Member Training – Normalcy Bias Hindering Our Efforts

Member training from October 27th, 2025.

This Tree of Liberty Society member training tackled one of the most subtle yet dangerous enemies of liberty—normalcy bias. The speaker warned that our greatest obstacle is not ignorance alone but our acceptance of false “normal” conditions that mask tyranny as ordinary life. Drawing on history, scripture, and principle, he showed how America’s original Constitution—a compact of consent—was replaced by a counterfeit through revolution and fraud, and how most people have been conditioned to see that as normal. He challenged members to stop merely resisting the worst new abuses and instead go on the offense: withdraw dependence on government systems, reject “necessary evils,” and live by the true principles of liberty that built free nations. The call was clear—if we wouldn’t accept a new law of tyranny today, we must stop accepting its old forms that have become familiar. Only then can we overcome normalcy bias and begin rebuilding a free and godly society.

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TRANSCRIPT

We're thankful to thee. We're thankful that we could be here and gather together for a wise and glorious purpose. We are working to clean up our society. And faced with a big job, we come to thee for help. Father, would thou guide us in what we ask thee for? would thou strengthen us to do what thou answers us father please help us to have clear and active minds that we may have a clearer vision of what we should do we ask a blessing on ben and his cohorts and that they may collectively have knowledge and hidden treasures of knowledge advanced into their minds, that they may have a clarity of vision. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Talking about normalcy bias and how it hinders our efforts, it's something that we all have a sense of some sort of normalcy bias of what we're used to and what we're not. And it's important for us to recognize it because when we don't recognize it, it actually hurts what we're doing. to be able to go on the offense to defend liberty. I'll get into that more, but I want to remind everybody that, of course, the reason why we're in the situation that we're in is because of our lack of knowledge. And so it's important that every week we're doing something to solve that problem amongst ourselves. If we ever come to a point that we think we've got it made in the knowledge department, we can use that as a sign that we're in trouble because there is always something to learn. And I'll tell you what, I've been spending a lot of time at this, you know, full time for the past 25 years. And I still learn big things every week. And so what is the trading title tonight?

The trading title is normalcy bias hindering our efforts. OK, it disappeared when I wasn't looking. you're good okay and of course we should take it all in the context of our purpose to build understanding and adherence to the principles that have built free nations expose the satanic conspiracy and build an effective resistance to that conspiracy so there's some principles in the news that i want to cover that lead us into this idea of normalcy bias and how do we fight it But if you remember in our boot camp, I said something that was very, you know, I think hurt people, struck them to the core. And that is that the America of 1789 is dead.

What we think of America, it hasn't existed for over 100 years. And that probably hits a lot of you right even now, as I say it again. And I point out, you know, all of the ideas. and principles of the founding fathers laid out in the Declaration of Independence for why they declared independence and showed how we were engaging in either at least as much as if not more than King George was against the colonies. So if it was right for them, it was, you know, we can see what that means for us today. And then, of course, it became a point in 1845 where the Constitution was so dead that. They said that when we leave Illinois, when we leave the United States, we don't intend to go under any other government, even though they believed under revelation that the Constitution was inspired by God, that the government itself had apostatized from it to such an extent that there was nothing left to save.

And that was in 1845. And so, you know, as extreme as it might sound to some people in 2025, you can only imagine. the thought process in 1845. But there was a couple of recent articles in the Mises Institute website, one from 2021. So four years ago, the title is, Is the Constitution Broken Beyond Repair? And so if you're not aware, the Mises Institute, they're kind of a libertarian organization. Me quoting from them isn't in endorsement of the organization itself but just showing how i'm not the only crazy one saying these things and then another one from just a few days ago we have their article it's a follow-up actually from the 2021 article how progressives broke the constitution and praised themselves for it and so these are these are two articles that that really expand and give additional examples to what i gave in the boot camps And in the first article is The Constitution Broken Beyond Repair. He quotes from, he refers to the book, The Broken Constitution by a college professor, university professor, Noah Feldman.

And he says about the book, The Broken Constitution, Feldman aims to vindicate Lincoln as the founder of a second constitution that arose after the Civil War. To establish the new constitution, Lincoln overthrew the first one, and it is in showing the extent to which he did so that Feldman contributes to the revisionist position. So the university professors out there are bragging, they're happy about it. So him saying that Lincoln established a second constitution after abolishing the first, he wasn't complaining about Lincoln. He was actually praising Lincoln for it because according to these historians, they believe the original constitution was evil and immoral.

