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We have a show planned all about talking about who rules this
world we currently live in. Often times when you ask that
question, automatically a whole bunch of answers spring to mind.
That may or may not be true. Of course.
We're going to look into a whole bunch of examples.
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I drank another beer. 3 beers, 4 beers. 5 beers. 6 beers. 7
beers. 8 beers. 9 beers. No beer drinking for me today
because it is my fasting day. Today is my Friday, might be
here Thursday, but there you have it, folks.
I, I got to be minded My, my fasts, my rules, my prayer rules
and all the other rules because, you know, I'm trying to trying
to do my best at being a good Christian.
I fail constantly. I've probably failed at least
four or five times this morning, but Lord knows we try.
And that actually brings us to the topic of the today's show,
who rules the world. As I said, when I ask that
question, many people have many different answers.
But that also brings us to a word concept fallacy.
And the word concept fallacy of the day is the word ruler.
Because when I say that word, many times people have an idea
of what a ruler is, not just the one that you know, tells, tells
distance or calculates millimeters and centimeters and
all the other meters and measurements.
But no, a ruler in the classic sense youth, I say ruler.
Most people think a king or an emperor or someone sitting on
the throne somewhere making all these decisions.
A sovereign, for example, and the dissident right sphere.
Because of because of guys like Curtis Jarvan and others, we got
introduced to the idea that a sovereign is he who chooses the
exception. Power is cop is in a constant
conversational topic. Who has it, who doesn't have it?
What kind of power you need to get things done in order to
achieve anything. I've talked about on this show
many times for many years now. I particularly like the Curtis
Jarvan example of energy, let's say, and I think he often times
uses uses political energy as an example just to get one thing
done. If you wanted to change the name
of a sign in DC from Martin Luther King Blvd. to Donald J
Trump Blvd., think of all the power and energy you'd need to
get one thing done. You can just conjure the example
in your head and you'll understand.
Like, that would take a lot to get that one thing done.
And that's kind of tells you exactly how much power is
currently in the hands of the system of anyone, you know,
running the show, supposedly, allegedly, you know, let's say
that Donald J Trump is the ruler of America right now.
Well, he doesn't seem to have all that power.
So who rules? Is it the deep state?
Is it lobbying group? Is it the ha ha, Maybe we'll get
into some examples. Certainly.
Maybe it's the tail wagging a dog.
Maybe it's the journalists. Maybe it's the occultists we're
going to talk about. We're going to look into Tucker
Carlson talking about the occult quite openly these days, which
is interesting. But we still have left with the
open question, who rules? Now, one of the key things about
rulership of any kind is authority.
You need authority in order to rule.
A ruler has authority. Now, either that authority is
granted to that ruler because of his position or it's earned.
And those things, those two distinctions are very important
because truly to have authority, real authority, let's call it,
you need to have two things operating at the same time.
You need responsibility and proper discernment.
If you don't have those two things and your authority is in
question because if you don't take responsibility or you
certainly don't have responsibility for the things
you preside over for your advice or for your actions, then the
authority just rests in the in your office and not in the
person. And this is kind of what has
happened to the, let's call it the modern liberal state is that
this shocking of responsibility, this movement of responsibility
away from the person and even away from the position, from the
office who rules? Well, no one, no one has any.
No one makes any real discernments.
It's discernment by committee. Well, now this committee is, is
the committee makes all these pronouncements, makes all these
decisions. We see COVID lockdowns, all
these other things that have happened over the last few years
on a global scale. Is it, is it, is it The Who, is
it Davos? Is it the WEF?
Is it all these little lettered acronym institutions and think
tanks and societies and elite structures.
Do they rule well? They seem to be at odds with
each other quite often or in conflict.
We just saw this with The Who, they wanted to pass this
widespread global movement, this, you know, health protocols
that they could just lock down places Willy nilly and they try
to get this done and they couldn't get it done because
people they, when they got everyone together to make this
blanket system, everyone was at odds with each other.
There's a bit of a white pill here is that in order to get all
these horrible things and despotic things in motion, you
have to keep electing and putting more and more corrupt
people in charge. The problem with that is they're
corrupt. The only competency they
actually have is corruption, and you can't trust corrupt people,
and even corrupt people can't trust corrupt people.
So now they're left for the situation where no one trusts
each other. That's the other thing that's
required for rulership and proper authority is trust.
Responsibility and proper discernment leads to trust.
In the absence of trust, you have to rely on fear.
So false authority or authority that is granted by to the
position not earned but granted often relies on fear.
And that fear is, is is backed up by the promise of force or
violence. And again, violence doesn't
enforce, doesn't have to be physical, doesn't have to be an
application of kinetic force. I don't have to punch you in the
face in order to, for you to understand violence.
It can be violence against your position.
It could be cancelling you out. Cancel culture is a form of
violence. And cancel culture doesn't even
have to exist just online. That's the mobilization, that's
the mob doing cancel culture. Cancel culture has existed quite
off, quite, quite well within institutions.
You speak out against a certain, let's say generally prescribed
science. Well, you get kicked out of the
Academy. Bye.
No longer allowed to speak or hold the position to destroy
your name, destroy your, destroy your work.
Many such cases throughout history, just in just recent
times. You don't have to go back that
far. Five years, folks, it's only
been five years. Crazy, huh?
It's been five years and only five years at the same time.
So, and because of actually the events of five years ago,
authority itself is becoming to question and perhaps for a good
reason, because we've lived in the system where we've
especially. I think this is even a sort of a
generational issue where Gen. Xers are a bit more
iconoclastic. We happened to come at a time
when we kind of straddled 2 ages, let's say the the age of
the boomer and the tail end of boomerisms before the boomers
really took over in the in the 70s and 80s when they're kind of
coming into their own watch 30 something.
It's an interesting little piece of historical data.
It's ATV show from the 1980s. If you really want to see like,
and that was like when most boomers were in their some
something 30s in the 1980s. It's an interesting show.
Go watch it. The so the Gen.
Xers kind of straddled that world.
Our grandparents were often the silent or great generation.
So we still had a foot in sort of, let's call it the analog
history of, of Western society. And we were also coming of age
during a much more digital, much more modern version of the 1980s
and 1990s, turning a where the boomer, sorry, in the Gen.
X spectrum you fall. And we, so we start to, we
started to see the lies promoted by the propaganda and our live
reality that these things had consequences being, you know,
lock Lockheed, chick kids was a big thing in the 1970s and 80s
Divorcees, we were the first generation, we really went
through a big wave of divorces. So single, single parents, that
was a product of that too. You know, different kind of
family structures start to spring up during that
generation. So we started to see the
consequences of even, let's say, second wave feminism, just to
name one. But we started to see the
consequences in our own lives as we started to question things.
And I think when the defining spirits or defining
characteristics of Gen. X generation in general is that
we are sort of iconoclastic. Peter Thiel is a great, you
know, a symbol of that. Take all your sacred cows and
destroy them or question them, upend them.
You know, it's we're also sort of the product or the beginning
product of that postmodern movement in both art and culture
and philosophy and and scholastics where things started
to get much more obviously inverted into disastrous
effects. I'm not by the way, I'm not
saying this is good. It's not good or bad.
It's a thing. It's a thing that happened.
So this generation by and large is a generation of questioning
filled with a bit of resentment, certain, let's say anger at the
system to kind of lock them out a little bit.
And now quite a quite a few of those Gen.
Xers are becoming resurgent. So Peter Thiel, Elon Musk,
almost all the big names you can think of in in tech, even media,
Joe Rogan, Gen. Xer, you know, the list goes on.
So the interesting thing is, and this is something that Charles
Padilla has said, is that now we're going to entering this
time period where you have a Gen.
X head on a Gen. Z body.
The millennials, which are much more aligned with the Boomers in
many ways, who respect the experts, which is just a
different way of calling of, of saying authority.
The experts have authority. Why?
Well, they're experts. They have a, they have a piece
of paper from a accredited school.
You got to listen to them. How many times did you hear
this? Well, you're not a scientist,
you're not a doctor. Have you even been there?
This is the default defense system.
If you don't have the proper accreditation, you don't get to
speak. Sure, you can have an opinion,
but opinions are like a holes, right?
Everyone's got one. Doesn't matter if you're right,
doesn't matter if what you're saying and, and your prediction
and your models and all the rest of it always seem to produce
actual results. Do you have the authority to
speak granted to you by a third party?
This is very much a boomer mentality and you see it
reflected in the millennials. This is where we get into, you
know, debating a millennial is it's like, it's perpetually like
debating a woman. Don't.
Why bother? Because they're going to try to
get you on something. You say it's the sky is blue.
They say yes, but not at night. You're like, OK, yeah, you got
me. Can we move it along?
This little parsing mentality? And it comes down to that sort
of seeking authority, because if they can say that you got
something wrong, they take your authority away to speak at all.
But anything ever again, many such cases.
So if authority, we say proper authority, vests in those who
take absolute responsibility and have a track record of proper
discernment equaling trust, you can see why in the more modern
world this has been eroded. They like to people like to take
shortcuts. Even the idea of an expert, of
an accredited expert APHDA doctorate, a someone who has
that sort of, you know, thing on the wall.
It used to mean something because the piece of paper
inferred. A certain amount of
responsibility and proper discernment through their
training, through their practice.
And you had to take responsibility because quite
often you live there, you know, a town doctor lived with their
people. So if he's starting to give
medicine that's killing people, people know where to go.
You get into bigger structures like cities or now online, well,
you have distance from that responsibility.
You can say a lot of things. You can just say things.
You can just do stuff someone's saying.
Not all of us millennials, yes, yes.
But you just proved it. Not all of us millennials are
bad. Do you want to get into the
minutia? Which should we pull the graph
with percentages? It's not it's not calling you
out FF, but you just not all but most right.
The, the, I just derailed myself.
The so, so when we have this buffer zone where no one can
take, no one takes absolute responsibility.
And we're seeing this now with the Trump indictments, even with
going after Obama or this or that or people behind this thing
or that thing in the 2020 election and you know, etcetera,
right? And people are sitting there
going, well, where are we going to get arrest?
It's like, well, who, who can you arrest?
I mean, you've arrested comedy. That's interesting.
So you make a scapegoat and you're going to have to do that.
You're going to have to find one or two people and put all the
sins on them, because the sins are now spread out to such a
degree. But you can't discern who
exactly is at fault here. Now, maybe is they're all at
fault. You make that.
Just make that a pronouncement, Sure.
But then you have to arrest everybody.
Do you have the power to do that?
Go back to changing this sign of from Martin Luther King Blvd. to
Donald J Trump Blvd. How much power do you have?
Who has this power? Who has this authority?
Who has the sovereignty? Is it Donald J Trump?
Is it DOJ, is it State Department?
Who where? No.
I would love to see at least one government in the world other
than maybe El Salvador, say we're seizing all the power,
we're taking all this authority and granting it, putting it in
one position. And from this position we're
going to rule because rulership. If you've been following the
show, you know that rulership or ruler is one of the three key
components, one of the three pieces of the Reggio.
I say that's necessary for civilization.
A ruler, a region which includes people, culture, history,
language, borders, and a religion.
And you need religion because religion is your moral center.
It's something that pre exists. You is there when you're alive,
obviously and will go on well after you're gone.
Connects you to the divine, gives you a place to go to and
should hold everyone together, both ruler and the people.
Gives a region a, a reason for being, because without it,
you're just kind of lost. You're just doing stuff to do
stuff. And yes, where rulership gets
dangerous because if you have a rogue ruler who's just doing
things because it's, you know, seems like a good idea at the
time, but where are we going? Where is this progress?
What is the end result? And if you get some bad people
in there with some bad ideas, well, the end result becomes
some bad things by default. We're going to get into that
when we talk about with Tucker. The the other big aspect of
authority is that it permeates all those 3 sectors of the
Reggio. In religion.
There's a quote and some people have said this is from the Saint
John Christostum, although maybe the the people have investigated
this kind of claim and haven't found him saying this directly
in his writings. So we don't know where this came
from. But the quote is more is more or
less this. The road to hell is paved with
the bones of priests and monks and the skulls of bishops are
are the lampposts that light the path.
Sounds kind of a cob. It's more or less a warning
saying that improper guidance and authority granted into the
priests, the monks and the bishops and the hierarchy of the
Church. Well, once you're given that
position, you now have a tremendous amount of
responsibility. And that responsibility is
expressed through proper discernment.
When I was sort of doing the show and decided to move the
show into much more Orthodox direction, I had a conversation
with my priest, Father John. He's my spiritual father.
And, and part of that conversations basically said to
me more or less bluntly that I don't have the authority to
speak of many things within the church, you know, so when it
comes down to talking about, you know, theology, all the rest of
it. So I have to be careful what I
say and how I say it. I can speak personally of my own
personal experiences within the church or, you know, my
understandings of, of XY and Z, but I have to be extremely
careful now, one, because it reflects on my catechism and
reflects on, you know, my eventual baptism if that ever
comes. But it also reflects on my
priest because he has responsibility on my soul.
It's his teachings and his discernments and his his
fatherly shepherding that will guide me.
So if I'm going off the off the path, he has the responsibility
to bring me back in there. This already happened to me, you
know, once or twice or I've gotten a message.
Hey, about that thing you said. Oops, never so humbling at age
48 when you're seeing you're a grown ass man, have a grown ass
man habits and I don't have to ask permission.
Yeah, oh, yes, you do. And it's good.
It's good to realize that I don't have to take
responsibility for certain things because I haven't earned
it yet. Now I have to take
responsibility for what I say and what I do, of course, but
that gives me much more. I want to say hesitancy, but not
in a bad way. Much more, let's say caution
over what I say and what I do or how I say it or how I do it.
Because I also understand not only does it reflect on me,
which maybe I can just get over or brush off, but it reflects on
other people as well. And keeping that in mind is very
important both for the catechism, for the catechumen,
for the layman, for the, and for the priest.
And all the way up, let's get to, let's get to Father Josiah.
We're going to talk about rotten priests because often times, and
you hear this with the Protestants, what they're
rejecting ultimately is this idea of the of the authority of
the Church fathers of tradition itself.
They think the authority is vested in the Bible.
So if we have the Bible, that's that is the that is the book of
authority and anyone who can read it and use it to quote mine
or whatever have you is now boring.
This the authority of the book being granted the authority of
the Bible and of from the Bible tradition and religion and God
and all the rest of the stuff. Why that falls apart, of course,
is that there's no, there's no good reason for you to ever
think that, you know, as a newcomer, day one Christian or
even a lifelong Christian who's just been reading this book, how
can you discern the Bible from using the Bible?
It's a little difficult. So even your most ardent
Protestant is usually going to defer to some thought leader or
some priest or pastor, I should say, or, you know, some
influencer even. Well, do they have authority?
Then? Does George Jenko have
authority? If you listen to him and quote
him, then you're saying that he has an authority that you're
using. See how this gets tricky?
And then the question you'd have to ask yourself is, does George
Jenko have responsibility for your soul?
And I would say no. And he would say, no, I'm sure I
don't have responsibility for that.
Well, if you don't have responsibility for that, then
why are you saying this stuff with such assuredness?
Let's say, and I'm just calling him out just to use a name.
But there's many such many such cases, you know, something I
always have to be careful of. I know I come across in a
certain way. So people are listening to the
show or listen to me listen, you know, follow me online and could
be easily, I could easily make lead people astray.
Not through intention, but am I taking responsibility for their
spiritual soul, for their life? And the answer is, well, no, but
I should. But I can't because I don't have
the authority to do such a thing.
See, gets tricky. So when we talk about who rules,
we're going to get into all the, all examples here.
So as I say, who rules? And, you know, the check goes,
it's the this and this the that, and it's the GS and the do.
And you're all right in a, in a sense that there are many
different groups and many different people, you know,
historic and current and probably future, who are looking
to seize authority, who we give authority to, whether we like it
or not 'cause we're putting them on a pedestal.
Whenever you give them power by simply saying that they have
power over you, by recognize that power over you, you're
granting them authority in one way, shape or form, even in, in
a negative sense, even as, even as an iconoclastic in a, in a
iconoclastic frame, you grant them authority by granting them
power. But how do we seize that power?
How do we take that authority away from them?
Do they have it in the first place?
This comes down to who are the rules here?
Who's in charge? Who really has power?
We'll get to that. Let's get to Father Josiah
talking about rotten priests, since we brought up the the road
to hell is paved with the bones of priests and bones.
Hey everyone, God bless you. Thanks so much for tuning in.
I have a reflection for you that I have prepared that I hope will
strengthen you called Rotten Priests.
Exhibit A. Exhibit A.
This reflection comes from my reading of a new book by Father
Pat Reardon. God bless Father Pat in every
way. Bad Examples from the Bible is
the title of the book, and I've enjoyed it very much.
He has a reflection, a short chapter in that new book
dedicated to, well, priestly betrayal.
Priestly betrayal as found in the Scriptures.
You know, once a week or so our COO sends me a collection of all
the emails that have come in that she thinks I should read to
patristicnectar.org and I read through them.
I try to pray through each e-mail.
I can't respond to them, but I like to look at them and at
least lift up in prayer and make the cross for this or that
person. Often there are prayer requests
that come in and sometimes questions that readers and those
who are watching PNP would like me to address.
Sadly, over the years of doing this, I have received many
emails about the priests and bishops of this or that person
and this or that parish or diocese around the world and
about different scandals that have happened there or things
that this person or that person has witnessed or experienced.
