) Does SC cover this? - `::`–`::` 9. You have implied that the national debt is a triviality. Could you elaborate on that? - `::`–`::` 10. Do you believe Catholics like myself are true Christians and can be saved according to Lutheran theology - `::`–`::` 11. how do we as Christians justify violence like what we’re seeing in Belfast. At what point is it justified? When the government is so irredeemably corrupt? - `::`–`::` 12. Do you have any advice/recommendations for making likeminded friends as a young man out of college? I was homeschooled so I don’t really have any friends and not really sure how to find/make any - `::`–`::` 13. Are you able to give any insight on the chinese and any major cultural reasons why it’s a bad idea for a white girl to marry a chinese man? My sister was not interested in my biblical arguments - `::`–`::` 14. how can you forgive someone who stole all your money and caused you to lose your home, life, gf etc - `::`–`::` 15. What position will America have towards Canada under a future Christian prince? Would it be annexed, get a puppet ruler or would the status quo be maintained? - `::`–`::` 16. Can you deny Christ to save your family from the axe-murderer? - `::`–`::` 17. Would it not be impermissible for the Japanese woman to marry the missionary? ---
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# Transcript ## 1/3 WEBVTT 00:00:00.460 → 00:00:02.960 It is the 12th of June, 2026. 00:00:03.260 → 00:00:04.300 I am Corey J. 00:00:04.300 → 00:00:06.420 Mahler, and this is At Any Cost. 00:00:06.420 → 00:00:08.660 And all of the levels and everything look good. 00:00:09.380 → 00:00:13.400 So I think that I am ready to go, and we are not having any issues with OBS. 00:00:13.400 → 00:00:19.500 The chat is working, so I guess I should expect to be struck by lightning at some point during this episode. 00:00:19.500 → 00:00:26.400 At any rate, it’s episode 32, and this is a Q&A episode, just copying over some of the questions coming in from the chat. 00:00:27.440 → 00:00:30.080 And I will get into the questions here in just a minute. 00:00:33.940 → 00:00:36.720 Just don’t want to miss these questions for later. 00:00:50.011 → 00:00:55.751 So, question one for today is a nice, easy question to start off, as it were, I guess. 00:00:56.991 → 00:00:58.931 As soon as the question loads here. 00:01:00.491 → 00:01:09.771 What is your opinion on invasive species of plants in America, specifically, but not limited to the yellow iris, native to Europe, purple irises are native to North America. 00:01:10.271 → 00:01:17.351 We are trying to beautify the property and are wondering if we should stick to more native North American plants like echinacea, et cetera. 00:01:18.171 → 00:01:22.391 So, generally speaking, I would say stick with native plants. 00:01:22.391 → 00:01:29.691 That comes with sort of an enormous caveat, and that would be some non-native plants aren’t a problem, right? 00:01:30.171 → 00:01:31.271 Some are, some aren’t. 00:01:31.591 → 00:01:33.651 I have non-native plants. 00:01:33.851 → 00:01:43.891 Most of my non-natives, in fact, I think all of my non-natives, other than obviously some crops, some things in the garden, are houseplants, right? 00:01:44.711 → 00:01:45.951 I have tropical houseplants. 00:01:45.971 → 00:01:52.811 I have peace lily and divanbaki, various other things that are not native to this area, but they’re houseplants. 00:01:52.991 → 00:01:53.891 They’re in a pot. 00:01:54.711 → 00:01:55.631 They’re not going to go anywhere. 00:01:55.631 → 00:01:56.431 They’re not a problem. 00:01:56.691 → 00:01:58.411 And so they can’t become invasive, right? 00:01:59.251 → 00:02:05.471 Something that has the potential to become actually invasive and start spreading and cause problems, right? 00:02:05.471 → 00:02:06.251 I’m in the south. 00:02:06.451 → 00:02:07.351 Kudzu is everywhere. 00:02:07.351 → 00:02:08.811 That’s an enormous problem. 00:02:09.431 → 00:02:11.911 Eucalyptus is a problem in California. 00:02:12.611 → 00:02:15.631 Things like that probably don’t import those. 00:02:15.671 → 00:02:19.671 In fact, I’m going to just go ahead and say straight, do not import and plant those things. 00:02:19.671 → 00:02:25.091 And unfortunately, they’re still sold at many stores, and you can buy them online. 00:02:25.091 → 00:02:30.331 And we have very poor regulation, and certainly poor enforcement when it comes to these things. 00:02:30.691 → 00:02:46.291 And it causes massive problems all over the place, because it’s not just the issue of you have the non-native, the invasive plant basically pushing out the native plant that has additional knock-on effects for the food chain, right? 00:02:46.531 → 00:02:52.451 There are animals that rely on the native plant, the native plant gets pushed out, maybe it goes extinct. 00:02:52.471 → 00:02:55.671 And then there are animals that rely on that animal, and so on and so forth. 00:02:56.571 → 00:02:58.471 So generally speaking, use native plants. 00:02:58.911 → 00:03:03.751 You can find great resources online for plants that are native to your area. 00:03:04.071 → 00:03:13.351 And there are probably plants that look like what you want that are native, instead of just going to the big box store and getting the easy non-native option, right? 00:03:13.931 → 00:03:23.931 And you can also check with, at least in most states, whatever the agricultural or environmental authority is for your state, it’s going to vary by state. 00:03:23.931 → 00:03:25.051 They all have different names. 00:03:25.491 → 00:03:33.191 They usually have a list of plants that they consider particularly problematic and a particular invasive issue. 00:03:33.991 → 00:03:34.931 Don’t plant those. 00:03:35.511 → 00:03:38.511 So, Tennessee has that, California certainly had that. 00:03:39.011 → 00:03:44.431 I would say, check that list, and then make a wisdom call based on the nature of the plant. 00:03:44.431 → 00:03:53.851 If it’s something that literally just, particularly if it’s, you know, an annual or something, if it grows up, dies, and that’s it, okay, fine, that one’s not a problem. 00:03:53.851 → 00:03:59.591 If it’s something that spreads thousands and thousands of seeds, probably don’t go for that one. 00:04:00.351 → 00:04:11.111 So, it’s a wisdom call, but definitely lean toward native plants, because a lot of the problems we have are due to the importation of non-native species, whether they are plant or animal. 00:04:15.331 → 00:04:19.171 Question two is tangentially related. 00:04:20.671 → 00:04:27.591 The West, formerly Christendom, is heading into a racial war, already certainly starting in Ireland. 00:04:27.611 → 00:04:33.191 Where do Christian men draw the line between theft and rightful plunder during the conquest of God’s enemies? 00:04:33.891 → 00:04:40.871 Are there guidelines for when Christians should commit treasure and livestock to destruction, as is sometimes been instructed? 00:04:41.191 → 00:04:49.351 So I think in the case of that kind of war, certainly, a war of annihilation, let’s just not be, let’s be blunt about it. 00:04:49.351 → 00:04:54.251 In that kind of war, I think that theft is not even on the table, it’s not even a consideration. 00:04:55.071 → 00:04:57.491 Unless you’re harming your own people, don’t do that. 00:04:57.491 → 00:04:58.911 Don’t raid your own people. 00:04:59.811 → 00:05:02.291 But I don’t think theft is a concern. 00:05:02.291 → 00:05:09.131 The question that’s sort of the live question here is about devotion to destruction, and should we do that, and when should we do that? 00:05:09.511 → 00:05:15.831 I don’t think that we’re bound to do that with regard to, you know, livestock and things like that. 00:05:16.291 → 00:05:23.731 Enemies, religious sites, giant monkey statues, things like that, those should be devoted to destruction. 00:05:24.011 → 00:05:29.191 But livestock, gold, silver, all that stuff, I don’t think that we have to do that. 00:05:29.191 → 00:05:36.451 That was sort of a special command for just the degree and the pervasiveness of the wickedness of the Canaanites. 00:05:36.931 → 00:05:46.311 So maybe that would be a concern if we were dealing with some particularly nasty pagan area that had been pagan for a very long time, and these were ritual objects. 00:05:46.851 → 00:05:52.831 Then sure, devote those to destruction as at least a show of loyalty to God, right? 00:05:53.631 → 00:05:59.891 I don’t think that we are absolutely required to do it, but I think it’s probably good praxis in certain circumstances. 00:06:00.131 → 00:06:03.271 With regard to retaking the West, I don’t think it’s really a concern. 00:06:03.271 → 00:06:15.491 I don’t think we have places that are that bad, except for obviously, as Christians, under those conditions, yes, we would be required to destroy religious sites that are contrary to Christianity. 00:06:16.551 → 00:06:18.071 Those should be devoted to destruction. 00:06:18.071 → 00:06:21.651 That’s very clearly required by God in this sort of warfare. 00:06:24.191 → 00:06:28.231 Going to copy a few more questions from the chat so that I do not miss them. 00:06:39.432 → 00:06:43.172 Need a producer to do this for me in the background instead of doing it myself. 00:06:44.592 → 00:06:50.752 However, question three is tangentially related to two, actually. 00:06:51.752 → 00:06:58.072 Germans have been a part of America since before the Revolution, and I know you’re quite fond of them for obvious reasons. 00:06:58.852 → 00:07:06.052 Given I’m German, I don’t necessarily have a choice in that, but I agree with your stance that Germans today are a part of the American founding stock. 00:07:06.592 → 00:07:12.992 What I’m curious about is your thoughts on the huge German immigration boom in the 1800s and how most of them joined the Union. 00:07:13.352 → 00:07:21.772 Were the southern states justified in having anti-German sentiment, especially during the war, when they were on opposite sides of the battlefield? 00:07:24.752 → 00:07:48.872 This is sort of a complex question with regard to how you view your enemy in warfare, and I think that a lot of times the anti-German sentiment, and also anti-Irish and some other things as well, and this war obviously largely anti-German, I think it goes overboard because it gets into verging on what we would call genocidal, which it’s not to say genocide is always morally impermissible, because it’s not. 00:07:49.452 → 00:07:51.652 But this sort of war is not a genocidal war. 00:07:51.652 → 00:07:56.032 You are not authorized to erase your enemy in that kind of conflict. 00:07:56.032 → 00:07:59.372 That conflict shouldn’t have happened, discussion for another time. 00:07:59.852 → 00:08:02.852 But I think the anti-German sentiment was just convenient. 00:08:02.852 → 00:08:08.012 It was a way to gin up the soldiers against the northerners, which they were invading. 00:08:08.392 → 00:08:10.532 I mean, I think most northerners would have met that as well. 00:08:10.952 → 00:08:12.152 I’m a Californian, right? 00:08:12.472 → 00:08:18.132 So in a certain sense, I don’t have a dog in the fight because I wasn’t born in the south. 00:08:18.172 → 00:08:19.492 I wasn’t born in the north. 00:08:19.492 → 00:08:20.932 I was born in California. 00:08:20.932 → 00:08:24.012 California sent some soldiers to fight for the south. 