Thanksgiving, Physiognomy, & Wheaton College on Political Polarization

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I've decided now that the day after Thanksgiving it is permissible. I used to say it's December. I think because I have a kid now, I actually was pushing it a few days early. I was on I think Monday, Sunday, no Sunday, I was starting to play him.

So anyway, today is permissible though. You can go and listen to Christmas carols now. And I had a good Thanksgiving. I had family over. It was actually a little small. Some people weren't able to come.

We had snow in our area, not directly where I am, but north of me and west of me and we get rain. The last two times we've had a dusting or snow. Other places have gotten it and we've gotten rain for some weird reason.

I don't know if it's because we're in a microclimate or what, but we needed the rain. So I'm glad we had it. I smoked six racks of ribs. I actually sent my wife to the store and I said, get me some meat.

I was thinking brisket would be good. It's expensive, but you know, it's Thanksgiving. It's the one time of year, either that or Christmas when you can justify it somehow. So I told her to check out the brisket prices and stuff and she calls me and says, so I already left the store and I have six racks of ribs.

So I did it in two parts. I actually smoked four of the racks and then I did the two more along with a turkey. I've never smoked a turkey. I was very impressed with how it came out. I was very surprised and I just did what I did for the ribs.

Actually, I use pecan and I don't know what I say, pecan, pecan, whatever you want to call that nut, that bark from the tree that produces that nut. That's what I use for the turkey because I just read online somewhere that that was a good wood to use.

And I had some, and I'll be honest, I don't, I didn't really like taste. Maybe it's, it's, uh, subtle, but I didn't sense like overwhelming pecan taste, but, um, there, it was still flavorful. And, uh, I, I did, I sprayed a lot of apple cider on it.

I didn't read that anywhere. That's just something I started doing to kind of caramelize some sweetness on my ribs. And it seemed to work well for the turkey. So, uh, overall success on the food. And of course, uh, we went around and talked about what we were thankful for and all the rest, but I was up most of the night, the night before smoking stuff.

Uh, so I didn't get a lot of sleep, but I just conked out. I was hoping to go hunting this morning. Didn't happen. Didn't happen. So this afternoon we'll see if there's any deer out there, which this is my first serious time out, which is not good.

Usually I'm out a few times and usually I have a deer by now, but, uh, uh, life is busy and that's just how it goes. So anyway, I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. Some people were asking, cause I was posting on, uh, on X about it at least and wondering how it came out.

Oh, and I also, I did make the last video. I showed you kind of some of the seasonings. I'll say this about, uh, those seasonings. I showed you the all purpose seasoning from, what was it called? Barbecue church or something like that.

They, they, they're the ones in the store with the cow who's got a choir robe on and meat church, I think is the name of the brand. So, uh, their all purpose was actually pretty good on the turkey. And I think if I had to do it over again, I would have went with that on the ribs.

I used there, I think it's a mesquite kind of spicy flavor for four of the racks. And in my opinion, now some people really liked it. In my opinion, it's a bit strong on the pepper. Now, again, I like sweet, uh, and their sweet seasoning, which I used on two racks was really good.

And I smoked, um, smoked for the racks, the two sweet ones and two of the spicy ones on some hickory. And to me, that was very flavorful. Uh, and I didn't wrap them. I just sprayed the apple cider, the other ones I wrapped the, the two other racks.

And it is a very different experience wrapping versus unwrapping. And it's hard to tell, you know, when you wrap just for those who aren't initiated into barbecue, uh, for the last two or three hours, it'll, it kind of cooks it in its own juices and you have a very tender, soft exterior to your rib.

So with the butter and the sugar, uh, you could even add more seasoning. I don't do that, but it'll kind of, it all melds together and you pick it up and it just melts in your mouth. That's the kind of rib people say they like, cause it melts in your mouth.

If you don't wrap it though, and in the longer it goes, the harder that shell gets. So it becomes like a, uh, it changes the texture somewhat, right? So you're, you're biting through first this caramelized, if you spray like I do, the apple cider is caramelized layer into the skin, which is a little, a little bit tougher.

It's a little bit more of a barrier. And then the smoke ring hits you. And I think I'm going to, I like that a little more, but my, not everyone does. My wife likes it wrapped. So there's my barbecue lesson.