And they asked me to pray for them or ask my opinion about
them. It is true.
Many of these missives document
that we priest sometimes are not repenting as we should and not
ministering from a position of repentance.
And for us priests that is extremely dangerous.
Of course, just to be a a normal believer and to not repent is
certain doom. To be a priest, to assume the
mantle of a shepherd and not to live that vocation from our own
repentance. This is something different.
This is something much, much more dangerous for the one who
is practicing it. So I'd like to speak.
That's another key point here. And Father, I just kind of
touched on it. Repentance within the Christian
frame, repentance means to change, to realize 11 sins, to
confess to either to God through prayer or through to your
spiritual father through confession, and to then make
make changes because you don't want to continue doing the thing
you're doing. That that's what true repentance
is. You stop doing that thing, or
you're at least trying. You do a 180.
Without repentance, there can be no true forgiveness.
People can say you're forgiven and I can, you know, you do it
wrong to me and I can let that go on a personal level and not
hold it against you, but just saying you're sorry and not, but
and then continuing the thing you're doing.
And we, I think we all know someone who's done that in the
past, right? Someone is, is a classic
Canadian example. You know, Canadians always say,
Oh, sorry, sorry as they're butting your head in line.
Oh, sorry, mate. Oh, sorry, sorry buddy.
I got to get going. Hey, just just getting through
there. I got to get my Tim's.
I'm running late, sorry, and they're still doing the thing.
So even though I can forget, I can forgive you and make all the
excuses in the world for you. But if you're continuing to, to,
to exhibit that behavior, then you're not really sorry, are
you? You're just saying it because
it's the thing you say and you want the forgiveness and the
allowance that doesn't come with actual any, you know, sacrifice
or changing anything or taking responsibility for your actions.
Oh, no, no, no, no. Just forgive me and we can move
on and pretend like this thing never happened.
To you a little bit about rotten priests, about bad priests, and
I'll start with myself. If we're going to talk about bad
priests, I think that I certainly have to be listed as
one of those. I can honestly say that there
has not been a day, not a day in my 3 decades plus of service to
the Lord and His people that I have felt worthy of the office
of priests or not deeply convicted of my own
inadequacies. Not a day.
Even as I was this morning thinking about this and what to
say. I wept.
The priesthood is so awesome,
and service of Christ and care for the flock is such a great
honor that I'm simply not worthy of having anything to do with
it. I'm sure most priests feel the
same way. I thank God.
I absolutely thank God that once a year on the cusp of Great
Lent, we have the service of Forgiveness Sunday and I have
the opportunity to ask forgiveness one by one of every
one of my parishioners, making a prostration in front of them and
asking them to forgive me, a Sinner.
And that I get that they give it to me.
I've never had a parishioner come to that service and say,
no, Father, I'm not going to forgive you.
Nor have I had a parishioner come to that service and not
also ask my forgiveness. Praise the Lord for.
That would get awkward, wouldn't it?
No, Father, No. Not forgiving you.
Yeah, just give an example. Father Josiah, I know some
people. Matthew Erickson attended his
parish briefly while while he was still living in California.
I've known many other people who've spoken absolutely highly
of Father Josiah, like being the presence of him is being the
presence of a very holy man. And even he says that he's
unworthy of the responsibility and the position and the
authority given granted him as a priest.
Why? Because when you take full
responsibility, when you take on that cross of responsibility,
not just for your actions, personal responsibility for your
actions or for words, but for responsibility for others, that
becomes a very, very heavy load. One of the reasons I think we
see a bereft of responsibility of, of men within the within the
category of Father is that there's two things happening at
the same time. 1 The modern world's telling us that our
wives, our women in general and other people have as much
authority and responsibility and, you know, quality and power
and all the rest of it as we do. They should be treated that way.
At the same time, in reality, the actual reality is that we
bear all that responsibility. Ultimately, the man and the
father, the fall of the house or the man bears absolute total
responsibility. That's reality.
And you can say everything else and you can dress it up any way
you want, but we all know, man, woman and everyone else,
children too, that the father bears absolute responsibility.
Because when it comes down to it, if anyone's going to have to
sacrifice their life to defend the family from an intruder or
run into a, you know, burning house and all the rest of it, it
must be the father. Not that it should be.
It must be as a seat of true responsibility, responsibility
for others, the safety, physical and otherwise, of others.
Now, I'm not saying that woman can't do that in terms of, you
know, physically can't do it. But she ought not.
It's not her role. It's not her position.
Men go to war. Men sacrifice their bodies.
We were built for it. Men are built for suffering, and
it's only through suffering that we get better, that we achieve,
that we understand where we're lacking and try to fill the
space, level up. It's why men in the modern age
are so attracted to hard video games.
The Dark Souls, the Silk song I've been playing.
Why? Why do you want this masochistic
enjoyment? Why is this entertaining?
Why is this enjoyable? Because it's hard.
It's it's brutal. It requires something of you,
your time, your patience, your perseverance.
These are virtual. I'm not saying this is an
adequate replacement for fatherhood or anything else, but
in a virtual sort of what pastime, something that's
supposed to be fun, are fun, has to be challenging.
There's it has to be a degree of suffering to our fun.
And those who enjoy those games understand it.
Those who hate those games. Almost everyone who says that
Dark Souls should have an easy mode, they all fit into certain
category and they're all beings of the flesh, all of them.
They don't want the challenge. They don't want to feel
inadequate. Ever.
They don't want to be reminded that they aren't as good at
something that they think they should be a good at for no good
reason. There's no good reason to think
that you should ever be good at anything.
Even if you've mastered something.
You've spent thousands of hours doing a thing.
You know me with the podcast and all the rest of it.
Why do I think I have to be good at it?
I don't deserve to be good at it.
I don't deserve your money or attention or any of that.
I have to earn it each and every day and each and every way you
to earn responsibility. You have to earn discernment
through practice, study, thinking, prayer, tradition,
drawing from it, not granting oneself it, but be giving even
when you're given it, to understand the weight of that
responsibility and to always feel inadequate.
Because if you, if you ever got to a point where like, no, no,
no, I should be responsible for hundreds of people's souls,
thousands. He's you know, if you're doing
this online and you're reaching what, thousands, if not
millions, that means everything you say carries a weight to it,
especially if you're a priest. It's a heavy thing.
And shouldn't be taken for granted and shouldn't be granted
to just anybody. For Forgiveness Sunday and for
the Great Grace of forgiveness, you know Saint John Chrysostom
wrote the most famous treatise on the holy priesthood.
He did it in six books. There are excellent translations
of it in the English language. Thank God.
Catechumens here at Saint Andrew Parish are required to read that
text as part of their catechism. When I was in catechumen myself,
I was directed to read that text.
I was given my first copy of it by His Grace Bishop Basil, who
received me into the Church and also ordained me to the
priesthood. Metropolitan Philip, the late
Metropolitan Philip, who was the Archbishop of our archdiocese,
My archdiocese, when I converted constantly.
He quoted St. John Chrysostom's on the
Priesthood both in his public teachings and in his writings
that he published, his written sermons, The greatness of the
priesthood, the supra celestial, celestial grace of the
priesthood is the greatest gift of God on the earth without
question. Through it comes the grace of
salvation to all who believe and will be baptized and live in the
mystery of the Church. When I think about our sweet
Jesus, our great High Priest, and the thought that he would
share his priesthood, that he would democratize it through the
grace of ordination with sinners like myself and all my brother
priests and the bishops of the Church, the thought that Jesus
would so humbly do that and include us in his care for the
flock, in bringing salvation to people, it leaves me undone.
How the Lord can use us without dirtying his fingers, so to
speak, and can bring grace and love and the knowledge of the
Holy Trinity to people through the through the priesthood is
just it's too much. It's too much.
The priest is proclaimed in the service of ordination axios, by
the Bishop and the people worthy.
But he knows that there's a worthiness that's beyond a
worthiness for ordination. There's a worthiness that is a
human calling before God that he most definitely does not have.
And he knows in his heart that he is an axios.
And it's from that position of unworthiness, from that position
of humility before God, that he must every day stand before the
Holy Table with that sense of unworthiness.
Of course, it's built into the prayer of entrance into the holy
place. How shall I, if the unworthy,
dare to enter into the radiance of Thy holy place?
If with the worthy I venture to to enter, My garment will
denounce me, for it is not a wedding garment, that I shall be
cast out, bound by the angels. Cleanse, O Lord, the defilement
of my soul, and save me, for Thou were the lover of mankind.
Wow, every priest who's worth his salt ministers from this
place of decimation, of Let's talk.
About that for a second, humility is another key aspect
of true authority. If we're seeking to, who should
we place this authority in? Because we're going to get to
the negative in a second. We're going to let father
decide, finish off and then we'll get into many examples of,
of fake false authority from influencers all the way down to
cult leaders and leadership positions.
Those are, that's the easy stuff, right?
We all, we all have a list of, of, of bad authority figures in
our head. Maybe you had a bad teacher.
I know I've had a few. This kind of sours you to the
position of teacher. Maybe you've had bad parents,
you've had a inadequate father or an adequate mother or you
know, whatever have you. So it sours you on the position
and it often times, if you want to seek out the the bad
examples, there's tons of bad apples to find.
In fact, you might get convinced the barrel's just full of bad
apples. The category itself cannot be
saved. Toss out 110 times, right?
That, you know, may be true, but my experience with humanity and
reality in life suggests that that's not entirely true or
doesn't have to be true forever if we only judge the priesthood
by bad priests from in Orthodoxy or Catholicism or where find
find your bad priest, find your bad theology.
We can even say that you know from different sects of
Christianity looking at judging others and criticizing others
somebody saying, ah, there's a bad theology.
So then this whole category of, of faith is, is is in question.
The authority of that church becomes in question because the
theology itself becomes in question.
Now, I'm not going to get into the theology here.
I don't have the authority to. I'll be back to Jay Dyer and
many others. But we see this whole problem
that the category itself becomes corrupted.
But we need these categories. We need them in order to operate
the world. So to repent and even to redeem
a category can be Our Calling. How do we redeem the category of
Father? You know, the revolution of man
happened long before many of us were born.
The early 19th century started the 18th and carried over World
War One to Great Depression, World War 2.
All of these events, I've said, is the revolution of the
category of the father of man inverted our characteristics,
leading to dereliction of duties.
The reaction of the devouring mother to the tyrannical father
is what leads us to all these fine derivations.
Let's call it try not to swear of the modern world things were
just coming out of. Which of course leads us now to
the vengeful sun. In order to reclaim the
category, we must struggle and must realize that we often times
don't have the proper model as a father, as a man, as a husband.
Who is your model now? Maybe you lucked up.
Maybe you had a great dad who was a great who was a great
husband and a good man. Congratulations, you won the
lottery. Many of many, of many others,
myself included, didn't have that perfect setup.
And you when you sometimes dig too much into the mythos of
certain people in your life, you realize that there's a lot of,
you know, history that gets picked over, glossed over.
It's interesting to me how some men get revered, put on
pedestals, even though we all know that they're, they make
mistakes. They're not without sin, without
their problems. In fact.
And we don't even have to know the specifics.
We can just look at the fruits of their children.
So you blame the boomers. You're actually really blaming
their parents too. See, it's tricky, doesn't it?
How do we redeem the idea of the father category of the father
category of the man category of the husband?
How do we all these things are contained within the category of
man. You know, as you grow from a
child into adulthood, your proper place is to get married
and have children. So you become the husband and
then the father in the Trinity of the household, the little
monastery, the father sits at the head is the priest of the
house or the mother and the child.
Everyone has their own role. This is proper because the
priest, the father has to take full responsibility, total
responsibility of the governance of the whole house.
If the house is out of order and if the family is out of order
and you can then say, hey, these kids and this and this, you
know, the wife and all the rest of it are doing weird things.
Responsibility has to rest somewhere.
Now, do we say that the woman and the child doesn't have some
sort of sovereignty, some sort of agency in the world?
Of course they can do things, they can act, but who's bringing
them into order? Where does this disorder stem
from? Who has to take responsibility
regardless of if if it's their fault or not fault.
It has to be somebody and that has to be the man, the father,
the husband. So to redeem these categories,
which I think is really the calling of this age.
And it's going to be around for the last, next, you know, 40 to
60 years. It's a generational thing is to
understand that our previous models are corrupted.
Many of our previous models are corrupted in many ways.
Our understanding, we say this word, we have an image.
The image itself for many of us is inverted.
Even our definition of what is power, what is strength, what
is, what is masculine, how it is to be masculine.
We have sort of an instinctual understanding of these words of
people who aren't completely polluted and off the off the
reservation. But we need something to ground
us if we're going to redeem this category and understand what it
is to be a man and a husband and a father and then understand
what it is to be a good husband and a good father.
We can't use modern metrics for these things because we
understand that the modern metrics are, but you're going to
they're screwed up. So we have to turn to somebody.
This is part of the go to church, talk to your priest,
find someone who has a greater authority and responsibility
than you do, who's occupying a category, A father.
Literally. It's why priests have to be men
because ultimately responsibility of not just the
house, but then we go one step up and the responsibility of the
Church and of your soul, and I'm just talking to your parish,
rests in the priest who has also a greater authority, in the
Bishop who also has a greater authority.
And all the way up, right up to Christ, right up to the apostles
in Christ and the Saints and all the rest.
It's a clear line down to you, layman.
How can you bear and how can you present yourself with authority
and how can you take responsibility for this world
and this life and yourself and others if you have no model of
someone who's doing the same thing on a much bigger scale?
So you take a small portion of that and represent it.
That's the humility. That's what's serving the
church, or at least part of it is.
That doesn't mean you turn off your faculties.
And if you see your priest or whoever doing something corrupt,
doesn't mean you just go, oh, that's fine, they're doing it.
But it also means that what I think a lot of us and you hear
stories of this of people coming in from other traditions and
smuggling those traditions in. So or an expectation.
You spend a lot of time online, you hear listen to Father
Josiah, if you hear Father Turbo or there's other people saying
certain things, reading certain homilies and you go, aha, well,
my priest isn't saying that, therefore he must be corrupt.
It's like realize that especially if you're a convert,
you don't know nothing, don't have to take responsibility for
the church or the teachings or any of that.
Your priest in, in most cases, I would say if, if your priest is
normally good priest, a nominally good man and in doing
a nominally good priestly job, he's going to administer his
flock in the way that he thinks is best.
And there's many different considerations that you may not
be factoring in because it's not about you.
It's not just about your salvation or about your personal
guidance. He's tending to take
responsibility for the entire church, the entire body that
exists now and will exist in the future and exists before.
It's a heavy thing. So before you start casting
derisions and making these judgments, ask yourself this.
Are you taking any kind of real responsibility in your life or
are you blaming? Because if you're blaming your
parents or you're going to blame your priest and that's on you.
That's that is where it's about you.
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Melodith. This is the only way a priest
can live his vocation faithfully, honestly, and in
perpetual repentance. The Scriptures themselves speak
not just about their qualifications for being a good
priest, but also about examples of bad priests.
Yes, this is in the Scriptures. Think of Moses's nephews, his
brother Aaron's two sons, Nadab and Abihu.
In Leviticus chapter 10. These men who were ordained just
as the Old Testament Levitical priesthood was being fashioned
and formed, They got fancy, so to speak, and careless with the
censor and disrespected. Love you back, Harry, someone
said here. So too, Jacobs says, religion
and philosophy are both ontological pictures, but
different types of pictures and like different art types, they
can only be judged on the basis of individuals aesthetic
subjectivity. The the the difference here in
this kind of I'm getting at is that philosophy or let's say
ideologies based on philosophies don't bear any real, real
responsibility. Just take, just take one right?
My my favorite scapegoat? Often libertarianism.
Who takes responsibility for libertarianism?
Alive or dead, who? Who would you place the
responsibility of libertarianism on?
It's thinking, it's praxis, its abilities, it's it's successes,
its failures, all the rest of it.
Is it Dave Smith? Is it Rothbard?
Is it Hoppa? Who?
Who is who is the ultimate bearer of responsibility for
that ideology? Even with communism, we we say,
well, it's Marx. It's like, well, yeah.
And Marx, of course, takes AI think should be a scapegoat for
all those kind of things. But it wasn't just Marx, was it?
There's that Engels guy too. And in, you know, let's say the
application of communism, Well, there's different types.
It's all bad. I'm not here to defend anything.
But Sovietism is different than this, you know, than Chinese
communism is different than, you know, Cuba and all the rest of
it, even though they're all based on the same forms of
ideology, it's application and it's history in different
regions are different. So where does it responsibility
lie? It's, you know, Marxist
Leninism. Well, does it follow on Marx and
Lenin, even though Stalin did a different thing and Khrushchev
did a different thing and all these are people did different
things, where does responsibility lie?
And ultimately, you could say, well, they've all been deceived.
Even Marx didn't come up with these things completely out of
his own head. He had other influences.
We could trace it back. Maybe it's Rousseau, maybe it's
this who bears responsibility ultimately.
Well, no one and everyone. Oops.
So no one. Then there's your nihilism
present in the system. The system is nihilistic because
it's what it produces. That's why I say the liberal
frame is Luciferian. It's the inversion of meaning
itself into nothingness. Because we can't pinpoint and
say this person is responsible for these actions, for this way
of thinking, solely 100% it's on them.
Well, if you can't say that definitively, honestly, then
it's not them. Well, who is it?