00:08:24.052 → 00:08:24.932 Not very many. 00:08:25.552 → 00:08:26.752 They didn’t do that much. 00:08:27.052 → 00:08:34.972 So I don’t have the same sort of entrenched connection that some people have where, you know, their family’s been in the south for 400 years. 00:08:34.992 → 00:08:39.592 Mine has, but I had that sort of sojourn, as it were, in California. 00:08:39.592 → 00:08:41.992 So it’s a different sort of relationship to it. 00:08:41.992 → 00:08:48.152 But at the same time, I think that it was largely a matter of convenience, right? 00:08:48.152 → 00:08:58.072 You can pick out something about the opposing forces that is different from your people, and so latch on to that and attack them for that. 00:08:58.332 → 00:09:05.572 And so you had more recent immigrants in the northern military, and particularly Germans, and some others as well. 00:09:06.132 → 00:09:18.152 But I think that they probably would have done the same thing if it had been any other group, because it was a way to gin up war propaganda and to get people to go out and fight, right? 00:09:18.152 → 00:09:26.092 You say they’re bringing in foreigners to conquer us, despite the fact that how foreign are Germans to Americans, not particularly. 00:09:26.532 → 00:09:28.212 They probably would have done the same thing. 00:09:28.912 → 00:09:43.092 It would have been a little more awkward, but I think they would have done the same thing if the North had brought in, you know, history being otherwise than it was, if they had brought in a lot of English soldiers, or even Scottish soldiers, right? 00:09:43.092 → 00:09:56.832 Did the Scottish there, but I think they would have done the same thing, because they would have said, these are recent immigrants, and so they’re not American, they’re Scottish instead, or they’re English instead, and they’re bringing in these foreigners to boost their numbers and come conquer us. 00:09:57.012 → 00:09:58.152 They would have done the same thing. 00:09:58.272 → 00:10:00.812 It just happened to be that it was Germans. 00:10:01.592 → 00:10:12.512 Now, the other aspect of this that’s worth mentioning, obviously, is that you had, not necessarily right at this time, but a little bit later, some of the Germans who came over were revolutionary leftists. 00:10:12.692 → 00:10:15.052 And that’s a problem later on in later decades. 00:10:15.792 → 00:10:17.092 Not because they’re German. 00:10:17.552 → 00:10:18.952 A handful of them were Jews. 00:10:18.952 → 00:10:19.752 Not all of them were Jews. 00:10:19.752 → 00:10:21.152 Some of them were German communists. 00:10:21.152 → 00:10:23.672 So, that’s a problem Germany had. 00:10:23.672 → 00:10:27.692 Germany essentially solved it, and then some of them fled. 00:10:27.692 → 00:10:31.652 Unfortunately, they let them flee, but things sometimes happened that way. 00:10:32.512 → 00:10:33.792 That was a separate problem. 00:10:33.792 → 00:10:38.392 They were enemies because they were communists, they were leftists, not because they were German, right? 00:10:38.692 → 00:10:43.452 If they had been anything, if they’d been English communists, they would still be problems. 00:10:43.652 → 00:10:45.952 They would still have the same problems. 00:10:46.552 → 00:10:49.552 The only difference would be they would have been able to read the literature. 00:10:49.892 → 00:10:56.652 It’s one of the reasons that Lutherans responded to communism more early on and more quickly than almost anyone else. 00:10:57.592 → 00:11:04.332 Because Lutherans in the US context could see what was coming from Germany, had been reading the papers and spoke German. 00:11:04.892 → 00:11:06.232 So they could read the materials. 00:11:06.232 → 00:11:11.252 They could read the materials published by the Marxists as they were being published. 00:11:11.432 → 00:11:19.272 That’s one of the reasons Walter, one of the the founder essentially of the LCMS, responded to this stuff because he was paying attention to it. 00:11:19.492 → 00:11:20.832 He could read the newspapers. 00:11:20.832 → 00:11:22.012 He knew what was happening. 00:11:22.412 → 00:11:30.472 So that language barrier did add a certain layer to that, a certain element, but I think it was largely just war propaganda. 00:11:30.472 → 00:11:37.972 We should be careful not to go overboard in our war propaganda when, unfortunately, we’re fighting a war against our brothers. 00:11:38.152 → 00:11:50.312 It’s a different thing when we’re fighting a war against truly alien hostile people, but we should not dehumanize and engage in basically genocidal war propaganda, atrocity propaganda against our brothers. 00:11:50.532 → 00:11:55.432 So we shouldn’t do that to the English, shouldn’t do it to the Scottish, shouldn’t do it to the Germans, shouldn’t do it to any Europeans. 00:12:13.109 → 00:12:22.329 Apparently, the chat integration does not let me like comments, so I’ll just say thank you to the person who said the next Feinzachse is on him. 00:12:23.829 → 00:12:27.269 The challenge is finding one here in the South, but I’m sure I can find one. 00:12:27.269 → 00:12:32.069 It’s very odd to me, as sort of an aside, that the South didn’t adopt more German cuisine. 00:12:32.429 → 00:12:37.269 I know there used to be more German restaurants and things, but it’s weird that it didn’t take hold. 00:12:38.269 → 00:12:42.389 Southerners love fried pork, and Germans love fried pork. 00:12:42.489 → 00:12:47.729 That’s what schnitzel is, and Schweinshaxe is just pork knuckle that’s cooked in beer if it’s done right. 00:12:48.169 → 00:12:50.069 So hard not to like that. 00:12:50.909 → 00:12:52.529 But question four. 00:12:53.409 → 00:12:57.129 How would you recommend a young man temper his political radicalism? 00:12:57.369 → 00:13:01.469 Part of me wants to forget about politics, find a wife, and be a normal family man. 00:13:01.929 → 00:13:08.089 Another part of me wants to go guns blazing against my enemies that seek to destroy my people, forsaking all else. 00:13:08.309 → 00:13:09.229 What should I do? 00:13:10.809 → 00:13:13.869 This is a question that comes up a lot, and I’ve answered it many times. 00:13:14.189 → 00:13:17.429 Not necessarily on here, but I’ve answered it in person many times. 00:13:18.149 → 00:13:27.589 So the short answer, and sort of the overarching answer, the outline, as it were, is live a normal life, but prepare for the worst. 00:13:28.429 → 00:13:31.629 Not in the sense of become a crazy prepper. 00:13:31.629 → 00:13:33.569 You’re not Bert Gummer or something like that. 00:13:34.089 → 00:13:38.309 Don’t do that, but maybe a little bit of it, just to be safe. 00:13:38.809 → 00:13:41.589 But the thing that I would say is go to the gym. 00:13:42.189 → 00:13:45.849 That’s always a top recommendation for particularly young men, but all men. 00:13:45.849 → 00:13:47.469 Older men should also be going to the gym. 00:13:47.469 → 00:13:49.329 It’s great for you as you age. 00:13:49.329 → 00:13:54.109 You’ll age more gracefully, and it’s often been said that you’re only as old as your back. 00:13:54.409 → 00:13:59.569 Going to the gym and working out will help you not have back issues, as long as you’re doing it right. 00:13:59.569 → 00:14:01.629 If you don’t know how to do it, then get some help. 00:14:02.189 → 00:14:16.069 But find a wife, have children, and probably before you do that, just because of practical considerations, find a group of like-minded men and work with them on whatever it happens. 00:14:16.069 → 00:14:18.169 It doesn’t even matter that much what it is. 00:14:18.629 → 00:14:21.169 If you’re doing activism stuff, great. 00:14:21.169 → 00:14:26.909 If you’re just playing poker one night a week and going hiking one night a week, that’s also great. 00:14:27.269 → 00:14:31.909 Men need to have men’s clubs and have that sort of camaraderie, vitally important. 00:14:32.209 → 00:14:36.509 But then yes, find a wife, have children, do all the normal things you’re supposed to do. 00:14:36.509 → 00:14:39.189 Because ultimately, all of this is in God’s hands, right? 00:14:39.189 → 00:14:40.509 We’re relying on God. 00:14:40.869 → 00:14:49.509 And so in having a wife and children and normal life, you’re telling God, I trust in you to see me through this regardless of what comes. 00:14:50.009 → 00:15:01.549 And there’s also the practical consideration of when we win, and I believe that we will win, we need future generations, so our people need to be having children. 00:15:02.429 → 00:15:03.529 That’s not an option, right? 00:15:03.789 → 00:15:04.789 That’s not an optional thing. 00:15:04.789 → 00:15:07.589 You can’t go, well, we won’t have children to win the war. 00:15:08.609 → 00:15:09.669 Then why are you winning? 00:15:09.669 → 00:15:11.069 And what have you won when you do? 00:15:11.549 → 00:15:13.049 You need to continue to have children. 00:15:13.049 → 00:15:14.189 That’s an important thing to do. 00:15:14.189 → 00:15:16.409 So definitely don’t forsake that. 00:15:16.949 → 00:15:22.629 But at the same time, do prepare for things because we can see where things are heading. 00:15:23.209 → 00:15:26.369 And look at Ireland, that stuff is coming here as well. 00:15:26.369 → 00:15:32.269 So don’t let it discourage you from living a normal life, normal as it were. 00:15:32.629 → 00:15:35.489 But don’t fall into the trap of normalcy bias. 00:15:35.569 → 00:15:37.529 See the Stone Quire episode on that. 00:15:38.089 → 00:15:45.669 Don’t fall into that trap because we do not live in normal times, and there are problems ahead. 00:15:45.669 → 00:15:49.689 But that doesn’t mean that you don’t marry and have a wife and children, all those things. 00:15:49.689 → 00:15:51.329 Do all of these things at once. 00:15:52.049 → 00:15:54.629 It’s not an either or situation, it’s a both and. 00:15:58.569 → 00:16:00.249 Question 5. 00:16:01.009 → 00:16:07.689 I think we need a new confession created for our time regarding race, Jews, and interracial marriage. 00:16:08.149 → 00:16:12.449 I know of wicked men and groups performing such a task from the opposite of a biblical viewpoint. 00:16:12.529 → 00:16:24.429 There have been many of those, basically not one of them has gained traction, but they’ve been there, who will make such statements mandatory in our denominations soon, if they are not already. 00:16:24.889 → 00:16:27.049 They basically are in some cases, unfortunately. 00:16:27.689 → 00:16:32.549 Would such an official document or confession be appropriate for our guys inside to make? 00:16:32.549 → 00:16:35.189 And if so, who do you think these men should be? 00:16:37.309 → 00:16:41.109 This is something that absolutely should be done. 00:16:41.629 → 00:16:43.349 It is something that needs to be undertaken. 00:16:43.349 → 00:16:48.169 There are only a handful of men who can really do this and get it done correctly. 00:16:48.169 → 00:16:50.669 And I will just be blunt and say, I need to be involved in it. 00:16:51.189 → 00:17:06.209 And I’m not saying I need to be the sole author of it, and I kind of would prefer not to be the sole author of it, but I do need to block out the time and work toward that and see which other men can helpfully contribute. 00:17:06.549 → 00:17:15.489 I know some other men who are good on these issues, who have done the necessary reading and thinking and could contribute to this in a useful way. 00:17:15.949 → 00:17:18.829 Woe obviously would also be involved in some capacity. 