ECM of Mark, Mormons Hide in Basements, Gregory on the Spirit

The postman just just left a couple minutes ago and He said he had some books from Germany which he did. And I've been waiting for this for two years. So here is Here's gospel mark In the ECM now, I already started looking at the online Databases.

The ECM of Mark and the Significance of CBGM

So in other words cbgm is available for mark finally January of 2019 back for the world went crazy. I visited In Munster where these are produced and was told this was done in January of 2019 but Didn't come out didn't come out and then 2020 nothing came out and I think they've been delayed the next that's Supposed to come out.

It's not being done in Munster's being done in Birmingham, I think Birmingham think so. It's gospel John and So people always say you never admit when you're wrong. My prediction was that once you had a gospel get done and By the way, this is a dividing line.

Hi, I'm James white. Um. But I figure most of you if you're new you're gonna be wondering what the world I'm talking about. But if you're not then you you're like, okay. Yeah, you've talked about this a lot in the past.

Let me just give you a quick rundown. Edicio critica mayor you see it right there. I don't know how many volumes could be nobody knows how many volumes could be when it's done. I should have grabbed axe and the Catholic epistles.

Those the other volumes in the other room. This all has been done so far it's supposed to be done by 2030. We'll see. I was told they have the funding through 2030 but Obviously, you're gonna have the Pauline corpus you're gonna have revelation all by itself.

You've got John Matthew and Luke Yet to go so it could get done. I hope it gets done. It will be The most Extensive expansive edition of the Greek New Testament and what they're doing is The Greek New Testaments you are accustomed to seeing that sort of look like this or the UBS.

These are. How do I put it based on this? So the Nessie Allen 28th edition reflected the General epistles in In reflecting this. So the 29th edition, I'm not sure exactly what that will involve but axe has come out now marks come out maybe if John comes out, maybe it would reflect those and you'd have the textual changes that have been made and again, remember please in light of all the King James only silliness out there.

When when you when you talk about a textual change. No one can make readings disappear from the New Testament. Okay, so I was just looking for example, and it's nice that they did this right up front is a listing after you get past all the introductory material In German and things like that.

It's in English and German they used to have Latin I think but anyway here is on page 20. Textual change is over against the Nessie Allen 28th edition right here and There are one two, three, four five six seven eight nine ten 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 32 33 out of the entire.

So that's what? Two per chapter maybe. That does not mean That when the Ness Allen 29th edition comes out That the old readings will disappeared. You won't be able to see him anymore in reality. In the ECM you'll have more information About what manuscripts contain what readings than you've ever had before.

Fuller collations fuller amounts of information available to you now. For a lot of people that's scary it's having all that information is Frightening to people whose text is derived not from God preserving manuscripts over time but from tradition.

So if you're King James only if you're TR only. This is bad news or minimally irrelevant. So here is here is provision I think very gracious provision I Mean Islam has nothing even close to this. Islam doesn't have anything close to this let alone this.

Here is provision of Tremendous amount of information documentation concerning the readings of the New Testament and The faithfulness of the scribes in their copying over the centuries. But for a lot of people it's just bad news.

It's just bad news. It should just be bad news for atheists and people who want to try to say we don't have any idea what the origin of the Testament said and this represents the application of CBGM coherence based genealogical methodology Which is Allowing Computers Feeding into a computer the collation of Many manuscripts best manuscripts that we have and I don't mean that in the sense of just a few huge numbers of manuscripts and then allowing the computer to recognize Relationships and patterns between Manuscripts that a human mind would not be able to see.

We can only keep you know, I I watched Fahrenheit 451 the 2018 edition HBO again recently while writing a couple days ago and I do recommend it to you. It has Michael B Jordan in it who seems to be a real big popular guy these days.

He did a good job I thought enacting it but point was it seemed even creepier today than it did when I watched it about nine months ago. That's how much farther into that world. We've gone. Oh I see that you see the did you pull it out so it could be seen?

