0:00:00 - 0:00:23 Time to time. I've talked about this idea of a window of receipt. You'll see it in the books. If it's not familiar to you, I invite you to use the search tool on upward thought.org and type in window of receipt and see what comes up in this presentation. I want to apply that idea to a specific situation 0:00:21 - 0:00:52 which is picking up where I left off on another video about the possibility of the United States reinstituting the military draft. So that whole video was designed around the idea of helping you react within your window of receipt. So what is a window over seat? One way of thinking about it is as a measure 0:00:52 - 0:01:18 of faith. So that might include such questions as what are you willing to do? Meaning what is the ratio that you require? The ratio of evidence to the actions you're willing to take? What are you willing to believe we all fight against the biases that are common to all humans and some of us do so to 0:01:18 - 0:01:39 a a more thorough extent than others. Are you willing to hear new ideas? Are you willing to question things that you've leaned on in life? Are you willing to be wrong? Are you willing to accept information from someone that you don't find to be credible for some reason? Are you willing to look past your 0:01:39 - 0:02:09 traditions? There are many biases that humans suffer from. And so the question is, what are you willing to believe? Another question is what are you aware of awareness is another topic I've talked about extensively. So it includes everything about reality. So you idea of the laws of cause and effect 0:02:09 - 0:02:29 , your idea of what options are open to you and anyone else, your idea of what those options cost and what their benefit is and all of these things in the context of time, what are the short term costs? What are the long term costs? What are the short term benefits? What are the long term benefits? How 0:02:29 - 0:02:53 long does this endure? So where does awareness come from? Well, put in very brief terms, it comes from heat and diligence. But to rephrase that it comes from your obedience to what you understand of your right. It comes from what you pay attention to and that's very much related to what you desire and 0:02:53 - 0:00:00 by how much you desire it, what are you looking for? It comes from your curiosity and that's not just in some general sense. What are you willing to question? How often are you willing to do so? How deeply are you willing to do? So? It comes from your intensity. How hungry are you for what you seek? 0:00:00 - 0:03:50 What are you willing to do for how long under what circumstances? So all of those things are connected to and organized under this umbrella of a window of receipt. Now, if we draw a diagram where the window of receipt is this dashed circle and what you are aiming for is a better idea of reality. Things 0:03:50 - 0:04:22 as they really were are and will be the question is how do you go from where you are to this greater perspective? How do you increase your awareness? How do you increase your faith? The answer is that you progress in this path through living up to what you already know. So you go forward through living 0:04:22 - 0:04:50 more aligned in living in greater alignment to what you understand to be the best put in a um in a kind of summary, the principle is that the path to everything better lies through the best you presently see, I'll say that again, the path to everything better lies through the best you can presently see 0:04:49 - 0:05:17 . Ok, so what does this have to do with the military draft? Well, let's talk about this. The reality of the situation is that one day the United States will be invaded and when that happens, it's going to be very different than what people expect. Now, most people aren't willing to expect that at all 0:05:16 - 0:05:36 . It's the last thing that they expect to happen now, an increasing number of people believe that this could happen. Then the number that, that believed it when I first started talking about it years ago, but it's still very much outside of the window of receipt of most people because of that, we can't 0:05:36 - 0:05:59 even start to wrap our heads around it, let alone rationally prepare for it. And so where do we start? Well, we start inside the window of receipt if you want to help someone be best prepared for this eventuality, the way to do it is through what they're willing to consider right now. Now, if there were 0:05:58 - 0:06:23 a foreign invasion and the US government still existed to the extent necessary to institute a draft, there would absolutely be a draft. I mean, as far as absolutely goes, it's as close as you can get to a sure thing, but it just so happens that the military draft is much closer to something that people 0:06:23 - 0:06:44 are willing to wrap their heads around. Now, the truth of the matter is, is that if things ever got that far in this particular situation, the odds are so high that they would be bundled with other things that are worse than that, that it begs the question, why not just talk about those other things 0:06:43 - 0:07:07 . So for example, if, if um if some clairvoyant person walked up to you and said, hey, uh your house is going to catch on fire in exactly two weeks and three hours from now you'd say. Yeah. Right. How would you know, that? I don't believe you, my house isn't burning now. But maybe if they walked up to 0:07:07 - 0:07:30 you and said this is not a great analogy, but if they said, uh, your door is going to fall in, in two weeks and two hours and 30 minutes from now, you'd say, huh? Well, why, I mean, that, that's, uh, that'd be really unfortunate. What can I do to prevent