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"Eastward" (Ancient) of Eden?; Two creation accounts; How to get back to Tree of Life; Visions of Abraham; Euphrates = fruitfulness; "Help meet"; nun-gimel-dalet; What is woman?; Vessels of Holy Spirit; Gen 15:1; The word of God; "Vision" - biet-mem-chet-zayin-hey; Law of nature; Damascus; Eliezer = "helper"; Abraham's journey; Ur; God's prophecy to Abraham; Sons; Bondage opportunity; Righteousness; Giving purpose and value; Respecting the small things; Altars of stone and clay; "this land" = "erets"; aleph-resh-tzedek; freewill vs force; right to my body?; Charity alone; Turtledoves; Sophistry; Biblical "goat"; Red Heifer; Recognizing meaning; Driving away "fowls"; Moneychangers; Basics of who Abrahm was; Why Abraham?; Great darkness?; aleph-yod-mem-hey (horror); city?; gimel = cause/effect; sitting in darkness; v13: Bondage of Egypt; Satisfaction of righteousness; Virtue; Procreation a burden?; Selfishness; Revelation; Gathering in tens, hundreds and thousands; Giving to strengthen; Amorites = blood lickers; "President"; Where is love?; Are you a vulture? Amorite?; Abraham's altars; gimel-vav-zayin-lamad (turtledove); Welfare by forced giving; Lady Godiva; Gen 15:9 "Heifer"; Num 19:2 "Heifer" pey-resh-hey; Sacrifice; Doing what Christ/Moses/Abraham said to do; v18 - covenant for what land?; Living by faith; Covetous practices; Egypt (bondage) to Euphrates (fruitful); Kingdom of God AT HAND; Living by force; V19 List of names; Kenites - associated with Cane; Rolling back socialism; Weakened societies; Individual repentance; Spoiling; Giving your best; Division; Find fruitfulness.
Kingdom and Righteousness; Misunderstanding the bible; Metaphors and allegory; Wisdom; Why Israel?; Kingdom of God; Lessons from Proverbs; Loving thy neighbor; Who is Lord of your life?; "Lord"; "Hate"; "Yahweh"; Serving God; Going under bondage; Christ's instructions; Tables you choose to eat from; Graven images?; Foolish giving; Knowing you can be wrong; Sophistry; Folly of Saul; Seeing the whole truth; People's government; Making YOU great again; Commandments from Christ; Gen 2:1; Seventh day; "generations"; "ouranos"; Sabbath principle; Spiritual gifts; Tree of Life; Life span; Spiritual understanding from a physical world; Adam - dust of the ground (adamah); Avoiding distractions; 5-6-5-10?; "living soul"?; Beasts of the field; Gen 3:22; gimel-nun (garden); ayin-dalet-nun (Eden); Two trees (sources); Creating rulers?; Or living within families; v17 Tree of knowledge; Human resources; Making word of God to none effect; Leaven; gods deciding good and evil for you; Ex 22:28 ruling judges; Delusion; Incorrect knowledge; The way back to Eden?; v18 help meet; Creation of woman; Naked?; Death?; Knowing Holy Spirit; Why not be alone?; What is "Woman"?; Believing in God; Daily bread; "ezer" help meet; Oppression of women; kuf+nun-gimel-dalet+vav; "rod"?; 1 Cor 11:9; Men like Christ; Eph 5:23; Moneychangers; Facing corruption; Standing up for principle; Living in darkness; Thinking differently; Titus 2:4; Obedience to (Christ-like) husbands; 1 Tim 5:14; Prov 31:27; Bread of idleness?; Roles of men and women; Cities of blood; Calling people to repentance; Communities; One purse?; Abraham's army; The "Way"; How to seek His kingdom and Righteousness; Idolatry; Biting your neighbor; Seek Humility!
Review Gen 45; Importance of forgiveness; Pit of bondage; Not killing Joseph; Divine Karma?; Relationship with God; Cauldron; Preserving life; Priests to all nations; Deciding good and evil; Vanity; Manifesting compassion; Wrestling with the message; Esau and Jacob; Nimrod - provider instead of the Lord; Provisions for life; Doing well with what you are given; Understanding principle; "Hate"; Cursing your children with debt; Fleshpots; Getting out of debt?; "Corban"; Greatest destroyers of liberty; Parasites; Gen 45:24; Theory of evolution?; Sophistry; Gen 46:1; Israel's journey; Jesus the king; "Beersheba"; Gen 21:31; Abimelech; Jacob's freewill sacrifice; zayan-biet-chet; Why sacrifice?; Drawing near to God; Making a great nation; Wells with water; Tree of Life; Learning lessons; Sacrificing out of love; Becoming Israel; Sons of Jacob; Generations of Israel; Having more than one wife; Well of satisfaction; Oppressing your brother; Contrary to Israel; Sons of Rachel; Jacob's wrestling; Saving Israelites; tempting Joseph; Righteousness; Oppression; The faithful; Swords necessary?; Biology; Prophesy of names; Doing your part - sacrifice/service; Strengthening others; Overcoming difficulties with righteousness; Learning to trust in the way of God; Denial; Gen 46:31; Hearing the cries of Israel; Coming out of bondage; Gen 49:4; Moral structure to society; Family unit; Innocence?; Beginning of corruption; Legal charity; Caring for one another; Gen 49:5; "Hamas"?; Vessels?; mem-kof-resh-hey; Have faith!
"Israel"; The "Way" of "Love thy neighbor"; The grace of Pharaoh; Bondage of obligation; Sophistry; Hebrew written language; Pictorial symbols; Alphabet; Letters with meaning; Brothers in prison; Karma; "El" = god; Ruling judges; Making covenants with the world; Joseph's charade; Jacob to Israel; Subjugation by name; Corruption; Wrath of God; Seeing truth about ourselves; Deeds of Jacob's sons; 1 Samuel commander-in-chief; Cultural degeneration; Social safety net; Predators; Genocide; Who's your protector?; Yod = divine spark; Corruption; Draining the swamp?; Ruling over your neighbor; Becoming Israel; Gen 44:1; Rewarding good with evil; Getting his brothers to think; Sloth; Things we refuse to see; Self-determination; Self-reflection; Christian workers of iniquity; Cheating your brothers; Judah's repentance; Present danger; Spiritual introspection; Sureties; Judah's plea; Doing right by our father; Imparting understanding; Tree of Life; Drawing brothers into admission; Seeking to be Israel; Hiding from light = self-destruction; Seeing the error of your way; Altar of the Red Heifer; Sacrifice; "Leaven"; Oppression; Saul's folly; Taking right to choose from your neighbor; Covetousness = idolatry; Are you taking advantage of others?; Cities of blood; Biting one another; Strengthening society; One Purse?; Gen 44:32; Wrestling *with* the power of God; Seeing through the veil; Voluntary sacrifice; Inspiration; Debt; The Spirit of Israel; Legislating repentance?; Freewill offerings; vs Socialism; Following Christ; Doing the will of the father; Becoming merchandise; Repentance?; The song of Moses; Hearing the cries of your brothers; Individual salvation; Seek righteousness.
Who is right and who is wrong?; Romans 13; Challenging interpretation; Comforter = Holy Spirit; Revelation; Sitting in darkness; Word meanings; Spotted by the world; Socialism and communism; Babylon's socialism; Pride; Obeying God; Obeying government?; "Pacta servanda sunt"; Free assembly; Rightly dividing the bread from house to hose; What will save the world; Jealousy; Slaves?; Was Jesus a Socialist?; Article 1: congregating; Charity alone; Keeping your right to choose; Government of, for and by the people; Proverbs advice; Commands from Jesus; Pursuing Christ's kingdom; Inheriting life; Divine revelation; Electing a better Saul; Repentance = thinking differently; Article 3: Minister service; Tithing; Working out your salvation; Allowing others choice; Setting the captive free; "Triune"?; Empowering the individual; Nu 18:31, Deut 12:12; Levites; "Jubilee"; Your right to contract; Government welfare?; Bankrupting America; Cloward and Piven; Communism; Article 4: The Church is the possession of God; Defining "Church"; Your choice; Involuntary servitude; Sloth of preachers; Doing contrary to the degrees of Caesar; Doing Christ's word; Is Christ your master?; Ministers separate from the "world"; Born again?; What "gospel"? What Christians WON'T do; Living the way of Christ; No covetousness; Voluntarism; Sureties for debt; Seeking His kingdom; What the kingdom looks like; Knowing who needs help; Lev 20:26 being holy; Choosing bondage; "income"; Corporations; Waiving your rights; Straying from Moses/Christ; "Riches"; Pride in ideology; Family structure; First-born; Giving choice back to the people; Sophistry; Being "separate"; Holiness; Offices of service; The giver of life; "Satan"; Adversaries of Christ; What separates us?; Lev 22:2; In but not of the world; Israelites; Lev 20:24; Mt 20:15; Aristobulus and Hyrcanus; Perfect law of liberty; Luke 6:22; Why Christians were persecuted; "Tables"?; Idolatry; 1 Sam 8; Getting God to hear your prayers; Belonging to God; John 15:19; You are FEMA for your neighbor; Acts 13:2; Heb 7:26; Is your church separate?; Having one purse; John 17:16; "world"; Trial before Pilate; Article 5: Servants of kingdom and mankind; Christ appointed His kingdom; Repentance; Serving the people; Income tax?; "Deacon"; Red heifer?; Daily sacrifice; Conscience; Public religion; Just weights and measures; Ministers of world churches; Synagogue; Tens; Caring about others; Deut 14:27; Choosing Levites; Seek free choice = liberty; Legal title; Rules for ministers; Be part of the solution of Christ!
Ned and Meg talk about the latest hype at the intersection of the art world and block chain, NFTs. We dish on digital assets, block chain public ledgers, the black market, intellectual property rights, and all the major problems with NFTs. This whole topic is both as crazy and not as crazy as you may already think. Watch out! This one's a trip. Wash your hands, wear a mask, get yer shots, don't be a dick, thanks for listening.