This. That's how it normally looks. Okay. Yeah, we're gonna Rich just got me this thing. See I'm being distracted Rich just got me this thing here. We're not using it right now, but I'm gonna be on The church split it was church split webcast right after this program and I'll be using this and let's just be honest you You stole it from from Nathan.

Yeah, so there you go Nathan rich rich saw it said it sound real good and boom now I have to not I Have to take it on my road trips. That's that's the whole point I'm not sure if I'll Be using in here.

There's a see I'm looking at a camera right now right above it Literally sitting on its lens is another camera which I use for doing webcasts like the interview this afternoon and So that plus this now that has pretty good sound on it.

So no one's ever complained but now I'll use this today test it out and then it's gonna get stuck in in The mobile AO mobile command center and so I just saw it sitting there going. Oh, okay. That's interesting.

Anyways, what was I talking about? Um point is The I Was gonna admit an error on my part. I have said for a couple years That I expected when a mark came out that finally there would be much more mainstream discussion of CBGM Which scares me on one hand because Even Christian media is not up To at all accurately representing what CBGM is all about.

There aren't that many people understand what CBGM is all about. I just aren't It's it's very mysterious to a lot of people and So I was wrong. Not that I mean these are just now coming out so Something still could come around but here's the point There aren't mark just doesn't have that Doesn't have the real pop Textual variants the ones that will catch attention John does so John 118 really important textual variant.

Really interested in seeing how that goes as far as CBGM goes the CBGM databases. Um, I Think I think once John comes out then finally that will probably happen then but looking over these variations these changes.

Well, it's interesting the very last one in mark 1619. Most of most of them for those of you who there's a lot of background of this stuff, okay, and a Couple years ago. I spent a lot of time on the program going over a lot of that background.

It's been a little while mainly because There weren't any real new developments in it for about two years now but One of the interesting aspects of this and this is not what I was we talking about today.

But when the postman brings this to your door literally ten minutes for the program starts and Seven minutes for the program starts you cut the things off because I didn't know what it was I didn't put two and two together and then once I open it up, I'm like, oh Yeah.

Okay. One of The the reasons that almost everything we wrote one of the reasons that I will have to rewrite the King James only controversy. If I live that long is that For years and years and years and years we utilized language such as the Byzantine text type the Alexandrian text type Western test text type Caesarean text type so on so forth in talking about New Testament textual history variations variants and things like that.

The analysis by CB GM has basically said there's only so far and I don't see that mark is changing any of that. Only so far one really identifiable Homogeneous group that's a Byzantine manuscripts. There really isn't an Alexandrian text type or a Western text type.

And people had already been going there is no Caesarean text type for a long time. So that wasn't anything new. What's interesting is as I look at this list The large majority of them are a movement toward the Byzantine text type.

Now there's only it's still Small handful, but there are a couple away from it. And the last one is mark 1619 the na28 had a Byzantine reading of Lord Jesus and now the ECM simply has Lord. But the rest are toward a Byzantine reading and the one reading that I had said Would really be interesting and I did mention this last week as I looked it up online because the online stuff is available I suppose I should silence that.

The online stuff is available is mark 1 1 and those of you who for example Sort of algo my debates would know that mark 1 1 came up in my debate with Shabir Ali in 2006 and The question is how does the verse end the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ?

The Son of God is the Son of God there or not. It's in brackets in the na28. It's no longer in brackets in the ECM. So in 29, that's not 29. It won't be in brackets so The CB GM analysis of the coherence of the manuscripts Strengthened the editors conclusion That Son of God was original.

Now that's fascinating because there had been all sorts of discussion About what that would have looked like in the original language. Because it's a string of genitives and they would have been what's called Nomina Sacra the the sacred names and so that whole string of Abbreviated words a lot of people had said Yeah, you know That that could cause confusion and Could cause a copyist to maybe skip over things and that's basically what ECM is saying is that the evidence is that The copyist skipped over it.

