Cruise missiles are flying over the Arabian peninsula and blessed are the
meek because they really, at the end of it, all, those who decide to restrain
themselves and use control, even if that means very strained themselves from
protecting or overprotecting or causing environments that are, are overpaying.
For the ones that they love, those are the people who truly will get what they want.
Those are the ones who will truly outlast all of the crazy that we are seeing.
And finally, free speech free speech is the foundation for free.
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We get into this episode, we're gonna be covering a couple of different topics,
but really it ties into one thing.
Safety is overrated.
Safety is an illusion.
We, we go about our lives, thinking that we have this.
Safe world or that we're building a safe world or we're working towards a safer
world, but safety at the beginning of the day, you have the middle of the day.
And the end of the day is merely an illusion case.
In point, you probably saw the footage swirling around the internet of a
volcano in the middle of the ocean erupting sending a 49 foot tsunami.
And hitting Tonga.
A few people died.
I believe that the number right now is three people.
At least three people have been killed.
The death toll could end up being higher, but right now the, uh, underwater under
C um, fiber optic lines have been cut.
So we don't have a lot of information coming out, but the footage was
absolutely incredible from space.
You see just the earth exploding.
But this is the dangerous world that we live in dangerous world, that we
live in, where at any moment a volcano could erupt and it could be our life.
The other big piece of news that is coming across the world this week is eight.
Who the strike in the United Arab Emirates.
Now we're not going to get too deep into this.
I'm not a super big expert on the geopolitical happenings in Yemen, but I'll
give you the, the rough, the rough play of it, which is you have the who Thies
in Yemen who are being supported by Iran.
Funding with technology and they are fighting the internationally
established government, which is being backed by Saudi and the UAE.
So really there is a lot of tension between Saudi and Iran.
Saudi and UAE and Iran specifically, which really also boils down to,
in a rough sort of way, a conflict between Sunni's and Shiites.
Iran means shit.
So what's happening is there is a proxy war taking place between
Iran and Saudi Arabia via Yemen.
United Arab Emirates had been engaging with troops on the ground for a
number of years back in 2019 in Yemen.
But they have recently pulled most of their troops out, even though
they're still supporting the war with finances and with technology
and supporting Saudi in that war.
Most of the Houthi attacks.
Have come against Saudi Arabia.
We've seen over the last number of years, multiple, whether it's drone
strikes, whether it's, uh, Scud missiles, whether it's cruise missiles
going into Saudi, we we've seen the, the anti-missile systems over, off
shooting down missiles as they come in.
It's quite, it's quite scary thinking Riyadh.
It's a city of a developed city of 9 million people.
9 million people and we have missiles flying over them.
This is the, some of the fragility, some of the fragility or instability
that we're seeing right now in the region here in the Arabian peninsula.
So what happened.
Over the week on the 17th, we saw a, an attack by the who Thies
against United Arab Emirates.
The who these have claimed the, who these have quote unquote described using
cruise missiles and ballistic missiles in the attack without offering evidence.
Now, as they said themselves, we don't have evidence that it was actually
a cruise missile or whether it was a, a drone that they flew across
the empty quarter to Abu Dhabi, where they struck three oil tankers.
And they also struck the Abu Dhabi airport, according to reports,
leaving three people dead as.
United Arab Emirates is considered one of the safest nations in the region.
And really w we lived in the United Arab Emirates for about two, three years.
And it is a wonderful place to live.
We love the UAE.
We love our relationships.
There are friendships there.
We loved and deeply enjoyed living there in the United Arab Emirates.
And it truly is when you walk the streets, when you drive down the road, when you're
meeting people, it feels like a safe.
It looks like a safe place.
Every interaction that we've had gives you a sense of safety.
Right now, we, we live in the neighboring nation of Oman.
And it's ranked one of the fifth safest nation in the world.
Uh, we love, we love it here.
And safety here is one of the greatest draws for many people to
this region of knowing that these are stable and safe countries.
But right now with the hoof, these are doing are working to disrupt that
safety because this is one of the.
Big marketing pushes or points, selling points on a nation like United
Arab Emirates, which is we are safe.
We are stable.
You can invest in here.
Your businesses can invest in here.
You do not have to worry.
