Why Men Choose Orthodoxy? How to Control Your Thoughts | Mironchuck LIVE Ep.1

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me somehow. So Supported which way you can of course let the people know like And subscribe and support and share and do all those things, okay? Ladies and gentlemen. What we're seeing right now across the West, all these different reports coming in. And I'm certainly seeing it even down here in Australia, my little Parish, which is the only English speaking church or I

should say. That's the only church that is giving English services or any the first Orthodox Church giving English services on all of Western Australia. All the other horses Orthodox Churches out here, more ethnics. So they're doing in Greek or Russian or Serbian or whatever language of the of the, of the parish So pretty exciting times. And we're even seeing a big influx of people. I'm part of a cat in class of 2025.

There's eight or Between 8 and 11 of us, depending on how we want to count it. Because there's some people from out of up, north who come in and then And then was already some new people showed up. We were kind of catechism class of 2026. So it's very exciting times for Orthodoxy and of course a big question, a lot of people are asking is why why why now the church has been around for thousands of years, you know, even row core who's been giving

services in English? All throughout the West, primarily the big ones are America. A lot of these celebrity priests and was, we'll cover a few of those today, are all American, but you know, it's growing throughout the world throughout the West. And some, a lot of people were asking. Well, why, you know why? Why now, what's, what's really the the big Drive Okay, Lydia klw says just finished doing my inhaler hits. I don't know that's code for something in kli, but I'm glad you've here.

You're inhaled properly inhaled, I'd hate to, have you not inhaled. So, the question, of course, is why? Why now, on a personal note? It was pretty easy for me. Well, easy. When I had a spiritual awakening in 2020. I started looking around well. Which church, which tradition should I go to? I wasn't really thrilled by the Protestants and what was going on in the Protestant world.

The Catholic would have been easier for me because this all happened Montreal before I moved here to Australia and and I had been baptized Roman Catholic as my French Canadian father birth father, but my grandfather on my mother's side, who is my surrogate father and who essentially was my father figure growing up, he was Russian Orthodox. So in that spirit I was like well I should be looking into Orthodoxy and that was kind of it.

And luckily for me Orthodoxy is the true church and, and all that fun, and games. So it was it was an inch, easy entry point for me. And then, of course, has been five years of Discovery and getting my head around certain things. For many others. It's not going to be that simple. You may not come from a tradition.

You might come from a Protestant tradition or a non tradition, maybe you're maybe you're like me and atheist for a long time so it doesn't really matter what tradition you're coming from, you have to unpack all that stuff. and yet, men are flocking towards Orthodoxy now, partly, is because the effectiveness I think of social media, A lot of podcasts, a lot of great shows, Buck Johnson, for example, you know, Tommy Tommy Salmons.

This goes on many of my personal friends, people, I call friends are doing Banger work and bringing people to the church and bring awareness of the church to people, especially people who may not even have heard of Orthodox before. Jay Dyer, Andrew Wilson. Jim Bob. Hello listener. List goes on the so there's there's certainly an influx of talent out there drawing people in But I think it's even more. In some ways I think is more, obviously, even that we look around.

We see the other Traditions out there and you see you, let's say, Lutheran's or any of the Protestants and even churches going towards the woke. I believe, there are convicted both by the world and all by the, the full pews syndrome.

We'll call that this desire to have full pews if you know, we're not doing God's work, unless we were the churches, full every Sunday and they're kind of missing the point because it's not really about fullness, the church itself, the the tradition, the religion Christ comes to fulfill things, and fulfill us in many ways. So this idea that the church itself has to be full in order to to proclaim the greatness and the truth and the body of the of the church.

Not so much, you know. There are gonna be times when the church is going to be full and there's going to be a lot of people coming out. There's gonna be times when it's not. There's a great story from one of the death of the world magazines. Talking about an old priest who got up one morning and really didn't want to do liturgy was cold and it was in the middle of Russia. And you know that no one was going to be coming because his massive snowstorm outside.

But you know, it's liturgies. Liturgy tradition is tradition. So he gets up and he goes and he goes to delivery and then he's he's made by all these people flocking in and the church is full and and he's met with his almost Heavenly Choir inside the church. And as he finishes, the Liturgy looks around and the church is empty again. And he realized that the Heavenly hosted in there. They needed the people's the physical body is the people

aren't intending the church. That's not really what you're doing it for. Obviously, you want to do it for people. People come to the hospital to get to, to receive their spiritual medicine to get well, and being part of liturgy, is part of that. But even if there's no one in the church, even if this, if the Liturgy goes on for just the priesthood performing, the ritual alone. There's worthiness there.

Because it's not about us. It's for us but it's not about us. We participate but it's not about us. If you go to liturgy, you find, you know, famously, they the priest will mostly have his back to you. Or be you know occasionally they'll the priest will circle around the the lady, you know. But whether we're there or not, whether there's two people there or not, the ritual Remains the Same There's a continuity. I think that's really what is drawing.

Young men to Orthodoxy above and beyond all else. Maybe, you know, everyone has their own thing. but essentially that sense of of unbroken tradition, the search for truth, the desire for truth, We want, what's true? What's something that is permanent? That has stood the test of time, that isn't produced. We'll get to that in the second half of the show. But, however, everything we watch is produced and everything is affecting your thoughts, grabbing your attention,

attention equals worship. And so many of the devices and modernity. Even these shows I have to admit, I'm trying to attach myself to your attention. Give me your attention. Me me, me me, me me. Spend the next three hours with me. So then you always have to ask the question. Well, what am I producing? Am I producing something of worth value. Not just entertainment wise. but it's something and not just information or education, but something that that's the most Evergreen characteristic

specially these lives dreams. And something that I figured out about last year, it's very much similar to what I was doing was bartending realizing that, you know, I'm not really selling drinks the drinks sell themselves. People come to the bar. They're going to have a drink. They're what you're really kind of selling is and is it is an

experience. That's what you're in control of. That's what you can provide and if you can provide an experience, that is unlike other people, or that gives people some sort of quality or some sort of, meaning something bigger to their life then, That is no worries. It's good. And people will forget everything else. You talked about? Maybe they'll hold on to the little nuggets Fellowship. Exactly. The fellowship is often what keeps people coming back. Because it's that's the human part.

We can talk about all these great. Poetic heroic means salvation Redemption. These things are important and I'm not trying to downplay them, but for the majority of people, especially when you're first coming to the church, you don't you're trying to attach yourself to, you know, to infinity and beyond to the concept of God. It's a pretty big. Pretty big thing. Especially your young girl. I think if you get older, you're getting closer to the end. So suddenly, you know, that

death thing. It's creeping up behind you. And brothers it is later than you think. Hasten. Their for to do the work of God. That's really what that quote comes from. And I think it was really what it means. Some people attach it to the eskaton, to the end times to the end of civilization or something. End of the good times. That's partly true. What it also means is that our end on this Earth.

That's the only thing you can escape from. you can't control really, you can have some sort of controls be better, so you know, do all the healthy things and Try to stay out of danger. Sure. But we're all going to die at one point or another. That's the guarantee. And that does a number, I think a lot of specially a lot of modernists who have more access to what they believe is controls over their life. They think they're in control.

But we're not. We're only in temporary influence over certain events and people and things and how things go? Oh my goodness, bloody gorilla biscuit. Give out the memberships. Appreciate you. Interesting. How all my assets are showing up. Weird. We're going to fix that. Figure that out. There we go. There we go. Thank you, baby. Slutty biscuit. You are. The. best of was, That's right, you keep you keep showering, me with gifts, I will shower you with soundboards, soundboard

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Now, if I was prime minister, oh, if I was prime minister of those, many different things would be happening, but Shall not happen, shall not be the case unfortunately. So let's get to Carl Benjamin. Over Lotus Eaters daily. Ask the question. Why are young men joining the Orthodox Church? Why? Why? Is this thing happening? Well, we're gonna find out. Let me just turn this off.

Okay, so the he's quoting, the BBC article, with Father, Moses and Pearson Mighty, the mighty Buck Johnson shows up in this interview as well. They actually went over to interview Buck, they quote, I think in this, this is the article, they quote him having two large TVs and actuality bucks, has informed me that there is he has actually has three three large TVs. So You know BBC. Oh he's an accurate. What can I tell you?

Stream Labs klw five dollars. Appreciate you A whole bunch of these folks, you keep you keep bringing in. Keep making it happen, klw says, grew up in PA in like Bret Hart as well. Well, that's because you know, why klw? Because you have taste You have taste. That's why you're part of your part of the mirroring truck crew here. Folks, if you're here, if you're in my chat we've caught where I've been cultivating one of the best shots and best audiences

bar. None. And now we're pivoting, I've jettisoned quite a few people. People are big mad about certain things I've done on the channel recently. Big man and Jim Jim's for some reason he's not he's not being pro-trump enough for some so it's I, you know, it is what it is. We just tell you what we see, and how we see it and comes to

pass. We're off in the notes. and then people get more big mad because Because not only not only, are we not telling them what we what they want to hear but we're telling them is the truth. And that We jettison nicknames too. No, no we don't know. The mirror shows me and chose me and Chuckles. That's fine, that's okay. We're allowed to have those still my goodness. It's still mirin shock. It's still mirror and Chuck. Now the channel is not changed.

But will we'll see. Well, we'll make we'll make adjustments. I was actually going to wait, I would have been waiting. I've been you know. Putting together stuff. I was like, do I wait? Do I wait, another week? Wait another week. I was like, nah, you know what? The longer you wait to do the shows. It's harder to do the shows.

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So you can still have access to some very, very early. Jason trying to do podcasting and and what I was gonna say, Doo doo, doo. Early show podcasting stuff. I was doing then. I forget Now nicknames. Help me out. What was I saying? Oh, you can go check them out if you want. Dang it. Completely lost that thought. Wow. Well, you know. 48 on the internet folks. I might as well be Methuselah. So anyways, Where We Are Young, why young men are joined the

Russian churches. Promising, absurd levels of mailings. Of course, father Moses measures and who's a, who's a power lifter? I think he was. Instilled is a power lifter. Big manly masculine man. Out there with a giant cross. And this, let's listen to a little bit of Carl says, and then we'll, we'll do some supplementals some supplemental watching. Just why are young men in

America joining the Russian? Orthodox Church asks the BBC but it's fairly self-evident as to what the answer is, isn't it? I mean, if this is not a phenomenal, reserved purely for the Americans, either know? Just the Russian Orthodox Church, for example, in verse. And I know a couple of people who joined the Greek Orthodox Church, Which is. just something that is becoming apparent that the Protestant church is of course failing in its Duty. Now I'm an English atheist.

So I'm a member of the Church of England. I'm you know what? You know why I'm saying it? And it's, because just generally Evangelical protestantism has gone completely seeing a curls because you put Nation over God. You even trying to put Nation over yourself but you can't because you want to be connected to it because you're you're British and you think the you know, or your English I should say. So now the Church of England because it's has England in the title.

Well your England, their England and that right? He's got to be a one-to-one. This is where atheist and materialist fail, and I can speak from experience as a former atheist and antitheism. Oh my goodness. Mr. Biggins now following over on Kik, appreciate you. As a former atheist in and anti-theist. I had the same problem you know everything had to look like me. It had to please me I had to see myself in it. And if I couldn't see myself in it then it you know oh not my

thing. This the idea of a hierarchy of being to something bigger than you. Is really, you know, all you can understand is that there are people in positions greater than you. Which is more of a class, kind of warfare kind of mentality. But the idea of a concept or a state of being being greater than you, that's impossible. We're all fundamentally the same people, right? And that's kind of true.

But there's levels to this and the hierarchy of let's say a being is really measured against yourself. You can measure yourself against, you know, same pace, so or any other Saints, or one of the great things that about how Orthodoxy approaches the Saints is, you actually can do that to a certain degree because even the Saints, even those who reach sales, and many of the writings, Approach it, as they are the worst Christians, they are still Sinners, they haven't freed

themselves from these things. Now, they might be much further down that path than you are. I I'll speak personally way for the down that path than me. But that doesn't mean that that, that that comparison between you and them is is impossible. Now, of course, don't go walking around thinking, you're you're a saint. Go to liturgy. First have a prayer rule, you know, beat sake. But the understanding that, that Even high ranking positions for example. The the position has to infer

responsibility duties. A state of being.

So you're priest, for example, has much more responsibilities than you do. No matter what your position in the church is, if you're not the priest and you're not, you don't have that level responsibility, even the responsibility for priest, baptizing, bring people into the church. It's a heavy responsibility. If you're doing Orthodox, you really correctly. You're going to your priest quite often and asking for advice permissions blessings. What do I do? How do I do it?

Should I do this? Should I do that? so your priest in many ways is, you know, your spiritual father in many ways becomes like, your father but unlike your father but let's say your father's not a priest. Unlike your actual father, your your spiritual father also has a responsibility of your soul. It's a heck of responsibility. So what the atheist, materialists always fails with

this. I is that this idea that if all men are born equal and all that separates myself from let's say Carl or the Prime Minister of England or some other country is just positioning. And I would like to think. Because considering the current batch of leadership we have that, we have out there. That the thing that's separating me, the, the dividing line or the metric, we're using shouldn't be because the prime minister of England's, Prime Minister of England, you know, Keira starmer.

And I would like to believe. And even my most horrible, horrible, Christian sells. I'm the worst Christian ever. And I do believe that and all humility. I like to believe that I might, at least maybe 0.5 0.5. Of a better human being than Hearst. On an average metric. and, Give me that one. Brett screwed Bret, Marin shock. Almost didn't have a Sean Michael's button on here because you know, Shawn Michaels group right? Vince? McMahon's group Brett. Well here, nothing more of it.

Goldberg, this is Goldberg. Goldberg. From Germany. But you can find an example in this is actually just the first thing I found on Google because you know the pattern you can see from The Pride Flags exactly where this has gone and it's not the Catholics.

Haven't had a bit of a problem with this as well, but is the Evangelical Protestants that the most guilty of this going, just completely softened and nobody's got any time for it because what this means is the entire church, fundamentally doesn't become about religion, which I think if you're going to a church maybe it should be about the religion. The secondly, it makes the entire church female coded. Oh this is about women, gays

transgenders and minorities. Why would I be interested in going to a church that prioritizes all of the things that I'm not above me with? External political symbols. Is so close. It's it's infuriating sometimes. When you listen to Carl and a few of these, because I think Carl's a very smart, man. I think he's I and I actually

think he's a good, I think he's a good man. despite atheism and all the rest of, I honestly think that Carl is a decent human being who is trying to figure things out and is been given Who is living in this world and his time like the rest of us and do it as best. With his with a, with the front of the worldview that he has adopted or cobbled together.

And I also think that maybe the countdowns on until I mean I think we've covered this in previous shows but it's it's starting to sound like he's getting pretty close to at least going to go to church. His kids are going to church. His wife is bringing them. I think they're bringing. Probably bringing to Anglican churches and God bless that. Well you know we got to hold the anglicans figure it out being Catholics without a pope I don't know how that's working out for

them. I don't think so. Well, most of the Anglican churches down here are closing up shop because they just don't have the attendance anymore. It's, it's a thing that's happening. and, In terms, of traditionally, let's say that with the British tradition. I can understand why people would want to hold on to something like that because it is part of their something that you grew up as a child or you knew, you know, your parents or

your grandparents were involved. The Anglican Church, perhaps there is there's connection there. There's a lineage. And one of the great, one of the things that I think is been hollowed out over the last specifically, over the last 60 years, is that destruction? Not just of family in the family structure, but of lineage itself. Most of us oh I shouldn't say most of us. Quite a few of us myself

included. You only really know you know you know you go back three generations, maybe maybe four and then he starts getting murky, doesn't it? Don't know your great-great-grandparents, his name. You don't quite know it's specially if you're coming from a immigrant parents. Or family you know people who immigrated in the last let's say 100 years. it's pretty murky because records got lost and was maybe pre-phase, maybe you have some but you know, You know, who

was that? Where they come from? Would what would Village they come from? And lost a Time. You can go Dugas, do some digging and sure. Sure. But chances are, you may just never know if you're Eastern European. It's just gone. So what people have been? I think this is the other aspect of why people are going back specifically to the Orthodox Church in this unbroken line. The Apostolic Church.

Where you can trace your priest can trace his lineage, his teaching lineage, all the way back to one of the Apostles. Each and every one. There's power in that. Because when you would join to the church, you're joining a family. It's a marriage. You're being married into the church and you're joining that

family. and suddenly, now, your lineage is connected to that Lydia so away, maybe you don't know your family lineage all the way back for a few Generations but you have your church And you know the church is Lynnwood news all the way back 2000 years. Who first came over? Who first established, etc. Etc etc. So now, you have permanency. Something permanent other than death. We'll get to death either on this show, or in future shows. It's tied into that is later than you think.

But Christ conquers death. The conquer death for us. So even death for Christians. Must be just from the Orthodox perspective. Even, that's not permanent. We get to live on. One in one place or another. So, the only thing that becomes permanent. They don't think you can truly attach yourself to that gives you self true sense of of bedrock. Because, you know, your family will move on and things can

happen. So the only thing that really get can give you permanent is in this life is the church. Tradition. And a tradition that's not going to change with the time. The Orthodox Church is not well. What's their purpose? I I you know, I I highly doubt that in my lifetime we're going to see Orthodox Churches, flying these flags. Put it that way. Because we are in this world, we're not of it.

In fact, one of the missions is to bring death to the world world, meaning the Passions We bring death to the World by turning away from the passions by killing them within ourselves. Passions is just lust. Thank Glory Pride. Avarice greed. Gluttony. right now, in this month of August, depending which calendar you're falling, you've just finished, or you're, you're in the middle of the donation, fast dormition of the theotokos, The Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.

This is commemorating her, her death. She tell us and the Orthodox tradition, we believe that Mary fell asleep to be. She was reposed dormir right French Paul sleep. It was brought up to heaven. So we can. Pray. Ask her to pray with us. She has a much like the Saints but she's giving us kind of a special place. Got you? Got a special. vessel of our Lord, and What I'm saying. But why I say all these things is that when you contend with the idea that even death itself,

is not permanent. That breaks the modernist. Nihilistic atheists. Evolutionists yada paradigm. And it gives us hope. And that's one thing that modernity cannot produce cat. Being taking primary purpose, over the religion itself. Why would I want this? If I was a young man compare that to this, it's like, well, which one do you think as a man, I find more appealing.

It's just because I'm such a die-hard xenophobe that I'm not prepared to join the Russian Church, the Greek Church, It's because I'm afraid, I have to, like, spiritually support the Church of England. Even if I kind of hate everything about what's happening there, but I thought we just go through this just because this is just funny.

That doesn't make any sense to me. you know, it does it really makes zero sense to me if I have been inquiring and to the Russian Church are Ukrainian Church or Roku or whatever and found. And if it was in you if it was reversed And the Russian churches were doing all this stuff. I wouldn't have joined it. I will things have changed. My grandfather wouldn't supported that, you know. I would have gone to something else. Go to where the truth is.

This really matter of his God, England Patriots on it or Canadian or Russian or whatever. You go, where the truth is. It's just really, really funny. It's like look you could become powerless or enjoying the Orthodox Church. Oh, you could become a power, bottom and stay with the Protestant church and it's like, yeah, no. I think I would, I think I would choose the power lift up,

actually. And the thing is, I don't really know what the the substantive difference in Doctrine is organized in. San Jose says them be big bad Russians, though. They're mean, well some can be you know, generally speaking Slavs just were suspicious of joy. Those with Slavic hearts are very suspicious of Joy. It doesn't mean we don't have joy, we just like to poke it with a stick first.

You're happy, are you? What are you so happy why please every by the way anyone has any kind of Slavic grandparents or family or raise around? Eventually gets this advice more or less in these words. Is like, don't don't smile so much. Why you smiling so much? People who smiled this much are either stupid or thieves. Little so much. so, It's just the way. The changes between Orthodox and Protestant, right? I don't actually know how different they are.

Well they're pretty different. Let's see if we get an answer that question. He saying that he doesn't understand what the difference between theology is our Ah, well. Let's let's listen to Father Moses. Let us know what the difference between these between Protestant prayer and Orthodox prayer movie. Name of the father and of the son of the Holy Spirit. Is a funny saying that a man can watch three things, endlessly, a fire, the ocean and another man

working. And it's funny because this brings me back to my first time really ever being in the Divine Liturgy. I remember my wife and I were in college, we got exposed to Orthodox, Christianity. We went to the local Parish which was held in a dentist office, the priest, father, Jeffrey Corps, Was able to kind of put this together even though there were very few Orthodox

Christians at the time, there's almost 20 years ago. and they had this little chapel of stairs, and I remember that we went inside and there were just some icons and some Candlelight. And it was funny because it was a drop ceiling but none of the lights were on it was all natural light. And I remember looking down and I saw my wife and she was sitting on the floor because they had no pues, no benches.

I mean it was a very small space, Maybe maybe 20 feet wide, maybe 30 feet long at most and, She looks so at peace. So contemplative she just was soaking it in. And I remember attending liturgy and just not having to do anything. Just being present. Just being present and soaking in the prayer. The icons, the light from the candles. The incense. Just soaking it in and being present in the experience and not being a performer. Not having to do anything, say anything.

Just being there, just being in it. and I remember that we were attending Divine Liturgy for several months and then we had to go visit my aunt so we went and visited my aunt and we were not Orthodox you know we were so we were Protesting inquirer's. So he went to go and visit my aunt.

We went with my aunt to her mega church, which was held in a gymnasium and had a full, you know, band up on stage and all these different things and the worship service started and You know, within three minutes Boom, the horn section kicked in and they had all these warn players and they were awesome.

I mean they weren't they didn't lack for Ability or skill, it wasn't it wasn't bad horn, playing it just was a cacophony of noise and sound just pounding on my head and I remember standing there and I said, I can't pray I can't pray because I can't focus and I can't be present. Its performance. And you know that's fine.

If you go to a football game and the horns are blasting and the band is thumping, the drums and getting you hyped up and there's old there's an energy to it. That's awesome. I love that as a man. I love that type of intensity. I love lifting weights. I love blasting metal. I love that energy. That that ferocity? That is a true expression of myself as a man and something that I love, but that is not worship. Just cut in, maybe he's maybe a father.