And yeah, some, someone asked if we'll do a podcast where I'll be out in the smoke or showing you stuff. And I don't feel like I'm at the level. I mean, there's shows where, you know, people are competitive with this kind of thing.

I think, I think I'm learning still, but, uh, if that's what the people want, that's what I'll do. Leave a comment. Let me know if that's what you want. If the people have spoken, we'll go out to the smoker and I'll show you what I do and it'll be fun.

So, all right, seven minutes in, and all I've talked about is barbecue. And of course, we've also talked about equipping the persecuted a little bit in.

There.

So I need to get moving here. We have a lot to cover and I don't know how much I'm going to. So, so here's my thought process before I even commence on this, there is this Wheaton.

College.

For lack of a, what would you call it? A summit, it ends in a panel, but it's a presentation, two presentations followed by a.

Panel.

It's an event.

Okay.

And this event is called the polar is what's next. That's the event. That's what it's called. And it was on the 18th. So it was right after the election. They held this nine days ago. And, um, so I'll back up a little Wheaton college has some issues.

I've talked a little bit, a very little bit, and it's the kind of issues you would expect because a lot of Christian institutions of higher learning have gone pretty varying extents, but pretty hard woke more than you'd expect, you know, hard on the social justice stuff.

Pushing left. We'll put it that way. And because I think so much of my focus has been with the SBC and SBC schools to a lesser extent, the PCA, and then just in general organizations that have a lot of influence like crew.

I'm not saying Wheaton gets a pass, but I haven't focused as heavily on Wheaton. I've talked about them behind the scenes. I've known of some, in my opinion, pretty crazy stuff that, that has gone on there.

Like can really concerning stuff. And I haven't talked about it. Uh, and I want to talk about it. I want to expose some of this stuff and I want to start with this. This is, I just felt like this was the, uh, this was the place to start.

It's recent. Does all of Wheaton university, I mean, this is going to be the comeback you always hear, right? The, like does Wheaton university endorse everything, these speakers you're about to hear that they said this Wheaton university, uh, have professors that might have different views.

I'm sure they do.

Right.

The thing you got to realize about the event I'm about to show you though, is it's presented as a neutral thing. Like it's not partisan. It's about polarization as a problem, but both speakers and the panel that follows and everything about it are completely coming from a leftist vantage point, and there's really no exception.

There is no concern about polarization coming from the left. It's all the fault of the right. It's all the fault of quote unquote, Christian nationalists. It's all the fault of the MAGA crowd that, and they're believing conspiracies and they're not trusting the official sources.

And there it's everything you would hear on MSNBC with a Christian veneer. And it's very frustrating to be honest. And because the people who are propagating this and you'll see as I play it, they don't seem to understand that they're not self-aware we'll put it that way they're not self-aware.

They think that they're unbiased, that their objective, that they transcend this political divide. And they're here to tell you what God would expect how Christians should navigate it. They're not unbiased.

They're not, they have a team they've chosen. And I have a piece coming out in the Federalist soon that makes this point. I don't talk about Wheaton, but I make this point more with the Christians who try to present themselves as transcending the political polarization are sometimes the most polarized and they're pulling for one side and it's the left.

And how did our institutions get this way? When 81 of evangelicals are voting for Donald Trump, it's a question worth asking and exploring. And I think I've come up with some answers to it, but it's still something I keep asking myself because it is an odd phenomenon.

You have to admit that is an odd phenomenon. So we're going to talk about that a little bit, and I'm going to give you my answer, my response to these, this panel, this presentation that is going out to, in some part to people who are training for pastoral ministry or training to be Christian leaders.

So I will take, by the way, any questions today. This is kind of a loose, not a free for all, but it's I got my ball cap on. I'm not being that serious today. I'm not, I didn't put the collared shirt on either.

I got a t-shirt. I'm just, I'm just hanging out with you the day after Thanksgiving. Some of you are probably streaming this as you're trying to find deals. That's what my wife is doing that right now.

She's out there trying to find, well, I don't know how much of it is trying to find the deals and how much of it is having coffee with her friends. It's kind of like a tradition. Now she goes out, she goes to the store, she has coffee.