00:17:18.829 → 00:17:21.809 I don’t know that he would want to be necessarily publicly involved. 00:17:21.809 → 00:17:22.929 I’ll let him comment on that. 00:17:22.929 → 00:17:25.429 That’s his decision. 00:17:26.129 → 00:17:32.809 But yes, that’s something that I should dedicate more time to, which it’s the same as everyone else. 00:17:32.809 → 00:17:36.949 I only have so many hours in the day and a thousand different things dragging me in different directions. 00:17:36.949 → 00:17:39.669 But no, I need to prioritize that, and it needs to be done. 00:17:40.109 → 00:17:42.309 It’s not just something that’s appropriate. 00:17:42.309 → 00:17:43.489 It’s something that’s necessary. 00:17:43.489 → 00:17:44.069 We need it. 00:17:49.269 → 00:17:53.489 I am now getting into some of the questions from the chat here at the beginning. 00:17:54.489 → 00:17:55.949 It’s a two-part question. 00:17:56.489 → 00:18:00.389 I have a very young nephew who probably has genius level IQ. 00:18:00.589 → 00:18:04.949 Any tips on properly raising such young boys to become soldiers for Christ? 00:18:05.489 → 00:18:08.149 Then part two, if you don’t mind sharing, what is your IQ? 00:18:08.189 → 00:18:09.109 Just curious. 00:18:09.849 → 00:18:13.189 So I will answer these in reverse order. 00:18:13.209 → 00:18:14.789 We usually don’t give a number. 00:18:15.169 → 00:18:22.309 Woe actually did in one of our episodes, but he gave the number combined with a tweet. 00:18:22.309 → 00:18:32.609 And so people had to be paying attention both to his Twitter, I think it was still Twitter at the time, his ex as it were now, and the episode in order to get that number. 00:18:32.609 → 00:18:33.969 It’s not that hard to find. 00:18:34.089 → 00:18:38.249 His estimate was accurate enough, so I’m not going to quibble with it. 00:18:38.949 → 00:18:46.789 I will comment that on IQ, and I’ve mentioned this before a number of other places, and you can find this really anywhere. 00:18:46.789 → 00:18:48.509 This is not contentious. 00:18:48.509 → 00:18:50.889 I’m not giving you novel information, any sense here. 00:18:51.709 → 00:18:56.129 Above about 160, the tests become decreasingly reliable. 00:18:56.129 → 00:19:05.349 So the greater you are, or the farther you are beyond 160, or I guess further, it’s more metaphysical than physical. 00:19:06.329 → 00:19:11.209 The further you are beyond 160, the less accurate the test is going to be. 00:19:11.669 → 00:19:16.469 And so at that point, it starts to have more fudge factor. 00:19:16.469 → 00:19:31.269 So if someone says that he has an IQ of 185, okay, he has a high IQ, assuming it was a valid test conducted validly, but he doesn’t know that it’s exactly 185, because again, that’s too far above 160. 00:19:31.549 → 00:19:33.309 Standard deviation for whites is 50. 00:19:34.069 → 00:19:38.689 That’s way too high above 160 to be reliable within one point. 00:19:39.089 → 00:19:42.869 So, you know, Woh gave his number in the 160s. 00:19:44.269 → 00:19:48.929 That’s one of those, it’s above 160 is enough, right? 00:19:49.689 → 00:19:55.729 Certainly, you can say that there are many of IQs that are higher than that, but again, less and less reliable as you go. 00:19:56.449 → 00:20:02.849 But to answer sort of the core question here, the more important question, the more reliable it is. 00:20:02.849 → 00:20:14.469 Contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, men with high IQs are not generally socially maladjusted, they don’t generally have more mental problems or anything like that. 00:20:15.029 → 00:20:28.069 If anything, they may develop a tendency to be more focused on the inner world as it were, more reserved after dealing with people for a long period of time. 00:20:28.969 → 00:20:35.989 It is a learned behavior, a learned response, instead of something that is necessarily native to those with high IQ. 00:20:36.489 → 00:20:45.469 I do think that introversion versus extroversion does correlate with high IQ, but at the same time, it’s not always the case. 00:20:46.029 → 00:20:48.509 Which is to say that he’s going to be a normal boy. 00:20:48.729 → 00:20:59.469 Generally speaking, he will have friends, he’ll have hobbies, he’ll have interests, he will like girls, all these various things, going to be by and large normal, but he will be more capable than his peers. 00:20:59.849 → 00:21:10.189 He will get bored in school, he will get through the material faster, he will find it trivially easy, he will find it to be maddening that he is kept at the same pace as others. 00:21:11.329 → 00:21:12.569 Take that into account. 00:21:12.569 → 00:21:32.409 Now, obviously, this is your nephew, so you don’t have total control over raising him, but suggest very strongly to your brother, sister, whomever it happens to be, teach him a second language, and maybe a third, and pick one that’s truly useful, even Latin, German, French, anything like that. 00:21:32.669 → 00:21:40.049 A structured language with the proper grammar, get him to learn that very early on, should already be starting probably. 00:21:40.509 → 00:21:50.509 Teach him an instrument, probably piano, generally one of the best ones for someone like that, and then also a good basis for learning other things in the future. 00:21:51.029 → 00:21:57.389 These are things that he will maybe bristle out a little bit initially, but he will thank you later in life. 00:21:57.469 → 00:22:06.349 So, other than that, he’s going to have hobbies and interests, and just help them with those. 00:22:06.729 → 00:22:15.789 Buy materials, whatever it happens to be for him, so he can do that kind of thing, because he’s going to be bored going at the same pace as others, because he doesn’t need to go at their pace. 00:22:16.749 → 00:22:25.429 He will have already finished all the work for the year in school in the first semester, that sort of thing, so take that into account. 00:22:25.749 → 00:22:33.349 Don’t let the system that is designed to destroy men who are exceptional, destroy him in that way. 00:22:34.109 → 00:22:37.889 But other than that, he’s going to be just another functional person. 00:22:37.889 → 00:22:40.349 He’s just going to understand more things than most men. 00:22:44.409 → 00:22:50.309 Question seven, could you explain the teaching in Luke 6 to love your enemies? 00:22:50.309 → 00:22:55.449 Are these personal enemies only as opposed to our public enemies who are enemies of God? 00:22:55.989 → 00:23:00.569 I’ve explained this one before, but it’s worth going over again because it’s sort of relevant right now. 00:23:00.629 → 00:23:02.569 So let me pull up Logos, since… 00:23:04.169 → 00:23:05.669 Let me pull up the correct Logos. 00:23:07.209 → 00:23:08.849 Just read the relevant… 00:23:09.649 → 00:23:14.089 Don’t read the second paragraph, just read the first paragraph, since that’s really the core of it. 00:23:14.129 → 00:23:15.949 Obviously, everyone knows this one, right? 00:23:15.949 → 00:23:17.749 This is very well known. 00:23:18.809 → 00:23:22.329 But I say to you who hear, love your enemies. 00:23:22.449 → 00:23:23.969 Do good to those who hate you. 00:23:24.149 → 00:23:25.609 Bless those who curse you. 00:23:25.829 → 00:23:27.429 Pray for those who abuse you. 00:23:27.769 → 00:23:30.709 To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also. 00:23:31.129 → 00:23:34.889 And from one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. 00:23:35.449 → 00:23:37.229 Give to everyone who begs from you. 00:23:37.409 → 00:23:40.609 And from one who takes away your goods, do not demand them back. 00:23:41.069 → 00:23:44.909 And as you wish, that others would do to you, do so to them. 00:23:46.929 → 00:23:53.489 So the question about enemies, and obviously it’s a larger question about this entire section of teaching, and I’ll get into that another time. 00:23:53.489 → 00:23:54.889 I don’t think I’ll do that right now. 00:23:55.489 → 00:23:58.149 But it is about your personal enemies. 00:23:58.269 → 00:24:00.609 This is not public enemies. 00:24:00.609 → 00:24:05.389 And I pointed out an article on my site last week. 00:24:05.389 → 00:24:07.209 In fact, I would say go and read that. 00:24:07.209 → 00:24:12.129 In addition to my comments here, I will note for myself to put that in the show notes again. 00:24:12.929 → 00:24:19.629 So, but at the same time, there are three kinds of enemies, right? 00:24:19.829 → 00:24:28.409 You have personal enemies, you have public enemies, and then you have enemies of God. 00:24:28.409 → 00:24:33.589 You don’t really have those, but they’re kind of your enemies as well, because they’re enemies of God, and you belong to God. 00:24:34.309 → 00:24:40.309 You are to forgive your public, your private enemies, your personal enemies, whichever one you want to term, private, personal, same thing. 00:24:40.669 → 00:24:42.109 You are to forgive those enemies. 00:24:42.669 → 00:24:48.229 So, you know, don’t plan the downfall of someone you just particularly don’t like at work. 00:24:48.809 → 00:24:51.049 Forgive that man, that man you forgive. 00:24:51.749 → 00:24:58.369 If your country goes to war with another country, you are not in the office of the prince. 00:24:58.449 → 00:25:00.209 It is not incumbent on you. 00:25:00.209 → 00:25:04.769 In fact, you are not even permitted to forgive that enemy nation. 00:25:06.109 → 00:25:07.569 It’s ridiculous even to say it, right? 00:25:07.569 → 00:25:09.869 We can understand that’s insane, right? 00:25:10.509 → 00:25:22.969 If we go to war, say, in the US., we go to war with Mexico, can you stand up and say, well, I’m a Christian, I forgive Mexico for these reasons that we went to war with them, and so, what now? 00:25:23.349 → 00:25:24.269 The war is over? 00:25:24.869 → 00:25:25.849 That’s not how it works. 00:25:25.849 → 00:25:27.049 The enemy gets a vote. 00:25:27.449 → 00:25:33.629 So you’re public enemies, you can’t forgive because you’re not the one in charge of the state. 00:25:33.629 → 00:25:38.329 You’re not the Christian prince, you’re not the rightful ruler, you don’t get to forgive public enemies. 00:25:38.769 → 00:25:41.809 Okay, what about God’s enemies? 00:25:42.129 → 00:25:46.809 Well, you can’t forgive God’s enemies because only God can forgive God’s enemies, right? 00:25:47.049 → 00:25:48.189 That’s what sinners are. 00:25:48.189 → 00:25:49.209 Sinners are God’s enemy. 00:25:49.209 → 00:25:50.969 Can you forgive your own sins? 00:25:51.489 → 00:25:52.949 No, God had to do that. 00:25:53.309 → 00:26:09.049 And so, the extreme example that I like to use here, because it drives home the point, sometimes even with those who want to use this, not necessarily maliciously, because those who are malicious will never change, but very foolishly will say, could you forgive Satan? 00:26:11.629 → 00:26:12.929 The answer is no, right? 00:26:12.989 → 00:26:19.409 You can’t say, I forgive Satan, and suddenly he springs out of his chains, and he’s no longer damned for all eternity, right? 00:26:19.409 → 00:26:20.569 You can’t do that. 00:26:20.569 → 00:26:22.229 You can’t forgive God’s enemies. 00:26:22.549 → 00:26:27.449 And so, right off the bat, we know it cannot possibly apply to all enemies. 00:26:27.749 → 00:26:30.009 So the question is, to which enemies does it apply? 00:26:30.369 → 00:26:31.949 It applies to your personal enemies. 