0:00:00 - 0:00:22 I had two more quotes marked, but I'm just gonna read the one. I don't have the heart right now to do the other. OK. So this will be the last one. The religious searched everywhere for their faith. They did not find it again or else they found it so reduced and forced in force that they couldn't make 0:00:22 - 0:00:43 use of it. It is a terrifying thing to have called yourself Christian for 40 years and then discover that you are not a real one that your God no longer solves your problems. The people who had been generally respected, ran after their lost respect, but there wasn't anything left of it in the intellectuals 0:00:42 - 0:01:02 , the cultivated men, the great brains had great sorrows. They didn't know what to do with their learning for. It didn't protect them against misfortune. They were submerged in that vast broth of humanity. How many doctors and sociologists, archaeologists and barristers needed comforting and it wasn't 0:01:02 - 0:01:28 easy to console them. They could understand anything more readily than the fact that their intelligence was out of season. This is a meaty quote. Um Let's start with this idea of, you've called yourself Christian for 40 years and all of a sudden you discover that you're not a real one because your God 0:01:28 - 0:01:58 no longer solves your problems. In other words, the flavor, extent, depth length, breadth, whatever of your Christianity was sufficient to convince you that you had something of value and something sufficient in normal life. But the second you set foot in a concentration camp, all of a sudden, your religion 0:01:57 - 0:02:30 no longer provides sufficient answers for the much um increased problems that face you. This, I think there's value in the rest of the quote. But I the overarching theme in this one is that we find solutions based on our understanding of the problem, but reality is hierarchical. There's always something 0:02:29 - 0:03:04 greater. This is true with people. It's true with ideas. It's true with everything, with value, with beauty, with good, with love, there's always something greater. So when you optimize your life, according to your current understanding, you're guaranteeing that your current system will be insufficient 0:03:03 - 0:03:41 compared to what actually is and what actually will be because what you see isn't, what is and it certainly isn't what will be. So how can you gain access to what you don't already know in order to devise or expand or whatever in ideology, a set of beliefs that can withstand what is not just that noisy 0:03:40 - 0:04:09 estimate of what you believe is, right? Which is smaller and also less accurate than what actually is. You have to access someone who knows more about it than you. Um the chief, someone in that hierarchy is Jesus Christ. He talks extensively in the book of John about the need and even John, the Baptist 0:04:09 - 0:04:41 mentions this the need for someone to come down from the father and show us what is valuable, what is good, what is true and it's optimized. The father's way is optimized um with respect to everything, right? It's not optimized based on what you think about life here. And now it's optimized based on 0:04:41 - 0:05:07 how things really are forever. And this is this is a fruitful thing to parse through. You can slice it up and talk about why it is that when God reveals what he knows, um almost all people will take offense to it. Why? Because I in one reason among many is that it doesn't make sense to them. They say 0:05:07 - 0:05:24 , well, why would you need to do all that when things are fine, how they are? We don't need to do that. It's fine how it is. We don't have any problems today with that, whatever that is. And so that might sound super familiar like if you've been in a meeting at work, you might have had someone that says 0:05:24 - 0:05:43 , you know, I think this is gonna be a problem. A big one, maybe we should do something about it and everyone turns on them and says, why it's not a problem. Now, tomorrow will be like today only far greater and then sure enough, the thing happens and not one person turns and says, oh, wow, you're right 0:05:43 - 0:06:03 about that. We, we better listen to you next time you have an idea. Let's increase your credibility in this group. It never happens. Why natural man? And actually it's, it's less likely to happen. The more that we're talking about work, whatever the organization is, the, the, the more separated it is 0:06:03 - 0:06:34 from normal life. I'm talking like the soil, seeds and soil kind of life, the more insulated it is from consequences. The less often you're going to have um uh like a meritocracy sort of flow of information and people. So, um you know, government, nonprofit, religion, established companies that really 0:06:33 - 0:07:05 haven't had any innovations in 50 years, huge companies. All these sorts of institutions are just going to uh be totally divorced from reality. There's no consequences in any of those settings. And so, um anyway, um so I make sure I'm not forgetting to say something I wanted to say because I'd like to 0:07:05 - 0:07:39 be done with these videos. Um That's the wrong one. Sorry, there's more that could be said he's got this quote here. Um I think we'll leave it at that. Sorry for the abrupt. Oh, well, that's it. Um Thanks for watching. I hope this is valuable. Hope you read the book. You may get very different things 0:07:39 - 0:08:09 out of it than I did. But if nothing else is a fantastic. Um It's a fantastic book on how things really are when the covers are pulled off and you are um exposed to what life is like with less civilization. And um you know, Nazi occupation is definitely a one example of that. But um many people today 0:00:00 - 0:00:22 I had two more quotes marked, but I'm just gonna read the one. I don't have the heart right