Within religion, This is why I say it's one of the key tenants
of of civilization, rule of religion and region is that we
know who's responsible. Christianity, responsibility
falls on, let's say the priests or the bishops, sure, and it
falls on us. But the ultimate authority here
is God. That's a heck of an authority.
The sacrifice and God killed them.
He judged them both and gave them death.
Immediately after that account there is a warning about
alcohol. It's very fascinating.
Comes right after the judgement of the priests.
I think it's probable that these priests themselves were drunk
and this led to their inappropriate behaviour which
led to their deaths. Then think of the sons of Eli,
Hofni and Phineas, another two priests who were serving in the
shrine of Shiloh. This is first Samuel 4.
They also came to a bad end after ignoring their father's
admonitions to repent of their evil ways.
And their sins were much worse, I think, than the sins of Nedab
and Abihu. These priests weren't just weak,
they just weren't disobedient to their their father who was
admonishing them. He wasn't a great father.
They didn't just have moral failings like drunkenness, but
their sins, the sins of Hofni and Finnis, were related to
their own exercise of the priesthood, which is far more
wicked for a priest to use his priesthood in an evil way.
Priests are not allowed to be weak.
That's number one. We're not allowed to be slaves
of our passions to gambling or drunkenness or infidelity.
And of course the scriptures and their requirements for
ordination forbid people who have these weaknesses from being
priests, and the canons also forbid it.
But. The other big component of of
authority here and with both responsibility and discernment
comes with consequence. So I guess it's back to that
quote, which is not Saint John Chrysostom but sounds like
something he would say. The road of hell is paved to the
bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the
lampposts that light the path. Because it's consequence.
The consequence of bad leadership, especially bad
spiritual leadership, is to be part of the pavement of hell.
So it's a big fall off point. There's your bearing, your
responsibility. Not only are you responsibility
for your own repentance, for your own seriousness within the
faith, but you're responsible for for other people.
And the consequence is damnation, assured damnation.
And we see this in the stories. Here's your consequence.
You're not going to be saved. You're not going to get God's
not going to come down and make an exception for you as the
ultimate sovereign of reality itself, life and death.
He whose sovereign is he sovereign is he who chooses the
exception. Well, if you want to be
exceptional and you want to be the exception in more times than
not, Lord Jesus Christ and God have mercy in me, a Sinner be
granted mercy to be given, to be given grace, then you best take
responsibility. And when you've taken the
responsibility, when you've been given that responsibility, you
must cherish it. You must be a good vessel,
otherwise there are consequences these.
Unacceptable weaknesses are not born out of malice.
What Hofni and Phineas did and what some priests throughout
church history have done is to exercise their priesthood
maliciously. And this is a far greater sin.
This quest for power, this sinning in the exercise of the
priesthood itself. Questing for power, compromising
faith to appease politicians or to be liked in society.
Horrible quality in a priest or a Bishop.
It can't be true to God and have your eye focused on pleasing him
and also tried to be a man pleaser.
This is absolutely forbidden in priests quest for absolute
control, violation of trust and priestly confidentiality.
One of the most wicked sins of a priest is to take advantage of
the vulnerability of someone by hearing their confessions and
then not maintaining the confidentiality which should
cough the priestess priesthood. The Church is extremely serious
about the confidential, confidential confidentiality of
confession, and it is a terrible sin for a priest to violate that
manipulation instead of mercy for people who are revealing
their weakness. This is another horrible
malicious sin. Answering criticism from the
flock with revenge instead of forgiveness, abusing authority
to tyrannize hearts and minds over the Lord's flock.
Wow. It is possible to really misuse
the priesthood, and this is what Hofni and Phineas themselves
were doing and why it brought death to them.
They misused their priest, the authority and position to abuse
the people. Particularly they sexually
exploited women, women who were devoted to the Tabernacle, women
who were assembling at the scripture says at the door of
the Tabernacle. They are to be of service, and
in fact they were used by these unworthy priests.
The other major sin that Hofnie Infinis committed was disdaining
the part of the sacrificial animal that God had allotted to
the priests. Instead, they insisted, before
the sacrifice was made, of taking the choice cut right.
They use their ministry to prosper themselves instead of
using themselves to prosper their ministry and.
Of course we have the examples of Christ overturning the the
table and going after the, the Pharisees and, you know,
proclaiming them unworthy. Well, there has to be in order
to have that kind of discernment, to be able to say
that someone has fallen away from their responsibility, from
the other office. You have to have standards and
practices. We have to be able to judge what
is good and what is bad, what is what is good and what is wicked.
This leads us to discernment itself.
We've given the tools within the Christian frame of what is right
and what is wrong, what is righteous, what is vengeance.
But in the modern world, many of these, even these words have
been corrupted. So even if you and I here in the
chat in this channel can understand the true meaning of
these words and attach ourselves and and seek out righteousness
in our in our life, we have the proper discernment of when to
use certain mechanisms, whether it be anger or even violence
itself. What's lacking is that proper
discernment. We have to find it somewhere.
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Maybe we'll stop here. We'll get to some other stuff
because this is where just saw it sort of elucidating this,
this fact that if given responsibility and power in some
ways over others, we must utilize and be responsible with
that power. And the easy way of deserting
who should be given certain authorities is how they treat
others. It's a classic example of you
can tell a lot about someone by the way they treat a server and
they go out for dinner. And if he's rude and dismissive
to the waitress or waiter, I'm probably not going to be a very
good guy. Buck Johnson's in chat.
Buck Sing. Every one of those sound effects
was from wrestling. I love it.
You know it, baby. Yeah, Buck, if this wasn't my
Friday, I'd be drinking some beers along with Stone Cold.
You know what he has to say. I drank a beer.
I drank another beer. 3 beers, 4 beers. 5 beers. 6 beers. 7
beers. 8 beers. 9 beers. I ever make it down to Texas
being bucked, get together and drink some beers.
What beers? That's what I'm saying.
What was I saying? Oh, yes, you can.
So you can tell a lot about a man about how he treats others
that he has power and control over.
So let's cue something up here. Sean Piker has been getting has
been getting the treatment. Who is Hassan Piker?
He's the cousin or the nephew I should say sorry of.
Jake Huger, host and creator of The Young Turks, runs a show
over on Twitch. Many people know who Hassan is.
If you don't, God bless you. Don't bother finding out.
He's he's an avowed communist. Of course he is a millionaire
who lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills or wherever he is
in California. He's one of these virulent
progressives we talked about on the show before.
He's just, he's the whole stack. You know, he's up there with
Destiny and Bosch and all these other people who've made a lot
of money and a lot of high, you know, gotten a lot of power and
prestige and probably not for good reasons.
He's got a whole cadre of people.
He's he's he's a big deal. And he break constantly,
flagrantly breaks, you know, the the terms in the terms of
service on Twitch and gets away with it.
Maybe people think he's going to get cancelled this time.
Oh, this is the one. And he keeps on ticking because
he's serving a purpose. Calls for violence, calls, you
know, he's up there with calls for violence against
conservatives and all the rest of it and destroying the system
that he benefits from. He's he's a he's a he's a, he's
a character. But recently he's getting a lot
of attention because apparently he's also abusing his dog.
That's the allegation. The allegation is he's abusing
his dog. He's got this dog in the back.
And yeah, we'll just play the clip.
So apparently I don't, I don't watch his streams, but
apparently he has his dog sitting in this little mat
behind him for four plus hours while he streams.
Now you might wonder why he has to have his dog in the corner
like that. I would say it's probably
because he thinks it's humanizes him on some level, which, you
know, it does. People tend to like people who
have animals. They take care of the animals or
something. You know, he doesn't have kids
and he's, I don't think he's married and he's not married.
So he has no other authority. He has nothing else that kind of
humanizes him. He's a man in his mid to late
30s now, I guess. And he has none of these other
categories of man, but at least he's caring for his animal,
right? That's something.
Animals are quite often kind of considered on the same level of
children for many people. They're innocent.
They require care and attention. You have to be a responsible
human being to take care of an animal, especially a dog.
It's not just, you know, a pet fish.
Even then, you have to still feed them.
But a dog requires a lot more attention and it gives affection
and all the rest of it. So again, a humanizing effect.
I believe it's kind of the humanizing prop that has on as
the background. You know, maybe he loves a dog.
Who knows? Doesn't seem like it, though.
Let's play the clip. All of America's much more
consequential violence. OK?
It's the same reason as to why America Kaya, please just
fucking go. You stop.
So the allegation is this is that the dog has a shock collar
on and when he was, the dog was moving off.
Hassan moves and presses something and the dog yelps and
then sits back down. So this is the allegation that's
been brewing. Jesus Christ, what are you
doing? You're being such a baby.
It's just you're making her stressed.
I, I, I she just. Now I, you know, I maybe I'm no
body language expert, but this is the language of a body of a
man who just did something he knows is wrong and is now trying
to cover for it. You know, he's looking down.
He's a bit nervous. He's a oh, you know, yeah.
You're being a baby. You got to shock the crap out of
you. Literally is is so incredibly
spoiled from my mom. No she doesn't want to come over
here to see what's up. She just wants to fucking roam
the house because she got to roam the house when I was gone
and she needs to literally have the same structured regimented.
Yes, she needs to be his continual prop.
He needs she needs to be a prop. She needs to sit there in the
corner, look kind of cute, and, you know, don't do dog things
like get up and move around and probably want to get some food
or water or go to the bathroom. What, what, what?
That's the face of a guilty man. Don't ask me how I know.
Not that I've ever shocked a dog before.
I don't own a dog. Why would I own a dog?
I'm a cat guy. So.
Here's a clear present example. And and he's been taking Flack
all over the place and maybe people think that this is it.
This is the thing that's going to get him cancelled.
He's going to finally lose his support.
Of course people read his comments, many people, maybe
supporters. Here's here it is your average
Hassan supporter in response to someone saying, you know, he
said the the commenter says, why are you lying?
I apparently this replying to a comment was saying that this guy
shocked his dog anything. So what are you saying exactly?
And the Hassan fan says the dog walks around Hassan tells her to
sit. He she stubs her toe and yelps.
Hassan looks concerned and turns around, realizes she's fine and
then moves on. This is sort of Hassan's
narrative around the event is that the dog got up, moved
around, stubbed her toe. That's why she'd yelped.
And you know, of course he loves his dog.
He would never shock her. And then he comes out with
another statement saying that, yes, the dog has a collar that
has a the button vibrates, makes a vibration, and the dog
responds to the vibration by yelping in pain and sitting back
down. OK, what's revealing here?
Of course. And you know, again, anyone who
doesn't like Hassan is not going to like Hassan.
It's not going to change anything.
People who love Hassan are going to make all excuses in the
world. And people in the middle are
like, who the Hell's Hassan and move on with their day.
But again, we're seeing clear indication here ever since we're
talking about authority and responsibility.
Ought Hassan have authority? Does he take responsibility for
what he says for the lives of others?
It doesn't take responsibility for the life of his dog whether
he's shocking the dog or not. The fact that he's making a dog
sit in a corner on Cam, you know, in view of this camera for
four plus hours while he streams every day in itself is a form of
abuse. Doesn't even have to be shocking
to someone. Although I do think he shocked
the dog. My own personal opinions so
clear cut indication that someone shouldn't be given any
kind of authority at all, right? Easy one.
That's an easy layup. Here's a here's a more
interesting one, and this comes from when this when this hit,
people were were CC ING me quite a bit on this post Taylor Swift,
you know, the Swifty's having having a bit of meltdown.
Apparently the new Taylor Swift albums come out and it's leading
towards a very neo tratty kind of thing.
What? What was that?
What was my, what would I say in 2023 that suddenly overnight
you're going to see a lot of gender fluid pink hair
progressives, you know, pussy hat wearing people flip a
script, flip a script overnight and become neo traditionalists
wearing very nice sun dresses and baking apple pies, getting
married, might pick a fences. All the rest of it thought I was
crazy. I'm just describing the normal
change over to conservatism like no, no, no, no.
It's going to happen so fast that it's going to break brains.
It's going to lead us into this sort of mushy Christianity kind
of movement, which we can get into more.
But it's, you know, got his benefits and a lot of fall offs
as well. So what am I talking about here?
Let's see. This is from was posted by Wyatt
Taylor Swift getting her white picket fence ending is going to
mentally Holocaust. Sorry, an entire generation of
millennial liberal liberal women who are told everything is going
to be OK and you don't need no man nor babies.
It's going to get ugly. Let's let's take a listen.
Taylor Swift is handing the conservative agenda on a silver
platter to the masses. And before I go any further, and
before you argue with me, you cannot convince.
This is as loud as it gets folks, but I don't know if you
really want to hear this woman's voice any louder.
She's got that kind of chirp If I suddenly become single, if my
wife just kicks me out of the house one day, which send me a
super chats folks, and let's let's try to prevent that from
happening. But if one day happens, I'm
taking a vow of celibacy. I'm not dating.
I'm not getting in the market because I can't imagine sitting
across a table with this person, even if her political views are
completely 180, right? Even if this whole neotrad
things happen, this woman suddenly becomes, you know,
Susie Homemaker, you know, hyper conservative, You know what we
say in the chat yesterday, their buckets, hot topic,
Christianity. Even if she does that whole
reversal right, I still wouldn't be able to listen to this person
speak. Me that the lyricist of our
generation, akin to Shakespeare, the Easter egg master of our
generation, is not aware of what her entire optics and lyrics and
album and everything is giving at this very moment.
And before you suggest that this was supposed to be a satirical
album, I would like to remind you how she feels about this
album in her own words. World to me to have this
creative experience where like we knew that we had to bring the
best ideas we've ever had yeah and I know I also know the
pressure I'm putting on this record by saying that but I
don't care because I love it that much there's not other ones
coming this is the record I've been wanting to make for a very
long time I'm. Trying to rapid fire this as
fast as I can so that my video is not an hour long.
But we're going to start with the rollout of the album, the
announcement of the album on our boyfriend's football podcast.
Our boyfriend who plays for the NFL, who we are now aligning our
brand with, who is one of the most racist and problematic
industries in our country. Yes.
Listen, I don't know how long Taylor Swift's been doing this,
but I know it's been a pretty good amount of time.
She's worked pretty hard for her career.
Why are we sharing what you are saying is the best piece of work
you've ever put out and you're going to share it with a man?
You're going to. I announced it with them.
This is where the optics are starting.
We are creeping our way down the conservative pipeline.
And before you say that's our reach, I'm not done.
We all know what's coming next. The engagement.
They got engaged as a package deal with the album roll out.
Yes, they did. The album was announced.
Julio says. I'm not going to lie, she's a
wood. You got a man.
It's it's not all about the looks, it's it's the content,
not the presentation. And what one day later, two days
later, it was announced that they were engaged to talk about
how manufactured that is. We could talk about how
inauthentic it is. We can also talk about how it.
Inauthentic is an is an interesting word.
I was I regrettably last week. I think it's after after the
live show went on, after consuming many beers.
How many beers? I drank a beer.
I drank another beer. 3 beers, 4 beers. 5 beers. 6 beers. 7
beers. 8 beers. 9 beers. Yeah, I drank a few beers and
went on the the panel show over at Raging Tomatoes last time.
I'm going to do that both drunk or sober, because it's just
like, what am I doing? Why am I doing this?
Why am I sitting here with these people?
It's the same thing. Like imagine having to listen to
these people in real life. I'm like, I wouldn't sit around
a table with you people. I wouldn't, I wouldn't subject
myself to this in real life. What am I doing on the virtual
world anyway? I, I, I can't remember the whole
concept, the whole content of the conversation, but one of the
guys I got on the back and forth with was kept accusing me of
being inauthentic, you know, inauthentic, inauthentic.
You're being inauthentic. I'm like, what do you, how can
you even discern that? You don't know me, dude.
You. Have no way of telling me if
telling if I'm lying to you or not.
I'm not because I don't lie. I really, you know, I go go out
of my way each and every each and every day to not do that.
And I'm presenting something factual by myself.
And I think it was maybe I was talking about, you know, I
wasn't talking about shorts, although that did come up.
I'm just trying to remember the conversation doesn't matter.
But go check it out if you want to if you really feel like it.
But yeah, he kept just using that word.
I'm like, I don't think you know what that means.
Really. You just want to call me a liar.
You just you, you think the word because it's negative is going
to hurt me somehow. Don't care what you think.
Oh, and then someone that went after me because I was wearing
my Montreal hat and was talking about the false iconography.
You because because of the the the flag on my hat.
It's yeah, it's stupid. It is yet another step towards
the conservative pipeline. Now if you're unaware about her
history with the orange man, he didn't like her very much.
He in all caps. I hate Taylor Swift.
She's a childless cat lady and I want you to bank that for later
in the video. But once this engagement
happened, we had a public statement put out my pumpkin
man, and he said, wow, Jo Swift, you know what?
She's a great person. She's a terrific person even.
And I'm very happy for them. I wish them best in their
marriage. OK, now I'm not.
Oh, she got. She got the Trump endorsement.
Taylor Swift got the Trump endorsement.
That's what's inauthentic. You get the Trump endorsement
all of a sudden, Oh my goodness, your whole life's a lie, lady.
You're wrong about everything you have to get into like Taylor
Lorenz or some who who oh she's getting married to.
God damn it. What are you, the apocalypse?
The W white woman Apocalypse is his nigh.
Claiming that Taylor Swift can control what that.
