WEBVTT - Easily Offended? - Sunday Fireside Chat 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.759 Hey there, this is Marissa strit I am the CEO 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:04.920 of Preger You, and you are about to listen to 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.960 a special edition of Fireside Chat with Dennis Praguer. Those 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:11.239 of us here at preger You are continuing to do 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:13.760 the very important work that we've been doing with him 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.320 for over ten years. We are educating millions of young 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:21.079 people online, we have state partnerships to bring our content 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:23.960 into schools, and so much more. You can head over 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.400 to peger you dot com to see the progress that 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.080 we've been making. Also, I'd love to invite you to 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.920 support our mission by donating to our five OHO one 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.479 C three. It is a nonprofit. 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So otto 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:26.360 and worked up don't usually go in the same sentence. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.840 But that's the reason for a little hyperventilating But nevertheless, 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.520 good chap that he is. He went into position in 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.400 any event for the fireside chat. So I'm Dennis Prager. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:47.680 I welcome you to number one hundred and eighty nine. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.600 We are eleven away from the two hundredth. We should 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:56.040 do something special on the two hundredth. Yeah, I don't 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.320 know what. Well, this is an opportunity for me to 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:05.040 simply talk a few ballots on my mind, very unrehearsed, spontaneous, 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:11.000 not reading off any prompter or anything else, and you 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.280 have a chance to ask me things that are on 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:17.600 your mind. So I will begin with a couple of 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.400 comments today. I want to specialize in taking your questions 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.080 because it's been a few weeks since I've gotten to 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.560 take a lot of questions. But there is something I 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:34.800 do want to share with you, and that is the 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:43.600 increased number of Americans who feel hurt feel better offended. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.919 We have gone from a very strong people. Oh look 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:56.320 at that. This is rare. But now you understand why 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.959 we're going to let him out. He wants to go out, 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:05.200 and who knows why. I don't think he's ever gotten 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:10.040 out of his bed pretty rarely. Yeah, all right, I 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.520 know that there's sort of a hole in all of 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:18.080 our lives right now, but we will endure. People have 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:23.280 gone from being a strong people Americans pretty hardy people 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.360 and of the Land of the Free and Home of 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.080 the brave. That's in the national anthem of the United States. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:35.600 It isn't so much is it true as it is. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:40.200 That's the self perception that Americans have had of themselves. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.880 Free was certainly true, and brave was often true. If 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.680 you're easily offended, you're probably not going to be terribly brave. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:56.480 This notion of easily offended can bring down a society, 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.680 and it obviously brings down the individual. And I will 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:05.560 be very candid with you. I am attacked, as many 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.360 of you may know. And if you don't know, you 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.280 can easily find it on the internet. Put in any 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:15.119 explative with my name, tens of thousands of hits will 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:21.919 come up. The worst expletive you can imagine, or any 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:27.880 you know, moron, fool, idiot, fascist. You know, none of 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:31.280 them offend me. They have no impact on me. But 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:35.680 I have a better example of how early in my 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.440 life I struggled with so many of the issues that 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.720 I've worked I worked through a lot of issues when 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.000 I was young. That's a big advantage that I have, 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.280 and I don't take credit for it. That's my nature, 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.800 and so at a very very early age, I had 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.200 to work through or force myself to work through big issues. 