And so it was good. So it's kind of this this this wasn't on purpose that I'm bringing up Lincoln stuff again, like from last week, but it's it's it's relevant to the overall situation. And it's important to understand it from this additional perspective. We see the Latter-day Saints saying that the Constitution was that the United States had apostatized from the Constitution by the 1840s. And then we have others looking throughout the history of the Union, and they're saying it's basically its official death of the original Constitution was during the Civil War. And so, you know, whichever one you want to look at, you know. How many times does an animal die before it's dead?

And we can see clearly several times these examples of situations where we can say, hey, you know what? The original constitution, according to experts in that field, say that the one that the founding fathers gave us in 1789 doesn't exist. Further on in the next article from just a few days ago. He says to the great rejoicing among some constant. constitutional lawyers over the fact that to establish the new constitution, Lincoln overthrew the first one. So we see this same thing where their constitutional lawyers are rejoicing that the constitution of the founding fathers was overthrown and a new constitution, the one that is followed today, was then established. he continues on this is indeed one reason why some of lincoln's admirers still celebrate the burning of the south by the union army the devastation and destruction of the south symbolizes for them the brave new world of equality and social justice forged by a righteous army through fire and steel so these progressive liberal anti-founding fathers experts are grateful for the burning of the South and the using of might equals right to destroy the evil, wicked constitution.

I use evil, wicked in quotes of the founding fathers, according to these people. And so these, again, you know, they are, they are, they are lauding the fact they're not complaining about it. They're saying it's a good thing. They're like, yes. Lincoln gave us a different constitution. We had a new constitution in the 1860s and what the founding fathers gave us. And isn't that great? And so that's, you know, to me, that gives what they're saying more credibility because they're not just naysayers. They are coming from a different perspective than I am. They love what Lincoln did and they're saying yes. And what he did, we are both on the same page. Lincoln destroyed the original constitution. I say that's horrible. They say that's wonderful. Continues on, they believe that deliberately subverting the Constitution is actually very good if it is done with good intentions, namely intentions of which progressives approve.

So they're like, yeah, of course, it's good to disobey the Constitution as long as it's to get our New World Order agenda through. As they see it. The new constitution created by Lincoln's war is more egalitarian and just so and just so it's, you know, justice and just than the old one written by slave owners. So, of course, they have to undermine anything ever done by a slave owner, the same people that would undermine, you know, Father Abraham for his ownership of slaves or Moses, etc. They believe the overthrow of the old Constitution ought to be welcomed by everyone who upholds the idea of America. The idea being, of course, progressivism. So they love the idea of overthrowing the Constitution. And I think everybody should be happy about it because it has brought us to the situation that we're in today.

And I would say the situation that we're in today is tyranny. And they would say it's fantastic. So we're not disagreeing on what's happened. We're just disagreeing on if it's good or bad. So one of these people that supported this new constitution was a man by the name. He's a journalist and a socialist, a literal communist. He was a supporter of communes, of these socialist, atheistic communes during the 1860s. And he was well-known and a supporter of the... of this new constitution of Lincoln. And he held up a copy of the U.S. Constitution and he branded it as the source and parent of all other atrocities, a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. Does anybody know the reference to a covenant with death and an agreement with hell? What's he referring to? Anybody? I can't see if you're raising your hand.

I'm sorry. because it's not letting me know if you are, go ahead and just chime in. Is that the same as the manifesto? Well, the scripture is referenced there as well, yes. So it's the scripture in the Old Testament that uses that quote. So he's talking about Isaiah. So Isaiah is seeing the last days, saying that the people have made a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. So he's saying that, The signing of the Constitution was what Isaiah saw as a wicked people signing an agreement with hell. So as the nation's founding document burned to ashes, he cried out, so perish all compromises with tyranny. So he burned the Constitution. So he wasn't burning the government.

