Member Training – Reading Is Essential To Liberty

Member training from March 3rd, 2025. In this meeting, I emphasized the importance of knowledge and learning as essential tools for preserving our freedom. I shared my personal journey with reading, acknowledging that many may not consider themselves readers, but I encouraged everyone to overcome these barriers to knowledge. I highlighted that rejecting knowledge can lead to our downfall, and we must actively seek to learn and apply what we read to resist the conspiracies that threaten our liberties. I also shared practical tips on how to retain knowledge through writing and reflection, emphasizing that true learning involves not just passive consumption but active engagement with the material. We concluded with a reminder of our collective responsibility to educate ourselves and each other, fostering a community that values knowledge and moral integrity as we strive for freedom.

Another interesting book on the subject is “Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization” By Brad Wilcox. You can get your copy by clicking on the title of the book.

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TRANSCRIPT

Carmen. Our dearest Father in heaven, we come to thee because we are very needful of thy help. Father, we each have things to do and pray that would inspire us to take hold of those things and to carry through with them and be as much help as we can to Ben and those things that he has. decided to do based on his prayers to thee bless us that we may know what he knows that we may dig in our heels and move forward and bless us to be able to help Ben as he has helped us we invite the Holy Ghost to attend us in this meeting so that we may know truth right away In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Amen. Okay, so just for a reminder for those of you that weren't able to come last week, I'd be glad to do a Zoom training for you privately. So just FYI, just because you weren't here last week doesn't mean you're left out. Be glad to do a one-on-one with you at your convenience, your schedule. We've got some... Things I just wanted to update everybody on. Well, just to kind of announcement, we've got the book club. We're going to be starting What Degree of Madness this Wednesday at 7 p .m. Mountain Time.

And the link to the boot camp is on the website. If you just go there, you'll also be getting the emails, hopefully. But either way, you'll have access to that. Another good book on nullification. I'm going to grab real quick. Well, I've been talking about this. The process where you have, once you've been able to go through and recognize that we have a conspiracy. And so what do you do when government violates the law, the constitution, natural law? The first step is nullification, which is covered very well in this book. The next step is interposition, where you stand in between the person that is doing the oppression. and the person that is being oppressed, so standing between, preventing oppression from occurring. And this book, The Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates, is a great book that talks about that topic.

And then we get into the topic or the concept of tyrannicide, which is covered in Killing No Murder, as well as A Heimlet Loose and another book called A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants, which is a copy right there. So if anybody wants to learn about the process of each of those steps, I encourage you to get those books. So tonight we're going to be talking about how reading is essential to liberty. And I'd like to just kind of, in our mindsets, I want to bring up again, if you've gone through the boot camps before, this is something that you've seen. um several times and it it is the purpose not just of the boot camps to do this this is the purpose of the tree of liberty society and and so every single one of our trainings um is designed to fulfill this purpose to build understanding of the principles that have built free nations so natural law principles of liberty um and uh and morality expose the satanic conspiracy and build an effective resistance to that conspiracy.

So some of our trainings will go over the principles that have built free nations. Some of our trainings will talk about exposing the satanic conspiracy. Some of those things will be about building, well, they should all together help to build an effective resistance to that conspiracy. When we have understanding of those topics and those principles, we will be effective at resisting the conspiracy. And so that is really, hopefully we'll remember that as we go through trainings. I'm going to bring that up as we do trainings every week now, just so that as new members come on and all of us just never forget that this is the purpose. And so as we're going through training, this is what you're thinking about, right? This is, okay, how is this helping me to build the understanding of liberty or natural law or morality or the conspiracy? how to be an effective resister of the conspiracy. That's what all of these things are for. I'm not just coming up with different topics that are interesting to me and I'm like, hey, let's do this. No, they're all with the mindset of helping us to be the people that we need to be to be able to resist the conspiracy. Because if we're just here to just learn something and say, hey, look, I learned something fun. This isn't to gain points playing Trivia Pursuit.

This is for, you know, to be applied. And so that's important for us to remember. So one thing that I hear a lot from people is the idea of I'm not a reader, right? I can't read. I've had some people even comment, like, how do you read all these things? And so I want to let you know that I know where you're coming from, right? All growing up was not a reader myself, did not read a lot of books. These are the books that I read up until I graduated high school. Right. Audio books from, you know, kid books, that kind of a thing. And so, in fact, you know, this is my this is an exact quote from my 10th grade English teacher. Mrs. McClintock, I hate your son because, you know, I was well, besides being a smart aleck and not a very good student. Well, that was a part of it was just I didn't read the books. And so. I passed high school English not even reading a single book. I passed it by just listening in class, reading the back of the book. And so I could take a test just based off of that and get a C or a B and pass the class that way. So not even reading a book.