Sometimes she doesn't come back with anything. Other times she does, but maybe you're out there doing that.

All right.

We already have a question. Uh, Wheaton has been evangelical left for a long time. Are Trump voters still out on the premises? As far as I know, there are Trump voters, especially students who are on the premises.

So, oh, Jake, man, my smoker broke last week and I was forced to go back to using the oven. I don't even, I don't want to see comments like that, that those are the comments that break my heart and you don't want to break my heart.

Uh, drop that smoke video.

All right. All right.

Well, we got, uh, some requests for the smoke video. You know, what I'd love is if meat church sponsored the podcast, that would give me more incentive to really show you how I'm using their product. So, uh, maybe I'll, maybe I'll put a post out there.

Maybe I'll do it right now. How about I do it right now? You can all go since you're live streaming. Some of you, at least some of you will listen to this on the re record. We'll find meat church on X and there it is.

I found it already. It's just at meat church. That's the most simple handle. And I'm going to put a tweet out there. Meat church. I would like to sponsor your products or your seasonings or your, we'll say rubs.

Let's talk PM me.

All right.

Now, if you want me to do more barbecue content, you can go to my ex account right now. It's the last tweet. I just put it out there and re reshare that. And if it gets some traction, maybe, maybe we can get something going.

All right.

Have you talked about the Antioch declaration? I'm confused about the racial animus that people like James white talk about. Yeah, I did. I did a podcast is long, not two hours, 20 minutes. One of my longest podcasts.

And I am very frustrated in it. I'm it's, I don't have any notes. I don't write anything down or put a show to get like a slideshow. I just kind of talk from where I'm at and I read through it and I express a lot of frustration with it.

So if you want to go watch that, uh, that will hopefully help you understand where I'm coming from on it. I have told people that I don't plan to talk more about this. And now I may, but I don't plan to, uh, after yesterday.

And I think this, you can't really separate these things. I know that there is somewhat of a separation, but the reaction is tied together. The reaction is to this, the aversion to signing it, especially partially because there's an outstanding issue has been between pastor Joel Webb and, and Tobias, uh, Raymond, Raymond Schneider.

And, and then the guys who shared the video that pastor to Raymond Schneider put out that was attacking Joel. And, um, and of course, you know, from the other side, I suppose, uh, you know, Joel, I guess some are framing it this way that, that he initiated an attack on pastor.

However you want to frame that, uh, pastor Raymond Schneider actually put out a video yesterday. I was very glad that I put out mine hours beforehand, not knowing he was going to put out after a month, a clarification or a second video.

And all I have to say to that at this point is it makes me very sad to see, um, to see where the attitudes are at and where the, uh, the discourses. This should be something. I agree with Aaron McIntyre who put out a podcast about this whole thing.

And this really should have been all of it. I think should, could have been handled much better in my humble opinion. And I'm just, yeah, I see when there's division like this and it's Christians, I can't help, but wonder whether this is the devil, um, also at work.

I mean, that's, that's what he wants. I mean, what did Christ want? He wanted unity. And this seems like some of the most unnecessary unity, uh, disunity that there that I've seen in a while. And, uh, and so I'm not really want to talk about it much anymore.

I think, I feel like I've said my piece. I don't really have, I don't have anything that I want to retract that I, someone could show me something, but I, I have no regrets in how I've interacted with it.

And I think had I put the video I put out yesterday, today, or tomorrow about the situation, I probably would have been, uh, much harder on pastor Tobias, to be quite honest with you. And, uh, and I don't want to be harder on him.

I don't want to talk about it. And there's a lot of people in the audience who are frankly sick of this. And I realized some of you that you've heard this for the first time, and it's very complicated.

I was telling my dad last night, I was like, it's to understand this entire issue, it's like, you have to listen to all these podcasts and they're two hours and, and they build off each other. And there's, and it's become one of those things where it's, it's gotten to the point, things are, are becoming complicated enough that it's just like their sides and there's bad blood.

And some people probably don't even remember exactly what all the reasons are for why that's there. I mean, that's, that's the typical clan clan-ish warfare of like the Hatfields and McCoys, right? Why did we start fighting?

