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May 19, 2021 - Davis Aurini

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20210430 Discuss The Expanse

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	It's that time again!
	Time for a live stream, folks!
	How are y'all doing out there?
	And I just realized I didn't get the lamp in position.
	Doesn't really matter just yet, but uh, you know, I don't like it getting all grainy and gross.
	So, I don't know if you can even, yeah, you can probably see a little difference there.
	And um, why yes, I have been watching the expanse.
	Oh, beautiful.
	Fully charged.
	Fully charged, and let's get the app going.
	Man, this thing is slow.
	Maybe shouldn't have got the cheapest one, eh?
	Like, I figured it's like, I got the rig over there for if I'm gaming or video editing or whatever, right?
	Like, I need powerful tablets.
	Tablet!
	It doesn't even have a keyboard, right?
	Well, I've neglected to consider the fact that all of the software these days is just increasingly bloated.
	So, my channel.
	Let's see, Arwi Brockett's in there.
	Well, look at that handsome devil.
	So, let's see.
	It says I got four viewers.
	Could I get a comment, please?
	Because I'm not seeing any comments.
	I'm seeing last night's comments.
	We had a bonus stream last night.
	It was the nobody wants to hang out with me stream, so I'm going to hang out on the internet.
	That's COVID safe, after all.
	And you know what I think I'm going to be doing? Is because I'm having a hell of a time trying to upload these things.
	The thing is, the video is about like three or four gigabytes, right?
	And that's actually highly compressed.
	So, Prism, which is the app I'm using here, it saves a local copy of the video.
	And that's a three gigabytes on my phone.
	Now, I tried rendering one of the videos in, you know, in whatever, Sony Vegas.
	And it came out to 15 gigabytes.
	I was hoping it would compress it a little bit.
	So, I don't think these are going to get much tinier than three gigabytes unless I really just crush the quality down.
	At which point, like, why even bother?
	So, what I'm thinking I might do with the streams.
	Oh, and then the issue is trying to upload, you know, four gigabytes to a video sharing service is they don't like that.
	So, what I think I'll be doing, and I'm not seeing any comments, so I'm just going to be rebooting this thing right here.
	The video was streaming on here, but the comments weren't commenting.
	Yeah, trying to upload four gigabytes is, it doesn't like it when you do that.
	So, it might just strip the audio.
	And comments, for criminality's sake.
	Close.
	Close.
	You're supposed to be closed.
	Two gigs of RAM on here, apparently.
	That'll do it.
	Well, let's just close everything.
	Alright, now we're gonna boot up DLive.
	I'm gonna click on the profile there.
	channel can we I'm still not seeing any comments Well, I'm seeing last night's comments.
	Maybe y'all are playing Minecraft or something like that.
	So I'll give it a couple of minutes.
	And then we'll reboot the device.
	Like, there must be some cache or something.
	It doesn't properly update.
	Anyway, yeah, I'm gonna start uploading from them.
	Yeah, whatever D-Man or Z-Man uses.
	Just copy him so that you, uh, Apple Nazis with your Hitler phones can listen into them.
	And, you know, speaking of the Expanse.
	Oh, there we go!
	Wait.
	Yeah.
	Merck GCR.
	F you, America.
	The Expanse.
	Ingletair?
	What's Ingletair?
	the expanse is fantastic right it's you guys ever have that thing where it's like i have all these movies that i've been meaning to watch right But it's like I'm sitting down, I've got nothing to do.
	It's like, man, I don't know if I want to watch a movie.
	I don't know if I'm up for that much commitment in my life right now.
	And it's even worse with series.
	For some reason, cartoons are accepted.
	I don't know if this is a me thing or a Generation X thing.
	Like growing up with cartoons, if there's bright, vivid colors on the screen, it can be a pretty terrible show, and I'll still watch it.
	I'll vetch out while I watch it.
	But, you know, I'll watch it.
	Whereas, I don't know, something about the live actors like, man, you're asking a lot out of me to make me get me to watch this.
	And so the first thing, because I've been meaning to watch The Expanse for weeks.
	Right?
	I heard about it probably like two or three months ago.
	And I think Red Litter Media was talking about it.
	And it's like, I gotta watch this thing, man.
	This sounds up my alley.
	It sounds like my sort of thing.
	And I just couldn't get around to it.
	But then I clicked it on the other night.
	And boom, hooked right off the bat.
	So thank you.
	Good writing and good cinematography should hook you right off the bat.
	Right?
	Like you need to start with a grab and they do it perfectly.
	Like they start with this crazy situation that ends on a cliffhanger and then it switches to the main story.
	And it doesn't get back to that cliffhanger until like episode six or so.
	But by giving me that cliffhanger, which wasn't really necessary.
	It was actually happening chronologically, but it's almost like a flash forward.
	By giving you that cliffhanger, it grabs your attention.
	So it's so much easier to pay attention to the whole thing.
	My novel, I tried to do something similar with In Media Res with the start of the book.
	Try to give it a really punchy first page, right?
	Like the first page in your book.
	Often people at the bookstore, they'll open up the book, they'll read the first page.
	Does it grab their attention?
	And if it doesn't, they might go buy another book.
	So I put a lot of effort into that and The Expanse does it fantastically.
	How to put it so that the series it's a science fiction series that depicts a basically you've got Mars and Earth are the two major powers and you've got the belters the people mining the asteroid belt who are you know the dirt people
	they're basically somebody's trying to foment a war between earth and mars and they think it might be the rebellious terrorist group in the in the with the belters but um no it's like it's a major mystery And so, I mean, that's the series right there.
	Murder mystery.
	political high jingo like like classic film noir style right um they even oh god So the detective character dresses like this.
	Even though he lives on an asteroid, you know, inside habitations.
	And people make fun of him for wearing the hat.
	Like, why are you wearing that stupid hat?
	It just keeps my head dry from the rain.
	There's no rain.
	But yeah, it's one of these classic film noir.
	It starts with a disappeared girl.
	And it turns into this high jingo political stakes with really intelligent politics.
	It's that's one of the things I love about science fiction.
	When it has mature political themes, you know, Heinlein did a lot of that.
	Now, Heinlein has this wonderfully childlike way of writing.
	Sort of like C.S. Lewis, in that Heinlein's worlds are a little bit bigger than real life.
	And he, he really simplifies the government in the stories of his that involve government to some degree.
	He, he really, really simplifies it uh, but he has a cynical, mature take on it.
	Right it's, it's the, the opposite of propaganda.
	Um okay, I know I was referencing Devin Stack the other night.
	Uh, he was.
	He's been going through old movies lately looking at the propaganda that brainwashed the boomers.
	Uh, one example that was fantastic was uh from a 1940s Batman serial where Batman commented to Robin that you know we're just doing wait wait, what'd he say?
	We're just performing our commission from Uncle Sam, almost as if he was an employee of the U.s government.
	Right uh, really interesting, since it's like the vigilanteism is a major theme in superhero stories these days.
	And uh, with that one, he's not a vigilante at all, he's buddies with the cops and you get that little subtle propaganda of you know, Uncle Sam, and you trust your government.
	Government does no wrong.
	Those Germans are really bad people.
	And ho ho ho, the Japanese.
	It's hilarious the uh racial slurs they were using in it against the Japanese people.
	With Heinlein it's, it's mostly anti-propaganda.
	Um, if you compare Heinlend's writings to today, to to what I would say what most of us think about the government, what we think of of Biden Mumbly, Joe is uh, we think there's a lot of evil, there's a lot of corruption, a lot of crookedness um, a lot of stupidity as well.
	What did I do with my letter, whereas with Heinlein?
	So if we got like the really cynical attitude today, the trust uncle Sam Heinle would kind of be in the middle that he would say that you know, the government is an organization full of stupid assholes, but they're, you know, they're just stupid assholes.
	They're, they're not evil and malicious.
	And they're trying to do the best they can.
	It's like it's ugly seeing how the sausage is made, but the sausage is pretty delicious at the end of it.
	Well, in the year 2021, the sausage is pretty disgusting, whether or not you know how it's made.
	And so Heinlein doesn't have that level of cynicism, but government was very functional back when he was living.
	And I wonder.
	Hmm.
	Because we're like, we know Vietnam was started with a false flag operation, but it was started for a not terrible reason.
	I mean, when you're here's the thing: when you've got the nuclear button in front of you and you're facing down Soviet Russia and Soviet Russia has demonstrated, like, look at what they did to the Christians in Russia, right?
	Look what they did to the Volotomor.
	Like, the evil that they were doing, the just absolutely depraved indifference of the evil of Russia would suggest that this is an existential threat.
	Okay?
	It's not just like if you take the Middle East, yeah, they throw homosexuals off of buildings, which is not a very nice thing to do.
	But they're not really trying to do it to us, right?
	Like, they don't have the capability to really do anything to us.
	They mostly want to be left alone.
	They're not an existential threat.
	Mostly because they don't have that much power, but honestly, like, even if Iran or.
	I mean, Saudi Arabia has a lot of economic power, but these people don't seem to.
	They don't.
	They wouldn't want to destroy the United States so they could throw all the homosexuals off of buildings, right?
	Same way, like, China isn't.
	China is a major economic threat to us.
	It's a major.
	Like, they want to be world hegemon, and they've got the industrial base and the manpower, but they just want to be on top.
	They don't have that real hatred.
	At least they don't seem to.
	Not that you see in the USSR.
	So, you know, you could argue for.
	I mean, this is why I'm not a ruler.
	Is doing psychopathic, depraved acts is just, yeah.
	Like, I have to put serious effort forth just to properly defend myself against other people since we live in a society.
	Not really my character.
	So I just wonder, do you think, I wonder how Heinlein, if he were still with us, I wonder how he'd feel about Vietnam.
	He did write Starship Troopers as a defense of the grunt.
	And it's a fantastic novel.
	I strongly recommend it.
	But he also wasn't blind to how cynical and corrupt things could be.
	So he kind of had the kiddie version of it, right?
	Where he would have major characters would be presidents or high ministers, and he would represent them fairly accurately, right?
	Like as human beings that aren't perfect, but they're not vicious either.
	Whereas in today's world, it's like vicious.
	These people are vicious.
	Now, with the expanse, you kind of had the next level of that, which again, it's this mature, fairly plausible predictions of what the future will look like.
	Political machination.
	I guess this is really a modern thing.
	game of thrones did a similar thing until it died in the past in the final few seasons and the people on the expanse are far more evil In fact, they really do a great job highlighting the I don't know what she's called, the first minister of Earth, because the UN now runs Earth.
	They show her at home with her family, and then she leaves her grandson to go torture a terrorist.
	And she backstabs one of her oldest friends to try and prevent a war with Mars, leading to that guy's suicide.
	She is very, very cold and calculating, but not necessarily evil.
	Okay, it's a very, you can understand.
	She's trying to stop an interplanetary war.
	So.
	Yeah, that's kind of something.
	Interesting take on religion in the series as well.
	Religion isn't really, at least this far, it's not a major part of the series, but the Mormons are an important block, and they're building a spaceship to go colonize another planet.
	Which that sounds like something the Mormons would do.
	You know, like, I wish it was the Catholics that would do that, but I'm pretty sure the first people to try it are going to be Mormons.
	Because they've got the social organization and social cohesion to pull that off.
	Because if you're going to have a generation ship, you need major, major social controls.
	Like, you need to be able to predict what the society is going to look like in 20 years to get to the nearest star.
	You need to know what society is going to look like.
	You can't let the random, fluctuating, evolving nature of democracy be your guiding light in all this.
	You need an established society.
	And the Mormons got that.
	And they're, I hate to say it, they're more ambitious than the Catholics.
	Individual Catholics will be very ambitious, but Catholics as a whole are, I don't know, it's almost like the Catholic Church is just tired in a lot of ways.
	You know, ever since the Reformation and the religious wars of Europe have just exhausted Catholics.
	And, you know, now the Catholics are like all the people who complain about the Pope with his ecumenicism.
	It's good lord.
	We just had like 300 years of war in Europe.
	Arguably 400, right?
	I mean, like, the World War I and II were pretty much a direct outcome of the religious wars.
	Not exactly the same thing, but they're close.
	And, you know, after all of that, it's like, okay, can we just stop arguing about theology and try and be nice to other people, right?
	Can we try and rebuild decency back into human nature?
	So maybe that's the wrong tech.
	Maybe the Pope should be fire and brimstone, but you can understand why it's like this.
	Why Vatican II?
	And so, okay, to wrap back around to what I was saying about the expanse, this is why I like the mature politics.
	To quote Heinlend, science fiction reminds you that the present state of affairs won't last forever.
	Right?
	Mumbly Joe?
	Man.
	Another seven and a half years, maybe?
	This too shall pass.
	And it reminds you of what things are going to stick around.
	Same thing with altered carbon.
	You know, like the Catholic Church is still going to be here in 400 years.
	especially with all the shit going on right now it's refreshing and relaxing to see something like that it's not the the idealized star trek future with where you know it's star trek it's sort of like the marvel movies Where it's these candy-coated sort of future.
	Not that I don't like Star Trek, but yeah, yeah.
	Check out The Expanse.
	It is fantastic.
	It's very gripping.
	It's a very good, fun, entertaining series.
	So, let's check these comments.
	Looking snazzy, says Soil Ennio.
	Like I said, I saw the guy in the Expanse dresses, so I said, hey, I got a vest.
	I've actually never worn this vest.
	I had to pull the tag out of it.
	Is this the right channel or did I drop into the middle of a film war?
	What do you think this channel's all about, man?
	This is the film noir channel.
	I only smoke because of how cool and film noir it looks.
	I don't enjoy it at all.
	There's a lesbian priest in the series.
	Well, I don't know, man.
	Again, this is a lot of Christian bloggers, YouTubers, etc.
	Not a lot, a few of them like to talk about, uh, And I literally just forgot the word.
	I had it in my head 30 seconds ago.
	This is a problem.
	My vocabulary is bigger than my brain.
	I can only remember like maybe 70% of my vocabulary at any given time.
	Secular.
	Secular.
	They like to talk, like, oh, that's the secular.
	I'm the secular world.
	I'm not a priest.
	Okay?
	I'm not.
	I talk about theology once in a while.
	I talk about politics.
	I'm not a politician.
	Right?
	This is a secular channel.
	I talk secular stuff.
	And, well, and this is actually going to be kind of the topic of the stream if I ever get to it.
	Is oftentimes focusing too much on religion can turn the perfect into the enemy of the good.
	And so, when it comes to matters of sex, here's the perfect ideal.
	But if you punish everybody, that's not that perfect ideal, well, you punish everybody, because nobody's that perfect ideal.
	So a future where there are no gays or lesbians seems very implausible to me.
	that's just life man now like the lesbian pre well we've got lesbian priestesses right now okay They're called the Anglicans.
	Or something, Unitarians, whatever.
	My Protestant sex, right?
	Like, whatever damn fool notion you have, somewhere there's a Protestant doing it.
	So that's not unrealistic.
	And just because you're depicting something doesn't mean you're promoting it either.
	It's possible to respect other people and treat them decently without promoting their lifestyle.
	Good lord, I don't expect all of you guys to promote my lifestyle.
	Dressing like an idiot, drinking too much.
	There you go.
	That's my philosophy in life.
	There are some things you shouldn't tolerate.
	A lot of things you shouldn't tolerate.
	But I don't know.
	he who is without sin throw the first stone, you know?
	That sounds like the stone throwers are traveling down the street.
	It's going to get noisy in a second.
	So anyway, yeah, expanse.
	Fantastic.
	really enjoying it yeah i would like to think Here's the thing.
	There's going to be periods in the future.
	This is another really good book is The Forever War.
	Because one of the things that happens, it's about a guy that gets recruited into the military because there's a war with an alien species.
	And each time he gets sent to war, it's like 20-year trip.
	100-year trip, whatever.
	So he actually, he fights in the first battle and the last battle of that war.
	And managed to survive the whole thing, which is like mind-blowing.
	And one of the things he comments on is that every time he comes back to Earth, things are different, right?
	Like the first time he comes back to Earth, he's blown away because homosexuality is now the norm because there's an overpopulation problem.
	Everybody's eating nothing but soy.
	Crime is absolutely rampant all over the place.
	And that's why he decides to re-enlist in the military.
	He's like, this planet sucks.
	This is so much.
	It's sort of like if you started in 1990 and then woke up in 2021, I'm going back to space.
	This planet sucks right now.
	Mean people are always neurotic about sex.
	It's it's like society.
	I know It vacillates between neurotic repression and neurotic excess.
	Right?
	It's like the anal retentive and the anal expulsive, right?
	It's like, eh, getting people to be normal about sex.
	Like, I'm not even normal about it.
	And I'm put a fair bit of effort into trying to be relaxed about the whole thing.
	And even I'm screwed up with it.
	So, eh, yeah.
	There's going to be periods in the future where women are going to dress like Muslim women do.
	And there's going to be other periods where people walk around naked, where art students masturbate at a truck stop while holding a chicken under one arm.
	Yeah, welcome to humanity, man.
	At least, at least us hairless monkeys came up with some really cool hats.
	You take the wins that you can.
	And one final thing I want to mention before kind of trying to jump into the strings.
	I don't even know what I'm going to say about this.
	You know, I'm kind of...
	I hope that talking about it, reading comments will help me suss through it.
