WEBVTT 00:00:01.200 --> 00:00:03.680 It is the 10th of April, 2026. 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:04.740 I am Corey J. 00:00:04.740 --> 00:00:07.220 Moller, and this is At Any Cost. 00:00:07.220 --> 00:00:08.780 This is a Q&A episode. 00:00:08.780 --> 00:00:20.040 It is episode 24, and I do not have any housekeeping, so I will get right into the questions, assuming that there are no tech issues, and everything looks fine on my end. 00:00:20.040 --> 00:00:23.100 So hopefully that means that it is. 00:00:24.200 --> 00:00:27.760 The first question, I will actually just read the question. 00:00:30.100 --> 00:00:40.280 Question one, what are one or two one-stop shop Lutheran biblical commentary sets I can get, preferably on Lagos? 00:00:40.280 --> 00:01:07.220 So as far as Lutheran commentaries go, there are a number of excellent ones over the centuries at this point, and of course, you can go back further than that, because you could go back to Augustine and Aquinas, and you can go back to the orthodox teachers of the church as well, but specifically Lutheran for a one-stop shop, probably Kretzmann, but there are also some other ones. 00:01:07.220 --> 00:01:11.600 It just depends on how much you want to read, really. 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:16.100 One of the things I would definitely recommend that you get is the Lutheran Study Bible. 00:01:16.100 --> 00:01:27.200 The footnotes are excellent, and they have many citations to Lutheran theologians, dogmaticians, church fathers, things like that, so you can always follow up, which is very helpful. 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:39.620 But as far as various commentaries go, I will link in the show notes to that, so you can look at sort of how many pages there are, and things like that, and how much you want to read. 00:01:39.620 --> 00:01:47.400 But obviously, Luther is going to be high up in the recommendation because of the AE., the American edition of Luther's works. 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:48.540 You don't have to know German. 00:01:48.540 --> 00:01:50.160 It's in English, modern English. 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.940 And that's up to 70 or 80-something volumes now. 00:01:54.940 --> 00:01:57.040 They've not translated all of his works. 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:01.980 The full Weimar edition is not translated, but many of them are. 00:02:01.980 --> 00:02:04.520 It's not inexpensive, unfortunately. 00:02:04.520 --> 00:02:08.140 Lagos charges a lot of money for them. 00:02:08.140 --> 00:02:11.960 I know I've acquired most of them in Lagos, and I have many of them physically at this point. 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:17.780 But for that, I would say, buy the volumes that interest you, and then you can add to it slowly over time. 00:02:18.780 --> 00:02:24.060 His Genesis Commentary, which is the first eight volumes in the American edition, is excellent. 00:02:24.060 --> 00:02:28.040 His Commentary on Galatians is excellent. 00:02:28.040 --> 00:02:33.160 Those are probably the two big recommendations for Luther. 00:02:33.160 --> 00:02:36.960 And then from there, you can sort of expand. 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:40.780 Romans is also a very good commentary for him, so maybe grab that volume as well. 00:02:40.780 --> 00:02:42.340 That one may be two volumes. 00:02:42.340 --> 00:02:43.900 I think that's two volumes. 00:02:43.900 --> 00:02:45.160 Maybe that's the Concordia series. 00:02:45.160 --> 00:02:50.740 But at any rate, the other ones would be Walther, Walther, however you want to pronounce it, CFW. 00:02:50.740 --> 00:02:51.860 Walther. 00:02:51.860 --> 00:03:13.460 He is an excellent writer, and his approach is going to be more pastoral, a little less heavy when it comes to not the accuracy and the value of his commentary and his theology, but he takes a more practical approach many times. 00:03:13.460 --> 00:03:16.640 And some men find that very useful, particularly pastors, obviously. 00:03:17.340 --> 00:03:21.740 So, basically, any volume from him is worth grabbing. 00:03:21.740 --> 00:03:28.740 His law and gospel is kind of a must read among Lutherans, so probably grab that one. 00:03:28.740 --> 00:03:31.160 There's a Reader's Edition of it, which is excellent. 00:03:31.160 --> 00:03:38.520 It adds some additional notes for you, some background if you're not as familiar with sort of the disputes and the things to which he's responding. 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:47.220 Peeper is an excellent one as well, if you want dogmatics. 00:03:47.220 --> 00:03:51.380 He's less of a commentary series and more dogmatics. 00:03:51.380 --> 00:03:52.320 It just depends on what you want. 00:03:52.320 --> 00:03:55.100 If you want the dogmatics, go with Peeper. 00:03:55.100 --> 00:03:57.620 Gerhard has many volumes. 00:03:57.620 --> 00:04:04.080 He's more theology than commentary, so it depends if you want that, then that's an option. 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:06.140 I already said Kretzmann. 00:04:06.140 --> 00:04:13.560 Chemnitz is going to be probably one of the best recommendations if you want a specific defense of Lutheran theology against Rome. 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:15.400 Against the Reformed as well, to some degree. 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:24.360 He has his four volume in the most recent translation of his critique of the Council of Trent, so that's excellent. 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:32.620 You can see why Lutherans believe what they believe and why we do not agree with Rome, where we disagree, what we think they believe is wrong. 00:04:32.660 --> 00:04:36.420 Melanchthon's Lossi is excellent. 