I don't know. Some, some people don't even remember, but I do remember enough to know the working issues. It just takes a long time to get through it and to do a fair job talking about it. So go watch what I've already put out there.

That's my last thing I want to say about it. I don't really want to say any more and just pray for peace. And let's enjoy the holiday season and Christmas as much as we can.

All right.

Thoughts about euthanasia.

Okay.

David Carlson for $10 being legalized in the United Kingdom. Is it the forthcoming culture war? How do you Christians respond to this? Thank you for your Antioch coverage.

Very helpful.

Uh, wow.

Yeah. Oof.

Yeah, of course it is. Of course it's a very serious problem and it's legal in some of the United States as well. So they call it death with dignity. There's now, um, some of you have probably seen online in Europe.

There's these, uh, pods that you can, in some countries, I don't know if it's in the United States yet, but you can enter these pods and it's a suicide pod, it'll kill you. But in a way that's supposedly peaceful, it doesn't cause you pain and you can exit this planet.

I think it's bad for a number of reasons. Obviously this is self murder, suicide, breaking God's law on a fundamental level. Uh, secondly, it also, I think it only comes from a very bad place. And when you have those kinds of laws that allow that, uh, you're also coming from, you're encouraging and you're, what you're doing is you're saying that morally speaking, this is not a problem.

Now, some people have mocked laws that are against suicide or like, or just cause like, what are you going to do? You're gonna punish the guy.

He did.

Um, I think the issue more comes down to this. You have doctors and companies making money off of it. So it's the monetization of this. So that's the working issue. It's not, you know, the mockery about like, Oh, we're gonna make laws against it.

Like that, that misses the point. Like this is, are we as a society going to encourage this kind of thing? And if you feel depressed one day, like where I live, there's a bridge, not far away, there's all these signs life is worth living, call the hotline, right?

Are we going to, as a society say, you know what? We're not going to do that anymore. Or at least we're going to send mixed signals. Well, maybe we'll still have that, but we're also going to start giving the impression that actually this is a perfectly permissible, moral and fine thing to do.

And the cost of this, I think, I mean, it's hard to quantify cause I don't know of any studies. Maybe there are, but in all the situations I know where there's been a suicide, it has left absolute devastation for those who are still alive.

Absolute devastation, a devastation that lasts years, that lasts lifetimes. Uh, when it's a father, a brother, a cousin, a nephew, I mean, it's, you know, if you feel like you have no connection to anyone, maybe the impact is a little less minimal on society, but even then, I mean, someone has to take care of your body after you make that decision.

Someone has to, uh, come to terms with the fact that there, there are people out there who think that the life life that they've been given this gift is, is not worth living and they should all go watch.

It's a wonderful life this Christmas. That's my opinion. So yeah, it's, it's bad. It shows further degradation, further, uh, an attack on the creator and his plan and that he made a mistake in creating you or creating another person.

And it's an attack on the created order. Just like transgenderism is an attack on the gender binary. Just like abortion is an attack on frankly, motherhood and fatherhood and parenting and the baby that's in the womb and the whole structure.

It's bigger than just the one person. It's, this is a social, socially wide problem. Uh, John, I would love to have you in ad on to talk about how the internet has changed brother wars. And if it's brought any useful and helpful tools to bear or merely complicated everything.

Oh, that's a good question, man. I don't know. Uh, I don't know. It's something I'd have to reflect on. I think it has probably produced conflicts that you would never have heard of. It wouldn't have been a conflict.

I think overall it's bad, but again, you're listening to this podcast online. It's like any technology. You can use it for good. You can use it for evil, but I think. Uh, that Kruptos has made a good point on technology because, you know, he says that once you have the technology, it changes you in ways, sometimes you're not always expecting.

And sometimes the net, uh, there's a net negative, even if it's like good content, even if you're listening to this podcast, there can be a net negative in that, um, how does he explain it? That, uh, it, it shapes the way that you, you approach things and think about things and attention spans and that sort of thing.

So, um, I mean, I'm of the opinion. I wouldn't be doing the podcast. If I thought that all technology was bad and all podcasts talking about issues are bad. I think there's potential for learning and probably being confronted with information and, uh, solutions even to problems that you never would have heard of if we didn't have technology.

