0:00:00 - 0:00:24 So I just wanna share a few thoughts here. Um, in my hairy vest, I was wrestling with, I don't know if you can see that I was wrestling with my dog last night and, uh, this, maybe this is as close to the, the Harry garment of John, the Baptist or Elijah that I'm going to have um, jokes aside the, the 0:00:24 - 0:00:46 bad jokes, aside the, the man, my, my head's swimming with thoughts and done writing for the day I need to go work. Um, but before I do that I wanted to just clear off a little list I have of things that I've been putting off making videos about. Um, so the, the one topic is this idea of, uh, better 0:00:45 - 0:01:13 comprehending the cost benefit of modern technology as it comes, uh, as it pertains to information. So, um, this is a big topic. Um, these topics I'll, I'll write about in, uh, a book on, uh, at least part of the end times and maybe a little bit in a book on teaching. So it's gonna be scattered around 0:01:13 - 0:01:40 a bit, uh, probably in a few other places as well. But I wanted to give a very brief overview of some of these ideas so that you don't have to wait to get turning on that and, and thinking about uh how this is going to affect your life and what um changes you might make uh accordingly. So, historically 0:01:38 - 0:02:09 , information was much more limited than it is today in terms of the quantity and how readily distributed uh it was. So maybe it's better to say how readily distributable it was. Now, we have the internet is the biggest change. Uh We obviously have the ability to call people to text people. Um Those 0:02:08 - 0:02:33 are directed communications, but we have the ability to post videos on youtube and it is absolutely available to everyone. Um almost instantaneously and almost for free. So there are homeless people who are watching this video uh or some other video. There are people uh that I've known and been among 0:02:32 - 0:02:59 in countries where they do not have enough food to eat, but they have cell phones and it's a very interesting situation. Um If you go backwards through time, you'll get to the point that was pre internet which fewer and fewer people remember as the years go by. Um And then you, you get to a time that 0:02:58 - 0:03:27 um was premo travel. Uh You get to before telephones, you get to before um telegraphs, you get to the age of, of uh long distance travel across the seas being limited to boat. Um You get to pre steam engine on those boats. It's just sail boats and all of a sudden the bandwidth which we know all about 0:03:27 - 0:03:46 is modern people. What that, what that idea conveys the bandwidth just reduces as you go backwards through time. And if you go back far enough, all of a sudden you're, you're in a situation where what you know, is limited to the people, you know, in your immediate surroundings. So principally this is 0:03:46 - 0:04:08 your family, maybe the people you live with in a town, um you work with et cetera and uh you, you would just be rooted in a place and that's kind of you, your, your knowledge would be geographically bounded and um in such situations, uh things are very different in a lot of ways. And one of those is 0:04:08 - 0:04:32 that it becomes very evident that there's an information differential among people that is not situational. So, so there is obviously in modern times, one of the inputs, the information you have access to is your situation. But in uh historic times. So for almost the entire history of humankind, um the 0:04:32 - 0:04:52 controlling variable on how much information you had access to was obviously the people that you had access to and how much information they have. And you would see it be very obvious that some people somehow knew way more about a lot more things than other people. And besides this universal sort of 0:04:51 - 0:05:16 uh uh condition, I don't know how else to phrase this right now. Uh What, what my mind goes to is in data science when you have two graphs and one line is always above the other and, and being up is good, whatever the graph might be, um It's called dominating. And that's a really bad uh badly con noted 0:05:16 - 0:05:36 word in, in uh common conversation. So I'll have to think if you have a better idea for how to describe that, that's not so offensive. Please let me know and I'll, I'll gladly adopt it. Um, anyway, besides that situation where the lines never touch and one's always above the other, there are many, many 0:05:36 - 0:00:00 , many more situations where someone knows something more than you in a specific, uh, topic. So, for example, uh, one of my buddies is a self trained blacksmith. I don't know, the first thing about that. I have no idea how to do that. Uh, one of my sons is really good at CS S and I'm terrible at it. 0:00:00 - 0:06:15 Right. And so whenever I hit something with that, I'm like, hey, can you do this? And he does it right. And so I spend my time on the things that, uh, where, where I, uh, produce greater value and he, he focuses on that and that's a great thing. We sh we should all do that. We work