And that is really one of the fundamental things that the, who these
are working to attack right now is the reputation of the United Arab Emirate.
Uh, according to Al-Jazeera, uh, they had one of their senior experts on the Yemen,
uh, conflict Yemen who theat Saudi Arabian conflict here is Hesham from Al Jazeera.
I was in touch with them Hammad out of the set up just a while ago.
Kia spokesperson of the Houthi, his, and his said the operation today is
a message to the Emiraties that we are going to do whatever it takes to
make it extremely difficult for them inside the UAE and to push all the
international companies to put out from the authorities, unless the Emiraties
stop interfering militarily politically and economically in Saudi Arabia.
So this is, I think he meant to say in Yemen, Point there's a little
bit more to this clip, but the point right now, he's making that
the, who these are making a scene.
We are going to disrupt what is happening in the United Arab Emirates.
This, it sounds like it's not just a one and done.
This is an ongoing threat that the who Thies are leveling
against the United Arab Emirates.
And for sure, the United Arab Emirates is not going to take
this line down as they should.
Uh, if, if anyone had missiles flying over their nation, they
should definitely defend themselves.
He goes on in this.
Uh, this is a message from the Houthi is to the, to the UAE.
This is, you know, for them to be able to fall after all these years, we're talking
about almost seven years to send drones into the Saudi Arabia or into the UAS,
the message that we're far from defeated.
This is definitely going to further strained relations between the, of,
and the, and Iran because, you know, era, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia
have been saying that the healthies would never have been able to.
Most of those drones, have they not been given technology
and support from the Iranian?
The point right now that we're trying to make in this episode is that even in the
safest of places, safety is an illusion.
And we have witnessed this over the last two years.
I think we are more aware of this as a society now than ever before.
With COVID and what it has done to humanity on a vast scale, it has boiled
everything down in people's lives.
Foreseen individuals to ask the question, what is important in my life?
What do I have to hang onto?
And the answer to that most, the majority of humanity has found is the only thing
that I have is my health and wellness.
The only thing that I have, everything else, it falls away.
It fades away.
It doesn't matter if I don't have my health and wellness,
I don't have anything.
So we've been willing to give up freedoms.
We've been willing to give.
Well to give up control of our lives and give it over to
bureaucracies your governments.
We've been willing to say you just tell us what to do.
I'm going to lay down my own objective reasoning, and we give over our power.
We give over our control, not necessarily for the sake of caution,
but for the sake of precaution.
Now there's a difference between caution and precaution.
We should all be cautious.
We should not have.
Go up to the edge of a cliff and lean over and then try to take a selfie.
I mean, there's, I don't know how many people die each year in Yosemite or
places like that, where they go past the boundary, go past the fence where
it says, don't pass your caution.
And they go up to the edge of the cliff to take a selfie and tragically,
they slip and they fall off the cliff.
But that is caution.
That fence is something that is gives warning and caution that should be
followed, but we have by and large as a society, COVID aside, we've by large,
as society have moved far past taking caution and we've been taking pre.
So for a hyperbole, an example, an exaggerated example, that would be,
well, we probably shouldn't even go up to the side of a mountain.
You probably shouldn't even go up to the cliff.
Don't even go hiking because you never know what might get you up.
The cliff, the gravity, rain, mosquito, you know, heaven forbid, you know, you
scratch your leg on a Bramble Bush.
We've moved in as a society by and large.
To a place of precaution and that plays out really in the way that we
begin to parent and raise our children.
We see this.
Progressive, not just progressive media, but progressive thoughts where
everything has trigger warnings.
We're so afraid to offend people were so afraid that people might
be offended by what we say.
I, I recognize that in my life.
I often find myself self-censoring because I'm afraid of what you might think.
I'm afraid that someone might be offended at what I say, and I don't
want it to have to deal with the maybe if, and maybe if Andrew conflict
that might happen when in reality, you're probably not even listening.
The people who would be offended probably aren't.
Now this we're about to dive into a touchy subject, the
subject of parenting and kids.
So trigger warning.
See, see what I did there.
This is exactly.
This is exactly what it means.
The precaution trigger warning.
Actually isn't helping society, but as society as a whole, we have begun to
insulate our children to insulate humanity society from dangerous for their own.