He wasn't in effigy. He wasn't saying he didn't like. the rascals that were administering the government he said he hated the very foundation of it and he wanted and he found it to be tyrannical and he wanted it to be destroyed and so this is the attitude of those that established this so-called second constitution okay so in this book government by judiciary it's a book published by liberty fund people that publish fantastic classics in the liberty movement going back to the 1700s and I think even before, documents that the United States Supreme Court, largely through abuses of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, has embarked on a continuing revision of the Constitution under the guise of interpretation. And so they just get to reinterpret the Constitution to mean whatever they want it to mean without any amendments to do so.

And so advocates of judicial activism began to assert that neither the words of the Constitution nor the intentions of the framers are any longer relevant. And if you remember, this is about, I don't know, 15, 20 years ago now that Ruth Bader Ginsburg actually said that we don't look towards the founding fathers anymore. We don't look towards the Federalist Papers to explain to us what the Constitution means. To settle our court decisions now in the Supreme Court of the United States, we look to international law. We look to the UN Charter. We look to those types of things. And so this is what they're talking about when they want to get rid of that.

They hate the original Constitution, and they've given us a new one. And this is the normal, what is practiced in courtrooms. all across America today is not the Constitution of the Founding Fathers. It is this second Constitution that we've been talking about. The idea of the Constitution and the tradition of the Founding Fathers is not something that any courtroom will accept. It is not something that 99.99% of members of Congress will support, even those that can pretend to be conservative. It is not something that you will hear. anybody in mainstream law support. It is this new constitution that was established under Lincoln.

I would say that this process began, as Brigham Young said, going back to the late 1800s. early 1840s. But, you know, that's neither here nor there. So we're not dealing with ignorance that simply needs to better understand the Constitution. And that's what you hear so often with people that, you know, they'll talk to an elected official or a talking head and they think, well, that guy just doesn't know something. No, we're dealing with a conspiracy, right? We're dealing with a conspiracy that has replaced the Constitution through revolution and fraud. and that the fraud is benefited by normalcy bias. Because all of those things, the average person doesn't understand that the Constitution of the Founding Fathers was a compact by consent. Today, we think, because of normalcy bias, that we are part of an inseparable union, right?

One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, right? That's what we're brainwashed with every single day. But that's the new constitution. That is not the constitution of the founding fathers. But because of normalcy bias, we have come as a culture to accept as normal, as what is true, those things that are not true. And so what is normalcy bias? Just to make sure that we're all on the same page and the same definitions. Normalcy bias or normality bias is a cognitive bias. which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings. Consequently, individuals underestimate the likelihood of a disaster when it might affect them and its potential adverse effects.

So, you know, another concept that this has been used to illustrate this concept is the boiling frog, where you've, you know, if you have a bunch of live frogs in a pot of water, and you turn the water up real fast they're all going to jump out but if you slowly one degree at a time turn the temperature up the frogs get comfortable and it's not anything different it's the way it's always been and you're you know an extremist if you think that this isn't the way that it's always been when you know when all of a sudden you're 10 20 30 degrees warmer than you were when you were first put in the pot And everybody around you is saying, no, this is the way it's always been.

And so this is normalcy bias and normalcy bias in the terms of the Constitution, because a lot of our normalcy of the Constitution, as we've covered here, right, the second Constitution was put into place before any of us were born. And so all of us, our parents, our grandparents, probably our great grandparents, were all. born into this new normal, this normalcy bias of the Constitution and of the principles of liberty. My children, what's normal to them is everything post 9-11, right? All of the police state that happened after 9-11 is all normal to them. That's not weird to them. It would be weird to go back to life before 9-11, I think, in a lot of ways for people born after the 2000s.

You know, I'm trying to think of things that, you know, I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but I know for a fact that there are things that happened during my parents' generation that are just normal to me. And so, but they shouldn't be because they're not right. And, but we're, it was just the way it was when we started doing things. And so it's just, it's the cost of doing business. And so we've just began to accept something that is unacceptable. So I want to play this clip. This is from Braveheart. And I know Braveheart's not a historically accurate movie. It's not the point. It's a great movie that teaches great principles. Whether it's historically accurate or not is, to me, irrelevant to the point. And so I'm going to show a clip that illustrates a very important point. Oops. Okay. We have beaten the English because you won't stand together. What will you do? I will invade England and defeat the English on their own ground. Invade?