my door from falling in? You see why? Because 0:07:30 - 0:07:49 it's a smaller bite. The, the full picture is something that's really hard to deal with. But if you give me something small that I can wrap my head around that, I've thought about at least a little before I've heard something about it before. Then. Maybe I could start to get exposed to this idea and 0:07:49 - 0:08:22 , and get my feet wet and move in that direction. And that's what a military draft is in terms of its connection to an eventual invasion. So it turns out that among the different ways that might or different things that might justify reenacting the draft. One potential is that we get invaded by a foreign 0:08:22 - 0:08:47 power such as China. Well, it just so happens that that would co occur with a long term midterm and short term set of asymmetric attacks. It wouldn't just be this enormous fleet of ships sailing towards the US all at once with a bombardment of all these long range bombers and this, this, let's replay 0:08:46 - 0:09:08 World War Two business. Right. They would very patiently soften up the target. How well they do things like flood the United States with fentaNYL. Oh, they're doing that. And they've been doing that for many years. Oh, well, that's interesting. Well, they would attack our economy through all sorts of 0:09:08 - 0:09:27 different mechanisms which, oh, they're actually doing that and they have been for many years they would be funding and otherwise encouraging mass immigration into the United States by people that are going to further destabilize the country. Oh, they're already doing that. And they've been doing that 0:09:27 - 0:09:54 for a long time and they've really been doing it for the last three years. They would mess with our food supply and then leading up to the invasion, they do things that carried a higher risk but were more effective in disabling the population such as disease and disaster. Now, what do I mean by disease 0:09:53 - 0:10:15 ? I made a whole video on that going through an example of a bow warfare agent and how it could be deployed in, in the United States to tremendous efficacy without much ability to trace its origin. What do I mean by disaster? Well, Russia and China both have weapons. They have uh autonomous nuclear subs 0:10:14 - 0:10:39 that are basically A I torpedoes and they can, they can launch them into deep sea areas and create tidal waves where it's not possible to trace whether an earthquake created that because the atomic explosion will register as one if it's under sea like that or whether it was a weapon. And so they, they 0:10:39 - 0:11:06 get that plausible deniability. They can take out port cities and long swaths of the shore along with all the, the shipping channels and other vital avenues of commerce. Not to mention the following devastation that would cause to all sorts of economically connected pieces of our daily lives. So it's 0:11:06 - 0:11:23 harder to wrap our heads around that stuff, right. So we could talk about fentaNYL and you probably know at least one person who's died from a fentaNYL overdose. Now, maybe more than one, we could talk about the economy, we could talk about immigration. When we start talking about threats to food supply 0:11:22 - 0:11:44 , people get less comfortable and they start to be less believing it doesn't matter what kind of evidence you have, it's too far outside their window over sea. So how do you get and let alone when you start talking about disease and disaster? So how do you get people to move from where they are closer 0:11:43 - 0:12:04 to where they need to be to fully prepare for this? Will you talk about the things that are already in their window of receipt? Now, um before we get to this, this same pattern applies in any kind of human persuasion you can and should use this when you're helping other people understand the things that 0:12:04 - 0:12:25 someone has helped you understand. You start from where they are and you use the smallest increment of further light and truth. You tell them the things that are true that they're most likely to believe you lead with your strongest arguments and you wait until they're on board with that, you don't just 0:12:25 - 0:12:49 bombard them with everything that, you know, you organize it according to what they're most likely to believe because everything they accept brings them closer to what they're not currently willing to accept. Now, why does this matter? Why do we need to help people see the full picture? Well, it become 0:12:49 - 0:13:09 every person who's been warned to warn their neighbor. These are things that God holds us accountable for in a strictly spiritual sense. Ezekiel was told by the Lord that if he didn't warn the people, that the sins of the people would be on his head. Well, what's sin? It's anything less than your past 0:13:09 - 0:13:30 to the extent that you have the ability to see better things including the future. It is on your head, whether you help people as best you can to prepare for that. If you already know you have the duty to warn others, now it's not a job. It's an opportunity. Of course, you'd want to do this if you really 0:13:30 - 0:13:48 believe that these things will happen and you care about other people. So in this case, why would it be helpful to understand that the United States is going to be invaded? Well, because there are things you can do to improve your situation and the situation of those who care about, for example. And 0:13:48 - 0:14:12 potentially most importantly, you can develop the ability to calmly and rationally incorporate longer term probabilistic outcomes into day to day choices. Now that's worthy. There are things you can do