And it's a hard balance of deciding what, where exactly is that line, where
we're insulating or protecting or taking precaution for our children's good
or do good to society versus being.
Protective over too much of a helicopter parents.
So again, whenever goodness gracious.
Whenever I post anything like this or talk anything like this, there are a
number of people who really come out and get upset at some of the things that I
say or some of the things that, uh, Dr.
Jordan Peterson is about to say right here on this podcast.
So trigger warning, uh, I'm about to play something that's current.
Children used to have multiple siblings and siblings toughen
you up because there's tremendous competition in families among siblings.
And they had younger parents who had fewer resources and you know,
now parents are older, first of all.
And second they're more resource rich.
And so they're more likely to schedule their children to death in
some sense, to provide them with all the opportunities that they feel.
Useful.
And that's understandable.
And plus, because they have fewer children, each child is in some sense,
more precious, you know, not like if you have 10 children, you don't love all of
them, but you know, there's 10 of them.
There's, there's only so much excess attention that can go around
and, um, pause that right there.
If this is true, we have four going on five kids now.
Our attention is now split four, almost five ways.
And that really does affect the amount of time and energy that you can give.
But we find that the blessing of having many kids is that
our kids play with one another.
Our kids take care of one another.
Our kids have friendship with one another.
Our kids every day, they are outside.
In the mud, getting beaten and bruised, falling, getting scraped bleeding.
But the amount of times that one of our children comes in in a day crying in tears
because they got hurt is extraordinary.
Part of it comes from.
That's just the way that we parent that we think that kids should
go out and explore and play.
Part of it also comes from the fact that we have four of them and there's
only two of us and we're working.
So we don't have the ability to keep eyes on every, every child at every moment
of the day, which that then tends to, or lends itself to kids, having their own
exploratory process as we are seeing.
In society.
And this, this aspect is not a negative thing as we're seen in society,
that we are where as the poverty line moves or better way to say as
people more and more people come out of poverty and have more options.
The birth rate begins to drop, and that is not inherently.
When the birth rate is, you know, 10, 20 kids per family, or 12 kids per family.
So it's okay that it naturally drops it.
I don't think there is a, uh, an issue with that.
And the reason I'm clarifying that as many times when this subject comes
up, if it's very touchy for people, it's touching for people for a number
of reasons, one of those reasons is sometimes people want to have kids and
they, can't not talking about that.
Um, and there's some times.
People decide that, Hey, I'm just okay.
With two kids, I'm not talking about that.
There is the negative side of what's happening, which is this extra
narrative that has been laid on.
Of saying we are going to have population explosion.
Having a kid is morally corrupt and morally wrong.
You should not have any children to have a child is morally wrong.
This is a topic we've covered many times on the show.
It really hits home for a lot of people.
This again, it's not necessarily what Jordan Peterson is talking about,
but with that, it's this well, this thought of I'm only gonna have one
kid I'm only gonna have two kids that I can give all my precious time and
energy and poured into these one or two vessels, which can have an ad
verse effect because of overprotection.
So we're going to finish this clip.
We have another about minute and 30 seconds from this clip by Jordan Peter.
Well, I took a photo from the Bronx.
We used to heritage multiple of them, but there's 10 of them.
There's, there's only so much excess attention that can go around and they
do, uh, a lot of socializing each other rather than being socialized by parents.
But if you only have one child, you know, you're going to devote all your resources
to providing them with absolutely everything you can provide them with.
And one of the dangers of that is that you'll overprotect them
and you'll provide them with.
And we don't understand those dynamics, right?
We don't understand how much you should stay hands off your kids and
let them go out there and make their own mistakes and find their own way.
And that's, that's well, that's tricky and, and we're ignorant about it.
And so I think one of the consequences of that is that we
do have a reasonable percentage.
Young people, maybe young adolescents, the kind that you hear about at
university who have been overprotected and over-scheduled over-scheduled
and under challenged in some sense.
And so they're not very resilient and that's, and then of course
what's happening in the universities, the safe spaces and the trigger
warnings and all of that.
And there's good.
Recent research on this trigger warnings clearly make things worse.
Then better, we extend that over protection far longer than is helpful.
You know, it's hard though, because as I said, when you have resources, you can
use them to make your children's lives.
Let's say easier.