That's impossible. Why? Why is that impossible? You're so concerned with squabbling for the scraps from Longshank's table that you've missed your God-given right to something better. There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it. So that website, Lesser Magistrate, they wrote the book on the principle of the doctrine of the lesser magistrates that teaches this principle.

But we see the point laid out there is they've had this great victory. And now they just want to negotiate for a little bit more comfort as opposed to, you know, they are. a a different they are an independent country that is under the rule of a foreign power and they're not interested in getting rid of what they what they're used to there they were all born under the this normalcy bias of being ruled over by a foreign country and so the idea of saying you know what we're not going to be ruled by a foreign country anymore was just outrageous it was radical it was extreme it was unreasonable It was it was something that, you know, you were going you were making the perfect the enemy of the good and all of these other excuses that people give to just keep things the way they are. And so and because, you know, a lot of us, you know, we are we're born of this. We say, oh, you're right. That is extreme. That's never been that way in our lifetime.

And so what I'm trying to do here is unreasonable and unacceptable. We just have to, you know, accept, you know, we have to get a seat at the table and hope for the best we can get. As opposed to what the clip shows William Wallace saying, no, it's wrong for a foreign power to be ruling over us. And so we are going to go and get our land back. We are going to go and get our nation back. And that's really what the attitude that we need to be. We have to stop this idea that every other freedom organization out there is. It's about negotiation. It's about slowing things down. It's about just negotiating that the next bill isn't as bad as they want it to be.

That's what everybody talks about. Nobody talks about no to this and not only no to this, but we're repealing this. Nobody talks about that because everybody accepts the normalcy bias of the way it is. And that's why government gets bigger and bigger. We see spending go up and up and up. We see the police state go up and up and up because going backwards is unreasonable. We can only hope to. slow the increase is what everybody says and that's where everybody comes from and that's why things keep getting worse the only way things stop getting worse is by not accepting normalcy bias and then in reversing the trend it's the only way things will actually stop getting worse so just kind of give you an example we had this during the fake pandemic in the state of Utah They had a legislation, local government emergency response. And in the bill, it says exercises physical control. So over where the government gets to exercise physical control over property and over individuals.

And so that was a big deal, right? And so I was a part of a movement that was making a big hullabaloo about this, saying this was really horrible, that this is unacceptable. giving the government power without due process, especially to control people's property and their bodies. That's insane. But we have the response of these. Basically, we saw of the establishment in that William Wallace or that Braveheart clip. We have Libertas Institute saying, you know, this merely references new language, what already exists in legal authority. So they were saying it wasn't a big deal. Who cares? It's already in law. And so instead of saying, yes, this is horrible, we need to stop this.

They were just saying it's already, you know, it's a good bill because and it's nothing new. Who cares? Normalcy bias excuses the tyranny that exists and allows new tyranny to be established. So now just think of, you know, just imagine your mind and a new bill introduced in the legislature of Congress that says one minute of every eight hour day you work goes to fund the dismemberment and murder of a child. OK, they actually boldly just came out and said that every every minute, every one minute, every minute of every one minute of every day that you go to work is going to go towards funding the dismemberment and murder of a child. Now, right, you'd have people up in arms and pitchforks.

You'd have people being willing to be arrested and saying, you know what? No, I'm not going to allow that to happen. That's that is wicked and evil. And I will never allow that to happen. But frankly, that's essentially already law because $300 million in taxes go to Planned Parenthood every year. $300 million in other taxes go directly to abortion, other abortion clinics, hospitals, other facilities that perform abortions. So that's combined over $6 million of the money that you make every single month. goes to the dismemberment and murder of an unborn baby. So when we think of it as a new law were to do that, they were to come out and say that, then we're like, okay, you know what? I'm going to go to jail before I'd love that to happen. But we don't realize that because of normalcy bias, we are already doing that.

And we can see with this illustration how dangerous and how wicked normalcy bias is. Because now, you know, what are most of us, what are any of us going to do tomorrow differently, knowing that a portion of our labor tomorrow is going to go fund the murder of a baby? But because it's most likely not going to change very much because it's something that we're already used to. And that's the danger of normalcy bias. Okay. What else? What else is normal? Gun laws. If you were to say repeal all gun laws, people would say you're insane. But the first laws regarding guns didn't even exist until 1938. So we got 1789 to 1938 with zero laws regarding guns. Okay, but now having some gun laws, you have the number one gun rights lobbyist group, the NRA. would never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever be seen lobbying to get rid of all gun laws.