But it was original is basically what what's being said, but that's considered a move toward the Byzantine Textual tradition, but again very small number very very small number and until you get some And we may not get real.

It's really sort of in Paul that I think There's gonna be at least for New Testament scholars some real questions About how CB GM is gonna fall out on these things and it's again. It's it's not just because CB GM says it that they come to that conclusion, but there's mark and it's out and I Am hoping I haven't totally confirmed this yet, but I'm hoping that a grace Bible seminary and then maybe Again after g3 on the way home in Tyler, Texas, I may get the opportunity to Do some lecturing on CB GM just introductory level stuff because especially if you are taking seminary level classes and You have an interest in textual criticism and most people in this audience at least can survive a discussion of textual criticism.

Or you wouldn't be watching this program. Anyways. Or especially if you've read the King James only controversy you already have an interest in it. Anybody today You're gonna be left behind as far as not eschatologically.

You're gonna be left left behind In the New Testament realm if you're not aware of CB GM and what's what's being done and what the goal is and what the process is going to be and how once all of ECM is done.

That doesn't mean everything stops probably it means that there's a Revision past that and the traditionalists say there is your problem. You never come to a final text and I say to the traditionalist.

There is your problem. You don't have any respect for the original text you You've given up the work because stuff is being found all the time. And that's a wonderful thing. That's a good thing. It's a positive thing.

It is great. We have so much more of the New Testament available to us today than we had in the 16th century. And I think it's just absolute insanity. To promote the idea that we should somehow limit ourselves as to the availability of information to defend the text of New Testament and So again as one who believes that this has value long down the road and as one who has Now at least a consistent eschatology to want to do things long down the road I think it's fantastic.

It's exciting and And What they're doing now, and I'm not sure if they've gone back and done it with the older stuff. But I know it's Gospel of Mark. You can actually now download the databases to your own computer and I've actually reached out to someone.

I hopefully will get some training. Because I'm gonna tell you something Coming into the study of ECM CBGM. From years of studying textual criticism. It's exciting. But when I was studying textual criticism in the 1980s, we didn't have computers.

You know, we didn't we didn't have Databases and stuff like that to be drawing from and so downloading stuff and literally Doing things in various languages to get it to do stuff Wasn't part of my training.

So there are others who have been trained in those areas that We will avail ourselves of to get to learn some more things but all that to say that that is Exciting. It's positive it's it's a good thing and I think sometimes we just get so focused on all the bad news That we think it's only news if it's bad.

It's only news if it makes you angry. If it is a positive thing a positive thing that will assist and aid in the Defense of the gospel in the translation of scriptures that type of thing. That's almost like a ho-hum yoner these days and it and it shouldn't be so that's exciting.

I don't keep the ECM in here that I have a text criticism portion of my library that I've been keeping that in. And But it is a fascinating excellent thing, all right, so with all of that said I'm not sure if any of you saw there was a There are some really interesting Unitarians on Twitter.

Unitarianism used to be sort of a Boring Offbeat type thing, but there's a there's a breed of virulent nasty Unitarians out there and that are very zealous and They're they're offensive. They're blasphemous and this one guy Jumped on to a completely different thread completely different topic.

I tried to hijack it did successfully hijack it actually. Actually, he hijacked a prayer. That's right. It was the prayer that I posted for safety for God's people in in the in the face of the hurricane.

But threw out some stuff about the schizo God and things like that and I he quoted from Isaiah 45 5 as I recall where where Yahweh says he is the only God and as if that's somehow relevant to Trinitarianism and I just pointed out just the the utter foolishness of this kind of rhetoric, especially because it's Isaiah 45 23 is the source of the words that either Paul penned or He certainly penned them in writing them in Philippians chapter 2.