today, next week, next month, next year, five years from now. And I wanna be careful at that point 0:14:11 - 0:14:34 . So at some point, this is actually gonna happen. But without pinning down when there is a time between now and then, and the things that you can do during that time will put you in a better place for yourself and others. Furthermore, the more you understand about the negative consequences of not doing 0:14:33 - 0:14:56 anything, the more willing you'll be to sacrifice greater chunks of your present normal life to prepare for that. If you knew that someone was gonna shoot you in the chest tomorrow, you'd probably go out and spend the money for a bulletproof vest today. But if you didn't have a reason to believe that 0:14:56 - 0:15:21 that was gonna happen, you might see that as a ridiculous expense. You see, it turns out that what could be seen as extreme actions to prepare for this sort of thing are actually just really good ideas even if it never happens. What do you mean? Well, you can increase your quality as an individual if 0:15:21 - 0:15:41 you know that you have to be a mentally tough person and you start working on that. It's gonna pay dividends in every single aspect of your life. Turns out the good things are good for a bunch of different outcomes. Not just one, if you really start working on this sort of thing, you're also gonna improve 0:15:40 - 0:16:00 the quality of your family. You're gonna give them a better life moving to the kind of place you want to be. If this sort of thing were to happen, those are nice places to live folks way better than where most people live and your family will get to benefit from that, whether this sort of thing happens 0:15:59 - 0:16:22 or not. What about homesteading? Well, there are untold benefits for growing as much food as you reasonably can yourself on your property. And obviously you can't go into all those here now and then there's a huge benefit of linking together with other like minded people doesn't sound so bad, does it 0:16:22 - 0:16:39 ? So the reason you're doing it sounds pretty bad. But when you look at the, the actions that are reasonable to take in the event that anything like this is possible, anything close to this might happen, you look at that list and you're like, yeah, well, these are probably things we should do anyway 0:16:38 - 0:16:57 . I mean, it's like if you're looking at some future events, like again, if some clairvoyant came up to you and said you're going to have a, a heart attack in 10 years because you're out of shape and you say, boy, I better get in shape because I wanna see my grandkids. Well, what if you weren't gonna 0:16:57 - 0:17:20 have a heart attack? It's probably still great advice to get in shape because whatever the health dangers might be in the future, you still have all the positive health benefits that are more than sufficient to make the change. Anyway, this is just icing on the cake final slide. Remember the principle 0:17:19 - 0:17:42 , the path to everything better lies through the best that you presently see. And so the real preparation here, it's not about, you know, there's a scripture that says that our safety is not in horses and chariots. It's, it's in the Lord. You say the Lord said that he was or is the spirit of truth. He 0:17:42 - 0:18:01 said he's the way the truth and the life, the more truth we learn and live by the closer to him, we become so reconcile yourself to the truth. As far as you presently see it, analyze your life and make a list of things that might be out of order and then prioritize it, start working on the first one 0:18:00 - 0:18:25 , do this as an individual and as you run out of things to work on, begin to pay more attention to how you do this in in your family, reconcile yourself to the truth, reconcile your family to the truth. Now as you do that, what's gonna happen is your awareness will increase. You'll be aware of a more 0:18:24 - 0:18:48 accurate view of reality and you'll be aware of more of reality. And so as you do that pay attention, stay reconciled as your awareness grows. Now, I said that using certain words and not using other words, but you can explain everything I just said, using the word re words, repentance, or justification 0:18:47 - 0:19:18 and sanctification. But I just told you in plain English, reconcile yourself to the truth and then remain reconciled as you learn more. So we went through this with this specific example of thinking about how your life would change if they reinstituted the military draft. Now sufficient evidence exists 0:19:18 - 0:19:43 already, I made a whole video about it reading a document from a US army publication. Sufficient evidence already exists to believe that any military age, us citizen will be subjected to a draft. So act accordingly. Part of reconciling to the truth is wrapping your head around that and making decisions 0:19:42 - 0:20:10 based on that. And then the question becomes, what other outcomes have sufficient evidence, what other outcomes should you absolutely be planning for? And that should generate a list of things that you're probably not aligned with as far as the life choices that you're making. And it's time to start 0:20:09 - 0:20:35 working on that list because as time goes by, you're going to receive more and more evidence beyond sufficiency that you need to make those changes. And with every additional piece of evidence, the benefits you will receive from responding will decrease it evaporates in time with greater evidence. And 0:20:34 - 0:20:47 again, I could have explained that using the words, faith and blessing, but I just put it into plain English for you. So think about that and respond accordingly.