00:26:32.169 → 00:26:42.029 The only ones that you can forgive in any meaningful way, and trying to exercise a power you don’t have, say, to forgive Satan, is actually sin, is wrongful. 00:26:42.149 → 00:26:46.129 So, forgive your enemies, your personal, your private enemies. 00:26:47.289 → 00:26:52.849 Don’t say that you can’t go to war as a Christian, because in other parts of scripture, what do they tell soldiers? 00:26:53.109 → 00:26:53.849 Do your duty. 00:26:54.409 → 00:27:00.129 Well, if soldiers are told to do their duty, then Christianity is not a pacifist religion, and you don’t forgive your public enemies. 00:27:01.629 → 00:27:03.429 Also, it calls the emperor supreme. 00:27:03.429 → 00:27:06.189 That is another place that kind of flows from that, right? 00:27:08.209 → 00:27:09.589 But yes, it’s your private enemies. 00:27:09.589 → 00:27:12.629 It’s not your public enemies, and certainly not the enemies of God. 00:27:12.629 → 00:27:15.489 You don’t forgive the Muslims for worshipping a false god. 00:27:15.489 → 00:27:17.669 That’s not your place to do that. 00:27:18.069 → 00:27:21.869 That’s God’s place, and he doesn’t do that unless they repent. 00:27:26.069 → 00:27:26.769 Let’s see. 00:27:29.609 → 00:27:31.129 Question eight. 00:27:34.449 → 00:27:37.849 I think I’ll move this next one down one question. 00:27:43.409 → 00:27:45.889 I just cannot understand the fall. 00:27:45.949 → 00:27:48.769 How did it affect the animals’ physical mortality? 00:27:49.509 → 00:27:52.169 What did it mean to realize they are naked? 00:27:52.429 → 00:27:53.909 What was the nature of the fruit? 00:27:54.029 → 00:27:55.889 Does Stone Quire cover this? 00:27:56.969 → 00:28:02.529 We cover this in bits and pieces here and there, but not really in full. 00:28:03.909 → 00:28:10.529 However, we do answer in full, we answered in full the question about the fall affecting everything, right? 00:28:10.969 → 00:28:15.909 You can go and listen to the episode on Headship for that, primarily the episode on Headship. 00:28:15.909 → 00:28:16.909 It’s elsewhere as well. 00:28:17.829 → 00:28:19.089 But that’s the issue. 00:28:19.609 → 00:28:22.029 Adam is the federal head of humanity. 00:28:22.549 → 00:28:24.369 Adam is the head of all creation. 00:28:26.229 → 00:28:30.229 Everything fell in Adam because everything follows the head, right? 00:28:30.229 → 00:28:32.669 Where your head goes, your body follows. 00:28:33.009 → 00:28:35.089 And you can say, well, my head’s following the body. 00:28:35.089 → 00:28:37.769 That’s not really what’s happening, because your head’s the one directing the body. 00:28:37.769 → 00:28:39.829 So where your head goes, your body follows. 00:28:40.209 → 00:28:43.789 It’s the same thing for all of creation. 00:28:44.509 → 00:28:45.929 That’s how it functions everywhere. 00:28:46.249 → 00:28:52.229 That’s one of the reasons that you will have corporate punishment in scripture. 00:28:52.789 → 00:28:58.709 And I know that we try to say, that’s wrongful now in our modern laws with regard to laws of war and things like that. 00:28:58.709 → 00:29:01.089 But God engages in corporate punishment. 00:29:01.309 → 00:29:04.709 You can think about the rebellion in the desert against Moses and Aaron. 00:29:05.309 → 00:29:08.589 He destroyed those men, their wives, their children, their livestock, their goods. 00:29:09.089 → 00:29:18.929 So headship is a vitally important part of, and a fundamentally important part of understanding how God’s system works. 00:29:18.929 → 00:29:22.829 If you don’t understand headship, you’re going to miss a lot of things. 00:29:23.089 → 00:29:29.169 And so the reason that everything fell in the fall is because Adam was the head of everything. 00:29:29.449 → 00:29:33.969 And that is essentially what is happening when you are joined with Christ. 00:29:34.209 → 00:29:36.029 Christ is your new head. 00:29:36.289 → 00:29:42.249 And so instead of having fallen Adam as your head, you have the risen Christ as your head. 00:29:42.249 → 00:29:48.749 And so being in Christ, having Christ as your head, you are then part of the new creation. 00:29:49.109 → 00:29:52.649 You have the newness of life, you have the forgiveness of sins, all these other things. 00:29:53.769 → 00:29:54.729 It’s headship. 00:29:54.889 → 00:29:57.949 Headship is the core concept that you must understand. 00:29:58.709 → 00:30:01.649 And so all of creation fell with Adam. 00:30:01.649 → 00:30:02.929 It’s not just the animals. 00:30:03.369 → 00:30:05.049 It’s the physical world. 00:30:05.049 → 00:30:06.149 It’s the planets. 00:30:06.149 → 00:30:07.069 It’s the stars. 00:30:07.069 → 00:30:09.129 It’s literally everything fell. 00:30:09.549 → 00:30:14.269 And that’s why it says creation is groaning together for the restoration of all things. 00:30:14.669 → 00:30:15.769 It’s not just man. 00:30:15.769 → 00:30:17.089 It’s not just the animals. 00:30:17.449 → 00:30:19.429 It’s everything in creation. 00:30:19.909 → 00:30:25.269 So you can think of why stars eventually run out of fuel and run down and burn out. 00:30:25.629 → 00:30:26.889 That’s because of the fall. 00:30:27.429 → 00:30:32.969 Everything slowly winding down, coming to a close, is because of the fall. 00:30:32.969 → 00:30:36.009 Yes, God’s going to draw it to a close before the stars burn out. 00:30:36.409 → 00:30:42.149 But all of that degradation, everything running down, is because of the fall. 00:30:42.509 → 00:30:43.669 And it affects everything. 00:30:43.989 → 00:30:47.289 It affects us, it affects animals, it affects the natural world. 00:30:48.809 → 00:31:01.109 But the question of realize they were naked is a difficult one to interpret fully, because scripture doesn’t tell us everything about that. 00:31:01.489 → 00:31:06.449 But from the context, you can take sort of the core important points to take away. 00:31:07.689 → 00:31:30.309 And by realizing they were naked, essentially, it is them realizing not just the vulnerability, right, because they now have a separation from God and a growing antagonism with the nature that is going to be at odds with them, because before man was at peace with all the animals, right, we’re no longer at peace with bears, as anyone who goes hiking knows full well. 00:31:31.069 → 00:31:32.589 Usually, not at peace with bears. 00:31:32.589 → 00:31:34.889 Some people try to pet them, and some people succeed. 00:31:35.009 → 00:31:35.629 Don’t try. 00:31:36.649 → 00:31:55.669 But realizing they’re naked is going from that state of innocence and having no awareness of sin, of fallenness, of imperfection, of any of these things, to the fallen state and recognizing all that comes along with that, including that loss of innocence. 00:31:56.289 → 00:31:59.749 And so, you can think of the loss of innocence as part of the core of this. 00:32:00.229 → 00:32:05.469 It is the fall from original righteousness into original sin. 00:32:05.749 → 00:32:11.089 Not in the sense that it replaced our nature, because our nature is still made by God, our nature is still good. 00:32:11.449 → 00:32:23.189 But in the sense that it’s so corrupted our nature that it is only Christ’s sacrifice that can restore that, and it is only ultimately restored in the resurrection of the just, the final resurrection on the last day. 00:32:25.869 → 00:32:29.329 So that’s essentially the core of realizing that they were naked. 00:32:29.349 → 00:32:31.069 That’s the takeaway from that. 00:32:31.069 → 00:32:34.029 It’s what you want to read when you see that phrase. 00:32:35.649 → 00:32:38.589 The nature of the fruit is just that God told them not to eat it. 00:32:38.869 → 00:32:43.769 The fruit probably was not special in any particular way. 00:32:44.709 → 00:32:48.369 The only thing that made it special was the attachment of God’s commandment to it. 00:32:48.529 → 00:32:49.869 It’s the same as baptism. 00:32:50.809 → 00:32:52.689 The water in baptism isn’t special. 00:32:52.969 → 00:32:53.949 It’s just clean water. 00:32:53.949 → 00:32:54.529 That’s it. 00:32:54.909 → 00:32:55.829 That’s all it is. 00:32:56.329 → 00:33:00.029 If it’s flowing water, maybe that’s a little better, doesn’t have to be, right? 00:33:00.029 → 00:33:01.969 Doesn’t have to be a certain quantity of water. 00:33:01.969 → 00:33:08.949 It just has to be enough water, as it were, for baptism to fulfill the fact that water is a requirement. 00:33:09.669 → 00:33:11.949 And so, the water is not special. 00:33:12.589 → 00:33:18.689 That’s why Luther says that without the word, it may as well be a bathkeeper’s baptism, which is to say a bath. 00:33:19.589 → 00:33:24.669 It is the water plus the word that makes it a sacrament, that makes it something special. 00:33:25.009 → 00:33:29.769 In the case of baptism, it works forgiveness of sins, and all that follows from that. 00:33:30.269 → 00:33:38.289 In the case of the fruit, because God said, do not eat this, it works damnation, it works the fall, it works corruption, all these other things. 00:33:38.709 → 00:33:42.569 And so, is it the fruit that does it, or is it God’s word? 00:33:42.649 → 00:33:45.769 The answer is yes, because it is the two of them together. 00:33:45.769 → 00:33:51.649 The same as, is it the water that works forgiveness of sins, or is it the word that works forgiveness of sins in baptism? 00:33:52.069 → 00:33:55.449 Yes, because it is water and word together that make the sacrament. 00:33:55.709 → 00:33:59.449 The same thing, sort of in reverse, as it were, for the fruit. 00:34:00.189 → 00:34:03.289 So, you know, we don’t know what fruit it was. 00:34:03.289 → 00:34:04.269 Is it a pomegranate? 00:34:04.269 → 00:34:05.189 Is it an apple? 00:34:05.189 → 00:34:06.949 Is it some fruit that no longer exists? 00:34:06.949 → 00:34:07.709 That’s not the point. 00:34:07.709 → 00:34:08.549 It doesn’t matter. 00:34:08.949 → 00:34:14.089 The point is, they were told not to eat it, and part of their worship of God was to obey what God had told them. 00:34:14.549 → 00:34:17.449 This was how they worshiped God, part of how they worshiped God. 00:34:18.509 → 00:34:19.849 They decided not to do that. 00:34:19.849 → 00:34:21.409 They decided to worship themselves. 00:34:21.409 → 00:34:23.729 They decided to rebel, hence the fall. 00:34:28.649 → 00:34:39.909 The next question, I have to pull up the wording here, because it was a previous question. ---