together. Uh, anyway 0:06:14 - 0:06:39 , so that's historically, right? How information was distributed and what, what that was like? Ok. So another huge difference though. Is with this ability to just fire off information and just throw it out there into cyberspace for anyone to find uh at basically no cost, a few things critically are different 0:06:38 - 0:07:03 . A few things are critically different. So in historic times, a person who had information could also set up a gateway to access that information. And so you had guilds and I'm talking cross domains, right? You had guilds, apprenticeships, all sorts of things where, you know, or parents would pass down 0:07:02 - 0:07:27 information to Children, grandparents, whatever. They didn't just sort of throw it out there. Willy nilly. Uh, even though, um, and I won't go as far as to call it human nature, but I think there is a tendency, uh, a, a widespread desire to, uh share knowledge when it's possessed and this is very much 0:07:27 - 0:07:49 with us today still, it's shocking to meet people who are highly successful, however you define that it doesn't matter. Um, and they, they tend to be extremely happy to share lessons that they've learned. Uh, they'll almost go out of their way in many cases. I mean, I've been taken out to lunch by, uh 0:07:49 - 0:08:06 people who've been successful in business, for example, who introduced themselves and said, you know, I'm happy to help you or you're starting a business, let's chat about this and they pay for lunch, it's just nuts, right? So, um, that's not always the case, but I'm saying it's, it's an abundant enough 0:08:05 - 0:08:25 quality that, that, you know, to be taken aside by a grandmother or grandfather and they just want to share their wisdom with you and it's not gonna help them, right? Because they either, well, for sure they already have the benefits of whatever it is that they know. But um a lot of these people aren't 0:08:25 - 0:08:50 going to be around for very much longer. Uh It's always the case, right? So, so, so wisdom tends to uh co occur with experience and not always experience doesn't imply wisdom, but wisdom almost always implies experience and experience doesn't imply age. Um The book, I just made a series of videos on 0:08:49 - 0:00:00 a, a book that I reviewed and the book ends when the guy is 20 he wrote a biography about the 1st 20 years of his life and he was older than that much older than that when he wrote it. Um So that's crazy. Most people don't live life full enough to write a biography worth reading in 70 years of life. 0:00:00 - 0:09:38 So that just goes to show you again about differentials. But anyway, we're trying to focus on information and time and things here in this video. So, um so there were gateways where people could um could ensure that the transmission of information uh conveyed the greatest benefit because uh knowledge 0:09:37 - 0:10:13 is sequential. It's hierarchical, it's progressive. So um it builds on itself, truth cleaves to truth, light grows lighter, right? Uh There are, there are ideas that you can only understand based on prerequisite understanding. And uh if you were to share things that are higher in the pyramid without 0:10:12 - 0:10:42 the base, the best possible outcome is continued ignorance. That's a crazy thought. If you convey information without the basis, it's probably either going to be misunderstood, used to harm, cause harm to the person you're sharing it with or um not just be devalued, but uh this is the idea of the swine 0:10:41 - 0:11:05 turning on you when you try to give them pearls, um where the value of what you're trying to help someone see is so far removed from their understanding that they actually perceive it as harmful and they try to hurt you uh in response to your trying to love them. And um I realize how crazy that's going 0:11:04 - 0:11:30 to sound to some people. Uh If I had time, I'd lay out a case for this from the scriptures. It's very easy to do and extremely persuasive if I, if I dare say so myself. But just to say this very briefly, the fact is the more valuable something is the less valuable. It will seem to those who don't have 0:11:30 - 0:11:54 it already. And this is in a nutshell, why? It's so hard to be God because he has the things of greatest worth that aren't just things, they're, they're ways of being ways of feeling and thinking wise, not just whats and yet it is harder for him to convey that than it would be to transmit any other possible 0:11:54 - 0:12:23 information because those things go together. So anyway, um historically, it was quite simple. In fact, it was sort of baked into the pie. It was an intrinsic part of the system that um conveying information had to occur in systems that prevented to uh prevented transmission, uh prevented overly free 0:12:23 - 0:12:45 transmission if that makes sense. So you didn't just hand a little boy a box of dynamite and say, have fun. Hope you figure out how to mine valuable minerals and not blow yourself up. My great grandfather's brother blew himself up with dynamite. Uh and, and