00:04:36.420 --> 00:04:39.040 That is a one volume, quite short. 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:42.080 You can read that in an afternoon pretty easily. 00:04:42.080 --> 00:04:44.000 That's an excellent one to have. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:52.560 And then, other than that, the last two, I think I'd recommend to be Loypold, has some commentaries on Old Testament books and some other things. 00:04:52.560 --> 00:04:56.320 And then Lensky, but with some caveats, he's not my favorite. 00:04:56.320 --> 00:05:00.200 He goes off the rails sometimes, but overall pretty good. 00:05:00.200 --> 00:05:02.120 But I would put him at the bottom of that pile. 00:05:02.180 --> 00:05:08.560 Again, I'll put that in the show notes so it's easier to find than having to go back and look for all these German names. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.520 But that will certainly get you started. 00:05:10.520 --> 00:05:13.460 That's probably at least a couple hundred volumes. 00:05:16.500 --> 00:05:19.020 Question two. 00:05:19.020 --> 00:05:23.420 I asked a similar question before, so I'll keep this one more succinct. 00:05:23.420 --> 00:05:29.240 What are some ways that we, the right, in this case, can practically make political gains? 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.820 Do you recommend that those of us who are single men try to run for a local political office? 00:05:33.820 --> 00:05:38.600 Should we try to start our own business so that we can participate in activism with fewer repercussions? 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:42.320 Should we consider moving to a state that is already majority white? 00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:48.680 I'm failing to see how there is much of a political solution, if any, when most children currently be born in the US are non-white. 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.740 I'm not trying to despair just being realistic and trying to brainstorm ideas. 00:05:52.740 --> 00:05:58.300 I did actually comment on this one in a previous episode, and perhaps someone can link to that on the forum later. 00:05:58.300 --> 00:06:00.240 I don't remember which exact episode that was. 00:06:00.780 --> 00:06:03.620 There are transcripts, though, I could search those and find it. 00:06:03.620 --> 00:06:05.920 But I'll comment on it again, because it's worth commenting on. 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:09.160 It's an issue that comes up all the time and will continue to do so. 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:11.840 I'm going to have a sip of tea first, and it's no longer hot tea. 00:06:11.840 --> 00:06:13.460 It's already in the 80s here. 00:06:19.165 --> 00:06:24.685 This is going to be one of those that depends on what talent Scott has given you, right? 00:06:24.685 --> 00:06:35.145 Maybe you're the sort of man who can run for political office, whether it's local or state, whatever it happens to be, and perhaps that is a valid path for you, and you can achieve things doing that. 00:06:35.145 --> 00:06:36.765 Not all men can. 00:06:36.765 --> 00:06:45.425 Just like not all men can be, you know, rocket scientists, right, or cancer researchers, or pick any job, really. 00:06:45.425 --> 00:06:46.525 Not all men can do it. 00:06:47.585 --> 00:06:55.665 And that's from whatever job you consider to be just manual labor and not high skill to the other end of the spectrum. 00:06:55.665 --> 00:06:58.985 Whatever that is for you, not every man can do everything on that. 00:06:58.985 --> 00:07:05.585 So it depends on the talents that God has given you, and where he's placed your resources you have. 00:07:05.585 --> 00:07:13.085 If you can run for political office by all means do so, we do actually need politicians, and local office actually matters. 00:07:13.085 --> 00:07:19.785 Now, everyone wants to have, you know, the senator, the congressman, or president would be great, right? 00:07:19.785 --> 00:07:31.825 But by and large, for the average man, your local politician is going to have greater influence on your day-to-day life, with the exception of things like gas prices, right? 00:07:31.825 --> 00:07:35.085 That is pretty much what the president is currently doing. 00:07:35.085 --> 00:07:46.105 As much as he does not have a lever that he just sets and chooses the price, his actions on the international stage do essentially determine the price of your fuel when you buy it at the station. 00:07:47.245 --> 00:07:59.605 But for things like approving building projects, approving a march or a rally, or speakers at a park, or any of a number of things, that's all local stuff. 00:07:59.605 --> 00:08:04.245 And if you have your guys in those local offices, that's great. 00:08:04.245 --> 00:08:07.725 If you can get elected to... 00:08:07.725 --> 00:08:17.385 Depends on whether you're county-elects or not, but if you can get elected as sheriff, or if you can get appointed as police chief, something like that, if we had more of our guys in those offices, that's great. 00:08:17.385 --> 00:08:19.005 We have some of our guys there. 00:08:19.005 --> 00:08:21.985 I know some of them, but more of that would be great. 00:08:21.985 --> 00:08:24.385 So there are many paths. 00:08:24.385 --> 00:08:27.585 Don't think that there's no path to influencing things. 00:08:27.585 --> 00:08:32.505 It's not that you have to change everything on the grand scale all at once. 00:08:32.505 --> 00:08:38.465 Any man who's making progress in his own area with what God has given him is doing a good thing. 00:08:38.465 --> 00:08:40.225 You're doing your Christian duty. 00:08:40.225 --> 00:08:49.425 This is similar to when people ask, how do I act as a good Christian in my occupation, or whatever it happens to be? 00:08:49.425 --> 00:08:54.925 And the answer, the correct answer is always, it's not by putting little crosses on every pair of shoes you make. 00:08:54.925 --> 00:08:55.105 Right? 