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# Transcript ## 2/3 00:34:42.769 → 00:34:43.389 There we go. 00:34:43.889 → 00:34:45.689 Take a sip of my drink first. 00:34:58.103 → 00:35:02.223 The challenge of staying hydrated in the south during a heat wave. 00:35:04.383 → 00:35:08.443 Question nine, you have implied that the national debt is a triviality. 00:35:08.623 → 00:35:10.203 Could you elaborate on that? 00:35:11.843 → 00:35:15.463 I think that is, it’s a two-part question, but I think I’ll take them separately. 00:35:15.463 → 00:35:21.183 So I’ll use that one and save the second one on insurance for a future episode. 00:35:22.823 → 00:35:30.183 So the issue with the national debt is simultaneously complex and simple, right? 00:35:32.063 → 00:35:36.383 Think of it in analogous terms to an individual or a household. 00:35:36.643 → 00:35:48.483 An individual can declare bankruptcy and discharge, with the exception of student loans, his debts in that bankruptcy, modulo some government control. 00:35:50.703 → 00:36:01.083 And so, what happens then is it destroys his credit, he has to climb out of a hole, but he doesn’t have the debt, he doesn’t have to pay back the debt. 00:36:01.483 → 00:36:14.563 And as a side note, there are times where, yes, it’s permissible to declare bankruptcy as a Christian, certainly, so don’t think that you are prohibited from doing that as a Christian because of the command to pay back your debts, generally speaking. 00:36:15.243 → 00:36:21.283 Our system is set up in such a way that many debts are extremely wicked and should not be collectible under any just law. 00:36:22.363 → 00:36:23.723 A tangential issue, though. 00:36:24.203 → 00:36:27.603 For the national debt, a state can do effectively the same thing. 00:36:28.443 → 00:36:36.423 The way that a state usually does it, instead of just the state saying, I declare bankruptcy, right, that sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn’t. 00:36:36.803 → 00:36:40.763 If you’re a small state, probably not going to work, you’ll probably get invaded. 00:36:41.623 → 00:36:46.283 But if you are the United States, who’s coming to collect? 00:36:47.223 → 00:36:49.483 Just as a practical matter, realpolitik. 00:36:49.963 → 00:36:53.163 Who’s coming to collect if the US says, we’re not paying that? 00:36:55.263 → 00:36:55.843 No one. 00:36:56.903 → 00:37:02.503 China is not going to wage a war against us because we decide not to pay our national debt. 00:37:03.003 → 00:37:05.203 China would just stop selling stuff to us. 00:37:05.563 → 00:37:07.383 And so are there considerations? 00:37:07.603 → 00:37:08.543 Absolutely. 00:37:08.903 → 00:37:14.463 You are going to damage your standing in the world, to some degree, with certain parties. 00:37:14.883 → 00:37:30.583 You are going to lose access to certain markets and certain goods, which is a very real concern with regard to China, particularly if they retake Taiwan, which they certainly will do, because of the percentage of the chip manufacture that is done in Taiwan. 00:37:30.583 → 00:37:40.783 That’s a very real concern at least for national security, even if you don’t consider, you know, consumer products to be as important as national security, which they’re not. 00:37:42.183 → 00:37:46.503 So, the question is sort of to part, can it be done? 00:37:46.763 → 00:37:47.883 Yes, very easily. 00:37:47.883 → 00:37:53.343 And I was going to get to, before I went on that little tangent there, how it’s usually done by a nation state. 00:37:54.043 → 00:38:02.843 By a nation state, it’s usually you have one government is deposed, and a new government, the next government is instituted. 00:38:03.703 → 00:38:07.563 That government says, I don’t recognize the debts of the previous government. 00:38:07.843 → 00:38:10.463 Those were their debts, go collect from them. 00:38:11.043 → 00:38:12.323 They no longer exist. 00:38:12.643 → 00:38:16.063 You’ve effectively abolished the national debt by doing that. 00:38:16.383 → 00:38:20.943 Now, that’s happened in history, and you can see what happens a lot of times. 00:38:21.283 → 00:38:23.183 A lot of times they get attacked, they get invaded. 00:38:23.723 → 00:38:33.163 But because the US is still effectively as close as you can be under present conditions to a hegemon in the system, no one can come collect from us. 00:38:34.063 → 00:38:39.183 So all it would do, again, is harm our standing with certain parties. 00:38:39.343 → 00:38:47.503 But what you can also do is, as that new government say, I do not recognize the debts of the previous government blanket statement. 00:38:47.843 → 00:39:04.323 However, due to the historical relationship of this state with us, whatever it happens to be, due to the historical relationship between the American nation and the British nation, we will honor our debts to the British nation. 00:39:05.123 → 00:39:07.143 We will honor our debts to the French nation. 00:39:07.143 → 00:39:09.283 We will honor our debts to the German nation, right? 00:39:09.563 → 00:39:10.903 Whichever groups you want. 00:39:11.103 → 00:39:21.643 So you honor those debts, continue trading with them, continue your international and your economic relationship with those parties, but wipe the slate clean with others. 00:39:22.863 → 00:39:24.143 Again, does it come at a cost? 00:39:24.143 → 00:39:25.003 Absolutely. 00:39:25.063 → 00:39:26.283 But can it be done? 00:39:26.623 → 00:39:27.683 The answer is yes. 00:39:28.643 → 00:39:31.903 And so I think that it is something that a nationalist government should absolutely do. 00:39:32.463 → 00:39:44.463 We should simply say we’re not paying the national debt with regard to most parties, and certainly abolish certain institutions that should not exist, and stop paying various sums to foreign parties. 00:39:45.143 → 00:39:48.903 So obviously, a big part of that would be instituting a new currency, right? 00:39:48.903 → 00:40:00.903 You can’t do this sort of thing and expect the existing currency not to have some very serious repercussions, which is to say probably a collapse, hyperinflation, whatever it happened, however it happens to play out, probably hyperinflation. 00:40:01.583 → 00:40:12.443 So you institute new currency as well, but combining these methods, you can basically wipe the slate essentially clean, except for the nations with whom you would still like to deal. 00:40:12.483 → 00:40:16.183 So it’s sort of a two-for-one from a nationalist perspective, right? 00:40:16.463 → 00:40:18.943 Obviously, you get sort of the libertarian perspective. 00:40:18.943 → 00:40:24.583 It sounds like I’ve said something that’s absolutely insane, but libertarian, so… 00:40:28.203 → 00:40:35.543 I’m going to scroll through the chat now to pull out some additional questions here. 00:40:37.923 → 00:40:55.383 Someone asked about the national debt question, because it had been sitting in the queue, as it were, for a while, the pending questions, and Musk has achieved the status of a trillionaire, so, you know, he hasn’t really personally achieved it, but we all know what he… 00:40:55.383 → 00:40:56.003 what it’s meant. 00:41:02.353 → 00:41:06.773 Someone asked about Luther’s views on Mary. 00:41:07.553 → 00:41:15.553 I would want to look at his writings more before answering that, because I don’t want to say something that is not accurate to what he wrote and said. 00:41:16.533 → 00:41:25.033 So I will save that one for the future, and I will save it before I move on so that I don’t forget it. 00:41:26.473 → 00:41:32.273 Doesn’t get lost in my copy history, copy and paste history. 00:41:36.253 → 00:41:44.393 A related question, an easy one, so I will answer this one as soon as I copy it over so that it’s in the show notes. 00:41:46.913 → 00:41:47.853 Question ten. 00:41:47.853 → 00:41:53.393 Do you believe Catholics like myself are true Christians and can be saved according to Lutheran theology? 00:41:54.053 → 00:41:55.113 The answer is yes. 00:41:56.173 → 00:41:58.713 Now, does it come with some caveats? 00:41:58.713 → 00:41:59.513 Of course it does. 00:42:00.193 → 00:42:09.673 What Lutherans would say this is, and I will put a link in the show notes to this because this one comes up a decent amount, and I’m sure many listening already know what I’m going to say. 00:42:10.353 → 00:42:12.693 But what we call it is felicitous inconsistency. 00:42:13.333 → 00:42:34.393 And so felicitous inconsistency essentially boils down to saying, despite the fact that this given church body, pick whichever one you don’t like, teaches things that are contrary to Scripture, ultimately, at the end of the day, in his heart of hearts, this believer relies on Christ. 00:42:34.813 → 00:42:38.653 He trusts in Christ alone for his salvation. 00:42:39.053 → 00:42:48.453 He doesn’t ultimately trust in the things that are taught contrary to Scripture, contrary to the truth, by his denomination, by his tradition. 00:42:48.933 → 00:42:54.633 And so we say, we hope that these individuals are felicitously inconsistent. 00:42:55.573 → 00:43:07.913 And I believe there are many in the Roman Catholic Churches, and I think plural is appropriate, because there are faithful parishes, and there are faithless parishes, just like almost every other Christian group on earth. 00:43:08.893 → 00:43:11.513 I believe there are many Christians in those churches. 00:43:12.933 → 00:43:16.093 Is what is taught by Rome Christian? 00:43:16.273 → 00:43:20.693 To that, I have to say no, because Rome teaches things that are contrary to Scripture. 00:43:21.313 → 00:43:24.413 Rome teaches semi-Pelagianism. 00:43:24.713 → 00:43:34.393 Rome teaches a sort of work salvation, that is anathema, that is contrary to the clear word of God, because salvation is by faith alone. 00:43:36.033 → 00:43:40.133 Your works are good, but your works are good because you are in Christ. 00:43:40.593 → 00:43:51.473 Your works do not save you, your works cannot save you, because the debt of sin is infinite, and you can never pay an infinite debt with finite contributions, which is what your good works are. 00:43:51.733 → 00:44:00.193 And so it took the infinite sacrifice of Christ on the cross and his perfect life, his perfect obedience, in order to pay that infinite debt. 00:44:00.633 → 00:44:14.053 So, many things, not, I don’t want to say many necessarily, because many sounds, to most people’s ears, probably more extreme than what I mean, but there are a handful of things that are taught by Rome that are very clearly contrary to scripture. 00:44:14.653 → 00:44:18.013 If you believe and rely on those things, I do not believe you are saved. 00:44:18.613 → 00:44:20.113 But most Roman Catholics don’t. 00:44:20.873 → 00:44:33.093 Talk to Roman Catholics about the things that Rome actually teaches, particularly some of the things you can pick out of the Roman Catholic catechism, saying that Muslims are included in the plan of salvation, which is obviously contrary to scripture. 00:44:34.193 → 00:44:35.673 Most Roman Catholics don’t believe it. 00:44:36.813 → 00:44:47.393 Ultimately, they believe in Jesus Christ, they go to church because they think the Roman Catholic Church has historical claims that are something to be addressed another time. 00:44:48.773 → 00:44:55.373 They go there for various reasons, many times because of family reasons, and ultimately, they do rely on Christ. 00:44:55.673 → 00:44:57.233 They like Mary a little too much. 00:44:57.773 → 00:45:01.013 In a way, it’s a little weird, but I think they’re Christians. 00:45:01.873 → 00:45:04.473 So I think that there are many Roman Catholics in paradise. 00:45:04.473 → 00:45:06.793 I think there are many living today who will be there as well. 00:45:07.973 → 00:45:15.833 I do wish that they had better theology on certain things, but I also wish the LCMS had better theology on certain things, so. 00:45:23.312 → 00:45:30.892 Question 11, we’re going to ask the questions that require me to give careful answers so I don’t get banned tonight, I see. 00:45:31.952 → 00:45:33.332 It’s going to be an ongoing thing. 00:45:33.612 → 00:45:34.632 It has been for years. 00:45:34.632 → 00:45:39.792 Question 11, how do we as Christians justify violence like what we are seeing in Belfast? 00:45:39.792 → 00:45:45.512 At what point is it justified when the government is so irredeemably corrupt? 