At the same time though, I think overall there is a negative net effect and it's hard, I I'm in this position of being in a spot where I'm using technology. And at the same time, I want to go back in so many ways to a pre-modern ways of understanding, thinking, and living.

And some of those ways cannot be brought back. They're not compatible with a technological society. And I'm someone who's grappling with that and, uh, very aware of that and probably, uh, in some areas blind to it, but I'm, I'm, I'm thinking through the creative ways that, uh, because, because it's not slowing down and it'll get probably even more ramped up with AI.

I'm thinking of creative ways of trying to. Um, get away from some of the media impact we have and the short attention spans and the new cycles, the last two seconds, while also, um, engaging at it in a minimal way with, uh, with the useful and helpful things that all of that can bring you, how do you cope with the smoker cleanup, you know, or I probably am doing it wrong.

Uh, I don't like the sprays, so I just use a power washer. So I will, I just kind of like clean it off with a brush, the racks. And then, uh, after the, I don't know, a month, two months, usually, uh, cause it depends how often you're smoking, but I'll just like get a power washer and really clean it out.

Uh, all right, we're going to get into a physiogamy. I hope I'm saying that right. Or, or, uh, fizzy. Am I saying that right?

Physiognomy.

Yeah, I think I'm saying that right. Physiognomy. Uh, so is physiognomy inherently sinful people like James white or Chris say yes. Do they? I didn't know that. I knew there was a big debate. I didn't know that they were on that side.

Um, I'm going to get into that in just a moment. We're going to get into that before we get into the wheat and stuff, even though we're 24 minutes in a lot of questions coming in. I'm surprised how many people are online right now.

Um, have you watched Wolfers Gordon talk? I've watched clips. I haven't watched the whole thing because I've been, I've been listening to hours and hours of people trying to talk through the Antioch and the Tobias Joel thing.

And I'm so sick of it. So sick of it. I kind of want to listen to the Wolfers Gordon thing.

All right.

Um, let's yeah, we're going to get there.

Trouble. All right.

Let's where, where do we want to start? Let's start here. Let's, let's do the physiognomy back and say the word. Um, I don't ever say that word in normal circumstances. It's something I only read online.

So I've never actually had to pronounce it. I don't think physiognomy, there we go. I'm just going to go with that. Let's talk about it a little bit. So there is a debate. I'm not going to talk about sides.

I guess apparently James White and a guy named Chris are on one side of it, but here's, here's what's happening. What I broadly see. So you have people, um, people on the right wing people who are, I think there's a correlation here, guys who are getting into the gym, who are power lifting, who are really inspired to live in a more healthy way, they're rejecting the seed oils and they seem to be the ones who are making this point more so that there is this element to your physical body that is also connected to your, um, your spirit, your more moral direction, the way that you live and the way you come across in your character, character, uh, and, and physical aptitude are somewhat similar or not similar, but they're somewhat connected.

I think actually there's some truth to this. I think you could take it way too far. There are some very good looking people who go to the gym, right? Obviously who have a deficient character in some ways.

Now, I think going to the gym and that kind of thing, there's, there's already an element of that, that you have discipline. That doesn't mean you have discipline in all areas, but there is at least some discipline somewhere.

And that is something you can build off of. And this is the kind of thing I think Jordan Peterson talks about and other like self-help guys. There's like, obviously a benefit when the first thing you do is make your bed in home morning and you complete tasks and you get in the habit of doing things that are productive because it will like dominoes, it will land you into other productive things.

And you'll have a productive life, right? So a, a habit, uh, is formed by small actions over time that are consistent. And then that makes a pattern. It makes a lifestyle and then you can be more healthy.

And if you're more healthy, frankly, you're going to be more happy in general. That's just, those are general proverbial truths. I think physiognomy is like that. I think it's, it is a general proverbial truth that has exceptions.

There are people who are physically appealing who do not have good character. There are people who are not physically appealing, who have stellar character. Uh, I think a lot of this though comes down to, it's not like someone who got burned up in a plane crash, right?

That's not what they're talking about. They're talking about usually like. Uh, character and life decisions, moral decisions that correlate to or associated with, or have an impact on your physical appearance.