But most people feel he was writing something down. It was already the community property of the of the fellowship. An earlier hymn from the very beginning of the church. Where every knee would bow and every tongue confess that's to Yahweh but it is to father and son in essence in Philippians chapter 2 and I was just pointing out just you know, Jesus quotes from Isaiah 43 about Yahweh of himself in John 13 19 and just the The you know, John 12 41 quoting from Isaiah 6 again identifying Jesus as Yahweh just the The foolishness of this this type of stuff and this guy his this guy's response is to say I'm sure you're just gonna run away.

You won't ever debate me you know and so. So I'm like, yeah, you know, I I I do have a long history of just running away from debates. I've never done one. I just I'm just so scared of doing that kind of thing.

And so I clicked on his profile and He's some type of a vegan blogger in the UK. As far as I can tell. Has zero training in any related field. Zero publications in any related field zero teaching in any related field has seven Seven videos on YouTube and a hundred and fifty two followers just like Okay, so You're saying that I'm gonna run away from you.

And of course as soon as I point this out, there's this something about riches and power and so just Just Muto That one but it is amazing to see how social media sure it can be used for truth, but my goodness the Explosion of Heretical nonsense.

That is given a voice that never could have had before. I mean, how many people do you think this guy actually would influence in his normal life if there wasn't that opportunity to do that? Very very very few.

Nope. No one be supporting him to be publishing stuff or putting a newsletter out or anything even back in the olden days when that's how You did stuff. So when you see that kind of stuff don't don't get all bent out of shape.

I see people jump on that stuff and it it's that it is that meme that meme that says You know, the guy is sitting there and it's late at night and his wife says gotta come to bed. I can't honey. Somebody's wrong on the internet, you know, and it's just sort of like Don't Don't don't sweat it.

It's uh, it's cool. You're good. All is all as well. Don't don't let those things bother you. Okay. Let's see what we have here. Oh Accordance is having problems on this this machine but Okay, let's start with this one.

I have been amazed. And I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you right now what I'm gonna try to do is I'm gonna try to avoid Any Afghanistan stuff today? Because I think I'm personally just burned out on it. It's just so sad If I start talking about the picture of the dogs, I'm just gonna lose it.

So I'm gonna try to avoid that today. You're gonna you can't avoid it yourself, so. But there you go. I'm just like to go there today. But I will talk about the Mormons Mormons a little dry today. Oh, that tastes good.

Um, I Have not figured out what is going on with the Mormons. Once again, they've canceled Their general conference not canceled it but there'll be no in-person general conference the last in-person general conference was October of 2019.

We were there I Think that video of Jeff and I and Luke's discussion with a couple leaving Mormonism. Did you ever get a chance to sit down watch that? Oh goodness, you've got to because Wow, that was lame.

Um, I Just asked if he'd seen it and he's asked to come up with all these excuses About how long ago it was and how old we're getting and stuff like that. That that that was a long time ago and What's amazing is You know, we went out to apology I went out to The Mesa Temple, I think it was back in June Because we had seen an announcement that these missionaries were gonna do a musical thing on The front lawn of the and I did not know that there was a ward Chapel Directly south.

I mean literally the the road on the on the southern boundary of the temple. There is a ward Chapel on the other side. So I mean, that's how close it so you didn't hear about this. So we had heard that these missionaries were gonna do a musical thing and so Apology a shows up in force my my daughter and son-in-law and grandkids are all there and I Don't know.

There's probably 50 of us I'd say that showed up and We first showed up. There was nobody there. I mean, we're like, is this where it's supposed to You know, we're looking finally about half an hour for us supposed to start these missionaries start bringing chairs out the front lawn of the ward and We're already I Mean, we know where to stand.

We figure traffic's coming this way that You've got this stuff figured out and they're looking at us like Why do these people have tracks in their hands what's going on, you know, and honestly By the time it started we outnumbered the Mormons There were more people from apology a church there to witness the Mormons than Mormons that showed up now in The process by the way, I didn't tell you this.