now to do the other. OK. So this will be the last one. The religious searched everywhere for their faith. They did not find it again or else they found it so reduced and forced in force that they couldn't make 0:00:22 - 0:00:43 use of it. It is a terrifying thing to have called yourself Christian for 40 years and then discover that you are not a real one that your God no longer solves your problems. The people who had been generally respected, ran after their lost respect, but there wasn't anything left of it in the intellectuals 0:00:42 - 0:01:02 , the cultivated men, the great brains had great sorrows. They didn't know what to do with their learning for. It didn't protect them against misfortune. They were submerged in that vast broth of humanity. How many doctors and sociologists, archaeologists and barristers needed comforting and it wasn't 0:01:02 - 0:01:28 easy to console them. They could understand anything more readily than the fact that their intelligence was out of season. This is a meaty quote. Um Let's start with this idea of, you've called yourself Christian for 40 years and all of a sudden you discover that you're not a real one because your God 0:01:28 - 0:01:58 no longer solves your problems. In other words, the flavor, extent, depth length, breadth, whatever of your Christianity was sufficient to convince you that you had something of value and something sufficient in normal life. But the second you set foot in a concentration camp, all of a sudden, your religion 0:01:57 - 0:02:30 no longer provides sufficient answers for the much um increased problems that face you. This, I think there's value in the rest of the quote. But I the overarching theme in this one is that we find solutions based on our understanding of the problem, but reality is hierarchical. There's always something 0:02:29 - 0:03:04 greater. This is true with people. It's true with ideas. It's true with everything, with value, with beauty, with good, with love, there's always something greater. So when you optimize your life, according to your current understanding, you're guaranteeing that your current system will be insufficient 0:03:03 - 0:03:41 compared to what actually is and what actually will be because what you see isn't, what is and it certainly isn't what will be. So how can you gain access to what you don't already know in order to devise or expand or whatever in ideology, a set of beliefs that can withstand what is not just that noisy 0:03:40 - 0:04:09 estimate of what you believe is, right? Which is smaller and also less accurate than what actually is. You have to access someone who knows more about it than you. Um the chief, someone in that hierarchy is Jesus Christ. He talks extensively in the book of John about the need and even John, the Baptist 0:04:09 - 0:04:41 mentions this the need for someone to come down from the father and show us what is valuable, what is good, what is true and it's optimized. The father's way is optimized um with respect to everything, right? It's not optimized based on what you think about life here. And now it's optimized based on 0:04:41 - 0:05:07 how things really are forever. And this is this is a fruitful thing to parse through. You can slice it up and talk about why it is that when God reveals what he knows, um almost all people will take offense to it. Why? Because I in one reason among many is that it doesn't make sense to them. They say 0:05:07 - 0:05:24 , well, why would you need to do all that when things are fine, how they are? We don't need to do that. It's fine how it is. We don't have any problems today with that, whatever that is. And so that might sound super familiar like if you've been in a meeting at work, you might have had someone that says 0:05:24 - 0:05:43 , you know, I think this is gonna be a problem. A big one, maybe we should do something about it and everyone turns on them and says, why it's not a problem. Now, tomorrow will be like today only far greater and then sure enough, the thing happens and not one person turns and says, oh, wow, you're right 0:05:43 - 0:06:03 about that. We, we better listen to you next time you have an idea. Let's increase your credibility in this group. It never happens. Why natural man? And actually it's, it's less likely to happen. The more that we're talking about work, whatever the organization is, the, the, the more separated it is 0:06:03 - 0:06:34 from normal life. I'm talking like the soil, seeds and soil kind of life, the more insulated it is from consequences. The less often you're going to have um uh like a meritocracy sort of flow of information and people. So, um you know, government, nonprofit, religion, established companies that really 0:06:33 - 0:07:05 haven't had any innovations in 50 years, huge companies. All these sorts of institutions are just going to uh be totally divorced from reality. There's no consequences in any of those settings. And so, um anyway, um so I make sure I'm not forgetting to say something I wanted to say because I'd like to 0:07:05 - 0:07:39 be done with these videos. Um That's the wrong one. Sorry, there's more that could be said he's got this quote here. Um I think we'll leave it at that. Sorry for the abrupt. Oh, well, that's it. Um Thanks for watching. I hope this is valuable. Hope you read the book. You may get very different things 0:07:39 - 0:08:09 out of it than I did. But if nothing else is a fantastic. Um It's a fantastic book on how things really are when the covers are pulled off and you are um exposed to what life is like with less civilization. And um you know, Nazi occupation is definitely a one example of that. But um many people today 0:08:08 - 0:08:20 living in the United States are going to face something more comparable to that than I think they're prepared for. So read the book and think about where you are and what you can do to be in a better place.