Moses, says this litter on, I have watched this but it was a little last week. The The. The problem really well. Okay, the main problem with the Protestant service with the smoke machine and the big bands and the mega churches and all that stuff. Is that who are you giving your attention to? Everyone there, even if they're in their mind, they're saying we're lifting this up to the glory of God. We're doing this for God. Right?

The reason why we're congregated here and doing all these things is to exalt, God and abide in the Holy Spirit, and Whatever those products might say. Even if that's the intention. The the effect is pay attention to me. Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me. Look at me, aren't I great? Isn't my rendition of bridge over smoke. Troubled Water, fantastic. The pastor in these things are looking at me. Look at me. Look at me isn't my speech? Great. Don't deliver well.

Don't I Pace well on the stage and oh, silliness. The fact that you have a pastor priest of church, father, he's going to have presents. Of course, she's he's going to I won't mention the, she's that seems a be taking over the Protestant world, but He's going to have presence, no matter what, because he's a priest. Kind of a big, he's kind of a big deal in and of himself. He's leading the progression. He's Priest. But it's in a strange way.

It's not even about him. Or shouldn't be about him. Priests would deliver a homily. Help the instruct, the church as instruct the laity. Good. But is it really about him? How wonderful he can write a homily? How how well the speaker he is? It's the instruction. And it's all and the reason why you're being instructed is so that you can one, you can heal, you can heal your sins and heal your spiritual sicknesses. and two so you can better, orientate yourself to God.

You know. The reason why you're there. The big giant reason why you're there. Otherwise, you could just stay home and listen to him and whatever. Why go? well we want to be part of something, we want to feel that energy of being part of something and that's what Fellowship out towards is partly for But the journey actual ceremony your attention really should be on your prayer. And certain rituals, during during the Liturgy. And during during sermons, Or Vespers Services.

I should say. But really your attention is towards God. Even your prayers are really directing your thoughts. And your Your being towards God. God's going to do all the big stuff. if you think your priest is going to fix your life, God fixes your life and he uses you use it. There are instruments available to help that along. But yeah. you and this is again, not You know, father Moses my own priests, all these men are

one of him beings. They should be respected and giving given those giving their authorities. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying, is that God, created heaven and earth. That's where. Your that's who you're appealing to. and one of the ways you do that is by Respecting the higher, give the church. Those who are chosen to lead. So you submit your authority to the church and the church is Authority. In many cases is your is your is your is your priest.

That's it. So the problem with the Protestant ceremonies, with all these bands and all the rest of it is well who has Authority here. Who are you supposed to be giving? Who are you supposed to be submitting to the band? Smoke machine. Like, what, what who? Why is why you're attention being drawn out of all these things? seems kind of weird way to to direct your attention and focus towards God. You're worship to God. so, they look at the Chat for second.

So if you good ones why it's such to my wife and I just watched this video this evening, it's good one. Mike Hunt, says my great grandfather, had a great deal respect for the Russians probably because they smacked around the autumns a few times and he loathe the Turks. I saw I I don't I'm not a big Turkish fan myself. It's in the blood. Organized Insanity says

everything. I've learned and continue to learn about the Orthodox Church makes or Orthodoxy makes much more sense to me than I. And then how I was raised, it helps when you don't constantly contradict yourself. Yes, Liberalism is the act of stacking up mental contradictions in many churches of become liberalized in that sense. And it's, it's a problem. Studies is I had a Turkish driving instructor. Don't let sweaty girl out drive any semis.

Let's just put it that way. Yeah, nothing that going on. Appreciate you. And organizations I'm getting closer to having the transportation. I need to get to my nearest Orthodox Church. Very close. God bless, keep praying. Okay, God will find a way to get you there. About work for me. So Organized, since the glorifies God, right? Yeah, of course glorifies God by glorifying the Production. We glorify the production to glorify God somehow. It's just that's how it works,

right? Intermediaries. It's just And organized says, they had a huge production of the church when I was a kid. Had people swinging from ropes and pulleys from the ceiling, all the end times. It wasn't exactly helpful. Oh yeah. Cirque du Soleil, but, you know, Christians. Cirque du Soleil? Sounds sounds awful, really?

I ended up leaving the church service because I just couldn't pray and I couldn't pray because I couldn't think and I couldn't be present and I had become accustomed to being present in prayer. I had become accustomed to being present in worship. You know, when a man wants to connect with God, he doesn't go to a music concert, he doesn't go down into the city. He doesn't go to a Starbucks. And go. I'm gonna connect with God. While people are walking around and background.

Music is playing and things are happening. When a man wants to connect with, God, he goes to the woods, he goes to the mountains, he goes to a cabin, he turns off the cell phone, he turns off the notifications. He gets away from it all. Why? So that he can be present and he can focus. This is what the Western World doesn't understand saying the God speaks in some speaks. In silence. So it's in silence that we hear God. About worship worship for a man is not emotional.

When I say that, I don't mean that man isn't emotional. Man is emotional. But he's not wanting to be psychologically. Evoked into a state of emotional frenzy like a concert or something. To connect with God, that's not how men work. No, man ever leaves a service and says, oh wow, I wish they had more drums. I wish they had more annoys.

Men want to be silent with God. This is why when you look at the monks, I'm out those and I remember reading about this stuff there, they said that they would go to sleep at whatever 6:00 at night. And then sleep for three hours, maybe four hours, whatever and get up at 9 or 10 after it was dark. after it was silent after the whole world and gone to sleep, when you can feel the gravitational pull, When you can sense, the Stars, the beauties of the heaven, the darkness.

Where you can see the world at rest. Peaceful. And these monks would get up and then they would start praying, and they would do these Jesus prayers Lord, Jesus Christ have mercy on me on a Prayer rope and a very simple fashion. And it's interesting because people talk about in The Gospel making repetition of prayer. What Christ is talking about is droning on with a bunch of words that don't mean anything to you. A bunch of nonsense, a bunch of

filler. Talking to God where you're just blabbering and eventually have nothing more to say after three minutes. What the monks were doing is saying the Simplicity of the prayer. Lord. Jesus Christ have mercy on me, but they were saying each prayer. With intensity and focus. When a man prays like this in the dark of night. When he stands before Christ, when he opens up his heart to examine Nation. when he's in the

presence of Christ, praying, this is worship. it's interesting because in the nightly prayers, I part of my prayer rule. One of them asked forgiveness for being distracted during prayers. If you'd let worldly thoughts or distractions and to your mind while praying. So it's always good to know that that Special, when interesting Tradition at this point and in life, it's they've got this figured out.

They got this covered. You know. we know which ones which which sends and distractions and things that you that we all fall into and it's better to ask for forgiveness for all of them because you've likely committed a few of them without even without even noticing your committing them. Become so ingrained. So, so ritualized in some ways. So forgiving in modern society, that is very easy to. To not even realize your sinning. To, you know. You gotta.

Part of the Redemption Arc. Is to change your life to be radically changed by it to go 180. And that oftentimes is a very harsh examination of what you what you think is, okay? And realizing that it's not. Okay, moldy says, only Jason makes me emotional the way. He power washes, a bar and gets me every time. Well, stick around. We'll see how much energy I got. But we'll go. We'll go, we'll go the distance.

And then at the end, if we still have people hanging out, we'll do some power washing because we haven't done any power washing a while, if people don't know what I'm talking about. You, I'm a big fan of the power washer. Simulator number two is coming out once you're very excited about this year, but if you, if you stick around, we'll hit some goals. Help me hit some goals, Philip that make that red bar, go white. And then, we'll, we'll talk about some power washing of the

end. So he says, I met a Quaker once and asked him how these worshiped and he, and he said they would all sit in their Church in silence for an hour and that was service. Quakers are interesting people. I don't know how sitting in silence for an hour. is really service, but There'll be something I have to ask quicker about. Organizing he says I know a lady that grew up Quaker she said it was interesting. I dated a girl really briefly. Who was a Quaker?

I never really got. As never got into the theology questions. This is what modern man. Craves. He craves Stillness. He craves a little bit of Silence. The world is so noisy. The expectations for us as men are unbelievable. They are tremendous. They are all consuming. They are notifications on your phone and all hours of the day and all hours of the night and places to be and scheduling and busyness.

And there's part of us as men that we want to work and we want to get things done, and that's fine. But one more always like that. We know we're getting the oxygen. You know, men need to run that race and you need to work out their energy. They need to work hard. But they all need to catch their breath. That's what worship is.

Worship is when man gets to be before his creator and a humbled State being present in prayer being present, with the things that he is speaking from the depths of his heart. When he's reflecting on his life and his choices and his decisions. Or the future and the uncertainty, the things that are happening around him. when he's just with God, when fathers connect with their sons, they

don't sit down. And just have a long conversation, it may be part of the aspect of being a father, but if you're a father you understand a lot of being a father is just being with your boys or with your girl's. I mean I have a daughter and it's What I realized maybe it has partly how I was raised in. My remember is that you you remember certain lessons, and you remember certain talks and instances with your, with your parents, or your, my case, my grandfather, But it really, what you?

What I'm left with the overall impression. That I'm left with her, or I can. Let my mind live. Sometimes is just being with him. You know, there's a comforting security which is being with him. And that's what you end up emulating. In some ways. This Sarah from Sarah of quote, which is a peaceful peaceful Hearts saves 1,000 Souls. And it's true. The more peaceful, the more relaxed. And the more together you are. And I don't mean just like, you get in stuff done and data your

to-do list is always ticked off? No, no. It's like it's, it's, it's, it's how you're handling the world. You know what am I entries? The thing that really softened me with for towards religion. That was right after my daughter was born. And I realized I had this angry these anger issues as rage That's not very attractive.

It's it's quite embarrassing. you know, he just there's a there's a Saying here in Australia saying like, you spit the dummy and dummy means a pacifier, it's like a toddler having a fit. And that's kind of, if you're really, if you pull him back and watching it really listen to yourself, that's kind of what you're doing. You know, here's a grown man. You're a grown man. Who's supposed to be in control of his faculties and there you are. You know all about stupidness?

Why? Things are not as as you would like it, there's your pride being attacked. Someone's said something to you that you know how dare they say that to me. How dare they disrespect me? Maybe it's your wife, maybe it's a loved one, maybe it's some stranger some schmuck on the street, whatever. We take it personally because we, we take it person because we're so centered about ourselves. That we don't ever just let it go. At least anger, resentments. Desire for vengeance.

I'm just gonna, Most of this life really isn't about you. Just like a church service. It's not really about you. Have some someone's nasty toes because they're maybe they're nasty person. Maybe they're doing, they're supper some stuff. You know, this is the same Sarah from Rose quote, is that the proper position for all Christians? Believe that you are the worst Christian. Make us chooses for everybody else, Christian and on. Excuse their behavior.

In some ways, find forgiveness. constraint on yourself because the only person who can control your sins, your passions is you And if you let them affect you, that's you, that's you letting you letting that happen. Sort of prototype back into what father, Moses is saying here is that the distractions of the world and sometimes they're necessary distractions. They, they, we use them as a substitute for the, for the internal question, why? Why do I want this?

I want to be successful. Well why? I want to have a house. Why my wife a child? Why why do you want these things? Now, maybe that's self-evident well because they're good things to have and we ought to have these things. Continuing the human race and all that kind of stuff. Sure. But many men have opted out. When you monastic sir opting out, they don't have a house. They don't have wife or child. And living. Holy cave. Pray for Humanity.

So there's options out there. There's many other men, you know, priests and all the rest of it, but who never get married, who stay married to church, if you're in Catholic tradition or other men who just never do that but but work tirelessly and do great works outside of a marriage and children. So There are options. So, the question you have to ask yourself constantly is why do I

want these things? Not just because they're good and they're good to have and continuation, human race, Etc. But specifically with you me, why Who you emulating? Why do you think? Why do you think you ought to

have these things? You know, how is for example, the big thing I hear quite often people moaning you know, can't afford a house, you know, like yes, I understand the economic situation out there is is dire and has been, it's been screwed up by not very nice people, so fair But here's a big question. Maybe you should ask yourself, why do you want a house? How is there a? Can be a pain in the ass. I'm not saying you shouldn't want one. I'm just asking you. Why do you want one?

Why do you know? Well, you know we can't get a date, can't can't find a wife, why do you want to wife? See how houses. Can be a lot of work. Be a pain, the hip. Kids. Kids are wonderful. I I wouldn't trade in being married or having a house or having a daughter for anything. Specifically being married and having a daughter. And I didn't ask the question. Why? Before I know the answer now? I can speak personally it's because it makes me want to be better.

It gives me a higher purpose. Other than myself. To orientate myself with. And when, you know, again personally, once that happened, then I also needed the church. I needed God as the even higher positioning. Because it's all fine and good to say well my my greater good. My point of meaning is my wife and my child and that's wonderful but you know again things can happen. Your wife could divorce you or leave you or you know die or someone of that child could have to do the same.

And then what do you love with? and even if we don't take the extreme situation, you are not. Your wife and you will speak of marriage. your wife and yourself entering this relationship and it's it's a unique relationship. Are you living together? You raise a child together. Paying all the bills and all that stuff. But you have to you have to manage the A the changes in your life and the changes in you,

whether there's other person. And while modern society, in the west has made it, able to be able to walk away from these kind of relationships relatively easy. That's not a proper way of living your life. Having that kind of permanency. A relationship that you are going to fight for. You're going to deal with it. You're going to go to bed, angry sometimes or maybe not, that's your rule, whatever. You're going to have periods in time where you're like, is it over?

I don't know. You're gonna face troubles and tribulations, that's why the vows are in sickness and health. Till death do us part. Well, when you make that kind of vouch yourself and to God, hopefully but even just yourself like, I'm going to see this through. That gives you wonderful parameters in your life. so, when your wife, Your help meet. The coined, the phrase. Is kicking up a fuss. You have to examine it and go. Well, maybe she's right. She might have a point.

Gorilla biscuit says going to bed. Good night, thanks for having me. God bless God. Bless you. Thank you for all love and support. You have to at least listen. To her. Because you're in this with her till the end. You make that kind of commitment. and if you're you're being honest and you're honest person. Well, Then you're in you're you're gonna ride and die with it. Say with your kid. You have to live your children to the end.

No matter what they do, how they do it, you're gonna have to love them. Always find a space in your heart for them. That's going to be well. Paying off the child. Of course, be difficult. Be present. That's really typical. And the way so many ways you can you practice this, if you are younger men and you don't have the wife and you don't have the kid, you don't have the house, you don't have, you don't have, you don't have go to liturgy. Because you know what?

Your practice in liturgy, all those things commitment. Attentiveness. You're listen. You're making commitments. Unbreakable commitments. Hell or high water. You're going to get to church? That's a good practice. So that when you do have your wife and your child of God bless you with these things, your house. All these things you have to be attentive to and you have to sacrifice your time, your energy, your tensions. You got to know can't play the

video game for 12 hours. You got, put it down, you gotta go, you know, listen to your kid. Your five year old talk about five year old stuff which, you know, riveting is. It is Make it a point, he present. Because they're not going to be that kid every forever. Enjoy every single minute of it. Even this stuff. You don't want to enjoy the stuff. That's pretty tough to enjoy, it's not enjoyable. if you gets, Stomach stomach, flu and puking all over the house. It's like not a party.

But you can be of service to somebody. Who depends on you? There's your responsibility. Meet that responsibility each and every day, each and every way find new ways of doing that. See where that takes you. And you know that's I think that's a better. It's a better answer to the why then we'll go to make sure the white race stays around on Earth and stuff like that's like, I

get it, man. I get it. but at the same time, that's that's a heavy thing to put on yourself, the existence of humanity Okay. What else you want to do? What else? What other magic tricks you want to pull off today? Not concentrate on what what's in front of you as much as possible? Things together. And accomplishing things and tackling projects. And that's what man desires from his Heavenly Father. He wants to be present with him. He wants to know that. God is there.

He wants to know that Christ. Is going through the struggles with him. He wants to know that he's loved and that he's a for who he is. He wants to feel that connection. What the West has lost is this connection to God. It's about noise. It's about performance. It's about emotion. Evoking something that you're not feeling. Trying to put something on display or use some words or some terminology to push you emotionally. To stir your mind. But that's all manipulation.

And men in their hearts. They know that that's why they can't. Give themselves over to it. Real men need the Divine Liturgy. They need to be in the presence of God. They need to know that God is there, and they need to be still in their souls. They need to be comfortable standing in their space and just being present. Not having a bunch of thoughts. Not having quote unquote, a bunch of feelings. But just being there with God and connecting. Its powerful point.

Piece is a word concept. Fouls work. Concept fallacy. The day. Peace. Because we often as we use peace and terms of War, right? Physical involvements. But a peaceful heart. What is? saying Sarah from Sarah mean by that, it's not just hear a man. You're, you're an engines and you're an engine of violence. You're are part of our fallen nature is violence. So, feature, not a bug. The bug of creation, let's say, but Post Falls that's part of us.

We can make violence sacred or you can make it profane. By either way, it's something that we have to contend with. And as a man especially, we are uniquely built to deliver some great, a violence. Perfected. And violence doesn't necessarily have to be a punch in the nose. It can be all the other thoughts and inclinations and desires that lead to the punch the nose, or lead us to cheer the punch of nose. It all stand around. Watch a man throwing stones. And oh yes.

What a virtuous righteous man he is. Throwing stones are behalf. so much of the modern world because it's all about, you know, don't mean right here, these terms excitement, Get you all riled up. But we're know where to put it. We've figured out through Christendom about transference. You Chris will say. Is a transference of, of human sacrifice. It's we View. God. you know, of its bread and the wine of my body, my blood From more of a strictly. anthropological ether pathology That word.

Raise Your Heart does a lot of work on this, right? Understanding the nature of human sacrifice. Basically in ancient Pagan and other. Religious ceremonies specially Hindus or brahmins sex. The office in times sacrificing evolves, eating as a food aspect to it, imbuing. so, quite often in Let's say. The more Pagan world. a human sacrifice would be a company with acts of Canada was We see this transference now both in the story of Abraham and then later on with Christ Abraham.

You know, God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son comes down and says, no, don't sacrifices on. In fact, and sacrifice Ram. Take that as a story, there's many parts of that story. But specifically from that one aspect is now a commandant said, there will be no human sacrifice going forward. If there was a commandment against laws against before now

it's going forward, the children of Abraham will not do that. you can sacrifice animals and if you're going to do a sacrifice, And then of course, Christ comes and says, we're no more animals sacrifices. Even In fact, you're not going to sacrifice to God, in that sense. You're going to imbue. The. So that is this transference. Eating itself is violence. You don't even eating, you know, vegans or doing violence with their mouth. Mashing and tearing.

Digestive juices. The whole thing is quite violent. And what we've done in Christendom is found other ways to transfer that violence. Further and further away from direct forms. We you know, one of the great things of the printing, press great, bad, whatever, however you feel about it is that transference of violence from physicality into the word. So we can you know read this early violent of violence stories. Get riled up. By The Narrative, but then have catharsis in the story.

Flash Forge and more, modern versions, you have, you know, video games, kids playing video games and chat in chat rooms and stuff of that saying, all kinds of violent, horrible nasty. Things while committing, you know, Virtual violence. Again, transference away from the physical world. Now we can say that that's good or bad. I think there's plus minuses on these things. but this was the

The direction we were going. And one of the, I think the biggest missteps, the last really the last 20, 30 years, but over the last 60 years of his devouring mother aspect has been trying to Tamp down on all expressions of masculinity and specifically a violence. So that transference so now of course, with the gamer situation, you know, longer allowed to say the No-No words, we're going to police you bullying and all that stuff. Oh no, can't have any of that.

Because you gotta protect the children agent, they're going to grow up to be toxic men and all these other things. But by removing that, That transference. From physical violence or from acts of let's say more materials into let's say a virtual space. We we don't get rid of it, we're just putting a it's a pressure valve. now, the pressure is

building people don't have other ways of expressing this. for certain to see this course in England and maybe the other places, this sort of panopticon, Armed against expression. So, you're not allowed to say what you feel about certain things happening. Government policies, Etc. And you know what to speak of. They're all out of speak of certain groups. Not a lot of these certain words. Perhaps we can say that's just, you know, being polite and living in polite Society.

Okay, well that's a trojan horse. What it really is doing again is that tamping down of any form of violence and if, as long as it and I would posit this position and tell me I'm wrong in the comments or something like that, but Without any other mechanisms to control for this thing, removing violence from the physical and into, let's say a more virtual non-physical realm. Overall, probably a good idea. Probably pretty good. The only downside really on this

is that it it defends your men. So that as long as you're living in a society where everyone is defanged more or less and is only projecting their violence into areas where they can't really do that much real harm. Then good. but when you start introducing elements into your Society who haven't been defanged, catch a little bit unawares. Catch a sleeping. Someone said recently.

And so I was watching that The the downside I'll say it this way this was an accurate to the quote so please don't ask me one of the consequences. Let's say of Christians is that we're naive. Duty. I know we are looking for the best in people. and expecting the best in people in some way, shape, or form and some times

were encountering people who That might be a bad idea. you know, this is why I say, The spirit of this vengeful, son, this this movement towards the technical father Reawakening. The problem with it is using the feel good for many people because they're seeing these injustices, they feel neutered. They feel as if they can't do anything about it. And now, and I think suddenly you're going to start seeing people start doing stuff about it.

It's going to encourage more people to do other things about it. And so on and so on and so on and so on. Until the Beggars response from. From the authorities and they'll do their violence. We're caught in this Loop. Because the adversary doesn't care, how he gets you. Just wants to get you. Watch your feet in those Passions. Me me, me me. I I well, we'll get back to Carl in a second, but that idea of, you know, britishness Church of

England. Well, It says, England. as historical Roots, I must therefore Champion it Without challenging it. even if The concept of England is now being an English and British is now been so hollowed out. By liberalism itself. Because he's going to transcend. You're going to liberate yourself from all categories from all oppressions. Well, if the term of British can oppress one man, Then it must be done away with it must liberate ourselves from these categories. From Nations itself.

From all order tradition. Good. The Good, The Beautiful true transcend that. Into this mush that we existed now. Which is also, I think why people are returning or you know any young men are seeking they're seeking truth or seeking permanents, they're seeking The Good, The Beautiful the true and they're finding it in Orthodoxy. Because it Orthodoxy, does it very well? I pray for every man who sees this video. That you would take the opportunity to go to a Divine Liturgy.