Means I'm sorry if if you would after you heard her like tap her
little fingernails on the on the on the table dude.
I'm not saying we can't be friends, but I just we might
have to have a conversation about standards and practices.
Like you gotta get some. They are.
Go to liturgy. Talk to your.
Partnering in these words, No, I'm not saying, but what is
this? The US has a history of using
pop culture to further a political agenda.
She's doing what he wants everyone else to do is to get
married and have white babies. But I do know that she can
control is the music that she puts out.
And I'm just going to jump right into it.
Cancelled is an anthem for those who are over being politically
correct. And we're breaking down the wall
of shame that it is, that it means to be cancelled.
Taylor Swift says it's OK now to be cancelled.
And that's actually cool and maybe.
What, what, what medication she's on?
Can we put her on some different dose to like have her relax her
hands? I'm someone who gestulates as
well as well. I get it right.
But I, I hide the hands. I put the hands out of frame so
you don't have to see them all the time because it's weird,
man. If you're, what are you doing?
You're directing a Symphony. What is this?
Now she's hiding the hands? This thing?
What would I'm? Cancelled.
I could be her friend. See how that see see where we're
we're we're taking steps. When I first heard the lyric.
I'm not a bad bitch and I'm not a savage.
Like that is not the most dog whistly shit I've ever heard in
my life. Moving on on to wish list.
Let's take. By the way, if anyone actually
says dog whistle to me in real life, I just walk out of the
room. I'll be like I no, no, no, no,
no, no. We're done here.
Everything else out your mouth is going to be bad.
It's people are replaced now with gaslighting.
I've heard this from some people in real life.
You're gaslighting. You're like, you're using that
wrong. You're using it wrong.
I'm not gaslighting you. I'm I'm telling you that you
screwed up here like you're thinking it wrong.
You're you're making a you got you got the facts wrong.
That's not me gaslighting you. That's me correcting you.
That's me mansplaining something to you get it right.
The. Moment for these lyrics.
They want a they, they want a fat ass and a baby face.
They want freedom. They want three dogs, they call
their kids, but I just want you have a couple kids, have the
whole block looking like you and say that again.
She actually wants kids that look like her husband because
she she loves her husband and is attracted, you know, thinks her
husband is a wonderful looking man and is a good man and wants
to have kids that are like her husband is OK.
That so the dog whistle chorus is because, you know, Taylor
Swift and her husband are Dun Dun, Dun white.
Oh no. Oh no.
I want to have your white babies and I actually want our entire
neighborhood to be racially homogeneous.
She went through this entire thing with Trump, right About
how she and her fan base did not like being called childless cat
ladies and and now Taylor is calling y'all childless cat
ladies because she's about to pop out some kids.
White kids, White babies. Damn.
Yeah, yeah. And you know what's coming next?
Taylor Swift line of baby product.
You too could pop out some kids and live in a racially
homogeneous neighborhood. This song was very much giving
Pick Me. I thought that we learned our
lesson with the She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts, the
Pick Me song of all Pick Me songs.
This is that in this different font, but more worse.
Do you understand to mention? No, I don't.
And I yeah, we'll we'll stop it there.
I don't. I don't follow the Swifty's
enough. I don't know exactly what
they're all on about, the reference to the songs that go
completely over my head for good reason, but they're losing it.
They're losing it. And there you go, right?
These ladies gave authority to a celebrity, to Taylor Swift, an
influencer. Really.
She's a singer, celebrity entertainer and basically
influencer saying yes, I'm going to derive my meaning of my life
and the directions of my life. My Fronima will be a Taylor
Swift front of a my state of being will be a Swifty because
she's saying she's telling me how to be.
And then all of a sudden, this woman has, you know, a
revelation and suddenly decides I don't want to be that anymore
because, you know, people grow up and change their mind and
maybe get paid to do with different kinds of influencing
and all the rest of it. Speculations can run wild.
Suddenly she gets endorsed by Donald Trump, who's hating her
on her one moment and then loving her the other moment when
she changes her her direction in life, what she thinks is
advantageous or good. And he goes, oh, yeah, good,
good. Congratulations.
Get married. What a wonderful thing.
Don says. Thanks, Chase.
I was getting annoyed at some. Yeah, I know.
There's only so much, only so much, but I'm using these as an
example. So we're talking about
authority. Who?
Who has authority? Who should have authority?
Who should have this power? Who rules?
Does Taylor Swift rule? Well, now she's having that
authority yanked from her by many, by many of her fans.
I'm just going to use this woman as an example of of a fan, but I
think she's probably speaking for many, especially if you're
past a certain age. Now you're worried you're like,
I don't have a celebrity boyfriend.
I, you know, I've been told to not want kids or live in a
racially homogenized neighborhood.
I've, you know, not been doing anything that would lead to
those kind of outcomes. And now this woman who I've
given all this authority to is changing her tune and I'm left
in the lurch. Oops.
That's awkward. Hang on a second here.
Dave Smith and just had Nick Fuentes on.
I haven't watched the full episode.
I don't know if I will. I'm not particularly motivated
by either those two guys for for different reasons, but similar.
But they just talked about getting out of neighborhoods,
certain neighborhoods. There we go.
Let me find it here. Yeah, here we go.
So this is not, this is not a opinion held just by Taylor
Swift or by a few others. It's being openly talked about
across across the board. Here you have Jewish libertarian
David Smith and big, giant little tiny evil Twinkie man
Nick Fuentes talking about getting out of certain
neighborhoods. This is something that, you
know, Scott Dilbert talked about and drew tremendous amount of
Flack a few years ago saying like, look, you just got to get
out if you're if you've got the means, don't live in these in
these neighborhoods because it's going to get bad and only going
to get worse. And we're certainly seeing those
results. He said the thing he was like,
my advice to white people is just don't be around blacks.
Like just move away, move to a different neighborhood where
they're not there. And then, and I remember first
hearing that and going like, yo, that's fucked up, dude.
And then like the second after I went, oh, that's fucked up.
I went, this is exactly what I did.
That is exactly what I did. You know, I mean, I Remember Me
and my wife were looking at the town that we ultimately moved
to. And it's just like, like there
was like a grading thing. You know, when you look at towns
and they're like schools A+ like this A+ this A+ crime A+, this A
plus and they go diversity D minus.
And I was like, cool. I mean, and it's again, it's not
like I don't care, but it's like those other things are important
to me. And they do seem to be attached
to this one. And so it's like, I think in
order to kind of put this fire out, you would have to do, there
would have to be some type of system where it's like, look
like white people are they're they can't be discriminated
against under the law and they can't be discriminated against
in other ways either. And they have to also be allowed
to say what they want to say. Then to your point, there are
legitimate grievances that black people have.
I mean, there is no, and I, this is my own bias, I guess, but
much of it doing with government policy is that almost everything
that's handed to them from the state is absolute garbage.
Either schools are really bad and they're, you know, there's,
there's like legitimate grievances there.
I also think, like, welfare has done enormous damage, but you
kind of can't just blame all your problems on white people
and racism. I mean, that actually is not
really what's holding black people back in this country.
And I think we have to be honest about that if we don't want
things to go in an ugly direction.
Well, David, so Dave's saying a whole bunch of things here that
gets to authority, gets to power, gets who, who rules if
you're a black person in America.
He's just saying they have they have legitimate grievances.
Well, what legitimizes the grievances?
Well, the state that they're living in.
So, and this is I, I'm not alone in saying this, of course, it's
like, so you're basically saying that blacks is a group is a
category in America here don't have sovereignty, they don't
have agency. They are predated upon by a
system. Now you can say that system is a
white system or you know, based on a white system, colonialism,
all the rest of it, white supremacy, yada, yada, yada.
Or the system is separate and it doesn't have these categories
that the system would be this way regardless of its historical
roots within white whiteness or Christendom or etcetera,
etcetera, etcetera, right? OK.
Either way you want to look at it, if you're saying that their
grievances have merit, well, the only reason they have you can
say they have merit is that they don't have authority.
They have no authority. The authority has been given is
is been taken from them and is being used against them by the
system right. That nebulous always go to which
may or may not be true, but it's a heck of a thing to say.
And so the only way to avoid those who those who have no
authority is to take, is to take your own authority and get the
heck away from them. That's the, you know, that seems
to be the remedy. Of course, as we know, it
doesn't remedy everything. Because while you're worried
about, let's say the blacks, you may not be worried about the
Indians or the Hindus or this or that other group that kind of
gets in there as well. More mobile, more more upperly
mobile. Come up with an HH, you know,
with a visa. Get a nice cushy job in a tech
firm making six figures. They can afford to live in your
nice little gated community. Oops, Dave.
Of course. I find it interesting too.
The category of white is always used here, right?
Dave Smith, Ashanazi Jew, Nick Fuentes, something Latino,
Latin, someone. Not classically what you
consider white here folks. This is my other category error.
Is this magical white person category?
Right, that many people assign this authority to authority of
civilization itself, of Western civilization, of the history of
the West is borne by white people.
The problem is, is that when you get into different categories of
white, well, and I've experienced this first hand
living in Quebec, if you're not pure, then if you're not, you
know, a pure Quebecker with your lineage going all the way back
to the early days of Quebec settlement by the French, then
you're sure you're white, but you're not, You're not.
You're not a francophone. So distinctions made within
distinctions, it's always the case.
It's like, yeah, yeah, we're all white.
We're all together on this when we have to be.
But once you get in that gated community, all of a sudden
little different differentiations are going to
occur. Little other purity spirals and
tests are going to happen. Jon Stewart is one of the the
best examples of this was a a quote there where he's saying,
you know, I think it's actually from from this.
Let me see if I can find it here.
Yeah, here we go. This is from Jon Stewart
back-to-back quotes. One quote says black people
should hate white people. We ruin everything.
We're Dicks. Jon Stewart next quote is Jews
and blacks shouldn't fight. Jews and blacks should get
together and get Whitey. Huh.
So which one are you, Dave? Which one are you, John?
Act of convenience. And just be clear, I actually
don't even fault the Jews for this because it's a mechanism.
It's like I don't fault women for defaulting to feminism when
whenever they need to. It's a tool, it's a weapon.
It's like if you don't criticize right wingers from using cancel
culture now that they can, they can use that effectively against
people who celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination, etcetera.
Then you, you understand that, that hey, if there's a weapon on
the ground and it's called feminism and you're a woman and
so you get to wield that club, you're going to, you're going to
use it sometimes takes an active, superior, active will to
not pick that thing up and use it.
Same thing for the Jews or same thing for the Latinos or same
thing for any subgroup who has a grievance or can say, ha, I've
been I've been victimized XYZ. Now I don't know enough about
Nick Fuentes. I don't know if he's used that
line of defense. I'm not saying he has calm down
gripers. He mentioned Nick Fuentes and
all of a sudden people show up in your mentions.
Oh the How dare you? Oh.
But just to talk about Nick Fuentes for a second, I did a
clip from a show a few weeks ago where I talked about Nick
softening his message because he going to have to in some ways,
in order to fit into the grander narrative to Ford his career,
his immediate career, he's going to be given, given the conch.
Well, he's going to have to do certain things.
Now, of course, he's appearing. Nick Fuentes blames the Israel
for everything. And then he's softened on that
now. Doesn't blame Israel for
everything. He just blames the Jews in
general. He's come out and said, you
know, that the the problems here between Israel and Gaza doesn't
really come down to Netanyahu and Likud party.
It comes down to Jews in general.
This is Nick Fuentes thing. YouTube, don't not me.
I've watched the clips, guys, gripers and the mentions.
I've watched them. Don't worry, I've done my
research. But of course, he's sitting down
with Dave Smith, Jew, secular Jew.
Maybe he's, maybe he's a self hating Jew.
Maybe we can attribute that category and label to him that
that makes it OK. I don't know.
I don't know how this you're going to try to find a way to
excuse this because again, where do people put their authority
into personalities to media personalities?
Probably not the best idea. By the way, I'll tell you
straight up, don't put the authority of your thinking on to
me. What do I keep telling you?
Go to church, go to liturgy, talk to a priest.
You know, you're free not to listen to me.
I get things right all the time, but, you know, whatever.
Why would you want that? But, but here's the danger.
Dave Smith, who doesn't believe that Israel had any connection
to 911, regardless of all the data.
This is what I've been told. Find me a clip that Dave is
saying something different and I'll retract that.
But this is what I've been told. And you have Nick Fuentes
sitting down with him and treating him like an equal.
They're not getting into a combat.
I haven't watched the full episode.
I doubt that happened. I'm sure they had a nice cordial
conversation because Nick's trying to create a bigger media
career now. You might say he's maturing,
he's receiving new information, he's he's altering that
information. And I, I don't have a problem
with that, but it will require a softening because there's
certain things, there's certain positions you can't hold and be
a big name and get on Piers Morgan and all the rest of it
and have this big giant career. Can't be a flat earther, right?
I mean, they'll let you on to make fun of you, but that's it.
I mean, you're done. You're not going to get
anywhere. Can't be an H cost denier you
maybe I think Nick's question things or said that look, I
think actually let me see if I can find it here.
I think there's actually a clip here where Nick and and Dave
talk about the H cost, specifically trying to find it.
Yeah, here we go. Oh, this is about Peterson.
We'll play this anyways. Let's see if it's in here.
But there's a specific clip that I was referencing that where
Nick's like, look, you know, numbers and stuff.
I've watched the movies and came out with certain things, but
regardless of whether what what the number is or some of that,
it shouldn't be influencing our policies today.
And, and David Griesen, that's a nice middle ground position to
take, right? Yeah.
I don't disagree with that completely, but you start to see
that he's starting to soften his message gripers.
I know I got a lot of hate for that one, but it all comes down
to acknowledgement. Acknowledge me.
That's how the cachet, that's the currency.
There's certain things you can't hold and get get level up in the
in the media sphere. Not allowed.
So this is this is Dave and Nick talking about Jordan Peterson.
But to talk about. I just think that's bullshit.
Yeah, well, and Jordan, he even took it a step further.
I don't know if you saw his tweets about me, but he called
me a rat. He said Nick Fuentes is a rat.
And then he came back and amended it and said, no, wait,
he's not a rat because rats are odious by their nature.
He said Nick chooses to be a rat.
He's lower than rat. And it's like, and by the way,
isn't his also his whole thing like about totalitarianism and
like dehumanizing people? And, and, and I said to him, I,
I really was more just like astounded, like you said,
because he is different than the others.
That's like, he's always been different.
Jubiro is like an insane Zionist, like operative of
Israel, whatever you want to say.
But Peterson, like you said, he really was very influential for
young men. And I know that because I was
one of them at one point. And I had close friends that
loved his Bible lecture series, his podcast Maps of Meaning,
which was his original book. Pulled a lot of young kids away
from atheism. Major Yeah.
And, and towards Christianity and towards conservatism and all
of it. And you're right.
His claim to fame was that he was supposed to be this like
lodestar for the disaffected young man of the Trump
generation. And who represents that more
than me? I'm kind of like that archetypal
guy leading those people. And.
And I agree if he's got some. Acknowledge me.
Issue with me, first of all, why not just call me out?
It's this weird like thing that the left does where they say we
don't want to platform him, we don't want to give him
attention. But like you say, what then
happened to that whole deal where it's like it's a free
marketplace, We have to just talk or else we'll fight.
We have to, you know, have this marketplace.
So there's these layers of hypocrisy and no one's buying.
Nobody's, nobody's buying into that nonsense.
And it's sad because I think you've lost a lot of
credibility. Yeah, I, yeah, I completely
agree and. Completely agree.
Credibility Credibility from his position.
Here we go. Jordan Peterson authority over
many men. I still have this book, 12 Year
Olds for Life on the back shelf there.
Yeah. Jordan Peterson.
I've said this on the show for years now.
Jordan Peterson was a major influence in, in, in terms of
softening me towards Christianity to the point where
I could have a spiritual experience so I could bring
bring me back to the faith. And there you have it, right.
There's Jordan Peterson sitting in this in a special place.
He'd been was given authority by many young men, by the media
dissidents, all the rest of it, and then failed in his
responsibility and his discernment made people feel
that he, when he came, had that drug episode and came back from
Russia, wasn't the same man. You know, I've been affected by
the by the world. So his authority, which was
given to him, granted to him by his audience is now being
removed, taken. And you know, Nick is looking
too give it to himself, remove that authority from Jordan
Peterson and wear it himself where the crown sit upon the
throne. Interesting times.
Because what did Jordan Peterson, what was Jordan
Peterson given? He was given mainstream
platforming, maybe not acceptance, but certainly
platforming. He got on Joe Rogan.
He got, you know, he got on all the big shows solo, a whole
bunch of books. Acknowledge me.
That's how the game is played, folks.
Hey, look, I'm not even hating on them.
That's what it what it is. You get to a certain point,
that's what you want, that's what you crave, and you justify
it all the ways you can. You think you're going to save
the world, you're going to change things, you're going to
make things better. I get that platform, man.
I'm going to speak truth. I'm going to drive people away
from from the evil and bring them to the good, take them out
of the darkness and bring them to bring them to the light.
But the question is, here are any of these people?
Dave Smith, Nick Fuentes, Jordan Peterson, and I'm not throwing
anyone under the bus. It's a failing of humanity.
They're human. If I'm saying anything
derogatory about them, it's just somebody saying they're doing
human things because that's how humans do.