And so if you're one of those kinds of people that says, you know, you don't consider yourself a reader, I feel you, I understand you. I have been there. In some ways, I'm still there. I remember in high school, just being 10 minutes at a time of reading more than 10 minutes is very difficult for me to do. And still, to this day, long spans of reading is still difficult. So don't think I'm saying these things about reading is important for liberty just because I'm a reader. That's not my natural inclination. It is something that I've had to force myself to do. And that's what I'm encouraging all of us to do is to force ourselves to get out of our comfort zones if we're not readers and become readers. So because true liberty, I'm going to show you this tonight, is that true liberty cannot be attained without thoughtful study and deep reflection. And so I'm going to show from people that have come before. from the words of the Lord, from the founding fathers. that this is a true principle, that if we are not thoughtfully studying and reflecting deeply on the things that we're reading and we're not taking the time to do that, we can't be a free people. As an individual, you can't be a free person. And if we will not build a society that's doing this, we cannot be a free society.

Those things cannot coexist together, right? Ignorance. As we learn from Alexis de Tocqueville, what made America different? He lays out in Democracy in America that every citizen receives the elementary notions of human knowledge. He has moreover taught the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its constitution. In the states of Connecticut and Massachusetts, It is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all of these things, and a person wholly ignorant of them is a sort of phenomenon, meaning if they don't know about the Constitution and the history of their people, they're the weirdos. So just recapping, that America was different. We were able to have liberty because... We understood the doctrines and evidences of our religion, the history of our country, and the Constitution. That's what made us separate. You can't do this, though, without reading.

As Thomas Jefferson said, if a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. you can be ignorant of certain aspects, then you're expecting something that can't happen. He says, if we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed. So it's important for us because guarding against ignorance is what helps us to be free. And so that is not something the government can do because, of course, the government, those in power, are only going to educate you to be able to sustain them and to be able to support the mindset that they want you to have. And so if we want to be free, it is our personal responsibility to be informed. So there are different ways to be informed, but I think as we go through the night that we will see that reading and aspects beyond reading that are connected to it, are a vital aspect of that. There's nothing more effective than being a reader.

So we look to the scriptures, Hosea, we read that my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. So God threw a priest out and he said that the people themselves were destroyed because they didn't have knowledge. Now, it's not because they were stupid, right? Because it says that they rejected knowledge, meaning that they had the ability to receive it. They had the ability to gain it, but they rejected it. They said, we don't want it. We are not going to have it. And so because of that, it led to their destruction. So when we refuse, when we make an excuse for ourselves, oh, that's just not something I can do. I'm not a reader. I'm not this. I'm not that. We're rejecting knowledge, which will lead to our destruction. Further on, we see in Joshua, this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it.

For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success. So not only he says the book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, right? You're not going to stop reading this book. You're not going to just read it. But he says, then you meditate on it. So you ponder what you've read. You think about it. What does it mean for me? Not just kind of going through to say, okay, I finished the scriptures. You know, I read the whole Old Testament in a week and I read the New Testament, et cetera, et cetera. Just because you want to say I did it. No, he says that it's never going to be out of your mind, that it's something that you think about day and night so that you can learn how, what it means and you can figure out how to apply it. And it's something that's always a part of you. In the book of Revelation, we read, blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy and blessed are those who hear and keep what is written in it for the time is near.

So it's important for us to read and know what's in it. So that way we can be, you know, take effective action. Knowledge without action is useless. And so we have to put those two together. Of course, all of these things are about applying the knowledge that you learn. Without it, it's pointless. And then we go to Acts chapter 17, verse 11. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica. They received the word with all eagerness. examining the scriptures daily to see if these things were so. Okay, so he's saying that these guys were better, right? These guys were more noble. And it's very the opposite of what we see in Hosea, right? In Hosea, they didn't want the knowledge, but these people that were more noble, it's because they received the knowledge with eagerness. And they looked at, they examined these books every day. to make sure that these things were being done correctly. And so we can see the opposite of what happens. One is the result, right? We throw a ball up in the air. The result is it's going to come down. We reject knowledge. We're destroyed. We thirst for knowledge.