And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.' ” - Job 28:28 This Episode's Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 17:24 – My Commentary on Job 25-30 1:03:06 - Diogenes of Sinope Quotes – Goodreads 1:11:19 – Diogenes – Wikipedia 1:34:21 - Sophist – Wikipedia 1:51:29 - Colorado Amendment 80, Constitutional Right to School Choice Initiative (2024) - Ballotpedia
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Topical Mark; gods; Temples as government buildings; Free bread; "Religion"; Political parties in Judea; Gospel of the Kingdom; The true church?; Bishops; Festivals; Sharing vs Pharisees way; Teaching righteousness; Hardening of hearts; Early Church ministrations; Christian conflict with Rome; Rewards/wages of unrighteousness; Fulfilling prophecy; Who was the king in Jerusalem?; Romans; Modern churches; Are you following the bible?; Who's your "father"?; Mark 1:1 Son of God; Democracy?; Republic; Church form of government; Jubilee; Diminishing freedom; Benefit addiction; God's kingdom vs world kingdoms; Melchizedek; Seeking His kingdom and righteousness; Good Samaritan; Acting like Christians; Coming in the name of Christ; Mark 12:1 parable; Government corruption; Welfare snares; Changing your future; Understanding Moses; Catching Jesus with word?; Mark 12:14 trap; Crucifixion; Why Rome was in Judea; Temple at Ephesus; Paul's history; Rhomaios; Graven images; Coin discussion; Sophistry - changing meanings of words; "Cash"?; Love; Worship?; Dressing and keeping; Whole truth; Sadducees; Doctrine of men; Understanding more of the gospel; God of the living; First commandment; Repentance; Loving neighbor as self; Sacrifice; "Scribe"; Oppression; Keeping ministers honest; Coveting neighbors' goods; Conforming to Christ; Contradictory denominations; Sacrifices; Welfare through the Church; Gathering in Tens, Hundreds and Thousands; Robbing widows and orphans - every day; Hearing the cries of the needy; You must change first; String whip; Finding men you trust; Joining the network; Changing your way - together; "Treasury"; Restoring men to their families and possessions; Manna; Mt 21:33; God, the capitalist; Golden calf; Levites; Owning things common; Public Religion; Follow the WAY of Christ.
ContentsIntroWhat We Mean By SophistryWhat The Ancients ThoughtLeo StraussModern Sophistry (Link) (Link)Sophistry & DemocracyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-z-blog-power-hour--2589657/support.
Demoniac/Legion controlling man's actions; Casting out; "Country" = "chora"; Or "patris"; Sophistry; Two trees to help decisions; Energy (dunamis); Pastors as leaders; Guided interpretation of scripture; Drawing near Holy Spirit; Corban = sacrifice; Abundant life; Other Jesus's; Spiritual influence on you; Tree of Life; Mark 6:1; Country (patris); Nazareth?; Mt 13:58; Speaking in synagogue; Lk 4:23; Astonished and offended by Jesus; What is Jesus saying?; "Essene" and "Nazorean"; Lovers of soft things?; Washing off iniquities of the world; "Synagogue"; Which polis?; Untranslated double words?; Mt 13:57; Lk 20:23; Following lies; Hiding the truth; "Logos" (word of God) = right reason; Orthodoxy of John the Baptist; Simon - which one?; Nicodemus; Is 8:14; Is 49:7; Is 53:3; Leaving the presence of God; Sacrifice for the good of others; Giving liberty to apostles; Sending out two by two; Gathering locally; Allowing rejection; Symbols of faith; Teaching imaginary Jesus; Not to be that way; Mark 6:14; Herod's daughter?; Jesus's system of charity; Herod's fear of John the Baptist; Keeping your word; Holy Spirit on Jesus and apostles; Mark 6:30; Influx of people; Community? Common union; Taking care of the needy; Pure Religion; "Pagans"; Freewill vs compelled offerings; Astonishing and offensive; Welfare snares; Repentance; Biting your neighbor; Seeing what you do not want to see; Coming out of their polis to follow Jesus?; Christ commanding disciples; Mark 6:39; "Commanded" = "epitossin"; Mark 6:27; Acts 23:2; Greek words translated?; Jesus rarely "commanded" men; Companies and ranks; Common efficient method of organization for communion; Taking time to organize in Tens (symposia); Families with the men; Organization seen throughout history; Militia; Binding with love; Natural sharing; Hollywood portrayal of feeding; Fasting while others eat?; Common followers of disciples' examples?; The greater miracle; Volunteerism; Righteous sharing - not a snare; Going home with new friends; Will your faith last?
Calista can be seen starring in Ryan Murphy's series FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans. The second installment of the Feud anthology is based on Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer and focuses on the story of how Truman Capote befriended society women Barbara "Babe" Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, and Jackie Kennedy's sister Lee Radziwill and then betrayed these women for a story. Calista stars as Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's younger sister and wife of a Polish prince, who developed a strong kinship with Capote thanks in part to her poor relationship with Kennedy. The series also stars Tom Hollander as Capote, Naomi Watts, Chloë Sevigny, Diane Lane and Molly Ringwald. Flockhart made her TV debut portraying the title role in FOX's widely popular and award-winning series “Ally McBeal,” created by David E. Kelley. She also starred in ABC's critically acclaimed TV drama, “Brothers & Sisters,” a family soap revolving around the Walker family and their lives in Los Angeles. Additional TV credits include “Full Circle,” “Supergirl,” Lisa Kudrow's improvisational comedy series on Showtime “Web Therapy,” “Facetiming with Mommy,” and the DreamWorks' TV Series, “The Penguins of Madagascar.” Flockhart returned to her theatre roots as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf for the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. She made her Broadway debut opposite Julie Harris in The Glass Menagerie, for which she received the Theatre World Award and the Clarence Derwent Best New Talent Award. New York theater credits include Neil LaBute's Bash: Latter Day Plays; The Three Sisters; Warren Leight's The Loop, which landed her the role of Gene Hackman's daughter in Mike Nichols' “The Birdcage;” Sophistry; Sons and Fathers; Wrong Turn at Lungfish; All for One and Caryll Churchill's Mad Forest. Flockhart was “Juliet” in Romeo and Juliet at The Hartford Stage; “Cordelia” in King Lear at The Actors Theater in Louisville; “Irina” in The Three Sisters at the Goodman Theater in Chicago; and “Emily” in Our Town directed by the legendary Jose Quintero. Flockhart's film credits include the independent thriller Fragile; Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her with Glenn Close and Cameron Diaz; A Midsummer Night's Dream, co-starring Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Everett; Drunks; The Birdcage, which received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble; and Telling Lies in America co-starring Kevin Bacon and Brad Renfro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Calista can be seen starring in Ryan Murphy's series FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans. The second installment of the Feud anthology is based on Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer and focuses on the story of how Truman Capote befriended society women Barbara "Babe" Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, and Jackie Kennedy's sister Lee Radziwill and then betrayed these women for a story. Calista stars as Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's younger sister and wife of a Polish prince, who developed a strong kinship with Capote thanks in part to her poor relationship with Kennedy. The series also stars Tom Hollander as Capote, Naomi Watts, Chloë Sevigny, Diane Lane and Molly Ringwald. Flockhart made her TV debut portraying the title role in FOX's widely popular and award-winning series “Ally McBeal,” created by David E. Kelley. She also starred in ABC's critically acclaimed TV drama, “Brothers & Sisters,” a family soap revolving around the Walker family and their lives in Los Angeles. Additional TV credits include “Full Circle,” “Supergirl,” Lisa Kudrow's improvisational comedy series on Showtime “Web Therapy,” “Facetiming with Mommy,” and the DreamWorks' TV Series, “The Penguins of Madagascar.” Flockhart returned to her theatre roots as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf for the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. She made her Broadway debut opposite Julie Harris in The Glass Menagerie, for which she received the Theatre World Award and the Clarence Derwent Best New Talent Award. New York theater credits include Neil LaBute's Bash: Latter Day Plays; The Three Sisters; Warren Leight's The Loop, which landed her the role of Gene Hackman's daughter in Mike Nichols' “The Birdcage;” Sophistry; Sons and Fathers; Wrong Turn at Lungfish; All for One and Caryll Churchill's Mad Forest. Flockhart was “Juliet” in Romeo and Juliet at The Hartford Stage; “Cordelia” in King Lear at The Actors Theater in Louisville; “Irina” in The Three Sisters at the Goodman Theater in Chicago; and “Emily” in Our Town directed by the legendary Jose Quintero. Flockhart's film credits include the independent thriller Fragile; Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her with Glenn Close and Cameron Diaz; A Midsummer Night's Dream, co-starring Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Everett; Drunks; The Birdcage, which received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble; and Telling Lies in America co-starring Kevin Bacon and Brad Renfro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Revealing information modern churches don't; The "Word" of God; "logos" = right reason; Distorting Moses; Straightening out understanding; Bondage of Egypt; Kingdom of God; Melchizedek; "well-regulated"; Self-organization; "Militia"; Slavery; Employment; Mark: first gospel written?; Who was Mark?; Building altars of clay and stone; Republics; Social bonds; Living by faith vs force; Why people are suffering; Mark - shorted gospel - summary; Jesus the philosopher; Ten Commandments; Abundance of life; Aliens?; Uniqueness of Christ; Stories absent from Mark; "Carpenter"?; Socialists not getting the gospel; Sophistry; Sayings of Jesus; Mark 1:1 Title?; Christ the anointed; "patronus"; Son of God?; Pagan temples; Christ's "Way"; Bringing light to darkness; Caesar's welfare; John preparing the Way; Lk 3:3; John 1:23; Getting closer to God; Repentance?; Remission of sins; John's raiment; Magi?; Parthia; Offices of Caesar; Locusts = carob?; Date honey?; Caesar's baptism; "Nazareth"; Baptizing Jesus; Spiritual compelling; What Christ preached; Making Simon and Andrew fishers of men; Prominent families; Hearing the cries of your brother; Covetousness; Setting your neighbor free; Jesus' astonishing doctrines; Christ's "authority" (power of choice, free man); Self-governing; Synagogue; Tens; Teaching authority/liberty; "idiotes"; The Higher Liberty book; Unclean spirits?; "Legion"; "destroy"?; Casting out demons; Fearing the light; "torn" = drive/convulsion; Spirit of destruction; Healing Peter's mother; Possession by devils; Prayer; How did Jesus pray?; Preaching in synagogues; Humbling yourself; Moving with compassion; Vow of the Nazarite; Learning meaning and methods of Jesus Christ; Leprosy; Fear not.
Kingdom of God and how it works; Bible study; What is the truth? Right? Wrong?; Tree of Knowledge; Rabbit trails; Understanding bible in historical context; Stoning Jesus?; How are you conforming to Moses and Christ?; Timing of "John"; Moses talking to the light; Getting comfort; Knowing Jesus; World needs saving; "I am"; John 10:1 "Verily verily"; Truth about yourself; Saul's folly; Forced sacrifice; "parable"; side-by-side comparison; Deut 17; Organizing in Kingdom of God; Suggestions for your constitution; Serving your fellow man; Jesus as the door; Capitalists with charity; Kingdom nature; Eating flesh of Christ?; Repentance = thinking differently; Good shepherd; Freedom of choice; Hearing the voice of the shepherd; Other sheep?; Humility; Laying down our lives; Feast of the dedication?; Being of the Father; Solomon's porch?; Graven images; Hewing stones of the altars; Supporting Christ's ministry; Scattered flocks of the world; "Blasphemy" - making one's self "God"; Evidence of truth; Works?; Fighting evil; Patterns of networking; Free assemblies; Christ's wealth; Government of, for and by the people; Christ's crafty escapes; Accepting untrue truths; Sophistry; Strengthening the poor; Welfare snares; Deliverance into death?; Pure republics; Campaign financing corruption; Taking back your responsibilities; "Jesus Christ is King"; Rome in Judea?; "No king but Caesar"?; Think like Christ.