00:08:55.105 --> 00:08:57.145 That's not what the Christian does. 00:08:57.145 --> 00:09:04.305 What the Christian does is, lives a Christian life and makes good shoes, assuming you're a shoemaker for the sake of the hypothetical. 00:09:04.305 --> 00:09:05.645 Your neighbor needs good shoes. 00:09:05.645 --> 00:09:08.165 He doesn't need shoes with little crosses on them. 00:09:08.165 --> 00:09:12.945 There's a difference between being showy about it and just doing what you need to do. 00:09:12.945 --> 00:09:15.065 This is the same sort of thing. 00:09:15.065 --> 00:09:23.145 You do what God has enabled you to do with your talents, your resources, etc., and you do the best you can. 00:09:23.145 --> 00:09:27.665 So, any progress is still progress and is still a good thing. 00:09:27.665 --> 00:09:39.745 Yes, things aren't in a particularly great situation in the United States right now, obviously, but it's not a reason for despair, it's just a reason for working toward a better tomorrow and then a better next year and a better decade. 00:09:40.505 --> 00:09:46.545 And I'm not saying that it will all be incremental and we'll just slowly win. 00:09:46.545 --> 00:09:50.145 Things will probably come to a head at some point in the next handful of years. 00:09:50.145 --> 00:09:56.485 But, like Luther said, even if I knew the world were going to end tomorrow today, I would still plant my apple tree. 00:09:56.485 --> 00:09:58.565 Just live a Christian life, do the best you can. 00:09:58.565 --> 00:10:04.065 So, yes, run for political office, and particularly if we can get guys into law enforcement, that's great. 00:10:04.065 --> 00:10:06.725 So, there are some challenges there. 00:10:06.725 --> 00:10:08.105 That's a matter of wisdom. 00:10:08.105 --> 00:10:09.125 Do it only if you can. 00:10:09.685 --> 00:10:09.945 Right? 00:10:09.945 --> 00:10:16.165 And that sort of politics is kind of nasty politics sometimes, but those positions really matter. 00:10:16.165 --> 00:10:21.265 They really do determine day-to-day life for many men. 00:10:21.265 --> 00:10:22.605 So, that's sort of the approach to take. 00:10:22.605 --> 00:10:25.105 And then also the previous comments I made as well. 00:10:25.105 --> 00:10:28.845 Hopefully, again, someone will link to those. 00:10:28.845 --> 00:10:31.125 But, yes, you mentioned the repercussions. 00:10:31.125 --> 00:10:32.285 Bear that in mind. 00:10:32.285 --> 00:10:36.525 You know, for the guys who are married, particularly if you have young children, that matters. 00:10:36.525 --> 00:10:37.605 There are risks you're going to take. 00:10:37.885 --> 00:10:41.185 There are risks single guys can take that you can't, right? 00:10:41.185 --> 00:10:50.185 If Woe and I had been married, children, all that, it would have made Stone Choir a lot more difficult, because there would have been considerations. 00:10:50.185 --> 00:10:55.525 You know, we have people running hit pieces on us and things like that, people doxxing him, all of that. 00:10:55.525 --> 00:10:58.305 It makes things more challenging if you have those additional duties. 00:10:58.305 --> 00:11:08.785 So, if you're a single man, if you're younger, and you're willing to take that risk, then it's much easier for you, particularly if it's not going to come back on family members and things like that. 00:11:08.785 --> 00:11:11.425 But do bear in mind, the media will come after you. 00:11:11.425 --> 00:11:12.385 They're going to. 00:11:12.385 --> 00:11:20.605 You know, I've had Hit Pieces run on me for a number of years, including by defunct leftist outlets at this point, which is ironic, but it happens. 00:11:22.145 --> 00:11:24.885 Question 3. 00:11:24.885 --> 00:11:29.705 What is your best couple of lines argument against pacifism? 00:11:31.305 --> 00:11:33.105 Both biblical slash philosophical. 00:11:33.245 --> 00:11:53.965 So, for philosophical, I know what answer I would usually give, but given that I am streaming on a number of platforms, there's only so much I can say, but generally speaking, most men who are pacifists, when they are punched in the face, stop being pacifists pretty quickly. 00:11:53.965 --> 00:11:59.265 Now, I'm not saying that that's a realistic approach, because you can still be arrested, right, even if the guy doesn't fight back. 00:12:00.385 --> 00:12:06.265 But what I'm saying there is that it's incoherent, and no one really believes it or holds to it. 00:12:06.265 --> 00:12:08.625 It's just complete and utter nonsense. 00:12:08.625 --> 00:12:10.325 It's absurd. 00:12:10.325 --> 00:12:27.425 So philosophically, it just completely falls apart, and there are plenty of men who have published critiques of it philosophically, so it's just not compelling at all in that, but scripturally, there are a few things that I would like to mention as soon as I can pull up Logos here. 00:12:28.645 --> 00:12:32.245 I think I will actually just pull up the full screen Logos for this. 00:12:32.245 --> 00:12:37.845 So there are three verses that come to mind for this that are going to be relevant. 00:12:37.845 --> 00:12:58.605 The first one I want to bring up, I want to bring it up because in the Septuagint, it's different from in the Masoretic text, and yes, you could sort of play the game, because most men are going to follow the Masoretic text, and you can sort of bring up the Masoretic text and just say, aha, I got you, right? 00:12:58.605 --> 00:13:01.785 And that would, of course, be Exodus 15.3. 00:13:01.785 --> 00:13:08.845 And in Exodus 15.3, and I have on the right side here, the Masoretic text and the left, the Septuagint. 00:13:08.845 --> 00:13:13.185 We'll go through the Masoretic text first, the ESV in this case. 00:13:13.185 --> 00:13:17.885 The Lord is a man of war, the Lord is his name, right? 