We are eager to receive it. We examine it. Then we're blessed. We are improved. Then in 3 Nephi, the Lord says, and now behold, I say unto you, that ye ought to search these things. Yea, a commandment I give unto you, that ye search these things diligently, for great are the words of Isaiah. So the Lord commands us, he says. He says it is a commandment to search the words of Isaiah. That's something you do by reading. You're not really searching it if you're not reading it. You can see 88, the Lord says, And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom. Yea, and seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom. Seek learning, even by study and also by faith. So here again, we have not just an expansion of reading, but that we teach diligently one another from these things. That we've soaked these things in so much that now we are, able to be a tool to be able to expand the knowledge of other people by helping them to expand their knowledge and to get them to read and to apply these things. Thomas Jefferson said, I cannot live without books.

The guy that wrote the Declaration of Independence, this is the kind of, you know, this is how you would... the mind of a Thomas Jefferson is that your life is so surrounded around gaining understanding and gaining knowledge and applying that knowledge that you just feel like you can't live without them. That's how you become the kind of person the founding father is. And in fact, he had so many books, he owned thousands of books. Here's a picture of some of them. His collection helped replenish the Library of Congress after it burned down. in 1814 oh okay i was going to comment how in our society today um all of our technology is wonderful and all but it's a boon and a bane because most of our technology is encouraging us not to read books yeah it's removing us from that source of knowledge and We reject now the written word. Absolutely. Well, not only that, we want a digital version of it. That way the conspiracy can change at any time. Or just getting us away from that, where we're on our phones, where instead of reading a book, we're checking social media.

Or we're playing a video game on our phone, you know, just because we're bored and don't want to do anything. So absolutely right. It's turning us away from reading because they know that if they can control it or get us away from it, that they will make us the ignorant people that is talked about in Hosea that will destroy us, which is what they want. They want our destruction. So again, going back to Cato's letters, the importance of liberty and gaining knowledge and how to do that. and uh and how important that is cato's letters again are um those writings that the founding fathers read extensively quoted from referred to quite often um says to be ignorant of what is going on in the world is a most absurd thing for the ignorant man is the dupe of every's designing knave who has a mind to make his advantage of him Okay, so when we refuse to gain knowledge, we are making ourselves basically a tool to be taken advantage of by those that are more knowledgeable than us. And so we are a dupe of those people. We can be tricked into doing something that is ineffective or that is damaging to us because of our ignorance. A free people can never be in safety unless the people are enlightened and know the principles of liberty. If you don't know liberty, You cannot be safe.

Okay, and another one of his letters, one of their letters, it says the liberty of a people is always in proportion to their knowledge and virtue. There's, you know, the Joseph Smith talked about how, you know, you can be only saved in as much as you've gained knowledge. And so it's very similar to what we see here with Cato is that we're only free in as much knowledge as we have. So the more freedom that we have, the more knowledge that we have, the more free that we are. So that's a key tool for us. Without knowledge, a man is not capable of judging of his duty to his country or of the measures that are necessary to preserve its freedom. So we are just going off of emotions at that point when we don't have understanding. And so we don't understand what it is that is a good idea or what's dangerous or what's something that's going to make us lazy. And we're ignorant of what is going to be necessary for us. And that's why the conspiracy keeps us ignorant so they can get us to be focused on those things that we have talked about so often that empowers the conspiracy.

We're going to think that voting harder or that suing the government, things like that are going to actually restore lost liberty when that's never been the way that it is. And because we're ignorant, we don't understand that. In another letter, we read, it is the first duty of a free people to inform themselves and to study the history of former ages. Okay, a duty of a free people to inform themselves and study the history of former ages. Studying the history of former ages is vital because we, you know, the man is essentially, you know, our nature doesn't really change. So even though technology changes, we have computers, we have cars. Our nature doesn't really change. And so when we see and when we understand what has happened in previous civilizations, whether it be Rome or Israel or Egypt, we can we can say, OK, this is what ABC, you know, this is what happened to them. So now I can see what you know, if I see those things happening in my day, I can say, oh, wow, that is the first step or that is, you know, we're halfway to tyranny or here we are. We're already at tyranny. We don't even recognize it.