In this 216th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.In this episode, we discuss the WPATH files—internal documents from the World Professional Association on Transgender Health—which were released this month. In them, we find evidence that clinicians are encouraging hormonal and surgical interventions on young people who are too young to consent, have not been informed of the risks, and often have comorbidities. We also discuss an article by a trans-identified man who argues “the moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.” Finally: the milk of amphibians.*****Our sponsors:VanMan: Tallow and honey balm, and many other animal based personal care products. Go to vanmanscompany.com/darkhorse and use code darkhorse for 10% off your first order.MUDWTR: is a coffee alternative with mushrooms and herbs (and cacao!) and is delicious, with 1/7 the caffeine as coffee. Visit www.mudwtr.com/darkhorsepod and use DARKHORSEPOD at check out for 15% off. Helix: Excellent, sleep-enhancing, American-made mattresses. Go to www.HelixSleep.com/DarkHorse and use code HELIXPARTNER20 to get up to 20% of all mattress orders AND 2 free pillows.*****Join us on Locals! Get access to our Discord server, exclusive live streams, live chats for all streams, and early access to many podcasts: https://darkhorse.locals.com/Heather's newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.comOur book, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3atCheck out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org*****Mentioned in this episode:The WPATH Files: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a45d683b0be33df885def6/t/65e6d9bea9969715fba29e6f/1709627904275/U_WPATH+Report+and+Files.pdfAndrea Long Chu in New York magazine: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trans-rights-biological-sex-gender-judith-butler.htmlAmphibian Milk at Natural Selections: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/amphibian-milkSupport the show
Episode: 1926 Rhetoric: An ancient idea in serious need of rehabilitation. Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd persuades us.
Finally, we come to the last words of the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”With these words comes an inversion that tips over ye olde pagan worldview and also the modern secular worldview. The order here is important. Ordering often has great importance in the Bible, especially once we get to the days of creation and the Commandments. Creation is an act of ordering, and we have a bad habit of disordering that creation. But I won't get ahead of my inversions - let's first look to the heavens. Notice that heavens is first. Earth is mentioned second. Consider how strange it sounds to reverse the order. Read this aloud:“In the beginning God created the earth and the heavens.” Just saying it that way feels strange. I have a bad taste in my mouth now. Yuck. The other creation stories are like drinking orange juice after brushing your teeth. Genesis asserts the reverse. The bible drinks the orange juice at breakfast before brushing with toothpaste. This is the proper order. This may appear inconsequential, but like all the inversions, it matters far beyond mere words in a book, because the right posture of humility before God requires it. In many creation stories, earth comes first. Genesis shoots that idea down like a clay pigeon in this opening line. In the Greek myths, Chaos and the Abyss are the first things, but then the Greeks go even farther in their wager. Earth (Gaia) pops into existence before the Sky God (Uranus). In other words, earth creates itself. Only after earth is born do the heavens arrive. This is incorrect. Heaven is God's first and essential act of creation, as opposed to the second creation of the visible world. God is first. Heaven is created first. Another way of saying this is: heaven is over and above and before earth. In some translations the word heaven is singular, but in most it is plural. (We'll get to this plural/singular question in the next inversion.) But plural or singular, one thing is always true: heaven comes before earth. Heaven was created before earth, by God, who existed before both. This is intentional. Just as there are no accidents in Hollywood, there are no accidents in Genesis. Genesis, in one single opening sentence, has set the entire Bible in opposition to every religious system that surrounds the people of Moses. A great deal of order can be derived from this first sentence of the Bible. This single line may pick a fight across the entire world, but that is not the intention. To argue with the ancient world is not the point. To refute our modern ideas is also not the aim. The aim of these words is to speak the truth aloud, despite the consequences. Once again, the purpose of scripture is not to set the world right-side-up, but to set our eyes right-side-up so that we can see reality properly. Everything is as God made it, only we are upside down or sideways most of the time. The ancient myths and the secular world today are trying to sell you a bad pair of glasses while holding you upside-down. They are offering orange juice after you have already brushed. Before Genesis was written, all the differing ideas about our origin story had already been told. Widely different origin stories existed then and today because we can arrive at different conclusions. Nothing is new under the sun. The sacred writer of Genesis was not the first person to think of “God created the heavens and the earth,” but the writer was the first one inspired by God to record it for the purpose of setting the truth in a form that could be passed on by scribbling, not solely by voice. All ideas that we think are new are old. No idea is original at this point. Ideas are just reintroduced, shined up like a dusty apple for the current generation to eat. Usually, in the reintroduction, the ideas are only made more confusing. Truly, before humans began writing, every idea of modern philosophy had already been told and tried. Every upside-down worldview has had its day, and the reason they never stick and stay is because it's hard to pretend the upside-down is the right way to be. The upside-down doesn't work in practice because it refutes reality. You may pretend that rocks are not real, only projections of the mind, but stub your toe on the rock and you will know that the only thing that wasn't real was your imagination. What's different about Genesis is that it is a book that lasts because it is the written word of God, which is to say, it is the truth. This is why people who have followed the wrong path return to the path of sacred scripture. This is the same reason why mathematical formulas stick around. The reason why Pythagoras' theorem lasts is because it is correct. The theorem cannot be modified to suit imagination. It is simple, beautiful, and true, and it can be applied to the real world. Basic math is a terrific illustration of spiritual truths because it cannot lie. Let's consider the Pythagorean theorem, which describes a triangle's sides. This upsets no one, because it is so easily shown as true, even with a simple diagram using squares on the sides of the triangle. a2 + b2 = c2You cannot write the theorem in another order, or it breaks. The order is critical, where c is the longest side of the triangle. In the image, side c must be at the end of the equation. The following re-arrangement would not produce a correct result. Anyone building a house or measuring distances would make a mess using this incorrect theorem, given the three sides shown in the image:a2 + c2 = b2 You cannot disorder the sides and get the correct triangle. For instance, if the shorter sides of the triangle are 3 and 4 inches long, the longest side of the triangle is 5 inches long. Correct: 32 + 42 = 52 Incorrect: 32 + 52 = 42 The incorrect equation is an absurdity. It fails in the mind and in the real world. When I was learning to program C++ in college, my favorite error message was the dramatic-sounding segmentation fault (core dumped). This would happen when a program I had written (poorly) attempted to access a memory address that didn't exist. The code I had written in the text editor was a representation of what I thought would work in practice. In other words, it was an idea in a text editor, not a physical reality in live memory. But once executed, the code came to life and quickly died, because what I had concocted on the screen was incorrect. A flaw in the design caused a devastating error that dumped the process. There were other errors that came from impossible attempts made in my code, like dividing by zero, but a segmentation fault broke the program in an abrupt fashion, like when mechanics say that an engine has “thrown a rod.” To “throw a rod” or hit a “segmentation fault” is to have violated certain truths of math and physics. The incorrect equation for a triangle is a violation of the truth of mathematics, and if used in the real world, it would “throw a rod” or hit a “segmentation fault (core dumped)” error. In essence, the opening line of Genesis, like the Pythagorean theorem, declares spiritual truth in the same way. Pythagoras is declaring a mathematical objective truth with his formula, and Genesis declares a spiritual truth.If you change the order of “God created the heavens and the earth” you end up with a segmentation fault or a thrown rod as well. At the very least, you move toward a misshapen worldview, just as an error in the theorem creates a misshaped triangle. It does not match reality. Likewise, you cannot square a circle, nor circle a square. This is even impossible for God. You may protest, “But all things are possible with God!” Yes, except for untruth. God is the Sheer Act of Being Itself and God is Truth. Like the Pythagorean theorem, God is also simple, good, and beautiful. A circle cannot be squared. Invalid memory addresses cannot be accessed. A brittle piston rod cannot withstand engine pressures. A triangle cannot have a shape that misfits the proper formula. And earth cannot come before heaven. Pythagoras found one of God's great tricks of geometry, and surely he was not the first, but he was the first to be famous for it, despite it actually being a truth from God, not Pythagoras. He was the first to be widely read, like the sacred author of Genesis, but the truth of “heavens over earth” was known before the age of writing arrived. Numbers (not the book of Numbers, but the numbers used in arithmetic) provide a wonderful method of thinking about God and immaterial things, like heaven. Numbers are not things I can pick up and move from my kitchen to my bedroom. I can pick up two cats, but I can't pick up the number two. We can contemplate the idea of “heavens” by using numbers because they are invisible, unseen things, but we know they are very real. These odd things called numbers have no bodies but have real applications and effects in our material world, where we do have bodies. We cannot use the wrong equation in immaterial numbers and then apply it to the real world because a material triangle will not comply with an incorrect representation of the triangle. In other words, objectively wrong ideas are not a thing - they are nothing. Let me try to explain. If an architect of the Flatiron building in New York City had drawn a blueprint but put the wrong dimensions on each side of his triangle building, the construction company could not have poured the footings to match the dimensions on the drawing. The physical world cannot fit with imagined falsehoods. This is why objective truth matters both in math and in spiritual physics. As long as people have lived, however, we have resisted ideas of objective truth. This is why Socrates and Jesus were both put to death - for not playing along with the imaginary truths of the Sophists, for not playing along with the subjective truth of Pilate and Caiaphas. To speak of objective truths in a world that resists them is to invite anger. If you fully adhere to objective truth, you will be hated. One thing is for sure: it is not the British who first had a stiff upper lip, it was surely Abraham and his descendants, particularly Moses and his court for writing these truths down, because to record and speak these things invited anger, just as it does today. This inversion may not seem relevant today, but like Pythagoras theorem, the order of “the heavens and the earth” is as relevant now as it was in Canaan or Greece. Moreover, if you scratch the fresh paint of modern sacred things with your fingernail, you can find that the old paint job of Gaia's primacy is just beneath the surface. But it is the wrong formula and does not work. “Earth First” has returned for many people. During the Renaissance through the Enlightenment, the chattering classes got high on an old philosophy that tossed out God, and many held that the heavens do not exist at all. Classical antiquity became all the rage for some, and Gaia, or Earth, made a comeback. This was most obvious in what we built in our cities, because when the West believed in “Heaven First,” the biggest building projects were cathedrals glorifying God. When we switched to the “Earth First” disorder, we began building skyscrapers, government buildings (that looked like cathedrals), and stadiums for sports. St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York was the last big project for God, which now sits under the shadow of so many towers, like the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center, the UN building, Madison Square Garden, and