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.120 Here's an example. This I remember very well. I was 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.240 in my early twenties. I've always had an intro in 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:05.640 photography to this day. I love cameras, I love taking 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:11.800 good pictures. And I went with a friend, fairly new 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.880 friend in my life to a camera store in New 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.080 York City. I lived in New York City till I 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.960 was twenty or five years old. And we went to 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.200 a camera store, and when we left the camera store, 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.520 he said to me, how I really jewed him down. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:38.400 That's a saying used, not obviously often. Many of you 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.479 probably never heard it, but it's used, and it's obviously 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.640 an offensive term with regard to some stereotype about Jews 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.520 being cheap or whatever it might be. I had never 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:55.240 heard the phrase before, and I knew it wasn't a 0:05:55.279 --> 0:06:02.120 complimentary phrase, and my mind did a real fast debate 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:08.520 how should I react to his saying that, and in 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:13.520 effect how offended should I be as a Jew? And 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.279 the second one was much simpler. I wasn't offended in 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:24.279 the least in the least because he wasn't directing it 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:30.880 to hurt me. When taking offense has to have something 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:35.200 to do with somebody's intention if they want to offend you. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:40.480 Correct whether you're offended should depend on a whole host 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:45.040 of things. What did the person intend to do, and 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.760 was it really offensive, etc. I'll get to that, but anyway, 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:55.240 I immediately assume this guy, if I'm his friend, he's 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.720 not an anti semi Okay, I mean that was the 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.280 very first thing that was in my mind. The guy's 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.520 not in it. But he came form rural Canada, probably 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.520 never met a Jew before me in his life, or 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:12.080 if he did, it was pretty rare, and certainly in 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.480 rural Canada, you're not going to find many Jews, if 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.640 any at all, in some places in Canada. So I 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.560 wasn't defended in the least. I was. I was struck 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.880 by this, by the phrase, which I had never heard 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.960 and then later learned it was. It was not an 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:34.560 uncommon phrase. As to how I reacted in retrospect, I 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:44.000 could have said, you know, it's it's it's really its 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:48.040 origins are anti Jewish, it's probably best not to use 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.040 the phrase. But I didn't say anything. I just let 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.840 it pass because you know, I didn't want to be 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:59.840 his moral instructor at the time. And I'm not saying 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:01.600 I was right. You know, I was like twenty one 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.400 years old. You don't always make the best choices, but 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.560 I didn't make a good choice in not being offended. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.280 I'll give you another example. Like I called my show 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.480 once it is also about my being a Jew, and 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:21.680 he said, you know, Dennis or mister Prager. I don't 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.120 know what he said, or maybe neither said you know, 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.880 a Jews control Hollywood. So I knew he wanted to 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.120 get a rise out of me. I mean, why else 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.760 would he say it? And I remember I said something 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.240 to the effect, you know, to tell you the truth, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:45.840 Jews are disproportionately represented in Hollywood. What's your point? And 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.200 he had no point. His point was to rile me up, 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:54.800 was in fact, to probably get me offended. And then 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.640 I said, can you name one example of all these 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:02.240 Jews in Hollywood doing anything to benefit Jews? What was 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.199 the last pro Jewish film you saw? What was the 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:09.200 last pro Israel film you saw? It was probably Exodus, 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:15.160 which was released in nineteen sixties. So the guy was dumbfounded, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:22.360 but he had no point and then nothing. So you 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:28.600 have to ask yourself. And this is the thing people 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:34.200 don't understand. You choose, this is my point. You choose 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.559 whether or not to be offended. It is a choice. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:44.600 It is not a given. A guy makes a comment 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.400 on how you look. You're a woman and he makes 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.439 a comment on how you look, why would you be offended? 