I interviewed Steve Bonta, an expert in ancient Rome, and he was talking about how the Romans themselves, when they were considered still a republic, but when we look at it through the hindsight of history, they were the Roman Empire. But even when they were the Roman Empire, they still considered themselves a republic. They didn't recognize themselves as being a despotism. It says that they will see how governments have been corrupted. and how liberty has been lost in all the republics of the world. But George Washington, he was, of course, a staunch reader. He read regularly books on military strategy and warfare. That's why he was a fantastic general. Can you imagine? Would he ever have been a general? Would he be General Washington if he didn't study those things? Then we get agriculture and land management. Of course, he owned a huge property. Politics and government. Would we think of him as this great president and great founding father if he did not take the time to study politics and government and moral and ethical philosophy? George Washington famously wrote a book. What was the name of that book? The Virtues? I'm trying to think of that small, thin book we have. Rules of Civility and Behavior.

If he hadn't... studied those things he couldn't write a book for us to be able to have principles to be guided by along those things and Moses just told me and he was 13 when he wrote it so it's something that has been on his mind and something that he studied for his entire life history and classical studies of course as well and the importance and what kind of you know just like we talked about with what what created Jefferson we can see what created Washington do we want to be like those men or are we happy with mediocrity and slavery etiquette and personal conduct. So that way we can be influential because we're not seen as either slobs or we're not seen as crude individuals, but people take us seriously because we are presenting ourselves in the best way possible. So now it's not just important just to read, right?

It's important, of course, to retain what we read. So I want to give some tools for us to be able to help us with that. always been something that as i went in the beginning of training tonight was difficult for me and so if it's difficult for you i'd like to to help us all to help us to be better at retaining what it is that we read. And so the first thing is to have what's called a commonplace book. The book itself is nothing different than a notebook, but it's more than a notebook. A notebook is typically you're just writing, you know, you've read something like when you're taking a class and you write highlights of something that you, you know, some key facts and key figures so that way you can pass a test. But a commonplace book is for you to be able to devour and to be able to really internalize. And so you can apply the things that you're reading. So here's an example of one of the founding fathers commonplace books. Most, if not all of the founding fathers themselves had commonplace books. So what you want to do is you write down key points of what you've read and then you ponder it, right? You think about it.

You, you know, you say, okay, well, what are some ways that that can be applied? What, you know, what do you, what did he mean by that? And then you write down your thoughts on what you read. So as you pondered it, you say, okay, you know, a man that is, you know, people that are, you know, that are expected to be ignorant and free, expected whatever was and never will be. Okay. So what does that mean? You know, and, and you think about it and you say, okay, well, how does that? How important, but what does that mean? Does that mean I need to learn and to study and if I want to be free? And so we just start to think about it and we write down our thoughts. And so that way we can see the application because when you write down the thoughts about what you read, then you can start to apply it much better than if you're just reading through to say that you read the book. So, and other people write down their commonplace notes or they have note cards instead of just a commonplace book. They have some three by five cards where they write down their thoughts and the quotes that they have.

And so just some thoughts about how this helps and the knowledge that we retain. So if we're just looking at something, we watch a movie, we retain about 10% of it. So if we get all of our knowledge, information from a documentary, if we're like, okay, I'm not a reader, I'll watch documentaries. Well, you're really only going to retain 10% of it. And if you think about it, you know, just think of the books that are turned into movies, right? You think of Tom Clancy books, like you've got Clear and Present Danger. Clear and Present Danger is like a two-hour movie, but was only like 5% or something like that of the book. So if you are only remembering 10% of 5%, what are you missing out on, right? if you're a documentary if you're reading if you watched the John Adams series based on the book John Adams you're really only remembering about 10% of about 10% and so it's you know if we're old and that book wasn't even his whole life as Moses points out so if we're if that's the only thing we're getting our information from we are being spoon fed uh baby food okay and then we with 30 to 40 percent of what we hear so we can get a little bit more when you add some audio to it and then 70 percent of what we write so we have a commonplace book if you're just writing those notes down that alone will jack it will skyrocket your retention rate of what you're reading to make that time that you spent reading that much more valuable okay and then we retain 90% of what we see, hear, and do, or teach, and teach, I would say. So when we apply all these things together, right, we read it, we saw it, we heard it, then we applied it, and then we attempted to teach others, we move up to 90% retention of what we read, which makes that investment you know, 10 times more valuable than it would have been otherwise because we actually kept the information that, you know, that we spent the time to be able to gain.