If you have the opportunity, go to a monastery. Go to an evening service. Stand in the church and be silent and be present with God. And fix your mind on nothing but him alone. The hymn be all glory, honor and worship the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Christ has risen. All right, let me see some father, Moses McPherson. Okay, let's get back to. Let's listen to a little bit more of Carl. I'll be right back. I'm gonna play this and I'll be right back.

I can't imagine. It's a radically different interpretations of the teachings of Jesus. That mean on one hand, you're allowed to be Mandy. On the other hand, you have to be gay. I just don't think that the dog trying to difference between the two, is that significant? I think it's just the culture of the people who are running it. And so the culture of the people in the Orthodox Churches. Yeah. We're just gonna be Chad's actually lift weights.

And praise God. Well, I mean, is there anything stopping the prostitutes from doing that? I think the process could do that if they want it. I think that's actually something they this is an option that's open to them. I'm rather short. But again I'm not familiar with the doctoral difference. So let's carry on. A lot of people ask me, Father Moses, how can I increase my manliness to absurd levels in a YouTube video, a priest championing form of viral,

Unapologetic, masculinity. That sounds useful, doesn't it? skinny jeans crossing your legs, using an iron shaping, your eyebrows and even eating soup I don't And even eating soup are among the things he derives to feminine. Well, I don't my skinny jeans, I don't cross my legs. I don't use an iron because I have a wife, I don't shape my eyebrows which you can probably tell and I don't eat soup because I like meat so I'm not I'm doing pretty well according

to Father, Moses split faces. This are you though Carl? Are you let's what is this list? What is this list that we speak of? Let's go back to father. Moses experienced and listen to his list. Funny enough, I'm gonna add a few things because I think there's some things that well that's singing, he's the good Father's missing, anything of course, but I have a few of my own little things and Littles, but I'd like to add, you know, people who've been paying attention.

You know what I'm talking about? yeah, and we'll see if I have any Even allowed to disagree. I don't know, I wouldn't put it as a disagreement. Let's put it as a, you know, my own notes. A lot of people ask me, Father, Moses, how can I increase my manliness to absurd levels? Well, today we are going to explore those behaviors, which will take you up and take you down. We have this beautiful chart here, that is going to show us where we place Modern Day activities.

Number one. Look just listening. He's got a category which go from the top, which is Saint maxing underneath. That is Lumberjack. I don't need that. I is, I got my first tribal tattoo underneath that is I have a Timothy Charlemagne. Mustache. I'm not even quite sure that reference but I'm I get the idea, it's one of those little, you know, dirty mustaches permanent 13 year, old mustache one man, 33 and the last category is in your mom's

basement. So these are the different categories which is gonna play some some male behaviors modern, male behaviors. And we'll, we'll see what we goes. If your routine includes dying, your beard using some kind of iron mewing waxing shaping your eyebrows or any other such thing. You have a wonderful place in your mom's basement where you can live and post photos of yourself on Instagram. Showing a physique or facade. That is ridiculous.

I think the ironing he's talking about here is not clothes ironing. I think he means like ironing one's hair or something like that. I might be wrong. Because I mean, you know, ironing one's clothes like ironing a shirt. I don't see the problem with that. I Know Carl made the comment, I have a wife but for young men who don't have a wife, you should be able to iron your own shirt. Basically, this is my advice,

really young man. As your growing, you know as you're seeking one's wife and seeking ones place in the world. So the one of the key things you can do, excuse me. Special kind of while battling these this the curse of modernity in some ways is, is become very self-sufficient. One of the curses we've had well on this devouring.

Mother aspect is becoming more and more dependent dependent on other people's opinions, on other people's on, on the world around us on the government's, our parents Etc. So the more you can successfully and successfully do for yourself and not have to, you know, call a plumber for everything or, you know, you can fix some stuff around the house. You can keep the house. Clean and tighty. You can do laundry, you can you know Iron Ore sure. you know, there's tons of those little examples.

That makes you less and less dependent on having to go to someone else to do it. Now, it's no shame. If you don't know how to sew when you need a button. So to go with someone who knows how to sew a button, that's fine. And maybe you're just all thumbs, I'm like that this before my thumb injury, so, you know, selling something is just I make a mess of it.

So going to your wife or whoever asking for help if someone can do something you can't that's not it's not a shameful thing but also realize that that's that's a dependency on you, right? Here. I don't know if you want to call every single dependency of weakness, but it can be one of the things that led me to living the family here to Australia, Was that we're going to Second lockdowns. And in Montreal, my daughter had just been born. I just had a spiritual

awakening. All these things were happening, right? Didn't know. What was what was what was coming down the pike? And I looked around. I said, okay, take this time to to Really assess what I have when I don't have and, you know,

my liabilities here. And I, you know, did a quick tallying, you know, I was like, I'm way Overexposed to life right now because all the things I was kind of depending on the the like let's say the binging Canada, it's like Canadians Canadian and things are more or less stable, and, you know, governments either good or bad, or kind of indifferent, but overall, it's kind of okay? And, you know, everything was was fine. I was living in a 90s mindset for a very embarrassingly long time.

And also know that got disrupted to such a degree that I had to, and it wasn't just, you know, my personal life. I didn't just get fired from a job or, you know, Place clock closed down or something like that. No, no, it was like, this is global. This is happening. This is an environmental, is extensional and I got to deal with this. And I just looked around and said, well, you know, really my immediate family, I have my mom and my aunt who are both getting, you know, aging out there.

They were living in Montreal all the time. Not know, they're not now either, but So they weren't close by. I, you know, was out of work at the time I had just had this hand injuries. I was still kind of fixing that. I would didn't even know if I was going to really be able to use this hand anymore covid was happening. I didn't know if it was gonna be like restaurants anymore, all this kind of stuff but so you tally all those things up you're like, okay.

I've got a lot of things that maybe I can fix one or two of these things, but there's certain one of these certain list of these things that is beyond me. To fix the Aging family is, it was a big one. And I had a few friends, but it's like they, you know, they got their own lives and so that you can't depend on other people. You want to depend on someone in an emergency, but but life was kind of an emergency at that

point. So, I looked around and I said, well, what my options and one of the options, my wife's Australian, she has a much bigger family of much, you know, younger Sims, especially and so it made sense, that's like, well, if something were to happen to me, or happened to my wife or happened to both of us, at least, my daughter would have

some backup family. you know, who could help her raise her, whatever, whatever the situation might be, Now, I'm a poor choice for Australia. As I told people, I don't like the beach and I think wearing shorts is queer. So it's like I'm screwed here in many ways. Oh and also, I found out just last year that I have osteoarthritis and Winters here a cold and damp fantastic environment for someone with arthritis, by the way, it just means I'm in pain for about four to five months a year.

Yay, just a cherry on top. but, This wasn't about me. I mean much further along in this podcasting career of mine, theoretically, at least if I was in a North American time zone, kind of helpful. But I'm not. So I gotta find time to do these things. Exclude other possibilities, etc. Etc. Right?

Okay. but then again, we'd say The only reason I have this podcast and everything else is going on is because God's making it available, I could get into the money show of that but like I see it. I don't think any of these things are coincidence or coincidence is like the last five years really? I could go Point by point of going well there's God's hand just moving things around. And even in when things look the worst and I was in my greatest

despair, as he there he was. Making opportunities open for me. It was just it was just a month away. Kirker guards says something. along the lines of Life can only be understood in Reverse, but could only be lived forward. Meaning that as you get older and you can look back on your life and all the things that happened and life itself. Let's say we extrapolate these into bigger Concepts, you can only really understand them by looking backwards and putting these things together.

It's a great book called Hopscotch by Julio cortazar, I highly recommend it. He's post-modernist, I know people pooped this but I think in terms of artistic movements, it's not that bad. There's some good stuff in there, he also wrote blow up, which is great movie.

He the book itself, when you open up the open up the book, it says there's this little diagram, all these chapters and he said, well look, you can read the book from page one to page 300, whatever it is. And there's a book and you read it that way and that's why, or you can use all you can use this map and jump around the jump around the chapters. And essentially, the entire book is a story of a man's life told you don't within a within a time frame.

And his experience is in Paris, he's Argentinian who lives in Paris and goes back to Argentina, and, and all that stuff. But the story then, constructs his life, not in a linear. And then this, and this, and this, and this sort of a portrait of an artist of young men, kind of style, but more like how you would relate if I was trying to tell you the story of my life, I'm going to You

know, dance around quite a bit. Because I'm reflecting and then I'll go, oh, yeah, well, this happened, but to understand this, you'll have to understand all these other things, and these other relationships, and who are these people. And I have to explain this. It's much more honest and Frank attempt at detailing a, I believe a fictional characters life. Through these little points. These nodes Highly recommended Hopscotch Julio cortazar go read it. Was saying this.

Organized in San Jose to send you money but it's being dumb. Oh, that's that's Which, which is being dumb YouTube or streamlabs. There's a PayPal link there too. So if you want to do it that way, it's always appreciated. Appreciate you. Boss legs. If your thighs are able to cross perfectly like this, they are simply not big enough. I don't have anything more to say about that aren't big enough, you either?

Game Boy. Ah, this is anyone who is involved, in this Warhammer nonsense, any kind of fictitious lore, that is taking you 100 of hours, to read Dungeons and Dragons board games that take four to eight hours Grand. Theft Auto will fall into this as well. I'm going to say this is definitely in your mom's basement. These are activities for people who don't have anything better to do with their life.

If you're a man with a family, it's fine to have a hobby but when your hobby consumes you know eight hours of your week every week preparing and executing for it and it has no tangible return on investment. I'm going to say this is not the activity that a married man with children should be engaged in great deep cuts for many of you. I had plans to talk about death at the second half of the show, but I mean like, this one's like probably killing some people. Let me just add on to a little

bit. Scape is an issue. Escapism is formed where there's TV. I think he talks about sports at some point gaming, anything, right? Distractions, we just talked about, you know, these ceremony being distraction the service B Construction. Oh, so quite often these things are trying to pull these passions for you in some way, right? Gamer rage all the rest of it. The, the issue quite often is if you're trying, if you're It's a modality of escapism itself. We it's a whole category, right?

We call it Escapist, you know, kind of films, Marvel movies, it's Escapist kind of entertainment. What are you trying to escape from? Is the question. Your life, the stresses of the world, all those other things, which is fine. Sometimes you need those momentary breaks. You know, I oftentimes play video games, just as a, as a brain cleanse, it's something like I can just like down, I don't have to really think about something that doesn't matter. Right? And that's it.

Can be helpful. We'll play some power washing later and let me see some power washing, nice, passive thing and gives you that sense of completion. Ooh, ding so there's there's that, but if you're spend most of your life escaping from your life, Then you don't really have a life. Do you? All you have is the escape? And that that's an issue. You also have to then. Also, as the question, what are you trying to escape from? That's just stressful day. Yeah? Okay, fine.

Stressful week. Oh, Some months, the stressful year stressful decade. Hey, Maybe you got to start to address some things. Why are you? So stressed out, kid? Sing. This is the time of the year where we should be committing ourselves to fasting to being in every prayer service. Every church service that we can committing ourselves to the prayers of the church. This is for orthodox, like the Olympics, where we really put forth, our best effort to be

obedient to the church. And to maximize our time, I will say nothing will create more of a man out of you, than living the life of Christ as the final days of great and holy land with his crucifixion and into the midnight service. Celebrating his resurrection next to me, talk about the symbol hard things for second quite often, a lot of things in Orthodoxy. Is the simple heart thing

fasting. Right now, we're in the door Nation fast and on the device, my my presumably just to meet fast not doing the heavy lifting up. Which is good. Really I'll say this as a side and don't let me forget what I'm trying to get to. You can chat could happen the for all these years leading up to going to to church. Now in the last more or less than six months four or five months now, It's a cautionary

tale about about. diying Orthodoxy and I'll do a whole show on this eventually but Quite often what happens is, if you're, if you're inquiring and you're not going to a church and talking to a priest, which you should be doing, by the way, don't do anything else but talk to your priest. Okay? Big giant caveat. I'll put a scroll if I have to talk to your priest. You can ask me some questions, I'll try to answer you as best I

can. If it's something simple but most likely I'm just gonna say talk to your priest. You know, Jason shut up. You talk to your priest. This go talk to a priest. Preferably your priest because you're going to liturgy and you're involved in this, okay, so talk to your priest. Because what ends up happening, quite often is we read all these things and go, oh, well, I have to, you know, on Wednesdays and Fridays abstain, from all these things. And, and I'm not saying you

shouldn't, right? I'm assuming saying, talk to your priest, Okay. Prayer rules all those other things. Talk to your priest. LOL banner. I can probably do one rep right now. Talk to your priest because Chances are. Yes, there's things to shoot for but also quite often what we're exposed to online now, is a lot of texts that are made and meant for monastic. So it's like, yes you should be doing all these things on Mount Athos. Right? Or maybe, if you're 20 30, 40 years in the practice.

Sure. But if your day one and you're taking and you're lift, you're trying to do all the heavy lifted. Oh, at once and putting it all on you, you're just gonna Crash and Burn. You're going to fail. You're going to fail anyways. Most likely. You're going to have moments of failures. It's just gonna happen.

And that's okay. But, you know, fail was a light load first so that you can get back up faster than trying to, you know, what the weight of Orthodoxy 2000 years of tradition, on your shoulders, don't do that. Talk to your priest. Let's see if I can get a banner up here. Unity, man, we call this the church gigachad. This is somebody that everyone can rely on in the Parish Community. That is able to help with any task that comes up. Is utterly reliable helps in the altar.

Helps in the choir, all of these things, this is definitely Saint maxing. When the priest knows that he can rely on you, and that you're going to be there. I will tell you, he will hold you in very high regard and you're contributions to the parish are absolutely exceptional, full-time job. One thing I get questioned about a lot is father, I don't have a very manly job. I work in computer programming or whatever else should I find

something that's more masculine? The fact of the matter is, if you're working a full-time job and you're able to create a good enough Revenue to support having your children, your family. There is absolutely nothing manly about that, you just may have talents that residing in a certain realm of life. So if you got a guy who, Is a programmer making 250k a year. Is it more manly to stop doing that and go be a roofer for 60k a year? Absolutely.

Not the full-time job. The hardworking husband, this is definitely lumberjack. And I say that because it doesn't matter what you're doing. You're swinging the axe of your mind or your muscles and you're providing for your family cold plunges and sauna Ah, I'm gonna put this under, I got my first tribal tattoo, they're fun. They're enjoyable. There's some health benefits to

both of them. Obviously, there's more benefits to sauna but it's one of those things if you're doing video of yourself, cold, plunging and putting it on Instagram or wherever else, it's like you're saying, I have the mental hardness to do something difficult, but I really need your likes and affection. And if you're doing something hard, do it in private, don't tell anybody and don't try to create some kind of pseudo, Instagram Persona out of it.

That is lame watching sports watching sports. Look again all things in moderation. If you're the type of person is watching the Super Bowl with people, that's fine. If you're the type of person who's has an account on some obscure Message Board, where you're talking about, you know, I don't know, the Detroit Lions are whatever every single week and you're arguing about the A coach's decision and all this sort of stuff.

This is your mom's basement. The people who devote massive amounts of time to Ball Sports, is ridiculous. Is it? You know, sports are not bad and sports are great for children because it builds teamwork and hard work and effort. But when you're the one who's watching it and you're not actually participating in it, it's pretty lame. You can enjoy it. But when it's taking up, huge amounts of time in your life, that time needs to be utilized in a much better fashion.

Okay, next One, Thirst trapping, a specialty, male, thirst trapping, you're under 200 pounds your skinny. You have a six pack because your skinny, you're not, you know, you're basically victim weight. You're a zebra in the African desert. You can't bench 300 of 315 pounds. You're trying to show off your gains for other dudes on Instagram. This is a Timothy Charlamagne, mustache.

Okay, this is your trying to show something that you think you've created but it really is very hurt by this comment, by the way very, very hurt. I Know one knows this really, but I used to be, I used to be a very pretty man. Way back in the day you know I was yeah I nice looking face and a decent body. That's all gone. Now it's that's it's it's ancient history. But at one point, Even my wife missed out that one.

She got much more like pre dad, bought me, which was, you know, already suffering from years of abuse. All right, if you need the recognition of other men to cheer you on, for what you've accomplished, you've got some massive insecurities that you got to work on which goes with the next one skinny jeans. I'm gonna drop skinny jeans down in the Timothy, Shalom, a mustache as well. Look, if you have quads that are less than 24 inches, and you have to wear jeans that are tight.

There's something strange going on. There is a point where you're going to have massive quads and then jeans are just going to be tight. That's fine. But when you're trying to show off your physique, but the physique is just Skin and Bones. There's not much to show off, cussing. I'll tell you this. This is I got my first tribal tattoo. This is the David Goggins. Trying to be hard. Look, cussing, does not make you hard. The other thing is too.

If you're a hard and dangerous individual, you don't need to tell other people that it's always, the people who are telling everybody about how tough and how awesome they are. That are the least Coughing. The least awesome. Okay. So when you're cussing and you're forcing this kind of, I don't know. Masculine emotional state on other men, there's nothing masculine about that. Oh, okay. So I obviously he's talking about skinny jeans, all, of course, add shorts in there as my grandfather.

Once told me that shorts are for women children and queers and I have lived my life. By and large 100% by that, by that metric, I have worn shorts as an adult, man. I have broken that my commandment for my grandfather and every single time I'm like I don't like it. It feels weird. I can't, I can't, I can't enjoy this. I can't enjoy this at all. I feel so, I gotta stop doing it.

Oh yeah, kick stupidness, I see. See people say, oh, I gotta lay up on the, on the, on the kick moderation and then, of course, when I do that, only get all this stupidness. So, Sorry, kick people. That's it is what it is. Yeah, we won't get into the whole short thing, but, you know, I've said it on the channel many, many times. And there you go, you can deal with it on. I don't care. So just skinny jeans.

Yeah, this tightness, it's it's, it's, it's, it's basically my the, the, the, the Uh, the resting point on this is, why are you exalting your body? It's fine to be fit. It's fine to work out. And obviously, father Moses does, and it's fine to, you know, all that kind of stuff. Great how you know, have a body, have b b healthy. I'm not, you should do that. You know, don't don't follow my lead on it. It's the look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me. Look at me, okay.

All right. Even skinny jeans, just try to show off something. And as father's Moses saying here, you got nothing to show off their kid. So what are you trying to show off things? It's kind of feminine too, right. That's a skinny jeans. Like what I'm supposed to look at your ass. Now, what what is this?

The But yeah, it's it's lustful. Vainglory is pride will Behavior and the same thing with cussing and I'm someone who, you know, I have always enjoyed a good cuss but I it's it's now I look at the is a bit of a shameful thing. You know, I still I still think words are words and should be used a Sprinkle in things sometimes sometimes, sometimes it really is just appropriate. There is no other word to be used. What else you're gonna say? You gotta say it. That being said it's it's it's

it's showing a lot of control. And as soon as you start losing control over your mouth, your thoughts, and your mouth. You're gonna you're one step away from having loss of control of your actions, and your gearing yourself up too, right? You're getting yourself. All excited around.

I'm gonna get a route up. this this and that the other thing, You know, racial evidence, all the other stuff I get it, it can be fun, there's, you know, hahaha joke, joke, joke joke, the problem is, it's it goes from being joke, joke, joke to other things really easily. You know, and it's not about hurting other people's feelings or being PC or all that kind of stuff. It's what it does to you on some level. It's it's again showing its Whatever I catch myself doing it.

It's just again that feeling of like what are you 13? Like you can't control your mouth. What was wrong with you? He calm and peaceful in the midst of life and all of its stressors and difficulties and not having to cuss is actually way more masculine having a large family. We call this. Having the full quiver of arrows as the psalmist says, this is Saint maxing. This is when you have completely given yourself over to the God's design for family life.

And why do I say this? Because having a lot of kids,

takes a lot out of you. As a man, it is an incredible burden to trust God that he's going to help see you through it, that you're going to make it that you're going to have the ability and wherewithal to tackle this, you know, when you have one or two kids, people normally cut off because it's so hard and I'm going to tell you from experience, you know, within the last couple weeks I have had times where literally children were pooping and vomiting all over themselves,

multiple children. Even at the same time and to go through an ordeal like this, it does, it pushes you To your absolute limit of mental fortitude to stay, calm to take care to clean up everyone to get everyone washed off and back to

bed. This is absolute manly in service and in action to the people that you love the most and are the most important to you, your wife and your children eating Okay, as an add-on to that, I keeping in mind that what father, Moses, I think his audience here, his intended, audience is for young men specifically, right? So we'll keep that in mind because for some of us if you're older, let's say, your my age right. God bless you. How is your back feeling?

Not good. I know how was those knees. Creating a little bit, aren't you? But if you give us a get an older and you you didn't have kids or for some other reason you can't have children and you've chosen with your wife for your your spouse, maybe you're not married, you didn't adopt or not being involved. In life of children, on some level is very important for them. You know, find a way to involve

yourself in the life of a child. and do it dutifully if you're a stepfather or your, you know, handle that as As much of a responsibility as you can, right? It's difficult. We don't live in a perfect world. So people are going to have come to this in different ways and your situations are going to be different and all the rest of it. But being involved in life of the child, on some on some primary level on a daily level, or something like that.

It does something to you. Obviously, the most preferred best way of doing it is with your own kids. And yeah, maybe having, you know, multiple children is great but even if you have one like myself and many others, Give yourself to that child. you know, give your attention, give your give your give your efforts to the child.

And do it purposely not because you want to be the father of the year or not because of what it gives you necessary, it will give you things but that's not really the purpose. It's that you can't. It's the same thing about why you want to cultivate peacefulness. No cussing controls all these things. Why? Because that's what masculinity really is. One of the problems we've had in

the modern world. There's even goes back to our grandparents, my grandparents as for some younger people, your great grandparents or so. Is that many of the men who lived through World War One, the Great Depression World War Two? Even those who maybe didn't go fight in the wars, they were affected by these things. this is the age of the treble, though, I talked about, and They're modeling for let's say, Boomer Boomer men and and their daughters was not complete.