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.640 I mean, if he says you look ugly, then I 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.160 understand that. But very few guys say to women, boy, 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:02.400 you really look ugly. Today it's usually some compliment. But 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:06.599 you have been taught, if you're female, to be offended 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.280 at any any comment made about your looks, even if 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:15.080 it's positive. That's bizarre that it's totally did he did 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.640 he say it to offend you? And what's offensive? Maybe 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.920 you would say, you know, the office is not the 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.720 place to make such a comment, which is probably true, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.800 but it's not offensive. Why Are you offended because you 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.880 were taught to be offended. That's the reason. So this 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:40.200 is very important that and you know, are are Indians 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:45.200 American Indians Native Americans? Are they offended by the name 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:50.319 until now the Washington Redskins. The Washington Post, which had 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:56.800 been for a year constantly editorializing against the name Washington Redskins, 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:02.640 did a massive survey of an American Indians found ninety 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:07.120 percent didn't give a hoot about the name Redskins. The 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:12.520 white lefties at the Washington Post were offended. American Indians 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.280 were not. Why is it offensive? They didn't think it's racist. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.400 It wasn't meant to be racist. It wasn't racist. Somebody 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.760 once called my show and he said, when I defended 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.360 the Washington Redskins name in the Cleveland Indians name by 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.439 the way, the Cleveland Indians dropping the name or just 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:33.520 their logo, I don't remember which. In any event, the 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.960 guy calls up and he said, oh, really, you don't 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.240 think it's a problem to have the Cleveland Indians or 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.400 the Washington Redskins. Walder think if there were a team 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:47.520 named the Jews. And I'll never forget my response. I'm 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.400 very proud of it, I said to the guy, Sir. 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:54.520 For three thousand years Jews have been looking for fans. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.240 It would be one of the great moments in Jewish history. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:03.520 Let's go Jews. Yay Jews, by jew paraphernalia, get a 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:04.319 Jewish hat? 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:12.679 Are people are? America is so easy? Go easy, live 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:16.319 in that. People are looking for problems. They are looking 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.040 to be offended because maybe life is boring to them. 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.280 The left is an offense giving industry. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.360 That's it. Oh, you should be offended. Oh any if 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.679 you're not, if you're not a white, heterosexual Christian male, 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.880 you should be offended by breathing life here is a 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:41.200 living offense to you. All it does is make unhappy 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:45.120 people and make relations between people are worse. It just 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:54.079 creates tension. Again my messages, you choose whether to be offended. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.320 You're a female, you're you're a Native American, you're a 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:05.079 Black American, you're a Jew. You've chosen, and it's a 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:10.560 very bad choice. God, to go through life constantly thinking 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.960 you're offended. I pity you, and I pity the society. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:17.079 Oh kinochi. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:21.400 Let's take the questions and we begin with a video question, 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.640 and here we go. Take it away. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.320 Okay, Lollo Dennis, my name is Connor. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.040 I'm twenty. I live in Los Angeles and you kind 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.920 of inspired me to start collecting fountain pens. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.360 So my question for you is can you show some 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.559 of your fountain pens and gives some information about them? 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:44.479 Thanks? 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:53.680 Wow, I have lived a full life a twenty year 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.200 old has been inspired into fountain pens. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.280 I have a crusade on behalf of fountain pens. They 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.079 are so much fun to write with. They're so beautiful. 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:09.320 They the richness of the ink flow from it. Most 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.360 of you have never even seen one, let alone written 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.840 with one. In fact, a lot of people don't even 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:19.640 write with anything anymore. But by the way, it's a 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:24.080 very good thing to write. You actually remember better. I 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.440 always when I give a speech, I write very few notes. 