Oh goodness my youngest granddaughter Janie Five years old. All right, so she's out there with tracks and So along comes you know a Mormon family and She just steps out in front of him and Says are you a Mormon?

Yeah, this is for you. What are you supposed to do? You got to take it you're stuck there is no way around this so she got bolder as the evening went on and She pops out in front of this Mormon guy. Are you a Mormon?

Yes, I am. You have the wrong God. And it goes on She's not wrong and So so anyway, that's sort of a side issue to the fact that I'm standing there looking at the temple now the Mesa temple is closed for renovation.

A lot of temples are closed for renovation right now but the point is it's it's dead as a tomb and They've been they've been canceling the the pageants right and left and They just they have hid in fear of Covid and I'm thinking back to the Mormons of the 70s and 80s, you know, I I ran into my first Mormon in High school, so it would have been 77 78 somewhere on there and If you if you know Mormonism, you you know something about what's called the Mormon temple garments and There used to be used to be used to be Real strong Beliefs associated with those garments About how protective they would be if you're in accidents from disease stuff like that.

Those Mormons are long gone because the Mormon Church has simply Curled up in a shell in regards to the pandemic. They really have it's just like So there is a Article that AP news now, this is interesting.

I want you to listen to the language here. All right, listen to the language because this is AP. So AP is is AP and they have a story to tell basically but they got picture of the prophet there and I I'm noticing that this is more and more exactly it's it's a template.

It's just how they do stuff the media. Salt Lake City AP after more than a year of attending church virtually Monique Allen has struggled to explain to her asthmatic daughter Why people from their congregation the Church Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints don't wear masks.

Allen said she's taught her daughter that wearing a mask is Christlike. But now she worries her child feels like an outcast so the first the first paragraph is to set the mind frame the the frame of thought and It's pro mask.

It's against anyone who would not wear a mask. People who don't wear masks are mean they're dangerous. And you're making poor little girls feel like outcasts, I mean this is this is Journalism quote-unquote journal.

Actually it's propaganda, but there you go, of course, I know many an asthmatic would say don't put a mask on me because That's Church leaders recently issued their strongest statement yet urging people to limit the spread by getting kovat 19 vaccines and wearing masks.

But Allen said she fears is still not enough to convince the many families in your congregation Refused to wear masks and have succumbed and have succumbed that's the term succumbed to anti-vaccine misinformation.

This is propaganda AP propaganda in the middle of a story on Mormonism. Members of the faith widely known as the Mormon Church remain deeply divided on vaccines and mask wearing despite Consistent guidance from church leaders as the highly contagious Delta virus of the coronavirus Spreads about 65 of Latter-day Saints who respond to a recent survey said they were vaccine acceptors.

There's a new term acceptors. Meaning they've gotten at least one dose or plan to soon. Another 15 identified as hesitant and 19 said they would not get the vaccine according to the survey. This summer from the Public Religion Research Institute a polling organization based in Washington and Interfaith Youth Corps.

The survey found 79 of white Catholics and 56 of white evangelical Protestants identified as vaccine acceptors. I wonder when that's gonna become a t-shirt or something in the future. Allen a church member living in Wisconsin is among a contingent who fear fellow members who refuse to get vaccinated are allowing their political views To supersede their loyalty to a faith that largely prioritizes unity and obedience.

The message she's shared with her eight-year-old daughter is that of course Christ would wear a mask of course, he would get vaccinated because he's a loving person she said and That's the only way you can take care of people these days is doing these simple things now First Just the the change in Mormonism over the years and The Clear evident fear That the leadership of the church now the leadership of the church is a bunch of old men.

So Okay Mormonism has Inadvertently because it Wasn't established by God. It sort of developed the way it developed. There were some weird stuff that happened in its early development and Because of Joseph Smith's death and the movement of the church West the The way that the leadership is chosen over time has resulted in Mormonism being stuck with a bunch of really really really old men at the top and So I Cannot imagine that that's what Joseph Smith intended.