Is also quite often the generation that started to turn away from God. The Lost Generation Hemingway and all the rest of those guys, you know, we're openly atheistic, quite a few of them. Post World War One. Many people came out of that war with. Great question is, how can an all-loving all won? All of them. God do such allows such thing to happen was so horrific. Now stories out of Korean Wars, as well. Or men turned into monsters.

One of the other reasons I believe that once the further you go into Orthodoxy, the something that you search to encounters that Orthodoxy has suffering front and center, that's suffering is a very key component to the faith. That's just Orthodox Christianity. In general, of course, Christ suffers for us. but the other way of looking at it, is that when we ask those questions, why? Did not God not intervene. and one, I guess the One rebuttal would be.

How do you know he didn't? You think this was bad? You might lack imagination. Maybe you could have been a lot worse. the other thing is that, oftentimes, we need to suffer, we need to In order to be brought to back to God. And the time frame, may not be even be our lifetime. Look at all the suffering from the last. Let's say 120 years that has brought us to this point and now

men young men are flocking to the church. now, I'm not saying that, I know the designs of God, I don't I'm not even saying that these this occurrences is the ultimate end of things but it is a consequence of consequences. And we needed those other things to happen in order to get us to hear. Again, this idea that life can only be understood backwards but must be lived forwards. We are living. We are always going forwards to the next day, to the next moment

to the next word. So the next thought But yet to understand these things and where they came from, we can only do that by looking backwards. Being informed by that, which had come before and adding on to that knowledge. Again, one of the curses of modernity tends to be to vilify the past, and never touch it again, Bad Evil, things, bad, evil people, bad evil things. We did battle things to these poor. Wonderful innocent people. And now we must feel guilt and

shame. And that must be our narrative going forward. Right. This one before. We won't even deal with the A History, A History. The struggle with me the wrestle with this word. The Non-historical record, how these things don't make sense in. If we accept that human beings are basically the same and have been the same for thousands of years and one way, shape or another and spiritually. Host Christ.

After death. After the resurrection human beings have been changed in many ways we interact with the world or phase and understanding of reality. But there's also fundamental things about us and our fallen nature that we're still with us and I've been with us forever. And we will be struggling with this to the very end and one way shape or form. so, I realized something I've veered off.

I meant to get back to a point. I've abandoned that point but there you go. I just lose the other point. Monologues hard folks, send me your money seniors appreciation. Like the stream? Hey like look at the thing I mean we know in the chat in the comments below That's my way out of it. It's all planned. It's all one big plan. I'm is my mute off. Okay good. Hockey starts. We'll get there. Back to large, family, involve

yourself in the life of a child. One way shape or form become a teacher, a mentor, you know, volunteer. Go to church, be around the kids there, whatever, right? And the kind of guy also, by the way, that means you have to become the kind of person that they people want to leave their kids around. Here.

Don't be creepy. 2. Listen, if you're eating a soup that you could not eat with a fork, okay, what I mean is the soup if the soup does not contain large chunks of meat, but requires a little spoon that you slurp off of there is something catastrophically wrong going on. This is definitely a Timothy shallow, May mustache. All right, when you eat soup, it should have chunks of protein in it, it should be basically a watery meal of goodness, a

ancient Scottish braaf. Okay, if it is gold up and you sit there drinking water by the Spoonful over and over again. There is something completely a masculine about that last but not least, I think this is a cultural thing. You know, I'll let but with that because I love me some good tomato soup, a good thick tomato soup.

A nice. Broth, it's good, you know, doesn't always have to have chunks in it abortion, you know, there's there are chunky abortion, there's more pureed abortions and I like me like me a good borsche though, with but you had stuff on top of it, right? But yeah, I think this is I'm going to leave. This was a cultural thing. The most beautiful. accoutrement, a man can have A fanny pack.

Now this definitely goes under Lumberjack and the reason I say this, Is because only a man who does not care, what anyone thinks including his own wife. Is able to really rock this with with pride and sincerity. And you notice too the guys who want to wear the fanny pack are the same guys with big quads. It's hard to get things in your pocket. It's hard to carry everything on you and so you've got to put it

in the fanny pack. This is an ultimate item of convenience and at the same time exceptionally polarizing and so it is that only The Lumberjack the man who has reached a Peak Physical status and is able to handle his business, will rock the fanny pack with great pride, joy, and no shame that. I, you know, I'm gonna agree to disagree with a good father here

fanny packs. Where a jacket pockets, you know this is why we're wearing wearing pants, very useful cargo pants if you really got a item issue. First of all, you probably got your probably carrying around too much stuff. And there's there's that also that problem, right? Which is why you walking around with that stuff. See Fanny packed. Me just means purse, it's just that's just purse. Yeah. That's saying you know, we're a jacket whereas sports jacket, it's nice.

They're all utility. Got pockets in them and stuff. Great that way. Just yeah. Because see my my thing would be this if I see walking around the panty panty pack, I'm like, oh well one where's your jacket two? Why do you need to watch stuff? What he got in there. Like tampons or what? What's going on there? Like what, you know. And I get it, I guess if you're you're so muscular that you're paying, you can't get things in your pockets like you wear a

jacket. They come with pockets, they're building. That's amazing thing. It's a great thing. We're going to say, he says my beet. Crop was awful this year. No, borsche for me, unless I try for a fall crops, I love me some good fresh beets here. Delicious. Okay, let's go back to Carl. This is only going to take us what we're only two two hours in folks for a 14 minute video, but we've watched other stuff. This is how I'm balancing these

things out, you know. Before during the gold streams, I would just keep talking hammer and yeah, and make a 15 minute video last five hours. Now, at least I'm doing a supplementary see Look at, look at the work I do for you. Send me your money. There are other videos of him powerfully built, father of five weightlifting to the sound of heavy metal. Yeah, I wonder why this is a young man. He was raised as a Protestant

and once worked as roofer. That now, serves as a priest in the Russian Orthodox church outside, Russia in Georgetown, Texas. This is a Global Network whose headquarter in New York. It's been expanding across the US. Mainly, as a result of converting people from this is a phenomenon that's really prevalent role. I find people coming from outside face, who weren't necessarily clergy and other in

other another phase coming. You know who were quite a few blue callers, who find their way going to liturgy and find their way going up the hierarchy until he receives the calling become a priest or Deacon, or or original. This happens quite a bit and I'm not well versed in the Protestant or Roman Catholic World. Maybe it's maybe it's a phenomenon everywhere.

But I feel that because it's it's special because it's it's a very much a Because it's an English speaking Church allows English Services. It's reaching people who weren't necessarily brought up with a certain tradition with the Orient. Expectation of you know you're young you're getting you're going to go into the clergy like Roman Catholics right here. Go to Seminary.

So there's that difference to people coming to to the faith at different points in their life and from different backgrounds. So it's, it's an interesting one. I think it also helps right now for a lot of people because, you know, father Moses was roofer. He spent you know, Decades of his life, not involved in this, he can just from his videos, you can see he can talk to people to an assumed lady to his assumed

young men audience. Let's say with an ease and a familiarity that maybe someone who was only raised let's say in an academic kind of theological school, would maybe have a struggle with right? He's, he's got the personality, he can talk to the people and that's I think, overall stray, not saying that those who are academically money, can't do that either. But I think, you know what I'm

saying? Like if you know, someone who works trades or even someone like me working Hospitality, I'm gonna talk to other people, you know, middle, you know, other, you know, Wage Slave 4hl, people in a much different way. Because I've been there, man. I know how it feels. In the last six months. Father Moses prepared, 75 new followers for back, doesn't in his church. The mother of God just north of Austin.

When my wife and I converted 20 years ago, we used to call Orthodoxy the best kept secret because people didn't just didn't know what it was. But in a year and a half, our congregation has tripled in size During Sunday. Let's see if I've missed his church, I'm struck by the number of men in their 20s and 30s praying and crossing himself at the back of the Nave and how this religion seems to attract young men uneasy with life in modern America.

Well, that's because the tone and tenor of the thing is Eastern and Massillon and not Weston and feminine. That's the reason. Software engineer Theodore tells me, he had a dream and what a job, and a wifey adored, but he felt empty inside. As if there was a hole in his heart, he believes that Society has been very harsh on men and it's constantly telling them, they are in the wrong.

He complains that when men are that maina criticized for wanted to be the breadwinner and sports, a stay-at-home wife, we are told that's a very toxic relationship nowadays, that's not how it should be. And so you see a lot of men who are like, hmm, actually, don't agree with the work, feminism, that dominates Western Society. Maybe there's another way of looking at relationships and I'm surprisingly almost all the

convicts. The orphanage have opted to home school, their offspring partly, because they believed women should prioritize their families rather than their careers. Why shouldn't they? Why shouldn't they?

I mean again, this is just traditional family values as up until well, you know, the 90s and 1960s in the west, we also believed in And instead of women being corporate drones whose job is to increase the GDP, they were actually tasked with keeping house and raising children and enjoying their lives. While the men got to go out and be the Breadwinners. So they had a position of dignity and the women had the ability to create a much more sort of lovely society in which we could live.

You know. It's very interesting is the decline of volunteerism. Since women have fled the home, the horrible oppressive home and gone into the workforce. They used to be in like Victorian England and America. huge numbers of not just Charities, but like, Private Social Clubs and Endeavors that were run by women in order to make sure that the society in which we lived was nice and deal with people, like the poor the sick you know orphanages things like this. A lot of these would be wrong

privately by women. It's almost certain limitations on people and terms of where they can even aspire to be let alone actually fulfill. Kind of good thing. Orthodox Church. No, pre can get married and have children. It's the difference from the Roman, Catholics. However, women are forbidden from becoming priests. Our deacons are in sub, Deacons. Now, that doesn't mean that women don't fulfill important

roles within the church. now, not just the priest wife, which a machuca which is, which is a Sort of almost special term. But, but for all the other women attending New Jersey. There's there's roles they can play for me.

They're singing in the choir to helping organize volunteer groups and charity groups and Outreach and all these other things, beautifying the church and ways that men probably don't even think about oh these these wonderful good things they can do that are just as important in many ways as everything else. Because it all feeds into it. It's the experience. Total experience. That's important. And everyone has a role in that experience.

Even if you're just seeking, so you're staying in the back and you're, you know, trying to remember when the cross yourself and about. What are you doing here and Lord of Mercy. Lord, of Mercy. Lord of Mercy. All that stuff? Yeah. Sure. You're fulfilling a purpose. You just don't know it yet you don't you. You haven't been given this area a role yet. That's okay. Your role is to learn. And to be in the presence of God, that's there's your role. You're fulfilling it good for

you. Go to church, talk to your priest, you know. Just the act of going. You're doing something that a lot, but what? 99% of your population of your standing populations, probably not doing. You're going in your attending and you're being a tent full. You're paying attention listening? You're making it not about you. or trying to, Taking those first steps. These are good things. Celebrate them. So good about that. You're allowed to feel your love

to feel good about that. Can't take that away from you. That's why I always say about prayer, prayer, prayers is wonderful thing because it's free. Do it. Whatever you want. Do it right now. Lord, Jesus Christ. And God have mercy measure Center. Just do it. No one can stop you from doing it. You just do it in your mind. you don't have to say the words, just Think them be intentful of them. It's wonderful to wonderful gift. It's free. Easy memorized. Jesus prayer.

Four lines is Lord, Jesus Christ on a God. Have mercy me a sinner. There you go. Words off demons, bad, thoughts and tensions. Keeps you centered? Keep your humble. what's not to, like, Going to liturgy. Sometimes it's difficult. I know for me it's takes an hour to get to to church, not always easy. The demands. And as you don't, you just don't feel like it Don't feel like the weird thing too, is you having a prayer rules? Sometimes you just don't feel like sink in prayer.

Like what's that about? I always say my prayers. Why do I today? Why do I don't know? Do I gotta? Think how long you're prayer rule is probably about 10 10, 15 minutes tops. Right. I know. I know there's people there's Ortho chats that in the chat or I just pray for five hours every night.

Well, good for you but you know, for the for the majority of us, it's not that long really and even if it's an hour, it's an hour, half hour, whatever it is. Now you know you you think of all the other things you waste time on that's what I always catches me sometimes, right. I'm like oh God I see my prayers. Like you just watched you just didn't sit there watching YouTube, been watching wrestling shoot videos for last hour and a half.

Could've gotten like multiple layers of prayers in this one. Where's your mind? I'll tell you one, one, where I fail constantly. There's I multiple points of failure. Like I said, I'm the worst. It's the morning prayers in the prayer book. It says the first, it's the first thing you should do. You know, get up. And start your prayers. You know, don't do anything else. Be present with God. And I fall into check my phone, the alarm goes off. So then, you know, I'm there.

So scroll, it's just habit Scrolls, Twitter, I go washroom. I have a smoke, maybe, get the kettle on the boil and then say, my prayers. That's on me. Bad bad, bad me. Why? Where's your orientation? What's going to be important to you today? This, this is part of it but this is God show. I've offered it up. And if you know tomorrow it's like quit the show, I'll quit the show. It's not on me. There's the other brilliant part of this.

When you understand that you bear responsibility for your actions, your thoughts, your words you bear responsibility. You can give yourself a little bit of a break. Again, go to church, talk to your priest. Here's a little bit of a break. You can give yourself in the modern world if you're just coming to this now, is that you didn't know. Okay, you're ignorant. You didn't know what you didn't know. And you've been saturated. With this. BS. Your whole entire life.

Materialism. Boom. GP, go up. Quality boom, individuals and boom. Distractions, boom? Pornography, boom. All of it. Boom, boom. The fact that if you're listening to this and you're made a decision to break free of it and go to go to church, talk to your priest. That one step one step. Is massive in today's world. You're at zero. You're trying to get to one. Or let's say you're less than one right?

Trying to get there, trying to get that first step, over the over the fresh old and then the next one, the next one. And the next one. I think both gets easier and harder as you go all these things. Oh, I think that's where I remember. I was gonna try to say and now see the threads sometimes, and my old decrepit. Brain, come together, easy hard thing. Most of Orthodoxy. You're going to find out or as I'm finding out, I'll put it on

me and I'm finding out. It's filled with the easy heart things. Prayer rules easy. Sometimes very hard. Fasting easy. Don't eat this. But I won't eat it. I really want to eat it. First time you fast, you're gonna find out how how, like bacon Bacon bacon. But at stake but you don't even have it in front of you like a boy but she's Burger. I just want a cheeseburger. You haven't had a cheeseburger in a week. I'm gonna eat chicken or is it weird things?

Come up. Because you're denying yourself. And the adversary hates it, when you're denying yourself, because you're making one step again, that one stone, Small Step of divorcing, yourself from the world. Taking a step back, take a step away going. Ah, what else is on the menu? I can deny myself. I can get my control, but this. My biggest thing is smoking, right? If smoke on Stream, So supposed to be not under advisor. Advisory of my priest is to use Wednesdays and Fridays on to smoke.

And I have been horrible at that. So sorry. Father John Here's my public confession. I suck. The easiest thing in the world. Is to not do something. Big. It's like almost like be lazy about your addiction. Just just don't do it. God, I'll smoke tomorrow, get around to it. Or I'll eat that. Cake or whatever it is. Whatever your thing is, whatever. The thing is that gets got you in your grip.

Easiest thing in the world is not doing something but it's also the hardest thing, when it's all, you know, how to do when it's become part of you in some way. And that's the hooks You know, I envy those people. I don't even know if they're telling the truth, but some people are always like, saying I could just have one cigarette after a good meal. Oh, So, it's always piss party people. It's also those same people who get drunk at the bar. And then, like, smoked half your

pack. Yeah, those, those are the same people but regardless, I don't smoke. Oh, he's poking. I'd go buy a new because of you. You certainly were doing it tonight. Bob, I don't know what. Anyways, I digress. Easy hard things. Liturgy. There's more to it and I really don't want to Debate anything by making too simplistic but like your first time at liturgy the first time you go. And, by the way, I Go to

whatever service you can. It was recommended me to go to a Vespers which is my parish is a Saturday service. I also kind of recommend that I think it's, I think that's a good one. Liturgy can be a lot. There's a lot going on, you know, Vespers depending on your Parish. Does it tend to be a little less? Everything. I have more of a chance to talk to your preset words and so that's a little bit less demands on. So, but as you will right again go to church, talk to your

priest. Either way. your first service, all you need to do is go you go and stand in the back. You know, maybe you have a if you go into a Russian Orthodox Church, you the little ladies sometimes. Right? Who are going to tissue and they'll tell you Different churches, have different Traditions or whatever. But chances are, you can just go in and just stand there in the back and laundry bees and views. Don't wear shorts and no, not my thing.

But where is shirt and pants? Okay, nice shoes that Sunday Best. Yeah, do that. we're a big giant tuxedo, but You know, be clean at least. Shave. And if you can, Go. Go and see. Come and see. And you're at that point, you're only responsibility is to be in the presence of it. Drink it in. Easy. Don't go to know what to do with your hands, you know, try to do the cross when it was someone else does a cross, do a cross. Someone bows, you bow bow.

They say, Lord of Mercy. Say, Lord of mercies pretty simple, right? Thank you. Till you make it kind of thing. Or just stand there in the back, is your first time. Chances are no one's going to be paying attention to you, anyways. It came in quietly. Don't knock over the. Don't knock over the candles. Come and see just be present. Simple. I can speak of some experience. It took me a long time to go to liturgy because I felt unworthy

And I am. I am unworthy. but that feeling of unworthiness had was like, unworthiness, shame all the rest of it, like I couldn't I couldn't take that step over the threshold, mentally. And so, I made every excuse in the world. Oh, there's on me and all these others. I had a I guess three years ago I was up in Perth so I had to do medical exams from my, my visas.

And I could have gone. I was there on a Sunday, easy peasy could have gone to the Ukrainian Church that's there in Perth. Canonical church or Russian or whatever and just gone. Come and see, just could have gone. And I was planning on it in my mind I'm like I'm gonna go to liturgy on it. I'm there might as well wasn't that far. Keep jumping over, get there. Couldn't do it. day of couldn't do it. Overcome. with that sense of inadequacy shame. Prevent me from from there and

you can blame it on the demons. You can blame it on a whole bunch of stuff, but it's you. so to overcome these things and as I said to anyone, if you've gone If you're going. Just to go. is a major accomplishment in the model World, major Do not understand it in yourself. Now. Don't go walk around. Billy badass. Oh, I want to liturgy over. Really okay. Okay, good. Go again. Keep going. Keep going. if I do nothing else with this show, For other things

that I'm doing this thing. If the only thing that this show ever accomplishes, even if I don't make any money or whatever have you, right? And I'm forced to other means. That's fine. The The Hope really is the the intent and the hope is this is to increase, it's not even to bring you to church. God's going to do that for you, okay? It's not to improve your life. God, your priest. The church is going to do that for you. They're going to heal you.

These are all the things that can happen when you go. I'm here, just as your personal cheerleader, man. We're gonna watch some stuff, clear, some stuff out to get these doubts, to attack that modern brain to break. That liberal frame. That part of the show is never changed. My work, will never change on that. But it's also just to encourage you. My story through my journey through. The journey stories and journeys of others. And tell you, it's okay.

It's going to be okay. But you got to make those steps. You gotta do the easy hard things. And the more you do them. The easier and harder it gets. Not gonna lie to you. Some aspects of this is really hard. Confronting yourself. as you walk down that Royal path, you're going to pass yourself or so. I'm told I'm not there yet. But you'll pass this false self. This idea, this worldly self of

you, that is not even you. It's a concoction, it's a, it's a amalgamation of your parents and your world, your all these other things. You wear them. Yes, sir to strip that way. To get to who you are. I think this is a great work of Father, Moses and others like that targeting young men about these about these these subjects because again, we're we've been cursed with modeling broken men. Who were given the moniker the great generation.

Heroes in many ways they were and I'm not taking anything away from them. It pains me to even talk about this stuff because I hold my grandfather of that, generation of two great regard. But in many ways these men were broken and were not traditional men. So when we talk of traditional masculinity we're not even talking about the same thing. There's your word concept fallacy. Mask literally, what does it mean? What is a traditional role?

The father and how the father I'm talking dads, you know, not just the father or your priest but dads or how we supposed to interact with our children with our wives, with the world. What? All are instincts and all our, let's say almost Christian DNA, has been outlawed or subdued or made vulgar. And then of course we look okay, well we look to aspects of our fathers.

Okay well looks at the world we're looking to our dads and to our grandfathers and we realize that they've been modeling bad models as well. Oops, and not just their struggling with their own personal etcs, but their concept of masculinity has been altered. And I think that's on purpose. The Revolutionary spirit that luciferian. Spirit has gone through. These categories has done a revolution on the idea of the concept of what it is to be masculine. And over the last 60 years, has

gone through the feminine. And now we're going to go into the category of the child. I don't think it's by accident, or by coincidence. That the big thing right now, Jeffrey, Epstein, PDF files, child Rings, all that stuff. That's aspect of the child. you know, prunes The transformed. The medically, transformed. Many of them children. Prepare you know puberty blockers for those who have not gone through puberty 13 14 year, olds are you know people are

going through it now. On what happens with those kids, you know, starting now the next over the next five. So years when they start to realize what was done to them, Revolution. In the category of the child. so, the responsibility did Of Matt of men. Is to get our heads out of our asses, excuse me. It's not fair. You're right. It's not fair. But it is what it is. There's your responsibility. Here is your time. You will live it. How do you wish to live it?

Here is your struggle, will you? Will you take up arms against yourself? Against your own predilections and lies. And deceits. It's not all just from adversary, they stem from him. Sure. The demons love to Feast on it but we Supply them with a steady stream of it ourselves, don't we? No more excuses. Come see. As I progressed along this path, and as hopefully, as I gain authority to talk to such matters. Well, we'll talk about spiritual warfare. Well, be well be anytime soon.

We'll get into it, I'm sure. I don't sound too this you know. Now people go. You're blocking. I'm not this is Hope pilling. This is the greatest hope pillow in the world. You don't have to go anywhere. Well, go to church. Talk to your priest. Yes, I'm saying is The Battleground is in somewhere in the Middle East. Or Ukraine. If you're not there already. Or in some other country and some other land or down. The street is here.

You're in it. Bow ground is your soul. and just like prayer, you can fight these things, these This enemy. Whatever you want. You don't have to ask permission. She get advice. You gotta get prepared. You need this. You need the protection of the church. I made this mistake last year. And I got spiritually beaten up for it. Don't DIY this stuff, man. It's a reason why there's tradition has been around for 2000 years because it works. And that's why you need it.