And so, you know, this is my handwriting. You don't even need great handwriting to start. I've got bad handwriting. Sometimes I've got to go back and I'm like, what did I write? But it's just practice. And the more you write, the better your handwriting gets. But you've got it. So you've at least... If you wrote it down, you've at least gone from 10% to 70% retention just because even if you can't read your handwriting, you've at least kind of increased your retention rate just by doing that. And so this is just an example. Just because we are not a reader, just because we don't have good handwriting doesn't mean that we can use those as excuses to remain ignorant and remain slaves because we can still do it. The impact is still there. And it's important that we, if we want to be free, right, that's why we're here in the Tree of Liberty Society. It's not because we want to just get together and commiserate with others about how horrible things are and how evil the conspiracy is. We want to actually do something to be able to preserve liberty. And so these are, right here, just a commonplace book. And applying it and then teaching it is going to be something that puts you above and beyond your average person right up to the top. Now, can I just listen?

So I just went there. I showed you some of the retention rates, right, for listening. And so it's not the worst thing in the world, right? If that's the only thing you're going to do, then do that. But I want to show you right here. This is a study that was done. They hear, but do not listen. Retention for podcasted material in a classroom context. The study compared how well students learned about a scientific subject from a 22-minute podcast versus a printed article. So you listened to the podcast that talked about it versus reading a printed article about that same subject. So the students spent the same amount of time with each format on a written quiz. Two days later, the readers scored 81% and the listeners only 59%. So even though they both invested the same exact amount of time, the retention and the fruits of it were completely different, right? It's not like you're like, well, I just don't have time to read, so I'm just going to listen. Well, if you're going to listen for 22 minutes, how about you read for 22 minutes? Because your retention rate for that 22 minutes is going to be exponential compared to just listening to somebody talk about that thing. And so just doing podcasts is not going to replace reading about those things. Now, of course, another aspect of when you're listening to an audio book, there are times where you're like, I'm not going to read a book while driving. Maybe some of you will, but probably most of us are not going to read a book while we're driving. And so we'll listen to a book or we'll listen to a podcast about a subject.

But there are points of that where audiobooks and podcasts, they are moving along with or without your participation. So when you're reading a book, you zone out, you stop reading. But when you zone out while listening to an audio book or listening to a podcast, that podcast, that book keeps going. And so now you've zoned out for a few minutes and now you've got to go back and you've, you know, just start listening again. And you've missed the last couple of minutes of what they've said. And you've got to kind of spend the next couple of seconds trying to figure out like, hey, what's going on? Keep back up. And so, you know, there's that aspect of it as well. And then, right, you can tune out. Your mind wanders around the subject at hand and there will still be a forward motion in the story. You're not stopping to ponder the subject is another part of that. You're not writing down a quote or your thoughts on the quote, right? You're in the middle of exercising or you're driving and you're like, oh man, and I've done this myself. where I'm like, that quote, I need to make sure you remember that quote. Five minutes later, I don't even remember what I thought I was going to remember or even remember that I thought I had to remember something, let alone remember what it was I needed to remember. And so there's all kinds of things we're missing out on when we say, I'm just going to do an audio book or I'm just going to do podcasts because they're for that very reason that we've just gone over. And so, you know, when we say these things, it is better than nothing, right? I'm not saying that if you're not going to read, don't bother doing anything.

I'm not like, okay, just go watch SpongeBob, just be a retard or something because you're not going to read a book. No, of course, if you're listening to a podcast about something, if you are listening to a book, you are going to retain some of it. So you are better off than you were not doing anything. So, but... saying if you want to be as effective and successful as you can, you will read, you will study, you will ponder, you will write down, you will think about and then write down your application, your thoughts of what it was that you read. And so if it's something that you're not doing while driving, exercising, etc., if you're sitting down and listening to a book, I would say just whatever time you're going to spend listening to that book, Read it instead. Take those notes. Because if it's the same amount of time, you're not losing anything. You can't say I don't have time. You're going to spend that time anyways. Just spend it doing the thing that actually is more effective. And you don't need to be smart or special. You just need discipline and a plan. I would say that myself. I'm most likely going to be dumber than most of you here. But I was able to do these things not because I was smart or special. but because I decided it was something that needed to be done.

And so I made sure that there was a plan and that I sat down and just did it and that I practiced. And so I went from just being able to do it for like three to five minutes to 10 to whatever it took to be able to take care of what needed to be taken care of. And so don't think that if you haven't done it till now that you can go from not doing it all to doing it for an hour. That's not going to work just like anything else. sports, exercise, musical instrument, whatever the talented thing that somebody does, it's something that is done over time and that we shouldn't get discouraged just because we didn't become an expert day one. We just have to recognize that we have to invest the time that it takes because we want to be free. And as we look through the scriptures, we look at the founding fathers, they understood this and they taught us this. And so are we going to utilize the lessons learned from the past so that we don't have to repeat them ourselves? Can we say, okay, I know what they said is true and so I'm going to do my best to try to apply it. Because reading and studying and pondering about what you've read is essential to liberty.