	But the COVID vaccine.
	So, I'm reading many reports, some of them official, a very small number official, most of them anecdotal, about people that get the vaccine making people around them sick.
	And at first, I was actually arguing with my mother about this.
	At first, I thought it was that the vaccine, the mRNA, not a vaccine, makes you more susceptible to catching COVID, and then they spread it to everybody in the workplace.
	But no, no, it doesn't seem, that does not seem to be what's going on.
	There is something called vaccine shedding, which if you look up on Wikipedia, Wikipedia says it doesn't exist and it's just made up by anti-vaxxers, except for that one time that it did exist.
	Okay, so it actually does exist.
	Maybe not with all vaccines.
	Maybe the anti-vaxxers exaggerate it, but it actually does exist, Wikipedia.
	Like, it's one sentence.
	It says it doesn't exist except for the time it existed.
	Oh boy, man, NPCs, man.
	I wish computers were NPCs.
	They'd be so much easier to program.
	So the kind of speculation, because it's like, no, these people aren't spreading COVID to other people, and COVID doesn't spread that much, right?
	It's like one person with COVID does not make an entire workplace sick.
	And we're seeing a lot of people getting sick.
	We're seeing a lot of miscarriages from this.
	Not from women that got the vaccine, but pregnant women that were around somebody that got the vaccine having a miscarriage afterwards.
	And now what vaccine shedding is where the person gets the vaccine and then the broken viruses from the vaccine are supposedly shed out of their body.
	That's not what this vaccine does, though.
	This vaccine reprograms your cells to create proteins from the COVID virus.
	And under the idea that this will teach your body to be immune to COVID.
	Well, then why not just use a regular vaccine?
	Oh, right, because flus mutate!
	Coronaviruses mutate.
	Go watch Cells at Work if you don't understand what a coronavirus is.
	Some of them are mildly scary, but they're not that bad.
	So what the heck is going on here?
	Are people shedding these viral proteins and making others sick with just the viral proteins?
	Anyway, anybody, you know, there's a pregnant woman in your life, please stay away from people that took the COVID vaccine.
	I mean, maybe it's nothing.
	I like to hope it's nothing, but there's a lot of anecdotal reports here.
	And there's a couple of little legitimate reports.
	Fox Day just posted about this.
	Check the comments.
	There's a link to Ann Barnhart.
	And she quoted from a Pfizer study that is, yeah, Pfizer knows that it's doing this.
	Good lord.
	I mean, like, we're conspiracy theorists because we read what the CDC says and what Pfizer says, when the smart people just believe whatever the news says.
	Good lord.
	So, um, now all that, all that said, uh, I guess just keep taking your vitamin C. Vitamin C, zinc, and if you're in Australia, take some vitamin D, right?
	Winter's coming.
	Get a lot of sunlight.
	Like, if you're healthy, I don't think you need to worry about it.
	Like, the two people I read about, they got it, but it was a couple of days.
	They were sick for a couple of days.
	And I was around somebody that got the vaccine, and I'm fine.
	I'm mostly immune to disease.
	You know, knock on the wood.
	Don't want to tempt fate.
	But yeah, I'm pretty hard to injure.
	Constitution score of 18.
	And yeah, okay, so that's the housekeeping lookout.
	The COVID vaccine might not just be dangerous for the people taking it, but dangerous for people around them.
	Let's see.
	Sci-Fi can also show you the present outlook by how they paint the future.
	Which, yeah, that's the...
	If you really judo it, man.
	If you, what we see, like the way we paint the future is, yeah, you can totally judo that and understand the present a lot better.
	In fact, that's the whole point of fiction, which I, that's kind of the topic for the stream.
	That I haven't gotten to in 30 minutes.
	Is fiction allows us to understand ourselves.
	It's the only way we can actually properly understand ourselves.
	But most people do it wrong.
	Not me, though.
	I'm smart.
	Society is and will resemble Blade Runner in 2049.
	Okay, I've got that idea for a cyberpunk novel, which I mainly want to write because I'm sick of my mother freaking out over COVID all the time.
	Now, she's one of us, okay?
	She's not afraid of COVID.
	She's afraid of the vaccine and the lockdowns and yip, yip, yip, yep.
	Right?
	And just, it stresses me out talking to her.
	stresses me out.
	When it's like, no, like there's, yes, there are evil people.
	Yes, there are conspiracies, but they're not that smart.
	Like, if the people that made the Georgia Guidestones, I've said this, if those guys were in charge, man, you gotta admire their pluck.
	You gotta admire their gumption.
	Those guys get stuff done.
	I'd sign it, like, yeah, they're a little bit evil, but evil and competent?
	I will sign up for evil and competent before whatever the hell this is, right?
	I'd be on those guys' team lickety split.
	whereas the the idiots in charge right now that they couldn't organize a hot dog stand you know another guys like you know how they say that the wagers of salmon are death It's also death that saves us from sin.
	So if we take, like, the COVID situation, we are mass experimentation upon the population.
	Completely unsafe, untested vaccine, and the idiots are going along with it.
	Right?
	Thank God there are consequences that eventually stop things from continuing.
	Eventually, people screw up bad enough that they wind up dead.
	You know, this is the difference between responsible drug use and irresponsible drug use.
	If you keep drugs, drugs, if you keep them in check.
	If you keep them in check, yeah, you might.
	You're not going to have terrible outcomes in your life.
	Well, you do no drugs, because screw you, that's why.
	But if you abuse drugs, right, if you're constantly drinking too much, getting stoned too much, eventually you wind up dead.
	From one mechanism or another.
	eventually consequences, catch up with you, and you're dead.
	And so that's kind of the...
	Imagine how awful the world would be if nobody died, right?
	If the evil people got to live forever.
	And that's actually the theme of altered carbon.
	That's the major theme, is that no, you are not a god just because you can afford to live forever.
	You are but a man with the same sinful nature of all men.
	So thank God people die.
	Thank God consequences eventually catch up with us, right?
	Just please not today, oh Lord.
	Yes, Liekran just followed.
	Please follow guys.
	We're at 152 followers.
	At 200, I get the superpowers.
	COVID Planned Parenthood conspiracy, maybe.
	There was a really funny comment on the Vox Day blog saying, yeah, some people think that they instituted the vaccine for population control, but they are dismissed as crazy because at that point in history there was a need for more young people.
	So why would they try and lower the population?
	That's crazy.
	So nobody, no mainstream historian believes that about 2021.
	And that's the, that's why I say there isn't a conspiracy.
	Because these people have no idea what the hell they're doing.
	They're idiots.
	There's little conspiracies.
	SNC Lobelin, okay?
	Like there's constant corruption, constant conspiracy, but there's stupid conspiracies.
	That's why I'm upset.
	I'm upset because the conspiracies are so stupid.
	It's like, yeah, it's, oh man.
	I was reading, who's that?
	Who's that War of the Worlds guy?
	God, that guy was based.
	That guy was awesome.
	I read this interview with him where he's just being a complete asshole.
	I love the guy.
	Like, that's me.
	Like, that's my character type.
	There's that jerk.
	That absolute jerk.
	And he was commenting on all of Mafia movies.
	And, like, they dress them up.
	Have you ever met these people?
	Sort of people that drive a beer truck for a living.
	The mafia disgusts me.
	So you got the movie mafia where they're all cool and suave and it's like, I joined that mafia.
	Drop of a hat.
	Those people get shit done.
	And then you meet the actual mafia.
	And they're the sort of guys that drive beer trucks for a living.
	Same for government, right?
	These conspiracies suck.
	Yeah, if you don't believe the news, you're a right-wing nutcase, even though that...
	Well, that's a wonderful thing, is the lies of the media are becoming increasingly apparent for the people that are paying attention.
	Hey, Christopher!
	Glad to have you, bro.
	I miss you, man.
	Need to, uh, I need to come visit you or something if we're allowed to travel inside the country.
	Thoughts on LGBT?
	Well, the LGBT organization is absolutely terrible and toxic and Marxist and LGBT is awful.
	As for lesbians, gay, like they're people, man.
	They're people.
	Like, is it the ideal form of finding a partner that sticks by your side your entire life and raising a family together?
	Is it as good as that?
	No, it's not.
	No.
	But, uh, man, chemicals in the waters are turning the frickin' frogs gay.
	Right?
	Like, we've always had a gay lesbian widow, but we've always had that.
	And there seems to be something distinct going on right now.
	massive spike in autism we've got so if there's a chemical affecting child development then yeah there is a born that way aspect to the whole thing And, no, condemning them kind of misses the point.
	You're turning the perfect into the enemy of the good, whereas what the LGBT does is it encourages the most self-destructive behavior and calls it a human right.
	Okay, it's like the a lot of gay men die very young because that lifestyle burns you out quickly.
	And any critique of that lifestyle is viewed as an attack on homosexuals.
	When many times the critique is saying, like, whoa, whoa, not saying you shouldn't drink, I'm saying you shouldn't get drunk every night.
	I'm saying you should tap it back a little bit.
	You should, like, because I care about you, man.
	And I want you to be happy and joyful.
	And if you're getting drunk every night, you're going to die young.
	Right?
	Like, that's not hateful.
	That's loving.
	And the LGBT, well, the LGBT is an organization that profits off of having more victims.
	In The Expanse, there's a couple of scenes that imply that homosexuality, bisexuality, like it's just, it's normal.
	It's like, nobody cares.
	There's no gay bashings, there's no, whatever, no.
	Nobody cares anymore.
	Sort of like the 1990s.
	I bet you the author of The Expanse, it was a novel first.
	I will bet you he was born pretty close to when I was born.
	Because in the 90s, just this glorious era, nobody cared about racism.
	Nobody cared about sexuality.
	Whatever, man.
	Whatever floats your boat, just go do you.
	And in that environment, you wouldn't have an LGBT.
	Because the only thing the LGBT would do would be a dating service.
	That's it.
	So the LGBT needs victims, and they need, and the thing is there's very little oppression of homosexuality.
	There's some.
	There's a lot of people that say mean things on the internet, but I don't know that that's really oppression.
	But there's really no oppression, and so they have to manufacture oppression.
	And so they tout out this, this person was gay-bashed and murdered.
	And then you look into it, it was this methamphetamine dealer that murdered him.
	And his methamphetamine dealer was also gay.
	So it's like, no, that wasn't gay bashing.
	That was a drug deal gone bad because he's living in a sketchy environment where that sort of stuff happens.
	And hey, I'm not even judging the guy, okay?
	Like, who hasn't been in a sketchy situation, right?
	We've all been in sketchy situations.
	Just saying it wasn't a gay bashing.
	And the LGBT needs that.
	They need the victims.
	They need the people suffering to justify their existence.
	So, much like welfare, you know, if they cured the poverty problem, all those welfare agents would be out of work.
	Same thing for the LGBT.
	So, yeah, I despise the organization, but not the people it claims to represent.
	30 colleges in the U.S. are requiring COVID vaccines to attend.
	Good lord.
	Yeah.
	Boycott them.
	Mortality counters corruption.
	Perfect.
	Yeah, it's when things get too corrupt, when they get too stupid, when they get too infected, thank God we have mortality.
	In my opinion, a real-life Highlander would be corrupt as hell.
	That's interesting.
	i want to want to think about that one yeah condone the sim not the sinner And also keep in mind that we're all sinners.
	I mean, put things in check.
	We got a hater, guys.
	We got a hater.
	Fliakrin?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	This is.
	Back when I was trying to red pill people, this is what I'd say.
	It's like, have you ever read a media report about your industry or your neighborhood or some event that you were there?
	The media report does not even remotely resemble what actually happened.
	And so, why do you think everything else in the newspaper is true?
	Like, they couldn't even get the basics of your situation right.
	Right?
	It's like what they wrote about is something that happened in a movie 10 years ago.
	And it's got no bearing.
	It's like, no, there's no villain in this story.
	There's no Dr. Claw.
	there's no Dr. Evil here.
	It's that this industry is compensating for the fact that and they want a trade negotiation, but we're trying, there's no bad guys there.
	And yet you're right up.
	It's like conspiracy with the government.
	They are going to subsidize the Chinese.
	Whatever.
	It's like, nah, man, that's not what happened.
	So why did you believe everything else that you read in the media?
	Back when I was trying to red pill people.
	At this point, after a year of COVID, man, if reality hasn't red-pilled you at this point, you're a lost cause.
	And actually, it has.
	It's red-pilled so many people.
	For instance, Ella, who is not in chat tonight, but Ella's actually pretty left-wing, right?
	She's a very liberal person, which she's not the only one.
	Like, in the past year, I've gotten a bunch of new viewers, subscribers, who are traditionally left-wing people.
	but they got red-pilled and it's it's really interesting something that we should keep in mind is that the media the the system the matrix the government whatever they want to keep people divided and fighting against one another
	And it was so funny, like when the Chauvin trial first, or not the trial, but the event last year, when that first came out, there was an absolutely beautiful image.
	I posted it on Instagram, which I just post stupid pictures on Instagram.
	My Instagram sucks, don't follow it.
	But it's this picture of the Gadsden snake, the Gadsden flags, the don't tread on me snake, with a black panther.
	And the snakes kind of like coiled around the panther, and it's like, don't tread on us.
	Beautiful.
	Because the reality is, black people are sick of the police.
	So are a lot of white people.
	We're a little bit sick of the cops shooting dogs.
	Man, there was a really funny video I saw of a cop trying to shoot a dog, but he shot himself.
	Or maybe it was an article.
	I don't think it was a video, but yeah, he shot himself in the foot when he was trying to shoot a dog.
	And the dog was just a little yapper.
	It wasn't.
	No reason to pull a gun.
	And he shot himself.
	So that was beautiful.
	That was poetic.
	And so when the Chauvin thing first happened, the whole Floyd incident, yeah, whites and blacks were actually united.
	Fuck the police.
	Leave us alone.
	And then the media spin machine hit it to say, like, no, this is white racism against black people and white and black people.
	You have to hate each other.
	What's been happening is, okay, you know that story?
	There was a fantastic Voyager episode about this where Neelix told a little lie to help out a buddy that had his back back when they were in prison or something like that.
	And the little lie required another lie and another lie and another lie until it was a really big lie.
	That's what's been happening with our ruling elite.
	Batman saying that he works for Uncle Sam, that's a little lie.
	Right?
	The reality is that vigilanteism is not allowed.
	And even in the 1940s, Batman would be arrested for doing what he's doing.
	But it's a white lie.
	It's a little lie.
	Jay, trust the system.
	The system's good.
	Then they sat back and said, wait a minute.
	These fucking morons actually believed that.
	What else can we get them to believe?
	I know.
	Let's stage an attack on one of our own ships in the Gulf of Tonkin so that we can get into Vietnam.
	But we've got really good reasons for being in Vietnam, so it's sort of like weapons of mass destruction, right?
	We need to evade Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction.
	And then there were none.
	Yeah, but Saddam was a real asshole, right?
	So we kind of needed to do it, even if there weren't weapons of mass destruction.
	Huh, okay.
	Each lie requires more lies to cover it up.
	And he started with these wait.
	See, the nice thing, okay, you go back to Victorian England.
	Macbeth.
	Macbeth is an utterly false depiction of what actually happened.
	Right?
	Macbeth was actually the good guy.
	It was Macduff who was the evil piece of shit.
	But Queen Elizabeth was a descendant of Macduff.
	So, quite intelligently, Shakespeare did not posit one of her ancestors as the villain.
	Back then, there were certain things that, like, we don't really care what you do.
	There's these, you don't have freedom of speech, but we don't care.
	As long as these five things, you don't, you don't say one of these five things.
	we might take issue with you.
	And then it went into soft chords.
	So that was hard coercion.
	You knew exactly what would wind up with you getting arrested.
	Like, you can be an atheist privately, we don't care, but if you start promoting atheism, we'll take issue with that.
	Or Catholicism in Britain.
	And then I went to the soft coercion.
	Believe in Uncle Sam.
	And it's like, wait, we can lie to these people.
	They're up front about it.
	Then they start lying.
	And the lies are building and building and building upon themselves until we've gotten to the present where anybody that can wake up, anybody that can be red-pilled, is being red-pilled.
	I was saying last night that I was talking with one of my left-wing friends about the term white supremacy.
	And their definition of white supremacy, like what they forget the label.
	Forget the label.
	What they were saying was bad.
	I said, like, what do you mean when you say that?
	And they say, I'm talking about the system of control which dehumanizes and exploits people.
	Yada yada.
	Stuff we talk about all the time.
	I'm like, well, shit, I actually agree with you on that.
	We are in agreement here.
	And, you know, as I said last night, my disagreement is the label white supremacy shifts the blame from the people actually doing it, the psychopathic elites who are actually doing this, to the middle class who are also victims of these psychopathic elites.
	The when manufacturing is exported to China, because China doesn't care about human rights, and people are just absolutely abused, exposed to toxic chemicals, etc.
	Those Chinese workers that are little better than slaves are the primary victims.
	But the middle class in America that had all of their jobs sent to China are also the victims of this.
	It's the psychopaths at Nike that we should be uniting against.
	So, on the one hand, no, it's like it's become abundantly clear we're not going to red-pill everybody.
	Most people just nothing happens, but they've mostly broken the left-right dynamic.