00:13:17.885 --> 00:13:21.085 Pretty open and shut there if the Lord calls himself a man of war. 00:13:21.085 --> 00:13:23.845 It's not exactly what it actually says in the real text of scripture. 00:13:24.865 --> 00:13:29.265 The Lord, when he shatters wars, the Lord is his name, in the wording of the Septuagint. 00:13:30.405 --> 00:13:37.245 Now, what this actually means in the Septuagint, in the underlying Greek there, is that the Lord ends wars. 00:13:37.245 --> 00:13:44.745 And of course, he will ultimately do that in the final day when he brings all war to an end for all time. 00:13:44.745 --> 00:13:48.365 But in order to do that, you can't be a pacifist. 00:13:48.365 --> 00:13:51.445 Pacifists don't end wars, they invite them. 00:13:51.445 --> 00:13:54.065 And so that would be one verse you could bring up to argue against. 00:13:54.065 --> 00:14:10.985 You can bring it up in either the Masoretic or the Septuagint, preferably the Septuagint, but you are going to have to explain that little bit in the Septuagint, that just because the Lord ends wars, not saying he's a man of war, well, he still has to be the kind of man who can wage war to end wars. 00:14:10.985 --> 00:14:13.345 Pretty straightforward logic there. 00:14:13.345 --> 00:14:18.085 The next verse would be, I'll actually do the New Testament first, so open up. 00:14:19.785 --> 00:14:20.985 Another ESV window here. 00:14:20.985 --> 00:14:22.665 That's not what I wanted. 00:14:24.285 --> 00:14:26.125 Logos is great when it cooperates. 00:14:27.905 --> 00:14:31.365 So Luke 22.36. 00:14:33.945 --> 00:14:39.545 This one is going to be pretty obvious, and we all know what this one is before I even bring it up. 00:14:39.545 --> 00:14:42.965 But it's worth mentioning for someone who says he's a pacifist, right? 00:14:43.905 --> 00:14:48.565 Let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one. 00:14:48.565 --> 00:14:54.505 If Christ is telling you to sell your cloak, and in this case, this is your most important garment, the most important thing you possess. 00:14:54.505 --> 00:14:56.485 It's what keeps you warm on cold nights. 00:14:56.485 --> 00:15:00.845 And back then, unless you were a very wealthy man, you did not have a closet full of coats. 00:15:00.845 --> 00:15:04.845 This was the one you had to stay warm at night and not freeze. 00:15:04.845 --> 00:15:07.545 Christ says to sell it and buy a sword. 00:15:07.545 --> 00:15:11.465 Okay, you can't be a pacifist and square that with what Christ is saying. 00:15:12.545 --> 00:15:20.985 But insofar as these verses go, I think my personal favorite is going to be back, actually, in Jeremiah 48. 00:15:20.985 --> 00:15:22.805 And this one, right? 00:15:23.865 --> 00:15:26.125 Actually, I pulled up the wrong verse here. 00:15:26.125 --> 00:15:27.625 Let me pull up the right one. 00:15:35.220 --> 00:15:37.020 Why are we not pulling up? 00:15:37.020 --> 00:15:39.140 Yeah. 00:15:39.140 --> 00:15:41.080 All right, it's, that's what it is. 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:42.420 The numbering is different. 00:15:42.420 --> 00:15:48.080 I did pull up the right one, but I was thinking the Masoretic numbering and not the numbering in the Septuagint. 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.460 The Septuagint is Jeremiah 31, 10. 00:15:51.460 --> 00:15:57.740 A cursed is the one who does the work of the Lord carelessly by keeping back his dagger from bloodshed. 00:15:59.420 --> 00:16:00.660 That's pretty open and shut. 00:16:00.660 --> 00:16:09.180 There's no way you can possibly look at that and think that pacifism is an acceptable position that you can square with scripture. 00:16:09.180 --> 00:16:13.460 If someone wants to be a pacifist, he's not a Christian, he's something else. 00:16:13.460 --> 00:16:17.480 So, I think those three are probably sufficient. 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:24.940 You can do a much longer critique of pacifism, but you said a short critique, so I think for this case, that's the way to go. 00:16:24.940 --> 00:16:27.440 Go with those three passages. 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:31.360 And again, it's Jeremiah 48, 10, the Masoretic, or 31, 10, in the Septuagint. 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:39.680 Generally, use the Septuagint, unless someone is just very stuck on, you know, I really like the King James, then fine, use the Masoretic. 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:56.540 The fourth question, question four is, is it worth the time and effort to join a congregational church with a bunch of friends slash families, elect each other to the boards, and change the direction of the church? 00:16:56.540 --> 00:17:00.240 Many of the congregational churches in my area are shrinking in membership and growing with age. 00:17:01.040 --> 00:17:05.180 The polity of congregational churches certainly provides the opportunity. 00:17:05.180 --> 00:17:08.260 I think that's perfectly valid in many cases. 00:17:08.260 --> 00:17:19.040 Particularly if you have, say, a smaller church that owns its land and its building, then by all means, having a faithful group of men take that over is a step in the right direction. 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:21.520 That's very much a way that you can take things. 00:17:21.520 --> 00:17:40.640 Just run the numbers, as it were, figure out how many men you need in order to enact that policy, see how long it's going to take you, and maybe check the Constitution bylaws, whatever the governing documents are, and see how that is going to either help you or hinder you. 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:45.940 And bear in mind, they may very well try to sue you. 00:17:45.940 --> 00:17:54.360 So think about whether or not they have a war chest for that, just to sort of tidbit their strategy recommendation. 