So not just anything but books. I'm not saying go read a romance novel. I'm not saying go read Nancy Drew. right the books that help you to edify help to elevate you to inspire you to build your understanding to improve you right to learn something that will make you a better person like the founding fathers you know those george washington the things that he read were the things that helped him do the things that um better what he was already doing or what he wanted to do and so those are the things that we should focus on um is improving ourselves and reading what um Those types of things are what will help us to move in that direction and be a people that are capable of freedom. Because just like if we're not moral, we're not capable of freedom. If we're not doing these things, we're not capable of freedom. This is another one of those throw a ball up in the air, it comes down type of scenarios. It's just the natural result. You won't do this.

You won't be free. So we have to... um not make those excuses for ourselves look at those that have struggled and that have been able to overcome and said that you want to do that same thing so that you can be a part of making us better and moving us in that in that right direction and so that we can you know start to water that tree of liberty looks like we've got a lot of awesome uh chats uh going on and we have um i was able to go through a lot of the slides a lot faster um tonight and so i don't know if that's a good thing but uh i'm gonna go look over the uh the chat right now and while we're doing that i've i've made it so anybody we can unmute ourselves but i would like to encourage us all to still raise our hand and wait to be called on before we make a comment but now's that was a good time if you've got a a comment that you'd like to share you'd like to um you know expound upon or ask a question about um about what we've covered so this is an open forum yet This is still questions and comments should be focused on what we've covered tonight. So if you've got a question, comment, please raise your hand and we'll get to that. And I'll go through the chat. So just looking in the chat, Mark says, how about building understanding of the Supreme law, i.e. the Constitution? Well, even above the Constitution is the law of God, natural law as well, which is the Constitution is based on, of course.

But yes, absolutely. That should obviously be a course of our study. Branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge, its representations and foundations, and its extended validity, its estymological, estymology, covering up the words. It is a value to understand the fundamentals of epistemology in order to understand well what is and what is not knowledge. Agree 100%. Virtue, righteous values, helps to determine what is valuable knowledge to seek. 100% agree. Bobby says, I keep a notebook with me wherever I go. That's awesome. I need to do better at that. Helps me remember important impressions of things I see and read. Samantha, I need to work on getting a better shorthand. Oh, yeah. That's a lost art shorthand. Brittany, there's an initiative in my district called Write to Learn, and it preaches bringing in writing into jail learning. So there is more retention in classrooms. Interesting. I'm surprised they would want that. I think it also comes down to parents with the technology issue with children. Oh, for sure. Parents allowing people to have that kind of stuff. Yeah, Brittany, go ahead.

Okay, I was just going to expound upon that for a second. So my principal is like really into this initiative. He makes all the new teachers coming into our particular school take this course with this woman who has dedicated her life to write to learn initiatives. And she basically teaches you all the stuff that you kind of put into this. tonight she touches on like a lot of the scientific studies that have happened about writing and how much it really does teach you how to learn and she because i was a math i'm a math teacher so i was like how the heck do you want me to add writing to math like other than like word problems and things of that nature i was like you really want them to explain everything that they do like do you know how annoying that is as a math person like it's annoying. I don't want to do that. I don't want to make them do that. They're going to hate me. And she's like, no, no, no. You need to like, like find other ways to bring it in. And I was like, oh gosh. Okay. So I actually just started doing this daily reflection journal with the kids and I make them write down every time I'm done with the lesson, three things they learned that are new from just the lesson, just from what they, we did in class. And it doesn't have to be complete sentences.

It could just be like notes, but I'm starting to notice that they, actually are retaining what i talk about because i'm making them write it down um so yeah i just thought i would share that it's working in my classroom so we can all do it too yeah that's what i'm amazed that they're doing that in the government school that's way cool yeah it is cool i i would say the same thing i would say i have a handful of people that try to go against the grain but then you talk to them about anything else important and they they're ignorant so yep thank you what do you mean parents are dumbing down the kids oh with too much tech is that what you meant uh britney that uh parents are dumbing down their own kids yeah basically yeah basically i jared and i were sitting here we were kind of talking we were like you know parents just use their this technology as like babysitters like Um, they, they just throw it in front of the kid and then the kids are hooked, you know, and then they don't really have that.