died and then I think another brother lost 0:12:44 - 0:13:02 a couple of his fingers in the accident or something. And it's just the things that happened back then. But anyway, um so, but, but this wasn't a common thing to hand kids a box of dynamite. They weren't handed anything. I think they found something in a shack or something. But um they weren't handed 0:13:02 - 0:13:26 anything and the guy ended up without a hand, sorry, somebody died. So it's not funny. But um you know, I guess with time we can laugh about some things. Um So uh historically, these controls were in place. I keep looking down, but this is not on my note sheet. I'm just, I'm thinking um controls were 0:13:26 - 0:13:54 in place and the um the fact is that that nearly none of those controls are in place today. In fact, I I what is in place is, is the, the complete opposite of that. And so there's a whole pot of topics that go under the heading of why the entire world will be destroyed. And this is one of them. So um 0:13:54 - 0:14:22 I maybe I should have led by saying that at the beginning of the video. Um But anyway, transmission of information always comes with the cost. Uh I don't know if you realize it or not, but reality is a very, this world is a very carefully orchestrated, an organized environment where we are insulated 0:14:21 - 0:14:48 from almost every consequence. So just as an extremely brief sample of the larger argument for this principle, consider the earth and think about just where we are in the solar system and just how small the tolerance is if the earth were just a little bigger, just a little smaller or just a little further 0:14:47 - 0:15:11 from the sun or just a little closer than to the sun or if we didn't have a moon or if the moon wasn't exactly the size it is in exactly the place it is in exactly the orbit. It is how life could not be supported as we know it on this planet. It's all ex exactly the way it needs to be. Why. So that this 0:15:11 - 0:15:41 earth is not like other planets that we know of in the solar system or or beyond. And why? Because uh it provides this massively curated situation that is completely unlike all others that we know of. In other words, it's so far from raw average nature that, um, it allows an extremely different situation 0:15:40 - 0:16:01 here than if, if we just plucked you from where you are and chucked you even, uh, I don't know, 100,000 miles from where we are on this earth and things. I mean, you die obviously for, for very many reasons. Um, and you just go one thing down the list and you're dead and there's a very long list of things 0:16:01 - 0:16:26 that if that didn't kill you, this other thing would. So, um the fact is that we're in a situation here where we're insulated from many, many, many, many consequences and it's not that it's not that we're on an island of um or, or so uh I reverse this all around. Basically, we're on an island of order 0:16:26 - 0:16:59 in a sea of chaos. That's how you should think of human existence. And in many ways, salvation is about finding the tools to make chaos an island of order. So, um it's very hard to say anything about anything when everything is connected to everything and the more you know about everything, um the harder 0:16:59 - 0:17:31 it is to just dial in one thing anyway. Um So the problem with modern information is that information always comes with consequences. And this is a principle that people don't understand um that insulation from consequences, it evaporates as people gain understanding of reality. And here's the kicker 0:17:30 - 0:17:58 , it's not just your understanding that makes you accountable. It's your capacity for understanding. So, if you're ignorant of the truth and you have, uh I wanted to say that you lack the ability to access it, um, that's not really sufficient, but let's just go with that for now. So let's say you're 0:17:58 - 0:18:18 operating at your full capacity to obtain more and you're living according to what you have, which incidentally is a case of pretty much nobody. But let's just pretend that we're in this fairy tale land where people actually do what they ought to do and they don't do what they know better. Um Not to 0:18:18 - 0:18:46 do. So in this situation, you are innocent from the consequences of information. That's beyond what you have because you don't have the capacity to get it. Now introduce into this system, someone who knows a lot more about things than that person or these people. And now everything changes because there 0:18:45 - 0:19:14 is this, this uh there is this effect of um of justice that the Lord can only hold back so much and when the conditions change, the consequences have to change. Now, this is neither good nor bad. It's actually the root of both. So without this, without this differential and information, things can't 0:19:14 - 0:19:38 get better than they are. And uh unfortunately, though you can't have the differential of information without the potential for things to get far worse. And um in the modern situation with all this information available for almost for