To talk of the to give a spiritual answer to Carl. Why are young men are being attracted to the church? You talk about truth beauty. Tradition. Yes. But for many of these young men, this isn't even their tradition. Why are white? Why are white Anglo men going to the Greek Orthodox Church? Many of them probably aren't Greek. or the Roku or, you know, Why is that happening? Because it's a tradition Beyond tradition. So, I'll just language and culture. It's true.

The apocalypse is, his age is revealing all these things. We're seeing the truth, we're getting more access to it, not all of it, but we're getting it. And in Christianity, we say, well, there is there is such a thing as absolute objective truth. and it came to us as a man, The logos incarnate. Here's Christ. There's a truth. As we pursue Christ, as we deepen understanding and our love for Christ, we also deepen our respect and access to truth.

That's what you want. And you, whether you want it or not. So what you need, you need access to reality. This is a sort of a layup too. I also I want to talk about everything being produced. Something that Putin we get to speech. And so it's always stuck with me. We talked with the Empire of Lies, its propaganda stuff. Sure. There's a but again, there's a truth in it. You can't live, these lies forever. Without either going insane or

going to church or maybe both? we understand now, and I think the Fatal flaw was trying to get people to man, as a woman, a woman is a man all these category errors and so thankfully. By God's grace. It's enough of us who went that. Know. Maybe gen xers were put on this on this Earth as a generation. The West to go. No, no no no no no no, no, no, no. That what what did you just say that? No. I drink out of a garden hose, sir. Well through my childhood. I'm not buying this.

No, no. You know why? Because I'm a Bender is the best, it was and the best not gonna accept this kind of stuff. No, no sir, raise by two heart, and that's some garbage talk, you know, not gonna do that. So there's a greater designer. Not just to return to sometime from before. But a stability of reality. You can't build on Sand or online doesn't work very well

dolls over we watch people who are exalted anyways. so I think he has some doubles deals, just think about this, but Will Smith the other day Will Smith If you're in the night, you know, in growing up, the 90s. Or, you know, alive during the 90s. Whatever It Will Smith was like everywhere. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air rapper, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air got into the movies Independence Day. That guy was just Home runs racking up W's in the chat.

Every single thing he did was just magnificent, wonderful great. Until? He became a victim of his own success in many ways. Maybe he's hiding. His rumor that he's hiding some. Secrets. regardless, marries a woman who obviously just hates him As children who are, you know, his son's now doing weird acting out stuff. I don't know what's going on

with his daughter. And you see, you know, you just look at this man, every time you see him every time I see him in public, I'm like I just feel bad for her. He'll Man, who has everything right, aim Fortune. Or who at least had it. and now you're looking like, I almost feel, I feel the same sympathy for Will Smith as I would with a homeless person on the street. House that happen.

Oh, because this isn't all there is All the fame in the fortune attention, all the rest of it, oftentimes destroys people. More compromises them in another ways leads them into hanging out. With very compromised, people who do very compromised things. We get my drift and that's all coming out now. Well, enough of it. Enough of that, we can see. Eyes to hear. There's your eyes to hear, eyes to see. Here's to hear. We're seeing it.

I mean, we're more or less powerless, to do anything about it. Authorities don't seem to want to do anything about it or they're doing a two. So they're motivations are different. Or they're doing, or they are reacting to it, but the reacting to it over here, not over here, where our attention is at, we want, you know, that's a Epstein to be brought to Justice and yet, you know, through all the investigation, they're bringing these other PDF files, too to Justice.

We're not looking over here, we're looking here. I'm okay, I'm open with that. That narrative. I'm fine with that. The problem is you're seeking this Justice, this thing. This truth is this reconciliation, this catharsis That you're unlikely to ever get. For one reason or another. so, The way out of this, is to realize that that catharsis is a false catharsis. that, unless you the victim of these things, Or was a victim in general of these things.

That the Justice you want is not even the justice for that act. You want this Justice for your life? Just as for the lies, just for the, the for eating the food of the pigs Justice for being brought low. For not only just being told lies but believing them and speaking them. Living them. How do you get Justice for these things? In your lifetime. Go to church, talk to your priest. Return. Repent redeem. That's how you want to beat them. I want to be them.

You really want to? Pee. Oh, the the adversary go to church. Talk to your priest. Go to liturgy. Take the step. Continue to take steps. Submit to the authority of your priest, and of the church. Do what he says. Well, I've watched a lot of RJ and I know that your day, one, you're not even day one. You're you're day, you're you're here your day, almost won. Go to church, talk to your priest. People who are doing this. Don't need to hear this. Oh, they still need encouragement.

I hope they people who are farther along this path than me. Can tune into the show and find Value out of it. Here's something that I have back to this. A little bit of. Bathroom break. Something that I thought about though, that really hit me. You know, keeping keeping humble, it's hard. sometimes, especially if you're, you know, Been giving gifts or you're this, you're that or you know, these things and you memorize that sure energies, and Essences sure.

I was saying it liturgy. We'll call it last week was at some point. And one of the young families there had been baptized a year ago. Husband and wife and child and they're little boys, a toddler. But let's say two years old. They all been baptized and so that they all can receive communion. I have not been baptized in here in the Orthodox Faith, so I can't take me. As I'm in my cat against. and, It's a nice. It, I don't know why I thought this but I looked over that toddler.

And realized it that that toddler. Is more of Orthodox and I am. On my family, I have lineage and I've read the books and I've yeah. that kid can take liturgy, you can me. I'm humbling. Keep those in mind. It's There are layers of this, there's levels of this, and it's not just because you're going on

the way up, right? Another thing of the majority that modern is going to have to contend with, it's like it's, you know, sometimes it's not like you're going to get like an office, you know, cubicle a corner office or you know major you know there's your raise Make yourself useful. Be productive. Stay humble. And things will just happen all around you. Opportunities will arise. And and the good.

The great thing is I can't speak for everyone's life and everyone's opportunities, but by and large are going to be good ones. Because they're coming from good places. There's something you're surrounded by a bunch of people who kind of care about you. This is not nice. Press play a little bit, it'll be right back. We'll play a little bit more of this and then we're going to get to take a little tiny bit of a break, and then, I'll let you go as well.

We'll turn into the crowd, we'll see what the crowd wants, what they people, what? What the chat would prefer can play with a power washing, listen to some stuff, or we can. A continued on with it, with what I have to say about everything being produced or we'll figure it out. We're going into, what? Almost our threes. So a good time to maybe change things up a little bit. We'll see. See how you feel.

Of course, lets people know, like, subscribe, and share the stream and all the places, and you can send me a little bit of money, whatever is rattling around, and your digital couch, Throw It My Way links in the description below, and in the chat, streamlabs PayPal YouTube, whatever you want to do, whatever is easiest for you. I appreciate each and every one of you, okay? I would play a little bit more of this and we'll get back. Go and do things that they found

to be socially necessary. But because actually they went just slaves and they won't just change in the home. They had a vital social role and this is all of course with it away with women joining the workflow. So they're too busy to do that now, The kind of socially important things that you used to be done. But the, the genuine sort of sinews of the community together, not just on happening. And so we wonder why Society is declining, my things feel so Hollow.

Well, there are lots of tangible things that women used to do that. Just not doing now. And actually maybe a return to a kind of tradition in this regard. Might be a wise thing but whatever, I'm just evil far, right? Or I've Been Told Father, John Whitford, Whiteford, sorry. And that's priest. There says that homeschooling in shows religious education and a way of protecting your children, while avoiding any talk about transgenderism or the 57 genres

of the month or whatever. And you can see exactly how this is getting into people's minds. Oh, the Russian Orthodox Church is not doing these things. But the Protestant Church won't stop, won't shut up about them. Which one do I choose? Comparing the millions of worshipers in America's Evangelical megachurches. The number of Christian Orthodox tiny and about 1% of the population of course. But you can see why it would be appealing because they're not

woke. And then not going to reinforce transgenderism in your children or whatever. It's and, The whole thing is coded male.

Anyway, a smaller study of 773 converts backs at the trend that Pew. Research Center found that suggests Orthodox Christians are up to 64% male which is up, 46% in 2007. So you can see that the natural sort of flow of men into the church has rendered it more massively Ladies If you're looking for a date, Looking for a good husband, a good man or someone who's trying to be a good man. That's important too.

You know, wanting to be a good man, making the effort in every way in every single way, possible reads, you know, it it really does. And I don't know, I don't know what young girls are. On about these days. You know, I see them. I see them around. I don't know, right? Right my interaction with young, my definition of young girls now, like five years. So, you know, It's like they're into she was my daughter's into blue he or she's been watching. She was really like playing the

hair with her dolls. Like she's obsessed with you combing hair and so That's my thing. I don't know what the 20th. Year old girls are in women young women right into these days or how they're acting. I see the videos and stuff. I don't know if that's an accurate presentation as well. You know, I've watched the whatever podcast and etc, etc, Sure.

Yeah okay. I'm sure there's I'm sure that's modeling to a humongous percentage of women and you know, I believe that there's a lot of young men are suffering from a dating drought and all these other things and etc etc, I believe that. It was starting to get tough before I met my wife, you know, but I had more traditional forms of meeting women. So as a bartender, I I, Met people all the time. It was easy to do that.

So so if you know you're doing a job where that's not your don't have access to the public, I can understand how that can be can be daunting. I don't know, right? But I I think that as again, we're Desiring reality. Give it to me real. The more we desire, these things. Even in her food, you know? And presentation and traditionalism. Neo, traditional is the neotrad says, I predictable Are Gonna Come And there won't be all bad, right?

There's even if the the surface level, you know, Center status quo, version of these things are going to be annoying. I think there's can be lots of great hope for for good, traditionalism to to attract people, to the good stuff. A good, you know, good Noble desires that that are that do serve civilization and Humanity better. But we're not there yet. We're getting there. The. the, the only thing I can really Advise, you know, general

advice is generally pretty bad. So Do with that, what you will. but I think the only thing I can ever recommend to people is, you know, try to find a good person. And that doesn't always mean someone. You're going to agree with who likes all your stuff. You know, or well, they have to be really smart so they can understand all the stuff from talking about. It's like They can be smart in other ways and I'll be interested.

They can be super smart and not interested in anything they're interested in, and that doesn't that doesn't even that shouldn't even disqualify them. My wife is an interested in any of this stuff. And it's a nice break. We don't have to talk about any of it. It's good. I'm happy for it. You know, it's a nice break. so, Different quite different criteria and difficult qualifications for different people. Sure. But finding someone who's good, who's solid?

Who, you know, wants good wants who is aspiring to for good things that aren't purely selfish. Who has at least some element of humility in them. These are things, you can seek out. You know, I know a lot of guys they want they're being told that you gotta day tens and this and that. The other thing it's like, He's gotta find a good person who you think is going to be a good mother. And the same thing for women. You know. Finding a man, making six figures and all that stuff.

Yeah, it's great if you can find him good if you find a good man who has that all that stuff good Lottery. but if you're dating within relative ages and with modern, men and women, right now, you're going to find probably a fixer upper And the great thing about marriage is your commitment to spend the rest of your life. Fixing yourself and some ways each other up, which is good. Women. You want to let your men fix you too sometime, right? Make you aspire to be better. Quite often.

This is always put on men. and, you know, and maybe in a traditional sense. That's true. We should get back to that. We're not there yet. Now we're have to get out of this false equality, false, individualism, all these other trappings, liberalism we're going to break that frame, but it's going to, it's going to take some time, I think. Because you see some of the more based. Guys out there. And they're really good on some points.

And they're breaking frame on this, that, and the other thing that stuff though, still want that. Well, not everything. Yeah, that too. Flies. If you think the lies just started in 1945 or something like that, you're not paying attention. 1850? No no, no, no. Oh, go for the back. Been with us for a long time. Now. Here's a bitter white pill. This is good news for all of you, you can do a tremendous amount of work and it's very short period of time.

But you got to do the work and and the work isn't always obvious. A lot of the work is just shaking it out. Get rid of that. Falseness. Wherever it leads. Wherever it leads. And that might come down to, you have to do some changes in your life sucka. Good. New challenge. Get good. It's like Dark Souls but you're living in it. It's great. And the old folks Church carries on many Traditions that the president's lost such as the tradition of having months.

Well, which is interesting, had it the Protestants ever had those fish. Because this obviously fell out of favor in the Church of England, with the dissolution of the monasteries by having the 8th and now it's just become. Very Limp institution whereas monks are Catholics without a pope. That's it. That was the whole thing. Okay. K. It's just saying, no, we don't want the pope. We want the king in charge of

things. Okay. The ultimate Authority rests in the crown and not in the Vatican. That's it. Bass preachers is orthodoxies that. Dark Souls of Christianity. That is accurate. Yeah. Gotta get good. That people are taking the religion seriously and so I find it's all basically knows that. Alright just gotta stay here. You gotta stats protests in face. Then you know, maybe one or two other minor stats like was father, Moses strength obviously.

Oops. J. Dyer an interesting, you know, intelligence stacked up. All guitar. The western Mass is, at least say this is a Holo us other Church me too. Yeah, I'm right there with you brother. The Anglo man has had an idea him. I would like more monks. Monks are cool go and live in, you know, a monastery somewhere and brew beer and make honey or whatever it is amongst do while pressing God. That's that's Definitely a library for all of us.

That's what monks do. How they do other things too. But they Sanctified purify themselves and pray for all of us. You're welcome. Thank you monks. Appreciate it. Yeah. it's not just like, you know, in cells who like to make mead, Some, you know, a small sense of young men would want, right? It gives them something to do anyway. As you can see this, this is something that is gaining kind of cultural traction. Yeah, because something to do Carl.

You're right. Yes. You know, praying for Humanity all the time. Yeah, it's you know, it's make work. Sure. But it's it's humble work but it's something, right? Of the vastly underserved demographic of young men, who don't know what they ought to be doing with themselves. Like there are loads of young

men who are. I mean when you just essentially cast out of polite Society, if you're not prepared to be excessively woke and play second Fiddle in your own life to women in minorities or where do you go? That's another be an interesting thing to see if this starts happening, if we start to see an influx of men, choosing the monastic life, As a downstream effect of this.

I mean, maybe say well look You know, I give up on the idea, you know, having children and and having a wife and all these things is kind of been beaten out of me, not interested in that anymore, you know? whatever the reasons are and I believe there has to become as a calling because what you're, what you're going to do is pretty impressive by all by all, stretch of the mean, That being said, I will be interesting to see if more men. Get that calling.

I didn't, I looked for this. I didn't mean I didn't say for me to delete it. There was a guy who made a, I guess an Instagram post or something like that. Talking about praising God, for the influx of people coming into Orthodox, parishes all over the place. And I've been hearing those reports as well. Now again, when we talk about these numbers, You know, people think influencers like 2000s and stuff.

It's like some of these parishes are quite small so suddenly going from six people to 24, people is huge and it is still a huge. Jump up in numbers. And if this trend keeps going, you know, we just we we're just getting started. So there's lots of reasons to have a lot of Hope, for the very, the very near future let alone. What's going to happen 20, 30 40

years from now. The. thing he touched on that video was you know we need hopefully we have Global Grant is more resources and by resources, I mean like priests you know people who can work in the church you know people couldn't do the can help guide and and you know Minister all these influx of people You know, again these are things are in God's hands not in ours but it'll be very interesting to see if we start to see that kind of influx and the effects that has

on society. Because it won't just be more more people make me go into church. That's one thing but it's it's gonna start, I think in some ways. Imagine in 1050 years from now or whatever, that it's not weird, it wouldn't be weird to see men in Orthodox frogs with yours long hair and all the rest of it just walking on the street, you know, it becomes a common occurrence like oh, yeah. There's loads of those guys now. What any one in every town at least?

Wouldn't that be interesting but is that dude people? or when going to, you know, establishing nunneries monasteries this becoming like Everyone knows someone. Who's, who's joining the faith? And In some way, shape or form. Higher level or more devoted level. What does that start to do to society? Because these things are never contained. They Ripple. Moments man. The Moses is like well there is a place in the Orthodox Church

for men. The Protestant churches, they don't really seem to have a place for men, but the old stocks church as he says here is not necessarily masculine, it's just normal. It's just normal and so they don't stigmatize Matt and they don't excessively. Praise women. And there's just normal as he says, in the west, everything has become very feminized, some Protestant churches churches, mainly cater for women. I don't want to get services that feel like Taylor Swift

concert. You look at the language of worship music. It's all emotion, that's just not meant. Yeah. I mean, in a way and this I think makes perfect sense. If you can just be normal rather than polluted with do I see a bit of buck? A little bit of buck Johnson's head. Come up here. Let's see if he gets to Buck Johnson.

Bubble you in sectional. Marx says, yeah, Sargon is that intellect is in that intellectual space when it comes to God. I wish he would just chat it up with Jay Dyer, because it feels like they would hit it off on geopolitics. Yeah, you know, I have the same. I I if they were to talk, I hope it would be in debate. be a more of a interview conversation, whatever, and not a debate because I think I agree with you. That Sargon, I think is getting to that point where and maybe he

needs it, right? Maybe he needs a debate, I don't know. But I'm hoping that he's up, he's at that point that I was at. Five years ago, where you're seeing stuff and you're like, I can't really disagree. Like, I can't find an intellectual. Disagreement here. Or a cultural one. I mean, yeah. Okay, I'm an atheist. I still don't believe in it. Maybe it's just a good philosophy. Maybe I can interact with it as a philosophy and stuff.

Yeah. Well and then you start seeing the Jesus prayer and holds and then things start happening. All those contradictions start to crash. Again, the what the important thing about the pride flag is it doesn't state. Concern about kind of person. What it states is a particular interpretation of thoughts, which is in sectional, woke Ideology.

Now this fundamentally comes out of the marxists who is actually lost the argument during the Civil Rights Movement to the Liberals and have been working their way through the institutions trying to pervert liberal ideology. That's not the Marx. Liberalism is intrinsic, weakness, two marks is lost, okay. In his book, I try to warn you by Jim George. Joshua's you go check out our last conversation but in that book is first chapter is on a And how the left hates hated

him. Still probably hates him. And she also, this can really politically far more to left in many, many things. Right. We're talking about policy and all that stuff. Yeah, sure. But what it shows is going to do, he revealed the gulag octopus. He revealed the great lie. That Soviet communism. Communism in the Soviet Union was demonic. Immoral. No basis for any morality in the system at all and they were doing horrible things to people

their own people. Bass preacher says, I need to get some rest, you'll take it easy. Thank you so much. I see there is the number I have is 73 watching Let's people know. On your way up, please press thumbs up like it. All the things put a comment in this in the comment section if you're watching this in the future. also gets his Only praise women, maybe but we venerate the mother of God more gloriously than the Angels point is in Orthodoxy.

The cup overflow with both men and women, True Balance. Yeah, everyone has a place. I think in them again. Post-feminism. This idea that women can't be priests. Is almost profaned the modernist mind. You know, oh well they don't, they're not exalting women. It's like no, we're just saying that. Here's something you can't do. It's not for you. It's not for me either, I'm a man I technically right? I could be a priest. I'm not gonna happen, I don't think I'm not, I'm not made that

way. I have enough heard the call. To put it my way. Now, work within the church and how the church and and work my position. And work me. Yeah. Work say my Lane, I'm all down for that. You know, learn some allergy and help teach people and all that. Yeah. Sure. The thing that really is the mine worm of of individualism of liberalism itself and you know, you put it together with liberty and equality and all these other things. He's fine, wonderful ideas. Lofty.

Notions is that this idea that you can't just be whatever you want, whenever you want to be, if you do the work right process work, either you go to do the work. Sure you go to do the thing but, you know, if you do the work and you work real hard and you know that you can achieve and you get to reposition and the title and the desk and the name thing and sure. Here we go. Back to the The Infernal question, why? Why do you think you deserve? Even in the modern sense.

Why do you think you deserve to be a CEO? Or how the power of a CEO. Why do you think if it deserves to have the right to vote? Or an opinion on certain things. Why? not saying you don't, I'm not saying you shouldn't not saying it's should be permanently out of your grass, but necessarily in some cases, but No one answers, no one asks the question and so there's no answer to why do you think you deserve x y z?

You know, conserved as a person really bad bad about this by saying, well you don't deserve it. Maybe that's true and in certain cases. And in many cases, Sure. But it's not, it's not really good of an answer for someone who thinks they deserve something, right. especially when Let's take the education, situation situation. when there's just been doing what they were told to do, Funny enough.

Now it's starting to bite women in the ass and they're all getting upset about it. You see all these different videos of women crying going. I'm so crazy in debt. I have this degree You know, I went and got the degree and, and now I'm crazy in debt and I can't get a job. You can't get a job doing program. All that stem stuff, right? Go to stem. Women should go into stem, medical Fields, all that stuff, get degrees. And so, they did, and many of

them can't find a job now. Oops, because they're Outsourcing it to magical brown people and AI. Oops, Oh well, you weren't counting on the current year. Sorry. See again I had the benefit of age. I remember when it was graphic design. There was a time when maybe it was probably still my 20s. When it was, you know, go to graphic design, graphic design, graphic design.

It was all about graphic design. Learn how to do graphic design and you'll get a job and be very well paid and graphic design and graphic design. I knew a lot of guys, wouldn't you? And they all got out of it eventually very quickly, they realized, hey, there's yeah. You can maybe get one of these high-paying jobs, Maybe Chances are you're gonna be part of the, you know, basically a sweatshop level of graphic designers working for like Puma or something Nike. Good.

Perfect, the Swoosh. Can you use swoosh in a different way? Different color, whatever, you know. And the money wasn't there. They just sold as you because that that's what the you know. Who knows it's speculate wildly but that was what they were selling people. That point computer design, a computer programmers, learn to code computer programmer dubba now they come up. They are you can do it on X which like the the Sheep subscription.

To basic coding, get me the code for this and, you know, rock does. Okay. You just take that and put it in and make the code work. Oops. Yeah. You got lied to. deceived or, you know, maybe the people who are telling this really believed in it, but they were wrong. And now you're paying the consequence, which is, you know, being massively in debt and being able to student loans I got lucky. I don't need to do one year in

college. I I got accepted to journalism, I wanted to do film school and they got into journalism and did a year there and then realized that I don't like journalism. My journalist teachers, all rubbing is kind of weird and creepy and then for radio in Canada, at that time they were telling us, well, serious radio Digital radio is coming in, so it's not gonna be that many jobs.