What is the word I'm thinking? Um, they don't have like the motivation to go and seek out knowledge in appropriate manner because all they've ever known is technology. And so they think, oh, well, I just learned everything from this. I can just watch a video and I learned, I learned it already. I don't need to read. I don't need to write about it. I don't need to know that stuff. I learned it. I know everything. Oh, so you can repeat it back to me word for word, bro. No. Well, then how do you know everything that they just said? And they don't. And so that's what I was trying to get at is that parents don't, especially in Vegas, they just don't promote learning outside of their cell phone. Yeah. Okay. Well, then it's, you know, it just feels like sometimes people talk about other areas and I'm like, wow, I wish it was like that here, but it's just not. You see people driving around in their vans and they got the TV. plugged into the backseat of, you know, so the kids are just like, you can't even get away from a television when they're driving. I know. It's ridiculous. But yes. Thank you. Discipline the plan. Yep. Read legislation.

The more you do it, the better you can get the word specifics. Words matter. Oh, my goodness. That's so true. Because you'll look at, they've got like a whole section on definitions. So you're like, oh, I thought, you know, up meant up. But, you know, when I read this legislation, up means down. Holy cow. The more you read it, the better you understand what these commies are doing. Helps me retain information. Absolutely. If the kids are remembering the wrong things better, not so bad for the conspiracy. That's true. We'll do Mark and then Samantha. Go ahead. Mark. Three things on the subject you brought up. We only have so much time to learn, so it's extremely important. important when we have a proper values righteous values godly values and uh that because otherwise uh we could be learning trivia we can learn all the types of grasses at the nursery 500 miles from ourselves you know it's really important we have standards to guide us and direct us forward to what is important to learn uh and epistemology is really a value to learn uh basic fundamentals of epistemology it covers science how do we determine facts to do the scientific methods statistical analysis and so forth it helps determine proper analysis how do you apply logic to a collection of facts uh what what is not so there's so much to epistemology i really recommend uh we study uh knowledge what is and what is not knowledge and related to one of the subjects brought up on it's so absolutely correct the less you know especially what's important the more easier your dupe particularly regarding power politics and so yes that's another one thing is you need to know the knowledge but another form of knowledge that's very important to it is secondary is understand disinformation strategies how do they fool you and uh there's oh hundreds and hundreds of techniques that are regularly used by the established by the conspiracy by the politicians by the media by the schools to pull it and it's really important we learn those absolutely one last subject on the uh listening versus reading i personally have learned what i knew this at the beginning of my college career is i have to take notes and ever and almost every lecture i go to a speech i go to i take notes i i just learn better writing the notes and then of course i have them to review and but there are some people that are different we have some people have aptitude and and sometimes they use that as an excuse so they say i'm a visual learner or I'm an auditorial learner, I'm better at listening. And I found a lot of the people that I've heard them say that, I've got enough evidence to suggest when they say they're better at listening and reading, it's really an excuse not to put in the extra effort.

But my dad, for example, according to my mom, he became a doctor, he never took any notes. He was so good at listening and memory, but memory is a factor there. So some people have better memories than me, better memories than the next guy. I have a horrible memory when it comes to, at least let's say it's much poorer than what I obtained through writing. And lastly, we need to learn. and study and now what did you talk about reflecting we need to be able to assimilate the knowledge and reflect on it and we need to understand it well enough particularly a subject that we can communicate it to others so just taking a course on liberty but we really don't understand well enough that we can teach others what is liberty is important so any good teacher knows this you could be the best teacher on our most knowledgeable person on the subject but if you can't communicate it to your students it's not of any value so you have to have to be able to know well well and how to communicate it to others thank you samantha Yeah, real quick. So you're saying, oh, I'm surprised that they would be teaching that in government schools, right? I see your notes there, yeah. Yeah, no, I think, I was thinking about that. And it actually relates to other things that surprise people.

The conspiracy doesn't want, they want high -functioning slaves. Like, they still need people in technology. They still need future lawyers. You need doctors. And you need to have a modicum of ability to be able to communicate and carry on. So they're not going to, they don't want everyone to be, you know, Barney Rubble or anything. They do want, you know, they need the next generation to perpetuate what they're doing. So, and they know that not everyone is going to excel that does these things. But there are reasons why. There's things that you go, oh, that means they want good things. No, it just means that it's like Freemasonry and all that stuff. They teach a certain level of high -functioning ability to perpetuate what they're doing. They need people like them that are younger, that grow up, to do what they do. How many intelligent people do you know that are dumb as rocks when it comes to the things of importance, right? It's because they focus their knowledge on learning things that didn't really matter. Well, before I was going to do this in the beginning, but I totally spaced it. I forgot. I wanted to show you guys something on the website that we're working on. It's not easily available yet, but in the member portal, I just wanted to kind of show you here what it looks like now. This is something you can see. And because, you know, I just don't have the skills we've got. Rod, who is sick tonight, has been working on making the site more visually appealing and easier to work on. And so we can see here each of the months are kind of separated.