free. A couple of things change. One of them is the consequences that 0:19:38 - 0:20:08 we're subject to because uh there, there are scriptures that say like at times that feigned ignorance and the Lord winked at and all these things. But what they're trying to say is um information changes, consequences and when certain things are known, done or revealed by people, everything changes known 0:20:07 - 0:20:28 done revealed. There are three separate things. You might know something that no one else has ever known since the foundation of the world. That sounds ridiculous. You don't know the scriptures because it says over and over and over and over again. The Lord has said that uh there are people, there are 0:20:27 - 0:20:49 conditions that any person can live under which he will reveal to them things that have never been revealed since the foundation of the world. And there are many things that have been revealed to specific people which they have not revealed to others or which have been bound up by circumstance. So that 0:20:49 - 0:21:16 maybe they were known by a group at some point somewhere they aren't known today. Not generally, you can't find someone who knows them today anyway, there's a whole space of all that. So um if a person knows one of those things, everything changes for various reasons. If a person lives according to that 0:21:15 - 0:21:40 stuff that they know everything changes for various reasons, if a person reveals to others, those things that they know everything changes for various reasons and I hope you forgive me for trying to be as general as I can with this. Um I just wanna sort of throw some principles out and then you can chew 0:21:39 - 0:22:10 on them and I'll fill in the blanks later. Um Is I have time. So, um when we talk about what is revealed, what forms will it be revealed in? Well, how about videos by a random guy on youtube? How about blogs by a random person on the internet or books written by random people? And it doesn't matter who 0:22:10 - 0:22:36 is doing this, what matters is what's contained in those things because it changes everything. So I will tell you that there has never been a time in history where these mechanisms of revelation have been available to humankind in very recent times, the printing press was invented before that to send 0:22:35 - 0:22:57 something beyond your immediate surroundings, information, not something but information. You'd have to have somebody writing it out and guess what I mean? If something like 90% of every human's time was spent just trying to find enough food to eat or to preserve it, who the heck is gonna have uh you 0:22:56 - 0:23:17 know, 80 hours a week to copy out. Not to mention the money for the paper because we take that for granted. It's like you don't think of the cost of paper even when you have kids and your homeschooling and it's like a fortune in school supplies. You don't think about the cost of paper. It's expensive 0:23:16 - 0:23:34 . Historically, it's astronomically expensive. And then the time and someone would have to be feeding these monks who are copying stuff. And that's the only people who copied stuff were folks in religious orders because they, they, they didn't, um, have lives to live outside of that. There was, their 0:23:34 - 0:23:59 whole life is crouching over a table by candlelight, copying things out and someone had to pay for that because they needed to be fed. So um we live in a really, really, really unique time where for free, basically random people can spend time writing books and making videos and that doesn't even mention 0:23:58 - 0:24:28 the time and effort and everything else that goes into actually learning these things and, and what you have to do in your life to um to come to the point where God tells you these things. So it changes everything and uh this is a grand grand key in understanding the end times. Um specifically why there 0:24:28 - 0:24:50 will be so much destruction. This is one major reason, there are other reasons and they all sort of weave together, but it explains a whole bunch of other stuff about the end times too. So it's probably uh worth thinking about this as you study and pray and learn and live to think about just what is 0:24:50 - 0:25:31 being made available and how readily accessible and inexpensive it is, so, is a piece of this, I just don't wanna forget to mention this one thing which is, bear with me. Ah, ok. This is really important. Um, it turns out that this is true of all information and, and information is a really interesting 0:25:30 - 0:25:54 topic and there are a lot of people who deal with this professionally, uh, including myself. But one property that information has is if you have data points, what you'll find is um there's this, this concept of noise, which is a signal that's in what you're looking at what you're observing, but it's 0:25:53 - 0:26:17 not what you're interested in, that's noise. So, um if you're old enough to remember having to tune a radio, you go through areas where there's no discernible signal and you're trying to find the actual