Yankee Stadium. However, it wasn't just the builders who shifted to “Earth First.” Truly, the intellectual class has relentlessly tried to invert Genesis and either cancel the idea of heaven altogether or tell us that we need not worry about this unseen realm. We are five hundred years into this process now. We have mostly forgotten about heaven, because we live as if it does not exist, yet at funerals we declare that every deceased person's soul is there. We are godless in how we live, acting as if heaven is not a concern, then suddenly universalists at funerals, where God is just a version of Oprah Winfrey (everyone gets a new car just for showing up). Yet, the upheaval of modernity's blessing of all sins is revealing to people which side of the chasm they want to be on when the collapse comes. As the chasm widens between right and wrong, truth and untruth, Jesus and Pilate, people are reacting and changing sides while they still can. To be on the side of the Pythagorean theorem is to be on the side of “Heaven First.” Some feel that a “Heaven First” view is finally coming back. If that's true, it's happening slowly, but then there are wonderful, wild conversion events like with “Our Lady of Guadalupe” where the efforts of missionaries and evangelists hardly move the needle, while God re-enters our lives with a lovely picture presented by a peasant like St. Juan Diego, and suddenly millions once again recognize that the “Heaven First” viewpoint is the truth. We are seeing the result today of a world that has rejected the spiritual mathematical formula of “God created the heavens and the earth.” Like the example of the architect drawing the Flatiron building triangle with invalid dimensions, a world built on bad math and untruth becomes visible. To use biblical terms, it bears “bad fruit.” We all know what bad fruit looks and tastes like. The error of “Earth First” is becoming more plain by the day. Look no further than the transgender craze to see modern Sophistry at work, yet even this craze is not new but has a history in the ancient cult of Cybele. If someone cries out, “The cult of Cybele was absurd,” that will not bring a mob to his house today. But for those who speak out against the mutilation fad of middle-schoolers invites active, living hatred. But as an advocate of both “Heavens First” and the Pythagorean theorem, it's impossible for me not to speak or write about both, because I think Cybele's followers were wrong just as I disagree with the living, modern version of Cybele's cult that mutilates children. Like Jeremiah, the prophet, I would like to stay silent to avoid the burning hatred of the world, but I cannot do that because to speak untruth feels dirty. It's like drinking orange juice after toothpaste every day, instead of the other way around. It's gross. Most of all, to speak untruth means I have abandoned God. I would rather abandon the Pythagorean theorem than God, but I can't abandon the theorem either, because it came from God. This causes a problem for believers in both the integers and God. Jeremiah, under persecution, wanted to stop talking about the truth of God to save himself some pain, but the burden of objective truth was too much and he had to speak or he would explode. He declares that he would like to stop talking about the truth of God to avoid the ridicule of others and save himself the headaches, but the fire burns within him to speak:“I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,”then within me there is something like a burning fire shut up in my bones;I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.” (Jer 20:9)I can relate, although I am more cowardly than Jeremiah. Today, to argue against the media and professors, both of whom insist on a materialistic worldview, is to be a modern prophet. To be a prophet is not to predict the future, it is just to declare truth, like the Pythagorean theorem and God creating heaven before earth. Oddly enough, many atheists now sound like Jeremiah because they understand the implications of mathematics and objective truth. This has been a fascinating turn of events. I marvel as it unfolds, as atheists like James Lindsay and Jordan Peterson sound like devout Catholics. This is why I do appreciate atheists. God bless them. They cut away all the fluff that stands between the two options of 1.) God Most High or 2.) nothing. I feel that if most atheists properly understood the formula called “creation ex nihilo,” they would be suddenly re-attached to the tree of life and chugging God's grace like a bong at a college party. I pray they are all at the next Easter Vigil service where they can join their terrific sense of reason to a newfound faith that makes them whole. The prophets are not that strange after all, because they speak truth. The prophets arise at times of disorder because, like Jeremiah, it's impossible not to speak of the order of God's creation. These prophets are not the crazy ones, but the last remaining sane ones. Jonah, the reluctant prophet, must speak, despite wanting to hide like Jeremiah. He doesn't want to, but he does. Why is that? Because he can't avoid the truth. The prophets are like Socrates and Jesus, who are the most sane people in all of history, and both Socrates and Jesus were very much “Heavens First” in their theology. Plato's Timaeus has a Socrates that sounds an awful lot like Genesis 1:1. This is sanity. Reading the tales of mythology is wonderful entertainment, but nothing to take seriously - they are like Marvel movies: fun to watch, but unbelievable, and not aligned with reality. The reason Jeremiah may seem crazy is that he is speaking objective spiritual truth to a world of Sophists, to a world that worships the wrong “order,” like in the book of Judges that repeats the ominous line throughout: “In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.” In an age of unbelief, however, it seems natural that people would be more concerned about the material world than the immaterial heaven. But this is only due to people not thinking deeply about their first principles, of which way is up (Hint: Heaven is up). They are flipped over because the advertisements spin them around. They are merely thinking about what they desire and calling it good. In other words, they have rejected God to do “what is right in their own eyes,” as the book of Judges repeats over and over. The naturalistic worldview, where God is not alive nor involved seeks all its answers in the chemical and biological, not in the spiritual. Yet not only the materialists do this - so do lukewarm spiritual people, where the desires of the flesh are projected onto God. Merely declaring “Heaven First” does not cure the error, but it is the first step on the path to wellness and sanity. Many people today complain about the politics of “America First” while in the next breath, they preach sermons of “Earth First.” But I am a keeper of the old code, of “Heaven First.” This is probably why my social life is limited. I reject both “America First” and “Earth First.” I definitely reject “Self First,” which is the most sacred belief of our age. The “Heaven First” view isn't a popular worldview today, but I grew up in the late 80's and early 90's. Listening to hundreds of hours of Nirvana's Nevermind album ingrained in me an ironclad belief that popularity is for sell-outs. The ancient religions are never far away. They don't actually die. In fact, ancient people didn't even know what the word “religion” meant, because the word was invented only a few hundred years ago. Religion is not where you go on Sunday for one hour, it's how you live every day. It's not just an add-on product or opinion or something done in private. We don't really know what religion is today because we've tried to cordon it off like a coat room, and while we point at religion in the coat room, we are actually living our true religion and calling it something else. Thus, with the myriad lifestyles and behaviors today, rest assured that everything from the Bronze Age is still here, but those ways and views have just taken on new names. While we may chuckle at stories about “Gaia” from the ancients, we do not chuckle about the chilling tales and dogmatic belief systems of climate change as handed down from those in lab coats and preached by the scribes of the laptop class. To challenge any assumptions about carbon credits (which are a parallel of what Protestants think Indulgences are in the Catholic faith) or sustainable planning is to invite a mob upon you. Attack the sacred things and you will be attacked. Why? Because the sacred things go back to the order of creation: who created what, when, and why. Thus if you subscribe to “Earth First” then you have a shield against spiritual things. Worse, you have an elevated sense of importance, also known as pride (as opposed to humility), and we will get to that nefarious inversion later. “Earth First” is alive and well. Books about Gaia have been all over the place in the past decade. Mother Earth is worshipped by millions, and while our earth is very good, it was not first. Genesis in its boldness says, “Heaven First.” However, this does not mean, “Earth is not important.” All of creation is important, as the whole is greater than the parts. This is true in geometry, bodies, families, marriages, communities, and God's whole creation. But there is an order of precedence, of how God created everything. If you error in this inversion, more errors will follow. This is why I'm writing this series on inversions, because the errors accumulate, where one wrong turn leads to another. The Catholic cosmology is not arbitrary or strange, it is just not understood or discussed because of the many layers of distractions that clutter our minds, due to centuries of misinformation about what the Church actually teaches, and what the truth really is. Moving on, let's look at the second inversion that comes with the words “the heavens and the earth.” Why is “heavens” plural? Further reading:On Earth as It Is in HeavenHeaven - Catholic EncyclopediaWhat is heaven?Catechism 1029-1029 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit whydidpetersink.substack.com
This week the guys tackle Chapter IV of H.I. Marrou's monumental work, entitled "The 'Old' Athenian Education". Relying on Aristophanes, Thucydides, Solon, and others, Marrou explains how the Athenians decided to lay down their weapons within society, and soon after education was democratized. So, “the decisive step" was taken from a warrior to a scribe culture, and education was no longer exclusively military. There was a predictable reaction from conservative elites: they sprinted to their Formula 1 roadsters, hotrodding their chariots like any Verstappen, Leclerc, or Russell. Long-haired, aristocratic young dandies stuck to their horses, even as the common peasant, baker, or cobbler sent his son off to the schools of the rhetors to learn how to make the weaker argument stronger. With this new aristocratic ideal, the development of new institutions was needed, and thus was born the epoch-making school. And despite Socrates' trenchant skepticism that arete can be taught, many claimed to teach it, and thus Sophistry surged (which takes us to Chapter V and next time). So, tune in for the Solonic Greek couplets, the KALOKAGATHIA, the mid-winter Michigan nasal congestion, the brawny chicken (Pollo Loco!), and at least one atrocious limerick.
Forming little groups; Well-organized free assemblies of Christians; Government paranoia; Socialism breeds sociopaths; Receive? Or take?; Believing things Christ actually said; "In my name"; "Liberty"; Sophistry; Knowing in the moment; Confusing language; Biblical instructions; Allowing freedom of choice for all; Following Holy Spirit; Prayer and fasting; Matt 18:1; Appointing the kingdom to disciples; Greatest servant?; Humbling yourself; Seeking righteousness; Divine intervention; Offending believers; Story of Pharaoh; Living in darkness; Being God's children; Mt 18:8-9; "Geenna" (Hell?) - burning landfill; Metaphors; Coveting is not OK; False Christs; His "name"; Angels; Father of Light; Allowing for darkness; The solution; Networked congregations of families; Free assemblies; Purpose of congregation; Knowing His sheep; Revealing wrongs to the wrongdoer; Exercising love and service; Making amends for your iniquity; "Stoning"; Mt 18:18 - keys of the kingdom; Social bonds of conscience; Loosening by forgiveness; Being merchandise; Social security; Mk 13:6; Lk 21:8; Cursing children with debt; Deceiving the little ones; Serving God first; Jn 14:26 your comforter; Understanding; Acts 9:15; God not hearing you; Helping others avoid temptation; Relying on Holy Spirit; Holding people accountable - for their good; Criminal collecting Social Security; Mt 18:23; Reprobate servant; Forgiving the debt of humble servant; Torment?; Corruption?; Check the beam in your own eye; Lost sheep; "Son of man"; Children of God; Untranslated "the"; Two sons parable; Doers; Idolatry = covetous practices; Bonds of love/charity; Cowards of America; Building the kingdom today; Repentance; Don't give offense.
I discuss the ever-present existence of sophistry within society, in particular within the ongoing war, and I reference current examples in politics, education and the criminal medical industry. I also, at the end, highlight the infiltration of Mossad within NIAID and the NIH for the purposes of depopulation from an insider. Link below to the article.
Title says it all. A book review, sales and career advice, and philosophy in one pod.