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.600 Most people are unaware that I even have any notes, 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.760 because it's usually on the back of a business card. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.080 But I never type them out and then print them out. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.240 I always write them out because I remember better what 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:46.520 I've written than what I have printed. This tests have 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.680 been done that when you hand write something, you are 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.240 much more likely to remember it. But knowing that this 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.920 was the question, I chose a few of my favorite 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.640 pens very quickly, and they're all from different countries nearly 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.960 so this is my current beauty. Can we zoom in 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:06.640 because these are you see it? Yeah? This is a 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:10.880 stunningly gorgeous pen from France and it writes like a dream. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.040 This is one of the richest blue. This is a 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:20.080 beautiful American pen also writes like a dream. And that 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:25.160 one is black. And perhaps my all time favorite is 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.840 from Switzerland. This is a very I probably guess I 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:33.280 would say masculine pen. It's sort of like armored steel. 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:42.400 And it's this pen. I have the same pen about 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.160 twenty years ago, and I left it in a New 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:54.680 York taxi and it's expensive, and I could have bought 0:15:55.120 --> 0:16:00.800 a replacement. I'm revealing something about myself which may or 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:05.080 may not elevate me in your eyes. But I'm just 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.680 I'm not telling it to you as a good or 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.680 bad thing. I'm just telling you what I did. I 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:15.200 did not buy the replacement for another five to ten years. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.640 I don't remember how long, because I didn't I wanted 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.440 to sort of pay the price of losing it. Not interesting, 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.720 But anyway, now I have it. It's a magnificent pens 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.640 from Switzerland. This one is from Italy. The Italians have 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.680 a natural ability to make beautiful things. I guess I 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:37.240 have some partiality to blue in many of these. Three 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:42.000 more to show you. This one is a lavender purple. 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:46.920 I guess yes, a purplish. Japan make the nib. The 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:53.080 nib is what the ink comes out of on top here. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.800 They're usually gold on the best pens, and they're steel 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:03.040 on less expensive pens. Japanese letters have you ever seen? 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:09.439 They're very very complex. They're characters, they're not letters. So 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:15.200 a Japanese pen has to be very precise and fine 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:19.040 pointed to be able to write Japanese characters. So in 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:24.720 a certain sense, the Japanese probably make the best nibs 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:30.680 because of the Japanese language. Two more, another stunning blue 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:38.560 one from Germany. And finally where is my final one from? 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.879 This also is from Germany. This is Porsche design, that 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.320 interesting Porscha design to fountain pen. Can I give you 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.800 these to hold for me? So anyway, enjoy yourself. They 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:56.760 go from twenty dollars to two thousand dollars and you 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:59.520 go on the internet or go to the ideal as 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:05.199 a penstor Okay. That was, by the way, on my 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.480 Happiness Hour on my radio show, and I've written a 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:11.280 book on happiness. I point out the more things that 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.240 bring you joy, the happier a human being you will be. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.000 And I am blessed that a lot of things bring 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.800 me joy. Okay, do I double click here? Yeah? 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:20.120 I do? 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.240 Next, Christina? Right, is that the first one? Yeah? Thirty 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.880 years old, Lynchburg, Virginia High Dennis, Hi, Christina. I've been 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.840 listening to the fireside chat for about six months, but 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.720 I've been working through them mostly chronologically. How do you 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:40.480 weigh the importance of a person's motive slash intention behind 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:45.120 an action against the goodness slash evilness of it? How 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.719 do you weigh their intention against the result of it? 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:51.240 Aside from knowing we're human and inherently fallible, how do 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:56.320 you reconcile well intended efforts that have had bad consequences? Well? 