channels or on a TV. Again, if you're old enough to remember that, um you know, having to, to turn 0:26:17 - 0:26:48 the dial and move the rabbit ears and whatever, um you're trying to get the signal out of the noise. So it turns out that when things are revealed, it follows the same principle. Anywhere there's signal, there will also be noise. In other words, reality is not this uh uniform sea of information. There 0:26:47 - 0:27:19 is or value or intensity or any of these things, they're extremely varied and that, that variety it happens in, in clusters. So there are clusters of value, there's clusters of, of information. Um And, and when you have information and it's a sea where you have these, these spots of relative uh abundance 0:27:18 - 0:27:46 when you have that signal, that's where the noise will also cluster. And so this could be, this principle could be explained in a bunch of different ways. Like uh I was gonna say where there's smoke, there's fire, but that actually that doesn't fit here where something real of value exists, you will 0:27:45 - 0:28:07 get clusters of counterfeits. So um that's a really interesting example because in human behavior, you see this like what do hackers go after? Do they go after targets of low value or targets of high value? Well, high value, right? It's the same work. Either way you go for the, the work, you invest your 0:28:07 - 0:28:28 work in the spot that's gonna give the greatest return, right? If you're smart. But this, this happens with information too. And so you, you think, well, what does the adversary cluster his efforts on? Does he, does he spend all of his efforts on people who um aren't really going to amount to much in 0:28:28 - 0:00:00 their life for good or evil? No. Why would he, he clusters his efforts on those who can be really good or really evil? Why? Right. So in information, the same thing happens, this is a, this is something people really need to understand because what happens is when you have a real idea of real value, 0:00:00 - 0:29:17 it gets, it gets surrounded by these counterfeits and people become so accustomed to seeing the counterfeit in that topic that they will attack the real thing when it appears. The best example of this is Jesus. That's like I say this in every video, the best example of this is Jesus. Um because he really 0:29:16 - 0:29:43 is the example in all things. Um Anyway, I can say I was gonna tell you a story about that, but I'll skip over it. Um So when Jesus came, he was, he was the Messiah. But all these people had come before right about at that time as fake Messiahs as false messiahs. And so by the time he showed up, people 0:29:43 - 0:30:08 were so sick and tired of this idea of Messiah and they were, they were pre coded, they were predisposed to presume that anyone coming saying that they were, the Messiah was a false messiah and that they would end the same way as all the others had failing to do what the Messiah was prophesized to do 0:30:07 - 0:30:29 . And what's interesting is to read through the gospels with the question of how often did Jesus say he was the Messiah? I will leave that to you. It's a very interesting question and it might, the answer might surprise you anyway, but he was the real deal and all the others weren't. And so the question 0:30:28 - 0:31:02 is, does the appearance of counterfeits prove that the real thing isn't real or isn't of value? And the answer is obviously no, if anything listen carefully, the appearance of counterfeits demonstrates the reality and value of the real thing. Why? Because noise cours with signal. So if you find noise 0:31:01 - 0:31:26 , odds are there's something real of value close by, it's like a is like an indicator above ground of a buried treasure. And so that's where you dig, right? And so you really need to uh clear out your eyes and focus around those areas because you're gonna find a real thing of tremendous value. So I'll 0:31:26 - 0:31:47 leave it at that. But think about that in terms of information and wrapping all this up, merging these ideas explicitly, think about the signal to noise ratio of what you find in these channels of merely free information. So if you jump on youtube and you just look at a random smattering of what's in 0:31:47 - 0:32:13 your face, almost all of it is complete garbage and you're better off not watching it at all than watching it. It's true of books, it's true of movies. It's true of music. So when it comes to information, the vast majority of it is less than neutral, it's, you'll be worse off for experiencing it than 0:32:13 - 0:32:38 not and yet what tremendous gems of value are out there. I was just uh someone emailed me and, and we had hashed through this idea, um he was writing something and wanted to bounce an idea off of me and uh he reminded me in this book I have on my shelf that I read a couple of years ago, I was like, oh 0:32:38 - 0:00:00 , so he pointed me towards the specific chapter and I was kind of quickly looking through it and I thought to myself, this is such a valuable book and I've read it before and, uh, just