Oops. It's why to be part of the
church is to be not of this world, to try to do things that
are not explicitly human, to break the pattern.
What's the one thing we're we're, we're told to do in
Christianity? Basically an Orthodox
Christianities love thy neighbor, give to your neighbor
without the expectation of any material or worldly return.
Just give it to them because it's good to give.
The, the, the giving itself is good.
There's a term, and this is something that Gerard talks a
lot about, but reciprocity. Reciprocity is mimetic in
itself. Give you an example.
And some cultures have made this.
You know, the handshake or the bow, right?
If you go to Asian cultures, go to Japan, someone bows, you bow
back, and sometimes you bow lower.
He who bows lowest is the most giving because you're kind of
being the most vulnerable in that position.
But it's reciprocity. One monkey, Monkey sees, monkey
does, right? I hold up my hand, you shake it,
you return the certain, certain firmness of the Sheikh.
You can tell a lot about a man by his handshake, but it's
supposed to be reciprocal. I give, you receive.
You give. I receive exchange.
What a core tenets of Christianity is to give without
the expectation of receiving. If you receive, great,
wonderful, thank you very much. If you don't, no problem.
I wasn't looking forward in the first place.
That's hard. Everything we do in this world,
especially the material world, when you bring into novelism to
play is is down to the the exchange.
These markets. Libertarianism itself is based
on this idea, free markets, free exchange, the marketplace of
ideas. We're exchanging ideas, we're
competing these ideas, but we're exchanging them.
These things have some sort of intrinsic value.
You know, bucks in the chat, he he can speak of this.
You do start doing these shows. You have to believe in the sort
of the the value of the show bereft of any kind of material
exchange of the show. What it, you know, maybe you're
getting something from it or you hope others are.
But if you're only doing the show for money, well, this is
kind of a bad way of doing it really.
You know, there's much better ways to make money.
Even any somebody's just talk in the media sphere, you know, tell
the people what they want to hear and you'll make a lot of
money. Tell the people they don't want
to hear. It's a tough grind.
Buck says human action does speak volumes.
It's the only thing that we can really judge.
Can't judge someone's thoughts. We don't know their thoughts.
We can judge people's words that comes that streams from
thoughts, certainly, but you know, words are words.
Actions, however, those can't be taken back.
You can misspeak, you can be inaccurate in your wording, you
can speak out of ignorance, and certainly you can act out of
those things too. But the ACT can't be taken back.
You can't really retract the act.
An interesting thing now, of course that everything's been
digitalized and mortalized. You can it's hard to even take
back the words because people will attribute to your words a
certain thought. And now you got to you got some
explaining to do, because ultimately.
I'll tell you what I think. It doesn't matter what you
think. It only matters what you say and
what you do. And it doesn't even really
matter what you say so much. It does matter what you do, how
you act and how others, because others will model your actions.
They might ape your words. But if we start to say now that
let's say you're in media, well, your words are in the sense your
actions, it's your job, it's your, it's your proclivity.
You build this audience to speak to them, to show your face to,
you know, proclaim certain things to direct them into
certain narratives and those narratives, the the entailment
of all that leads to action or inaction, which is a form of
action itself. To do or not to do, that is the
question. Especially in this world now
where things are heating up, things are getting more
precarious. I don't know about how what your
feed is. I've had it now switched to my
ex feed just to go to lists or I just go to my Orthodox list
because I can't deal with my my standard feed.
It's the first thing in the morning.
You just, you know, get up, have your coffee, say your prayers
for me. You have a smoke and then sit
down and go, OK, what's going on in this world?
Death, murder, death, another guy shot by immigrant, blah,
blah, blah. It's intense.
It's too much. How do we get the spirit of the
vengeful sun? Well, because everyone's inputs,
or let's say a lot of people's inputs are negative.
Resentfulness, anger, anguish, depression, despair, those
merchants of despair are working overtime.
When we get to brick coin and other manifestations of all
this, the only, the only end result is despair.
What? What do they need to control
your currency for? What's your control, your
spending or what you say online and all these things?
Why you pose no threats? They get away with everything
they want to do anyways. Why?
Of course they have been so far anyways.
And if they just do something halfway decent, they could get
away with a lot more. We even know they're wrong and
do nothing. And I'm saying this by myself
too quite often. Let me see if I can find that
quote. It's great ex posts recently
that sort of elucidates this and puts the responsibility again on
us as Christians because it's fine enough to say certain
things. Here we go from Subdeacon John.
Put this on the screen so I can big screen this.
This is from Subdeacon John. The voice of the Church has been
hidden behind the walls of ethnicity, not wanting to stand
out, avoiding confrontation and missionary efforts towards
Evangela, Evangela evangelizing only those of similar moral
convictions. Hidden also is the voice of the
church addressing so many issues facing the world today.
Now more than ever we are in need of strong and clear voices
speaking the truth of what and who is Christ, sin, salvation,
the church, the Saints. We also need strong and clear
voices addressing the multitude of issues of our day,
consumerism, homosexuality, transgenderism, same sex unions,
abortion, pornography, fortification, BLM, Marxism,
fascism, screen addiction, gossip, idolatry of politics,
idolatry of sports, idolatry of education, idolatry of
profession, idolatry of children and family, idolatry of money,
etcetera, the authorities of this world.
Again, when the Orthodox frame the world is often meaning the
collection of the passions, when you speak of the passions
collectively we say the world's. We bring death to this world,
we're bringing death to the passions.
That's which is the fertile ground of sin, lust, avarice,
greed, sorry, greed, avarice, gluttony, wrath, list goes on.
These are the things that fuel us.
That's the devil's playground. It's easy to activate the
passions we have a we've we've handed these and many more
issues to the world without a whimper.
Why? Because we are lazy, scared, and
in many cases supportive. And he's talking to Orthodox
Christians. We read in the 1st chapter of
Romans the condemnation of being filled with all unrighteousness,
sexual immorality, wickedness, covetenousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness.
They are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud
boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to our
parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving,
unforgiving, unmerciful Romans. We as a church have accepted
these things out of silence, laziness, and indifference.
Many of us have been taken the side of, of trying not to
practice those things in our own lives.
But we've accepted those lifestyles and others out of
false humility. Who am I to say it's wrong?
Many others have accepted alternative lifestyles, and by
this I mean a lifestyle in opposition to the Scriptures.
Let's not forget what the great apostle says at the end of the
first chapter. Romans who knowing the righteous
judgment of God that those who practice such things are
deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of
those who practice them. Going back to the start of the
show with Father Josiah is talking about the consequences,
how God will not even save the priests who fall away, who you
know fornicate or get drunk and accents happen is purposeful.
The discernment for repentance. Even we say this in our nightly
prayers when we ask for forgiveness for our Lord, when
we bear witness, we're bearing witness.
When we're confessing to to God in our prayers, it's for our
sins, both knowing and unknowing.
So those that what we did on purpose and that which we did by
accident didn't even realize both of those things carry,
carry weight. We must repent for both of the
same time. This is why the responsibility
is heavy because anyone who's realizing that I'm a Sinner, I'm
imperfect, I make mistakes both knowing and knowing, you know,
I'm not as I'm not as giving as I could have been today.
I'm not as this generous. I'm not as loving, I'm not as
forgiving. I'm not, as you know, we can
look at the, the big fall offs, the big cliffs, but they're all
this little, slight little nudges that gets us off the
road. It's easy to defend against the
big ones because you recognize the big ones.
But when you start getting into the, you know, the mechanisms of
pride, it's a tangled web. You start to untangle this stuff
and it's like it's, it's difficult because it starts to
get to the root of who you are, to God, All of it, everything
that you thought you were, you weren't that that was just your
pride, your Vainglory, your avarice, your greed, your
passions. That was this false self that
you have to RIP away. And it's a very uncomfortable
experience. And that doesn't go away just
because you're given authority. It just magnifies the
responsibility of that authority to address these things within
yourself. Saint John Chrysostom says the
one who praises the sin of others is far worse than the one
who sins himself. That is, if we approve and
support immorality, we are even guiltier than those who practice
it. And how might one approve and
support such things openly, publicly, politically, quietly,
privately, interiorly or with our silence?
This is a big problem with the conditions of righteousness.
I say the problem with a vengeful son is it's going to
feel good that vengeance is going to get coded as justice.
People go, no, I know what, I know the difference.
I'm like, how could you know? Look at your life.
It's not. And this is not a it sounds like
a criticism then. Yeah, of course it is in some
ways, but it's not negative. It's not like putting it on you.
How dare you? You just have to do an audit on
yourself and realize that, hey, I'm lacking in certain
categories here and to assume the mantle and to give myself
authority, but I do not, I have not earned and I have no, no
reason to think that I know good, good from bad.
In many of these cases, I looking back my own life and
look at the ways I've lived my life or certain things I've
supported or certain things that I've thought were good.
And now five years later or so, I'm like, well, that was awful.
And it's easy to repent or not do certain things that you
removed from your purview, taking it off your table.
Good for you. Great.
But have you really changed? Have you addressed the
motivation for that thing? Why you had it in the first
place? Why did you think being drunk or
dependent on drugs or whatever fornications, you know, all
these irregularities, Why did you think that was OK in the 1st
place? Why we're using it, You think
you've gotten to the just because you're not doing that
anymore. You think you got that under
control. You think lust is just stepping
out on your on your love, you know, your wife or you know,
play, you know, playing the field.
It's more complicated than that, and it should be.
It ought to be. It should give us hesitation,
rightful hesitation, for to assume that suddenly, just
because I go to liturgy every Sunday, now that I know
something that I don't know, I've read the book.
So I can, you know, tell you what energies and essences is.
You know, I've read these. I've read the lives of the
Saints. I know what do you know?
You should realize that you know nothing, $15.
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I need I need beer and cigarette money, if nothing else, a
mortgage too. But you know, other than that
it's priorities here folks. But even that, right?
Cigarettes, it's a crutch. I know I shouldn't be doing
this. I can make all the good reasons
for it. Keeps me out of the headlines.
It's something that's substantiated.
And I started smoking, what, 35 years ago?
It's been with me for a while, so you know, but where does this
desire come from? Why do I need this thing?
Why isn't God enough? Why do I have to?
I don't need the chemical. That's a big question for
myself. Is it born out of self hatred?
Born out of taking the authority over my life, saying I'm going
to decide how I'm going to die? I'm going to die of cancer or
heart attack? Well, let's have some fun along
the way. Expensive, delicious fun.
It's a nail on the cross, right? I on just a personal note,
there's a little side. We'll get to Tucker Carlson in a
second. And thanks for everyone who's
been sticking with the with the show.
I won't get into the details of it all, but just recently it's,
it's interesting, this, this royal path I've talked about
Christ on the lips, not in the heart.
You say these things or you sort.
To try to. Be this thing without
understanding it really, you got to almost fake it till you make
it kind of out of you. You know, it's almost you, you
you sort of incorporate the habit into your life, but you
don't really understand the fullness of it.
But you're, you know, you're starting to understand little
bits of it. Some of things get chipped away.
And I guess my mind's been on on suffering, on personal
suffering. Quite a bit lately.
As a my own life and just as a concept and one of the things
they talk about quite often. I know Father, Father Moses, I'm
just thinking one of his humblies came to mind.
But the rightful position of the of the.
Christian is on the. Cross right we we were called to
be crucified. That is the suffering itself,
because it's, it's easier in this world to abandon all that
stuff and just go with the flow, to be of the world, to hold the
positions of the world, to soften yourself.
The flesh cries out, don't suffer, don't hold line.
Don't you know, maybe you said some things in the past, you
know, adopt, adopt another stance.
It's going to be easier for you. You'll get invited to the good
parties. Maybe, maybe that's true.
Maybe it's not, you know, don't hold certain opinions.
Now, look, you know, a lot of people think I'm talking about
Nick and stuff like that, kind of.
But it's not a, again, it's not about Nick Puentes or Dave Smith
or Jordan Peterson or me or you or whoever.
It's a natural. It's a natural thing when you're
of the world or you're being worldly.
To choose the. Things that give you pleasure to
feel good and when you start encountering let's say you start
to change your life and lean into suffering.
Well, it gets very uncomfortable, not just for you
but for people around you. I wonder why you're different
now, why you know, why are you being people start thinking
you're being judgmental and you. Haven't even said anything.
Because your life is not reflective of their life.
And so they feel like you're calling them out some way.
And in a sense you are. The closer to reality you are
and the more you begin to live reality in any way, shape or
form. And look, I'm baby toe in,
right? I'm not even in the waiting
pool. So this is not a prideful thing.
I'm just starting to experience a little bit of it and it's
really hard. It's really hard.
It's demanding to maintain certain relationships as you're
going through this change, to maintain love, respect,
humility, to not become prideful or angry or depressed and fall
into despair. Very, very difficult.
Easy it is for me. And so you start to encounter
this in the world, your life. That's where that precipice
happens, right? It's easier to not, it's easier
not to do it. Give up.
Stop going to church, stop doing the show, stop talking, you
know, talk about fun stuff. Talk about stuff that everyone
you know, talk about stuff that everyone's going to agree on.
Make some apologies and get back in with certain groups and it'd
be fine, easier. But it's not true or it's not
true for you. For me, speak personally, it's
not what I feel like I'm being called for.
It's not what I feel is right. It's not.
It's not there, so we continue. And does that mean putting it
all on the altar and sacrifice all of it?
Yeah, all of it. All of the things that I was,
all the things that I am, all the things that I will be, must
be there on the altar constantly placed in the hands of God that
it's not. I'm not taking authority even of
my own life to a certain degree now I must act.
I must have, I must be responsible.
I must have discernment. I must maintain the category of
father, husband, man. I must try to find ways to
redeem myself or this category that I'm occupying by returning
and repenting, rebuilding. But in many cases, you're in a
state of collapse, civilizations in a state of collapse.
That which we were depending on, that we thought was true and
real and good, beautiful and true, turned out to be a lie.
Not as good, beautiful and true as we thought it was.
Or we've watched silently as these things have been inverted,
made ugly, falsified and we're bearing witness to it.
So we've bared false witness, we're bearing witness to a
falsehood and said nothing. You don't want to upend anything
and it doesn't mean that. So you having to pick fights and
to get into arguments. But we're not even saying these
things to ourselves or we're saying these things quietly in
the our little corners. We all prove them.
Yes, yes, yes. You are.
Right, Right, Right. Right.
But what is it doing? What are you doing?
I had to ask myself that question.
I asked myself that question all the time.
What is this for? Why?
What is the entailment? What does this lead to?
Why are you doing this? Mayor and Chuck?
Why? And the only comfort I get, it's
a cold comfort up there on the cross.
It's a nice view though. And that's kind of what if you
get afforded? I don't know if it leads to a
better world So too, but it does lead to a greater a better
context, to a greater peace, to more acceptance, to greater
humility. To think that. 48 years of age,
I've had various things ripped from me.
I can blame COVID, lockdowns, governance, this that I can
blame. I can blame everything.
I can blame the world itself. I can blame all the false.
Authorities, I can blame the, you know, the rulers of this
world, I can blame them all. It doesn't get me anywhere,
doesn't achieve anything. I can't build from blame.
It makes poor stones ultimately. But I guess I'll tell you here.
TLDR Ultimately who rules the world?
Satan, right? Easy.
But he doesn't rule either. The Prince of this world doesn't
rule it. He can rule the passions.
He can play upon our passions. He can manipulate us, you know,
make suggestions we fall prey to.
Only God really rules only God. There's only one king of kings.
There's only one Lord. But in order to accept that
fully and completely, you have to give up everything else or be
willing to on a moment's notice. I've said before privately and I
think publicly, this is God's show.
I've given it to God and I'll sit there and fret, you know,
look at the numbers and the analytics.
Oh, why isn't? It getting better they.
Need to make more money. And I've become a beggar, you
know? And there's a humility there
too. And my back's still out, my feet
still hurt. Applying to work, can't get,
can't get another job screwed. But yet I have church this
Sunday and I have people to talk to and I have this, whatever
this is, this humble of an offering, it is to the world and
this date of the world, here it is.
It's a testament of some sort. So we can think of who rules the
world and we'll still get to the cultism stuff.
But in some ways it doesn't really matter, does it?
What are they ruling? What are they ruling over?
Time, place, all things die. Everyone has an expiration date.
It's the most evil, wicked person in the world.
It's not going to be around forever.
The effects of them might be around long after they're gone,
but they themselves won't be there.
They're free, you know? History will do what it does to
the people. Quite often the result is not
good. Dabble too much in the occult,
went to dark places, and oftentimes you start to look
like the end result of those dark places.
It's corrupting, which is the layup to Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson just sat down with what's this guy's name?
I don't quite remember. His name doesn't really matter.
This he looks like Opie Conrad Flynn is his name.
There you go. Conrad Flynn was just recently
on Tucker Carlson talking about occultism.
Now, you've been paying attention to this show and
you've been a follower of mine of any kind.
You know, I've been talking about this for quite a bit too.
I'm not taking any a credation, let's say, although someone
reached out to me and said that in, in this talk, Tucker
mentions that, you know, liberalism is luciferianism or
something along those lines. I'm like, maybe, well, no, I've
said it before folks, and we'll see whatever happens that we
know we win when Tucker Carlson says eventual son, that's like,
ah, at least we've achieved connection of some sort.
It's percolated up and that's all we can ever hope for.