00:45:46.772 → 00:45:58.812 So, if I had seen this in the chat, it came in the chat not before I started recording, I would have grabbed my copy of the Magdeburg Confession, which I think is on this bookshelf. 00:45:58.812 → 00:45:59.872 I do not see it, though. 00:46:00.572 → 00:46:01.572 I will put a link to that. 00:46:02.572 → 00:46:04.572 You should go and read the Magdeburg Confession. 00:46:04.692 → 00:46:13.652 That is sort of the Lutheran, the Protestant answer to it, and it is still sound for our time. 00:46:14.852 → 00:46:18.452 We also did an episode on it for Stone Choir, so I would say go and listen to that. 00:46:18.452 → 00:46:20.912 That is a fuller treatment of it that I am going to give here. 00:46:21.512 → 00:46:26.072 But the basic fact of the matter is that Christians are not pacifists. 00:46:26.072 → 00:46:28.532 Christianity is not a pacifist religion, right? 00:46:28.972 → 00:46:32.072 Sell your cloak and buy a sword, and your cloak… 00:46:32.752 → 00:46:39.052 Modern Christians, modern people, hear that, the modern ear hears it, and thinks, eh, sell your cloak, whatever. 00:46:39.332 → 00:46:45.092 Your cloak was your most important possession in many cases, other than like your house. 00:46:45.552 → 00:46:50.872 So your cloak is what you slept in, your cloak is what protected you from the elements. 00:46:50.872 → 00:46:55.752 This was not like you went to your wardrobe and picked what coat you wanted to wear that day. 00:46:56.492 → 00:47:02.432 This was a vitally important part of your everyday attire in that part of the world. 00:47:02.792 → 00:47:08.112 It would be like selling your great coat in certain parts of Europe back when you only had one of them. 00:47:08.392 → 00:47:16.472 So something that has greater import than what we necessarily hear as moderns when we hear, sell your cloak. 00:47:16.472 → 00:47:18.312 This is something that is very important. 00:47:18.312 → 00:47:24.752 It would be like, sell your house and buy a sword, almost to that level, not quite, but almost to that level. 00:47:25.752 → 00:47:27.912 So Christianity is not a pacifist religion. 00:47:27.912 → 00:47:45.332 Christianity has always been a religion that is willing to employ violence when it is moral to do so, and it is moral to do so under certain circumstances that are, again, discussed at length in the Magdeburg Confession and the episode that we did on this topic. 00:47:46.192 → 00:47:51.852 So I would say go and listen to those, and I will put links to that in the show note, the show notes. 00:47:54.932 → 00:48:01.912 But yes, what is happening in Ireland right now is morally justified and Christian, and it should continue. 00:48:15.275 → 00:48:16.875 Question 12. 00:48:17.355 → 00:48:22.855 Do you have any advice or recommendations for making like-minded friends as a young man out of college? 00:48:23.275 → 00:48:28.575 I was homeschooled, so I don’t really have any friends and not really sure how to find or make any. 00:48:29.955 → 00:48:37.455 So the easiest way to do that these days is probably going to be joining an active club or similar. 00:48:38.255 → 00:48:40.535 That’s where you’re going to find like-minded men. 00:48:41.455 → 00:48:43.655 And there’s probably one in your area. 00:48:43.695 → 00:48:46.615 So, Patriot Front is a good option. 00:48:46.655 → 00:48:50.135 That is in many parts of the country at this point. 00:48:50.135 → 00:48:51.635 You can find a chapter near you. 00:48:51.635 → 00:48:53.915 They’ll do vetting and things like that. 00:48:54.555 → 00:48:57.035 So, that’s a good way to meet like-minded men. 00:48:57.035 → 00:49:04.435 Other than that, you have some chance of finding them at church if you can find a good church near you. 00:49:04.435 → 00:49:16.755 Even if you find a church that’s a little wobbly, there may be a group of younger men who are definitely our guys, definitely on-side, and just fly under the radar to stay at peace with their congregation. 00:49:17.375 → 00:49:19.055 Not necessarily a bad thing to do. 00:49:19.355 → 00:49:20.715 Sometimes that’s the way to go. 00:49:22.495 → 00:49:28.135 Probably those are the two best places to go looking for like-minded individuals these days. 00:49:28.135 → 00:49:29.995 Otherwise, it’s kind of difficult. 00:49:30.235 → 00:49:33.015 You know, some men will say, try to find them online. 00:49:33.015 → 00:49:37.235 That’s a little sketchy sometimes, a little difficult, but it works out occasionally. 00:49:37.235 → 00:49:38.255 I won’t say it never does. 00:49:38.795 → 00:49:43.455 But I think active clubs, things like that, and then church groups, probably your best bet. 00:49:43.455 → 00:49:53.115 And then maybe get into a hobby that you enjoy in your local area, and you’ll probably meet some men who are more like-minded than you may expect. 00:49:54.035 → 00:49:55.955 Whatever hobby it happens to be, right? 00:49:55.955 → 00:50:06.595 If it’s, you know, collecting things or a certain game or gardening or anything like that, you’d be surprised where you’ll find men who are definitely our guys, very like-minded. 00:50:09.655 → 00:50:12.975 I’ve certainly met them in some places where you wouldn’t necessarily expect to find them. 00:50:17.675 → 00:50:18.395 Let’s see. 00:50:21.795 → 00:50:23.435 Question 13. 00:50:23.875 → 00:50:26.135 I guess I will address this one now. 00:50:26.135 → 00:50:29.435 I was tempted to leave it for next week, but I’ll address it. 00:50:30.135 → 00:50:30.755 Question 13. 00:50:31.635 → 00:50:39.255 Are you able to give any insight on the Chinese and any major cultural reasons why it’s a bad idea for a white girl to marry a Chinese man? 00:50:39.955 → 00:50:43.295 My sister was not interested in my biblical arguments. 00:50:43.775 → 00:50:50.835 So you don’t see many pairings of Chinese men and white women, that’s pretty unusual. 00:50:50.835 → 00:50:54.975 So that seems like she’s probably just rebelling for the sake of rebelling. 00:50:55.775 → 00:51:09.635 So maybe try to address that as sort of an initial point, but insofar as cultural incompatibility is concerned, I’m sure you’ve already gone over some of the issues of genetic incompatibility and things like that. 00:51:09.935 → 00:51:19.295 The fact that the children will have genetic issues, will be less likely to be able to receive donated blood or organs, will have all the various problems that go along with that. 00:51:19.295 → 00:51:22.315 Fewer certainly than marrying a black. 00:51:22.335 → 00:51:34.235 If you have a pairing of black and white or black and asian, the resulting offspring have significantly more genetic and other issues than usually the mixture of east asian and white. 00:51:34.235 → 00:51:36.375 Usually causes fewer of those problems. 00:51:37.375 → 00:51:42.535 Not zero, more than if you married within your own people like God intends for you to do. 00:51:44.155 → 00:51:46.235 But I’m sure you’ve gone over that stuff with her as well. 00:51:46.235 → 00:51:52.015 You should probably continue to do so because women should generally care about what happens to their children. 00:51:53.315 → 00:52:01.835 Not always the case these days, but hopefully since she wants to get married and certainly probably considering children, maybe it’ll help. 00:52:02.635 → 00:52:09.395 But insofar as cultural incompatibility goes, show her videos of how the Chinese behave in China. 00:52:10.635 → 00:52:14.135 I think that’ll probably drive home the point better than necessarily arguing with her. 00:52:14.135 → 00:52:16.935 Show her a Chinese wet market, right? 00:52:17.215 → 00:52:19.615 Show her the food customs they have. 00:52:19.615 → 00:52:23.795 Show various videos of them consuming live animals in restaurants. 00:52:24.575 → 00:52:32.255 Their culture is deeply evil in many ways because it has been contrary to Christ for millennia. 00:52:32.655 → 00:52:39.515 It is not as evil in the same sort of depraved ways as certainly African culture or Indian culture. 00:52:40.035 → 00:52:48.955 But there’s sort of a almost banal or just every day sort of evil that perfuses Chinese culture. 00:52:48.955 → 00:52:52.195 Cruelty everywhere you look in Chinese culture. 00:52:52.855 → 00:52:56.795 They don’t come to the aid of people when someone is injured. 00:52:56.795 → 00:53:03.015 You can find plenty of videos online of someone who gets injured in public in China, and no one comes to stand there and watch them die. 00:53:03.575 → 00:53:05.835 The same thing has happened in Africa and India. 00:53:06.655 → 00:53:18.595 So, you want to drive home that, and generally speaking, when you’re dealing with a woman, you’re going to want to try more emotional appeals, and video is more emotional than words, generally speaking. 00:53:19.075 → 00:53:32.175 So, I think probably showing her those differences in culture that are extreme differences in culture, and ask her does she want her children to not only be half that, but be raised into that. 00:53:33.255 → 00:53:34.435 The answer should be no. 00:53:35.015 → 00:53:41.215 She should want to marry among her own people, and have children who look like her, and also drive home that point, right? 00:53:41.475 → 00:53:45.335 You want your children to look like your parents, and your grandparents, and your great-grandparents. 00:53:45.335 → 00:53:57.775 So, find a family album and show that you have that consistency across however many generations, where, you know, this is great-great-great-grandpa, whatever his name is, and he looks exactly like me when I was a child. 00:53:58.195 → 00:53:58.795 I can do that. 00:53:58.795 → 00:54:04.735 I’ve got family photo albums where I’ve got, you know, five, six generations back, whatever it happens to be. 00:54:04.735 → 00:54:10.255 Some cases, you start getting back into paintings instead of pictures, but we look the same as children. 00:54:11.135 → 00:54:20.835 There are times where I have had my siblings, in fact, have mistaken pictures of me as a child for pictures of my father or vice versa. 00:54:21.395 → 00:54:30.495 That’s what happens when you do what God tells you to do, and you marry among your own people and reproduce according to kind, as God commanded us to do. 00:54:31.595 → 00:54:38.315 But I think, generally speaking, go for that emotional appeal, probably going to help you more dealing with a woman. 00:54:39.655 → 00:54:41.455 That’s just men and women are different. 00:54:42.395 → 00:54:47.675 Rational logical arguments are not always going to win as well with women as more emotional arguments. 00:54:48.155 → 00:54:55.435 It is similar to how when a woman is telling you her problems, she wants you to listen, generally, not solve them. 00:54:56.815 → 00:54:58.055 You can solve them later. 00:54:58.515 → 00:55:04.495 But if you spend the whole time trying to solve them, you’re not doing what she wants, and she wants you to listen. 00:55:04.495 → 00:55:15.235 So if there’s a woman you care about and a woman, to whom you have some sort of duty, your wife, mother, sister, whatever it happens to be, sometimes you just listen to the problem and commiserate. 00:55:15.715 → 00:55:19.355 You can solve it later, but don’t necessarily do it right then in the moment. 00:55:19.355 → 00:55:20.295 It’s not what she wants. 00:55:20.735 → 00:55:21.975 Men and women are different. 