	And the people that can be red-pilled who are what H.L. Menkin say about that?
	The man that is able to think for himself is the most dangerous man to institutions of power.
	The normies are gonna normie.
	That's why they're normal.
	They're normies.
	They're normal.
	And so they'll vote Republican, they'll vote Democrat.
	The dangerous people are the ones thinking for themselves.
	And the lies have built up to such a point that they've become so obvious you can't ignore them.
	And people are reaching across the aisle.
	The people that think for themselves are reaching across the aisle and speaking.
	It's probably only maybe 10% of us.
	Actually, I think that's fair.
	About 10% of people.
	And us, the 10% that can think for ourselves, who do you think was the most deadly weapon of war in the battle between left and right?
	It wasn't the normies.
	The normies were the conscripts.
	We were the elites.
	And now that the elites on the left and the right are starting to communicate with each other, that actually really screws the system.
	The Z-Man pointed out: the most revolutionary thing that you can do right now is to not vote.
	Because, I mean, somehow we got Donald Trump in, and he was blocked from ever doing anything.
	Even though, and of course the Normies all think he's Cheeto Hitler, right?
	When actually he was a liberal.
	But he was a liberal populist.
	That's what we liked about him.
	And he wasn't able to do anything.
	So it doesn't matter who you vote for.
	If you insist on showing up to the voting establishment, just draw penises all over the ballot.
	The system needs legitimacy.
	The democratic system is founded upon your consent, not your obedience.
	Look at the gulags in Soviet Russia.
	Look at Solz and Nitson.
	Look at 1984.
	The purpose wasn't to be in control.
	They were already in control.
	It was to get your consent.
	It was you consenting to them being in control.
	Not consenting, but still obeying.
	It's like, I'm going to do what you tell me because you guys got a lot of guns.
	And you'll murder me if I don't do what you tell me.
	But I don't consent.
	I'm not going to say that you're the good guys and this is justice.
	Be like the guy that stops watching sports ball, right?
	You got these people in South America murdering one another over sports ball.
	You got people here that cry when their team doesn't win the Stanley Cup.
	When you're the guy that's like, I don't watch sports ball, man.
	Let's see.
	Man, this guy's, uh...
	He don't like me.
	It's the most exciting thing that ever happened to him in his life.
	There are two authors for the expanse.
	That's interesting.
	I've always wondered how exactly you would do an author collab.
	Alex Jones' conspiracy theories keep coming true.
	That's the funny thing.
	Alex Jones acts like he's a crazy kooky conspiracy theorist.
	That's his shtick, right?
	That's the dancing monkey.
	Like me wearing the hat.
	But he actually is not a crazy kooky conspiracy theorist.
	The stuff he talks about is heavily documented.
	There's a maybe the occasional thing that slips in that's a little bit wacky, but the chemicals in the water turn to the freaking frogs, K!
	Yeah, well documented.
	It's almost like the only way that people can look at reality is...
	Oh, am I gonna do this?
	Through a scanner darkly.
	Fantastic movie.
	You should all watch that.
	Alex Jones is actually in that movie.
	That is so cool.
	He plays a conspiracy theorist that gets arrested by the government in that movie.
	That is so cool.
	At least I think he does.
	I could be wrong about that.
	Maybe it's just a very good depiction of Alex Jones.
	And you know, that was originally the topic of the stream.
	It's like, I don't know how to talk about this topic.
	that's like the only way that people can deal with reality as it actually is is to turn it into a fiction which it isn't so yeah that's why it's conspiracy theories keep coming true because they're not conspiracy theories They're just...
	Like if you want to hide something, it's a purloined letter.
	Hide it in plain sight.
	Make it really, really boring.
	Like, the chemicals in the water and the frogs is...
	Like, the left wing will freak out about that because of environmentalism, while the right wing will ignore that because, ugh, environmentalism is stupid!
	And Alex Jones just shows the right wing what the left wing knows.
	And occasionally the reverse as well.
	Presence of victims goes back to yesterday's discussion about strong, rugged individuals.
	Yes, absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	And that's part of what I was trying to get across there.
	I don't know how well of a job I did, but yeah, they want, like, the more people that are broken, the stronger the system becomes.
	And the more people that are strong enough to stand on their own, the weaker the system becomes.
	And this is why, like, fighting the system makes the system stronger.
	Right?
	Like, every idiot that goes up, goes out and starts attacking cops or blowing up government buildings.
	That guy makes the system stronger.
	Whereas obeying, but not endorsing, weakens the system.
	There's a beautiful line in Solzonitzm, where the secret police were interrogating an old woman about what happened to the priest that was hiding at her house.
	And she just looked at them and said, I'm an old lady.
	I've lived my life.
	There's nothing you people can do to me.
	You can kill me, but I'm about to die anyway.
	You can torture me, but you can't.
	I'm an old lady.
	The hell are you going to do to me?
	And that's the thing.
	If you obey the system, it's like, oh, you want to lock me in a cage?
	Guess I can't stop you.
	You want to do this?
	Yeah, but I don't acknowledge that what you're doing is right.
	I...
	You're not the good guy here.
	And that really sucks the energy out of the room.
	Which, you know, don't underestimate that.
	Don't.
	Narrative is more powerful than bullets.
	The left understands this.
	Why do you think they control Hollywood?
	What the hell's wrong with iced coffee, man?
	iced coffee is a fine drink anyway you're you love gays but you're calling people that drink iced coffee gay That's pretty homophobic, my friend.
	I don't know that we support that sort of homophobia around here.
	And yes, this is a stream about strong women and how much we respect them.
	I think Fox made a good argument.
	why free trade i.e moving production to china is a lose-lose situation oh god every um um ryanford pointed this out I haven't researched it myself.
	I trust that guy.
	He does good research.
	But every country that has ever become world hegemon has practiced protectionism.
	Free trade, it's like one of those ideas that looks really good on paper, but then you actually apply it in the real world and everything gets screwed up.
	Yeah, let's boot that guy.
	Let's see.
	Set moderator, no.
	Ah, report.
	Oh goodness, this will take a while.
	I'm going to report you for homophobia, by the way, but we're just going to mute you.
	Narrative controls where the bullets go.
	And you know what?
	The guy, this is what Gandhi did, isn't it?
	Like, I'm not going to respect your system, but I'm not going to violently resist your system.
	good lord man can't man can't enjoy starbucks without weirdos showing up free trade benefits the people that control the free trade When are we getting the broken thoughts novel?
	Man, I don't know if I'm young enough to write that.
	I need to write something.
	I did write something.
	I wrote an SCP.
	I need to properly submit it and all of that.
	The SCP Foundation.
	But you're right.
	I need to get into writing again.
	Like that whole, like, I mean, like, look at that troll that we just had, right?
	That's what you get for getting into politics.
	You know, one bit of advice I would give.
	Okay, let me riff off of something here.
	So, Devin Stack was talking about politics.
	About how it's like we were a bunch of amateurs with a broken car, and we tried to fix the broken car.
	And we tried out these different things, and really nothing worked.
	And in retrospect, the broken car we were trying to fix was a 1989 Corolla.
	Wasn't worth the time and energy.
	And so, like, trolls like that, like, when you get into politics, trolls like that are what you get.
	I mean, I think we can all imagine what that guy looks like.
	We already know.
	Physionomy is real.
	So to a young man, it's like, no, no.
	Don't fix the 1989 Corolla.
	Leave that alone.
	Hide your power level.
	There's no need to go do any of this.
	It's a complete waste of time.
	And I should have spent the past 10 years working on novels, not all that political bullshit.
	Do the political bullshit if you're Tucker Carlson and you get a paycheck out of the whole thing.
	don't don't do it for for that oh man the hatred hatred.
	Let me top off this drink.
	What was with the iced coffee comment?
	That's what's bothering me.
	That's what's bothering me.
	Why the iced coffee comment?
	Because I've never actually had iced coffee.
	My landlord back when I was living in Vegas.
	Now, this guy, this guy would drink iced coffee.
	It goes freaking Vegas, okay?
	It's 40 degrees outside.
	Now, of course, I'm a lunatic.
	So I would go to Starbucks, get my typical dark roast with cream, and sit in the sun and drink it.
	While dressed like this, more or less.
	Because I'm an absolute lunatic.
	But you know, he drank iced coffee.
	He'd make the coffee the night before and put it in the fridge with ice cubes.
	So he had a nice cold coffee to drink so that Vegas didn't kill him.
	What the hell's wrong with iced coffee?
	This is, um, it's like that meme of girls...
	Any man that eats seafood is gay.
	If you like watching movies, I think you might be gay.
	I'm like, what?
	What?
	Shit, don't drink iced coffee, guys.
	he'll turn you gay oh boy Broken Rogues is a perfect airplane novel.
	You did good.
	See, I'll tell you the goodness.
	So when I wrote Broken Roads, it was the early aughts, right?
	And do you remember my buddy Big L accused me of secretly liking Marvel movies?
	That's why I rag on them so much.
	He's not completely wrong.
	The conception for Broken Roads was IRL comic book sort of a thing.
	And that was a major trend in the aughts.
	We had the Batman Begins, we had the Iron Man movie, we had all this.
	Which I thought was very cool that Iron Man was, like, set with the Iraq War.
	I thought that was very...
	It grounded the movie.
	And so I did a similar thing with Broken Roads.
	And I had a conception to the novel that were far more comic booky.
	Like at one point I was considering like on the combat helmet that Wentworth is wearing all the time.
	I was thinking about having like a gold maple leaf on the front because of how freaking cool that would look.
	it would also be absolutely retarded to have like a nice target on the middle of your forehead so I didn't include that so that I was debating that after watching now what's that What's that anime?
	About the kid driving around on the top of the motorcycle?
	I was debating whether like, because I was listening to Horse with No Name.
	I was listening to Classic Rock while I was writing the book.
	And I was thinking about, like, what if his motorcycle had like an AI on it, right?
	So there were versions of Broken Roads that were far more comic book-y and the story you actually got was a comic book that you can't tell as a comic book.
	The story you actually got was a comic book that you can't tell as a comic book, so yeah I do secretly like Marvel movies
	it's why i hate them so much and um the original plans were they were headed in avengers territory
	Okay, like it was act like seriously, there was like two other characters I was gonna introduce in the second book and I don't think I'm naive enough to write that book anymore.
	And so I think that Broken Rhodes, I think it stands up well, I think it's a good book, I'm proud of it, but I don't know if I write sequels, it's not gonna follow the initial plot I had, which I would say the bit, the bad, evil guys that Wentworth used to work for were gonna try and take over the world, but the scrappy, rebellious people are gonna take them down.
	Yeah, I don't think I can write that these days.
	Oscar's lowest rating ever this year.
	That is yeah, people are getting sick of the messaging.
	And this is, you know what?
	Don't be too down on the normie conformies either.
	Yes, there are normie conformies that are just idiots, but like the normie conformies, they're not woke.
	They're not idiots either.
	And yeah, the down votes on Biden are just through the frickin roof.
	And they keep trying to suck us into that left-right dynamic.
	I mean, that troll we had earlier, a perfect example of that.
	Right?
	Like, everything I've been saying tonight is actually pretty left-wing.
	But, yeah, I'm an evil Nazi.
	Ah, maybe, maybe.
	again I do need to get back into writing it's just we'll see So.
	And by the way, the really excellent media, like the Expanse, is inspiring me.
	And, you know, I've always wanted to write a fantasy novel.
	I've got an idea.
	Got an idea.
	I need to sketch it out and then actually write it.
	Now, the original topic of this live stream.
	And by the way, Big L said he might be joining tonight.
	I'm not seeing him anywhere.
	I missed the guy.
	could really use a knock on the door.
	Earlier I said that it seems like the only way that a lot of people can accurately perceive reality is through a fictional narrative.
	ergo alex jones and i was thinking well the problem though the problem though is that most people that get embroiled in narrative actually no alex jones is a perfect example of this where how is he a conspiracy theorist for citing mainstream published scientific journals Where's the conspiracy?
	How are we conspiracy theorists for reading what the CDC reports about COVID?
	It's like it's like in The Last Unicorn when Only way the only way normal people can see the unicorn, right?
	Because nobody believes in unicorns.
	Unicorns don't exist.
	And so to show the unicorn to people, the witch has to cast an illusion of a horn on the unicorn.
	And the movie they do this wonderfully.
	There's the unicorn with her actual horn, and then there's the fake glimmery horn that the witch put on her so that other people could see the unicorn.
	The only way people can see the truth is for Alex Jones to pretend that he's a conspiracy theorist.
	Which is probably what frustrates me about Alex Jones.
	I think a lot of red pill people are frustrated by the outfit, the narrative, the fiction.
	Like we agree with everything else.
	Alex Jones is never wrong.
	But he has to act ridiculous.
	And this becomes a problem with Alex Jones' viewers.
	Because when the people that watch Alex Jones watch Alex Jones, they are actually synced up with reality.
	But then, they also believe every other damn narrative that they see.
	I'll give you an example.
	And listen, I don't want to be mean.
	But person I know was talking about Transformers.
	And Transformers, what's MacGuffin and Transformers?
	The Kryptonium, the Electrocyte.
	What's the MacGuffin?
	What's the magic cube that makes toasters come to life?
	Right?
	Like, he was talking about how it was actually a pretty cool show.
	And I'm like, no, it's a dumb show for kids.
	The AllSpark, thank you.
	The AllSpark.
	Like, you got this Allspark.
	What's the Allspark, man?
	What's it even do?
	Change toasters into radios.
	The Allspark!
	Like, this is the dumbest thing ever.
	And he said, actually, they've discovered, physicists have discovered an all-spark.
	and it's like, it's not the same thing.
	Like if I...
	If I sit down and say that Dungeon and Dragons is dumb because there's a levitate spell, and that goes against the laws of thermodynamics.
	Actually, not even Dungeon and Dragons.
	There's an episode.
	Okay.
	Time to nerd out.
	There's an episode of Voyager where Voyager uses its reactorless drive to land on the planet.
	Now, there's no such thing as a reactorless drive because every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
	And whatever Voyager is using, whatever technological force they're using, because it's a force.
	Like, it should do that, but it does, ewww, it's nice and gentle.
	And it lifts off.
	So there's a force being exerted.
	Right?
	Now, it doesn't necessarily mean that's going to flatten all the trees beneath it.
	But there's a force being exerted.
	And exerting a force requires energy.
	And energy doesn't stop existing, it just transforms.
	Anytime you use energy, it becomes heat.
	So the act of you do do do do do by the end of it.
	Like how much does Voyager weigh?
	Like 30 metric tons?
	Like 300?
	I don't know.
	I don't even know what a metric ton is.
	It's more than I can bench.
	Voyager should be glowing red hot by the time it gets to the planet because I don't see any radiator fins.
	I don't see like that energy needs to go somewhere.
	So yeah, the levitation technology in Star Trek is stupid.
	It's not how the real world works.
	Well actually, did you know that they built a hoverboard?
	fuck's sake.
	The hoverboard uses energy to spin a magnet, creating magnetic inductance in the metal sheet underneath of it.
	There's no hovering.
	Just because electromagnetism is invisible doesn't mean it isn't a force.
	And it's like, no, like the stupid electric, like that's a very cool trick, okay?
	The hoverboards, that is so freaking cool.
	They're unfortunately the batteries are so heavy that they're pretty much useless.
	Like Tony Hawk did the thing with the hoverboards.
	And it's like, you can't do any tricks on them.
	They only work on surfaces that have magnetic inductance.
	And they are extremely cool.
	So are helicopters.
	Helicopters are extremely cool.
	They're not Star Trek Voyager.
	They're not the USS Voyager just hovering wherever it wants.
	You don't need all-Spark actor just.
	No, it doesn't!
	It's a dumb thing made up for a kid's show.
	Oh God, I know.
	This drives me up the wall.
	It drives me mad like I don't know how everything works, but I do know that there are rules okay And the thing about narrative, narrative has plot holes.
	All narratives have plot holes.
	You know the saying, the map is not the territory?
	A map that was 100% accurate would actually just be the territory.
	So in a narrative, like the expanse, you have the lady in charge of the United Nations that guess what?
	The United Nations is actually not controlled by one person, right?
	It's far more complex than that.
	One person does not make all the decisions.
	It's a series of different people that make the decisions.
	You don't get to have one Antagonist, I guess.
	Like, if you write a story and politics is part of it, you're gonna create like one guy represents Mars, one person, one lady represents Earth.
	To simplify things.
	The reality is that no person has as much control as that lady has in the expanse.
	That's unrealistic, it's ridiculous.
	Really, if you want to correctly represent what's going on, we should be watching cabinet meetings where somebody's taking notes and they're like, oh, I'm the from Uruguay thinks.
	Like, but shit, that makes a bad story, doesn't it?
	So, every story, you cut some corners, you mythologize a few things, you have a few plot holes.
	Every story has plot holes.
	The good writer covers up the plot holes to get at the more fundamental truth.
	And so, one of the fundamental truths of The Expanse is it's actually a fantastic meditation on leadership because the more or less main character in The Expanse is like he's trying to run a military outfit with three people that didn't sign up to be in the military, right?
	And they're you can't even call them rebellious because they never signed up for this, but they don't want to do what he says.
	And so, it's this constant power struggle.
	That's real world.
	That's a fantastic meditation.