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.240 I could spend obviously the whole opening comments on this 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:07.680 on this particular matter. So there's a difference. For example, 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:12.840 let us say I bought you a Christmas gift and 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:16.800 I had only good intentions and it was not something 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:23.440 you wanted at all. What matters then? Is that I 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:28.520 intended to give you a nice gift. So their intention 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:34.440 is ninety percent. That's a non issue. But the result, remember, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.879 is not evil. It's disappointment on your part, But no 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.760 evil was done. But when people have good intentions and 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:46.000 evil is the result, I have contempt for those people. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.680 It does not in any way excuse the evil of 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:55.080 the result that they intended. Well, the twentieth century is 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.119 filled with people with good intentions who did massive evil. 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:05.159 The biggest example is Commune Communism killed one hundred million people, 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:12.040 not combatants, this is innocent civilians. Oh, because people were 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:17.479 intoxicated by equality or equity as they now put it. 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:21.760 In the name of equity, in the name of progress, 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.600 more people have been slaughtered than in the name of 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:30.639 anything else. That's something. Oh, they all meant. Well, you 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.479 know how many people gave secrets to Stalin, one of 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:36.520 the second greatest mass murder in history. They gave him 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.680 nuclear secrets, They gave him the atom bomb. That's how 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.919 the Soviet Union developed the atom bomb, because of spies 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.919 in Britain and the United States, who thought, oh, what 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:50.639 a beautiful thing that they're making in the Soviet Union. 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:52.440 A world of equality. 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:58.600 No freedom, no liberty, no rights, GULAG twenty to forty 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:03.720 million people murdered by Stalin. But hey, what the hell? Equality? 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:08.919 That is why wisdom is more important than intentions. Intentions 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:12.399 are nothing compared to wisdom. Wisdom is the knowledge of 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:17.320 the consequences of your actions. That's what matters. It's what 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:22.280 matters in America today. All these oh, anti racism, anti racism, 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.359 The amount of evil being done in the name of 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:31.440 anti racism is incalculable. Plus just the gigantic lie of it, 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:37.239 the the deprivation of real education from children. All it 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:41.280 is is a is a facade to teach America hatred 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:45.680 and to bring down the system of liberty that has 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.320 made this the freest country in the history of the world. 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:55.240 So intentions are especially macro. In other words, social issues 0:21:55.440 --> 0:22:01.720 are largely irrelevant. Who intends badly? Very few people intend 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:05.960 to have bad intentions. See think about it. Who wakes 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.040 up in the morning and goes, oh, another day to 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:08.560 do evil? 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:10.520 Very few people. 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.800 The vast majority of bad things have been done with 0:22:14.880 --> 0:22:25.359 good intentions. Okay, very important question, obviously. Next Nick thirty seven, Springfield, 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:28.720 Virginia was the other one. Virginia two of Virginia in 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:32.000 a row. Dear Dennis, thanks for your fireside chat on 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.040 your calming voice of reason. From the words you say 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:38.080 and in the tone, I can see why Outo sleeps 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:44.480 so soundly during your discourse. That's hilarious. Otto, I must say, 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:49.240 Auto sleeps. Is he coming back in? You know, let's 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:52.320 see what happens. This is funny. You saw him walk out. 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:57.120 Maybe this will be the first time both Otto leaving 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:03.080 and Auto coming. And the answer is, oh my god, 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:05.720 he's staying at the Okay, here he comes, Ladies and gentlemen, 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:18.320 I present to you Otto Prager. This is all because 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:21.159 he was at the vet today. This is as you 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:24.840 all know, he would be sleepy right now and probably snoring. 