But the question is like, do you really want to make the life of someone you love?
That's incredible.
How difficult question that is a question.
Do you want to make the life of someone that you love easier?
Does that actually help them?
Because what we all want, we want to help the people that we love.
We want to help our children.
You know what, probably most of the people who are making legislation and
bureau bureaucracy and bureaucratic laws and red tape, I doubt the, you
wake up in the morning and they say, how can it make someone's life horrible?
How can I destroy the economy?
Some, some people truly are.
They have a real socialist agenda of saying, if we can create this sort of
society, then we can destroy capitalism.
For instance.
Or we can destroy, destroy the moral fabric of a nation.
There are people who are conniving and maniacal and plotting and such manners.
It's not the average person.
The average person wakes up of saying, how can we make people's
lives easier and better and safer?
And there is a good side to that, but that can also lead as Dr.
Jordan Peterson was saying to an overprotection of arch.
Which then makes them soft, which makes them lack resilience.
And as we started this episode with the explosion of a volcano in Tonga
that just sent a massive tidal waves across the world, uh, three people
died, uh, just incredible footage, or we see one of the safest nations on
earth, whether it was a drone strikes.
Oh, whether it was an armed drone, whether it was a ballistic
missile, it doesn't matter.
The fact that the world is changing where people can now through the means of a
new form of guerrilla warfare strike nations from thousands of miles away.
It should start a less, it should tell us and inform us that
the world is not a safe place.
We can not protect our children.
We can not protect our civilization.
We can not stay safe.
The answer then to our problem is we must be strong.
We must be strong.
We must build a resilient society.
Resilient kids are resilient, culture, resilient families.
And that is what we aim to do.
This is how we own the future.
This is our goal.
How do we build strong and resilient individuals, families, and then
organizations or sectors of community spheres of society, whether it's
education or, or whether it's.
Whether it's finance, whatever it is, how do we build a
strong and resilient culture?
Well, one of the answers to building a strong and resilient culture is meekness.
Now, meekness is kind of a strange word, even if English isn't your first language.
Don't feel bad.
A lot of people whose English is their first language don't understand
necessarily what meekness is.
People often think meekness is a, uh, being timid or being quiet
or being reserved, but truly the image of meekness is power under
control, power under control.
It's the image of a mighty gladiator or.
Having his sword, that he could decimate his opponent in front of him with in just
a moment, but he keeps his sword Shiva.
He keeps his sword in his sheath.
That is the image of meekness.
It is having power, but choosing to restrain yourself and choosing
not to use it, that is a path probably one of many paths.
But that is a path to grow strong and resilient cultures and to grow
strong and resilient as an individual.
Now notice there's, there is a difference between being meek and being a victim.
So someone who is being abused.
Someone who's being trampled on as a victim.
They're not powerful.
They're not choosing to let their opponent or let their oppressor oppressed them.
They were just stuck in this situation.
They can't get out.
They are trampled and abused day in, day out, whether it's verbally
or physically, that is just abuse.
There's no honor.
There's no dignity in that.
When there is a strong individual who is choosing to not retaliate
when they are abused, even though they know, you know, what, if I just
pull out my sword, I could destroy.
I could just destroy you right now.
You are so weak.
So pathetic, your arguments are so lame.
You are so hypocrite.
I am.
I could destroy, I could decimate you.
I could decimate you with my keyboard.
I could decimate you in front of your friends.
I could have my vengeance, but instead strong people who utilize weak
meekness withhold, and the hold back, that is the way to success because,
and this is one of the reasons.
Because no one wants to be under the thumb and under the power of someone
who totally decimates their enemies.
Because somewhere in the back of our mind, we, we, we do say, well, I want to be
on her team because she's really strong.
And she's the strongest one there is, or I want to be on his
team because he's the greatest.
And he just decimates everyone with his awesome company.
But somewhere we realized what if I end up on the other side of that equation?
What happens one day when I'm the one who is in that person's targets?
We say, eh, I don't really want that.
I don't want to be micromanaged.
I don't want to be destroyed.
I don't want to be controlled by this other individual.
And therefore the people who end up winning the people who end up leading the
CE, the corporations, the organizations, the systems of the world are.
Maybe not in the short run, but in the long run are people who
choose to exercise meekness.