	Sorry, it's not real world, but it's real listening.
	It's meaningful.
	You draw something from that.
	We are creatures that think in narrative manners.
	Yeah, Alex Jones is extremely useful, but the problem is that people that buy the narrative They they go whole hog and they start buying every single narrative
	I'm not reading that comment.
	Playacorina not that far in the series.
	And so, I was thinking about this.
	Like, there's three domains of understanding: physics, metaphysics, and narrative.
	And physics is the ugly, imperfect reality that we're dealing with all the time.
	Like, you know what?
	As awful as it was, the Corolla sold really well.
	So, you know, like you might be Homer Simpson here, I'm going to narrative, right?
	You might be Homer Simpson who builds the perfect car.
	And then that perfect car destroys the company because nobody buys the perfect car.
	They want the Corolla.
	Why would the hell would anybody want a Corolla?
	It's the worst car ever, but it's the car that everybody wants.
	So that's ugly, imperfect reality.
	Reigns on the just and the unjust alike, you know?
	Assholes get ahead in life.
	There's certain things like, no, no, you're never going to have hover technology.
	You might have helicopters that use magnets instead of propeller blades, but you're never gonna have hover technology.
	I'm sorry, man.
	Just aim it.
	Aim in the cards.
	Then you got metaphysics, which is, I mean, it's platonic solids, right?
	It's the realm of forms.
	It's the idealized and the perfect.
	You know, there's this critique that the atheists say.
	Without religion, good people do good things and evil people do evil things.
	This is normal.
	But it takes religion to make good people do evil things.
	And there's a lot of truth to that statement.
	Okay?
	Like, that's not something you can just brush away.
	That's something you really need to think about if you're a man of faith.
	And I think a lot of this, a lot of this comes from the idealizing, like trying to live the ideal.
	Theology, religion, faith, it's about the perfect.
	and ain't none of us perfect.
	And the people that try and live that perfection often become great monsters.
	In fact, if you study the lives of saints, none of the saints ever claim to be perfect.
	In fact, the closer to sainthood you get, the less perfect you view yourself.
	The more, you're like, man, I'm a total piece of shit.
	But I love that perfection up there.
	will never reach it but like I love it if you think about the let's let's take gay boy troll all right Guaranteed that kid has a chip on his shoulder against Christianity, right?
	And so let's imagine we tried to talk with him.
	I mean, talk with him.
	What would he bring up?
	Westboro Baptist Church, whatever.
	We all know what he'd be bringing up.
	And he wouldn't be wrong, would he?
	Religion has done some truly awful things.
	Usually when there's a charismatic leader that thinks he's got it all figured out.
	You know, actually, this is one of the striking things about Christianity.
	There was no cult.
	Like, think about this.
	Typically when you view a cult, you get the one charismatic leader with a huge bunch of followers and they become...
	because it's the current year but you know they they wind up having their farm that they establish these strict social they have this whole army of people working for them This perfectly describes Muhammad, by the way.
	You know, a person thinks they've got it all figured out, and they attract a bunch of follower, and boom, you got this huge cult all of a sudden.
	And, you know, cults can be pretty effective in the short term.
	See, these days, basically, like, you know how in civilization, like, there's this time period where religions could be founded, and then after it's over, it's like no more religions allowed?
	Like, that's that's actually kind of like where we are.
	You don't really get to have new religions anymore.
	Like, they're all established right?
	So, you can get a little cult going for a while, but it doesn't really go anywhere because it expands and it implodes.
	the permanent religions have been established.
	But Christianity wasn't a cult.
	You had Jesus Christ, you had the Marys, you had his twelve apostles.
	But that's it.
	There was no farming collective, there was no compound.
	I mean, you could point to Jesus Christ as the charismatic figure that thinks he's got it all figured out.
	Fair enough.
	But he never did anything with that aside from talk to people.
	He never.
	What did he say when people begged his succor?
	Go and sin no more.
	You're forgiven my child.
	He never, he never built a cult.
	And then the 12 guys that followed him, well, the 11 that followed him didn't betray him.
	None of them were cult leaders.
	And none of them are depicted very nicely in the Bible.
	The Bible depicts them as faithless douchebags.
	They can literally perform miracles, and yet they still don't trust in him.
	Saint Peter was running away from Rome because he was afraid of crucifixion.
	Cowards, liars, hypocrites.
	The first eleven saints of the church.
	Some of the worst men that ever lived.
	Means that we have.
	If they can do it, then we got a chance.
	They didn't form cults.
	They formed an anti-cult.
	Cults look after one another and do whatever the leader says.
	And the leaders of Christianity said, no, no, be good to everybody.
	Even the non-Christians.
	And dude, I'm an idiot.
	Don't listen to me.
	I'm just.
	I'm trying to give you advice on managing your affairs.
	I'm not telling you to give me 30% of your grain harvest.
	Good lord, that's a powerful argument for Christianity right there.
	Maybe I should work that out.
	Yeah.
	Maybe not.
	gears seraphim of serov I don't know who that is.
	I probably should.
	This is embarrassing, but I don't know who that is.
	Used to greet people calling him Wretched Seraphim.
	He'd bring up the Crusades.
	They're evil, yo.
	Oh, goodness.
	Yeah, it's like, you know what, that guy, the troll?
	He thought he was going to scandalize all of you.
	It kind of didn't work.
	I'm a degenerate.
	I'm a terrible human being.
	That's not a secret.
	You guys all know that.
	I'm just entertaining.
	And, you know, I try and be good to the people that are good to me.
	I'm a jerk most of the time, but I do try and be good to people.
	christianity was the ultimate you know and it this is what i was saying earlier about not voting wasn't it Like, if you have an armed uprising against the COVID vaccine or whatever.
	Whatever bullshit has pissed us off, because aren't we pissed off these days?
	pretty pissed off if you if you have a man there we go If you have an armed uprising, well, that just proves that we need more COVID vaccines, right?
	That was the infuriating thing about the Christians.
	They didn't rise up.
	Why won't you people rise up?
	It's like, no, we believe in God, man.
	We're chill.
	We're cool, dude.
	Chill Christianity was the original based We're based, man.
	We're chill.
	Don't you know that that guy, yeah, we know.
	He's cool, though, man.
	He's based.
	He's chill.
	That's what we do around here.
	We raise our children.
	Good to other people.
	We work the land.
	We're chill.
	are based and for the people that are striving I mean like look at look at the look at how desperate Nero was and like all the strivers right like when you look at the even the heroic figures from from And there were.
	These were people who practiced a great deal of virtue.
	There was a striving quality to it.
	And...
	Oh, goodness.
	that was difficult man man you get into the e celeb thing it's like just a little bit more You're just chasing the dragon all the time.
	And you can see that with the great Romans.
	Like, it's just a different form of consumerism.
	You're constantly running on that hedonic treadmill, trying to be important, trying to be remembered.
	All of that stuff.
	And that's what you see in the late Roman paganism.
	This, uh, it's consumerism.
	It's the same thing, man.
	the same thing whereas if you're if you're based just life man It's just life happening.
	Reigns on the just and the unjust alike.
	So yeah, yeah, Christianity is the ultimate rebellion.
	Because it's like, nah, don't buy into your system.
	I mean, I don't disagree that your system could kill me, so I'll do what your system says, but I'm not going to fight you, man.
	Christianity is Judaism for the Gentiles?
	Yeah.
	Only to the extent that Judaism got things right.
	Experimental gene therapy, technically not a vaccine.
	Yeah.
	I mean, well, it's not.
	I don't think it's actually gene therapy.
	I don't think that's an apt, a fully accurate thing, because it doesn't edit your genes.
	It hijacks the things that genes program.
	And, you know, okay.
	Silver lining, guys.
	All this mass experimentation in the population, give them another 10-20 years.
	They're going to be able to take this mRNA technology and I don't know, get rid of your near-sightedness or get rid of whatever.
	Like, it's going to result in really good technologies.
	The problem isn't that the technology is evil in and of itself.
	Right?
	This is another error people run into.
	I think it's.
	I think, again, with narrative.
	Narrative needs an antagonist.
	It's like, everything we stand for, they stand for the opposite.
	You need an antagonist to represent what the protagonist is not.
	What he's struggling.
	The antagonist is really the dark side of the protagonist.
	Star Wars.
	Luke Skywalker has this incredible power that is completely over the top, right?
	He's like a total Mary Sue character with way too much power.
	And Darth Vader represents what that could potentially become.
	And so that's the dark side of Luke.
	That Luke has the potential to become Darth Vader because he's got the superpower.
	And Luke's struggle is to not abuse the power that he has.
	But when you...
	When you have a...
	I'm going to call it a basic science fiction story, which doesn't mean bad.
	I'm not saying it's bad or stupid or whatever.
	I'm not saying basic bitch.
	I'm saying a basic science fiction story like Terminator, for example.
	Now, Terminator, fantastic movie.
	Absolutely fantastic.
	Absolutely.
	Legendary.
	But it's got this.
	The antagonist is determinism, actually.
	Like the whole, the first Terminator movie is like, do we have free will or is everything predestined?
	Right?
	And the Terminator is determinism.
	It's a computer.
	It's the most deterministic thing that we can imagine.
	A computer, a machine.
	It's ultimately deterministic.
	Can free will overcome determinism?
	Like, that's kind of the core premise right there in Terminator.
	And it's, like I said, it's legendary.
	Now the problem becomes, if you try and interpret narrative as metaphysics, then narrative technology is the evil.
	Ergo, vaccines are evil.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	You're doing it wrong.
	You're doing it wrong.
	Category error.
	Actually, I guess that would be physics, not metaphysics.
	I'm still teasing these ideas out.
	Physics, okay.
	Okay.
	Splitting the atom can be used for nuclear power plants or for atomic weapons.
	And as I've said before, atomic weapons are weapons of terror.
	They're not weapons of war.
	They are weapons of terror for attacking civilian populations.
	They are completely illegitimate.
	At least in the current context.
	In an outer space battle, they might be legitimate.
	In the present context, you don't need a nuclear bomb to blow up a submarine or to blow up a battleship.
	They are illegitimate weapons.
	weapons of terror.
	And so it's not that splitting the atom is wrong.
	It's that it can be used for wrong things.
	The use of...
	God, one of the best books I ever read was The Use of Weapons.
	I love that book.
	But I was going to say The Use of Technology.
	It's technology comes with unique liabilities.
	Nobody needed car insurance before the invention of cars.
	Because we got a unique situation with cars.
	Is that when you're driving a car, you can do everything right.
	You can be sober, attentive, you name it, then you hit a patch of black ice, and you wind up severely injuring somebody else.
	And that person was injured, they need a compensation for that.
	And it's typically, or it's frequently going to be an injury that is so expensive that there's no way you can pay for that out of pocket.
	And so cars necessitate car insurance.
	Doesn't mean cars are evil or not evil.
	If we lived in a world without car insurance, there'd be a lot of people denouncing cars as evil because there's all these people that got injured and now they're unemployed and broke, etc.
	But it's not the car, it's that we're not using the technology properly.
	And that's the thing with the mRNA vaccine, is it's experimental.
	It's not ready yet.
	This is a mass experimentation of the populace.
	And that's evil.
	That's wrong that's but it's not the vaccine that met it The vaccine is just a vaccine.
	Well, it's not a vaccine, but you understand what I'm saying.
	It's just technology.
	And, you know, give it 10, 15 years.
	This mRNA technology might be hugely beneficial.
	just it's not ready for market yet.
	Speaking about car insurance, man we go all over the place with these streams.
	Speaking of car insurance, I knew about a guy who was involved in three accidents, none of them his fault.
	His premiums went up so bad his boss had to take him off working on sites completely.
	He was an electrician.
	sucks it was actually there ought to be a way around that I mean, this is chaos theory, okay?
	It's that.
	Randomness clusters.
	Random doesn't look random.
	Okay, that's a you know what That's another aspect of physics that people have a lot of trouble understanding.
	Because typically if you see a pattern, nine times out of ten, the pattern is real and you should pay attention to it.
	But one time out of 10, it is just random.
	Like, oh god, at one time, I was sitting with my friends at Boston Pizza back in high school.
	And one guy slammed his fist on the table.
	And he accidentally hit a fork when he did that.
	And the fork flipped up into the air and then landed perfectly in a drinking cup.
	And the whole table burst out laughing.
	And the management started freaking out because they thought the teenagers were up to some sort of no good.
	But it was just one of those perfectly random events that looked intentional.
	And that's why it was so funny.
	Because nobody can do that.
	Nobody can slam on a fork and perfectly bounce into a cup.
	That's impossible.
	except by accident and you know car accidents are one of those things that run into that category That there's a non-zero.
	Like I've hit black.
	We've all hit black ice.
	aside from you bastards in California, but black ice is one of those things that, it's called black ice because you can't see it.
	If you're a good driver, you can anticipate which areas are prone to black ice, but not 100%.
	And so you've always got that potential.
	And it's like, it's one, I don't know, one in a hundred thousand, something like that.
	Really, really low odds.
	But it's not impossible to hit black ice three times in a row.
	On a long enough timeline, everything happens.
	Fun fact, if I really like thinking about probabilities.
	The probabilities are really interesting because on a long enough timeline, okay, I'm going to misquote this.
	I'm going to screw it up.
	The universe is 14 billion years old.
	So when you buy a Powerball ticket, I don't exactly know how Powerball works, but let's say there's a lottery in the United States, and everybody buys a ticket.
	You've got a 1 in 30 million chance of winning that, right?
	Now, I guess if you bought a lottery ticket every year for 14 billion years, that's better than 30 million.
	But what I'm trying to get at is that there are certain things, like theoretically, anything can happen, but there's a probability limit where some things almost definitely don't happen.
	Like, they theoretically could, but they definitely don't.
	The universe is only 14 billion years old.
	13 and a half, I think.
	I might have that number wrong.
	But in that time frame, how many times does rolling the dice give you snake eyes?
	That's an interesting thing to think about.
	Robin Hanson No.
	Robert Hansen.
	Robin Hansen was the boy band.
	Robert Hansen has done tremendous work on the Drake equation and studying the probabilities of life forming given crucial stages of development.
	And which stages look easy and which ones look hard based upon one example.
	Fascinating stuff.
	Although also very suggestive that the stages thing is not that useful a metric.
	Reality is messy, my friends.
	more ice.
	I wish
	I had more to say on this physics-metaphysics narrative thing.
	Maybe.
	Well, let's check the comments first.
	Do the problem with those vestas?
	No place to put my cigarettes.
	I would totally wear this out in public, just like this outfit, but like I don't have any pockets for my cigarettes or phone.
	Do you have a pocket for a pocket watch, however?
	So maybe I need to get one of those.
	Let me just, what time is it?
	Let me check my pocket watch and let me check my cell phone to make sure it's accurate.
	Our watch is not the most pretentious thing to wear these days like I'm not saying you shouldn't wear a watch.
	I saw a really nice watch at, well, I got a jewelry.
	Man, you get old.
	I got a jewelry shop that I go to.
	Really, just for the silver chain on my crucifix, but uh.
	I got a jewelry shop, guys, and I saw a really nice watch there.
	I'm like, man, I kind of want to buy that watch.
	It's $300, so I haven't.
	I saw it a few years ago, I haven't bought it yet.
	Like, comment, and subscribe so I can afford to buy a watch.
	I'm Mer from Michigan.
	Won't free us until 70% of adults take the COVID packs.
	On the plus side, 70% probably will.
	I mean, it's gonna be here's it, guys.
	Get physically fit.
	Okay, like, I kind of assume that you're all physically fit, right?
	Maybe I'm wrong about that.
	Battery.
	get physically fit, take vitamin C, take care of yourself.
	Alright?
	If you are healthy, you've got nothing to worry about from COVID.
	That said, I'm kind of just watching all of this.
	And I'm like, this is going to be funny.
	It's like three guys swinging machetes, cutting grass, not looking up, slowly walking towards one another.
	This will be interesting.
	I mean, like, yeah.
	I know what happened to me for trying to tell people not to do that, so I'm not going to tell people not to do that.
	Yeah, go right ahead, get the COVID vaccine.
	And probably 70% of people will get the COVID vaccine.
	Or either.
	Okay, I'm Addie.
	Two choices.
	Number one, two possibilities.
	Number one, 70% of people are more than happy to get the vaccine.
	So, problem solved.
	Option two, 70% of people say, no, fuck you.
	I'm not taking that.
	I'd rather have Donald Trump inject me with bleach.
	In which case, Governor Whitaker, or Whitmer, looks like an idiot.
	So, um, win-win, right?
	Like, everyone, 70% of people get the vaccine, life goes back to normal.
	70% refuse, and the governor looks like an absolute idiot, and 70% of people are opposed to him.
	Win St. Seraphim of Sarav, from let's see, 1754 to 1833.
	Right, and this is why I try and remember to go by my baptismal name these days, Leo.
	Venerating both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.
	You know, I was explaining Young Lad was asking, what the hell's up with all these churches?
	What it boils down to is that the Catholic Church is the Bride of Christ and an institution.
	And corruption is what institutions run on.
	And so, yes, the Catholic Church is corrupt.
	It's a corrupt institution.
	But surprisingly, not corrupt.
	Like, of course, it's got people need money, people are seeking power, people want others to support them, competing against this other guy that also wants to get power in this position.