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:30.080 All right, it is what it is. Megan, that's the 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:34.760 famous Megan Arm. Now he's gone. This is atypical behavior, 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:40.040 but he was traumatized at the vet. Okay, anyway, I 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:43.240 see why Otto sleep so soundly during your discourse. He 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:47.560 sleeps soundly during everybody's discourse. I don't take any credit 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:51.439 with my calming tone. You keep fighting for America, but 0:23:51.480 --> 0:23:53.280 you also seem to notice that we're at a point 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:56.280 of no return. When is that point official? Would that 0:23:56.359 --> 0:23:59.800 call for secession, and how would secession look in your 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:02.480 point of view? Thanks in advancing God, bless. I didn't 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:04.000 say we're at a point of no return. I just 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:06.280 want to make that clear. We're not at a point 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:09.280 of no return, but we are at a tipping point. 0:24:09.600 --> 0:24:13.000 There's no question about that. This is the darkest period 0:24:13.040 --> 0:24:16.879 in American history since the Civil War. That's one hundred 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:19.160 and fifty years ago. More than one hundred and fifty 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:24.560 years ago. It's almost unbelievable for me to say, but 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:31.880 the forces undoing the American Revolution of liberty, of individualism, 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:40.200 of limited government, they are in retreat. And it always 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:43.720 begins with freedom of speech because the left has suppressed 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:48.000 freedom of speech wherever it gets into power, from the 0:24:48.119 --> 0:24:52.720 Russian Revolution to your local university. There is no instance 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:55.920 in history of the left being in power and free 0:24:55.920 --> 0:24:59.720 speech being allowed. There is no instance, and America is 0:24:59.760 --> 0:25:04.119 no different. Liberals love free speech, Conservatives love free speech. 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:08.399 The left has never allowed for it. At what point 0:25:08.560 --> 0:25:12.119 could you see secession? Well, there already is something akin 0:25:12.200 --> 0:25:15.920 to that taking place, with a great many conservatives, people 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:21.120 who do believe in freedom going to leaving blue states 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:26.040 and going to red States. That's one example of this happening. 0:25:26.040 --> 0:25:29.119 Many Californians where I live, or moving to Texas, for example, 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:37.200 or Florida, and they just they want freedom. So it's 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:41.159 this shift is already somewhat taking place. The problem is 0:25:42.000 --> 0:25:45.880 the people, let's say, from New York and New Jersey, Connecticut, 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:51.600 going to Florida. So they flee the consequences of the left, 0:25:52.920 --> 0:25:55.880 and then they re elect the left where they go. 0:25:56.960 --> 0:26:04.280 It's non intelligent, right, That's exactly what happens. People bring 0:26:04.560 --> 0:26:09.720 the values that they fled from with them. Some Latin 0:26:09.760 --> 0:26:17.840 Americans do that. The human being is a problem, all right, 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:21.160 Molly thirty, Kansas City, Kansas. Hey, Dennis and Otto. Even 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:24.399 though I'm an avid podcast listener, I've never actually seen Auto, 0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:27.360 but he sounds pretty great. He's not here now, right? 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:31.480 Does God have a gender? If so, what is God's 0:26:31.960 --> 0:26:34.159 Does the gender of God matter? Why? Or why not? 0:26:34.240 --> 0:26:37.639 I asked, because I work at a small private Christian university. 0:26:38.320 --> 0:26:41.840 Like many, our university struggles to navigate our world and 0:26:41.920 --> 0:26:45.800 social pressures. This year, our choir performed a rendition of 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:50.280 the twenty third Psalm, but switched God's gender to female, 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:55.240 he to she, and so on Wow, she maketh me 0:26:55.400 --> 0:26:59.920 lie in Pastors Green, I have my own thoughts when 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:02.240 I'm curious about yours. Thank you for your time, and 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:06.360 God bless you in yours. Anyone who says she instead 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:13.840 of he with a biblical phrase is doing something unethical, 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:19.000 having nothing to do with religion. Nothing. You can't change 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:22.280 what was written. You want to make up a new 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:27.439 psalm using she, that is perfectly in your right. But 0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:32.639 to take something that says he and change it it 0:27:32.680 --> 0:27:38.280 would be like painting over a Michelangelo painting because you 0:27:38.800 --> 0:27:43.679 don't like that there's a male there and making it 0:27:43.720 --> 0:27:48.040 into a female. There's no difference. Changing a painting is 0:27:48.080 --> 0:27:52.679 the same as changing literature. That's what they're doing. It 0:27:52.720 --> 0:27:57.240 is immoral what they've done. I forget religion. It has 0:27:57.280 --> 0:28:03.080 nothing to do with religion. You can't bastardize a text. 0:28:05.680 --> 0:28:09.400 But the arrogance of these people, it's so arrogant. Gee, 0:28:09.400 --> 0:28:11.760 I don't like what the original says, so I will 0:28:11.840 --> 0:28:15.919 change it. Write your own. But you can't change what 0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:23.400 the original says. But that your church in where would 0:28:23.400 --> 0:28:23.639 it be? 0:28:23.720 --> 0:28:23.880 Then? 0:28:24.040 --> 0:28:28.080 I guess I guess, presuming Kansas, that a small church 0:28:28.119 --> 0:28:32.080 in Kansas would do. This shows you how much leftism 0:28:32.119 --> 0:28:36.760 has infected normantive Christian life as it has Jewish life 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:42.320 and Catholic life. Does God have a gender? No, God 0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:44.880 does not have a gender. However, God is depicted in 0:28:44.960 --> 0:28:45.480 male form. 0:28:45.520 --> 0:28:46.840