What do we mean when we talk about the life of the mind? What is the "intellect" and how can we use it well? What are some of the hurdles that intellectually inclined people face these days - and that they've faced throughout history? Jessie and community member Marie set the stage for one of our key themes with a 30,000 overview.The book we're discussing on September 17. 2023 is This Star Shall Abide by Sylvia Engdahl (also published as Heritage of the Star). You can get it here or as part of a trilogy. (Please note that these are sponsored links.)If you'd like to read more about the book first, here's an article about it from an early issue of Third Factor Magazine.
Ezra/Nehemiah linking to many other books; Common (misunderstood) theme in the bible; Pharisee syndrome; Misunderstandings producing false doctrine; Saving ourselves?; "Confess"; Things we DO; Meanings of words in context; "Done away with"?; "Corban"; First fruits; Levites; Social welfare snare; Goats?; Sacrificing on altars; "Nissi" goddess; Society's sickness; Debating existence of God; His Holy Church Internet presence; Living Network; The table of Caesar; Trust law; Robbing widows and orphans; Inflation; Income tax; Social Security; Gen 15:9; She-goat = "strong"; Turtledove = "piece of your estate"; Honor = "fatten"; "Nethinim"; Mere servants?; Forced offerings = bondage of Egypt; God not hearing you; "gods"; ayin-zayin; Hewing stones; "Leaven"; Milk and meat; Red heifer; Gregory's background; Weakening the people; Socialism; Learning the teachings of Moses and Christ; Lev 7:23; Christ's instructions; Seek His kingdom FIRST; Gather in Tens, Hundreds and Thousands; Share; Synagogues; Walking by faith and the perfect law of liberty; Holy Spirit; Divine inspiration; Christ's "seventy"; Setting men free; Loving the light; Spirit and truth; Being doers of the word; Nakedness and breeches?; Owning your responsibility; "Micro"; Burning Bush Festival - Camping event; Leve 7:23 - eating no fat?; Sophistry; Intentional ambiguity; Organizing yourselves; Power remaining with the people; Free assemblies; Symbolism; shin-vav-resh; Meaningful letters; Separating lies from truth; Joseph's inspiration; Reassigning meaning of words; Legal robbery; Sanhedrin; "scapegoat"; Being strong; "zayin" = service, nourish, setting men free; "ayin" = divine providence; Wrath of God; Loving neighbor; Helen Keller story; Kindness; How to be a part of God's kingdom; Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots; Making the word of God to effect; Chasing goats?; Limiting your biblical understanding; Practicality; Do the will of the Father.
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Sophistry: the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving. Wretched Radio | Air Date: June 22, 2023 https://media-wretched.org/Radio/Podcast/WR2023-0622.mp3 Segment 1 A tour through history. We’re told Christians are horrible, terrible racists. On the day of Pentecost at least 15 different ethnicities were the seedlings of the Christian faith. A 2021 UK Census […] The post THE WAR OF WORDS appeared first on Wretched.
This episode we are excited to welcome James Lindsay, a bestselling author who has spoken and written extensively against the woke onslaught. His recent speech in the European Parliament looking at the Neo-Marxist Cultural Revolution that is engulfing us all has really gone viral. In this interview James looks at the Marxist thread that runs through Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory and we end by looking at his latest book "The Marxification of Education". James Lindsay is a professional troublemaker, mathematician, author, internationally recognized speaker and the founder and president of New Discourses. James is a leading expert on Critical Race Theory and is best known for his relentless criticism of "Woke" ideology, the now-famous Grievance Studies Affair, and his bestselling books including Race Marxism and Cynical Theories, which has been translated into over a dozen languages. In addition to writing and speaking, he is the voice of the New Discourses Podcast and has been a guest on prominent media outlets including The Joe Rogan Experience, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and NPR. Connect with James... GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/conceptualjames Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames Gab: https://gab.com/ConceptualJames Truth: https://truthsocial.com/@conceptualjames Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConceptualJames/ Minds: https://www.minds.com/conceptualjames/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/James-Lindsay/e/B009BBX7BI/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk Connect with New Discourses... Website: https://newdiscourses.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NewDiscourses Facebook: https://facebook.com/newdiscourses YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp Interview recorded 2.6.23 Audio Podcast version available on Podbean and all major podcast directories... https://heartsofoak.podbean.com/ Transcript available on our Substack... https://heartsofoak.substack.com/ To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Hello, Hearts of Oak, and welcome to another interview coming up in a moment with James Lindsay. Of course, the founder and president of New Discourses, and I was delighted to get him on after seeing him at a number of conferences over stateside. And it was his recent speech in the European Parliament, which really intrigued me. I know that has really gone viral. And I think the title was the Neo-Marxist Cultural Revolution Engulfing the West, now known as WOKE. What a title, what a topic to bring to the European Parliament. So he discusses the kind of response on that and how a lot of the battle lines that we are on, the Critical Race Theory and also the Queer Theory, how those fit under that socialist Marxist umbrella. He unpacks that and then we end up on education. He's just written a book, the end of last year, on the Marxification of education. We have no time to get into the topic, but I just wanted to get his thoughts on why he'd put pen to paper on a book specifically focused on education. So much packed in. I, know you'll have followed James for a long time. I know you'll enjoy listening to his thoughts on speaking in the European Parliament on such a topic and unpacking some of those other issues. And hello Hearts of Oak. Today it is wonderful to have a best-selling author with us of many titles. We'll refer to some of them, The Marxification of Education and Race Marxism, The Truth About Critical Race Theory, amongst many others. An internationally recognized speaker, the privilege of hearing him first at the American Freedom Alliance conference back in June last year, and the founder and president of New Discourses, and that is James Lindsay. James, thank you so much for your time today. (James Lindsay) Hey, I'm glad to be here. Thank you. It's great to have you and your handle there @ConceptualJames on Twitter, Gab, Truth, GETTR, and newdiscourses.com is the website. People can find everything there. Before we start, James, could I just ask you to take a moment and introduce yourself before we get down to the issue? That's actually a hard thing to do. I'm a very kind of peculiar character, I think, and kind of the whole thing. But the long and short of it is that my academic training was in mathematics. I received a PhD in mathematics, or completed one, I suppose. They didn't give it to me. They don't give those away. But I earned a PhD in mathematics in 2010. I immediately left academia after finishing my doctorate. I became disillusioned with the course that it seemed to be on at the time. Then I just worked for myself at a small private enterprise for a number of years. To be academically engaged, I got involved with fighting with people online basically. This led to discovering the woke movement quite early on. This led to my participation in what was called the grievance studies affair, which I'm fairly well known for, which is where we wrote a large number of at fake academic articles for feminist journals in 2017 and 18 for whatever it's worth there's a new film that just came out telling the backstory with all of that a man named Michael Nayna put that out and it's called The Reformers, so you can find that on his substack, which I think it's michaelnayna.substack.com, The Reformers is the name of the film. John Cleese apparently saw it the other day and loved it, so that's a pretty ringing endorsement. From there, I went on to write, actually, Cynical Theories next, which is a book that did extremely well at getting some of this information into people's hands. It's actually hit somewhere around a quarter million sales, so a lot of people had a chance to encounter these ideas, which is the ultimate goal. And then I built New Discourses from there and I spent all my time researching, studying. Basically the woke movement and all of its kind of intellectual, intellectual is a generous word for them, antecedents and forebears. So I created New Discourses with the goal, it says all fancy on my website, shining the light of objective truth into subjective darkness. But the fact, that was my business partner's idea, honestly, the goal was I want to study woke and understand woke and expose woke and everything that's tied to it as fast as I can create and publish materials. And so that's what it's for. So it hosts mostly three different podcasts that I have in-house as well as articles that I write, videos that I do, and you can find links to the books that I've written, which which we tend to publish in-house because publishers are so slow and this is moving so fast. So anyway, that's me. I don't know how many books I've technically written now because some of them are blurry and they're, you know, things I've done with other people and some of them have been translated into a large number of languages. Those are the things that people care about. A lot of people know me because I've been on Joe Rogan's podcast three times also, which gets you kind of in the public eye a little bit. Okay, well, it's that criticism of woke ideology that I saw two months ago. You were in the European Parliament. You delivered a short address at a conference there, Woke a Culture War Against Europe. How did that come about and kind of how was that received? Well, they just reached out to me. Apparently the group there, which is a European-wide political party called Identity and Democracy or Identity Democracy Foundation, something like this. I don't quite know the organizational structure of these things. They invited me because they put together a three conference series to be held there at the European Parliament in Brussels and asked, they thought that I would be a perfect voice for the inaugural of the three, the first of the three. And so they invited me to come to Brussels and speak at the parliament. And so I gratefully accepted and went over and somehow or rather luckily delivered what I believe is given the fact of the significance of the room that I think I delivered my best public address I've ever delivered, which worked out pretty good because I could have bombed that sucker. And it was very good and very succinct. Part of it was that I realized the night before talking to another audience that there's a language barrier that kind of cuts across my humour, so I had to be very plain spoken. Maybe I should take notes on that and deliver more plain spoken addresses in the future. But it was received extremely well. Now, of course, the room was largely composed of MEPs that are of that party, so you would expect them to be interested in these ideas. It was also, there was a group there, the other speaker was Frank Ferretti, and a fairly well-known guy. And so his organization had a contingent there. And other than that, it was actually kind of timed to correspond with a youth conference for the ID Foundation. And so it was primarily a lot of people in their twenties, political interns and people interested in political party, young people. So most of the people were in their twenties, they were younger. And of course, their energy is really good, really, really a positive reception there. It came out online and they got a little bit of attention. And then for whatever reason, I don't know why a month later it went viral and it has just blown up everywhere. And the reception online has been extraordinarily positive. I'm sure that there are people who are very unhappy that that happened, but I haven't heard much from them. Well that group, the ID group, is a fantastic group, probably the best bulwark against what is happening in Europe, and I've watched them closely through all my involvement of politics over the many years. But could I ask you, what was it like going into the, I guess, the ruling chamber in Europe and helping them understand the danger of socialism, which many of them call themselves socialists. They really do believe the state knows better than the individual. What was like kind of going into that? Obviously the ID group are on side, but as a chamber, as a parliament, they're very much against anything that will shine the light on the evils of socialism. So what was that like, kind of explain to them the dangers of socialism? Well I mean it was surprisingly, again surprisingly positive, I thought it might be quite hostile. I thought there might be at least some people who would come by, you know, interested to see what people against their view might say. But I don't get the impression, or at least anybody who did stayed very professional and very polite. It was a very I mean, I don't want to say it's a very bureaucratic building because I don't know that I got that impression. But it's a very, very professional environment. So that wasn't, it wasn't like where I spoke at North-western University a month ago and got heckled and yelled at and protested the whole time or anything like that. The building itself was more interesting than my experience inside of it, I don't know if you visited Brussels and seen this but so walking around there's a... Brussels is, I'm sorry any Belgians watching is not the most beautiful city Down in the older part of the city the older the where the castles and things are that part is quite nice but over by the Parliament is, it's just kind of plain European city. It's not particularly beautiful. So