00:55:22.775 → 00:55:30.615 If your male friend comes to you and says, I have X problem and it’s due to these factors, he wants you to help him solve it. 00:55:31.075 → 00:55:32.855 Men don’t usually want to commiserate. 00:55:32.855 → 00:55:34.475 Men want to fix the issue. 00:55:35.095 → 00:55:35.995 Fundamentally different. 00:55:35.995 → 00:55:37.555 God made the sexes different. 00:55:37.895 → 00:55:38.915 That’s just how it is. 00:55:46.090 → 00:55:51.590 A follow-up question to the earlier question about forgiving your enemies. 00:55:51.970 → 00:55:53.070 I think it’s a fair question. 00:55:53.710 → 00:56:01.650 Question 14, how can you forgive someone who stole all your money and caused you to lose your home life, girlfriend, et cetera? 00:56:02.210 → 00:56:02.990 It’s difficult. 00:56:04.730 → 00:56:05.390 Excuse me. 00:56:06.010 → 00:56:07.410 That’s obviously very difficult. 00:56:07.850 → 00:56:15.250 And what you want to do is go read the parable of the unworthy servant, right? 00:56:16.070 → 00:56:27.690 To make sure we all know which parable, that’s the one where you have the king, the master, forgives the one servant an enormous sum, a sum that is effectively infinite. 00:56:28.410 → 00:56:29.670 This is God, right? 00:56:29.670 → 00:56:31.710 This is God forgiving you your sin. 00:56:32.170 → 00:56:39.590 And then the servant turns around and refuses to forgive his fellow servant a relatively trivial sum. 00:56:40.430 → 00:56:49.090 Not trivial in the sense of pocket change, but trivial certainly compared to the sum that had been forgiven him by his master. 00:56:50.430 → 00:56:54.030 That is the wicked servant, the unforgiving servant. 00:56:54.390 → 00:56:56.210 You don’t want to be that man. 00:56:56.910 → 00:56:59.510 God has forgiven you an infinite debt. 00:56:59.870 → 00:57:08.410 And so, you turn around, and even when it is difficult, and particularly when it is difficult, you forgive others their debts against you. 00:57:08.710 → 00:57:10.430 Even when they are indeed extreme. 00:57:11.510 → 00:57:23.830 Now, that doesn’t mean that if someone, you know, stole all of your money, you are not allowed to go to the court and get your money back, because theft is still a crime, theft is still illegal. 00:57:24.350 → 00:57:25.890 You are permitted to do that. 00:57:26.710 → 00:57:29.350 Now, you can’t go to court and say, give me my girlfriend back. 00:57:29.350 → 00:57:31.490 We don’t have laws to help you with that. 00:57:31.490 → 00:57:38.770 But if someone actually stole your money, and you have a claim there, then yes, you should see an attorney and deal with that. 00:57:38.990 → 00:57:40.710 You still forgive him. 00:57:40.710 → 00:57:46.490 You don’t hold it against him in the sense of like, this man is my enemy, I want to destroy him, I want to harm him. 00:57:46.870 → 00:57:47.870 You forgive him. 00:57:48.210 → 00:57:51.650 But forgiving someone does not always erase the punishment, right? 00:57:52.250 → 00:57:57.810 We know this, because you forgive someone who commits a crime, but it is still incumbent on the prince to punish him. 00:57:58.970 → 00:58:02.650 You don’t get out of the punishment just because you’re forgiven. 00:58:03.270 → 00:58:04.790 These are separate concepts. 00:58:04.790 → 00:58:11.990 You get conflated all the time in modern culture for malicious reasons, because they want you to think that Christianity just lets murderers walk free. 00:58:12.650 → 00:58:14.910 No, God commands that they should be put to death. 00:58:15.470 → 00:58:17.950 You forgive them for their wickedness. 00:58:18.470 → 00:58:23.310 You hope that they repent, but the executioner still has to do his job. 00:58:24.490 → 00:58:37.150 So, yes, you do have to forgive those who have even done horrible things, but it doesn’t mean that you bring this person back into your life and trust this person again and forgo all sorts of remedies against him. 00:58:37.570 → 00:58:38.890 Those are separate things. 00:58:39.770 → 00:58:45.790 But it wouldn’t be a commandment, and it wouldn’t be a commandment worth issuing if it were always easy, right? 00:58:46.130 → 00:58:51.010 Sometimes it’s going to be very difficult because some personal enemies have done great harm. 00:58:58.148 → 00:59:00.248 Question 15. 00:59:03.148 → 00:59:12.308 Guess I’ll do a few more questions here, try to get through most of the questions in the chat, at least. 00:59:12.748 → 00:59:19.968 Question 15, what position will America have towards Canada under a future Christian prince? 00:59:20.468 → 00:59:24.348 Would it be annexed, get a puppet ruler, or would the status quo be maintained? 00:59:27.488 → 00:59:37.068 This is one of those questions that I almost should save it, because it gets into a lot of related things that are more expansive than the core question, right? 00:59:37.068 → 00:59:39.468 The core question is easy, Canada should be annexed. 00:59:40.068 → 00:59:41.868 Canada should never have been separate. 00:59:42.088 → 00:59:46.948 The Canadian people and the American people are basically one nation, right? 00:59:48.048 → 00:59:53.188 Yes, they have Quebec and they have more French, but we have Louisiana that has more French, right? 00:59:53.988 → 01:00:00.068 So, they are by and large English, Scottish, German. 01:00:01.208 → 01:00:05.748 We are by and large English, Scottish, German. 01:00:06.308 → 01:00:14.488 We are basically the same nation, we’re just split into for essentially political reasons historically. 01:00:15.408 → 01:00:21.128 So, international political reasons incidentally, but we should not be separate, we should be the same people. 01:00:21.128 → 01:00:25.768 And I mean the actual Canadian people, not the invading brown horde that should be repulsed. 01:00:26.268 → 01:00:32.208 The actual Canadian people are our brothers, and they should be part of our nation. 01:00:32.948 → 01:00:38.508 Those who are of one stock should be under one government, should live together in peace and harmony. 01:00:38.508 → 01:00:39.448 That’s how it should be. 01:00:39.708 → 01:00:43.528 You can think of some things that happened in the past century related to that. 01:00:45.108 → 01:00:48.048 So, they shouldn’t have a puppet governor or anything like that. 01:00:48.048 → 01:01:13.108 I think that without getting too deeply necessarily into the issues right now, but I think that essentially the best system that we’ve come up with for dealing with the way that human beings actually are, the way that we will always be, because God made us this way, is to have an imperial power and then devolve certain things to the local level with princes or dukes or whatever you want to call them. 01:01:13.108 → 01:01:14.448 The title doesn’t matter, right? 01:01:15.168 → 01:01:26.768 So, Quebec should have its own ruler, because they are distinct enough that they should have their own ruler, but still be part of, whether we call it the American Empire or something else. 01:01:26.988 → 01:01:32.568 I think that’s probably a fine name, but they should be part of that, and then have some local control. 01:01:33.028 → 01:01:42.228 So you have a greater allegiance at the top level to this higher authority, to the emperor as supreme, to use the words of scripture. 01:01:43.668 → 01:01:46.248 But then you also have your regional identity. 01:01:46.548 → 01:01:48.128 And historically, it’s how it’s always been. 01:01:48.128 → 01:02:04.528 I don’t think we can actually make it otherwise, because I think that we are so linked intimately, inextricably, and naturally to our geographical region that over a not very long period of time, we become distinct sub-peoples. 01:02:05.108 → 01:02:10.888 We’re still part of the greater nation, but we’re a distinct subset of it. 01:02:11.028 → 01:02:13.108 And you can think of that in the US context, right? 01:02:13.788 → 01:02:20.588 Despite the fact that you’ve had a lot of modern moving around and shuffling and things, the South is still the South in some ways. 01:02:20.928 → 01:02:27.848 The Northeast is still the Northeast, the Midwest, the Southwest, California is sort of its own thing, the Pacific Northwest. 01:02:28.408 → 01:02:36.348 You have these different sub-regions that because of the nature of the region, the people are shaped according to it, right? 01:02:36.348 → 01:02:42.888 We’re not just a spirit, we’re also body, we’re flesh, and it’s blood, soil, myth. 01:02:43.328 → 01:02:45.508 You can’t ignore the second one. 01:02:45.668 → 01:02:46.808 You can’t ignore soil. 01:02:47.288 → 01:02:59.368 So, I think that inevitably, you’re going to have regional distinctions that develop over relatively short periods of time, and to account for that, you devolve some things to local control. 01:03:00.448 → 01:03:07.748 For matters like defense of the larger entity, that should be at the national or the supranational, however you want to term it. 01:03:07.748 → 01:03:09.008 It’s really national level. 01:03:09.308 → 01:03:11.088 In this case, the imperial level. 01:03:12.588 → 01:03:16.428 But other things than that should be regulated more locally. 01:03:16.648 → 01:03:18.948 Insofar as it makes sense to do that. 01:03:19.388 → 01:03:23.128 Because that’s just the way God made us, right? 01:03:23.168 → 01:03:32.688 God made us to be tribal in a certain sense, and so some things should be devolved down to that almost, not quite, but almost tribal level. 01:03:33.468 → 01:03:38.308 But yes, the Canadians are our brothers, and they should be part of this same nation. 01:03:38.308 → 01:03:48.288 And I hope that we get things under control here soon enough and quickly enough that we can help them with the many problems they have up there, because I think they’re going to need help. 01:04:15.035 → 01:04:22.695 I think I’ll answer two more questions here from the chat, and then call it for this week. 01:04:23.275 → 01:04:31.335 Sort of related questions, not exactly follow-ups, but follow-ups to things previously. 01:04:31.535 → 01:04:32.435 One is anyway. 01:04:34.315 → 01:04:35.075 Question 16. 01:04:35.375 → 01:04:39.055 Can you deny Christ to save your family from the axe murderer? 01:04:39.055 → 01:04:40.015 The answer is no. 01:04:41.375 → 01:04:46.215 I also don’t see how that hypothetical would necessarily play out. 01:04:46.695 → 01:05:05.395 It’s almost one of those hypotheticals where it’s deliberately set up such to be a scenario that will never come to pass, and yet you have various philosophy professors and others who try to use it and think that they’ve discovered something unique about human psychology by setting up this impossible scenario. 01:05:06.015 → 01:05:09.955 All you’ve done is create an impossible scenario and then try to get an answer. 01:05:09.955 → 01:05:13.695 And so, some men would just say, well, I can’t answer that, that’s crazy. 01:05:13.695 → 01:05:18.055 But in this case, we can’t answer it because you are never permitted to deny Christ. 01:05:19.435 → 01:05:25.655 Whatever the outcome, whatever you are going to suffer, you are required to affirm Christ. 01:05:25.995 → 01:05:35.075 If you are going to be tortured to death, you are still required to say that Christ is your Lord, that he died on the cross for you, and that you believe in him. 01:05:36.095 → 01:05:37.915 You are never given an out for that. 01:05:39.095 → 01:05:46.235 To some degree, that should make you more comfortable, because as a Christian, it means that you certainly have at least one thing in your life that is absolutely certain. 