But also he's working on this topic as well. So pretty quick here, we're going to have different things where you click on the Alta Club or you click on CFR in different topics. It'll like if you click on the Alta Club, this isn't available yet, but I wanted to show you. It'll have a page on the Alta Club. where all of the documents we have, what is the lowdown? Just showing you why is the Alpha Club important for us to know about? What are the documents that we have? This is their autobiography. You have their newsletter. You have their bylaws. You can read their list of members that we know that we have. We have their tax returns. You can look at that kind of stuff. And so we'll have that on all of our subjects. So it'll make the member portal. much more user-friendly and an even better tool than it already is for you to be able to do your own studying. Yes, Micah, go ahead. There we go. Sorry, my hands were wet. Working on my phone very well. I liked Samantha's comment on the intelligent slaves. I'm not sure if she said that precisely like that. Remind me of I ran across this podcast some time ago.

This guy, he was homeschooled in America, and then he went to Germany. I don't know why, but he decided to get higher education there. And it was a really big deal because in Germany, basically by the time that a kid is like 12 or 13, they're already approved or unapproved for higher education. And so he had to go through this. there's a whole rigmarole to get into the university, um, over there. And so, but like the basic concept of it really was, was that, and it's not as I haven't, I don't think that the conspiracy, the conspiracy hasn't managed to do it as hard here, but they, they do it in Germany, but it, but it's definitely the way that the schools are set up, but they're not, they're not set up so that intelligence is promoted and excellence is promoted. They're set up so that... Hey, there's no bill played on that yet. Stand by. They're set up so that the most obedient are the ones that are allowed to go forward. And that's really kind of... I mean, that's really what everything's about when you put a kid for eight hours in a seat. You know? I mean, we've all probably been there, so I don't really need to talk about any more about that. But, yeah. Thank you, Micah. Mark, go ahead. Yes, in response to what you just said, Kat, that's not just in Germany.

That's a lot of the countries. France has been practicing it for, I don't know, many, many decades, generations, where early, excuse me, in adolescence, they decide. And it's very analogous to insects like ants and bees. They determine whether you're going to be a worker bee. Am I muted? Yeah, can you hear me? Yeah, I'm trying to find the mute button. Where's the mute button, Ben? Everything's changed since you've done whatever to do. I muted you. You're good. Go ahead, Mark. We can hear you. It's very much like insects. Your life is chosen for you. And that's what you have, of course, in totalitarianism. They may decide everything. Where you work, how you work, whether you live. uh your relationships everything and so it this is all and one last point here this term technology uh not receive it's really being bannered around a lot and they it's much like uh during the uh covet 19 the brain blaming medicine blaming doctors blaming technology uh technology it's not technology uh technocracy is just tyranny uh with use of uh technology in tyranny uh in covet 19 it was use of uh medical terms and and doctors uh that weren't really uh tyrants so we really need to realize they try to distract us away from what the source of the problem is it's charity whether it's technocracy or it's uh uh biology virology Okay, thank you.

We're out of time. Let's go ahead and close up for tonight. I was going to ask Dan to say the closing prayer. I don't know if he's with you, Samantha, but if he's not, Samantha, would you say the closing prayer for us?

Dear Heavenly Father, we're grateful that we could be here for this important meeting with the Tree of Liberty Society and so grateful for Ben's preparations and thoughtfulness and what we could learn tonight and how important it is. for us to learn and to learn how to learn and to do it in a way that makes it meaningful and help us to be more proactive and useful in thy hands and more detrimental to the conspiracy. We're so grateful for our strong minds and strong hearts and for the lives that we've been given and the time that we've been given at this time to to do the works that are that need to be done and to learn our history and to do things better and to be brave and true and moral and wise we're so grateful for this company and everyone in this group and ask blessings on them and their families and ask he to bless us this week and to better implement what we learn here and to teach it to others and to teach it to our families and to uplift the culture of liberty and to do those works that are pleasing to thee we're so grateful for thy goodness to us always and mercy and we say these things in the name of jesus christ amen