but there's a little park there that's okay. And I found it striking that right outside the backside of the European Parliament building, there's a small grassy area with a number, maybe a dozen, maybe two dozen, somewhere in between statues in the grass. And what they are, when you look at them at first, you think, what are these? Are these aliens or something very peculiar? And you look closer, but no, they're ostriches with their heads buried in the ground, all of them. So it looks like a three-legged thing, but it's not. It's an ostrich with its head buried in the sand and there are you know dozens of these and I thought that's a weird installation to have, you know, on on site then you come around to the front to go into the to the actual Parliament building which you can't do without passes and a guide and all these things you can't just go in, but there's this statue right by the door that I found very striking and it's of this kind of very angry almost Soviet looking woman holding up a very sharp, angular, I'm trying to dig into the semiotics here like aggressive European and, you know, Euro-e. And she's standing triumphantly over a man that she seems to have conquered, who looks quite dejected and broken and so, you know, there's there's this weird vibe about the place, plus it's this weird building of steel and glass and an otherwise kind of fairly quaint European city, that just this kind of this glass. It's not the scary circular one that's in Spain or wherever that is. It's but this is, you know, intimidating steel and glass structure, that is just so out of character for the rest of the city. But as far as being inside the building, we went afterwards, after it was all people that were on site. And then after the talk, there was a little reception out in the hallway. And that was all, nobody bothered us. And then we went upstairs to do some interviews. And there was at the interview area with all the cameras, the media area, with the good lighting and all of that, There was another group, and I don't know who exactly they were, Renew Europe or something like this, I think is what it said, and they had a European Union flag with the stars. But instead of it being solid blue, that kind of deep blue that they use, it was rainbow. I think the stars might have not been in a circle, but might have been in a heart or something silly. So I asked them, and so obviously these people are not my people, so I asked them, I said, I love your flag, can I borrow it for a picture? And they were quite accommodating and they had a friendly chat with me and they don't know my views, but they were polite and professional as one would expect in a building of that sort. So I didn't find it's, I find more hostility going into American government buildings from Democrats here in the US than I experienced in the EU. But that might've just been stroke of luck or something like that. Just before I move to the issues, how do you see it? Because as an American, there is a culture where there is a battle happening, and it is one side against the other. When you look at Europe, it's much more one-sided than it is in the US. In the US, we look across the water and see the battle amongst the side of truth as being positive, strong, having arguments and holding the line, where in Europe, even the good countries have been succumbed into that EU of hating themselves and of rewriting history and all of that. How do you see that as an American? Well, I'll point out first, because I do agree with you generally, not the Flemish, the Flemish do not have that attitude. For certain and I found that I was spending quite a bit of time with it with Flemish men and women and some of the Italians do not have that attitude and they were very nice to spend time with, even a few Germans would they're very German, you know, everything must be according to the protocol, you know, very, I love Germans, but no, the fact is, what I see in Europe is that Europe is far more tipped to socialism, far more tipped to kind of this overarching, less accountable or even unaccountable governance. This bureaucracy that's beyond the reach of the people, and it knows better, and therefore, you know, it's going to deal with the people for them than we see here in America. But it's not nearly as woke and that was actually kind of the crux of this conference that they wanted to put together is yes, yes, we know we're very socialist and we know we're very far down that road, but whatever's happening in the Anglosphere, so the UK is actually heavily included in this, it's a very different animal than continental Europe, is very crazy. It's properly almost insane. There was no confusion that I ran into among virtually anybody, about what a man and a woman for example, and in the European context. But the idea that the taxpayer money would just be wasted on everything that they want to do is, you know, just kind of taken for granted. It's just something they say, of course, this is how things work. Of course, the taxes will be crazy. Of course, we'll waste money on flying a stupid American over here and giving him lots of beer or something like this, you know, to show him a good time in Belgium. So it's a very different attitude. Europe is very dangerously tipped toward favourability toward socialism, but it's still repelling, and that was really again the crux of the conference, it's still repelling the very almost antinomian, insane, woke kind of, whether it's race, race politics is actually the most relevant. The sex and gender politics, people are a little bit naturally repellent to that still, but I don't think that that can last if they open the doors. So my goal was to warn Europe, like, yeah, you guys are already pretty well screwed up with socialism and maybe, you know, talking to the Flemish, maybe you can turn some of this around or do something with it in the future, but you do not know your danger if you think that you can kind of just not be proactive in keeping the woke ideology out. Yeah. You end, I don't know if it was actually the end or in the middle, telling them that according to Marx, socialism was not economic but religious in essence. Do you want to just kind of unpack that and is that why we are having this difficulty because it is religious in nature? Well Marx made it, he tried to make it look very much like it was economic. But if you read his earlier works, which sort of set the foundation and you catch the flavour of it throughout his as later works, Marx was very invested in this idea of understanding the world and man at a fundamental level. What is man? Who is man? And to answer these deep fundamental questions, and what does it require of man to do this? And so I actually think that he's more of a theologian in a kind of an anti-theology way. He's casting down God and replacing God with not man, but man enlightened to the secret truth of reality, which is that man is a social animal, a perfectly social being that lives not for himself but for the species when he's properly awakened to who he is. My contention is that if you take that as a fundamental substrate so that then it separates the world into the people who have access to power and the people who do not have access to power, then that they're intrinsically in conflict so that the underclass has to to awaken to its nature's true historical agents of change and seize the means of production, that the means of production are, in a sense, fungible. You can change them out. But the idea is that what are you producing? And everybody thinks it's, oh, it's economics. You're producing in the factory with goods and services. You're producing in the field with food and agricultural goods, and that's the hammer and the sickle, obviously. But no, you're producing man. You're producing man as who he's meant to be, which that's a fundamentally theological project, not a fundamentally economic project. And Marx believed that economic conditions to determine who man is. But if you were to say, well, it doesn't work, obviously in Britain and obviously in the United States and in Canada, economic conditions were not successful at agitating people into the historical class consciousness as change agents of history. But if you say that race or sex or gender or sexuality or whatever, those are actually the determinants. When you have material comfort. When you have, as some of the Marxists in the 20th century put it, an advanced capitalism that delivers the goods and allows people to build a good life, you are not going to get them on economic conditions. Economic conditions are not determinant of who they are. They are, but on a deeper level that they don't perceive. This is the thesis of Marcuse's one-dimensional man. You've been made one-dimensional. You can't even perceive the fact that economic conditions are relevant to your life. So instead, you have to come where it matters, which is in personal identity. If you're comfortable, where do you turn? You turn to yourself and you think about your identity and who you are in the world. And so identity politics became the weapon that allowed to subdue the West. So if you take out economic conditions as the producer of man, where the means of production have to be seized and you put in cultural issues around race or what it means to be a certain sexuality or what it means to be man or woman in terms of sex itself and gender, then you can just kind of get these other dimensions, whether it's critical race theory or queer theory or feminism as a kind of a Marxist flavour of feminism or within what they call critical pedagogy in education. It's who gets to be a knower and who doesn't. So being considered knowledgeable becomes a form of social property that has to be challenged by the people who are excluded from it by the existing knowing system. Listen to the way the woke talk. It's all about other ways of knowing and knowing systems and all of this. That's where this comes from. But it's the same fundamental architecture. It's, you have this theology of man, or maybe I think the technical word is an Anthroposophist, I can't even say it, anthrosophist, something. Anthro for man, sophi for, you know, sophistry. Sophistry of mankind. Somebody else can say it for me. I can write it. Type it out on the screen for you, but it's technically that, but you have this theology that has at its heart the idea that man is producing himself by some mechanism, and that mechanism can be seized by the underclass of its dynamic and taken over to transform what man and society is. And every one of their theories just, once you understand it that way, every one of their theories just falls out. So you can start making very keen guesses on what's going to happen as this progresses and develops. Here's one, I think I mentioned this in the EU, and I think it's very pertinent for the both European but also the UK context. So if you'll forgive me, just for simplicity, I'm going to consider the UK part of Europe. I know, we can't do that, but I don't want to have to say UK and Europe over and over again. So the broadly European, maybe I'll use broadly European context, that side of the Atlantic context, what you actually have, you guys live in, there is actually a text you can read. If you want to figure out what's happening in Europe, you read Douglas Murray's, The Strange Death of Europe. There is a single text, it's not that long, that you can read to fully understand whose Europe you live in, and it's John Paul Sartre's Europe. He wrote the foreword to Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, so you're not going to go find one of Sartre's books. You're going to go get Wretched of the Earth, which is by Franz Fanon, who was a post-colonialist in the 50s and 60s in France. You're going to go get his book. And then he is from, I always get it wrong, Martinique. He's from Martinique. And so he was in this kind of colonized condition, but also a French psycho analyst. And so that forward though has a very important part. The book is all about, the colonial condition. So who's a native and who's a settler. And now you have that same dynamic, that same mentality, the same exact structure of how it creates who you are as a person. And Fanon argues that violence is the only way to overcome the colonized condition. And Sartre writes in the foreword to this that Europe, he has a letter to Europe, and he's like, Europe, you better listen. The payment for colonization is coming. And this is in the 60s. What you need to do, early 60s, you need to do is you need to decide, are they gonna get it by violence or are you going to propitiate yourself and give it away and hope that the violence doesn't come? And he urges Europe to start giving away their society to their former colonies. When they come and make a claim on your society, give it to them. Maybe they won't be violent. Maybe they'll spare you. So in the kind of very Trumpian, I see a Trump hat behind you, so very Trumpian kind of slang language of the 2020s, go ahead Europe and cuck yourself before the people who you previously colonized, give your societies away to them or else there'll be blood, is the message. And that is literally the message that Europe adopted. So while you haven't in Europe broadly construed, although the UK has taken up with quite a bit of woke. Scotland is, in Ireland or Scotland especially, is particularly bad. You guys have taken up quite a lot of this, but the element of the broad woke pantheon of powered gods or whatever that really strikes hardest is this post-colonial status, which has allowed you or made it so that not only have you guys opened your borders utterly, but that the entire social welfare state that you guys have built up around your socialist sensibilities pours into this yawning black hole of need. And the reason is discoverable in a French existentialist Marxists wailing about a post-colonialist saying that there must be blood to pay for colonization, which is a very obviously you're not allowed to even say these things, but a very one-sided understanding of, the impacts of colonialism. Yes, bad, but also you're not even allowed to mention that yes, good, too. It was a mixed bag brought through brutality and much injustice for certain, but at the same time time. Ethiopia famously is the least or the only completely uncolonized, if I remember right, country in that area of Africa. And they're also the ones that have been struggling the most and the most backwards in