Now another way that meekness can play itself out, or maybe, yeah,
it's a way that can play itself out.
It's a little different is even when we have power over a situation,
whether it's over a situation with our employees, over a situation with our,
our children over a situation with our friends, Where we know the right answer.
We have the power to control the outcome.
Meekness is saying, I'm going to hold myself back.
I'm going to let my kids make their mistakes.
I'm going to let my employees learn and make their mistakes.
Even though I know the right way to do it, they have an idea.
They want to run with it.
I'm going to let them run with it.
I'm going to use meekness.
And when we do restrain my power, even though I see the path that
it's going to lead them, But when we do that, we give others freedom.
They are then able to explore the unknown world.
They're able to explore it for themselves, learn lessons for themselves, which makes
them stronger, which makes them resilient.
They may, maybe they'll get hurt and they'll come back to us.
Because they got hurt and we can comfort them.
We can take care of them, but they would have learned a lesson, a valuable
lesson that is going to be far more effective than being told what to do.
This is another picture of meekness.
Now, as I said, in the long run, not only in the temporary.
Moment Terry world.
But the, the eternal rewards of meekness are unmeasurable because what our kids say
about us, what our grandkids say about us, it will be remembered by the temperament
by we left lead and lived our lives.
Do you want, do we want to be known as people who are controlling or
over-protective and not letting our employees or anyone do anything?
Cause we know.
Or do we want to be seen and known as people who are already leasing
people who build platforms to let other people accomplish their dreams,
not forcing them to build our dreams.
This is a way to walk in truth.
We, we talk about this on the show, discern discern
truth, uncover our purpose.
Well, purpose is, and I don't talk about this a whole lot on this.
But it's really what was one of the main cause and drives to, to switch
some of the language of the show away from owner store, own your
story and your own, your future, know your purpose and cover your purpose.
W we kept that in there, but I, I realized that when people talk about looking for
and searching for purpose or meaning what they're really looking and searching for.
Is freedom is because when we, when we find ourselves in the place of walking
out our purpose and walking out our meaning, when we find ourselves in
that place and you're in that flow and it's like, you know, you know, you're
doing what you were created to do.
I, I get in those places at different times of my day or my.
And all of a sudden, I have this realization, you know, right, right
now, even as one of those realizations that I'm in, I'm in my sweet spot of
doing exactly what I was created to do at least in this season of time.
And they feel that purpose and they feel that meaning, but the baseline
of what I'm feeling is freedom.
It's freedom.
And lot of times we talk about freedom as it's just like this freedom from the
nine to five, but it's not, we're not looking for freedom from a nine to five.
We're not looking for freedom from work it free from the nine to five.
And you get a 24 7 because you started your own business.
It's more work, but it's freedom is the very thing that we're searching for.
People.
Talk about retiring at 35 or retiring at 22, I'm going to pre.
Move to an island somewhere and sit around and do nothing with the rest of my life.
We think we think that well, that's freedom, but that's not freedom.
Freedom.
Doesn't come from lack of activity.
Freedom comes from truth.
Truth brings freedom.
Freedom brings a sense of purpose and meaning, say that again.
Understanding and living out truth because we can know it here, but
we have to live it out that opens up a door of freedom in our lives
because we're free from the criticism.
We're free from people who slander us and hate us.
We're free from the judgment and the anxiety.
We're free from worrying about where the next meal is going to come from.
And we're able to then walk out.
In purpose and in meaning
one of the ways, one of the truths that we can walk out to step into
freedom is utilizing meekness.
And, and we see it played out in the negative sense where
society has really failed.
To be meek and the way that we raise our children, the way that we cuddled
society and the way that we are being over-protective by a large means,
and we're seeing a not free society.
We are seeing a weak and fragile society rather than a strong society.
And I want to see you build a strong culture in your
personal life, your family, and.
Th the culture of those you lead don't go away.
We will be right back with our closing or not closing, but don't go away.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
In a post-truth society where we have exchange the truth for lies and
reason for postmodern irrationality, the absurd finally makes sense.
And we have a couple of clips for the segment.
And it is sorority.
It truly is quite shocking, but it really does tie back into
this desire and need for safety.
This is the theme that we're talking about today.
Safety.
Do you lose a ton of safety?