But he wasn't thinking that far down the road. He was making it all up as he went along. That's clear anyway, so when we look at Mormonism and its response it has Fundamentally sought to respond out of fear and out of a desire to be seen as loving as defined by the culture as Defined by the narrative not as defined by Scripture not as defined by God's law by any stretch of the imagination and They are afraid they are living in fear and With the the degradation of the faith what I mean by that is I started we started witnessing to Mormons in Mesa, Arizona in 1983.

Then or in an organized fashion in 1984 and I can tell you that your average Mormon today Knows a quarter of what your average Mormon knew in the middle 1980s and Has Significantly less Significantly less Commitment Conviction confidence in the teachings of the of the Mormon Church than they had back then there has just been a massive change a massive change and So something's gonna happen eventually and I've said many times right now.

I think the situation is rife For a charismatic young prophet style leader To walk off with a third of the membership of the Mormon Church. Because Mormonism is hemorrhaging members and There are a lot of older members that remember what it was once like and it ain't that way no more.

You've got a lot of new members that have been raised in a church, but without any type of foundation of conviction. That thing come flying apart and I think the only thing holding together right now is they've got b-b-b-b-b-billions in reserve.

So they've got the money to make it look good. They've got the money to make it look good but it's just It's frayed at the edges. It's old. It's weak and I don't know what the results gonna be. Now secondly.

Secondly, I am so sick and tired of spam text messages. There is a special place in Hades for spam text messengers. Secondly. These are not the only people that are telling their kids this stuff. Because you know, of course Christ would wear a mask.

I think that the the guy over Rick Warren over at Saddleback would probably say the same thing. I didn't bother listening, but I saw the videos pop floating around Twitter about Showing love and you know the whole the narrative hasn't changed not that they are actually responding in any meaningful fashion to the refutation of this narrative, but This narrative continues on that this is how you show love for others is that even if you are Convinced it's worthless.

They have their fears and so you need to enter into their fears to show love. So you have to be fearful when other people are fearful. That's the Christian message now. It's it's astonishing That that's the kind of thing going on but if you do not have a Biblical message If you don't have a biblical foundation for your understanding of Why you're taking the stands you're taking you're gonna get washed away in this stuff.

And that's why I'm seeing a lot. No, Michael wasn't talking about you as some Guy named Sam wanted to buy my house. Yeah, and so I saw that name and that there's and there's a few people I know about that name some of whom don't like Me and some of whom do and that's why I even bothered to look at it is like Oh, what was that?

And it's someone wants to buy my house. Anyway, that's why I'm seeing a lot of people I think struggling through Uncomfortable issues because we are being forced to you are seeing alliances developing.

Where the people don't want the alliances developing? But it's because we're thinking through church-state relations. We're thinking through eschatology. We're thinking through God's law and we're coming to conclusions that five years ago would have scared us to death.

But we're all getting pushed in the same direction where we want to or not. Didn't see that one coming. Let's guess some people did. And so We are seeing that the squishy squishy people and there's a direct correlation as to their view on all sorts of Issues where the Word of God cuts against the culture the Word of God cuts against the culture in recognizing male and female roles.

Gender Roles, Cultural Pressure, and Christian Love

Okay, so Over the weekend I had a little bit of a Twitter battle with Australian New Testament scholar Michael Byrd who has written some Great stuff on Christology really has but he decided to jump on a Conservative Christian woman who made a comment about gender roles in a very condescending fashion and This guy's basically in prison in Melbourne.

It's called his house, but if you live in Melbourne, that's your prison now and is so deeply influenced by leftist ideology and things like that. That of course all he can talk about is if you disagree with him you think Trump is God or something absurd along those lines.

But it is fascinating to see Alignments developing That I don't think everyone who's moving that direction even realizes yet what that all means and They're a bit afraid of what it might mean. And of course we can't.