00:17:55.940 --> 00:18:01.700 In some cases, they probably won't, because they don't have the capacity to sue you, or they just aren't litigious. 00:18:01.700 --> 00:18:09.960 But generally speaking, the left-leaning Christians, Christians so-called, are going to be more litigious. 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:15.500 They're going to be more willing to take you to court, to try and ruin you, and make life difficult for you. 00:18:15.500 --> 00:18:18.740 So it's a wisdom call. 00:18:18.740 --> 00:18:23.640 You're going to have to run that assessment based on the men in the congregation, and how they behave. 00:18:24.360 --> 00:18:27.600 So, just bear that in mind. 00:18:27.600 --> 00:18:33.740 But yes, this is a perfectly valid way to go about things, and there's nothing morally objectionable about it as well. 00:18:33.740 --> 00:18:41.460 So, absolutely, if you have congregations in your area that you can take over and turn back into Christian churches, definitely do so. 00:18:41.460 --> 00:18:44.540 Big bonus if you get a nice building in the process. 00:18:47.060 --> 00:18:51.080 Those were the four questions that I had for today from the forum. 00:18:51.080 --> 00:18:53.360 So now I'll move on to the questions from the chat. 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:59.300 I have a backlog of questions as well, I know that, but I did not have as much time to prepare questions this week. 00:18:59.300 --> 00:19:07.280 It is spring and earnest here, so I'm out in the garden and doing stuff like that, and it's been eating up my time. 00:19:07.280 --> 00:19:09.200 Question five. 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:15.680 What is the correct method to judge a foreign community in a land as invaders versus multigenerational sojourners? 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.120 Reference examples I was thinking of. 00:19:18.120 --> 00:19:28.320 The German community in South slash Central America, Japanese community in the US., and the post-1979 Persians or Assyrians in the West. 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:35.000 This is going to have a number of factors that build into it. 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:36.900 I know this was asked previously. 00:19:36.900 --> 00:19:37.620 I did not read it. 00:19:37.620 --> 00:19:39.560 It's in my backlog. 00:19:39.560 --> 00:19:46.640 But you have a difference between people who go somewhere that is undeveloped and develop a community, right? 00:19:46.640 --> 00:20:01.700 That's basically most of South America didn't have much in the way of civilization when the Europeans arrived, with the exception of a couple of rather barbarous, cannibalistic, human-sacrificing civilizations. 00:20:01.700 --> 00:20:10.200 So they don't count because you don't have to consider them, because God's solution to them is eradication. 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:18.680 So for the Germans moving to South or Central America, in the South America case, they were setting up a new civilization in some cases. 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:22.780 Because some of them obviously moved after the war, and so they were sojourners. 00:20:22.780 --> 00:20:24.840 That's different. 00:20:24.840 --> 00:20:32.580 South America is a complex question, because it really, it's the melting pot that America is not. 00:20:32.580 --> 00:20:41.760 It is a mixture of peoples who have intermarried to the point where you have an all-new race of people, a couple of them actually, in a few different places there. 00:20:41.760 --> 00:20:45.200 And they're part European, they're part native. 00:20:45.900 --> 00:20:48.860 Depending on the country, they're part African as well. 00:20:48.860 --> 00:21:01.200 So that also plays into it, because how similar you are, how close you are to the people in whose country you are sojourning is going to change things significantly, right? 00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:08.080 I don't think the South Africans who are moving to the United States need to be sojourners. 00:21:08.080 --> 00:21:14.440 I think they can stay here and become part of the population, because they are our close cousins. 00:21:14.540 --> 00:21:17.240 They are compatible with Americans. 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:19.840 They're not really aliens. 00:21:19.840 --> 00:21:24.040 So I have no problem with them coming here, staying here, becoming part of the nation. 00:21:24.040 --> 00:21:28.680 Does a South African who moves here become American just like that? 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:32.640 No, but his children could be, and his grandchildren certainly will be. 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:36.520 The same thing is true for a Brit or a German. 00:21:36.520 --> 00:21:42.160 Even though they are genetically basically our brothers, moving here does not just make them an American, right? 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:42.960 It's a different thing. 00:21:43.780 --> 00:21:49.600 But because they are so close, their children or their grandchildren will certainly be American. 00:21:49.600 --> 00:21:51.920 In the case of, say, the Japanese, right? 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:53.960 They are more alien, because they are different people. 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:58.940 They are a very different nation from Westerners, from Europeans. 00:21:58.940 --> 00:22:05.360 They are definitely sojourners, and so ideally a sojourner does return home at some point. 00:22:05.360 --> 00:22:11.120 The Japanese behave themselves and don't cause problems, which certainly makes them better sojourners, right? 00:22:11.180 --> 00:22:17.880 We don't necessarily really want them to leave because they are causing problems, because they aren't causing problems. 