And if you want to get on, are you're going to go up to White Horse and work your way back down to the civilization? I was like, really. Hmm. I don't know about that. Hey, wait, one thing I did learn in college, was how to drink. I mean, I spent a lot of time in bars and I looked around as I can do that. How much and look at the tip jar? I'm like Well, that's seems like they're making a lot of money.

And they're doing something that I think I can figure out how to do. And they have access to alcohol. This seems like a much better situation then going to White Horse to talk into a microphone to nobody Essentially. It came for all Circle eventually, but you know, they didn't have podcasts. Is that back in 97, 98 some of that. So, Alice has got a dash. Got a cat. Glad to catch a little live stream. We'll definitely catch the replay. God bless God.

Bless you. Okay, let's finish this up. We're almost there. So close. Two minutes, I'm gonna talk about buck. So let's see. This to happen. And so there's there's no point trying to get backwards. Just changing tack is the way to solve this. But the point being the pride flag is a state of ideological dominion. And this is why when they're looking at the woke, the Orthodox Church the same. Well, hang on a second. This is so obviously not woke.

That accept men as men as in the traditional biblical, interpretation of men being the man of the house and that's appealing to a lot of young men, but it's also appealing to a lot of women. A lot of women don't actually want to become wage slaves for BlackRock Amazon or some subsidiary of thereof. They actually don't want to spend all their time. Filing reports or sending emails for a boss who doesn't care about them at all.

They actually don't want this. It's actually not desirable to be sat under the fluorescent lights of the office while, sat in front of a screen sending as many emails as you can and then going home to an empty apartment, but at least your financially independent. Yay. Well done. And those women who do waste their time doing during that 20s and early. 30s, the looking around, going well, hang on a second. This isn't the future. I was promised.

I was promised satisfaction, and I don't have it. And now, I'm thinking, well, maybe I want to change my life and become a wife and mother. Well, maybe you shouldn't have wasted the last 10 years, not doing that. But anyway, I don't want to go on to a big rant about it.

The point being, it's not surprising that young men are looking at anything else other than the native institutions that have completely, not just fail them, but betrayed them and said, yeah, you know what, they're actually isn't a place for you in society. What there is a place for is those people who don't propagate Society, the people who are not responsible for producing and rearing the next generation are going to take precedence in everything that we do.

And for some reason, we don't know why our congregations are Vanishing and are going over to foreign churches that like, hey guys, we don't hate you. How about you come in and we'll lift some weights together? Hey, very close attention to what these five pastors. Say, interesting how he and I understand why he doesn't, he doesn't understand these things and so, okay. But interesting how he says

these foreign churches. Because it's not for, in fact, Orthodoxy was there in Ireland. And you know, same Patrick Um, was there predating even Roman Catholicism? There was a priest Schism time, too, right? It's because it happens around the Meat of the exact date. There's a there's debate over the date anyways, but Let's just call it 1,080. And then, you know, but there was a church that was out there and flourishing, and being the

church. And what, you know it was just it was just the church at that point, didn't even have to call it worth. Yeah, it's that existed. So It's not that foreign Carl. She's just you you got you got invaded. By these by those Protestants. Dang Protestants. Let's not start that. I made a promise to myself and others to be nice. Yeah, I don't have to be mean about it either. You know, look. It's the same thing.

I was saying before, you're raising these lies and these or even not even lies, but let's say, A deception is brought on by let's say ignorance both Wilfred on otherwise. Those passions, man. You know, they do something to you the pride in vainglory that's like having Tangled bunch of it, you know, earphones. You know, trying to get through it. All the more you untangle, you're like Jesus. There's lots of this. Yeah. it's been with me for a long time and yeah. Bye. I don't have it.

I don't have the scroll here, but go to church. Talk to your priest. Talk to a priest and then making your priest. And then you can talk to your priest. Your Church Father, your spiritual father. Get one Very important, Saint Herman brought Christianity, Alaska and 1794. There you go. Been around for bed. What's interesting and see, I be interesting to see if Carl ever, really honestly deals of the world of the fox say on any on

any substantial level. Because one of the things that, I mean, I knew about Orthodox is my family and stuff. We were not overly religious, so it was more unawareness of. But, you know, we weren't going to liturgy unless stuff all the time. Uh so but so I knew it existed, right? And I but for many of people, this is like this really weird well-kept secret That wasn't a

secret. You know, during I found that I thought sort of thing in those a few years ago because I listened to all the new atheists and and Chris Hitchens, and all that stuff. And I was here, and of course Hitchens, quite a bit shamefully. Well, whatever we go, we go through the things, we go through. The, the interesting thing about those guys and they never debated in Orthodox, Christians.

It was Jews and Muslims and and, you know, Protestants Galore, and maybe a few Roman Catholics in there, I'm sure, but never in Orthodox Christian. I think that's weird. Isn't it clean never bothered. Finding Orthodox. Christian. I'm sure. In the early 2000 they could have found one or two. you know, before there was Jay Dyer, I'm sure there was some more trucks Christians who could do, you know apologetics A new dust it off and do some debates. Never bothered.

Hmm. Now, I don't know if I was purpose for it on because again, coming from a more western or Anglo tradition, maybe they just never encountered it or they just thought all those are the look, we're talking the Roman Catholic those Orthotics guys are just crazy Christians. Like, you know, A lot of beards. Maybe. we're doing a Bible reading last night, and this is an odd conjecture, but we'll do this and We'll see how many still hanging in.

To do some power washing. And talk about everything being produced. What's the link? I'm trying to make here. I'm being careful. Know, we'll leave it. That's one though. I'll think of more Before open my mouth. before I put my Size 10 directly in it. Wiggle my toes. I'll think about that. That's something that shouldn't be set off the cuff, but there's an interesting Link in there. I'll get back to you, focus on that. Okay, let's take a little bit of a break.

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This is from father, Josiah trenham. and it's a little bit longer but I'm gonna make a coffee and then we'll be right back and we'll pick it up and maybe do some power washer. Hey everyone. God bless you. Thanks so much for tuning in. I am wishing you. Good strength, and rest as the summer is progressing. We're about to start the fast of our Lady for her. Durham Mission August 1st to the 14th, wonderful period of time. In which we supplicate are usually chanted broccoli seeds

processes to her each day. May she help you in many ways and good strengths for the for the fast. Our thoughts, determine our lives in Many many ways I'd like you to think with me about this about where your mind is and the impact that the mind and your particular thoughts has on your whole state of being and totally upon who you are and your character, what's actually produced in your life, have you

ever walked into a room? Maybe into your kitchen and open the refrigerator and you don't know why you're there. You look into the refrigerator and then you remember, you're just looking for your keys. This, this picture is very much how we are today. We are overwhelmed with a collection of thoughts. So many thoughts bombarding us that we feel overloaded totally and completely distracted. We don't know where our thoughts begin often. We don't know how they're developing.

We feel them developing but we're not examining them carefully and we don't know if and where they're going to. And we are constantly from morning until night, bombarded with information, both of it, a waste and much trash were absorbing information texts, and news, in social media, and opinions, and arguments, and memes, and messages. And now, Chat GPT, we're being influenced. Not only by what is constantly said, but our values are being fixed without us. Even knowing it are ideas.

Molded and assumptions are constantly being Imbibed by us without evaluation. This is the issue. Not everything that we take in is Godly not everything is worthy of our attention and yet it has an impact. Some of its not so harmful and it's just kind of like junk mail A lot, and lot of junk mail, some of its helpful.

A lot of it is destructive, a lot of it, tears us down and we hardly realizing it misleads us. We become divisive discouraged, even destructive we often don't realize how much our thinking is being shaped by these thoughts that are bombarding us from the outside. So how do we focus? Our Godly thoughts? How do we put our mind on beautiful things that please God, and help us and others. And how do we avoid the evil thoughts? How can we live a pleasing life to the Lord?

When our minds are constantly bombarded, I want you to think with me a little bit about that the power of your thoughts to determine your life. Our life is moving in the direction of the most potent thoughts that we have. This is a truth who we are today and tomorrow is largely the result of what we are thinking. The decisions that we've made the attitudes, we adopt the character that we develop. They all begin as thoughts. And these thoughts are powerful.

Think of Proverbs 23:7 as a man thinks in his heart. So is he our thoughts? They're not just private matters, they're not just neutral or internal. They eventually become Expressed, they become external. They shape how we see the world, how we treat others, how we handle stress, money, conflict, and everything else. Think of your mind like a garden. Whatever seeds you plant. In that Garden are going to grow and they will produce the crops that you harvest.

If you plant seeds of fear or bitterness, or resentment, or anger, or lies or corruption, they're going to grow. If you plant seeds of faith of truth of gratitude of Peace of Love, they also will grow what we put into our minds produces who we are. And that space, that mental space is a massive Battleground. This is where War takes place. This is the word of Saint Peter. This is in his first epistle chapter 1 verse 13. Prepare your minds for Action be

sober-minded. For set your hope, fully on the grace, that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. There is a beautiful word, don't let your mind Meander. Give it Direction. Take custody of your mind, dear ones. Or it without you knowing it is going to take custody of you, the intentional be ready. Not a playground, your mind, it's a Battleground. It's where Satan loves to plant lies. It's where fear, and anxiety, and stress takes root. It's where Temptation begins is

in the mind. If the enemy can control our thoughts, he can influence our life and that's why renewing. Our mind isn't optional. It's essential think with me about The cycle of thoughts and how they? Produce. Destiny. A thought becomes an action. And action becomes a habit, a habit, becomes a character, and a character determines Destiny. So if you want to change your life, change your thoughts, change, your thinking, that's where to begin.

If you want to destroy, A habit. That's eating you alive. Get to the source, the thought. The source of that habit, trace it back to the thought that feeds it. If we want to be more like Jesus, thing, like Jesus. This is Saint. Paul's counsel do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. Romans 12:2. Transformation. Starts there starts in the mind in this world. How do you do that? How do you actually think, beautiful?

Thoughts that can produce a beautiful life? They may make a few suggestions and conclusion. Ask yourself, where is this thought coming from? Basically screen, your thoughts, evaluate them, put them through the filter, is that thought from God, or from your flesh, or from the enemy? Is it leading the you closer to Jesus helping you to accomplish your task as a person? Or is it pulling you away? Is it rooted in the truth? Or is it rooted in fear? Does it build you up?

Or does it tell you down? Use as your example, your filter Saint, Paul's word in the fourth chapter of his epistle to the Philippians when he writes to his spiritual children and gives them a filter. By which they can judge, thoughts. Whatever is true, whatever is Honorable, whatever is just whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable Think about these things.

This is the Mental security system that you need. this verse, when I thought tries to enter your mind first, make it past the test, the Philippians 4:8 test, If it doesn't pass, don't entertain it. Send it on its way. That's number one screen, your thoughts. Number two, select the right thoughts, the thoughts that are conducive to your goals. We can't always control what?

Thoughts immediately come into our minds, but we can control the ones that we couple with the ones that we're going to meditate upon, or let in or let germinate. Select the thoughts that align with God's word with your goal. Number three, cultivate beautiful Godly thinking when God, speaks whether through his word through his spirit and his people through the church, Through the fathers. Grab the thoughts and hang on to them. Don't let them go. Cultivate it water it let it

grow roots. Think about it often, write it down. I can't tell you how many times over my life. I have put beautiful thoughts into my pocket, scripture verses quotes from the fathers that I want to memorize even goals for my life. When I first became Orthodox, I put in here become a saint because I know that's God's will for every service and not his fanny pack. kept it in there for about five years in every Shirt.

I wore every cassock. I put on, I kept it there in my pocket so that it would become fixed in my mind, cultivate Godly thinking. If you sense God calling you to forgive someone act on, It. If he calls you to take a step of Faith. Take it. Don't just hear the words of God. Apply them. Work them out. Don't walk. In. Weeds the righteous man does not. Walk. In the counsel of the ungodly, he doesn't stand in the path of Sinners.

He doesn't sit with the unrighteous, his Delight is in the law of the Lord. And on his law, he meditates day and night. He's like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season and it's Leaf does not wither and whatever he does. He Pros prosperous. That's the fruit of cultivating Godly thoughts of putting your mind on beautiful things. When we start thinking God's way, we begin to live God's way

and with that comes peace. Peace of God which surpasses all understanding Paul says, in that same text in Philippians 4, will guard your hearts and Minds through Christ Jesus. This is the promise. So, let me ask you in conclusion, what you've been thinking about lately? Are you living with anxiety? Doubt, anger with grief guilt?

Or are you walking at peace, purpose and joy, you can't always control What the world throws at you, but you can control what you dwell on, what you choose to set your mind upon and if you don't like the direction that your life is going, change your thoughts change the way you think. God has given you his tools, his word, his Spirit, his promises. You're not a prisoner of your thoughts. You are the master. Of them, the steward of your

thoughts. So surrender your minds to God asked him to renew you from the inside and to give you beautiful thoughts. This is the Battle of our life. And the victory. Is something that Jesus has accomplished for us and wants us to share and what? I know, I'm muted couldn't say it better myself, even if I thought I could try, Mrs. King pills in here in the chat saying love love, love this man. Yes, Father just saw a tryna is one of the good ones, Mr. Pursue saying kill the Bots?

Well look, man. I I know only one way of doing that on Kik and people complained about it before. Oh, Because then they couldn't say, no no words in there. So, you know, I, I can do this. I can ban the Bots. but, But, you know, you may not like it there, buddy. If I'll do this here, over here, hang on. Oh, there's only chat, scrubbers only, chat emotes, only chat, age account age, restriction and words. You see here Channel. Chat. Spam, we got spam up there. Gibberish.

Sexual contents, all that other stuff. So I don't know, I don't know. I don't know how to do this on Kik. So, We're gonna just live with it, sorry. Live with it. Ignore them. just, The Bots are fine. They're just did a Digi Demo's demon demos I don't They just they're just. Did you demons? Ah, yeah. Well that's true. So yes, guard, your thoughts. You know, the other thing too, like think about quite often and this is happening my own life.

We forget about joy, we forget about happiness, these things are tied to hope we talk about these things, as if we're supposed to manifest themselves somehow, but we very rarely feel them anymore. You know, there's the happiness of a brief thing, your stuffing, you know, you stuff your face with something, you know, and it gives you Joy, it gives you happiness, the momentary fleetingness of happiness, and isn't that nice, but We've kind of forgot.

I'll speak personally on this. You kind of forget it. What it is to feel happy. And it happened to me, July was a really weird month where we spend the first almost, well, over half of it, family was really sick. You know, difficulties there. Prolong sickness with my wife and just is a very cool month at the same time on my birthday. I got to meet with. Archbishop Georg, who's the Archbishop of Australia and And receive blessings from him. And, and also, Became a start, my catechism.

I believe that was end of July beginning of August or beginning of August. and, Got to Spill the devil. All those things, and I for a good I'm still feeling it, you know. I've come down to earth a bit more, but for about two weeks there, I was just happy. For some of you I'm sure that sounds weird like okay, you're happy good for you. I'm like, no, no. I'm not a happy person. I don't do happy. What? Happy was happy? No I'm you know, usually begrudged Grumbling in My Soup,

my my my non beefy soup. You know, with the not working with fanny pack or shorts, but yeah, I'm not happy. Bye bye. Bye metric. So to suddenly feel a great deal of of release and joy and happiness. It was like a strange feeling I had to kind of accustomed to it. I was like what is what is this? And it's like you're just happy man. That's what Joy is all about. Kind of like this. Well, this is, this is what you guys keep drawing on about.

Yeah. Okay. I get it. Yeah, that's actually kind of nice. Not so bad. This happiness. So yes I said, you know, go to your go to church, go to liturgy, talk to your Breeze. Let it transform you because it will many such cases, right? And it's not just my story. It's I add my story to list of stories of people saying very much similar similar things. and, Yeah. Mrs. Says what has what would you say? Has kept you unhappy for so

long? I have General temperament um, You know, this list of things probably, if we were, you want to divulge my entire life story. Really, what happened to me, when I was 11 touring 12 with my grandfather died and he died of a pretty nasty case of starting the bowel cancer moved on And I I hadn't because my my family was religious enough for me to believe in God and and to read the Bible and to be of the, to be of some sort of face week, is it was or immature as it was, I

hadn't been let's say spiritually instructed. so, I couldn't understand that God's love includes suffering and maybe this is probably Beyond most people and of course, brought in bring up a broad modern world and you're not giving that message So I couldn't understand it. I couldn't understand why my grandfather would have had to die that way. You know. It was good man. Why did a good man? Have to die that way? It was pretty brutal.

And I think that's that's where my split happened, right? Where I build up anger, and resentment towards God and this whole concept and I ran with that for, you know, 30 odd years, And you know, increasingly so right because the more you turn from him and the more you just reject, the idea, the more you have to chase something else. So you chase more modernity and I was probably the single mother and all those other things and you know, the fact that I'm not

in jail, his pretty amazing. Not that I was really involved in two Mission nefarious. Whatever. But like could have easily gone that way, you know, you see. again, the the benefit of age, look back on your life and you see these little branching paths, and, I think the falsehood is that you thought you chose this. But really one, I think God is directing you in many ways. But minus that even, you know, where are you making that choice? How did you make that choice?

I credit my grandfather quite a bit for for supplying me with it at least enough. Mass with enough mentorship. When I was young, that there was a North star there, you know? So even I had rejected, God rejected the church rejected tradition and I wasn't dealing with that at all. I was it was to slander and to, and to bad mouth and to disbelieve, there was still a morality in me enough. Decency in me that I couldn't go down certain roads, put that

way. And so, you know, if I got his grace, That saved me from probably having some nasty ends. And being here today with him. Missing a little bit overweight. Boorish me but there there you have it. So When you let go of those things, are you, when you start to let go of those things in a sort of, let go of that resentment suddenly what's been holding you to.

Let's say that liberal frame that modernity and it's different for everybody, or for sections of humanity, but I think you're going to see similarities and overlaps. Pleasure promise of, you know, portion. Exaltation of the cell phone, all that stuff. And I think quite a bit of it is resentment. The, the consequence of liberalism ultimately is resentment because there's it's based on this lie. Right. That all men are, you know, all

these stacked up lies. All men are born equal, not true, you know, Liberty and liberty and justice for all. That's not true either. You know, any he keeps going down to and go. Well, but it, but they told him I believed in all this stuff that must be true. It's just it's gone wrong. It's like no, not really. It's, it is what it is. It's you Can't Blame a live for being alive. It's alive. It does. What lies do it?

Deceives? You. So in that case, it do its to do a heck of a job in actuality. So the so then we're brought to this this point now. Where people's resentments? Are clouding their visions and everyone's looking for a scapegoat someone to blame. And no one points the finger back at themselves. So it's always out there. And again, this is not saying that there aren't people who deserve some justice in this

world. but, since since you're not in control of that, And this is gets into a conversation about everything being produced. since you're not in control of the information, you're giving and you're not in control of many aspects of your life. Lies that are told. As for father just said, you can, you can start to control your thoughts.

And when you can show your thoughts, you can control your words and you can control your words, you can control your actions, these all these things flow, This is why getting your attention and getting those thoughts, invading, your brain was certain thoughts is Moses up around number one. You know, but demons have their propaganda too. Right. They're just not very in some ways, they're just not very sophisticated, they don't have to be pretty brutalist. To play along the same, passions

all the time. Why? Because it works. Now I get them, I give them, I give the demons a healthy amount of respect. You should give to a mortal enemy and that if you start thinking yourself to too big for your britches, and I got this and they're, they're suckers, whatever that you're in, for you're in for root Awakening. But because they can come at you

and very creative ways. Creative in terms of you weren't expecting it. But when you when you look when you survived it and you look back on it's like they're just feeding on your pride. There's just, you know They're just getting you where? They know it's easy to get you for me. Just get me angry and I shut off. You know. Toddler spitting the dummy. Really, I'll relate to the storage. You because it's late might not I told us to tell me Sam and his last talked.

I kept it. I kept it, it's a nice reminder. For me. About why I need to. Get my stuff under control. And to be, I just be clear. I've never Hit anyone in my house or not. So, So, I talked about rage and all those other things will keep those. It's not that bad, you know? I do have some control, but I got blistering mad. Sometime ago. I don't know why maybe selling my wife said, I don't knows, I don't even remember the the reason why, but just got, you know, Blind bull mad.

And I had a pot, you know, metal pot. And I slammed that pot on the sink Edge to the point where I've been to. I've Benton the bottom of the pot. I used a pot quite often as a nice little reminder every time I look at you, stupid, idiot. Child. Was before I start going liturgy, by the way, but yeah. Something's like that. You know why you doing that for? It's because you're not in control. The modernist is stuck with death. We're all stuck with death on someone. Is the ultimate truth.

Non-negotiable. Although we do, we do try. I think. There's partly a fear of death going on and partly even bigger than that as a fear of judgment. You put those two things together and you got complete abortion, you know, everyone's just averting their gaze. From the opposite reality of life. And we see it on TV, and we see it in news reports. We talk about Russia Ukraine, we see these numbers and like, well, that's hold horrible, tragic.

Are we see what's going on in Gaza or pick your? Pick your place? Violence in the streets of your own home, you know. But it's you're disconnected in many ways. I think we've become very disconnected. Unless you're living it directly. and we analyze it and we talked about it, and we put our little pose and all that stuff but You know, we forget that there's real people involved in that. And we forget it on purpose because I don't think we're we don't we we don't want to look at it.

So I will go on with the Orthodox school stuff, it's not just like death of the world, I think it's gonna kind of nice imagery, you know, it's later than you think. Which can you talk about the eschaton? The end of Western Civilization or just the end of you. Later than you think. Hasten. Therefore to do the work of God. We're saying the table

constantly. This is a refrain. to be ready because if you go tomorrow or today or in a minute from now, And you know you survive the Toll House houses in the future and you get up, you get up there. You can counter God. Whichever way that happens. And Ashok Drake question, like, what were you doing to prepare? and you're like, well, kind of took some, I kind of did some fasting and I felt really bad about, you know, some things, and Went to liturgy when I could, you know?