01:05:46.595 → 01:05:58.855 You know for an absolute fact that your only response when challenged to affirm Christ, to affirm that you are a Christian, is to do so, regardless of the outcome. 01:05:58.855 → 01:05:59.935 You don’t even have to think about it. 01:06:00.735 → 01:06:23.735 So, I also just don’t think that that’s very likely to happen, and the only scenario in which that generally happens, you can think of some things historically, when there have been things like that, it’s going to be under an anti-Christian, wicked government that is going to say, if you do not deny Christ, we’re going to execute your family. 01:06:24.155 → 01:06:25.955 I have good news and bad news. 01:06:26.255 → 01:06:35.235 The good news is, you may as well just affirm Christ, and don’t even consider the alternative, because the bad news is, they’re going to kill your family anyway. 01:06:36.435 → 01:06:40.955 If the communists take over, they’re not going to give you real options. 01:06:41.535 → 01:06:43.375 They’re going to give you false options. 01:06:44.295 → 01:06:59.215 And also, realistically speaking, what’s better, denying Christ, and then setting that example for your family, and probably causing them to fall away, and so damning them, or just having them die? 01:06:59.875 → 01:07:01.435 What’s better, death or eternal death? 01:07:01.435 → 01:07:03.175 It’s not a very hard question, I don’t think. 01:07:03.495 → 01:07:05.195 So, always affirm Christ. 01:07:05.195 → 01:07:06.255 You have no other choice. 01:07:07.475 → 01:07:19.095 Question 17 is a follow-on from something I’ve said previously about sort of an exception with regard to interracial marriages. 01:07:20.655 → 01:07:37.535 Because the example that I gave previously was a white missionary moving to Japan, marrying a Japanese woman, and then all of his subsequent children generations marrying Japanese and essentially fading into the Japanese, disappearing into the Japanese population. 01:07:38.455 → 01:07:47.815 It’s one of the instances where I think that it is morally permissible, and also probably something historically I would not even condemn. 01:07:48.075 → 01:07:49.695 Today, I don’t think it’s necessary. 01:07:49.695 → 01:08:01.635 So, as a live question, I don’t think it’s live, because there are Japanese Christians, and we can bring the Japanese here, or we can go there and train them, and then they can proselytize to their own people. 01:08:01.635 → 01:08:03.855 They don’t need us to convert them. 01:08:04.635 → 01:08:12.115 They may need us to help them with some stuff, but I don’t think they need us to be the ones doing all of the teaching and things. 01:08:12.115 → 01:08:14.795 The Japanese are perfectly competent to do that themselves. 01:08:15.155 → 01:08:19.735 But the question, would it not be impermissible for the Japanese woman to marry the missionary? 01:08:21.075 → 01:08:22.875 I think today, it would generally be unwise. 01:08:22.875 → 01:08:23.875 It should not be done. 01:08:25.055 → 01:08:37.635 Historically speaking, I think that it was probably just fine to do that, because historically, that is the only way you would have been able to transmit the faith, because you would have had a man who would have gone over as a missionary. 01:08:38.355 → 01:08:44.275 Basically, no men have the gift of celibacy, so he’s going to want a wife. 01:08:44.915 → 01:08:52.015 If he brings his own wife with him, then all you’ve done is move the question one generation down, right? 01:08:52.015 → 01:08:53.955 Okay, what would children do, right? 01:08:54.575 → 01:08:57.955 So his option is to either return or to stay there. 01:08:58.575 → 01:09:05.755 I think that historically, it was a morally permissible option to stay there and become part of that population over a number of generations, right? 01:09:05.755 → 01:09:07.435 He’s never going to be Japanese. 01:09:07.915 → 01:09:11.315 His children aren’t really Japanese, but his grandchildren are pretty much Japanese. 01:09:11.595 → 01:09:21.095 So I think that is essentially the best way to break that down, the distinction between the historical and the present day. 01:09:21.095 → 01:09:23.915 Present day, these issues aren’t live, right? 01:09:24.555 → 01:09:31.855 Because present day, people like the Japanese are perfectly competent to train up their own teachers. 01:09:31.855 → 01:09:35.075 Maybe they need our help with materials and things like that. 01:09:35.075 → 01:09:41.455 We have a much longer history with regard to Christianity and all of the things that undergird it, right? 01:09:42.215 → 01:09:46.095 So certainly, we can train those men and then send them back, and they can teach their own people the faith. 01:09:46.115 → 01:09:47.895 I think that’s how it should be done today. 01:09:48.335 → 01:10:01.395 But, so, I guess the edge case then would be historically, would it have been impermissible for the Japanese woman to consent to that marriage or for her father to consent to that marriage? 01:10:01.735 → 01:10:03.895 I don’t think that it necessarily would have been. 01:10:04.915 → 01:10:09.535 Would it be unwise given everything that we know today? 01:10:09.535 → 01:10:10.935 I think the answer is yes. 01:10:11.855 → 01:10:15.575 But, back then, they didn’t know about DNA. 01:10:16.295 → 01:10:21.215 They didn’t know about all of these other issues that arise from these interracial pairings. 01:10:21.215 → 01:10:26.675 And so, her father, because he’s really the truly concerned party, right? 01:10:26.675 → 01:10:28.515 Here’s one that consents to the marriage. 01:10:29.475 → 01:10:37.195 He would have only been able to act on knowing the cultural differences and the obvious racial differences, right? 01:10:37.195 → 01:10:39.635 He would not have known all of the other things. 01:10:40.395 → 01:10:55.715 And so, I think, given the information that he had at the time, he could have consented to it, I think, both morally and also according to wisdom, because I don’t think that he had enough information where it would have been unwise for him to veto it in all cases. 01:10:56.195 → 01:11:00.355 So, but today, obviously, we have more information. 01:11:00.355 → 01:11:06.035 And when you have more information, you are expected to employ that in making your decision. 01:11:07.035 → 01:11:08.835 Scripture is abundantly clear on that, right? 01:11:09.795 → 01:11:13.055 A man who is given much will have much demanded of him. 01:11:13.535 → 01:11:19.155 So if God has given you great intelligence, great knowledge, whatever it happens to be, it’s not optional. 01:11:19.415 → 01:11:23.755 You must employ that when making decisions, because God has given you the ability to do so. 01:11:24.575 → 01:11:32.315 So the short answer, historically, morally fine, not necessarily unwise because they lacked the knowledge we have today. 01:11:32.935 → 01:11:54.055 Today, don’t do it because it’s unwise, even without getting into the moral issue, which I think it would also be morally impermissible today because both the Japanese and the white race are in danger with regard to things like this, and it is turning your back on your people at a time when they most desperately need you. 01:11:54.455 → 01:11:56.735 So I don’t want to see the Japanese disappear either. 01:11:57.015 → 01:12:00.735 I certainly don’t want to see the white race disappear, but I don’t want to see the Japanese disappear. 01:12:00.735 → 01:12:04.495 And so the Japanese need to marry Japanese to make more Japanese. 01:12:04.495 → 01:12:05.595 That’s the only way that works. 01:12:06.635 → 01:12:18.915 Just as earlier, your white sister needs to marry a white man to make white children, because God told us to reproduce according to kind, and that includes your race. 01:12:20.035 → 01:12:32.575 As is made obvious by the many, many things that have been said many times about how God built that into the system, not least of all, you know, fertility being the peak around third cousin. 01:12:33.795 → 01:12:42.255 Pretty obvious for anyone who recognizes the natural world is a source of genuine information of revelation from God to us. 01:12:43.155 → 01:12:44.855 God made all of these things obvious. 01:12:45.975 → 01:12:52.535 They’ve been subverted by false teachers and malicious actors over a period of centuries at this point. 01:12:52.775 → 01:12:57.715 That’s the only reason we’re having to have these discussions now, because of what evil men have done. 01:12:58.195 → 01:13:03.815 No one historically had to ask these questions, because people historically just knew, no, you marry your own people. 01:13:03.815 → 01:13:08.135 You don’t go halfway around the world and pick up a random wife. ---
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# Transcript ## 3/3 01:13:08.715 → 01:13:12.675 Like, the only men who did that were sailors, and they were looked down upon for doing it. 01:13:12.895 → 01:13:14.735 And usually they picked up prostitutes, so. 01:13:16.415 → 01:13:22.215 But I think that pretty much covers the answer to that topic and some tangentially related things. 01:13:23.635 → 01:13:27.755 I think I covered all the questions from the chat. 01:13:27.895 → 01:13:32.495 If I missed any questions in the chat, let me know. 01:13:32.935 → 01:13:35.295 As always, I’m going to close it out here. 01:13:35.295 → 01:13:36.695 I think that’s it for this week. 01:13:36.695 → 01:13:39.715 So I try to go just about an hour, usually run a little bit over. 01:13:39.715 → 01:13:44.955 But as always, thank you for contributing questions. 01:13:44.955 → 01:13:47.755 There are multiple ways you can contribute questions. 01:13:47.755 → 01:13:55.635 The easiest way for me and the best way, because I can link things together and people can find them, is to submit them on the forum. 01:13:55.835 → 01:14:01.075 But you can, of course, always submit them via the chat, telegram, on X. 01:14:01.475 → 01:14:04.975 If I do not notice it on X, then by all means, please tag me again. 01:14:04.975 → 01:14:06.495 I get a lot of notifications. 01:14:06.955 → 01:14:15.935 That is particularly true today because I posted something about, of all things, regulatory law and Papa John’s garlic sauce. 01:14:16.495 → 01:14:18.775 And last I checked, it had nine million views. 01:14:19.355 → 01:14:24.535 So my notifications are a bit of a dumpster fire right now. 01:14:25.495 → 01:14:30.475 So if I do not notice your comment, please tag me again in a couple of days when things calm down. 01:14:31.095 → 01:14:34.415 But at any rate, thank you for contributing your questions. 01:14:34.415 → 01:14:37.035 I always like getting the opportunity to answer these. 01:14:37.035 → 01:14:42.935 I do this on, it usually winds up being Fridays, but it’s Thursday or Friday depending on how my week goes. 01:14:43.815 → 01:14:47.035 It is, of course, Friday this time as it usually is. 01:14:47.635 → 01:14:51.275 But given that it’s Friday, I hope you all have a good weekend. 01:14:51.275 → 01:14:57.875 Go out and do something fun, maybe go for a hike, take your dog for a hike if you happen to have a dog, and you probably should, it’s good to have a dog. 01:14:58.895 → 01:15:04.175 Go to church on Sunday, and I will see you all next week, Thursday or Friday. 01:15:04.795 → 01:15:06.115 Until then, God bless.