Is to have the. People with the big giant
audiences say the things that I've been saying, but you know,
no one pays attention to. That's OK because it's not about
me. It's about the general ideas,
the concepts getting out there and hopefully doing some good.
So let's listen to this is this is a clip from the from the full
podcast. I should take a listen to it.
It's an interesting, interesting listen.
The clip is every tech billionaire is having the same
haunting vision. A demonologist explains why.
I'm going to play a little bit of this.
I'll be right back, but with a lot of these guys, What was
interesting about Nick Land is that there's a they keep getting
the same ideas, these guys. Take drugs, whether it's Elon,
Nick Land or even in the 70's, the scientist John C Lilly.
John C Lilly was an eminent scientist, brilliant dude.
He started doing ketamine the same the same drug.
You know everyone lives in Silicon Valley and they when
they do this drug and even if you're a atheist materialist,
this is still interesting. They all get the same idea,
which is that the the machines are, you know, coming.
It's like Skynet and Terminator, they're coming together.
They're they're evolving to eventually take over and that we
are hanging ourselves with the rope we're currently building by
building this. But this goes back.
Nick Land was interesting, but he became less interesting to me
when I realized that other scientists in the 70s, John C
Lilly, the movie Altered States from 1980s horror movie.
This is about, you know, you know, he would have these
visions about the machines. He called them the solid-state
entities. He he would have this in the
70s, Tucker in this in this tank, the isolation tank, you go
in the new, you haven't seen it, but the new Mission Impossible
movie, Tom Cruise, you know, he fights this AI and he goes in
the isolation tank and he has these visions of it.
One of the biggest movies of this past summer and that that
plot point comes from John C Lilly and the visions he would
get of AI apocalypse in the isolation tank back in the 70s.
So I bring this up to say Nick Land is the most foremost
proponent of it that has a public name, even though he's
not that famous right now. But this goes back a long time,
you know, at least back to the 70s.
So are these so people take ketamine and they all have the
same vision? I mean, or species of nothing
enough of them do to make it very strange and alarming that I
mean, I mean that that's the. Thing that one of the main
influences on both the show I was building these guys Brian
guys and William S Burroughs, his creative partner.
He would say The thing is about getting high and about doing
psychedelics is that you know you can spot people you know
eventually who are on the same drug and you're both getting the
same ideas. Some some drugs.
He said, you know increases telepathy.
You know people are it puts on the same same wavelength.
So with a lot of these, it's a little weird that different.
People from a little. Weird.
This is a little weird, isn't it?
This is. If you watched the last week's
show talking about dinosaurs and UFOs for 8 year olds, this is
the problem of, of nominalism, materialism.
And you hear, you know, evolutionary proponents talk
about this all the time where, you know, the brain, the mind,
the mind is just part of the brain.
It's, it's a, a result of this biochemical process in the in,
in this mind, in this brain we have that we create thoughts in
the mind and the reality and all this stuff.
And our processes are just, you know, the results of
neurochemical reactions, which is OK, if you're going to hold
that position, which is a heck of a position, but then you're
left with the fact that then you're bringing it down to a
mechanism. Well, mechanisms can be
calculated. Mechanisms can be observed, and
they can be quantified. They can be measured.
And if you're going to start doing that, then you have to
start understand that that thoughts themselves, if they're
just this biochemical process, break physics.
Oops. Dang.
Damn. Yeah.
How to do that? Well, coincidentally.
If you you. Try to track a thought or the
the speed of a thought is essentially instantaneous.
It does a whole bunch of things all at once.
We can't observe anything else in the natural world doing that
in that sense, because this isn't just like a, a chemical
process that creates a photon or a light beam or something.
No, no, no. Imagine what you're doing, your
what your brain is doing. Just for me to talk on the show,
all the little things that I have to fire off in perfect
sequence for me to make a word that you can understand
continuously. I don't know where these
thoughts are coming from. I didn't write this down.
This is not scripted. But even if it was, I'd have to
think the words and write them down and and then recite off the
paper. There's a lot going on there for
one little organ to do instantaneously.
And you know, as perfectly as I can pull off.
Yeah, oops, not mention that. But when we started getting into
the into the into the weirder stuff like Telestopy, like
people having the same thoughts, if it's all a big experience
from the mind independent of each other, how is my brain
chemistry and your brain chemistry syncing up without
some sort of and we're not even talking.
Like I see a tree. You see a tree.
We both talk. About the tree.
We're talking like independent thoughts that are being produced
by, let's say a drug or something else, which you'd
think if it's just acting on your mind and your biochemistry
that would produce particulars that are particular to you,
experiences that are independent of everyone else.
You're going to see your visions that are that are visions of
Jason. Because I took ayahuasca and saw
the things, right? One drug I didn't do actually
was ayahuasca, thank God, but I did a lot of acid.
At one point. LSD So I saw some saw some
stuff, unfortunately, open my open the my spiritual portal,
which probably didn't didn't help me none.
But people experience the same things.
They see the same elves, they see the same demons.
So we talk about who rules this world.
Well, whether and here's I'll throw this bone to the
secularists out there who don't believe any of this is true.
And I think they get to this in the clip is that even if you
don't believe any of this is true, the problem is that people
there are people who do think this is true and they hold very
powerful positions. They're not naming names here,
but you could easily think that probably Peter Thiel, Elon Musk
and a whole bunch of other people are in this group are
being influenced by these people.
A lot of these people have read Nick Land, I've read Nicklan.
A lot of other people have read Nicklan.
Aaron McIntyre just did a sit down with Landon Dugan, which
I've been told to check out. We know what, what, what is this
connection? Why are people so interested in
these things? Because there's this, this
promise of truth, occult, Kabbalah, magic spells that will
reveal all to you, will give you special abilities, will make you
into this sort of divine God, God like being, promise the
apple power in this world, control in this world, material
wealth, ease of the flesh in this world.
It all requires is your soul right?
Different places, different. Countries.
Different life experiences would take a drug and have the same
kind of vision. And for anyone who, who's that,
that can't be organic. No, no, no, Don says.
My youngest son, he's 28 now. And I still have the same
dreams, two or three. Times a year, yeah, explain that
one through just. It's a biochemical process from
of the brain and and and but that that is weird beyond what
anyone's individual personal beliefs are.
So exactly that that's yeah. So if anyone turns in.
And they're like, where did Tucker find this guy that looks
like Greg Olson talking about insane AI stuff?
If they're an atheist, they don't believe any of this.
Like you're saying the fact that people are taking these drugs
and they're very powerful and they work in tech and they are
getting the same ideas, the same fears.
They think that in some cases they're talking to the same
entities. There are books now about if you
take DMT, if you encounter this, this machine elf, be wary of
this. You know they're encountering
the same stuff. That's that's an interesting
phenomenon. Just biologically, regardless of
what people like, ancient sacred art has the same images created
on different continents at different periods.
They couldn't have had contact with each other.
So why did why are they drawing the same Birdman or the same
purse like it? Because they're seeing the same
visions, which suggests that those visions are real.
Why? Why?
And they're always, always tied to some sort of materialistic
aspect. Jason Stapleton.
You know, made a lot of hay. About talking about wealth
powered influence, you know, these three things, these three
tenants that if you have all three, you can really do things
in this world. And he's not wrong.
You know, if you have wealth, power and influence personally,
you can get invited to certain places, you can get
representative, you can get on these shows.
You can do a lot of things with with with with with wealth
powered influence their currency on 2 of themselves.
The influence part is the interesting thing, because
obviously we talk about influencers, right,
personalities that are on shows, Tucker Carlson, all these other
people, media people proclaiming these things, having these
people on and talk about this thing.
And it's it's going to influence the way you think, the way you
see the world, the way you react to certain things.
Your language, your lexicon, your, your, your spiritual
vocabulary is going to is going to alter.
OK. And be that as it may, good bad,
the other right, the question really is, is who's influencing
the influencer? Who rules the ruler?
Getting back to who rules this world.
And we'll just talk about the material world, not the
spiritual, not the the world, the world being the passions,
but the world pertaining to us. When I say the world, you
conjure this, the globe, who rules it?
Was it just the elites? Elites have expiry dates.
They come, they go, some before the time, some long after their
expired date should have ended. Arguably, certainly, their
influence in the world can be carried out through generations.
We talk about Marx. We talk about ideological.
Figures. Philosophers, certain leaders,
have done things in the past that still carry over.
We're still in the reverberations of Charlemagne
and many others. So great was a man that his
effects reverberate through history, throughout you know,
and will continue on. They've altered our way of, of
perceiving, of what truth is, in what standards of beauty, but
who's influencing them? Who's controlling them?
Because often times what people will will default to if you
can't have a, if you can't have true authority, you know,
gained, earned through proper responsibility, humility,
discernment, all the rest of it, you'll take control.
And often times positions give you control.
The king gets to control things because he's the king or the
queen or the CEO, etcetera. But again, that's a temporary
position. Even a long lasting king is only
going to be there for so long. Eventually they fade out.
There's the classic quote. You know, look upon my works in
despair. Nice works have been destroyed.
Talk about civilizations have come and gone.
Rome, Byzantium. Babylon.
Whatever flavor fits your fancy, gone.
Dust. Soviet Union.
All the great evils still reverberating through.
We'll take generations to finally get rid of that.
But it doesn't exist anymore. No one you know, There's no
Soviet Union to point to. It's gone.
You'll be gone. All these other things we hold
on to so desperately. So we we give this great
authority to both in the positive and the negative, both
in the exultation and the criticism still grants.
Some authority we're still. Giving it power.
But that power is not forever. It can't be.
It's man made. So who influences the
influencer? Going back to Gerard, we know
that well. From Gerard's perspective, all
desires are external. We don't know what to want until
someone models that want. But then you get into infinite
regress. Who was the original desirer?
Where did the where did the first desire come from?
Prestige, power. Acknowledgement, pain.
Acknowledge me. Where does this desire come
from? Look, I you know from again from
the Christian. Frame, we say, well, it comes
from the fall, from the inversions.
The passions are the inversions of God's virtues, and we are
mired in the in the passions. There's the food of the pigs,
and we must choose to distance ourselves from it, to exalt and
chase after the virtues, to model those virtues, to be the
prodigal son. But we've been LED astray, or
LED ourselves astray in many cases, a snake.
But just to finish that thought. But to go along in your life,
religious or not, whatever frame you occupy, to go along with
your life and think that these things aren't going to affect
you is folly. Because there's big, you know,
people with well powered influence who believe this
stuff, who really, really believe it.
And either they're practicing it or they're reacting against it,
whichever way you look at it. I mean, it puts Peter Thiel's
obsession about the Antichrist into into interesting
perspective, doesn't it? Why is Peter so obsessed by it?
Well, maybe in this world that he lives in that he's, you know,
part of maybe he just sees evidence of the Antichrist
everywhere. Now, doesn't mean that Peter
Thiel's doing the right thing or that he's a good guy or that he
should be given authority, but he's certainly someone we should
be paying attention to. And if he's talking about the
Antichrist all the time and is very deeply concerned, and, you
know, if all these people are talking this way but yet
pursuing different means, as Buck Johnson says, actions are
what we have to ultimately judge or really pay attention to.
So, you know, Elon Musk is talking about how dangerous and
demonic and potentially evil AI is, but he's developing AI.
It's an interesting contradiction, and I think the
contradiction is born out of one, this liberal frame and two,
out of this pride we all fall prey to great clip about that.
But that pride is this idea that yes, this is dangerous and and,
and very, very dangerous. It's a gun.
It's a loaded gun being welded by a by a toddler.
But if I have a gun, I'll know what to do with it.
Only I can wield this because I have the proper discernment.
I have the proper authority. Well, who's giving him this
authority? Who gave Elon Musk the authority
over how AI should be used? Or Peter Thiel or whomever?
Who, me, You. Who voted for this?
No one. Oops.
Well, there's a problem. Worship universal around the
world. Circle worship.
Exactly. Because, and one last thing
before we play more of the clip, This is why Civilization.
Has to have those three things. Ruler, easy, right?
Government, someone who's in charge.
Region. Even simpler.
You need have a border, a land, a people, a culture or history,
something that's holding us together where the civilization
is going to be the place on the map we point to and go, there's
Russia, there's America, there's a there's this place.
We understand where it is because it says so on the map.
And the map has to have the borders and the ideas of what it
is and what it isn't. Right.
OK, The, the, the, the third pillar of, of civilization being
religion. I know many secularists are
going to balk at that. And I wouldn't even bother
voicing a complete defense, but realize that without it, people
are going to be influenced by other things.
So when we get down. To who should have authority?
How do we practice discernment? How do we know good from from
from wrong, righteousness, wickedness?
Where is this lever? Where is that we can get really,
really granular, but ultimately, where is it?
How do we make that discernment? How do we know?
But we need some mechanism and the atheist or the secularist
doesn't have it. They've just declared themselves
prey. And we can get go through all
the faiths and all the rest of it.
But regardless, any group of people who has a clear root
ruler or leadership and a religion is going to have the
mechanisms that that the the secularist does not.
You have tools and abilities the secularist does not that they
have taken off their own table because they say, ha ha, ha, it
doesn't really exist. It's like, well, it exists.
If people believe it and if they're acting with this thing
in their mind, whether you think it's real or not, or you think
it's a biochemical misfire, well, golly Gee, gosh, all these
people are acting as if it's real.
So you're going to live in that reality.
You're going to live in their frame.
Get it? Probably not.
Is there something that people are responding to that's not
coming from within them? But.
Outside of that that. Was Carl Jung's like main
insight is that is that you know getting the idea of of can
ideas. Come from without you and not
just within you. So yeah, well, yeah.
And the materialist doesn't want to admit that.
And our culture has, since we dropped the atom bomb, has sort
of written off the. Possibility.
Really, that that could be true, but it's just reconnecting with
something that every civilization has always assumed
was true, which is there's a spiritual realm that's every bit
as real as your iPhone or this desk.
And it's just, it's actually real and it acts on us all the
time. And, and that both ants as
secularists took themselves out of the game.
No, they're still in the game. I'll just push.
Back on that. They're still in the game.
What they've done is disarm themselves.
They're, it's like they're on a battlefield in the middle of a
war and they just dropped their weapon because it's like weapons
don't exist. These bullets aren't really
real. They're just figments of your
mind, right? It's the matrix.
You can stop the bullets with your mind because they're just,
it's all figments of your mind, man.
It's all just part of the simulation till you get shot in
the head. Oops, that is the truth.
And. I know, because ultimately I'll
tell you what I think. It doesn't matter what you
think, there is no spoon. Exactly.
You seem to take that for granted, but it's still
shocking. To those of us who grew up in,
you know, basically a, a godless country, it's totally, I mean,
one of the, the basis for my, my interest in a lot of this is,
you know, my mom was raised in a Christian home.
I consider me a Christian. Myself and my mom would always
say, you know, she became a Christian in the 70s and she but
she knew all the psychedelic groups back in the 60s, you
know, love spirit, you know, she amount Mormon.
I don't know that for sure, but I mean.
Probably go to the indoor shows and all those, you know, group
groups in the late 1960s and. Something that she'd say and,
and that people who are, you know, rock and rollers into the
occult would say that they both say the same thing, which is
that people take drugs, musicians do for inspiration,
for creativity, to tap themselves into the spiritual
realm to get to pull something from outside themselves.
So the basis for my interest in a lot of this stuff was like,
that's something my mom says. My mom's great Christian, one of
the all time greats. And this is something that, you
know, every musician knows too. That's why they take drugs is to
tap into the spiritual. So I didn't know that I thought
that people took drugs. I mean, I took drugs.
People take drugs for all kinds of, I'll admit it.
But I always assumed that those insights are really mostly fake.
Insights, but. All that stuff came from within
that it was, I mean, I bought the Freudian analysis of it that
there's, you only use 10% of your brain and there's this
whole sort of primordial C in your head of, of thoughts and
visions that you're not in touch with on a daily basis.
But that drugs, yeah. FF says Tucker loved his C cane
and, and weed, from what I heard.
Well, he's definitely got the C cane bloat.
That's, that typically happens, do a lot of it and it's screws
up your, your thyroid and endocrine, endocrine system.
And often times you get bloated. How would I know?
I don't know. Just suppose this is what I've
heard. And he's a heavy drinker.
Yeah. Well, you know, he's swam with
sharks for a very long time and had to probably.
Even if you don't know something's a lie, something
inside you do does, do's does and you're reacting to it.
I'll speak personally, like working in hospitality.
I worked in hospitality for, you know, whatever, almost 30 years,
right? And a lot of hospitality is
based on lies, manipulations, we'll put it that way.
You know, the homemade home cut fries aren't home cut.
Some cases aren't even fried. So then there's a whole bunch of
stuff you'd do with in hospitality that's, you know,
upselling and creative selling and all the rest of it.
It's creating an environment, creating an experience.
And to do that, often times if you're not out 100% deceitful,
you manipulate, move things around, you know, get the sale
sales important to get higher the bill, higher the bill, the
bigger the percentage of the tip, right?
And the more they, they like you.
And then you get, you know, they promote you, you get to deal
with more crud, you get to lie even more.
It's fantastic. But yeah, I, I don't think it's,
when you look at it from that frame, it's not a wonderment
that many people in the hospitality sector fall prey to
a lot of drugs and other activities because you're
speaking personally. It was like this distancing.