many regards for so long. They were the Somalia and Ethiopia where when I grew up as a kid, it was, you know, the starving kids in Ethiopia, eat your peas because the starving kids in Ethiopia don't have any, you know, they were the, they the poster child of backwards and broken. Maybe that was a meme that's not true, I don't know, anyway, Europe has that on its plate, and I think that's comprehensible. I actually think the strange death of Europe is utterly comprehensible out of the foreword that, Sartre wrote. If you read any of Sartre, who the hell wants to live in his world? What a nightmare. Well, you do, and what a nightmare. Tell us, because you mentioned colonialism, that's one of the battle lines, the critical race theory is one of the battle lines, you talked about that and how that fits under socialism. I know it was last year you published Race Marxism, the truth about critical race theory and people can get that. The links will be in the description for them to get hold of that and to go deeper into it. But how does critical race theory fit under the umbrella of socialism or Marxism? Well, it's a redistribution of cultural capital that ties into actually redistributing material capital. So the idea is that there's this form of cultural property that white people erected for themselves during the colonial eras, particularly to justify colonialism and to justify slavery in the 17th century, primarily 16th and 17th centuries, going some into the 18th century. And falling apart in the 19th century. So this idea of whiteness as a cult form of cultural property that generates white supremacy and racial superiority and even racial identification was created by white people to enshrine their own power and to impose, racial identity and inferiority, social and cultural and even economic inferiority on others. So-called people of colour, but particularly blacks and critical race theory builds out completely from this. And the goal then is to seize the means of cultural production around the ideas of what it means to be a member of a certain race. And it's actually a very interesting theory because it's still, unlike some of these other woke theories which seem just off in the air, it's got one foot very firmly still rooted in material reality. It's in a sense a lot more, not explicitly Marxist, but much more critical and materialist. And if you read their early writings, in fact, if you read virtually all of their writings through the 1990s, and I expect, so 70s through the 90s, and I expect we're gonna see another rash of this writing coming now, given what's happening in the United States Supreme Court. It's a very American theory, by the way. It doesn't really fit in other contexts, and Europeans have noticed, as have Brits. Like, we didn't do this, what are you talking about? But the fact is what it's really centered around is seizing the means of affirmative action, is what it's ultimately about. And I don't say that to be cheeky. If you read their books, affirmative action is brought up as a core and key issue hundreds of times. It's not mentioned kind of tangentially here or there, it is a central issue that comes up again and again. And their goal is that they're seeing affirmative action gaining public disfavour through the, say, the 80s. They see, you know, the Supreme Court starting to say, well, maybe it needs a time limit. And they explicitly say, no, it doesn't need a time limit. Not only do we need to maintain it, we need to expand it. It needs to be bigger and more and more and more. So it's like it's very materialistic, seize the means of opportunity redistribution, I guess, in material resources. This is where the reparations conversations come in. And so it takes the entire architecture of literally of Marxism, infuses it with the later critical theory, and then recentres it in race. And in fact, you can find authors like Gloria Ladson Billings is a famous critical race theorist. In the 90s, she writes a paper called Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education. And what she says is in that paper, and I can't quote it from memory anymore, I used to do it a lot, but she says that, the point of critical race theory is to make race the central variable for understanding all inequality. So is where a classical Marxist would say that access to capital is the central concern that determines all inequality, and that's the production of man for critical race theorists, is that race actually supersedes that. And there's a wonderful book explaining all this that I thought was extremely clarifying and elucidating. It's one of the better books that I've read. It's by a former philosopher of race. I've been told I'm not allowed to call him a critical race theorist, technically. His name's Charles Mills, very famous guy. He wrote a book called The Racial Contract, which takes Rousseau's social contract and turns it into a racial phenomenon. But he also wrote a book called From Class to Race, where he explains how he moved from being a classical Marxist to a critical race philosopher. And he argues that he became convinced that at least in the American context, when we understand what Marx was really saying, what he really meant by ideology, what he really meant by social structures, superstructure, infrastructure, the base, and how they interact to create a structure of society, that race is by far the more relevant variable in American society, in American history. So he moves from, it's a book about his own philosophical journey, From Class to Race. And it's the title of the book, From Class to Race, by Charles Mills. It's a staggeringly interesting book. The first chapter was so eye-opening to understand Marx. It's one of the top three most important things I've read to understand Marx. And he's got a very heterodox view, according to Marxist standards. So people criticize my view of Marx, as I've largely derived it from Charles Mills, who's a Marxist, just a fairly heterodox one. He's late Charles Mills to be clear. I don't know if I mentioned he died a few years ago. But that's, in a nutshell, what critical race theory is. Rather than capital being the special form of private property that basically appropriates every deterministic thing in society, including who you are as a person, race becomes, whiteness in fact, becomes the central piece of private property. This is based off of a paper explicitly called Whiteness as Property, written by Cheryl Harris, a famous critical race theorist, in 1993. I think, they're always in really big ones, I think that one's Harvard Law Review. It might be Cornell Law Review. I have to always kind of look up and check where it was published, but it's one of these very big universities law review. And it's a very, it's like 93 pages. It's a very long article arguing that whiteness functions in parallel to the way that Marx lays out capital as a form of bourgeois private property. She even uses the phrase bourgeois property a few times in the paper, that the white people have set themselves up as a racial bourgeoisie and everything just kind of follows from there. And so critical race theory becomes this, that's why I titled the book Race Marxism, as a matter of fact, this Marxist theory of race. It latches onto that post-colonial, just for you broadly UK, European context folks, it latches onto that because there are often racial components to colonialism. I mean, if you've colonized Africa, most of the people you've colonized happen to be black. If you've colonized Asia, most of the people you've colonized happen to be Asian. So you can understand why they would attach these arguments about whiteness and race back through, and that's kind of the back door there in the UK-European context, is that they're using the colonial context and then saying, well, the real reason for all this was racial, where it's not, it's straight up, it's directly, openly, unabashedly, historically, imperial. It's the British empire was proudly an empire. The Spanish empire was proudly an empire. You know, their goal up until World War II, I think every European country threw on its hat to try to conquer the world of its empire. And then finally we realized with nuclear weapons and machine guns and jet airplanes and things like that, carpet bombing, maybe that's not good anymore. Maybe military colonization is not a functional approach for a humanity that wants to survive, into the 21st century. Well, can I, then another battlefront, and you raised this so that you didn't really go into it in the speech, is queer theory. And I think that's where we have more of a battleground in Europe. Critical race theory seems to be less an issue, certainly in our education system, where it is queer theory, and of course, we're celebrating the holy month of pride this month. But tell us, how does that- How does that- The power be upon us. And how does that fit under socialism queer theory? Yeah, well, it's the same model. So if we understand this concept that there's economic conditions blah blah blah and you get all of Marxism that falls out from the Marxist kind of axioms, and then you say well if we consider economic production to be fungible for racial production as a cultural property, then you get critical race theory Well, if we consider both of those again to be fungible and we pull out that and we say well there's a certain class in society that have designated themselves by virtue of their larger numbers by virtue of having been successful and put themselves in positions of power, but they've declared themselves normal. And other people outside of that are not normal, or they're abnormal, or they're aberrant, or they're perverts, or they're queer, queer against normal, and the kind of even old meaning of the word, then queer theory falls out in your lap. It's just that simple. But this is a very scary phenomenon, whereas critical race theory at its very bottom has, and Marxism both at their very bottom, have a blatant visible grift involved. We're going to seize the means of production. We're going to establish a permanent and stronger and increasing, accelerating affirmative action regime. These are very blatant grifts. We're going to take resources and power for ourselves as an identifiable group of people or whatever. With the queer theory, it's a very different thing. They're looking at the cultural production, it is largely sex, gender, and sexuality, but it can apply to anything. Fat studies emerged mostly in the UK, as it turns out. So did the study of ability, what's called the social model of disability, is from a a man named Michael Oliver, who was a Brit. I don't remember where, if he was London or where, but they actually use the same underlying architecture and engine as queer theory. So now instead of it being about sex or gender or sexuality, it's about your body weight, your health status, your ability status as a very awkward politically correct term we use to not say handicapped or whatever. Well, in America, is fatness now a designated characteristic in New York? I don't know how that's going to work, but yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I've been I noticed in December that I had some fatness going on. So I, believe, get this I started eating less and moving more and the fatness started to go away. It's incredible Revolutionary Yeah, I know you guys use fake measurements like kilos or stones or whatever that nobody knows what they are, I think I lost like I'll do it in stones. I think I lost 1.6 stone If I'm making up numbers correctly, whatever that works out to is 28 pounds. Maybe you could get repatriations for the time you were over with at all. I don't know could be I hope so but the idea with queer theory is anything that kind of the broad consensus of society considers normal is, illegitimately determined so that certain people get to have power. So what they're trying to do is seize the means of production of of normalcy, what people consider within the boundaries of normal or normative or even healthy or good behaviour, presentation, being, society. And that's very dangerous because unlike the other ones, see, critical race theory has to at the end of the day maintain its grift, right? Marxism at the end of the day has to maintain its grift. Queer theory, the second is let's say that they get LGBT or just LGB, they get gay acceptance, gay marriage, gay equality, gay everything, full civil rights movement that succeeds. I actually think that that's separate, by the way, the civil rights movement was more of a broadly liberal phenomenon, and I think it was separate from this very radical phenomenon. And there's a much historical and theoretical reason to accept that I know what I'm talking about with that claim, but you get broad LGBT acceptance in society, full equality in society, etc., and that becomes a new norm. Immediately you have to attack the new norm, and they actually have names for this. They have words. Homo-normativity. You've heard of heteronormativity that has to be combated. Homo-normativity has to be combated, and homo-normativity means the the broad acceptance of homosexual people in society, that's a problem because it actually prevents them from being radicalizable. Anything that would cause somebody to become a stable functioning member of society within the boundaries of normal has to be attacked. So every inch of ground queer theory takes, it has to turn around and wage war on its previous success to take it even further. They have to constantly, they call it queering. They have to constantly say, well, if you actually look at the people who designated that they're normal, a lot of them are perverts and private. So are they really normal? Or are they just repressed and have to keep their perversion in the closet? And that's just like other people being in the closet and they blur out all these contexts. But it's a war against normalcy. It's a war against norms. It's a war against decency and expectations of decency. It's also a war against any boundaries. The boundaries, you could say that, maybe it's artificial, the boundaries between heterosexual versus homosexual. But at some point, we're not talking about artificial boundaries, the paedophilia, bestiality, these kinds of very perverse things. The boundaries between what in the slang terms get called vanilla and kink. There's some kind of boundary. They say that these things are all actually, there is no boundary. There's no meaningful boundary