You would never say that. The next year, the court ruled, supposedly, that Congress could regulate selling shotguns across state lines because that's interstate commerce. And then 1968, they added tracking to firearms and was the first time that the Fed said that people couldn't be on equal footing with owning weapons. 1986, they banned more firearms from the people disguised as the Firearm Owners Protection Act. 1993, prohibited former criminals from owning guns. Now today, you're not going to find hardly any conservatives that will say, oh yeah, felons should be able to own guns. You're not going to hear hardly anybody say that.

But I would say the principle is, have they served their time? Otherwise, you're giving them a life sentence. 2018, red flag laws began passing where if anyone says that you might be dangerous, the government can take your gun and provide due process at some future date. So they can steal your property from you without due process whatsoever. This is becoming the new normal. And these are the last one. This is under the president that we currently have. And so he's in favor of that. The exact phrase that he used was, take the guns first, do process second. So what we see here has become normal.

The red flag laws are a little less normal, but all of the other ones are things that would be called by any of your mainstream talking head gun rights organizations as quote unquote, common sense, that we're not going to go repeal those. Obamacare just passed in 2009. Not a single Republican is even talking about repealing Obamacare completely. It's always repeal and replace, reform it, all those types of things. These laws, they become the norm. So we look at the myths of effective action, and we've talked about this before, right? This does not help normalcy bias, right? Just donating elections is why we don't focus on these things, because these are the things that actually benefit the conspiracy. They say that your rights come from government and that you cannot exercise them until government says you can. Whereas we have proven solutions throughout history, right? We're talking like 6,000 years of history that proves this.

These are the things that benefit building the kingdom of God, organizing, join with others to produce the things, to separate yourself from the conspiracy's economic structure, and then defense, nullification, interposition. These are the things that work. The things on the right are the things that work. The things on the left are the things that prove, that are proven to strengthen and entrench normalcy bias. to strengthen and entrench the growth of government and the growth of tyranny. So we have to end dependency on our would-be masters if we are going to do the things on the right. Okay, just give you some examples, right?

So we have to say no to government school because if you send your child to government school, you are agreeing to what they indoctrinate your child with. You're agreeing that during that time period that your child is their property. You look at schools today, whereas when I went to school, if a parent wanted to take a kid out to go on vacation, go on a field trip with the family, spend some time with the family, it didn't matter. The parent would just say, yes, the child's excused. Today, you can't do that. You have to have a doctor's note. You have to have some kind of a third party proof that the absence is, quote unquote, legitimate according to the standards of the government school.

And you have to accept that because you have submitted your child to them. And so they get to tell you what is acceptable and what is not as an excuse to take your child out of their institution. And so if you want to be able to have liberty, you can't be under that. You can't have government housing, HUD, Social Security, food stamps. You look at what's happening right now with the government shutdown. People that are dependent upon the government for their sustenance are now having their sustenance threatened. And so we can never become independent if we depend on that. And we'll talk about what the government funds, the government controls. a documented fact.

And I want to tell an example. There was a leader in the, well, a speaker in the John Birch Society, and he grew up, he was a child in National Socialist Germany during World War II. And, you know, we hear about Hitler taking away people's guns and banning guns as a way to be able to build his tyranny. But it wasn't like you had the Gestapo going door to door, taking people's guns. He told the story of in his neighborhood. What happened was the food ration stamps, the food stamps for that week for a week didn't show up. Everybody was like a little concerned. They're like, well, that's what's going on. Things must be rough. And another week goes by the same thing. Things are getting tighter. The cupboards are getting more and more bare. And they still didn't get their stamps to go get their food that week.

And then by the third week, the cupboards are completely empty. People are going hungry. But instead of the food ration stamps, a letter comes in the mail to the entire neighborhood that says, Bob down the street still has guns. Food rations will commence again when that's no longer the case. So the Gestapo didn't have to go grab Bob's guns. His neighbors did that for him. So if you and your neighbors are all depending on the government for your money, for your food, for your home, and they're saying, and then they take it away and they say, you can have it back when you go take care of our enemy. You're going to have a good section of the population be willing to go and take care of the government's dirty work for them because they need it to live. Because they don't know how to go do it on their own.