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:29.560 There is also only about three quarters of a million Japanese in the United States, which is not a trivial number, but in the scope and scale of the United States, it's a relatively small population. 00:22:29.560 --> 00:22:33.360 It's also concentrated in a handful of areas. 00:22:33.360 --> 00:22:44.780 For the Persians and the Assyrians, I don't know the numbers of how many of them there are, but ideally, yes, they would return home, and granted, that part of the world is just going to be a dumpster fire seemingly forever. 00:22:44.780 --> 00:22:48.760 So the question is, when and how, right? 00:22:48.760 --> 00:23:00.840 Well, given the way that things are trending, and given the way that the immigration debate, we'll call it, is developing, it's pretty clear that it's only going to turn out one of two ways, right? 00:23:00.840 --> 00:23:02.980 The left's gonna win, or the right's gonna win. 00:23:02.980 --> 00:23:05.440 And if the right wins, most people are going home. 00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:09.540 And that's going to include, certainly, both of the groups that you mentioned. 00:23:09.540 --> 00:23:18.800 But insofar as, is someone a sojourner, or is someone an invader, part of the question is, why is he here, right? 00:23:18.800 --> 00:23:32.120 You know, if you are a German, after World War II, escaping Victor's justice, and you move somewhere, it's pretty clear that you're at least a sojourner, if not a refugee. 00:23:32.120 --> 00:23:35.840 And part of it is also that intention to return. 00:23:36.840 --> 00:23:41.740 Someone who has the intention to return can still qualify as a sojourner. 00:23:41.740 --> 00:23:50.000 Someone who has no intention to return is a different thing, because he's no longer sojourning, he is now squatting or invading. 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:52.480 So part of it is that intention. 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:57.280 People who do not have the intention to return are not sojourners. 00:23:57.280 --> 00:24:00.700 So that's going to play into this as well. 00:24:00.700 --> 00:24:04.100 I think really that intent is a big part of this. 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:06.460 Obviously, that's more difficult to assess, right? 00:24:06.460 --> 00:24:12.020 Because you're looking into someone's mind, but you can tell intent from actions as well. 00:24:12.020 --> 00:24:17.300 That is going to be the biggest part of this other than that compatibility, right? 00:24:17.300 --> 00:24:26.200 Because determining whether or not someone's a sojourner or a rightful, not necessarily rightful, but a permissible immigrant is a matter of race. 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:27.700 That's a matter of genetics. 00:24:27.700 --> 00:24:31.860 But sojourner really is that matter of intent, because it's the nature of the term. 00:24:32.140 --> 00:24:38.020 The thing is, someone who is spending time somewhere with the intent to return. 00:24:38.020 --> 00:24:43.260 And so you cannot, literally cannot be a sojourner if you have no intent to return. 00:24:46.220 --> 00:24:48.560 Question six. 00:24:48.560 --> 00:24:54.720 Once you get above 170s, what is the nature of the difference per IQ point? 00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:56.980 What is the general experience at 160 plus? 00:24:58.880 --> 00:25:03.080 That is quite the expansive question. 00:25:03.080 --> 00:25:24.140 But I think, to sort of, not necessarily deeply address it, but at least give a treatment of it, one of the best ways to illustrate the difference between different levels of intelligence, and this is going to work for any particular level of intelligence. 00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:26.440 It's not just, you know, 100 vs. 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:28.060 160 or whatever. 00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:48.000 As you go higher, or as you go to the right, depending on if you want to look at the curve, or you want to look at a table, however you're organizing your data here, you need less information to arrive at an accurate conclusion, because you are able to extrapolate more and more accurately. 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:58.680 So, one of the definitions of genius that I have used in the past, and I find it compelling, I don't know if anyone said it before in that way. 00:25:58.680 --> 00:26:03.460 Similar thoughts have been expressed by many men, so I'm not claiming that this is mine. 00:26:03.460 --> 00:26:13.400 But the way that I've chosen to express it in the past is that genius is the ability to draw sound conclusions from seemingly insufficient data. 00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:25.560 Because a person of average intelligence, looking at the data set, whatever is available, is going to say, you cannot draw an accurate conclusion, this is insufficient. 00:26:25.560 --> 00:26:31.980 But the genius is going to look at it and know, in many cases, immediately, this is the right answer. 00:26:31.980 --> 00:26:35.020 I know the answer, I have enough information. 00:26:35.020 --> 00:26:44.760 It looks like magic, but it's not magic because it's just an ability to predict the future based on the present, right? 00:26:44.760 --> 00:26:48.340 It's extrapolation, it's forecasting, but accurately. 00:26:49.540 --> 00:26:59.840 This is one of the things that some AIs are pretty good at now, and why some men are looking at them in the way they are, which is a discussion for another time. 00:26:59.840 --> 00:27:01.840 There's some risk there. 00:27:01.840 --> 00:27:05.160 But I think that's one of the best ways to look at it. 00:27:05.160 --> 00:27:10.360 And then, insofar as, you know, what is daily life like, right? 