I didn't want to be me was, you know, because you get slimy and
even when you're trying to be honest and you're trying to be
authentic and you're trying to be a good person, it's very,
very difficult. And in fact, often times, and
I've, I know this from, again, my own experience, you know,
when you, when you start drawing a line and go a moral line in
the sand, like, yeah, I'm not doing that.
That's when they get rid of you. That's when you're, you know,
you're the general manager. And now you're not the general
manager anymore. Yeah, thin the membrane, but I
it never occurred to me a single time until middle age when I
started to see reality that actually they're coming from
outside you. Well, that and Tucker, that's a
great point. That's something that any
psychedelic guy, it's kind of a double, double standard thing,
ideal where when talking about. Drug use, they'll always say,
well, there's no difference between what's going on in my
head and what's going outside. It's we're all one.
That's always, you know, I think it was William James said, you
know, the great oceanic feeling. You know what he what he would.
But that's their that's always their big insight is hey, man,
what's going on in my head isn't different from what's going
outside until the psychonaut encounter some sort of weird
demon on DMT and then they backtrack and they're like,
brother, that's just in my head. Don't worry what's in my head
can't get in your head. So they they go from it until
you have two different people meeting the same demons.
Right, right, right. Then you realize, well, wait a
second, Psychonauts. And maybe not the most.
Logistically consistent, but I'm just saying again, just to
hammer the point again and again.
And again, because it can't be hammered hard enough that there.
Is a realm that exists outside of us, over which we are not in
control? Yes, and that it can enter you
can bring stuff into you that has control over you right,
right, right totally and and you know, or we could even say
rulership. So this is.
It goes on again. I would I suggest.
Listening to the whole to the whole show, because they they go
into some stuff that if you've been paying to this show and
many others in our sphere, they, you know, irritate the mark of
the beast is, you know, your favorite musician leading you
towards the demonic. These influences, these things
are acting upon us externally come from someone else's
internal internal life, their their own, what they're being
influenced by and whom and or what in as many cases.
So where do we place the blame? Someone who's fallen into this
thing? There's, I think there's a
discernment to be made there too.
People who realize this and are leading into it and practicing
it, and those who are being affected by it and not really
understanding of what's going on to them, what's going to happen
to them, until maybe many years later.
We see this in the influence world, right?
Britney Spears, it's a tragic figure.
She was groomed from childhood to be this false thing.
She can sing and she can dance. She's an entertainer, but she's
constructed to be that thing. Taylor Swift, bring it back to
her. She's a constructed being.
She's she is being manipulated so she can manipulate other
people. Now currently, obviously her
change in messaging towards this sort of neo tratty kind of kind
of life is screwing people up because they were modeling the
reality and basing the reality off of her and her messaging.
And the messaging has changed. And that's great for the younger
kids who are maybe just getting in.
You know, if you're 20 and you're cute and you're fun and
you have a whole life ahead of you and you can go find yourself
a husband and start popping out kids and be a good little
swifty. But if you're on the wrong side
of 30 and you you've rejected men, relationships and.
Marriage. And all these other categories
and you've actually taken on a personality that makes you kind
of obnoxious. And I just played the clip and
people were like, stop the clip. I'm like, Can you imagine that
woman trying to find a mate, trying to find a guy who who who
is a more of a traditionalist? Not going to happen.
She's she's now in that group where the only kind of mate,
only kind of mate she's going to be able to find is some probably
liberal or post liberal guy, some guy who's now, you know,
going from liberalism into that sort of neo, neo tratism.
And it's going to be awful at it too 'cause they're just, they're
just modeling false, false. Models.
Here's a great quote from Father Sarah Monroes.
When you erase God, all that's left is revolution, chaos and
false saviors. What do we have?
The eternal revolution of liberalism.
Chaos, certainly. Chaos in the streets and in our
lives and in the world today. Just on your on my feet is chaos
and false saviors. You know, the neotrads thing, on
the face of it, more people returning to Christianity and
religion overall. Good.
Many will be called, few will be saved.
But you got to cast a big net, right?
We're fishers of men, or certainly the Saints, the
Church, they are fishers of men. I shouldn't speak personally,
doing what do what I can with what I'm given.
But then it also has to come with humility, right?
Go to church, talk to your priest.
Glory to God for all things tip your streamer get a Ding when
you do so I got to throw it in there.
I got to do the grifting game. I got to get better at the
grifting game. Difficult.
Let's get to pride, actually, since there's AI do have a good
quote on this. But two things, yeah.
Let's do this one first. From an Orthodox ethos, probably
Pierre hears, I think one talking to I don't know.
This is Cleave to antiquity, cleave to antiquity.
Sorry, Cleave to antiquities. Pastor Ben shares one of the
reasons behind his decision to leave Protestantism for Orthodox
Christianity. Watch the full interview with
all of Peter Hears here. So let's just hear what Ben has
to say here. One of the biggest
inconsistencies as I study church history is even if we as
Protestants, which is what I tried to do on my channel.
Was I would go through the church fathers and I would say,
hey, actually the Protestant position isn't so out there
because look at what this church father said, look at what this
church father said. Look at what this church father
said. But at the very bedrock of
Protestant theologies, the rejection of the ecumenical
councils is divinely inspired. And if you were to look at the
writings of the Church fathers that were there, like even at
Nicaea, one, they say inspired by the Holy Spirit, guided by
the Holy Spirit, divinely inspired cannot be changed.
The Orthodox Church is the only church that actually holds to
the ecumenical councils in that way and doesn't have further
developments post that to kind of reconcile why they changed.
And I noticed that a lot of my critiques had to do with like
practice, maybe applications of canons, but never with the view
of the ecumenical councils themselves.
So I realized over time, I'm like, man, a lot of my
criticisms in the debates that I would I would do with Orthodox
are mostly about practice. And that's, that's not very good
because that's just the sinfulness of man or whatever
the case may be. So that's not a valid reason to
prevent me from joining. What's he expressing here?
Right? Humility.
Understanding that. What he thought was real or
true, it really wasn't at the end of the day.
And really what it rested upon was who has authority?
Well, if the councils don't have authority, if the Church Fathers
don't have authority, if no one who's discerned the Bible,
since, you know, since it's canonization, those who canonize
the Bible itself, the only reason you have the Bible in his
form is from these men who believe, you know, believed and
acted on revelations from God. If, if they don't hold
authority, then why would Pastor Bob have authority?
Why would you have authority, me or anybody else?
I can read English, read the read your version of the Bible
and go, Oh yeah, see, I'm, I'm the authority now I hold because
I'm holding the authority. The the book is the authority.
And if I read it and speak it, then I become the authority too.
I'm taking the authority from the Bible and using it, applying
it. But how can a book, no matter
how divinely inspired the book is, or the writings, or the
teachings and all the rest of it is?
How can that? Alone give me authority.
Who am I? What have I sacrificed?
Where's my responsibility to you, myself?
Others see. So it's an act of humility to
understand that we maybe don't know what we think we know.
Here's another one. This is understanding pride.
This is Arch Priest Andre the Chinook explains what pride is
and how it manifests itself. So hang on a second here, I'll
read along the translation question.
What is pride and how does it manifest itself?
Pride is loneliness. Here I am and everything around
me is already. Me.
Yeah, hell is eternal loneliness.
Pride is when a person believes that he can do everything by.
Himself. That he needs no one and that in
general he can be the judge of everything.
So again, who rules? Who rules this world?
We can get to the more obvious, we'll get to the more obvious
ones, right? More obvious manifestations of
rulership, of those who believe that they rule, at least, who,
who act as if they rule, who are creating mechanisms of control
to prove the rulership, to prove their authority.
Because they're going to be the ones with the mechanisms.
They're going to be the ones with their fingers on the
buttons. This is for brick coin.
Brick coin is. Speculated now this.
Is this British CBDC system digital currency Plan A guys
right still going along with this?
They're destroying the system so they can.
Put this through. I thought they, I think they
wanted to be global, but now they're going to be at least
regional and see how it goes. So of course we're seeing
reports of Britain. The big, the big news out of
Britain is the digital ID, right?
They're not even trying to call a brick card.
I think that was what they were originally going to call it.
Now they're just coming out and saying it's digital ID and
they're going to use this digital ID as a digital online
passport and connect it to work visas and all the rest of it.
So the claim is that it's going to prevent illegal immigration
because you won't be able to work without a proper ID.
And you'll get this through an authoritative body, right?
The authorities will give you this card and now you will have
be gifted the authority to work and, you know, have prosperity,
I guess, in Britain, all throughout the UK.
The speculation is that they're going to tie the digital ID
wallets to your CBDC, to your Bitcoin, and then they'll be
able to control how you spend and what you spend it on and all
the rest of it. Now people go that's crazy
conspiracy theory. Again, the technology itself is
neutral in that clip before I cut it off before with Tucker
and and Opie there, but they do get into into the things I
brought on the show, which is like world coin Horowitz
venture, you know, where you scan your eyeball to have a
digital passport to, you know, you don't have to get rid of,
you know, get rid of all your passwords.
It's kind of how it's going to be sold, right?
It's how they're selling the brick, the digital ID in the UK.
It's such a hassle to find all your all your identification
papers. Wouldn't it be easiest to have
it all in one place to authenticate yourself?
For those who demand authentication, who create all
the rules for authentication, whether new rule just Yeah, it's
easy, right? The, and I'm going to actually
return to that clip with Tucker to finish this off because cut
it off before he gets into some more interesting territory
specifically around this kind of stuff, talking about the mark of
the beast and how many in the in Silicon Valley were unaware of
this thing. If you're not exposed to
religion at all, if you've been raised a secularist or, you
know, outside the religion entirely, you're not aware of
of, you know, the premonitions put through in Revelation, you
know that you get, you'll get this mark of the beast and you
require it to do any kind of commerce.
Oops. And we think mark will be like a
tattoo or something, and maybe eventually it will be, but
either whether it's on your skin or in your wallet or on your
phone or wherever on your wristwatch, it's still be a mark
that you're going to need to access everything else.
Now, some people think, well, look, it's a way to combat AI,
you know, people using AI to create digital copies of
yourself, to be duplicitous to, you know, all the rest of it.
OK, fair enough. A security measure for yourself
against deep fakes and all the rest of it.
And that's a it's a good sales pitch.
The thing is that no matter what you build, there's going to be
hackers. No security system is 100 is is
foolproof. Never has never existed will
never exist, especially when you take something that you know,
you might be able to build the world's greatest safe that'll
protect you and your and stuff you put in that safe.
Maybe it's, it's such a, you know, a.
Thief proof. Safe or security system that it
would take an elite thief to get through it?
OK, But when you sort of apply this kind of security system to
the world at large and to everybody, well, suddenly it's
not just one little safe we're talking about here, right?
It's creating a panopticon, a great big safe around a whole
big bunch of peoples. And when you start to scale this
thing into its logical conclusions, you have the
problem of humans being humans. Number one problem is that,
well, you don't you know that these elites aren't.
Going to be held by. These same rules, are they?
No. You know, we saw this during the
lockdowns. Everyone else, you get called
out of your house if you had one extra guest at Thanksgiving
dinner. Well, Boris Johnson and many of
these other people are having parties on rooftops.
No masks, no nothing. Yeah, rules for thee, but not
for me. The bitter white pill here is
all these things are being designed by incredibly, well,
mostly, let's say mostly, people being designed by incredibly
corrupt people who think they're better than you or different or
more deserving. There goes.
Some they'll be loopholes and once you create loopholes for
this group of people, well, guess what?
People who are really good at exploiting loopholes will find
the loopholes and exploit them. Piracy being one of, you know, a
clear example. Lots of money and effort and
tension have been put into making sure piracy doesn't work
and gosh darn it, and this is what's still going on in this
world. So here's a clip about brick
coin. I'll just read the This is from
Wide Awake Media. Former Bank of England deputy
John Cunliffe, praising PAL, compares Brick Coin, the UK's
incoming CBDC, to giving your. Children pocket money.
But programming the money so it could be it couldn't be used for
sweets. There are new forms of money.
These new forms of money offer the ability for them to be
programmed to be released only when something happened.
There's a whole range of things that programmable money could do
which can't, which we can't do with current technology.
Remember, the CBDC's can't be rolled out until digital ID is
in place first. And if both are allowed to take
root, they can be tied to a social credit systems and
personal carbon allowances, enabling authorities to approve,
restrict, or block purchases based on behavior, location, or
carbon footprints. Once these systems are in place,
every transaction becomes a checkpoint.
An algorithm could deny your payment or freeze your account
entirely for refusing A mandated vaccine, sharing misinformation
on social media, or exceeding your designated personal carbon
allowance. In other words, totalitarian
control on an unprecedented scale.
Let's listen to what this guy has to say.
The Bank of Inland. I guess he's using a filter, but
this looks AI. Doesn't it?
He kind of looks AI in this. Clip We issue banknotes, the
notes that everybody holds in their pocket, but we don't hit
issue any money in digital. Form So when you pay with a card
or with your phone on a digital transaction, you're actually
using your bank account, you're transferring money from your
bank account to somebody else's. A central bank digital currency,
a digital pound, would actually be a claim on the Bank of
England issued by us directly to the public.
And these new forms of money offer the ability for them to be
integrated more with with other things through their software.
So you can think of smart contracts in in which you know
the money would be programmed to be released only when something
happened. You could think, for example, of
giving your children pocket money, but programming the money
so that it couldn't be used for sweets.
There's a whole range of things that money could do,
programmable money as it's called, which we can't do with
the current technology at the moment.
The bank. Now, of course, the selling
point here would be to keep people safe.
Security, right? What's the thing that you
wouldn't want people spending money on?
Oh well. You know, weapons and all the
rest of it, right? Living in the UK should be like
steak knives. Sure, there's a sales pitch, of
course, and all the obvious dangers of society.
We can simply say, OK, well, we can maybe trust people to not
want certain people to get certain access to certain
things. OK, here's your problem is that
we're relying on incredibly people who've proven themselves
being credibly. Corrupt.
Or self interested, or certainly not interested in the well-being
of the citizens or others who are not part of their own class
to utilize discernment and responsibility for how we spend
our money. Huh.
Wait, shouldn't that fall on me? Shouldn't I have the authority
of my own finances? I mean, I work for the finances.
I, I do the labor to produce the money to then use that money to
do things with, right? Is it on?
Shouldn't that be on me? And they're like, no, no, no,
no, no, no. See, the problem is that the
common person can't be, shouldn't have it at those
authorities only we should have that authority because
obviously, look at us, we're so great.
We go to all the fine dinners and have the nice suits and have
all the proper education and all the proper ideas.
So you can trust us. And even if you can't trust us,
well, too bad, because. You're going to fear us.
These people have been granted authority.
They haven't earned it. Look at this man.
Honestly. Look at him.
This man is saying that him and his his buddies should have the
authority over how you spend your own money.
And you can use the extreme examples of the terrorist or the
this the that the, the narrow do wells, the people who are going
to, you know, collect money and spend it on bad things, bad, bad
people. Yeah.
This is not going to get rid of the bad people.
This is going to make the bad people more creative because
this in itself doesn't really do anything.
This is kind of is part of that whole quote.
Recently. Going around, I don't know if
you've been checking this out and it's Kasparian did a
reaction, I'll play a clip in a SEC, But Larry Ellison of
Oracle, among others, has come out and said that yes, we're
going to use this AI and all the rest of it to police people to
make sure that people don't do the bad things.
People are going to be on their best behavior because we're
going to be watching. We're going to use the digital
highs in the world and all these, these technology, this
technology to make people act morally.
It almost feels like a religion, doesn't it?
So you get rid of that religion that held people.
Together in a moral. Sense and a shared region and
history and all these things. You got rid of all those things.
You destroyed all those things said, oh, that's antiquated.
That's that's for peanut heads. No, no, no, no.
We're going to progress to this new thing which is going to
substantiate morality and a region in a area where all going
to be just Singapore, but digital Singapore's.
And this has LED Ana Kasparian. Ana Kasparian's inner demon has
come out in response. Yes, we're going to surveil
everybody. Everyone will be on their best
behavior. I love that you have me playing
it over here. This is the.
This is the the full 1. Ana Kasparian on one Yes, we're
going to surveil everybody. Everyone will be on their best
behaviour. Yes, yes, we're going to surveil
everybody. Everyone will be on their best
behaviour. Yeah, women are not doing well,
man. I don't know if you've been
noticing this, folks. I just been noticing my own, my
own little pure of the world. Women are tweaking.
They're, you know, if we use women as as as vibe detectors,
the vibes changing and it's it's looking a little bit more
demonic every day. This is a this is a mash up of
Anna Kasparian and Candace Owens.
Yes, we're going to hang on a second here.
Let's play that from the top, everybody.
Everyone. Will be on their best.
You're a freak, yes. We're going to surveil
everybody. Everyone will be on their best.
You're a freak. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Things are happening. Things are happening again.
They're happening quickly. Yes.
We're going to surveil everybody.
Everyone will be on their best behaviour.
Sorry I put that together, it makes me chuckle.
OK, one last one. Because we haven't even talked
about the group that everyone thinks when I say who rules the
world. Well, you know, quite often
these days one group gets mentioned above all of us.
Here's Matt Gaetz on Tim Poole talking about when he was in
government as congressman and he went to an AIPAC reception.
So part of this clip he's talks about, oops, he says at my first
AIPAC reception, Hang on a second, let me just get rid of
this. Why does it do that?
Weird. At my first AIPAC reception, you
had to wear a name badge with AQR code, talk to donors, and if
they liked you, they scanned it to donate on the spot.