Well, in a finished politician, uh, have Priya
I hope I said that.
Right?
Goodness gracious.
I, I always, I don't know if you're like me.
I struggle with names, especially if they're pronounced wrong
and then I get nervous.
And so even though I've practiced the name 20 times, I did this, I would
do this in interviews all the time.
I would practice the name for like 10 minutes before actually doing the episode.
And then nearly every episode, even if it's like John Smith, I bought it.
It's neither here nor there, but she is being about to be tried
in Finland for a hate crime.
What was the hate crime?
The hate crime was posting a verse from the Bible and quote unquote,
believing Christian things.
We have a segment of a few clips that we're going to pull out some
nuggets from, but really, as you're listening to this, I want you to think.
About free speech and how the restriction of freedom of speech, the restriction of
debate, the restriction of being able to post something online without having a
filter over it, or without having a tag at the bottom being fact checked all, all
this world, the sensorial world is leading to something and it's, it is to create,
to make sure that we have a safe society.
We need to be.
But maybe it's making a, a gated society or a protected society, but it
certainly isn't making a strong society.
I took a photo from the Bible and posted it in a Twitter and
asked the leadership of my church.
That, how is it possible that what Bible calls, sin and shame you
are now supporting us upright?
And after that some city center made a complaint to police and
police started to investigate that.
And then after that, there were many other criminal complaints
that some citizens made about, uh, a booklet that was written.
Much earlier 2004 and some radio and TV programs there I was talking about.
So the context of the story is here is Maria.
She is a part of a church, the church, all of a sudden says, Hey, we're
supporting this gay pride parade.
We are in support of the prideful people who are.
Full support.
She says, well, wait a minute.
I'm confused.
She, in this interview, she relates how a lot of other politicians and people that
she knew in history, her circle began to leave the church that she was a part of.
And instead she decided to speak up and say, wait a minute.
Last thing, last time that I read the holy book of the Christians, the Bible, it said
that this isn't something that we support.
We, we S we see this.
Sin, uh, that's according to the Christian faith, the Jewish faith, the Muslim faith,
all three of the Abrahamic monotheistic faiths view, homosexuality as a sin.
Now, clearly, if this is happening to her in Finland, uh, know.
Me just reposting this insane, this and commentating on this.
You can put me in the same boat boat.
It can put you in the same boat.
If you hold these beliefs really, depending on where
the world ends up going.
But so she speaks out about this.
She posts a picture of a verse from the Bible, and now she's
being charged for a hate crime.
She was, she used to be over the police.
She was an appointed.
Uh, and elected she's a member of parliament in Finland and
she also was over the police.
Well, now the police have pulled her in multiple times to interrogate
her about these posts, about her writings from way back in 2004.
This is what we, this is goodness gracious.
We talked about this.
I don't know how much back in 2020, when we started looking.
The CCP, when we started looking at what they would do in the USSR, the
way that the thought police would work, they would, they would Drudge up.
It's show me the man and I'll show you.
I'll find you the crime.
And they would Drudge up things from years back.
This is the way that cancel culture is working.
You make a post from 10 years ago.
Your enemy is going to find it, Drudge it up and make sure that you get canceled.
Why?
Because we need to have a safe society, a society where
there's not freedom of speech.
There's not three to freedom of thought or freedom of belief.
We need to control society, which is obviously a very
ironic due to the fact that
due to the fact that.
The same thing.
Those who are advocating for no freedom of speech are forcing people
to believe what they believe in that can easily be turned against them.
So here's, here's her story of her being, uh, arrested and
interrogated multiple, multiple times.
I was interim gated by police many times, and those hearings,
they lasted all together about 10.
Or worse.
In fact, the situation was very absurd because, uh, I sat
there with, with the police.
I had the Bible on the table and then the police asked me
questions about, uh, my beliefs.
What do you think about, uh, what apostle Paul.
Is here teaching what you think about this verse, these verses,
where he speaks about homosexual act?
In fact, I, I thought that it was quite a privilege to have this
kind of discussion with the police, because I had many times during this.
At a possibility to tell to the police the message of gospel, what the Bible teaches
about the value of human beings, that all people are created as the image of God.
And that's why they all are valuable.