They feel like they can't do it on their own because of whatever their situation is. And so they go and they become an assistant to the tyranny. Government contracts. You have businesses. I remember during the financial crisis in 2008 created by the government where you had these salesmen that generally depended on contracts with private companies. Because those private companies were not buying as much products anymore, their sales manager was then teaching them how to get more government contracts, how to get the government agencies to buy their widgets. And so an example of the dangers of that was back in 2019, I think it was. The Governor Herbert was running for election, reelection, and he was going to businesses that had large government contracts. And he was telling them, you know, our campaign could really use a donation. And boy, would we hate it if, you know, the government couldn't buy your widget anymore.

We'd hate it if your contract got canceled. That would be sure horrible. But boy, we could sure use some donations for our campaign. And so because these companies were dependent upon these government contracts, they donated to the Herbert campaign in Utah. And so these type of strong arm tactics are used all over the place to be able to get the people to willfully comply with the government edicts, with the tyranny that they want. Right. But what the government funds, the government controls. And so if we really want to be free. If we really want to say no, if we really want to go on the offense, we have to put our money where our mouth is by saying no to these things, by saying, you know what, I'm going to take responsibility. You know what? Yes, I do pay property taxes. And so I'm going to be double charged to to get my kids educated because I'm going to be taxed and I'm going to pay for my kids private school or for my kids tutor or for. the curriculum that my kid needs, you know, my wife needs to teach our kids.

You know, it is going to be an increased cost. And it is going to, there is going to be sacrifice that has to be made because we are overcoming normalcy bias. That's why they wanted it to become normal in the first place. Because when you're going against the grain, you are less likely to do it. And so that's why it's so important to go against the grain because that is what they fear. That is what stops them from being able to do what they do. And so it's essential if we really want liberty, if we're really serious about it, that a part of the going on the offense is if this is a part of our life that we say no more. We are going to do what we can to stop doing that and get rid of it completely. Okay. So we have to look at what are laws that we accept right now because it's always been that way. Maybe we don't like it, right?

We say, oh, that's a necessary evil. But we go along with it because it's the way it's always been. But we think about that same law that we say we go along with because it's the way it's always been. But if it had not always been that way and it was a new law now, like the example I gave with abortion, right? Would we be willing to give our lives to stop? So that's an exercise I would like us all to do is to find, you know, look at things that we comply with because it's always been that way. But if it was new. we would give our lives and our liberty to stop it from being implemented and say, you know what? I'm not going to put up with normalcy bias anymore. If it's something I wouldn't put up with as new today, I need to stop putting up with it even though it's been there my whole life. You know, we talk about digital IDs and that's kind of one of the next things.

Are we prepared to be able to... not do it are we or are we going to be so entrenched in the system that to keep our jobs to be able to drive to work to be you know the list goes on and on and on are we going to make the sacrifice necessary not to have to take the new next step in the tyranny or are we going to say well my family needs to eat so i welcome our new you know insect overlords and um and just accept it Or are we going to say, you know what, this far, no further, and I'm going to start going on the offense and I'm going to stop obeying things that I've already been obeying. Because we have to make sure that we are not conditioned to accept the next level of tyranny and we have to go on the offense and resist that. So to help us in this effort, I really want to go make sure that we are constantly being reminded about our member manual. to get to know it, to implement its action items, to ensure that we are going on the offense and that you are ready to resist those next steps towards tyranny. So I see some comments there in the chat, which I'm going to go through, but do we have some time?

Oh, it is exactly 10 o'clock. So I will address those in the open forum and we can have additional discussions as well. with that. But let's go ahead and have a closing prayer. And I'm going to ask Linda, would you be willing to unmute and give us the closing prayer?

Our dear Heavenly Father, as we come before thee this night, we want to express our gratitude and appreciation for the concern and the research and the sharing that the Tree of Liberty brings to us. And we ask that you bless us, that we might have thy spirit to be with us, to guide us and direct us. to help us understand truth, to expose truth, and join together as a group and become strong as a society of truth and constitutional privileges, principles and godly principles. We ask that you bless us now that we may have thy spirit to weave with us, that we may move forward, make progress and understand. these principles that we're being taught, and we're grateful for those who are teaching. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.