	Yeah, it did it.
	And guess what?
	Priests are not perfect.
	They're not Jesus Christ.
	Okay?
	They are men.
	Just like you and I, and they sin.
	And you know, it's like this guy that came on trying to call me a Nazi, right?
	Or whatever.
	Whatever the hell he was calling me.
	That guy wants to spread scandal.
	It's like, guess what?
	No, dude, we're based around here.
	Yeah, Leo Rini's a sinner.
	Shock.
	But he's a sinner.
	Yeah, we're all sinners.
	We're cool with that, man.
	We just chill.
	We're chill and we're based.
	But, you know, in an institution, there's always some sin that society's really upset about right now.
	And so if you get caught with that sin, oh, no, no, it's a big scandal, right?
	And you use scandal to get ahead in an institution.
	So yeah, the Catholic Church is corrupt.
	But there's a great story about there's a.
	So probably apocryphal, but there's a Frenchman and a Jew.
	And they're good friends, they're neighbors.
	And the Frenchman is always trying to convert the Jew to Christianity.
	Then one day the Jew says, you know what?
	My business has led me to Rome.
	I'm going to be in Rome for a few weeks.
	I'm going to check out this whole, I'm going to go check out the Catholic Church.
	See, you speak so highly of it.
	And when he said that, the Frenchman was like, oh my God, he's going to don't go to Rome.
	They're terrible there.
	He's going to go to Rome and say, you're all a bunch of hypocrites and it's garbage and I'm never going to convert.
	Then the Jew comes back.
	He's like, yeah, I got baptized.
	Wait, what?
	I figured any institution that corrupt, that has been around for 2,000 years, that has to be protected by God.
	That has to be protected by God.
	So yeah, then you get Martin Luther, who gets angry with a local corruption of the tribe.
	Historically local.
	I mean, not geographically.
	The indulgences thing, which, yeah, Catholics still do indulgences.
	It's just that at the time indulgences were pretty, like, by your way into heaven.
	It's like, yeah, we can forgive your sins.
	It's a nice bag of gold you got there.
	It's a nice soul you got.
	It'd be shame if somebody was to burn that.
	So yeah, the whole indulgence thing was pretty corrupt.
	Again, because it's an institution.
	There's always corruption in institutions.
	It's like you mitigate it.
	You don't try and eliminate it.
	Point in contemporary context.
	I've got no problem with a politician who does right by their people, getting some sort of consulting position and, you know, getting a nice, nice house, whatever.
	Right?
	It's like, oh, you were a good politician, so here's a million dollars.
	That's fine.
	I kind of take issue with Bernie Sanders begging poor people for money while and then using that money to buy a Ferrari for himself.
	There's corruption and there's corruption, is what I'm saying.
	And so Martin Luther pointed out some legitimate corruption in the Catholic Church, and it was getting out of control, right?
	Indulgences are supposed to be go to confession, attend a service, walk through this archway, and boom, sins are forgiven.
	That's an indulgence.
	Not, yeah, give us 500 gold pieces.
	You're forgiven.
	So Martin Luther had a point, but the results of Martin Luther's actions, even by his own words, like when he was getting close to the end of his days, he's like, I almost regret doing this because the people have become incredibly immoral.
	And after Martin Luther, you get the Anglicans split, the Protestants keep splitting, and every man becomes their own pope.
	Right?
	It's like the, because the Pope is an asshole, which, yeah, he's a human being.
	Ergo, he's an asshole.
	Because he's an asshole, I'm going to make myself the Pope.
	And so now we've got 1,001 flavors of Protestant Christianity.
	So the nice thing about having a Pope is at least you can blame him for stuff, you know?
	Like when you've got Protestantism, who do you blame for Protestantism?
	Right?
	It just, oh no, I'm going to start my own church now.
	It's like, nobody's responsible.
	That's democracy, right?
	With the Pope, at least you can call him an asshole.
	The buck stops there.
	The really striking thing about Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, and there's a few other churches as well.
	See, when the 11 apostles went out, they founded churches everywhere they went.
	Now, most of them have been amalgamated into the Catholic Church.
	And now I'm RCC, which is a subset of Catholic.
	I'm Roman Catholic.
	There's what are the Egyptian Catholics called?
	I forgot right now.
	I've been to non-Roman Catholic churches as well.
	Slightly different services, but absolutely beautiful.
	Maronite.
	I've been to a Maronite service, and it's fantastic.
	They all thought I was an Arab.
	I pass as Arab.
	So I guess Italians aren't white, are we?
	Anyway, so most of the churches have been amalgamated in the Catholic Church.
	Eastern Orthodox is semi.
	Like, they don't recognize the Vatican, but.
	Now, here's the crazy thing.
	All those churches, Maronite, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, like Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Egyptian.
	What is the Egyptian called?
	Their theology is all the same.
	This is very striking to me, that the Eastern Orthodox and the Catholics have been separated for because of political reasons, right?
	Because of war and conquest and whatnot.
	The Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholics have been separated for about 600 years, and yet we have the same theology.
	We are in complete agreement on theology.
	Whereas every single Protestant sect disagrees with every other Protestant sect.
	So how is it that you get these two churches separated?
	And there's even animosity between the Orthodox and the Catholics.
	Separated for 600 years, and yet we agree on everything.
	We just disagree on the rules for how the organization organizes itself, which are not theology.
	That's just like, who even cares, man?
	so like canada and the united states have different legal systems right you can't well i mean you could but it's very unlikely that you're going to be a lawyer in america and a lawyer in canada Because it's like, why?
	Just be an expert at one, man.
	So we've got different legal systems, but our culture and our language is basically the same in American Canada.
	and that's kind of the eastern orthodox and the catholics i don't think big l's coming over I'm a little bit heartbroken.
	So, yeah, absolutely zero surprise that there's a saint recognized by both the Orthodox and the Catholics.
	Seraphim is generally considered the greatest of the 19th century elders.
	Extended the monastic teachings of contemplation, theoria, and self-denial to the layperson.
	He taught that the purpose of the Christian life was to acquire the Holy Spirit.
	Perhaps his most popular quotation amongst Orthodox believers is, acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved.
	I like that.
	I like that.
	It's not something I live up to most of the time, but I like that.
	really do like that.
	I'm still far too troubled by what other people think of me.
	Let me tell you about a conversation I was having.
	Last night after the stream, I felt pretty, I felt pretty damn lonely.
	I've got.
	I'm not going to go into details.
	I've got a situation in my life, which is a little bit stressful.
	Contacted to one of my online friends one of the like a guy.
	I have a lot of respect for I said to him, man, like, do you have any friends?
	Because, like, I'm sitting here, I'm facing down the double barrel right now.
	And I ain't got a friend in the world.
	And he said something really interesting to me.
	Would a friend change the fact that you're staring down the double barrels?
	Nah, it really wouldn't.
	Would a friend under these circumstances help you at all?
	It really wouldn't.
	In fact, he even pointed this out, in most situations.
	The friend has the potential to make the situation a lot worse.
	And for me, anyway, there was so much wisdom in that.
	There's so much.
	Like, yeah, I'm a social person.
	I like being around people.
	I like talking.
	I love talking.
	I uh why am I so addicted to friendship though?
	Why am I so addicted to it's kind of silly if you think about it?
	Far better to have a peaceful spirit.
	Best of Azul!
	Love the fedora, bro!
	It is, let's see, where is it?
	HatsintheBelfree.com.
	It's a company out of Washington State.
	It's fantastic, man.
	The thing costs like $50.
	arrived way earlier than they said it was going to arrive and it's it's not a there are better hats but like it's fantastic It's a fantastic hat.
	So I should get them to sponsor my live streams.
	Hats in the Bellsbury.
	Good fedora's there.
	I collect automatic watches.
	I love the craftsmanship.
	By the way, Pasta Fazul, please like, comment, subscribe.
	If we get to 200 subscribers, superpowers.
	Or something.
	I'm sick of learning new platforms, new technology.
	I've done so much of that that I'm just burned out on it.
	Yeah, maybe this is one of the nice things about getting old.
	Is you actually stop giving a shit about stuff.
	Imagine the grandfather with the, oh, you kids and your YouTubes.
	Back in my day, we had the radio.
	We tie an onion to our belt, as was the fashion at the time.
	You get chilled out.
	you chilled out you know oh what are you kids angry about these days don't be too angry about it.
	Love watching the gears move.
	Oh, it exposes the gears.
	That's actually pretty cool.
	that would be pretty dark man a pocket watch with um you can see all the gears inside That would be very cool.
	I'm sure they sell one somewhere.
	I would love to own one of those.
	What do you think if New Jersey's Scheit Liberal Governor Phil Murphy trying to raise a benign taxes?
	And trying to impose and tax on churches.
	I mean, it's better than murdering us, so- Well, okay, so I think proselytization is important.
	But I don't mean knocking on doors and throwing bibles at people's heads.
	I mean, being a decent person.
	Being a decent person.
	My faith was tried pretty hard over the past few years.
	Now, and good came of it.
	When I was talking about letting go of the need to be esteemed by others, which is part of the litany of humility, which I...
	Guys, look up the litany of humility.
	Go pray that for a while.
	It's actually a fantastic cure for depression, believe it or not.
	But, uh, yeah, the need to be esteemed by others is something I've, um, it's something God decided to make me let go of.
	I didn't decide this.
	It has nothing to do with it.
	God's like, yeah, Irene, you're a little bit too full of yourself.
	So here's some humility.
	Enjoy, asshole.
	And one of the things that really tried my faith is that the people that were really trying me were ostensibly Christian.
	And so it's bad enough, like with Gay Loverboy attacking me in the comments there earlier tonight.
	Like that, that's, I mean, that's to be expected, right?
	But when your brothers in Christ attack you, that hurts.
	Man, that hurts.
	And the way Christians behave is like that tempted my faith a lot.
	But I've come out a lot stronger.
	I came out of the crucible and I'm stronger now.
	And so when I say proselytize, I don't mean be a self-righteous prick that yells at other people and insults them all the time.
	God, you know, he said, alright, Irene.
	Alright.
	You're pretty based.
	How based are you?
	I bet I can make you even more based.
	So I'm going to put you through hell.
	I'm going to have other Christians do it to you.
	Because I see something in you.
	I see something in you.
	Just maybe another 50 years you'll finally be like mediocre.
	Most people don't need that though.
	Most people aren't ready to be thrust into the hottest part of the fire.
	And so when I say proselytize, I don't mean go around being a jerk to other people in the name of Jesus Christ.
	Be easily Whatever you are That's what you are
	And he wants you to be that even more.
	He doesn't want a consumer imitation.
	He doesn't want a cheap knockoff.
	He wants you as the most individualized you you can possibly be.
	And, you know, we tend to identify ourselves by our professions.
	You know, for a really long time, and to a certain extent I still do, I identify myself as a soldier.
	with all the virtues and vices endemic to that profession.
	And now we're far more complex than a profession.
	We are far more complex than a label.
	That's why we have names, for crying out loud.
	But the profession's a good place to start.
	So if you're an electrician, a soldier, a bureaucrat, a whatever you might be, be the best version of that.
	So if you're a bureaucrat, you don't proselytize by throwing Bibles at people's heads.
	A bureaucrat proselytizes by actually being a good bureaucrat that cares about the people that are being ground through the fucking sausage machine of bureaucracy and treating them with dignity and respect.
	Actually, I ran into a pretty good bureaucrat today.
	He raped me very gently, which I appreciate.
	Probably should have been politer to him.
	You proselytize by being a decent person.
	Treating others with respect and love and concern.
	Not being a doormat, okay?
	I'm not saying that's cocky anity, okay?
	You're not a doormat to other people.
	But you treat them like they are also children of God.
	So that's what I mean by proselytization.
	God be merciful to me, a sinner.
	Thou hast made Lord.
	Have mercy on me.
	I have sinned immeasurably.
	Lord, have mercy and forgive me.
	The prayer of the publican.
	Beautiful.
	One of the best ways to protect yourself against scandal, says Elisha.
	Not sure what that's responding to, but just being open, like, I'm a very scandalous man.
	The, um, troll earlier.
	Yes, he did see me at Starbucks.
	Yes, I was on a date with, I mean, is 18 too young for me?
	Maybe.
	Probably.
	Yes, he did white knight and cockblock me quite successfully.
	And yes, he looks exactly like what you think he looks like.
	So that kind of sucked, but I don't know.
	I kind of had my misgivings going in.
	I mean, 18 is young, right?
	No.
	i didn't initiate things okay and then You know, I wasn't the first one to express interest.
	I'll just leave it at that.
	Maronite is Lebanese.
	Well, Lebanon is Arab, isn't it?
	Anyway, there's a Maronite church that's super close to me, and I've gone there before, and...
	Oh, yeah.
	They do the coolest thing.
	Like, you know how in Catholic churches we do the sign of friendship or whatever it is, where we're all like, wave and we shake hands.
	Hey, how's it going, neighbor?
	In the Maronite church, it starts at the front, where the priest grasps the important secular person.
	Grasps their, like, you put your hands like this, they grasp your hands, and you pull them out.
	And then that person goes to each row and does the same thing.
	If you're on the far right, they do that to you.
	then you have the person on your left and just like a sort of like the wave in uh in a baseball stadium and it's a It's a lovely ritual.
	Absolutely lovely.
	And good Lord, when you hear the service in Arabic, Arabic is such a beautiful language.
	It is such a wonderfully religious sounding language as well.
	Us Europeans, we've got logical languages and we've got romantic languages.
	Okay?
	You know, like Lat and I mean Latin is kind of like the combination of logical and romantic at the same time.
	But we don't have a properly religious language.
	And Arabic is a religious language.
	it is incredibly beautiful so yeah go go to a haronite church if you ever get a chance It's...
	You're missing out if you've never been to a Maronite church.
	Coptic, yes, Coptic Christians.
	That's the dated one back in the day.
	God, I should have married her.
	She was like totally high T, aggressive, cynical woman.
	Man, her and I would have been perfect together if I were less of a shithead back then.
	And if she were less of a shithead.
	I think I'm pulling it off.
	You know, I was saying it's...
	Even though, like, yeah, don't do the consumerism.
	don't get all the Funko pop but once a while this is once in a while you know buy yourself a little something Buy yourself.
	I didn't need a hat.
	But it was 50 bucks, man.
	That's a really good price, and I just watched Dark City, so yeah, I bought myself a hat.
	Yes, half my age plus seven.
	And actually, that's what I normally go for.
	Okay?
	Like I said, I didn't initiate things.
	Wait, don't the Maronites use Aramaic?
	Maybe it is Aramaic.
	I don't know, I assumed it was, I mean, I don't frickin' know.
	I thought they were speaking.
	It could be Aramaic.
	In that case, Aramaic is a wonderfully beautiful language.
	And it's a wonderful, because it was like half of it was English and the other half was whatever, Aramaic or whatever it might be.
	it was fantastic and so there's something very very beautiful about hearing a prayer that you know in a foreign tongue And you can almost see the words.
	You can almost see them.
	You can almost identify them.
	You know what the meaning of the prayer is.
	You know the rhythm.
	You know the important parts of the prayer.
	But you don't know any of the words.
	And so it's like you're actually hearing human language for the first time.
	It's beautiful.
	i wonder if that is the the grace the miracle of speaking in tongues because speaking in tongues is speaking in tongues is not when protestants engage in glossolalia
	Where they make a whole bunch of sounds, like they, like the primordial sounds that you connect in your brain to make words.
	Oh god, we're gonna get nerdy again.
	So, in Axiom Verge, one of the symptoms of the corruption that's happening in Axiom Verge is the graphics distort into errors that you would get on a Nintendo cartridge in a game that was basically like Metroid.
	So, very, very meta.
	Very metal.
	The interesting thing about graphical errors is graphical errors are built off of the basic code.
	So, there's a unique form to graphical errors based upon the basic code.
	And if you played a lot of Nintendo games, you start to get familiar.
	Like, you couldn't code them, but you understood that there were certain building blocks to the Nintendo code.
	And you would recognize aberrant versions of them.
	It's not just random pixels, okay?
	It's very specific aberrant pixels.
	And with human language, very few of us are aware of the basic building blocks of language.
	You know, one of the things that strikes me, because I've done as a public speaker, as a guy that's made movies, as a guy that I've done a couple of audiobooks,
	every so often there'll be a radio commercial that comes on, and after the 10th or 20th listening, I will notice that the voice actor neglected a consonant.
	So, basically, he would he was trying to say neglected a consonant, and he said neglected a nonsonant.
	And it would just drive me up the wall.
	That's like fingernails on the chalkboard, drove me up the frickin' wall.
	And yet most people don't notice that.
	And so Glossolalia is like the error in the Nintendo graphics.
	And that's just my, that was my mummy just now.
	Let me just make sure everything's okay.
	Nope, she's just sending me videos about COVID.
	We're all good.
	So, glossolalia is just, it's like a Nintendo graphics error, where you take the foundational particles of language with most of us are unaware of, and then you string them together randomly.
	Not entirely randomly.
	You string them together in the same way that Nintendo graphic errors are random.
	They're not completely random.
	So, it sounds like language.
	But what you'll find is that the glossolalia, it's only the language participles of the languages that they speak.
	So, for example, Asian people, people that are raised speaking an Asian language, have a lot of trouble pronouncing L's.