So, uh, he or she is being interrogated by the police on, on what the Bible says.
Say, Hey, the Bible says this, do you believe it?
The Bible says this, what do you think about this?
It is being interrogation of her faith.
This is the way that Europe is going.
This is the way that the post-Christian society in Europe is going and it is
tending towards and leading towards.
Restriction of freedom of speech, because speech is thought, and if it can
control speech, you can control thought.
Ironically here, she's also pointing out, Hey, within the Judeo-Christian
worldview, because we believe this book, this book teaches us that
every person is valuable, that every individual is made in the image of God.
And this is a.
Eight, a stream of thought.
That seems great on the surface and it recruit early is great, but it is
viewed as dangerous to the determinists.
It's viewed, viewed as dangerous to.
Those who are holding onto a, a Marxist or socialist worldview where
we're really, they say, well, there's no such thing as right or wrong,
good or evil, moral, or immoral.
All there is is power.
And there's no such thing as innocence or guilt, but wrapped up in this world.
Very similar to an Islamic worldview or Judaic worldview wrapped up in
this worldview is the belief and the truth of innocence and guilt.
But when that is present, you can't just throw someone in jail.
You can't just do away with a whole swath of people like they did in
China, like they did in the USSR.
Like they have done in Cambodia and POL pot.
This is the.
Cycle that happens in these thoughts are dangerous to the socialist worldview.
She continues.
Uh, it was funny that many people described this
interrogations, that baby calls.
Now again, to the police station to give Bible studies to the police,
I could never have imagined.
Uh, for example, when I worked as a minister of interior, uh, who was,
uh, in charge of police, that I would be, uh, interrogated and asked that
kind of questions in police station.
I had heard about this kind of.
Interrogations and hearings from the Soviet times.
I'm so old that I remember the Soviet times and I could never have
imagined that that happens in Finland.
People think that those Soviet times are long gone.
They're done away with their other surpass.
That won't happen again.
That wasn't real communism, that wasn't real socialism,
that wasn't real progressive as, and we'll do it the right time.
But here we are 2020.
Seeing this happen in a, a free democratic state of Finland.
Now this is, this is the last clip I promise from the segment, but
this is so important in the reason that this is so important is not
because it's a crackdown against the Bible, which that is important,
but because if they can do this in.
It will slowly grow and grow across the world.
And the important lesson to learn here is that freedom of speech is a prerequisite.
For freedom of thought, freedom of thought, and speech is a
prerequisite for developing society and communities forward.
If we want to see it in an advancement of technology, we have to have a
freedom of thought, which means we have to have a freedom of speech no
matter where you are in the world.
And this goes both.
This goes for, for people who want to live in a homosexual lifestyle, they
ought to have the freedom to think that.
Do you talk about that to save that they ought to have the freedom
to debate and argue their points.
They ought to have that.
They ought to have that freedom, but that freedom is being taken away.
Here's the last clip.
This is where she's, where she describes with the national prosecutor
said on, in an interview on national TV and Finland about this case and
the ramifications of this case.
If it, if she is indeed found guilty of a hate crime, For
posting a picture of the Bible.
The prosecutor general has been in public many times about this case.
And one year ago in interview in housing in Sonoma, uh, CA stated that if is
convicted, it is not necessary to take the Bibles away from the libraries
and it is still okay to cite them.
But what is not okay.
East or agree with the Bible and at the same time, see also compared
to Bible to mind com the Bible is now mine comp ladies and gentlemen.
It is okay to quote it is okay to criticize it, but you can't believe it.
This is, this is the.
Point it is not about freedom of speech.
It is about freedom of thoughts, but in order for us to be able to have freedom of
thought, there must be freedom of speech.
And freedom of thought is the prerequisite to build a thriving community in society.
Because if you can't argue with someone that says, Hey, I think you're wrong.
If you can't argue with this lady and say, Hey lady, I think you're wrong about that.
Imagine if the tables were turned and in many places across the globe,
the tables are turned, but imagine if the tables were turned and they were
saying, Hey lady, I think you're wrong.
Nope.
You can't say you can't say that she's wrong.
You can't disagree.
You can't have, you can have literature that says you
disagree, but you can't believe.
People should have the ability to disagree, because
that is how we find truth.