00:27:10.360 --> 00:27:13.000 How is the general experience? 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:15.900 No matter what your IQ is, you're still a man, right? 00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:20.960 You're going to have some different tastes, you're going to have some different experiences. 00:27:20.980 --> 00:27:28.080 Usually, genius is also highly correlated with certain, at least some of your senses being more attuned. 00:27:28.080 --> 00:27:32.140 So, genius may have a better sense of smell, taste, things like that. 00:27:32.140 --> 00:27:33.280 Little differences like that. 00:27:33.280 --> 00:27:40.100 But those things also vary, not necessarily always connected with intelligence, right? 00:27:40.100 --> 00:27:46.720 There are men who are very exceptionally good at some particular thing that is not connected to intelligence, right? 00:27:47.260 --> 00:27:49.960 And I'm not saying just the savant, right? 00:27:49.960 --> 00:27:57.960 I'm not saying just the person who has severe deficits in other areas and this extreme talent in one. 00:27:57.960 --> 00:28:01.660 But generally speaking, you know, the genius is still a human being. 00:28:01.660 --> 00:28:05.580 It's still going to be a general sort of experience everyone else has. 00:28:05.580 --> 00:28:10.420 You have to eat and sleep and, you know, drink caffeine and all those things. 00:28:11.760 --> 00:28:15.740 So the difference is not going to be per IQ point, really. 00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:22.220 It's very difficult to determine with that sort of fine grain. 00:28:22.220 --> 00:28:32.680 IQ tests should really be, you know, your IQ is this plus or minus some number, which the more accurate ones are going to give you that, you know, plus minus five, six, seven, whatever it happens to be. 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:38.440 The real differences are those standard deviations or maybe half a standard deviation. 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:44.180 There is a real difference between 100 and 115, and there is a real difference between 115 and 130. 00:28:45.300 --> 00:29:03.800 This also builds into relatability across those levels, because the man who is at 130 is generally going to find it easier to relate to someone at 115 than 100, and he is going to find it a world easier to relate to the 100 than the 85. 00:29:03.800 --> 00:29:06.120 And that does sort of scale. 00:29:06.120 --> 00:29:16.840 It's not that the person who's, you know, 160 or 180, whatever it happens to be, is so completely disconnected from reality and common man that you can't understand them. 00:29:16.840 --> 00:29:23.260 Because also bear in mind, the person with the higher IQ can more accurately simulate the mind of another man. 00:29:23.260 --> 00:29:31.500 And so the person with the higher IQ can have the argument in his head with the other man before he has the argument. 00:29:31.500 --> 00:29:33.940 So he's really just replaying what he's already done. 00:29:33.940 --> 00:29:35.700 It gives you some tactical advantages, certainly. 00:29:35.700 --> 00:29:38.320 You know, if you're an attorney, it has advantages in court, right? 00:29:39.560 --> 00:29:46.360 But there is a difference in comprehensibility once you get too distant. 00:29:46.360 --> 00:29:59.560 Certainly the man who is 85 or 70 or whatever, God forbid, is not going to be able to understand the man who is at 150 at all, other than the things that are common to humanity. 00:29:59.560 --> 00:30:04.440 Again, eating, sleeping, drinking, liking pretty women, right? 00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:07.040 That's universal, up, down the scale doesn't matter. 00:30:07.040 --> 00:30:19.580 But the experience of the world and the perception of the world is going to be so fundamentally alien for someone who is that far distant, that there's going to be no real understanding. 00:30:19.580 --> 00:30:23.400 The person who's at the higher end of the spectrum can understand a little bit. 00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:29.660 But not entirely, because there are some things where you kind of have to live it to understand it in a certain way. 00:30:29.660 --> 00:30:33.480 It's not because you necessarily have to do something to understand it right. 00:30:33.520 --> 00:30:36.440 It's not the person who says, how do you know drugs are bad? 00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:37.660 You've never tried them. 00:30:37.660 --> 00:30:39.540 It's a stupid argument. 00:30:39.540 --> 00:30:43.620 But do you gain something when you do something in terms of knowledge? 00:30:43.620 --> 00:30:44.580 The answer is yes. 00:30:44.580 --> 00:30:45.520 And that's true for everything. 00:30:45.520 --> 00:30:54.060 Like, you know, if I stabbed my hand right now with any of the number of sharp things on my desk, I would gain knowledge of how that feels. 00:30:54.060 --> 00:30:59.560 It's not knowledge I want, and I already understand it sufficiently without doing it, right? 00:30:59.560 --> 00:31:02.740 I know it's going to hurt, it's going to bleed, it's going to be obnoxious. 00:31:03.320 --> 00:31:04.960 I know all that without doing it. 00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:08.940 But I would still gain some knowledge by doing the thing. 00:31:08.940 --> 00:31:21.000 Similar there with the difference between the person living life at 70 or 80 IQ, insofar as he's even aware of what's going on, versus the person living life at 160, right? 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:27.740 I think that's a general overview of it, so there are very few men who are 160 plus. 00:31:27.740 --> 00:31:30.280 I've given the number before, obviously, in the episode we did on IQ. 00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:32.840 It's not a lot of men there. 