looking over it again, I was just like, thank God that he wrote this book. And I thought, you know, and disclaimer, 0:00:00 - 0:33:29 this is gonna sound crazy. But I'm dead serious. I thought if I didn't know the things that were in this book and the only way I could get this book was to crawl on my hands and knees across the United States to get it. I would do it. So most people can't even think of a book that would be worth doing 0:33:28 - 0:33:52 that. They wouldn't even do that for the scriptures. You think like Man Rob, you must be a real weirdo. No, the principle here is very important. Your max range of value of what whatever you associate with. It doesn't matter if you had a range of value from, you couldn't care less to. This is the maximum 0:33:52 - 0:34:20 I care about anything you need to understand that that range is not the same for all people and whatever you have does not reflect the potential of what a human can have, including yourself. Your range of value can change goes off screen, right goes way wider than my arms can stretch. That's super important 0:34:19 - 0:34:48 and it's not the purpose of this video, but we got into it because I was saying that information can also have way more value than you've ever valued anything. Like way more value, orders of magnitude more value. It is not incorrect to say that the father sent the son and the son suffered all he did 0:34:47 - 0:35:13 because of the value of the information he conveyed. And what is that information? What the father is like? Because that is so far from what you can imagine on your own, you'd never imagine it. You could live for, for 3 billion years on this planet somehow. You'd never have the faintest idea what the 0:35:13 - 0:35:36 father was like without Jesus doing what he's doing. So I keep getting battery warnings. So I'll, I'll wrap this up. I've thrown a lot at you. It's tough to think about, but it turns out that the value of many pieces of information that are already here and that are coming very soon are definitely worth 0:35:36 - 0:00:00 crazy things like crawling across the country on your hands and knees. And if you don't believe that the good news is, experiences are coming to you that will help you correct your value structure. Um, it's not gonna seem like good news as you're going through it, but it is good news. The other, um, 0:00:00 - 0:36:25 the other good news is that it truly is worth all of that. So open your eyes and pay attention to what's been so freely given you and prepare your hearts for what's coming because you are accountable. You are completely accountable for everything that has been revealed and you will be held accountable 0:36:24 - 0:36:51 for everything that's coming. The world is accountable. There has never been a time where this information has been so freely given because all the gateways are crushed. They don't come with these venues. That's on the one hand, on the other hand. Um, sorry, I'm supposed to tell you this too. That, um 0:36:50 - 0:37:10 , that crushing of the gateways, this free giving don't think of it in terms of a limitation in technology because it's quite easy for a servant of God to sit there with their mouth shut until someone is ready and willing to be inspired to come to them to just go crawl up onto a mountain top and wait 0:37:10 - 0:37:30 for people to come and then to ask them sitting cross legged. The three questions. If you can answer these questions, you're prepared for the wisdom I have to give you. It's very easy for someone to do that. It's much, much preferable to doing anything else. The reason they don't is because certain negative 0:37:29 - 0:37:59 dark entities and, uh, bodies of information are released and are on this planet and will be coming to this planet and they're authorized by the father. Nothing happens here without his permission. There is a counter that has to be revealed. The die is set, the bonds are broken, it has to come out. Now 0:37:59 - 0:38:23 , now in this time, in the end times, that's what it's about. The end times is about information. You might not know that. But now you do, it's all about information. So it's about information and it's about reactions to information. That's, that's 100% of what it is. So it's very important to understand 0:38:23 - 0:38:47 these things. But that's all I can give you for now with the limits of, of all of this in my time. And so it, it'll be in books, but I've just given you massively valuable information about information, so do with it, what you will but understand that um not, not these things that I've said necessarily 0:38:46 - 0:39:07 or limited to, but all of the things that are being revealed, all of the information that's at your fingertips, this supercomputer that you hold in your hands with this, this smartphone, it's a supercomputer compared to the seventies or even eighties. It's in your hand, you will be held accountable for 0:39:07 - 0:39:20 what you have access to, even if you don't care, even if you don't look and even if you don't believe the consequences are upon you, so be wise.