We cannot begin To create our theology based upon our current experience. That that's very very dangerous. And I I am I have spoken against that for a long time and doing my best not to do it. But at the same time our modern situation Sheds light on a bunch of areas of our theology and practice and tradition That was able to lurk in the darkness for decades.

We were never challenged in those areas and we're being challenged now and You you you can't just flop back on a tradition say well what whatever we did in the past? Hey How you did stuff in the 1980s is not gonna be working in 2021.

It's just it's not and So that doesn't mean that Trinity's changed or justification by faith has changed but there's just a bunch of areas that we were able to rather glibly Push over there and say oh I Heard that such-and-such seminary did something on that and that's good enough for me and we can't can't do it anymore we we've got to deal with this stuff, so Being able to find what loving is That's always been important but now today With the the Christian understanding of man Self-sacrifice, etc. Just flying out the window in this new Subjective You're the center of the universe you're whatever you think you are and of course the associated the greatest Sin of all time now is to offend someone That's now all around us and if if you don't have a quiet grounded confidence That You are seeking every day to have God's priorities be your priorities God's truth be your priority and Therefore Your being uncompromising Cannot be associated with a hard attitude of anger or hatred.

I'm seeing and if this applies to you apply it to you if it doesn't don't give it a second thought but I'm seeing a lot of my fellow believers. Just getting really angry just Angry on a level that you know, the wrath of man does not fulfill the will of God and and You have to be very very careful.

Because once you know anger is a is the battery acid of emotions and It can it can etch a deep scar and We have to very very very concerned that We have we have just as much emphasis Upon Recognizing that we are what we are by grace That everything we've received Even if we're right about something my reason you're right about something is God graciously allowed you to be right about it That We are recipients of grace in everything and that therefore standing firm is An act of love toward others because God's truth is what's best for all people a Denial of God's truth is never good for anyone.

So letting a person Deceive themselves by calling themselves Z or Zer is Not loving them. It is not loving to do that the world says it's loving. There are a bunch of Christians that say it's loving. But it's not loving because it's self-destructive to them.

You can do that without them being filled with hatred for that person and That's the balance that the fact is and I I Violate this for myself all the time. It's confession time on the dividing line. Here's my suggestion and mate.

I'm just suggesting it from who I am. We we struggle with the amount of Lies and absurdities that Flow our way every single day now if that's the first stuff into your mind in the morning. Your day is going to eventually end with you in great anger and there's there's stuff to be really angry about.

You know, I mentioned the dogs being left behind and And my dear wife She said, you know Don't don't let me get anywhere near President Biden. I Something Adam I mean, she's just and if you know my wife now you realize just like wow, really I mean, she's She's just really really angry about What's happening in the world and what this is gonna mean to our children and our grandchildren and you know says hey We've lived our lives, but still it's just these people that just so evil I know I know and if that's what if that's all we ever think about if that's the first thought in our head In the morning and the last time we go to bed, we're gonna be miserable people.

We're it's gonna be miserable so you've got to. You've got to start in the morning with the word Sometimes that's hard. I mean I like to I like to do my reading in accordance. I've got all that wonderful neat fun stuff there and and stuff pops up on the screen and there's stuff that was left from last night, and I I Know how it works.

I know how it works. Oh, yeah Rich said the minute you open your eyes coming at you. Actually it may be what ends up opening your eyes. You know your phone going and there's some thing if you haven't even your feet haven't even hit the floor yet and And there it is so you Especially with how fast things are going a lot of us think but I have to keep up every day or I'm gonna miss something.

Well, you know what? World's not gonna end if you miss something. It's gonna be repeated and repeated and repeated over and over and over again you know, sometimes you might be just good to take a day off and Not expose yourself to any of that stuff and build yourself back up because it we were not designed for this it wears you down and If you're in a constant state of agitation, in fact, someone sent me a Study find a study for anything these days, but in regards to the kovat stuff I am thankful by the way, just in passing just looking down here the Explosion of new studies that all say the same thing masks are irrelevant worthless.