Technology has even reached the lobbyist zone.
Initially, I resented the fact that there was no appreciation
for nuance. Like if you if you asked any
questions. About any decision of the
Israeli government in any place regarding settlements, regarding
Gaza, regard whatever you were like you, you had deviated from
the script. And I just in any policy area, I
had resentment over that. And then I saw the way the AIPAC
worked and that that was weird for like a country lawyer like
me. I remember my first AIPAC
reception and like your fundraiser tells you, you have
to go and your chief of staff tells you have to go.
Your committee chairman, I'll tell you have to go.
And you get there and you wear this name badge.
And I remember there's AQR code on it.
And what we were supposed to do was go talk to donors and then
if they liked you, they scanned your QR code to make a donation
like on the spot. And so this can you just imagine
how demoralizing that is to like be told that your job for the
next several hours to go chat people up, hoping they would
scan you like a can of tomato soup on the way out of the
meeting. And it's like literally
purchasing, right? And so I, I saw that and I was
like, wow, that is so freaking weird.
And. Then I, you know, I was in
Israel. I went multiple times and I did
not like the fact that I found someone in my room rooting
around in my stuff that should not have been there at the King
David Hotel. When I came back to my room when
no one was expecting me to be back in my room and I presumably
Israeli long. I don't know who it was.
I just thought like, this is weird.
All of these things combined are odd.
And then the policy outgrowth seems to be an obsession about
the Middle East that has not served my generation well.
I just don't. Well, there you go.
So it must be. Yes, we're.
Going to surveil everybody. Everyone will be on their best
behaviour. I didn't intend that to happen,
but I'm kind of glad it did. Because it's just the proper
creepiness. I gotta get rid of this Anna
creep. But must be, must be the bagels.
Must be them. They rule the world.
Have a little time place. There's like 12 million of them,
and they rule it. Interesting.
Yeah. Fun.
Oh, they certainly. Have influence, they certainly
have wealth, they certainly have power or they use other people
to use their power to gain authority from other people.
And as Matt Gates is here is talking about Congressman,
you're, you know, serving the government and you go around and
they scan you and to get, you know, they just donate money
directly to your account. Just one, no fuss, no muss, no
signing of checks or something. That's it's progressed a little
bit. So may the lobbyists have ruled
this world special interests. And as I've said to people
before, and I know no one wants to hear this, but I'll say it
again. City of London, for example,
isn't just a place, it's an idea.
It can move. It was in Amsterdam, it was in
Holland before that it was, you know, it was in Venice.
Apparently there's reports now that they might be moving it
back to Italy. It's in London, it's been in
London for a while. It's banks, power, money,
influence, people who have designs and they believe they
have future plannings and want to be involved in everything.
They want control because I mean, they have authority, don't
they? They have a nice office and the,
the, you know, they're called Lords and all this other stuff.
And they have, you know, all this power invested in them.
They're given this authority of their position, has this
authority that they can use. So you can use it.
You might as well use it. If you don't use it, you lose
it. So may they rule the world.
And of course, because. You have the Rothschilds or you
have certain members that are included in that group.
Well, then that must be all of them.
Israel somehow is a tail that wags the dog.
And I don't even want to waste time trying to dissuade you of
these ideas at this point. I understand what they're born
out of. Understand why you think these
things, because there's a lot of, let's say, reasons to.
They're giving you a whole bunch of reasons to think this.
And certainly any kind of foreign group that is making
America do things or any country do things or say things, or you
can't say certain things because it'll upset other people in
other countries. You're like, wait, what?
What? Why do I have to care about
people living in the other countries even though I'm using
this global network thing? It's like they're free to not
listen to me. So what do I have to care about
this? Why am I being forced to?
Part of the thing that authoritarianism grants people
is that you need to have these demonstrations.
Demonstration of power, in many cases is more powerful than
power itself. If you can't show it, you can't
prove your power, then what good is it?
The other thing that I think is an inversion of thinking is this
idea that, and Tucker talks about this in that in that
podcast episode where he says that that statecraft is there to
prevent war or something along those lines.
And I would push back and say that in actuality, war or let's
say violent conflict is the, is the desired outcome always,
because it's, it's the true resolution of conflict.
The thing about violence is it's honest.
You can't take putt, you can't take back a punch.
We're talking about actions, right?
A punch in the face. So there you go.
If I punch you in the face and you break your nose, that's
honest. That's really did happen.
Don't need any digital ID to prove that otherwise to verify
the information. You take that into a war.
Scale. Well, it's the absolute
resolution of a conflict. Why is there conflict?
Maybe we'll think, well, because it's over land and possessions
and materials. It's like, no, no, no, no.
It's not even that. It's the desire to control, to
have mine. Pride and glory, avarice,
passions. There we go.
Mine. I want it.
I want to be in control. I want those places to be mine,
be part of my Kingdom. I don't want to trade for it.
See, people think in order to enter into it, any kind of
negotiation for a trade, both sides have to be agreeable
before they even get into the negotiation.
The agreeableness has to be almost presumed, because
otherwise what are we doing here?
If you're not? If you're not interested in
buying what I'm selling, why am I even showing you this?
Because you're perusing? Because you want me to go
through a song and dance? Well, there's something there.
If my desire is to go to war with you, that's really what I
want, and I'm looking for reasons to.
Either commit or. Not commit.
I don't know, maybe maybe you're too strong.
Maybe maybe this is not going to play out for me that well, or
maybe there's other ways I can I can get what I want without
having to commit to a full at war.
So now we have a negotiation. A negotiation is, you know, this
whole trade agreement, right? Yeah, we're going to do trade.
What I'm really doing is I'm checking you out and you're
checking me out because maybe both of us want to go to war or
we both have that that on the on the table, but we're not too
sure. So we're going to do this
negotiation and see how. How big your?
Balls are of this today. How's this going to play out?
Can I get you to capitulate and give me what I want anyways
without having to go to war? Are you going to bitch out?
This leaves a lot of credence to what Jim Joshua keeps talking
about, about how, yes, Russia might be winning, let's say the
ground war. Now they're committing to it.
So they're taking territory. And if we think that winning a
war is taking territory, then yes, they are now winning the
war. They're killing the the
opponent. They're destroying the
opponent's armed forces and ability to to conduct war and
taking territory. Now the new big news coming out,
and we'll cover this next week with Jim, is Russia targeting
Ukrainian energy resources, taking out like, no, even the
Ukrainians have now had to admit the Russians have destroyed
something like half of their gas, gas facilities.
So it's going to be a very cold winter in Ukraine.
They're going to have to import something along the lines of, I
think €20 billion worth of energy.
Oops. This, of course, is after
they've been trying to target Russia, Russian gas facilities,
their refinery, their their refineries.
So now they're waging an energy war, a resource war.
You know, now that that's entering that phase, freeze them
out, starve them out. Can't kill enough.
Make people in the in the battlefield that's not
responding to you and I'll take out your civilians too.
If this was just about territory, the Russians would
have done a very different war. But it wasn't about that.
And Jim's has. Jim's thinking is that they
enter this war thinking of this conflict, thinking that there
was going to be some horse trading waiting for exchange,
you know, a negotiation. And that never really took place
because what the really the Russians didn't realize until a
little bit later is that their opponents, both the Ukrainians
and NATO in the West behind them are essentially suicidal and
want to destroy Russia completely or take it over
control it. They want all this stuff.
War was always on the table. Negotiations was just to check
out how committed the Russians are going to be.
And Putin kept offering and making making concessions.
He's been making concessions about NATO expansion for decades
now, complaints about it, but he was he's the leader of Russia
while this is happening now, maybe he can say, well, I
couldn't do much. I was here to build up his
civilization to be able to react to these things in a post Soviet
Union and Russia was in a bit of a state of affairs.
Sure, OK, fine. But regardless, the messaging to
the West is that Russia's going to roll over or not commit so
they so they can keep taking and take and take and take and take
and take. It's what they've been doing in
the Middle East. Putin just came out with a
comment about this when he's at a bricks nation with Modi on the
stage. Let me see if I can find it
here. I think I know where it is.
So maybe I didn't save it, unfortunately.
I'll try to find it for the next one.
Join us next week with Jim Joshua.
We'll cover it. But the the issue in the Middle
East, same thing America goes into Afghanistan, takes out
Afghanistan, no one says anything.
Take, you know, everyone's actually full fraud support
because of 9/11, goes in and takes out Iraq and does what
they did in Iraq, a little bit of complaints, but people go
along with it. Libya, what they did with Syria,
what they're doing now in Gaza, whether I think what they're
planning on doing in Iran, they're just taking.
Do you think there's negotiations for the taking?
Not negotiations. They're just trying to figure
out what you're willing to commit to.
So then they. Can.
Devise a plan to take a whole bunch of other stuff off of you.
War is always on the table. Violence is always the preferred
solution really, at least in the modern sense.
You know, post World War 12 and all the rest of it.
Because what our leadership keeps telling us in no uncertain
terms is they are willing to sacrifice us on mass.
No problem. Ukraine's continued this war.
Let's just read this as a report.
Russia strikes in recent days have wiped out more than half of
Ukraine's domestic natural gas production, likely fit forcing
the war battered country to spend 1.9 billion EUR 2.2
billion on fuel imports, just five this looming winter.
Keep in mind that Ukraine was, you know, Europe has had to
secretly buy Russian oil and gas through other means, through,
you know, other other markets. They just said they made the big
declaration, we're not going to buy this anymore.
We're not going to support Russia.
Yeah, cool, awesome, cool story. Here's your problem is that
you're just still dependent upon it because you, the American
product doesn't always work with a lot of European equipment and
also has to travel a long ways. And America doesn't have enough
to supply you and America after after a few years of doing this.
So now Germany's in is in the absolute shits.
Excuse me, because they're finally waking up to the
realization that, oops, we kind of need energy to keep this
whole thing going, and with high energy costs, it just leads to
high everything else. And the German economy continues
to sink down that hole. Kiev told his allies early this
week that a massive Russian barrage targeting the Kharkiv in
Palatova regions on October 3rd took out roughly 60% of the
country's gas production, according to people with
knowledge of the matter. They requested anonymity because
discussions are private. Russia's gas infrastructure,
able to meet domestic demand before the Russian full scale
invasion, has come under increasingly intensive missile
and drone strikes since the beginning of this year.
If the strikes continue, Ukraine expects it will need to buy
roughly 4.4 billion cubic meters of gas by the end of March at a
cost of nearly €2 billion, according to people familiar
with the details. That's the equivalent of nearly
20% of Ukraine's net annual consumption.
You know, which is leading to Zelensky saying I he would vote
for Trump getting the Nobel Peace Prize if Trump sends him
to those Tomahawk missiles, presumably to, I don't know, do
persuade Russia violently to stop doing what Russia's doing
anyways. They're they're aft completely
and totally damn. Because all the Tomahawk
missiles in the world isn't going to secure you more gas to
survive. The Winter.
So people are going to, people are going to freeze, you're
going to starve. They're going to freeze not just
in Ukraine, but in Germany and many places in Europe too.
Oops. So even if you're saying that
these people are the rulers, they're the guys who are, you
know, the. Puppet.
Masters, but they're not free of consequence.
You can try to tell me this is part of a plan all you want.
I don't believe it is. I don't think it's the Israeli
plan for planes. But you've fallen out of the
sky. I don't think it's the Israeli
plan to have a competency crisis so bad, a demographic collapse
so bad that, you know, a critical infrastructure like,
you know, nuclear facilities and all the rest of it are in risk
of just blowing up because they don't have security protocols
anymore. Anyone who knows how to man
them, they might say, well, you know, it's a Malthusian plan to
eradicate most of the world's population and then they're
going to control these resources.
Cool story. I'm, you know, it sounds very
convincing, but it would require a machine robot army in order to
replace all the humans. They go, well, that's what
they're developing and say, OK, again, cool story, but what if
the robots break? Oops.
What if a solar flare comes and wipes out the electrical grid?
Or, you know, things break and you've you've gotten rid of all
you know, we saw this with kulak, the de kulakization in
the Soviet Union. You get rid of all these kulaks,
you say, well, they have too many farm.
There's they've benefited too much off the old, off the old
system. We're going to get rid of them
and disperse their goods amongst the other people.
But you, what you don't realize is all of those kulaks were also
really good at farming. So you get rid of the good
farmers, the successful people, the people who have actual
knowledge. You just get rid of them or send
them off to the gulags. You take them out of the system
and all of a sudden everyone starves to death.
Oops. Damn.
Why would this happen again? Who's influencing the
influencers? Where are these ideas coming
from? Well, not from us.
Not reasonable. You take the even the most like
where does even even this evil come from?
This desire to. Control this stuff Culiana
Kasparian Yes, yes. We're going to control
everybody. We're going to make you moral.
We're going to make you good, just like us.
Except we're not very good, are we?
Or we're going to kill liquidate whole entire populations and
then just deal with the results afterwards?
It's not reasonable logical. Forget good.
Just on a game plan level this is dumb and we have evidence of
why it doesn't work. But you can convince yourself
while the Soviets it didn't work as the Soviet Union because
those damn dumb Russians. We'll do it better this time
maybe, but what rules this world at the end of the day we'll get
to it. 4 hours in is resentment. That's the ruler of this of the
world that we live in resentment, resentment to God
for existing. Jordan Peterson quote, not all
about that guy. And we see it in the left, we
see in the progressives, we see in the blued.
Haired. Antifa ties.
We see it in those, let's say, civilizational terrorists.
Sure, but it's in all of us to a degree.
If you've ever blamed your, blamed your parents, ever got
rueful, ever said why? Why me, Elon?
Why? Why me God?
Why not you? Why wouldn't it be you?
What have you done to prevent it from being you, Silly Billy?
There's an old quote, too. You get the Jews you deserve.
You get the Barbarians, too, and the consequences.
It's all on us all the time. It's the things that people want
to hear. I don't want to hear it either,
but it is ultimately our responsibility.
It's the cross that we bear this time, this place, the
consequences of past decisions that we've inherited, and the
consequences of our own decisions that we've carried
forward. So what do we do?
Going to say it again one last time.
Model the prodigal son. Return, repent, rebuild, or
redeem if you prefer. Why?
The one thing you're going to find in liturgy is you're going
to find fellowship. There's faith and fellowship.
This community of people who are doing the same thing that you're
doing, they're all going to the same hospital with with a.
Similar illness. Maybe different manifestations
of the illness, but the illness is spiritual.
We're all going to the same hospital, both the priest and
the and the parishioners, and seeking divine assistance.
You're doing this hard thing together, conjoined with a
purpose. You're sharing something.
You're in communion both with God and each other.
Now you have a base, you have something they don't, and it's
free. They put some money in the
candle box and fight when you can as well.
But the other stuff, it's all free.
Just go. Come and see, and suddenly
you're going to have something that all the enemies and all the
people you're going to blame am I say, who are the rules of this
world? And you think of that list of
people and you run that on a list and you go, what do they
have that I don't have? That's easy one, right?
Well, power, influence, power control, evil designs, etcetera.
Sure. Then the question is, what do I
have that they don't have? There's your exposure, there's
your risk. That's what's dangling.
There's the question to answer for yourself and for others.
If you want authority, you want power, you want control, you
want to be able to do something, you want righteousness, you want
justice. When you first have to have a
thing that they don't have, they have all the mechanisms.
They got you. They got us tied up pretty
tight. It's hard flesh cries out.
They know the leverage. They know what they can do to
you and they can make you afraid of make you afraid of what they
could do to you. Did you demonstrated that during
during the long flu? More.
Stuff coming down the Pike, but we have eyes to see, ears to
hear, and if we focus on faith and fellowship, communion and
community and not just some ideological Community Center and
all that stuff, No, no, no, no. I'm talking about people
conjoined together with a purpose, and the purpose isn't
to change the world or make it better, but the purpose is to
bear it, to bear witness, to give testimony, and to bear our
cross. Together.
To lighten the load to submit to an authority that isn't them.
They have no authority here. We're giving it to someone else.
They're giving it to God. The reason they're persecuting
churches and they're persecuting Christianity.
Nigeria and other places while they're going after Christianity
in the, in the in Europe, while they're burning down churches,
all the rest of it. They're not doing that to
mosques, they're not doing that to temples.
They're not doing that to other to other denominations.
They're not doing to Hindu temples.
They're not doing to Buddhist temples.
No, no, no, no, no. They're going after
Christianity. Why?
Well, it's not just a white man's religion.
Explain Nigeria then. They're going after the truth.
That's the attack. They're going after the thing
that they don't have. They have no access to it.
They could, they could be like Saint Mary of Egypt.
Get humble, realize you're wrong, Make a sacrifice, repent.
And for many of them, that would mean removing themselves from
the game entirely. The game.
But they can't do that. They don't want to do that.
In many cases, I think they can't do that.
They're so infected, so attached to the flesh would be
inconceivable. But they know it's real.
They know it exists in the world, they see evidence of it,
and that's the thing they must destroy or subvert or denigrate
in some form. And so all the pressures of the
world will come down upon you, and then you'll be given every
reason in the world to quit. But we don't quit.
We don't give up. We don't back down.
We stand, we fight, we pray, we submit to the true authority
because while you and I may never be the rulers of this
world, we can be on the team that wins out in the end.
I'll leave you with that. God bless you everyone.
Thank you for watching the show. Like subscribe, share, do all
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