Let me give you an example of that. So you are someone without self-control because you're someone without self control, you don't eat healthy. You eat sugar, you eat the things that are taste good to you.

And because of that, you'll do it in front of the television and you don't actually have an active lifestyle and you're constantly being entertained.

Right.

And because of that, your mind turns to jello because you don't use it and you outsource your thinking to other people and your intention span decreases. And because of that, uh, you start to look a certain way, right?

You get soft. It's not just a matter of having weight, but you're soft in that way. That weight isn't coming. You know, you're not, uh, out there doing work on the farm and you're burly. You know, that's different.

Uh, no, you actually, you're soft. You're and you become useless for physical activities. You can't actually go help someone move because you don't have the strength and you can't hardly help yourself move because your body's in a particular state.

And this is going to, um, have an impact on you. If you're someone who is, uh, and it also make you unhappy to be quite honest with you. Uh, you're probably not going to be smiling as much as you think, because you're, you're involved in these distracting activities that are the devil's substitute for joy.

They're not real joy. There's not going to give you that. And you just, when you turn off the television, you just feel like your life's a waste. Why did I engage in that? Why did I waste hours? Why did I waste days?

Why did I waste years of my life on stupidity on foolishness? And I got nowhere. I made no progress. Uh, and that's going to have an impact on the way you look. And this is something, let me just give you an example before I get into some scripture for my own life.

I lived in North Carolina and I lived in Virginia for a little bit. And of course I've traveled extensively too. And in different parts of the country, there are people from different ethnic backgrounds, so they look differently.

You have people, uh, from in the Midwest that are German more so, and, and, and different, uh, kind of center central European countries who've been immigrated there.

Right.

And you have Scots Irish in the Appalachian part of the country. And much of the South, you have Cavalier types. Now you have a lot of Yankees who have moved down. So you have Puritan types as well in the low country in the South.

Uh, in, in the Northeast, there's a lot of like old kind of wasp stock. And so I, I get that there are different features that these different people are going to have just as a matter of the genetics they carry.

Right.

But there is something else that I think is also very determinative. And I don't know to what extent it is. I just know I sense it more than I can probably articulate it, but I'm going to try when I lived in Virginia, people were generally happier.

Now, admittedly, it's a little more heavier Scots Irish type people. And it's a mixture of people for people in the wary. I lived actually, there's a lot of people from the Midwest and even from the North and other places that have moved in.

But, uh, even the people who came from New York that had a rough exterior, they kind of lightened up and they acclimated, they became a little more happy because everyone around you is happy. People are saying hello to you in the store.

Uh, opening doors and, uh, smiling and it makes you smile back. And they're saying, I like that hat. I like that dress. I, uh, what do you think about this? It, it, you have connections with the humans around you.

You're not so isolated and the metric for living life is not so much your bank account and how successful you are, what position you have, it's more, who are your people, where you're from? I mean, some, someone in Virginia asked me that, well, you know, who are your people and, and I think it just, there's a happier lifestyle, uh, Hey, it gets dirty on the farm, but we can slop around with the pigs and have fun.

Like, you know, not everything has to be perfect and not everything is about impressing other people.

So.

In the North and especially New York has a reputation for this. It's the rat race. You are judged by your car that you drive and your account, your bank account, and these kinds of things. More so, uh, there is more stress.

There is more pressure. There is a higher cost of living. That's hard to meet. So you have two breadwinners in the home, right? There's a whole host of things. And the culture around you is not helping.

If they're not, they're, they tend to pull you down more. So I'm telling you, this is someone who's lived with the experience of it. Not someone who's speculating on any of this. This is just true. It doesn't mean there's happy, there's happy people, but.

Uh, there's, there's less of them, at least publicly, the look on people's faces is different. And my wife and I have talked about this a little bit that it almost seems sometimes, like if you're used to smiling, the wrinkles on your face will land in a certain way.

They will, uh, they will, when you're, you're resting face may be different. If you smile a lot, then someone who frowns a lot, who's not used to smiling, who's on constantly under pressure. Who's right.

And so what is that? Is that physiognomy or whatever that word is? Well, your appearance does seem to indicate something deeper about you. And it does over the course of life, over years of. Things like not eating right and having a depressing lifestyle.