	They pronounce as Rs because the L sound is not used in China or Japan.
	And there's, and there's other correlates.
	There's sounds that they use in Asian Japan that we don't use in English.
	And an English speaker learning Japanese is going to have a major accent.
	Sorry, accent is the general tone of the language, but a French speaker tends to speak English like this, because they speak like this.
	Actually, that was more Italian, wasn't it?
	But that's the accent.
	It's the sounds that you never learn to pronounce as a kid.
	And so this is distinct with glossolalia: is that they don't.
	Again, hey, I could be wrong about this.
	Alright?
	I'm not an expert.
	If you've got a paper that proves me wrong, if you fire it at me.
	But from what I understand, people that engage in glossolalia, they never include sounds that they didn't learn as a kid.
	They just randomly, semi-randomly, string together sounds that are foundational to English language.
	Which is actually further support that, shoot, who was the original 007?
	Worked for Queen Elizabeth?
	Oh, good.
	You know what?
	I'm taking a bathroom break.
	I'm going to see if I can remember his name.
	He wrote out the language of the angel.
	I can't remember his name.
	I want to say white with a Y in it.
	Or dire.
	Or something like that.
	Do you guys know who the hell I'm talking about?
	No, you don't.
	Anyway, he transcribed the language of the angels in Cypher.
	And it didn't resemble any human language.
	Right?
	was not, typically when you have an invented language, it's a clear derivative of, like Esperanto is a clear derivative of the Latin languages.
	Esperanto is basically just Latin for modernity.
	Klingon, I'm such a geek that I actually owned the Klingon to English dictionary as a kid.
	But Klingon is another invented language, and now I don't know, but I'm going to assume it's based mainly upon ancient Germanic.
	I mean, it seems appropriate, right?
	You can recognize an invented language the same way you can recognize Glossolalia as using only the sounds from the native speaker's language.
	And yet, the angelic has no signs of being an invented language.
	Or it's got really it is not obviously an invented language.
	And it's furthermore, like the circumstances of its transcription are like you have to posit a major conspiracy to say that it was God, his name is on the tip of my tongue.
	Who is it, guys?
	Who is it?
	Give me his name.
	Driving me up the wall.
	The original 007.
	He actually invented modern spy agencies.
	I know he wasn't that bad of a guy.
	was actually pretty decent guy yeah that's what that's one of those Here's the thing.
	I keep saying I'm going to do an alien string.
	The problem is like it's 99% explaining how physics works, and then 1%, yeah, this thing completely obliterates that.
	And that's the language of the angels.
	Lasolalia is not speaking in tongues.
	Language of the angels, well, it's also not speaking in tongues, but it's something.
	It's something.
	It's inexplicable.
	It's weird.
	It's an anomaly.
	But actual speaking in tongues is when everybody who listens understands what you're saying, regardless of whether or not they speak the language that you speak.
	And I think if you go to a Maronite church and you listen to all these prayers that you know in a language you don't speak, but you understand the meaning and you can finally hear human language.
	It's fine, like you hear the random oop up deep noises of language and you hear the intent of the language.
	I think that's what it's like if somebody is speaking in tongues, which, actually this physics, metaphysics narrative, part of the issue with metaphysics is miracles.
	Yeah, miracles are what unite the physics with narrative.
	So what I just described, going to Maronite church, hearing prayers in Aramaic, and understanding them, and simultaneously seeing human language naked, without preconceptions.
	That is what speaking in tongues feels like for the observer.
	And the issue seems to be On the narrative side, we want this hand coming out of heaven giving us a holy sword.
	on the physics side of things we want a crude and neat explanation of everything miracles the metaphysics of miracles are that they're both at the same time
	My explanation of understanding the prayers, even though they're in Aramaic, and very nearly being able to say the prayers myself.
	Like, you are this far away from being able to speak Aramaic along with everybody else in the church.
	You can feel it.
	You can feel it.
	I've almost grabbed it.
	almost got it and let's say you really nailed things that day and you did get it And you did speak Aramaic.
	And you understood Aramaic for those prayers, you know, like that one time.
	Well, I mean, physical explanation is easy.
	Listen, like, we already discussed the physical explanation.
	Of course, it's physical explanation.
	And if you think about somebody speaking in tongues, somebody that has something so important to say and so profound that merely the tone of their voice and the cadence and the structure of the sentence is sufficient for all listeners to know exactly what that guy said.
	There's your physical explanation right there But the narrative explanation.
	Why would something be so important that the laws of physics would alter themselves?
	Why would something be so crucial for you to understand that for that brief moment you understood Aramaic?
	It's because the narrative needed it.
	story needed it and I think that's I think that's largely the nature of miracles my friends They're both.
	They are both human narrative reality.
	Again, like the Bible is such a ridiculously good story.
	It's a weird story, too.
	Nobody comes across very well in the Bible.
	Maybe that's why I don't like the Marvel movie so much.
	It's because the characters are also perfect.
	It's like the question on the job interview.
	What's your biggest flaw?
	I work too hard.
	That's Marvel movies for you.
	I'm just too good.
	I love people too much.
	Whereas the Bible, it's like, yeah, everybody's an asshole.
	Everyone's a piece of shit.
	And these are the people you're supposed to look up to.
	Very, very interesting narrative.
	And it's also, it's a.
	As a narrative, as a story, it is such an amazing story.
	Oh, wait, that's Big L. Let me see if Big L's coming over or not.
	The audience misses you.
	Nah, he's not coming over tonight.
	The Bible's a fairly accurate historical text.
	Historical texts do not look like modern census data.
	Okay?
	Historical.
	They're weird.
	They're weird.
	You gotta interpret them.
	When the I think this is an effect of modernism.
	Because us moderns are so used to computer databases.
	To.
	Good lord.
	One of the things I did during my history degree was I took the crime.
	Me and a friend, we created a crime census for 20 years in Hamilton.
	We went to the microfiche and we dug up the old newspapers and every newspaper had a list of people that had been convicted of crimes that day or that week.
	And we compiled them into a database to try and get a view of what law enforcement looked like back in 1920, 1880, whatever it was.
	Turns out the most common crime of the time was cow at large.
	Or sheep at large.
	So the most common conviction was, yeah, your stupid cow got out of this pen and wandered down Main Street and pissed off a lot of people.
	So yeah, you're being convicted of a crime.
	Pay 50 bucks.
	so it was an interesting insight but when you're talking about a thousand years ago three thousand years ago like you know history we didn't have databases back then There seems to be this presumption amongst moderns that because we have such excellent databases, even, I mean, you go back 500 years.
	Actually, you do go back a thousand years and you've got the baptismal records in the church.
	It's not quite the same as your tax records.
	It's not quite that defined, but it's pretty hard.
	That's pretty hard data.
	the further you go back the less data there is and one of the errors that uh modern historians make is they look at the they look at mythology and they assume that it's all made up when no king heracles was a real person and he did fight something in i forget the valley we even know where he fought the hydra Now, I don't think the Hydra actually had seven heads.
	I think that part's bullshit.
	But he fought something that was venomous there.
	This is one of my goals in life.
	If I ever get the money, I would like to travel the ancient world.
	I would like to go visit all the locations where mythological things happened.
	Because most of these mythological things actually did happen.
	To some degree or another.
	And yeah, a lot of them, like, you can, if you dig into it, you can find where they were.
	If you, like, some of the, a lot of the Roman ones, there's monuments, there's this stuff.
	It's like the official tour guide takes you there.
	But there's a lot of these other ones.
	Like, where Heracles fought the Hydra, it's just like it's a shitty little valley in the middle of nowhere.
	So that's one of my goals.
	An adventure, hiking adventure.
	Something I like to do in my life.
	I'd love to bring kids on it.
	to bring my kids with me and and show them and tell them about their ancestors on that trip.
	Anyway, so there's this presumption that mythology is all fake because it's not written in the same way that we write data.
	Mythology is not data.
	The Bible is not data.
	It's mythology.
	And it's largely true.
	And so the point I'm getting at is that this document, this ancient document, the Bible's an ancient document.
	I mean, good lord, atheists love to like snub their nose at it.
	Do you have any idea how lucky we are to have the Bible?
	And no, I don't interpret in the literalist evolution doesn't exist sort of manner.
	But it's mainly a historical document.
	Well, it's a historical document, poetry, life advice, etc.
	And it's remarkably honest.
	Actually, that's something you gotta give all the ancient mythologies.
	Like, go read the Nordic myths.
	And Zeus and Thor don't come across, they come across like jackasses, just as much as the Bible.
	King David is an entire jackass.
	People discount this, but it is a historical document.
	And yet, this historical document is also a perfect story.
	And that's weird.
	That's really, really weird.
	That's up there with the language of the angels.
	Which, does anybody know who I'm talking about yet?
	What the hell is his name?
	A lot of the occultists cite this guy, because he was like the original.
	Now, he was not an occultist.
	Okay?
	He was not left-hand path, he was right-hand path.
	hmm actually well there's there's i'm gonna stick a pin in that Maybe one of the errors that we've made as Christians is that we got so good at the right-hand path that we discounted the left-hand path.
	And now the left-hand path has become completely corrupted because we never embrace it.
	Like Plato refusing to do rhetoric.
	Where thankfully Aristotle corrected that error.
	Anyway, sticking a pin in that thought.
	Language of the angels is an anomaly.
	That thing is way too weird.
	There is no skeptic case against Angelic.
	Aside from they were evil and lying to everybody and just did this to trick the world because, well, they never profited from it, but yeah, they're just assholes.
	It would require a remarkable level of collusion to achieve that.
	The same thing goes for the fact that the Bible is a perfect story.
	You would need so much collusion from people that lived hundreds of years apart from one another to fake the Bible.
	Which, I mean, technically it's possible, I guess.
	Or maybe it's true.
	Yeah, random shit happens.
	But, you know, earlier today, I had a date with somebody that was probably a little bit too young for me.
	And some neckbeard showed up to call me a Nazi and ruin the date.
	Okay, maybe that, maybe random chance.
	But I've never had that happen before.
	So, you know, maybe that was God saving me.
	I kind of had my misgivings and eh.
	Just got my ass saved.
	Maybe God put that asshole into my life so that he would ruin our first date.
	or maybe not.
	Reality is a lot weirder than physics admits that it is.
	And narrative.
	Again, you can see narrative in anything.
	That's the problem with conspiracy theorists.
	I see narrative everywhere when most of the time it's like, no, man, that's just random chance.
	That's just a cluster of events.
	Like, was it Elijah's friend?
	That, I can't look back far enough.
	Who.
	The electrician that had three random events screw his insurance?
	Well, it's just three random events.
	Right?
	That happens.
	Once in a while, random shit happens.
	And it always.
	And randomness always appears in clusters.
	But then you got the next level of things where maybe that randomness happened for a reason.
	Like, who knows?
	Maybe.
	Maybe your buddy getting his driver's license taken away.
	Maybe that saved his life.
	John D!
	Thank you.
	John D is who I'm talking about.
	You can see I almost had his name, didn't I?
	I almost had it.
	John D, the original 007.
	And yes, Christ did speak.
	The Christ spoke Aramaic.
	By the way, guys, here's another anomaly.
	The Shroud of Turin is a perfect photo negative.
	Meaning if you take the Shroud of Turin and make a reasonable assumption, like you, and you reverse the colors on it.
	So it's the Shroud of Turin is dark in all the light spots and light in all the dark spots.
	If you take the Shroud of Turin and you photo negative it.
	And this, by the way, guys, what I'm saying right now, I don't speak angelic.
	I'm just telling you what I've heard about John D.
	So maybe there's some atheist with a really just blows me out of the water with John D. What I'm about when I'm saying about the Shroud of Turin, no, no, you can't blow this out of the water.
	Like this is 100%.
	It is a perfect photonegative of a body.
	That's fucking impossible.
	Nobody knew what a photo negative was in the 15th century, which is when it was discovered.
	15th or 14th, something like that.
	Nobody knew what that was.
	We didn't know what a photo negative was until we developed photography.
	He is both ugly and handsome.
	He is not what I think the savior would look like.
	And yet he's exactly what I think the savior would look like.
	Now this is game Masters of Magic, where if you pursue the life school of magic, one of the spells you get is Torin, the Chosen One.
	And Torin looks exactly what you expect the Chosen One to look like, right?
	Got long, beautiful hair, and he's got a square jaw, but it's not too square, right?
	He's both beautiful and handsome at the same time.
	And that's kind of what you would think a Savior would look like.
	You'd think he'd be beautiful and handsome.
	He'd look like Tony Stark or Captain America.
	And yet the actual Jesus was a remarkably ugly man, and yet so beautiful at the same time.
	It's completely, which is exactly what the Jews experienced, where they thought they were getting a savior that would beat the crap out of the Romans.
	Which he did.
	Just not the way they wanted him to.
	The absolute opposite of what we thought we needed.
	You don't always get what you want, but you often get what you need.
	Great song.
	Psalm 5051 sounds absolutely beautiful in Aramaic.
	And, you know, since...
	You guys got me in a religious mood.
	It's, you know, it's a really struggle with my faith for the past, uh, past year.
	It's been a difficult year.
	And.
	I went back to church for the first time recently.
	And I felt so comfortable.
	It just felt nice.
	Psalm 50.
	And you want 51 in particular.
	Oh, I guess you mean the entire song.
	I'll read a little bit of it.
	Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy.
	And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my iniquity.
	Wash me yet more from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sins.
	For I know my iniquity and my sin is always before me.
	Thee only have I sinned and have done evil before thee, that thou mayest be justified in thy works, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.
	That's I'm bookmarking that.
	That's beautiful.
	that's fantastic okay there is a bookmark in this thing somewhere There we go.
	So there's the bookmark.
	That sounds like Christ.
	That sounds a lot like Christ, and yet it's Psalms.
	Christ really said nothing original.
	Almost like C.S. Lewis saying, don't try and be original, just try and speak the truth.
	That's how you become original.
	Christ said nothing original, and yet he said everything original.
	I'm topping off this drink.
	The mystery of faith, my friends.
	What a weird weird world this is.
	Enochian, thank you.
	Enochian is the language of the angels, allegedly.
	And Enochian is very weird.
	It's very, very, very weird.
	It's one of those anomalies that prosaic explanations Aren't enough.
	What's the um what's that?
	What's that book?
	The book, the Volnik manuscript.
	Now, the Volnik manuscript, which I'm gonna, have you guys not heard of this thing?
	It's this manuscript written in a language with weird pictures of plants and people, and nobody's been able to translate it yet.
	You can download a free copy online.
	And one of the things I've been wanting to do, I would love to have a physical copy of the Volnik manuscript.
	Just, you know, collector item.
	Now, the documentation on this goes back a few hundred years.
	I mean, the documentation ain't great, but it's pretty good.
	It goes back a few hundred years, and it was a an apothecary tome.
	A. One of these books that kind of came out of nowhere and people used to collect books.
	Man, Candle Keep in the Forgotten Realms.
	That used to be a real thing.
	And nobody's managed to translate it.
	Well, there's another cipher that only recently got translated.
	The Zodiac Code.
	The Zodiac Killer.
	And the Zodiac Code was translated.
	They finally translated it using algorithms because the Zodiac Killer fucked up his code.
	Right?
	Like, if he actually coded the book properly, coded his letters properly, it would have been much easier to figure out.
	But he made a translation error.
	And so, using algorithmic interpretations of things, they finally figured out the Zodiac code.
	We pretty much know who the Zodiac Killer was these days.
	I can't prove it, but we pretty much know.
	He also put a lot of bullshit in there too to distract people.
	So these medieval tomes, like if you were a medieval doctor or apothecary, you'd be extremely secretive about your knowledge.
	And by the way, doctors are these days as well.
	They don't share their knowledge.
	It's like, oh, you've been reading WebMD.
	That's a silly thing to do.
	Back then, if you had a.
	If you were a really good apothecary, you would come up with a code, a cipher, to hide your knowledge.
	And so, the Voinik manuscript, like, we know it's a book about apothecary.
	And there's a good chance he fucked up the code.
	So it might very well be impossible to translate.
	Whereas Enochian is eminently translatable, disturbingly, like the early versions of Enochian hid secrets that couldn't be discovered until later versions of it, like the elaborations were explained.
	So that's a pretty hardcore conspiracy.
	John Dee was onto something.
	Now, I'm not saying that John Dee did everything perfect in life.
	Okay?
	Don't.
	You know, I got this young lad that looks up to me.
	And he sees all of my virtues and none of my vices.
	And like, dude, I'm not.
	I'm not the hero you think I am.
	Part of maturity is realizing that people can have virtues and vices.
	And John Dee did make a lot of mistakes.
	Okay?
	But he was a good guy, man.
	He was a good guy.
	He's always an interesting guy, and is there, can we at least be interesting?
	None of us can be holy, but we might be able to be interesting.
	How do I get a girlfriend?
	I don't know.
	Be 39 years old and into really depraved acts.
	So, if it works for me, go to Uzbekistan and kidnap one.
	Alien stream, please.
	The problem is my alien streams are so founded in actual science that I spend 90% of the alien stream talking about actual science and 10% talking about weird shit that everybody wants.
	Maybe what I should do is write, first write a book of actual science and then write a book about all the weird shit.