Did my prayers very well? You know, back, I always in my prayers. I always did my prayers. Like, yeah, but you read them pretty fast. Yeah. Well but I did them though, right? If it's not changing you. if you're just doing the fake it till you make it you know, there's there's something to be said about that. Maybe your first few times as a secret or as you're seeking, you're kind of maybe absorbing and that's okay. But at some point you gotta you, this isn't you can't be fake in

it. it's got a do something to you, it will you just let it it will but There's there's a, there's a choice in there with you as well. Have I seen the asthma? Gold videos of him explaining why he is the way he is. I think so probably. I remember, I think I first started following Zack stuff. um, when he lost his mom around that time, anyways, I became aware of and because he was doing sort of Frank videos of that. I think I caught the first few, whether it was, I'm not, I can't

remember now. It was while his mom was sick or just after she had passed. and that really I guess. Maybe feel sympathy, man. So I've been there. I know what it's like to lose family. and, and it's hard, you know, it throws your world especially I think when it comes to parents People have held parental roles. You know, that's my grandfather was very hard was. My grandmother was also her. I don't want to say gets easier. But on some level. It does.

How do I put this? But it's on my lost, my Ellen and was proposed oh that's that was a heck of a story. I'll tell you that sometime but There was a lot of moving parts that one. So I think it's it was it was one of those where you're grateful for her passing and not because of anything about her, you know, so much, but it was more like shooting. That was, that was a, that was a bad one. so, So, in some ways, it gets easier when you go through them, but at the same time, it does.

It does if you're not prepared for it, if you're, and if nothing in your world is preparing, you for it. For your end or your loved ones end. You know, most people, it's like they lost a pet and that's the most tragic thing in this happened in their life and I'm not, you know, I'm not loaded, I'm not getting into that conversation, right? It is tragically lose your pad. But your pet's not your dad or your mom. Right? Your grandpa or whatever.

That your pet is not someone who who literally shares. Blood with you. No matter how well you raise your little fur baby. Right. so, it's that. There's a death of the self that happens with it. Death of. Some childhood or something like that. And because we don't have any rituals or Preparation, generally speaking to prepare ourselves for those for these things. In fact, we try to Stave it off as far as possible. You know, now we stuff our Old people into homes and let other

people take care of them. That's that says something about. not just our society but our but how our society wants to even access Access to death. Stuff it away, put it away. Let someone else deal with it. Not for me. I work to do. Catch up on this Sue, says he was the same way very insecure cared a lot about what other thoughts. You may not have those issues but eventually just let those things go and stops caring and accepted things for what they were.

I'm not saying you should accept your anger, not change but forgiving yourself and accepting your flaws and working on them which I'll be doing is the first step to relieve and happiness. Yeah, I mean, there's there's bigger elements at play with that. It's not just the anger, you know, it was just the anger. That's, that's where I think people fall into the false therapy idea where they think it's all. It's just, it's just anger.

Well, no, it's like, you've been living with this kind of thing for such a long time that it's no longer just anger, it seeped into everything. and, The. Orthodox Church is a hospital it's there for to heal. Spiritual sickness should be used. It should be almost seen in that light and the church. And tradition can do a lot of things and for some people I think it can perform literal miracles. I don't know if that's the right orientation for people to take. In terms of yes, you should be

seeking spiritual health. Yes. You should be going to church to to deal with these things. and with whatever time you have left, but the idea is not necessarily to rid yourself of them. The a the aim is to control them. To put them in the rightful place. Because all the passions are inversions of Virtues. So anger itself is not the issue. Sometimes anger can be connected to righteousness.

So as you need some fiery righteousness, To be able to say, no, this is wrong and somebody has to be done. The problem with rage is it it over it, there's no discernment. It erases, the ability to be righteous because now all you're doing is the first thing, you think? Smash the pot sink. Get a yelling match. You know, whatever self blow up parts of your life, whatever. Whatever it is whether manifestation is because you're in full and rage Wrath. There's there.

There is that vengeance. Want that you're seeking. For probably a minor infraction. Someone cut you off and traffic. Road rage. So, you don't necessarily want to get rid of it. Sin of gluttony. Right passion of blood, me gluttony being really, the most pernicious sense in some ways. Somebody all people think it's pride and that's true. But really the one that we all all of us even from a very early age, have his gluttony Right to eat. She really eat.

Yeah, you gotta eat. So where is a discernment of knowing when to eat when you're eating too much, or not enough, and too much for me, may not be the too much for you or someone else. So when does, when does it pass over into the passion of blood? It's very typical one. You know, pride is kind of easier to see either exalting your pride or your suffering from depression. It's all about you. Not saying that, that's easy, one to overcome at all. None of these can be easy.

You know. That's why a caution people. It's like even death the world and these we offer them up. I think it's good to offer up these things as ideal. It's nice to try to get to. But we live in this world. You're a lady. You're not a monk. Not a priest. I'm not nothing. Shall be white, though. To your old orders more orthodox. Right. so, With that in mind. If you start to put your mind on, I will overcome these things and get rid of them from my life as I know.

Maybe. Even this idea of the, I don't care what people think of me. Like mmm. I get it and it's it's good to to pursue your your ambitions. even though you might be getting Flack, you know, All the opposition was the world and all the rest of the people's criticizing, you know, not Emily. You shouldn't take that on. Yeah. But if you don't care enough it's like where does this pass

over to nihilism? Where do you pass on to a point where then you're not getting married and you don't come in. A kid is actually be a great dad. And he's probably convinced himself. He that that's offer him. Right. So he's a million. He's a multimillionaire. Very successful, very good. What he does. And he's in his 30s. I think right at 37 up. If he lives in, if he lives another 35 years which is but

he's 35, let's say he's gone. Another yeah, let's say he's got another 35 years left him just play safe. That's both a long and short amount of time. I'm 48. I'm going to be lucky if I got another 25 in me 30, probably tops. And probably a lot of those years in the end. So good. So, do I do this? For the length of time. Maybe. It's Incorporated. But is it just this? This, you know. What do you access Truth? Where do you access any higher meaning?

You can't just be for work. Lots of things can take work away from you. Exactly except tomorrow and his voice doesn't work, kind of screwed. Happened to me when I was, you know, I was what at that time. Probably. What 25 years in or whatever. Into hospitality. Mostly did mostly finding all the rest of it worked up and down. All the different places. Hanging up Christmas decorations on the bar was telling my co-workers that my wife was pregnant because we just found it.

We gotten past that three month Mark and Because we're telling people and I went to put my foot back on the ladder. And I slipped, I came down and put my hand through the back bar. All these bottles were put, my hands are about five bottles. Luckily enough not cutting off my thumb. Or my hand or whatever. Doing some major damage. And I, you know, for months after that, I didn't know if I would ever be able to use this hand again. And my entire career.

Right. And then, and then covid happened, lockdowns, all the rest of it. So like, The entire industry that I give him, you know, Blood Sweat, 80 hour weeks, all the rest of it and I knew how it was gonna have to change those about to have a child and it was my life was going to change dramatically and how to do that. All of a sudden God throws out of me. Whoa. Dramatic. Like that. and, That's in. December of 2919 and by October 2020 or really by December of 2020.

So, within one calendar year, I've now made the decision and talked to my wife and convinced her that we're moving family to Australia. and had a religious experience, and You know, all the rest of it. And if we're going to be looking again, life can only be understood. Backwards but must be lived forwards. at that time, first of all, this hurt like hell, Oh, did this hurt?

even when they had you jacked up on drugs, my favorite story is like so, when the accident happened, we had a Guinness rep, who was cleaning the lines, and I mean, I'm bleeding and he put a tree took a rag or, you know, Baraga essentially and tied it around my arm into a tourniquet and tied it so tight that I just shut off like Everton. So and he can't really tell the

camera here. But I mean, basically, all looked like I had cut some superficial cuts on my fingers and then I had this kind of gash on my hand. But because it over, because there's no blood running to it, it didn't look that bad. So I get to the hospital to emergency. And I show them the guy and I'm telling them all and but when they when the hospital when the Amazons picking up, they kind of saw the blood stuff. So they knew that things were not okay.

And so they hit me with. I don't know what ever pain pain medication. Probably more. Maybe more fears, in the So, we get to the hospital and get to an emergency. And they're asking me what happened. I'm spilling up the whole thing. and, He's looking at the hand and they're kind of moving the hand around like, ain't no, like ain't nothing. Right. And it's hurting, right?

It's the pains, you know, the pain is coming through, but and they've taken the tourniquet off, but I had a bandage on. And so And, and they're not looking at the big gash, and I'm telling about it, like my hands, pretty open to the sky, right? But they're not looking at that. They're moving the hand around, doing these X-rays and stuff. So, I get to this young guy. And he's peeved because he's been asked to do the stitches and he wanted to go and do his birthday celebration.

I know this because he freaking tells us like it's like in front of me, this is happening. and, And they're getting their flopping. My hand around and it's really starting to hurt now, right? Like, I'm just I'm just getting I don't know how this is. Okay, And the guy goes okay, fine, you know, he's gonna Stitch it up and stitches up the fingers and stuff and he takes the bandage that was on my hand, the gauze, whatever and rips it off.

And at that point, it just kind of, you know, turn it kicks off and all the rest of it. So I start spraying artillery blood all over the emergency room, just wonderful and I'm starting to scream now because it hurts. so here I and all, I hear him cause our cheerleader, bleed the whole Everyone was pretty kind of chilled, like, no, not doing much, and we're gonna lie. Whoa. And they asked me. Do you want ketamine? And I was like, yes. Shot me with me.

Which by the way? No, I'm not advising any kind of drug use for anybody else when casual basis. But if you find yourself in a hospital, with your hand, with your half, your hand open up to the sky and they offer you Academy. It was weird because my feet were pointing towards the emergency door opener, right? So the doors open like this. and, The ketamine hit pretty fast. And I'm just like, oh, you know, I'm looking over my hand like, wow, that looks awful.

I someone should really do some of that. Do you call someone over? This is pretty bad. And I looked over and looked at my feet and the doors are open and close. I'm like, how do we get on the other guys? I think I asked someone, I remember correctly. I'm like, how did we get on the elevator? Because it looked like we were on an elevator with the doors closing anyways. That's my, my. Hands story and kind of look like a Franken Frankenstein hand for a long time.

But yeah, for a while there, I didn't know if I was ever gonna regain function feelings, I still don't really have much feeling in part of my hand. Okay, burn it really easy. I say all this because it's like you don't know right? You don't know. The next thing is I think the getting out the bar thing, I done that. A can't even tell you how many times. And just There you go. Here's the rest of your life. Being decided and one little fall.

It is interesting too because I was on such momentum within the hospitality world. That, that's all I did. I've gone to different places. I worked some places that closed down. Me, one or two plays I got, you know, let go or I quit. I moved around a bit, but, but I was always in Hospitality world, I was one of those guys, I'm always gonna open a restaurant talk about open the restaurant never did. Obviously. But you established momentum in your life and you just kind of

going forward. because as you do, when you have a disruption like this, and I had been had situations where I was working with one place, where with my wife and I and they basically sold the place out of without telling us And so I was, I think it was out of work. Took. I took a year off. because I had, No unemployment and settlement and all this other stuff, whatever. So I I could have afford to. So I was like, oh, I had some and savings and restaurants were taking a year off.

Screw it. But that was different because I never really thought. Oh, by the way. Hello. Elwood, when gusto Friend from South America. Well, you know again it's already Sue says true. I guess that's what that's went through. Call it anger management. But yes, go God calls us to have perfect hatred for things against him. Hatred can happen without anger. Anger, kind of like the alarm Bell. Something's not right. Said you. Let me is wrong disorder. Demands your attention.

Something you should do something about. and you can, the let's say the the rightful use of hate and maybe that's even the wrong word for. but we use a Is emotionless, really? It's without passion. you know, I hate the devil and the adversary. For all the good reasons to hate them. And I take an arm against it my way. but it's not like, You get an angry at the Devil. It's like getting angry at error. Get angry at the demons doesn't do anything. Angry at yourself? Okay.

Is that motivate you to do? No, do not. Do the things. You're not supposed to do and do the things you're supposed to do. If so. Maybe use it. but true, I think in some ways it's like true, the closer you get to true love. It's it's not that endorphin rush and romantic and stuff. It's just it's it's almost cold. Like, I love my daughter's so much. In my wife. that I don't, it's not like a An emotional state. Like I guess it's not a It

doesn't generate. sub feeling, let's say it's just is it's just an is feeling. I think there's that accurate point of, you know, if you hate the adversary, you hate it, cold I mean this is my Slavic heart talking. Who knows? there's no real motion to attached to it, for me, it's more like I'm gonna I'm gonna do some damage to the adversary on my way out. Even if just, you know but I know I can if I can leave this, this world knowing that I gave the devil a bad day here and

there. I'll take it. Not so bad. All right, boys and girls. Ladies and gentlemen. I'll put it to you whoever's left in the chat. Anyone wants some power washing? Now's the time to talk up. We can do some power washer. We can just sign off for all getting sleepy. But you think about it? To have your thoughts about it. Get back to me about it. Let me know in the chat. I want to see some power washers or some of that I want power washing. Okay, there's a vote for power

washer. There's a vote. Do I get two votes? You can vote with your, with your wallets, too, folks. Make a crack 10 dollars on that goal and that Griffith goal. Not not very good at this grip TV. News says not being tolerant people dangerous to your kids progressives, the most Christian thing a parent can do. Yeah. Yeah. there's a you know, understanding where you're at, right? I think people. Maybe it's Saturday morning cartoon.

But people get very direct, they think they have to start a fight. You know, go to the teacher. And look, I'm not saying maybe that is in. I can't give you an answer for all possible. You know, permutations of the other question. but I think, People use it against you. Again, that anger right again to wrath anger. You're going to say, you're gonna say, you're going to think and say and do things that aren't well thought out. Now, in a moment of danger

crisis. You know, you're not going to sit there and Ponder. Do I say my child from the tiger know of course you do, right? But in other situations where you're dealing with let's say with a system Education system, right? Easy one. The. The obvious most direct choice. May not always be the best one for your situation. Believe that, right? Everyone tells about homeschooling home, schooling is a fine answer to this and I'm

not against it. it's honestly think if you have a, if you have a young boy, Young girls, a little bit different, especially for elementary, but for young boys, and maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm being naive on that. So, you know, again, I don't know where you're calling from. Maybe it's different for in your state or whatever that, right, but young, boys. Yeah, don't if you have an option, if you can make that

work, make it work. Sending your sending young boys to to through the education system as it is right now, probably not good. Probably won't be a good idea for for a bit. It's not stylized for them, it's not for them. He's 60 years of. Essentially stylizing it and making it for the promotion of women. And you know, holding boys back so that women get outperform and all this stuff and get the stats into get the numbers. And then you, you know, the

ideology passes into just Behavioral. so it's no longer something that someone can You know put together is if you ask them bluntly in with a you know truth serum. All the rest of they would never admit to that because it's not what they're what they're thinking. You know, they just have this. Disdain for young boys and they don't know why. You know. Young boys are something wrong with them. I was thinking of the other day. It's kind of the they got you.

They got both genders coming and going just a different ages again, maybe this is changed or is, you know, so update me if necessary. But for young boys, they've been medicating. Young boys early on young ages, right? Young good young boy has, you know, doesn't get along with others, you know, doing some violence stuff, or whatever. Oh, you know, therapy therapy therapy when that doesn't work out because of course, it doesn't work out because you're trying to condition a bear not

to shoot in the woods. Forget me. Do you put him on medication? And then that starts that whole trip. For girls. And again, maybe this is changed. but from my understanding of it, and when I've seen Is that the girls didn't get on the medication until they were in their teens? You know, whether it be the pill or, you know, ssris or antidepression or whatever. And I think that's really

interesting. because it's like, you want a neuter, the boys early, And make them more either, make them more feminine or make them just certainly not making my nan in some ways. I mean, they're not feminine, but they're not, they're not acting on masculine impulses and you get them early. And for girls, you let them develop all that feminine stuff and then you start to cut them off. Make themself doubt. Themself hate themselves.

The world. Get them on medication when they're you know 13 14, whatever it is. Get them both ways, right? and I think, you know, when we were talking about people talk about why people don't want to have kids anymore and all the rest of it, I think the medications are certainly have something to do with it. Education, women have heard as a theory.

I'm yeah, I think there's a thing, there's, there's something to be talked about their You know, probably women prioritizing you know education and career over young families and the precursor to having a young to a large family is usually having kids in your 20s. Whatever. not a guarantee, but you know, The. butt to look at the sort of that medication and even that social medication can Go. Not everyone's on some sort of drug, but they've been socially medicated. Interviewing on Worthy.

Something is wrong with you. Because you're not fully Jive in, are you? Something, inside of you is telling you, this is wrong. But your social medicated, maybe, if you afraid of being excluded, so, he Pop That. You know, pills of a different corn. coin coin, kind And then unworthiness makes you feel that to be unworthy. As a parent, makes you unfamiliar worthy as a man or a

woman. So then you feel unworthy, as a husband, and his wife, and his certainly feel unworthy as a father, as a mother, So you just don't have kids. Not even one. Or you don't even involve yourself in life for kids. Because, again, you feel unworthy, and that's a That's a heck of a thing. you know, as I was saying earlier, telling the story of You know, knowing I could have gone liturgy even just the first time.

And feeling like I can't do this because I feel unworthy, I feel ashamed, still, like I don't belong there. You know, said too many things Live too much, life and opposite direction. and, And we're all unworthy, you know? We're all. In some way shape or form, just loading a power washer. Get to it. Pee again. But it's the same thing as thinking of it as a hospital. You don't go to hospital if you're well. I mean that's your thing. Chances are you done? You're going to hospital when

you're sick. And this is your sick. Well, maybe maybe you've done made some life decisions that Have made you sicker than you need to be. But maybe that doesn't really matter. A second here. Oops. Maybe, all you have to worry about is getting well. And give yourself a break. Oops. Oh, what have I done? Put it over here. Hmm. Hmm. Shall we do this? Here. Sorry folks. we're just setting this up and then we shall do some power washer and yeah. Yay. Look at this working out. oh, lovely.

Eram says this edition of young men, started. When I was in a freshman in high school. With the first gen iPhone and I touch. Yeah, I mean it was happening before that. I think it. The 80s was a, was a kind of a weird blip. Because they wanted to the big thing was we're gonna defeat communism, you know. So the 80s I think if you're younger, he didn't live through

that time. you can look back on with sort of fun, like America, you know, Arnold Schwarz, now Rambo and, you know, Rocky movies and very You know, Donald Trump is like really a creature of the 80s, you know? But the subversions were there. you know, with father McPherson was talking about, you know, I I kind of say it just a piss people off, but the whole wearing shorts and This Carousel. Let's turn this music off because this is brutal.

The its exaltation, right? The feminization of the masked and comes. When men start acting start doing feminine, things like reading about their appearance, Here, now, there's nothing wrong with with dressing, well, or dressing to an occasion and all the rest of it. Turn up a little bit. Okay. Um, but yeah, feminization even look at Staying alive that movie Staying Alive. You know you can tell by the

way, I move my walk. You know this stuff and talk about like you know the Disco culture. And Men bringing about their hair and the tight pants and all that kind of stuff. So, this stuff has been with us for a bit You know, Led Zeppelin, who will, you know, I have always loved that band but that that means full of demons. and, He look at what Robert Plant was wearing and so that during that time, he was super tight pants. You know, getting lustful eyes from the ladies and probably

from a bunch of the fellows. so, How do you get there, right? How do you, how do you, how do you instigate this almost need for medication? Socially. Otherwise is you speak to subvert, the natural nature of man and women. You start making the feminization the more feminized men. Into sex symbols and to, you know, objects of Desire. By most women and you know, men desire that too, right? They don't desire to, you know, They're not a Perry Alpha Man on

this one. But but they certainly desire to be desired. So they follow suit and then you kind of let me take control. so, The medication and all that stuff. I mean, again to me is more brutalist form of Doing it. But I almost think it's a response to probably an auto a social or cultural screening Christian auto immune system. It was trying to kick in. And you know, make people reject all this stuff and so they then

moved to medication. you know, if you look at look up what they remains were doing in their prisons, The reason, kenshoo and his, his wife. Was not allowed to retire. Not a lot of leave that I'll get on that flight. They were doing some wacky stuff. So fair enough. That's when you first notice? Yeah. The. you know, I think they learned the Soviets taught the world, a lot of things, a lot of

little dark secrets. and we talked about operation paper clip with the Germans who came over with the nice little rocket Technologies. But there's very little talked about probably what Soviet defectors. And other things that were learned, Post Falls all of the Soviet Union. At me many, many were eager to share to get paid and protection. you know, so How much did, what's his name? It's a guy from triggered trigonometry or someone that I forget his name.

His dad was Soviet. Ranking Soviet guy who had a basically flee with money. Kristin's Kris, Kristen Christian, I don't know. Not doesn't matter. That guy, you know, his family is just like yeah there's probably quite a few of those people who left or fled or forced out of the Soviet Union at some point. Especially with Putin coming in. You know, say what you will about Putin, but he did go and clean up shop. Especially with the Olive Garden.

A lot of these funny people who are hanging around. Kissing. That's it calls and seen kissing. Appreciate you. so, Yeah, the things they were doing. Check out what they were doing in Romania. Who's talked about it quite a bit? He talked about when he was on my show, as well as Mano from. Study of stuff. We should get back on. I love me some Nano. Good Greek Canadian boy, Greek. Orthodox Canadian boy. Great show too. If you like music, go check him

out. He's doing live shows every Sundays. I think now, About. It's hard for me because I always have to do the, the time math, right? So I I can't remember sometimes what days I catch these shows on, but so if I tell you Monday, It's probably a Sunday. I don't know what time is on your Oh, this level is annoying. Clean up horse butts. I don't even want to do the thing. Oh, be here all week. So, yeah, the experiments, they were doing experiments things were doing in Romanian prisons.

Especially to Orthodox. Christians are pretty perverse, and I think it was really, to try to separate. man, you know, man from God, you know, To try to. To destroy that image Bearer status, you know, to separate. To bring us down to something. Lower than even a beast. And it didn't really work ever. In fact, it brought as many more stories of you know, priests who people men who would then go on to be priests within Orthodoxy. Who said they found God, In that

suffering. So, See, Rejoice, isn't this a uplifting show, folks? Like if you want Happy, there's there's shows. We can direct it to Not saying I'm going to be unhappy. I'm quite happy actually. but, I can only, I can only Deliver you? The real, and one in one tone. It's a deep voice. What you want? That being said, those who have been stick around for a bit. What do you think of the show?