That is how we decipher what is one of the there's many ways, but there's one of
the ways is by seeing, does it hold up?
Does it stand the pressures and the tests and the attacks
and the assaults against it?
Because if it doesn't, then it's not truth.
If it does, then it is truth, which that will lead us to
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Welcome back to Weaver Luma, part of the show where we take ancient
wisdom and we weave it in with our everyday lives so that we can.
Own we've our destiny and own our future today's quote is by the one and only
John Milton from his famous speech and, uh, essay, the area of Kinetica, which
was written hundreds back in the 16 hundreds and a timeless piece of work
where he argues against censorship.
Now, John Milton was.
He was pro freedom of speech, but he did think that there should
be some restrictions in speech.
You shouldn't really in America, the place where we think freedom of
speech is it, there are still some restrictions in speech, thus being.
I can't just make up lies about you and publish them all over
the internet or in the newspaper that are just blatant untruths.
I can't do that.
So there are restrictions to what you can, and can't say even that
John Milton is arguing, but he does make the argument in this essay.
We've referred to it.
A number of times here on the show, he makes the argument.
If you are going to create a, a culture of censorship, then there comes a point
where you can't even have windows on your house because who is going to
censor what you're going to look out and see on the street who is going to
control your every eyes glance or every.
Who's who's going to sensor the sensors right now.
CNN hired fact checkers.
Well, who's going to fact check the fact checkers.
Who's going to fact check the fact checkers, who fact
checking the fact checkers.
It's it's endless.
It really, it comes down to who has the power to decide what is right or wrong.
So what is true and not true.
And what gets censored and what doesn't get censored there recently on the
inter webbings of the big tech social media, people are getting kicked off
of social platforms like YouTube, like Instagram for echoing, for echo.
W H O talking points or echoing or stating what has been stated on the CDC website
and saying, look, even the CDC is saying this even the, who is saying this, but
it's going against, it's building a case, an argument against a certain narrative
that wants to be pushed to create a society that is over protected and
beholden to the governmental institutions.
And so they don't like that kind of shut that.
Rather than there being open debate and open dialogue for individuals
do be able to decide what they want to do with their life.
So here is the, the quote from John Milton through all the wins, though,
all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth.
So truth being in the field.
Just beginning phrase of it says, so all, all the winds of doctrine are on the
earth, which also means truth is in the Plainfield truth is on the field as well.
It goes on to say we do injurious mostly by licensing and prohibiting
to miss doubt, her strength.
So imagine you're at a football match, American or world football.
And the best player is on the field, but the referee takes it
upon themselves to say, ah, we got to make sure that truth wins.
We got to make sure that the best player wins.
And in the referee's mind, they have an image of who and what the best player is.
Maybe they know maybe they.
But they begin to license in prohibit based on the person or the player
where the truth that they want to win.
And thus miss doubting the strength of truth myths, doubting her strength.
Milton goes on to finish this quote and it says, let her and
false hood grapple let truth and falsehood grapple with one another.
Whoever knew truth.
Put to the worst and in a free and open encounter, whoever knew truth put to
the worst in a free and open encounter.
Meaning if you let truth and falsehood fight and grapple with
one, another truth will always win because whoever knew truth to lose.
And if it does lose, then is it really.
An interesting in closing, closing thoughts, the Czech Republic essentially
has scrapped mandatory COVID-19 jabs.
Even as it's daily cases get higher.
They've said, you know what?
We still, we still believe.
That the vaccine works.
We still believe that it's a good idea that you get the job.
We still believe that this is the right way.
This is what's best for society, but we recognize by mandating it by
forcing it by twisting people's arms to get it by the compulsion that
it's creating a divided society.
And those who are hesitant.
Are becoming more hesitant.
Those are hesitant are becoming more resistant because it's being mandated
because it's being forced upon them.
And so they said, we're doing away with it.
It's just filtering, filtering our society.
It's breaking up our society.
It's not working, it's not helping.
And instead they're saying, here's the truth.
Here's the data do with it?
What you will, what do you think is best for you?
You can decide.
That actually creates much more opening, inviting environment for
someone to say, actually, yeah, I do.
I do kind of, I, I think you might be onto something.
I think I want to do that, but that requires freedom of speech, freedom
of thought and freedom of belief.
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