	Actually, no, no, maybe just cut the chase.
	The book of anomalies.
	like voynich manuscript is not an anomaly it's we can't translate it but it's not anomalous Like, we know what it is, and we know basically we've got a pretty good guess what's written in it.
	It's a frustration, it's not an anomaly.
	And in fact, don't most of these people seem to turn prosaic things into anomalies.
	like the videos released by the Air Force of UFOs where they're like the jumbo jet, jumbo jet, balloon, jumbo jet.
	That'd be a decent life accomplishment.
	If I could write a book about anomalies and thoroughly elucidate why they are an anomaly.
	And you've got the, you know, Shroud of Turin.
	You've got, well, Fatima.
	Right?
	Although, though, so much has been written about that, I've got nothing to add.
	Enochian.
	That's an anomaly right there.
	Even could come up with like seven anomalies and do a really good book covering all the evidence and all the arguments on both sides.
	That's a decent life accomplishment.
	I guess I wrote a novel.
	That's a pretty good accomplishment.
	Something else to write.
	And I should write another novel.
	What do you think about Queen Elizabeth?
	I'm going to assume that you mean the second.
	I mean, the first one was fantastic.
	Man, there's a statue of her back in Gore Park in Hamilton.
	I once saw a crazy homeless guy paying service to her.
	And Queen Elizabeth was a fantastic woman.
	I don't know if I said this on the stream already, but.
	One of the arguments.
	okay so so currently we've got a psychopathic elite in the world and there's there's always been like you gotta be a little bit of like Like, if you're going to be a general, you need to send troops to their death.
	Okay?
	That's part of the job of being a general.
	But if you look at how India became a nation, what happened was the East India Company was running rampant all over East Indian culture.
	And they were issuing their soldiers these round cases.
	Now you need to, in the musket days, you took the round, you bit off the top, you put it in, and then you fired your musket.
	Something like that.
	And the East India Company, because they were cheap, was using pork and beef tallow in these rounds, which deeply offended the Muslims and Hindus that were serving in the army.
	And this led to a rebellion in India.
	And Queen Elizabeth basically, she summed up the people that owned the East India Company.
	She pulled them to the court and said, you have been behaving with grave disregard to the Indian people.
	Like absolute lack of cultural insensitivity.
	And so I'm destroying your company.
	India is now a full-fledged member of the empire because your company abused the Indians and did not treat them with the dignity deserved to human being.
	Similar thing with Columbus, by the way.
	Columbus did not write to the Spanish monarch that, yeah, these stupid Native Americans, they'll make great slaves.
	No.
	He wrote that these are people with full capacity of reason, with understanding of law and civilization.
	And despite them having primitive technology, they would be fit subjects.
	That means they would be equal to us white Europeans.
	These are a people with dignity that must be respected.
	They used ancient language for it, right?
	Like one of the things I did, I read a really long paper on divorce law in France from the 1600s or something like that.
	And the language is very shocking.
	It's like your racist grandpa.
	But does your racist grandpa actually hate black people?
	Does he actually want to harm other people?
	Maybe you should translate it into modernism.
	These modernist assholes, that same guy.
	Good lord.
	This guy shows up and accuses me of being racist, homophobic, or whatever.
	And I've got a very nuanced position on all of that.
	Which is actually very pro-homosexual.
	And so when that fails, he starts accusing me of being gay for drinking iced coffee.
	Like, way to self-own, bud.
	these leftists are the same people that'd be herding Jews into the death camps.
	So let's see.
	Let me catch up with the comments here.
	Oh, yeah, and you were asking about Queen Elizabeth II.
	She's pretty based.
	I mean, yeah, I got concerns about the royal family.
	Devil War da da da da da da da.
	She's not the Pope.
	i wish he'd convert catholic i read the funniest story where the i don't know it's like 50 years ago or so the shah of iran came to britain and queen elizabeth ii was uh her majesty was a driver in world war ii I didn't know that.
	Or at least that's what the meme said, right?
	Maybe she wasn't, but.
	The meme said that she was a logistics driver in World War II.
	And it's been long tradition that the royal family serves in the combat arms.
	Which is one of the, you know, anytime you're gonna shit on the royal family, these guys were on the front lines.
	They put their money where their mouth is.
	And apparently Her Majesty was a combat driver.
	Which is like in the 1940s for a woman to be a combat.
	That is, wow.
	That's pretty fucking cool, ain't it?
	I should put the picture of her back up.
	And the Shah of Iran was visiting Britain where women don't drive.
	And she took him driving, and she drove like a fucking maniac, and he got really scared and asked her to slow down.
	So the head of state of Canada, Our Majesty, made the Shah of Iran get nervous because of her combat driving.
	that's pretty fucking cool so i have to say like my nets like i've always Do you know what the problem with Libras is, is that they always, like, I don't even believe in astrology, but because I'm a Libra, I do consider the other side.
	So I'm always weighing arguments, and overall, in the net balance of things, I am pretty pro-QE2.
	I am pretty pro-Queen Elizabeth.
	And while I'm not a huge fan of the Calgary Police Service, I do not mind being a subject of Her Majesty.
	And then he says, I totally believe that John the Baptist's severed head flew around the world, even if it sounded crazy to be in the Bible.
	Alright, so now we got...
	Sorry, I'm out of context for these.
	Where was that documented?
	I don't know what you're asking.
	Re-ask.
	Look up David Laycock.
	Could you tweet me about that?
	I'm curious.
	Oh, okay.
	David Laycock made good arguments against Enochian.
	Amadi says, The Shadow of Turin really Jesus?
	Enochian, I don't know much about.
	I'll tell you what really convinces me about Enochian is that John Dee would spend hours in prayer before engaging in scrying.
	By the way, like the whole crystal.
	The crystal orb staring into an orb, scrying, that came from John Dee.
	He invented that.
	And I'm not saying there wasn't demonic influence with John Dee.
	Certainly the.
	And during the latter days of him and his co-workers that were working on it, the quote-unquote angels start demanding the Adamite heresy out of these two.
	And so I don't discount demonic influence on them.
	Now, if you do the wrong thing for the right reasons, I tend to think that it turns out pretty okay.
	like i seriously doubt that john d is in hell but what the whole adamite heresy part It's like, yeah, that was definitely wrong.
	And they knew it was wrong.
	That was a crazy thing.
	It's like they both did it because they were told to by the angels, but there's like neither of them were comfortable with it.
	Nobody involved.
	They did it because it was a message from the gods telling them to do it, but none of them liked it.
	So, like, that's not going to damn your soul.
	I mean, if that damns your soul, then we're all fucked, so.
	Um, at the very minimum, there was supernatural influence with John Dee, I think.
	I think.
	And he was a very pious man.
	He would not engage in lies or conspiracy.
	Although I suppose that's one version of events.
	Now, Shroud of Turin.
	Yeah, that's legit.
	Now, they've carbon-tested the Shroud of Turing.
	The carbon testing hasn't given us the answer that we wanted.
	There was, um, there was an Unsolved Mysteries episode.
	They rebooted the series, by the way.
	They rebooted the series, and there was an episode about a girl that disappeared, and she was last seen getting the cruiser of a new cop that just got hired.
	And it was something, like, I'm trying to remember here.
	But her body was never found.
	There were no...
	Basically, the data was anomalous.
	Like, she disappeared.
	The last person she was seen was this cop.
	And there was some DNA evidence from the cop cruiser.
	And he lied about where he was.
	And he was by a lake at some point, or at least vehicle tires identical to his were by the lake.
	And yet there was one crucial piece of evidence which should have existed, which did not exist.
	I can't remember if it was, like, maybe they found her and, like, she scratched somebody and there were no scratch marks on him.
	Even though yeah, yeah, there were no scratch marks on him.
	Even though her fingerprints were all over the hood, something like that.
	very weird in the same way like you when i was saying that when you read a newspaper article and the version of events according to the newspaper have nothing to do with real life
	If you've ever been through the court system, What the court judges on, even when they find in your favor, has almost zero bearing on real life.
	And I've been that guy before.
	And I got found innocent.
	And I was innocent.
	Well, how many of us are actually innocent?
	I mean, like, within reason.
	I didn't.
	I was running away from a woman.
	I wasn't hitting a woman.
	But the events that were established as factual by that court of law bore almost like it was an absolute caricature of what actually happened.
	It didn't match my version of events.
	It didn't match her version of events.
	It was like damn near fictitious is what the court came to decide happened.
	And it happened to be in my favor, so I'm not gonna argue it, but that's not unique.
	That is not unique.
	Maybe things are getting a little bit better because of video evidence these days, although the Chauvin trial argues against that.
	So what I'm saying, my point is anomalous data is not the same thing as an anomaly.
	Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm getting at.
	This is why I love the SCP Foundation.
	Because it is entirely possible to find some archaeological evidence that completely violates the standard narrative.
	It is entirely possible to find that one pair of footprints next to the dinosaur footprints.
	And that is so fucking weird.
	What the hell is going on there?
	Well.
	Probably nothing the left Not the left.
	The anti-conspiracy theorists, let's call them that.
	The people that believe everything in the media.
	Do you guys have any idea how much anomalous data there is?
	Like there's constantly, like the, uh, what's that?
	There's a clockwork mechanism drudged up from the bottom of the sea near Greece and keep ankythsaurus mechanism, something like that.
	Which we are almost definitely sure it was from like 50, like 2,500 years ago.
	Way before clockwork existed, and yet it's clockwork.
	It's really weird, and we've got no records of things like that from that era.
	But also, A, not impossible.
	When the civilization games, replaceable parts was a technology invented in roughly the 19th century or so.
	Like we've had nails and screws for a very very long time.
	Having standardized nails and screws.
	Now that's something else entirely.
	so it is plausible that somebody could invent a clockwork mechanism and from what we can understand it was it kept track of the season so you could estimate your uh your latitude early clockwork mechanism But it wasn't standardized, it never got rev. It was the standardization of clockwork that made clockwork universal and then led to the computer explosion we've actually.
	So the Ankika Ankitha Saurus whatever, suggests that we've actually had clockwork for far longer than we realized we had it for, or that it's been invented many, many times.
	It's it's, it's an anomalous piece of data, but you get those all the time.
	You always get outliers.
	You always get weird shit criminal investigation, scientific you get weird shit that doesn't make sense.
	But to go back to that cop, girl disappeared.
	She was seen with this cop last.
	There was some Dna evidence and and we don't know what the fuck happened.
	But she's gone, she's dead and we're pretty sure the cop is guilty.
	The same.
	I mean, the tv paints this, this whole nci where all the evidence lines up and it all fits into a neat little package and it never actually does in real life.
	never fits into a nice little package.
	Good Lord, our own lives don't even fit into nice little packages.
	So the Shred of Turin, yeah they've tested, they've carbon tested it a couple of times and it has not given the answer that would prove Christ existed.
	there's another really interesting thing about christ There is just enough evidence to make Christ plausible.
	There is insubmission insufficient evidence to make Christ probable.
	And when I say Christ, I mean the savior.
	I don't mean a charismatic guy that built a small cult and was pretty sharp on the uptake, like Muhammad, I mean everybody.
	It's like, yeah, there was definitely a historical Christ.
	The question is not whether or not Christ actually existed.
	The question is, is he the savior or was he just another Muhammad, another Buddha?
	now my personal prejudice Buddha was an incredibly wise man he was absolutely a bodhisattva he was absolutely a saint but he wasn't the chosen one he wasn't the Christ Muhammad typical cult leader right place right time for a cult leader to create a religion
	But Christ seems to be something unique.
	And there is just enough evidence to suggest that he actually was what he said he was.
	But not enough to prove it.
	Like, he's not going to force you to accept it.
	It has to be your free will.
	I mean the Shroud of Turin same thing it's like there is so what is the plausibility that somebody I mean that there are plenty of fakes in history Like, there's plenty of, like, there's more pieces of the original cross than you would need to have an original cross.
	If you look at the uncorrupted saints, I'm going to be brutal.
	Some of them are pretty fucking corrupted.
	But a very small minority are surprisingly uncorrupted.
	As in they're dead, and they've been dead for 500 years, but they look like they're sleeping.
	And yeah, the church did fake a bunch.
	Like, technically incorruptible means that you don't stink.
	You don't rot.
	Doesn't mean you don't mummify.
	And so there's a whole bunch of mummies that, instead of showing people the mummies, they create a wax version of them and told the public that, yeah, yeah, that happened.
	But there's a very small number of dead saints that look like they're sleeping.
	Man, the front...
	Good list.
	As soon as a miracle happens, humans start trying to replicate it.
	There, that's something.
	Stop trying to replicate miracles.
	So let's say that date tonight, or today, God was looking out for me and sent a neckbeard to say, no, no, this is going to be trouble for you.
	Don't want you to do this.
	So I'm sending a neckbeard to interrupt things.
	Thank you, Jesus.
	Thank you for me not getting laid, Jesus.
	Doesn't mean I rely upon him to do the exact same thing next time.
	So maybe that's not it.
	God never does the same miracle twice.
	Except when he does.
	But that's a new miracle.
	Because he miraculously did it twice.
	Anyway, what the hell was I talking about?
	I talked about the Stroudaturan.
	And yeah, you can find scientific evidence that doesn't give us the answer that we want with it.
	But what is the plausibility that somebody would be able to make a photo negative?
	Like, we know it was at least from the 14th century.
	How would somebody know what a photo negative was in the 14th century?
	Like, this is photo negative?
	The idea that the resurrection of Christ would somehow involve his body burning light energy all over the place?
	That's a science fiction concept.
	That's not a...
	And, like, I've studied medieval tomes of necromancy.
	Okay?
	I'm familiar with the medieval concept of necromancy.
	And it's actually Dungeon and Dragons is pretty darn close to necromancy.
	I tell you what, those guys did their research.
	You don't get something like a photo negative from Dungeon and Dragons.
	You don't get something like a photo negative from medieval necromancy.
	That's a modern scientific type of concept.
	Yet the Shroud of Turin perfectly reflects it and furthermore the Shroud of Turin is It matches other depictions of Christ, but is very unique.
	That's another very weird thing.
	That how the hell do we know what Christ looked like?
	And yet we do.
	So yeah, Amadi, I am completely.
	I've studied it extensively and I'm convinced the Shroud of Turin was his burial cloth.
	I think you're talking about Queen Victoria and not Alyssa III.
	Yeah, you're right, you're right.
	I was talking about Queen Victoria.
	Wasn't I?
	Ah, good lord.
	I forget.
	forget.
	Yeah, Einstein said.
	No, I don't remember any of the constants.
	I looked them up.
	So I get names wrong, I get dates wrong, I get the gist right.
	Which is also, you know, like, don't trust anything I say.
	Like, if you're gonna go research it for yourself.
	I want to point out that, yes.
	Columbus used the word subjects, which, oh, that's a rapey-sounding word these days.
	No, subjects means citizen.
	Subject means somebody that's fully human and deserving of all the rights of the human being.
	So when he said they'd be good subjects for Her Majesty, moderns interpret that they'd be good slaves.
	Like, no, no, no.
	Subject is the opposite of slave.
	There were a lot of abuses of the Native American people.
	But none of them were condoned by good men.
	Columbus did not condone them.
	The.
	Oh goodness, I forget his name, but one of the most powerful tracts about why slavery is evil was written by a colonial priest in Central America.
	So yeah, they weren't perfect, man.
	You got the demands of industry, you got demands of economy, you got yeah.
	But rather than genocide and enslave the peoples of North America, the powers that be generally chose, generally chose the opposite.
	They generally chose to treat these people with dignity, even though it would have been so fucking easy to enslave them.
	They actually went with their conscience more often than they went with their wallet and that that's Yeah, they weren't perfect Who the fuck is?
	What's the net weight of their life?
	is it heavier than a feather?
	Maddy says, you talk about mythology to be true.
	Oh, sorry.
	Anti-Kythera mechanism.
	Yes, that's the one I was talking about right there.
	Very weird, but yeah, look up the anti-kythera mechanism.
	That's a fantastic oddity.
	You talk about mythology to be true.
	And I guess this is physics, metaphysics, narrative.
	Mythology is 90%, not 99, okay?
	90% of the time, what you read in mythology actually happened.
	There.
	There was a King David.
	There was a Moses.
	There was a Thor.
	There was a Zeus.
	In fact, to my understanding, again, could be wrong about this.
	Nordic mythology is the latest version of the the the Scythian mythology and so Zeus is oh goodness I read this somewhere Okay, I'm going to get the years wrong.
	But it's something like there was a historical Zeus that lived around 400 AD, 600 AD, something like that.
	Like when those penis-shaped countries were settled, there actually was a historical Zeus.
	And this actual man that lived, lived in such a way that was congruent with the ancient mythologies.
	And so one of the interesting things you find in the Nordic mythology is that the name of God gets switched.
	The original father god was Jupiter.
	Deus Fatir.
	Or Tyr.
	Which all you forgotten rounds fanboys, you'll know who I'm talking about.
	The one handed God, the one, the man that had his...
	That's the way the process hate me.
	You know, I went through deliverance last year.
	And while I did have demons connected to me from paganism, this one wasn't, or at least only in the most minor of sense.
	That fight where I got into with the dogs and I lost my hand, like I mean I still can't hold my middle finger straight.