New formats. of course, always be tweaks and Little things we do along the way, but let me know, let's people know. Let me know. What you think? Try to be constructive? You got criticisms. Or just block you. Do you think the rise of Orthodoxy is a coincidence, or Miracle for lack of a better word? I, I believe certainly not a coincidence. There are. I just don't believe in coincidence is anymore at all. I certainly do. Think it's divine.

Yeah, I think there is a Like I want to be a signal put out and maybe this is always a bit of signal, but people just were picking up on it, or ten is were bent. but, but, certainly by 2020 in the events of 2020 and the lockdowns and all the rest of it and, you know, not to give that stuff too much credit because I think it had been building up You know, I think it has been building up and building up and building up. because even before, because a trans bathroom stuff had been

building up and You know. they were trying to sell you on this kind of stuff and I think people specially with the With the Trump. First term. With the Russia collusion and all that stuff. And the lies just kind of got to a point where it was really hard to stomach. Like, you had to be. Pretty far gone blue pills, Normie. To believe the Russia collusion stuff for any length of time. You know, it never it never sounded sincere or made sense.

And maybe because I just I don't studying, I mean giving it a breast of Russian news and Putin and all the rest of her for, for a long time before that. So I was like, yeah, that's not putting does things so no, no. That's not right. So was easier for me in some ways. But I do think it's just like it's like how do you know someone's lying Without Really knowing their lying?

Like you can't say oh you're lying about this and that the other thing you don't have proof their line but you know their line. and I feel like we've just kind of gotten to that point in the west where the lies of gotten. So, Almost obvious. That. And once you scratch one and start to question one, then you're like, oh wait a minute. If they would lie to you about this, what wouldn't they lie to you about? What else they aligned to you about? And as it turns out, pretty much everything.

You know. I I've said this on the show many times, so sorry for you heard this one before but for me, the thing that broke me on a dinosaurs was they have feathers now and that was like, yeah. No, no no. I'm not buying it. The older chickens you go from Raptors a chicken like yeah. No, no why? Because because Jurassic Park in the movie has Raptors looking a certain way and like the kind of look. If you look at them kind of weird.

They look like, you know, bald green birds or something, they kind of work like birds so that's it. They're like birds or like just giant green scaly Eagles know. No, not buying it. Sorry. If you not doing it. Thank you, come again. And I guess you think it well, hang on I second. Even I mean this happened when I was a secularist, it wasn't even happen to me. You know, this is pre-christian turn. And I was like yeah that's not my job in that. So then it gets you question

like well hang on a second. It's gonna lie to you. Okay maybe they're just lying about dinosaurs, right? It's a grift. They're just making some stuff up to, to pay the bills, okay? But then again it gets but no one's questioning this stuff and you're like and you know, top Top scientists, you know, Bill neither Science Guy, is over repeating this stuff, like, well, hang on a second. Are you all in the grip? You're all buying this. You're not all buying this one, right?

And yeah, no, no can't. No questions asked. Whether they're benefiting off a directly or indirectly. Makes you kind of go, okay? Well, what else could be alive? You sir, looking into it and go what do you mean they've never found a complete skeleton ever. Like that. You think they'd find like one? To substantiate the claim new new. Well, hang on a second.

I kind of bought into this whole like He kind of think, well, they found fauna or like, you know, imprints of plants or like some DNA is like, no, no, no, no, not really. No, they just they just assume a fraud. Because they're lizards. So they just think well they're lizards, they're be cold blooded which again now they've I think reversed that or challenge that and science court or some of the

whatever. So you know lizards well lizards live in deserts so or in jungles and stuff so it was probably really hot. So they probably had like, you know, really big versions of what we have now. Why would that? What why would that be true? Isn't things evolving like What why would I just get smaller if you're evolving then like plants and stuff would be way different, right? They wouldn't just be like, palm

trees like really big ones. They'd be like completely different things or like Proto palm trees or whatever the hell. Nope. Nope, nope. Nope. Nope, dinos are fake, my friend. Get on the dinos. Are fake bandwagon and he'll clear you write up. We could do this right now. I'm power washing. So it's gonna hard for me to

come to to do the whole breakdown. but, if you look up a stegosaurus, And you can find this, the things you still find this on Google. Look at the stegosaurus pictures of a stegosaurus from over the last, I guess, what is it? 100 years. Like I knew a Second Source when I was growing up. Look to certain way. Apparently they don't look that way anymore. Like well, okay. They must have found a new skeleton or something with that. And you look up like, no, no, no. They have.

They just decided that. That's not actually not how they that's not how they look. And they look at how they looked originally and they were standing up on two feet. Didn't have the The plates and all the rest of it, and just had some Spike's. Now they've changed into what I remember them. Having his big plates on their back and all that stuff. And now that's changed again, too. Like they have still a place with their smaller. And they looked different.

And you're like, okay, well obviously they must come from some proof of new skeletons. Found How how you could tell that that is still sick of source and I'll just a different breed of dinosaur world together. I don't know. Don't ask these questions. They just decided the story. It's a nice little story. They're just, you know. Only need to change things around a little bit. Let's take a source change a bit. Not to mention let's just talk about gravity for a second, right?

Because gravity still existed. I'm assuming like a billion years ago or whatever it was million million, whatever. How many millions years ago? Right. so if you have a giant big giant animal, like a brontosaurus like bigger than a whale, right presumed as large as a great white, whale more or less, maybe a bit smaller, but on four legs and eating, and eating plant life, And assuming that there's like more than one of these things roaming around, you know, the jungle or whatever

it was. Yeah, you that doesn't work either. The largest ground largest land animal, we have was as our elephant's. And those guys can barely move. Like if they got much bigger. You take the biggest elephant, there is out there and that's about his big as you can get in Earth's gravity. Right. Dinosaur movies and toys, and Museum sales. Exactly. because if you have a little kid, oh, Oh, they are dinosaurs up my daughter just told me this morning, she doesn't like dinosaurs or the

other day. So I putting some socks that have dinosaurs on. She was all dinosaur up. And I was kind of casually mentioned like oh, you know, Some people believe there's dinosaurs and other people think they're not totally true. Not me, of course. Whatever that run with teachers. but, um, but yeah, you know. What do I someone asked? Jar of the great says Jason. What's the craziest thing you think does did exist? Well, I've come pretty much full on to the idea of Netflix on him. Now Giants.

Can mean a few things. But I do think there were, I think there's plenty of weird evidence, right? Like, not evidence evidence but certainly like, Possible evidence. Hidden up evidence. Ooh, conspiracy exiles. Of giant human being. walking around giant meaning like, you know, Probably nine, you know, eight nine, ten feet tall. Which would fit into the whole

Nephilim kind of idea. I mean, Giants can also just can mean something more symbolic than actual like, very large human beings, but There's that, I think. I think, dragon's More or less existed. Now, I don't think there are the fire breathing sort. I think those things a lot of that gets methodologies. Oops. But I do think there was probably large lizards, you know, to that to that part of the dinosaurs. I think there were large lizards. Coexisting with human beings.

Probably not that long ago really overall. Because there's just these tons of these stories. Now you might say well these are you know mythological constructs, these symbolic archetypes. And that's that's there's a I think there's a fair degree possibility with that as well. Uh, go talk to Jonathan Pasha, but I also think there's probably more, you know, was it Saint George? Who's, who killed The Last

Dragon in Britain? Yeah, I think there's probably a very large lizards that have kind of fallen into mythology. that were poking around but with humans, and they were not You know, some prehistoric. Precursors to chickens. so, because Evolution itself is all bunk anyways. And I I can I, you know, here's the thing obviously, yeah, you're crazy. You're Christian creation, is a sure but that was becoming plain to me even before I become a Christian. That there was Major holes in

the story. That didn't really add up and he actually got worse. The more time you put the more time, you added to the situation, the worst of God. Because he started understanding that failure is almost a guarantee. In everything you do, right?

Anything that we do or that anything that happens in nature, you're more or less guaranteed to fail, you know, animals oftentimes go hungry, you know, big giant, you know, Predators like lions and stuff like that, can, you know, or type, you know, wolf packs and stuff that can literally starve to death even though there's food around, there's, you know, something like there's no dear Uh or whatever because they just

didn't catch enough. You know, they go, they go without a Kill. For long enough and then they die. And that happens. Maybe not all the time but it does happen. So, so failures actually much more likely than success. so, when you take that, as a as a starting point as a What is up, you know, as a as a point of reality.

Then you start looking at Evolution like okay so the chances of a random mutation being disadvantages, you know being terminal or you know, just having no good effect at all. Is 99.99999999999 likely. Right. Because failure is much more likely than success, especially when you're doing something completely random For No Good

Reason, which is the, which again is the story. you know, I think they're going to try to modernize this thing and try to find some sort of evolutionary will But then that just then you just get into Infinite regrets right? So it's like okay, but where do the will come from? Where do the will the amiibo come from to to become more than just the amoeba? Why was it not satisfied at being in the best amoeba? It could be, it had to evolve

into something. That was not an Obama to, you know, we were told to, you know, to ensure survivability and become better at eating in. Procreating and surviving and passing his genes on and all that good stuff. Like okay. Well it could just stopped at any point before that, right? Like, so, You all the changes in environments, like yeah. Okay, here's your problem with changes in environment, if you change the environment too much to suddenly to to extreme then everything dies.

Right. So they environment would have to change just enough my newly over time. And consistently, so consistent change, but very minut. And we look around the world today that we have and go. Well, is that does that seem like likely give him just a conditions we have on Earth today. No. Oh, okay. Well Because well because of us, right, we changed things like nah. These get changed by Nature all the time, you know? Pretty suddenly dramatically.

So I don't, I'm not buying that story the way it's presented. Unicorn is the archaic word for Rhino. Yeah. Someone's trying to tell me how evolutionary Works Evolution Works. No no I get it man. The. Oh wait, this is just a bot. Okay. Never mind. I thought it was. I got excited. I was like I'll explain it to you it's all just math and strategy. Michael okay and Charles a great ten dollars. Jarvis. Of good stuff.

I don't know why the things aren't popping up, but the alert box Notions. I'll have to figure that out. Okay. You think he got everything? Figured out, right? Everything's everything's working and then I was in some just random. Oh, no, no not gonna work today. Yeah, that one we got. Oh yeah. Chad Gable. Oh yeah. Oh, I haven't done this one yet. Send me some money, honey. we'll give you some soundboard, loving Watch me get demonetized on YouTube for this.

What else we got? What else we got it, put a whole new whole bunch of you here. You just made the list. Jobs a great ten dollars. What is a biggest difference between Catholic Catholicism and Orthodoxy? I'm cradle Catholic astray, kind of on the Pagan side. The weird drift of the online, right? Towards my birthday is strange what you mean salsa? Yeah. You know, I'm not a theologian. But the there's a Schism so we can get into the Philip way.

There's a whole bunch of stuff, obviously between Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism, I would say for a modernist though, I would tell you go go check out J Dyers videos and talks on this. He's far more learned and better than on this one than I will ever be. However you got to look into Vatican too specifically and the changes of Vatican two made to Roman Catholic. Dogma and it's not good.

It one of the big takeaways and it's something that that Jay got into with a debate was, I think he's Roman Catholic, I'm not quite sure apologies. Not too long ago. Was the fact that with Vatican twos, interpretation of God, basically saying that we all All Phase Muslims, Jews, Christians, even, I would say, Hindus and so that all worship the same God

just in different ways. Perhaps in, in perfect ways, but it's always the same God and I won't, you know, there's, there's a lot of reasons to think that that's is not just not just, not true, but heretical and and needs to be recanted. So, you know, Roman gets all is him, you know? Hey man, you can have all your feelings about it. I would truly steer you away from narcissism it's which is, you know, paganism.

That's all it is. It's just Gnostic beliefs and in Orthodoxy. It's not that we don't think that those gods are real. We Think those Spirits are real, they're just not good spirits as part of that way. Quite a few of them are Fallen Angels or demonic forces. So, you know, quite you'll see it pretty obvious and most Gnostic phase. There is always an element of human sacrifice. So even with Odin and all their rest of it, there was Human Sacrifice rituals.

The Romans had different went through different phases of it. The Romans started moving away from Zeus worship and to worship of the Czar as a man, you know, man God kind of thing so that that gets more complicated. But even the Greeks said, you know, Human Sacrifice rituals so, it's got to keep that in mind that that quite a few of those Spears. It's not that they're not real, they're real. They're just not, they kind of spirit. She probably want to commune with.

And check out Orthodoxy, man. I think here's the thing is that Orthodoxy has kind of a little bit for everybody in the modernist is going to modernist, men are going to find this out

pretty pretty quickly. What's good about it is that if you if you like the mystical and the spiritual and the sort of you know, let's say, non philosophy, you know, it's got that in Spades, you know, tons and tons of mysticism to kind of get get yourself involved in and the right kind because it's it's not trying to, you know, kill you and eat you. So there's that the the other good thing isn't. It has a philosophy. It has just common practice.

It's got a little bit of everything for everybody. You know, it's kind of probably why it's survived and thrived for this is long and why people, you know, when out of their way to defend it and keep it alive, even when it would have been probably easier to not do that. I'm talking about, you know, Sylvia, this Soviet Russia situation and all the rest of it. It's pretty stunning.

What? People went through to keep the faith intact, so what makes me so mad sad about, Was zelensky and them are doing to the Orthodox Faith because really Ukrainian language culture, all that stuff. If they're, you know, I know a lot of people want to say that it's not distinct from Russia, it is it's you know, obviously has a Russia and ukrainians or cousins in many ways. But, you know, there is a uniqueness to Ukraine to to

Ukrainian culture. And the reason I was preserved was because of the canonical Church. Which zelensky and Cove gone on their way to to harass Outlaw and other such wonderful things. So, New i7 goes at, how do they first molecule or sell me in the first unit first or Dimension created itself concluded. Something has always been, it's more logical and reasonable to believe in God. Yeah. Well here's the other thing,

right? Let's get, let's get out of the materialism for a second because yeah, you're right, you know, how does the first gas form? Because you're left. The problem of the materials is always has is You're Building backwards, right? You have a thing that is. And so you have to say, well, there if you're saying there's, there's this thing that that is and presupposing a time. When this thing isn't, then you have to produce a time when this

thing becomes the thing. So, let's talk about, let's just say a gas, right? So before the Big Bang, and before all the building blocks of the universe, suddenly come into existence, which is, you know, kind of neat that just does that thing and all these building blocks, all these atoms or particles or whatever. You know, when they form when they when they make contact with each other they start to do some

certain things. Now the Audi of this is that the things that they do just happen to you know come you know work out in our favor, you know oxygen is a thing. You know. Rocks form in a way that can be used as rocks. Like, and you are adding these sort of Randomness to these to, even the, the particles that are required to form the basis for a rock. Like it's one thing to say that. Some fish started developing legs even though. Okay. Sure. So then that starts to develop

the skeleton for legs. The need for legs, the desired legs and over time, it creates legs and crawls itself out of the sea with like lungs, that can breathe there and all the rest of it. And you're taking all these micro adaptations and adding them all up and therefore you you have, you know, land fish. That's crazy enough as it is but you're not going to with Is Like Oxygen. And the fact that an oxygen molecule at some point, didn't exist and had to somehow come into existence.

And just, you know, happened to find his way to places. instead of just being localized and one area, you know, it's it's a when you start adding up to all the things that have to line up that also have to have the all these building blocks and all these other, all these other particles that didn't exist at some point, then just came into existence and just happened to be able to function together to create, you know, rocks and gas and Sons and

all these other things that you need to even have life on Earth as a prerequisite. Well, that's a stunning amount of like whoopsies. Like your coincidence is their starting to pile up to the point of like ridicule. Because you're granting yourself particles. Not only are you granting yourself, particles, you're granting yourself particles that can work with each other. Here's the other thing about God in the mind. And I did the thoughts thing. I don't know if I really thought

about everything is produced. I mean, I'll expand on that in a future show. But back on, hopefully Monday. Eastern Standard Time Around the same time. If that's the plan. The. The problem with with the assumption is is that you give yourself mine, right? Even brain chemistry, you're granting yourself brain, chemistry that can evolve to a point of Consciousness even though where the only life on Earth that we know of that has this consciousness.

Right. But the Dolphins yeah they're not conscious and the same way that we do. You know sorry that's just not true but Apes. Well again not conscious. Highly intelligent compared to other animals. Yeah sure. Trainable all the rest of it but not conscious in the same way he was doing. Um, and this isn't a sort of like, well why are there? You know, we've evolved from apes while they're still Apes? I'm not doing that kind of argument, although it's actually not as horrible an argument as

as it first sounded. The only problem is it was made by a guy's like Kirk Cameron. And you know, it's easy to not listen to that but Point being since you're just granting yourself whole categories of Quincy dinks. That these things just happen to work together. Here's a big question from my materials friends. What's the first thought? There, how to be a first thought? Without the ability, by the way, because a thought would have had to be a precursor to to speak.

So rudiment I'm not counting like Grunts and groans and, you know, marks and stuff. As speed as the jit form of communication, right? Other than the basic things that animals can do, you know, bought a dog can bark but can't write a poem. Can't express. What is thinking even time if a dog could think? So then you're left with the idea. Like, okay, what was the first thought? Can you express a thought without thinking without

thinking it with words? The closest thing you could maybe get to is pure inspiration. Like art, like you could draw something without the necessity of a language like a formalized language or words. So now we're getting somewhere with that and go well that's what they drew they drew on the walls and then that got them thinking and stuff. Okay. But That's still get you down to, what's the first thought? What were they trying to express?

Because let's say you take unless you have widespread like a whole bunch of these proto-humans, not yet. Humans, still kind of a fish, all kind of having these Proto thoughts. All at the same time. it was only one dude strolling on the wall, but again, some bunch of other Still Apes, who can't understand what the fucking he's doing, excuse me. Then that doesn't work either. So you're presupposing a whole bunch of these guys, all having

been with think. Which brings us back to the same questions, like what's the first thought? The argument for God, is for the mind. Is that you don't need to have this sort of kinky dink first thought Paradox, where you have to have a first thought, what's the first thought it can? The first kind of thought happen without a language and in a by only by a very, very small select few humans. Not yet humans. How would they express this? How could, how would they even

know what a thought was? A thought if they haven't thought of thought yet, you know, Becomes Infinity. Regress on this. but, The. The. The, the ideal of God is that, well, God gives us God's the first mine. so, all our thoughts, Which aren't really ours, anyways. Come from someplace else. You know, we are mechanisms of discernment of information. And we can put that information together and kind of unique

novel ways. But you know, any real true thing that we would consider a thought probably doesn't even come from us because you couldn't isolate it down to when did this occur? And that gets a funny fun, funny, funny, funny and funky stuff. See this? First molecule cell. Its kind of wondrous effect of Life exists at all? Well, I mean it's it's God. So, you know, just thank your creator. Be thankful be thankful. Let's see. My dogging as conscious as me

but she's good company. Nonetheless. Well, I'm sure she is. Jarvis says yeah the silver awareness of mortality is what drives Arts reproductions the desire for immortality. Um yeah maybe I mean I think that's a Again, I think that's a much more of a modernist. Idea, you know, the the drive. Yeah, you can say that the Continuation of the species. If you're, if it's where you're coming from this, right? Like biological imperatives used to be the word of when I was a kid.

I was a young man. And again, they just grants himself imperative. You know, you just grant yourself this whole category that seemingly. Well, there's this will. Okay, where does the will come from? Can you, can you find the wheel where is there an or is there an organ called the called? The will like, where is this thing? Where is this will? You know we'll just survive. We'll to procreate. We'll okay. Where is it? Where is it?

Where you know? Is it's just, are you just gonna say well, it's nestled in our DNA somewhere. It's like, okay. Well, what produced it though? Did the first, you know, not even yet. Am I mean amoeba? Because again you're just

granting yourself single cell organism. because this is the problem, your infinite regress, there is that eventually you have to get back to like well there was a thing, there was a time when there wasn't even a single cell organism, Which is a bunch of proteins coming together. So was there a will for proteins to come Mingle. And to create this, you know, to evolve into a single cell organism. You know well that's just what it does like. Okay. But how why? Well, we'll just find.

Oh sometimes Or you can just make some stuff up. Okay, that's fun too. You'd make it up. Oh man, this is getting into the minutiae, aren't we? Collecting the dings though. Folks, we're getting the dings. All I Want For Christmas is another ding. so really they're coming out of power washer too similar to You know, how they can improve on this. Really. Just a way to repackage, I mean. Sell your new thing for full price instead of an add-on. Jarvis as there is no organ for

the will to power. My dog has it. I have it. You have it just not in the same degree again but but where does it exist? Is it just if? Okay, so well I will will the power. I don't know if that's We'll say we'll just revive right. Which might include power. Sure. But what manifests? Right. What makes the single-cell organism want to survive? Right. As you're basically, you're just granting a want. From a thing that has no mind. No mind. Right? It's a single cell thing.

It's just partnering around in the puddle of goo. but yet, it must have this will In order to, for your little Theory to work out, I'm not talking to you jar. I'm not putting you down just ranting. Ranting against murdering. Your just happened to be in my way guys. I got to go to her back. Enjoy the carousel. So, sometimes my dog has much less will to power comes with her cute, and I do what she wants regardless of whether or not. It's good for me or not.

Hmm. Stay away from peanut butter buddy. I feel like this is, Potential for the story, going to Dark Places. All right. Do I finish this? Where we finish up? I think we finished up. I I feel like I have run out of things to talk about and we're of the five-hour Mark, I was gonna go for three hours. For five. So let me let me just do this. Oops, ladies and gentlemen. This is no German nuts. Carousel, music? Why? Do we do we evolve to make Carousel music?

Was that the whole thing human beings evolved from amoeba just to create looping tracks of dated and inspect my living nightmares. Ladies and gentlemen, folks, thank you so much. Tuning into episode 1, Marin shark live. We'll be back next week on the hope. The plan is Monday. Starting around 9 between 9 and 10 p.m.

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