and their goal is to dissolve those. So what ultimately happens is, queer theory is like a universal solvent. It's an acid that will dissolve anything. And anything that you try to put as a container around it, it necessarily has to dissolve that too. They even have, I thought there was just one, I looked it up, There are many papers that have some variation of queering queer theory as their title in their queer literature, Because queer theory itself had become too normative. So they have to queer that they have to make it even weirder less normative, and so it's uh it's socialist though in the sense that it's trying to seize the means of production and redistribute shares of social acceptance and opportunity, according to whether or not you're considered normal. Phrases like bring your whole self to work are very queer. Like, no, do not bring it. Leave most of yourself at home, as a matter of fact, is actually what we call professionalism. And that they would say that that's restrictive of people who say want to wear fetish gear to the office, kind of like we have in our White House happening right now. Kind of very visibly what we have. There's military officials wearing literally pup fetish, we had this bizarre character in charge of our nuclear waste and other things who was stealing women's clothing from airports and he's been arrested now three times for this. And it turns out he's a member of this troop that's now controversially the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Los Angeles that is doing the very antinomian religious provocation at Dodger Stadium that's all in the news. He's not a current member, he was a former member Sam Brinton is this character's name, you know, bald, shiny head, looks like an alien, has a moustache dressed in a fabulous gown he stole from some woman of colour immigrant who built it, that you know herself. Very bizarre, but queer theory is well, who's this? There's an old sketch on Saturday Night Live. I encourage people to look this up It's it's the character's name is sex ed. So it's sex ed Vincent. His name is Ed Vincent. He's a sex educator Everybody should look this up This is the perfect expression of queer theory and actually post-modernism where he's describing very bizarre fetishes as a joke, right? It's very funny and he's obviously very nerdy weird guy, but then it's his tagline is, is that weird? well who's to say, and he's teaching like a class, is that weird? and everybody says like who's to say, that's the ultimate idea of queer theories is that outside of the boundaries of normal? Well who gets to say that obviously people who set themselves up that way so we're gonna redistribute who has the power to determine what is and is not normal including drag queens in front of children and you know, provocative displays pride parades as a parade for for civil rights or even to celebrate the fact that for many years homosexuals were very oppressed in society, often viciously oppressed in society a pride parade that would just march and you know wave flags or whatever for a day, as it used to be would be one thing. This isn't what happens at all this thing is this crazy celebration that sprawls now across not just a month with a season. The entire public square turns into a rainbow for for upwards of 60 days and beyond. It's you know, there are fetishists running around enticing children and doing crazy things. It's really turned into something like a much grosser version of carnival, and it's, their fundamental view is well, is that out of bounds? Well, it's illegitimate if anybody but us decide, every individual should get to decide for themselves what's publicly out of bounds. So this is, literally like it to some very Jordan Peterson issues. It's the chaos monster right or the chaos dragon It's Tiamat being released on society that will ultimately tear it apart. Just to finish off, your latest book published in December was an education, The Marxification of Education, Paolo Ferrer's critical Marxism and the Theft of Education. We have no time to go into the topic at all, it is there, links are all there for the viewers and listeners, but could I just ask you as we finish, why you wanted to write a book specifically on education. Well I got sucked into it. I was gonna, I knew it was important and nobody was covering what's called Critical Pedagogy, the Critical Theory of Education. So I read a couple of books on it, got a little informed. I thought I would do a flyby, and just, you know, a reconnaissance flyby, give some people some pictures. And it turns out it was like trying to do a flyby of Jupiter, I just got sucked into the gravity and stuck. It's just a huge universe, and it's so complicated. But I wrote the book particularly, I call it, you know, The Theft of Education, because I kept encountering parents who were saying, they're telling me they're not doing this in our school, but I know they're doing it in our school, I experience it with my children. What's going on? And so I had read enough to understand the magic trick, how they've stolen education, what the mechanism is. And it actually is the same trick I've described. We don't have to go into the nitty gritties, but they've set up who gets to be constituted as a knower. Who does society recognize as a knowledgeable person versus somebody who's recognized as ignorant or outside of that. And they've created a Marxist seize the means of production program, where Paolo Ferrari did out of that. And then he created a mechanism in education where you use the academic material as an excuse to have political conversations. So that's how they do it. They don't technically teach critical race theory. They show a math problem and use it as an excuse to have a discussion about racial injustice and do this over and over and over again. Informed by critical race theory would be more accurate than teaching critical race theory. And so I wanted to pull back the veil on how that happens and what's really going on and that this is actually a cult brainwashing program. And the book has been very helpful to parents across at least the United States in that regard. It's being translated into Portuguese now, so we'll see what happens with that. Well, James, I appreciate you coming on. The issue of woke is, I think, the issue in whether society and cultures will survive or collapse, how you respond to them. So I appreciate you coming on and sharing your insights on those. Yeah, well, I'm very glad to talk to you, very glad to get to spread the word. I think the European context has an interesting opportunity. UK is a little bit harder. You've already taken in a lot. But Europe has actually a chance, the ID group being that we mentioned before, being a great bulwark to stand up to this particular, very toxic aspect that will, as you can see, and whether it's the UK or Australia or Canada or the United States, that will rip a society apart if you let it in. Yeah, we're seeing that happen. And you mentioned in Brussels, their issue is immigration. 30% Islamic. That clash between separate ideas of what culture should be and what freedom should be is why I would never want to live in Brussels. So, sorry. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you the truth just quickly that this whole, if we look at Marx as a theologian philosopher-ish kind of character, A lot of his model, he says he inverted it, but he derived it from Georg Hegel preceding him. And Hegel's belief, and Marx definitely adopted this part, was that history is this inexorable force, almost like a deity itself that has a trajectory and a purpose and a defined endpoint. And the key part is that it moves through conflict. And if you understand nothing else about everything we've just talked about, that the people that think this way, that have adopted this worldview, understand that they move history to a desired endpoint through generating conflict. You don't have to get into the granular details of how until later. You can understand many of these decisions. Why are you pulling in 30% of your population now is going to be a different religion with a different culture, and then you take tremendous care of them and inflame these tensions across the divide and cause these conflicts, because conflict moves history. In other words, truly their view, religiously speaking for Hegel explicitly, is that the conflict working itself out through history actually finishes or actualizes God. So God doesn't become God until the conflicts have all played out, so they have to generate the conflicts to create the finalized deity, at which point everything will be perfect at the so-called end of history with the people that live in it called the last man. Yeah. Well, we'll finish, James. The viewers and listeners @ConceptualJames on GETTR, Gab, Truth, Minds, wherever your preferred social media platform is, you'll find James on it, and of course newdiscourses.com. So thank you so much once again for your time, James. Yeah, thank you.
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Contrary to the worldview of progressives, taxation and the coercion it brings are not part of a "social contract." Instead, they are implemented by force. Original Article: "You Don't Like It? Leave! The Telling Sophistry of Tax Apologists"
Contrary to the worldview of progressives, taxation and the coercion it brings are not part of a "social contract." Instead, they are implemented by force. Original Article: "You Don't Like It? Leave! The Telling Sophistry of Tax Apologists"
In this conversation with Clifford Humphrey, we discuss leadership. Clifford proposes that much of what passes for leadership today is better considered management. Everything from generalship, wealth management, to rhetoric, is considered leadership today. What might it look like to have a deeper understanding of leadership? How can we develop leaders with moral vision rather than just managers and rhetoricians?Support the show!! - https://www.patreon.com/chasedavishttps://twitter.com/cphumphreyFrom Temperance to Character - https://amzn.to/3ogEHz2Support the showSign up for the Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/chasedavisFollow Full Proof Theology on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fullprooftheology/Follow Full Proof Theology on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fullprooftheology/
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Follow Him: A Come, Follow Me Podcast featuring Hank Smith & John Bytheway
Dr. Anderson continues to examine how to have the spirit of discernment as we follow the teachings of Jesus Christ.00:00 Part II– Dr. Lili De Hoyos Anderson00:07 Sermon on the Mount can change our lives00:49 Judging others05:57 Moroni 7 and how to judge09:03 Judgments as parents11:14 Sophistry and discernment15:29 Elder Holland's address16:48 Courage to change ourselves19:32 Dr. Anderson shares a story 23:39 Fruits and roots27:15 Elder Groberg story of being stuck in a storm32:40 Marvin J. Ashton's talk and how we treat others34:45 How do we act at home?37:07 Beware of false prophets42:06 Agency isn't free of consequences44:45 Forgiveness and the first two commandments47:14 Nephi had to leave 49:50 Elder Oaks and “Love and Law”51:09 Motes and beams54:30 Elder Christofferson “When Thou Art Converted”57:30 Jesus taught with authority1:01:03 End of Part II–Dr. Lili De Hoyos AndersonShow Notes (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese): https://followhim.coFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/followhimpodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/followhimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FollowHimOfficialChannelThanks to the followHIM team:Shannon Sorensen: Executive Producer, SponsorDavid & Verla Sorensen: SponsorsDr. Hank Smith: Co-hostJohn Bytheway: Co-hostDavid Perry: ProducerKyle Nelson: Marketing, SponsorLisa Spice: Client Relations, Editor, Show NotesJamie Neilson: Social Media, Graphic DesignWill Stoughton: Video EditorKrystal Roberts: Translation Team, English & French Transcripts, WebsiteAriel Cuadra: Spanish Transcripts"Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise" by Marshall McDonaldhttps://www.marshallmcdonaldmusic.com/products/let-zion-in-her-beauty-rise-piano
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✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the Episode: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-erik-voorhees-why-are-we-here ------ Erik Voorhees is a crypto veteran of veterans. He's one of the greatest advocates of open and permissionless systems that we have in this space. In this episode we talk about his legendary debate with SBF—this is the first time we've caught up with him since. What are his reflections now? We also dive into how this bull/bear cycle is similar and different from previous ones, how do we preserve crypto's core principles, and most importantly—why are we here? Why crypto? Why now? Why stay? Erik doesn't waste a word in this episode. Happy New Year everyone. Let's keep building. ------
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How do you find the truth in a world designed to keep it from you? In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan talks through statesmanship, philosophy, and the relationship between the two in a culture that rewards power, but not truth. From the cave to Twitter, most of what passes for philosophy is just regime enforcement—Spencer unpacks Plato's advice for turning the mind toward the true, the beautiful, and the good. -- How can you learn Latin, Ancient Greek, or Biblical Hebrew in order to read the classics of the ancient western world, in their original language? Get 10% off of your Ancient Language Institute course with promo code HERETICS: https://ancientlanguage.com/heretics. -- Truebill is the new app that helps you identify and stop paying for subscriptions you don't need, want, or simply forgot about. Save thousands of dollars a year: https://truebill.com/heretics. -- Indeed is the hiring partner where you can attract, interview, and hire all in one place. Get a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post at https://Indeed.com/HERETICS. -- Don't let the stress of daily life weigh on your body. Make it through the day tension-free with Theragun. Try it for 30 days starting at $199: https://therabody.com/heretics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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