	I viewed that as a blessing from Tyr, the god of justice, the god that fights the beast of the apocalypse.
	Fenrir.
	How could you not?
	You almost lose your hand fighting something that's basically a wolf.
	How is that not a blessing from Tyr?
	And while there are many demons that came up in my deliverance, that was not one of them.
	Now initially, Tyr, and every other Scythian religion, Tyr was the father god.
	But with the Nords, it swaps to Zeus for some reason.
	And Tyr becomes the god of justice.
	Jupiter and Zeus swap places in the Nordic religion.
	And so the Nordic religion is the most recent mythology of the Scythians that we have.
	And yet it also points back towards people that actually lived in about 200, 400 AD, something like that.
	and the scythian religion goes back 3 000 years so when i read the nordic myths there were events that happened when the nordic people went
	when the Scythians inhabited the Norwegian area and became the Nords.
	Or I know that's like a from a video game, but the Alpines, whatever you want to call them.
	The initial founders lived lives that were mythological.
	They lived lives that were so close to what actually happened, like what the legends spoke of, that they themselves became legendary.
	And one of the ironies is that the person playing Zeus, and I, who was Zeus in the, I don't remember who Zeus was in Scythian.
	Take on things.
	But it was Tyr that was the father god.
	But Tyr and Zeus swapped places because the ultimate leader in the occupation of the northeast part of Europe, the person that accomplished that was closer to Zeus than he was to Tyr.
	and somebody swapped places.
	I completely forgot where I was going with this.
	Let me get some more ice.
	And then check the comments.
	See if I can remind myself.
	Amatic was asking me about mythology.
	Now, so you got that one case where Nork mythology reinvented history as mythology.
	And the, let's be frank, the Vikings were a very largely illiterate people.
	And so religion and history got really mixed together.
	Same thing with the ancient Jews in the Old Testament.
	Religion and history are mixed together.
	But it all traces itself back to the Scythians.
	And ancient mythology.
	And same thing with Heracles, okay?
	Heracles mythologically became the son of Zeus.
	Oh, my goodness.
	I was mixing up Zeus and Odin, wasn't I?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Zeus is Deus Fetir.
	Deus, Zeus, Fetir, Tyr.
	And Odin.
	Odin is the one that got mixed up in the Norse religions.
	So, my bad there.
	Zeus and Tyr were initially the same person, and so Heracles, King Heracles of Greece, became the son of Zeus in the same way that Julius Caesar became the son of Jupiter.
	Jupiter.
	Deus Feter.
	Zeus.
	Jew.
	Same God.
	So yeah, Heracles was the son of God in the same way that Julius Caesar was.
	And then, like, now Julius, sorry, Heracles.
	Heracles was a king of the Greek kingdoms.
	A whole bunch of different kingdoms there.
	Right?
	Like, I gotta look at the fall of Troy.
	Heracles was a king right around the Bronze Age collapse.
	Right before the Bronze Age collapse.
	The Bronze Age collapse happened, what was it, like 1150 BC, something like that?
	And he was the last great king about a hundred years before that.
	About 1250 BC.
	And so he was sort of the Abraham Lincoln.
	Like if you play, you know, the Sidmeyer civilization, they assigned this leader to every nation.
	And King Heracles Was just this really good leader.
	And a real badass, too.
	So he was Hoover.
	President Hoover.
	If you were to.
	If it's the year 2800 and you're going to make a historical game like Sid Meier and you're going to assign a leader to America, who would you assign?
	Who sums up the spirit of America?
	who becomes mythological.
	Now, if you look at the Sid Meier's series of games, they always include America as one of the Empire's play-ass, and they- They change up the leader, they change up the definitions of, like in one game, it's like Americans are really good at industry and exploration.
	They change up the bonuses, but there's always a little bit of truth to the bonuses.
	Like if America were really good at okay, okay.
	If you want to be cynical, you could argue horoscope theory.
	That they could be good at anything, and you could justify that.
	Country's got a flavor to them.
	Country's got a style to them.
	And America is pretty damn good at industry and warfare.
	Fair enough.
	They're pretty crap at religion.
	In fact, America is so crap at religion that they've made religion a universal laughingstock.
	They are so crap at it.
	So if you said America was good at religion in that they constantly form new sects that do whatever the government tells them to do, okay, you got an argument there.
	But to argue that America is uniquely good at tradition, at having a history that goes back thousands of years and it- no, no, no, no, no, they aren't.
	No, they aren't.
	And so, yeah, these ancient mythologies, I mean, we never got rid of mythology.
	It's just that we started separating history, physics, meaning, metaphysics, and purpose, narrative.
	We've taken these three things, they used to be the same thing, and we've broken them into three parts.
	And you got people that are most people can't get this.
	And so they mistake narrative, Star Trek, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, Marvel, for truth.
	for metaphysics.
	I mean, good Lord, some of the saints report visions of what Christ did in his spare time.
	And what Christ did in his spare time, according to the mystics, was mostly cancel married couples.
	Even in modern day Tinder hookup world, we've still got married couples.
	We've still got dating.
	Man, man and woman, they want to get together.
	And we really, really want somebody that will take care of us.
	Somebody that will always have our back.
	And so, yeah, Christ spent most of his time counseling married couples.
	He wasn't ranting about, he wasn't throwing Bibles at people's heads.
	He was like, man, have you thought about how your wife feels?
	Then you got physics, the automobile engine, the data stream, what have you.
	Which, like, there's no morality.
	They're, like, we've been looking forever, but we haven't detected the particle of morality just yet.
	Mythology takes all three things and puts them into one thing, but doesn't, it does all of them badly.
	The, uh, physically, like, no, Heracles did not fight a hydro with seven heads like that.
	That definitely didn't happen.
	Um, morally, metaphysically, Heracles was a bit of a douchebag, wasn't he?
	And narratively, it's like, that's just propaganda.
	Just probably just shit that people made up.
	But what if they're all true?
	What if science and holiness and narrative purpose, what if those all actually are true?
	Simultaneously.
	And we can never, we can never quite put it into words.
	We can never really get all three versions of reality to match one another.
	Because we don't know.
	We don't know how the story ends.
	We don't know where, that's part of what makes it all fun.
	I've got the suspicion that part of the reason that God made us is because he wanted to see what would happen.
	And so if you were God, you were God.
	And it's like, I'm going to make these monkeys like me.
	You might be able, God might be able to predict that we would kill animals and make clothing out of it to keep ourselves warm.
	Right?
	Or maybe even harvest cotton plant.
	Like, how fucking weird is that?
	There was what I was looking up the other day.
	I was looking up the silkworm.
	So I'm like, what is so special about the silkworm?
	And aside from the fact that we've been cultivating the silkworm for, you know, a couple thousand years, from what I can tell, the silkworm is not unique.
	Every silk-producing insect is identical to the silkworm.
	It's just that we've been cultivating this particular breed for a thousand years.
	I mean, you could take a spider and make silk out of a spider's butthole.
	Except that spiders are arnery.
	the silkworm is friendly.
	So yeah, God could probably predict that we look around our environment and we use banana leaves to make a roof and we use silk worms to make silk shirts.
	Like we would make clothing to cover ourselves.
	Right, because we're kind of, we're chilly.
	We're chilly.
	We don't got no hair.
	We're chilly.
	And then humans go and invent the fedora.
	Like, shit, I didn't see that coming.
	Humans decided we're going to take these sheep, right?
	And they grow wool to protect them from predator attacks.
	And we're going to shave off that wool and then breed them to grow like way too much wool.
	And we're going to shave off this really weird, curly form of hair.
	And then we're going to mash it down until it's like a flat surface.
	Then we're going to take a wooden ingot with a couple of pinches on the front.
	And around here, we're going to smash the wool down on that ingot until it becomes a really weird shape.
	With a couple of pinches, because that's how human fingers work.
	And it's going to have a brim to keep the sun out of our eyes.
	And it's going to be the thing that detectives wear.
	I think God created us because he was bored and he wanted to see what we would do.
	It's like, holy shit, fedoras.
	Man, that's fucking weird.
	Good on you, humans.
	Good on you for surprising me.
	It's like God knows everything that could potentially happen, but he doesn't know what the fuck we're gonna do.
	So like, like, I don't know.
	Like, if I had kids, if I had kids, every so often, I would introduce a new object to their environment.
	And then I would just watch, what the fuck are you going to do with this thing?
	Like, I'm gonna give you a game.
	I'm gonna tell you the rules of the game.
	And then I'm gonna watch it.
	What the fuck are you guys gonna do with this?
	And I think that is a major part of why God created existence.
	I mean, like, obviously he knows that wool is possible.
	That's a potential arrangement of atoms, but fedoras?
	Holy shit, what the fuck is wrong with you, humans?
	so weird you I'm glad I made you You fucking weirdos keep me entertained.
	Oh my goodness.
	I can already hear, I can already fucking hear.
	Davis is a- No, Davis, that's not like God.
	The Bible said this, and you're a heretic.
	Okay, fuck off, buddy.
	Fuck off.
	Fuck off as far as fucking off is possible.
	Just like leave me alone.
	Leave me alone.
	And a Maddie donated one lemon.
	Amandi, thank you very much.
	And Drury Doll as well.
	Thank you very much.
	And by the way, please like, comment, subscribe.
	If you haven't already.
	Thor got the thunder powers.
	Teddy Roosevelt.
	Thank you.
	Teddy Roosevelt is the guy I was thinking about.
	Like, if there's.
	America at its greatest is Teddy Roosevelt.
	Talons get plus five to fast to making.
	Shit.
	Actually, I don't make pasta.
	I just cooked really, really delicious pasta.
	And how long have we been going for a while, haven't we?
	Friday night!
	Nobody wants to hang out with Leo.
	And the bars are all closed right now, because they close at 10, because COVID spreads after 10.
	So we're at 11.05.
	You know what?
	I'm going to give it another five minutes.
	We've got 10 here.
	It's alright.
	It's alright.
	It's not bad at all.
	Here's a whirl.
	The worst thing in life is reruns.
	This actually this actually syncs with morality, doesn't it?
	Like, somebody...
	Hunter S. Thompson, who has all these crazy stories about going on drug vendors, but nowadays he's responsible.
	He learned his lesson.
	We are very prone to forgiving, like, once in an accident.
	In fact, even in the original Fallout Games, Fallout 1 and 2, you didn't get the status child killer until you killed two children.
	So you got to kill one child.
	Kill two children, you're a child killer, everybody hates you.
	We are really prone to forgiving interesting mistakes.
	And you know what?
	Like, if your tombstone read an interesting mistake, that's not a bad tombstone, is it?
	I don't think God would be upset with you for being an interesting mistake.
	Following Joe...
	Following God to be joyful.
	If you're doing something interesting and joyful, I mean, you might be doing the wrong thing, but you're probably on the right path.
	If that makes any sense.
	COVID spreads after 10 feet.
	Not when you're burning down a CBS for George Floyd.
	Oh, but they've even admitted that's all nonsense.
	Like, there's no science to back up the social distancing.
	God, like, what?
	What a.
	I hate even saying that because it's such a contradiction in terms.
	social distancing you know i um i had words with my mla And I had a long chat with his secretary.
	And she said to me, and I did speak to him as well.
	But she said to me, like, we're all in this together.
	I'm like, I'm not sure that we are.
	Is that just a slogan that the grocery store broadcasts constantly?
	Like, are we in this together or are we, no, because it seems to me like we are not in this together.
	Seems to me like my MLA went on a vacation to Hawaii for Christmas while I'm having a lot of trouble paying bills.
	Which, by the way, I'm no E-Cleb anymore, but hey, toss me a dollar on the Patreon there.
	You know, if you want.
	If you want, and if you're financially secure.
	Y'all don't owe me shit, so.
	I'm doing this because I like doing this.
	I like talking philosophy.
	I like talking.
	I like presenting the challenge of keeping busy with my words.
	So.
	If you got a spare buck and you like the live streams, toss me a buck on Patreon.
	If you don't, if you're in my situation, if you're struggling, if you're like, I don't know what the fuck is going on.
	Or if you're just middle class.
	You know, like if you got your bills paid, but you ain't rich, go put a buck in crypto for yourself and for your kids.
	I'm doing this because I enjoy it.
	But if you really like it and you got a spare buck, toss me a buck a month.
	Fair enough, right?
	Fair enough.
	Yeah, I ain't sure we are all in together.
	I'm not.
	I'm not sure about any of this stuff.
	world's kind of weird.
	Now, okay.
	What the fuck is going on with COVID?
	So, I'm pretty confident that COVID is basically harmless.
	I know nobody that's died of COVID.
	and i'm pretty fucking old so like i got old people friends you know i don't know anybody that's died of covid I. People that die don't post all over Facebook, but I don't know anybody that's died of it.
	I've heard of two people that have died from the vaccine, which again could be, well, one of them was first hand.
	One of them was firsthand.
	A guy that is a medic.
	He works in the hospital, and a guy that, or a woman that took the vaccine died and was resuscitated.
	The other is Big L's brother.
	Knows somebody that died from it.
	So for you folks, that might be anecdotal.
	For me, that's pretty direct evidence.
	That's pretty direct evidence.
	And we got evidence of the COVID vaccine.
	We've got suggestive evidence that the vaccine makes other people sick.
	What the fuck is actually going on?
	And what should we be paranoid about?
	If you live in a really nice neighborhood, you should not be paranoid about crime.
	But I used to live in the south.
	Used to live in Nashville.
	And one time I saw a black dude that was broken down at the side of the road.
	Now in Nashville, you should be paranoid about that.
	And I was paranoid.
	I pulled out, pulled off down the street, scanned the area, and there actually was a fair bit of traffic, so help the dude.
	And he was cool.
	He was a cool dude.
	But it was worthy of paranoia.
	Right?
	Like, like, scan the environment.
	Like, there's a lot of carjacking that happen in the South.
	Black on white.
	So be paranoid, but be smart.
	Analyze the situation.
	What is the actual threat level?
	And what is the actual threat level of COVID, of the COVID vaccine, of all this idiocy?
	And I think it's mostly minimal, but I guess the frustrating thing, you know, when Batman says he works for Uncle Sam, we realize that that's propaganda.
	Whereas in today's world, we don't know what is propaganda and what isn't.
	And so apply that diagnostic criteria.
	Like, if you've got cancer, you're fucked.
	So no longer consider cancer a prognosis.
	Consider all the prognoses that are not cancer, assuming the treatment is relatively non-invasive.
	And what a weird time to be alive.
	You know, we just made our biggest attempt to reform the system through the system with Trump.
	And the result was utterly insane lockdowns because of a fake disease.
	What an interesting time to be alive.
	I guess the plus side is that given how stupidly insane everything is, the cops don't want to prosecute you.
	Like five years ago, if you were a white supremacist, the cops are all gun-hoe, like fuck white supremacists, they're assholes.
	Whereas today, you're no longer a white supremacist.
	You're a COVID denier.
	And the cops deal with the shittiest people on the planet.
	I mean, the cops night is just arresting people that are drunk and high and violent half the time, etc., etc.
	And if you can go through a year of arresting the scum of humanity and not get COVID, then you might, you might wind up thinking that, yeah, this COVID ain't really something I'm worried about.
	And I'm not super eager to arrest people that are all evil COVID.
	Maybe I'm being naive there.
	But it seems to me the system has embraced lies that are so over the top that the people enforcing the lies don't even believe them anymore.
	So that is something to be optimistic about.
	Now Matty says, my issue with COVID, Vax, is that they are forcing the young to take it to save the boomers.
	Used to be when vaccs were given to kids and the diseases were deadly for kids.
	Yeah, I mean, the kids are like the least man.
	If you're below the age of 20, you don't die from this damn thing, this damn disease, although if you're a parent, if you're a parent, that unquestioningly did we not learn this?
	Through Thalidom thalidomide, we went through thalidomide and I knew people.
	I knew people that had thalidomide arms and i'm deeply ashamed of the fact to say that I never said anything vocally right, but I I judged them as lesser human beings.
	When thalidomide arms has nothing to do with your moral, worth as a human being or even your genetic integrity.
	No wonder those people congregate to the left.
	Early Christians, part of the reason Christianity grew is because the Romans would expose their babies, leave them to die in the streets, and Christians save those babies.
	Whereas these days the left has monopolized that.
	Anybody that's a misfit and ain't we all misfits?
	Aren't we all weirdos?
	Anybody that's a misfit gets recruited into the left.
	The left has weaponized charity and the right has forgotten charity.
	The right wins when we make individuals successful.
	When we take the broken children of modernity into our arms and we raise them and we help them and we turn them into success stories.
	That's how we win.
	That's how Christ wins.
	Not through punishing the enemy, but through actually uplifting the downtrodden.
	So, I need to finish off this live stream.
	Otherwise I'll keep going for 12 more hours.
	Then I'll run out of whiskey.
	Can't do that.
	You guys are fucking solid.
	You guys are based.
	Thank you for joining me tonight.
	And I guess if I've got any last thoughts, it's, uh, be gentle as doves but wise as serpents.
	Be smart.
	But be loving to the brethren next to you.
	And watch the expanse.
	Because the detective dresses almost as nicely as me.
	Alright, we are done.
	We are done.
	Guys, thank you.
	Please like, comment, subscribe.
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	Really glad to spend the evening with you.
	Hope you had fun.

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