00:31:32.840 --> 00:31:37.440 Most men really are in that 85 to 115 range. 00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:39.520 That's just how standard deviation works. 00:31:39.520 --> 00:31:42.400 It's just how a standard distribution works. 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:45.940 But I think that pretty much covers that one. 00:31:45.940 --> 00:31:49.140 If you have a follow-up, by all means, let me know. 00:31:49.140 --> 00:31:50.740 Question 7. 00:31:50.740 --> 00:31:55.080 Two questions from the same person, unrelated, though, so I will number them separately. 00:31:55.080 --> 00:31:55.560 Question 7. 00:31:56.380 --> 00:32:00.580 What are the rights of the Amerindian descended North Americans? 00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:05.780 There are really, I guess, three parts to this answer. 00:32:05.780 --> 00:32:20.560 The first part to the answer that I would give is that those who were here when we first encountered them, and we had our conflicts with them and things like that, they were not Christian. 00:32:20.560 --> 00:32:23.840 They were, in many cases, vile pagans. 00:32:24.120 --> 00:32:26.220 Many of them engaged in human sacrifice. 00:32:26.220 --> 00:32:29.020 Some of them engaged in cannibalism. 00:32:29.020 --> 00:32:31.500 We should have treated them like the Canaanites. 00:32:31.500 --> 00:32:35.480 That is obviously back then, right? 00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:50.640 It's sort of the same as the Israelites were commanded to wipe out the Canaanites, and then you have the book of Joshua and then Judges, and right, it's the narrative, the litany of all the times they failed, because they didn't do it. 00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:51.640 So that's in the past. 00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:52.860 That's sort of the first part of it. 00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:58.700 The second part is really two parts to the same analysis, right? 00:32:58.700 --> 00:33:02.840 The question is, what do we do with those who are currently here, right? 00:33:02.840 --> 00:33:06.940 It's not like the sojourner, we can send him home, right? 00:33:06.940 --> 00:33:14.480 If we have someone who is here from, you know, pick a country, it doesn't matter, I won't even name one, just pick one in your head. 00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:19.300 We can send that man back to his country, because he has a country. 00:33:19.300 --> 00:33:22.440 The Amerindians don't, so there's nowhere we can send them. 00:33:24.180 --> 00:33:30.620 So, that means we have to treat them differently, just because there's no other option. 00:33:30.620 --> 00:33:35.240 I would say the assessment comes down to, are they Christian, right? 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:41.200 There are some number of them, and it's in the millions, I think it's three or four million, it's something like that. 00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:45.860 Someone can correct me on that, if I'm off by a little bit, I might be. 00:33:45.860 --> 00:33:48.480 Three or four million of them claim to be Christian. 00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:50.280 That's non-trivial, okay? 00:33:50.560 --> 00:33:59.720 We have individuals, whatever we should have done in the past, we did or didn't do, they're here now, they are Christians, they have nowhere else to go. 00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:03.700 I think those ones, we have to give some chunk of territory. 00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:22.220 It doesn't have to be a giant chunk of territory, it doesn't have to be their ancestral territory, it just has to be some territory somewhere that we give them because they're Christians at this point, and we owe Christians a different duty than we owe to the heathen, to the pagan, in the negative sense of the term. 00:34:22.220 --> 00:34:27.460 Those who are still pagan, who are still worshipping demons, we owe them nothing. 00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:31.060 And the previous solution that should have been enacted is still on the table. 00:34:31.060 --> 00:34:34.200 I think that's the three-part answer to that one. 00:34:34.200 --> 00:34:41.080 So, for the ones who are Christian, give them territory, tell them to stop building casinos, they're not allowed to do that. 00:34:41.080 --> 00:34:46.020 If they do that, they keep doing it, it's an act of war, then we handle it like we would any enemy. 00:34:48.180 --> 00:34:55.320 The second question from this individual, question 8, is it wrong to have a queen like England did? 00:34:56.680 --> 00:35:04.560 This is another one of those where a man who is familiar with the Masoretic text is going to be tempted. 00:35:04.560 --> 00:35:16.840 And he's going to be tempted because there is a passage in scripture that says, my people are oppressed and women are the rulers, right? 00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:20.420 That's in Isaiah, I believe. 00:35:24.780 --> 00:35:26.100 I will pull that one up. 00:35:26.100 --> 00:35:28.620 I don't remember the exact verse, so I have to look it up. 00:35:28.700 --> 00:35:30.480 Isaiah 3.2, okay. 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:34.500 I will pull up the text so we can look at it. 00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:46.000 And of course, we'll look at both the Septuagint, wait, was it 3.2? 00:35:47.620 --> 00:35:50.060 3.12, that's what it is. 00:35:52.540 --> 00:35:54.580 So Isaiah 3.12, right? 00:35:54.580 --> 00:35:58.720 In the Masoretic, we have a pretty open and shut case, it makes it very easy. 00:35:58.720 --> 00:36:02.440