Member Training – Zeal Without Knowledge

Member training from January 6th 2024.  This nights discussion is centered on the importance of combining zeal with knowledge in the pursuit of truth and action, particularly within the context of the Liberty movement. While it is crucial to be passionate and active, one must also be well-informed to avoid being misled by distractions. Additionally covering the dangers of acting without adequate knowledge, which can lead to ineffective or harmful actions. The discussion also touches on the need for foundational knowledge in various areas such as law, history, and economics to make informed decisions and promote liberty effectively. Ultimately, the message encourages individuals to seek wisdom and understanding to navigate the complexities of political issues and to remain focused on their goals without being sidetracked by superficial concerns.

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TRANSCRIPT

Dearest Heavenly Father, we, a few of thy sons and daughters, come before thee now to keep working at the charge thou hast given each of us individually. We know that thou art watching over us and guiding us. And pray that thou would help us to recognize the guidance and the promptings that thou gives us in each and every situation. Bless us that we have the courage to say and do those things that thou prompts us, even though we may not know why. Father, guide our minds that we may hear thy voice better and that we can do thy will faster. Bless Ben and his assistance. who are there to help him. Bless Ben with strength and health and energy to accomplish those things that need to be done. We pray these things now and ask that thou would touch our minds with inspiration that we may speak up and share just plain old do thy will. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Amen. Thank you, Carmen. All righty. Welcome to the very first meeting. Very first, right? This is the, yeah, very first training for 2025. Carmen, give us the minutes for the last meeting of last year. Okay. Wonderful, Carmen. Thank you. You're welcome, Ben. Okay, I'm ready. So over the weekend, I sent out an email and I think a text as well about some needs for the organization.

And I just wanted to say thank you so much. I'm humbled and I really appreciate everyone that was able to step up and we were able to get those expenses taken care of. And so just, I just wanted to thank you. I really appreciate everyone doing it and doing it so quickly. So I just wanted to say how much I appreciate it. The next thing I wanted to bring up is the book club we had last week. Really appreciate everyone that came to that. We were able to cover chapters one through three. And so, Not this coming Wednesday, but the following Wednesday, we'll be covering four, five, and six. And so I encourage you again, please come, please participate, and please invite others. It's important to help us to grow, that we have other people, that they can come to these types of public things that we do, and they can see what we're about, and they can become better informed. And which will help them also take better action.

So I just encourage you all to do that. Also, starting next week, there's going to be two, I think, yeah, I'll probably divide it into two different trainings that we're going to be coming up. I'm thinking about making it public, but I just wanted to let you know that there'll be special trainings where we have some guest people come on to talk about. Some of the different examples of individuals that are coming together to be able to be separate from the economic and political system that we find ourselves in, that we talk about being a major part of the solution is just building something new. And these are individuals that have done that. And with both of them, having these people on aren't endorsements of specifically what they're doing, but they're giving examples of people moving in that direction. And you can kind of say, I do like that, or I see what's good there and I want to apply those good things and then fix those things I don't agree with and find others that we can join together with to do those things. And those are some very important aspects of the solution. Um, next week we have the first one scheduled and I'm working on, on the other one. Hopefully it'll be two weeks in a row. Um, so just want to let you all know about that and encourage you all to, to, to come next week as well. Hopefully you'll come every week, but just want to let you give you a heads up on what's coming up next week. It's all, uh, scheduled.

So, um, anybody have any, any questions about any of that, uh, that we've come up. So brought up so far. Okay. All righty. Well, then let's go ahead and get right into training for this week. So I want to talk about zeal without knowledge. And this is something that comes up, you know, is a regular situation that we deal with, with members, but mostly people that we're trying to bring along to become active. And what we're doing is this idea, Robert Welch. He had a saying that I like a lot. He said that, and I mentioned this before in training, education without action leads to frustration. Action without education leads to fanaticism. And so it's very important. And this was something that I was, as I was starting to awaken to the awful situation of what was really going on in the very beginning of realizing what was happening. But is there anything that can be done about it? Because as you learn about, I was just becoming kind of frustrated and was trying to like, I was like, do I have to hide? What are the things that you do about this? What does this information do for me and how do I apply this information?

And so what happens is a lot of times we gain a little bit of knowledge and then we go off as if we have a lot of knowledge. and so or we you know we and so we become those you know we we have zeal without knowledge that the fanaticism based on just a little bit of information and there's that saying where i know just enough to be dangerous and that's where a lot of people involved in the freedom movement are today they know just enough to be extremely dangerous and and so i want to talk about that and what happens is They learn something and they say, and because they're hopefully they're moral people, that's, this is a moral reaction is I see evil in the world. I want to do something to stop it. And so because they, they learned something they didn't know before, they, they feel like they, they're more informed than the average person. So they don't feel like they need to learn anything more. They can, they, they have, they feel like they have enough information to act. And so that is something that we need to fight within ourselves because it leads to problems. So I want to go over some of the scripture that talks about this in Proverbs, the King James. translation is also that the soul be without knowledge. It is not good. And he that hasteth with his feet thinneth. So I wanted to look at a couple of different translations, maybe give us a bigger picture of what that means.

So we see in the new international version, that desire without knowledge is not good. How much more will hasty feet miss the way? And you have a new living. It says enthusiasm without knowledge is no good. haste makes mistakes you have the new revised standard version desire without knowledge is not good and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way so we we have these you know four different ways to say uh basically the same thing so just looking at these things i want to get what are some of your thoughts what what does this mean how do we apply that what is how do we see that any ideas any thoughts well this is mark yeah you have to have both or you're going to fail and or do damage and i want to mention you have to have education and you have to have action but they have to come together i mean they have to go together you can't have one without the other without doing damage and often aiding and embedding the enemy but i wanted to mention this is actually a strategy of the conspiracy they don't mind you learning some information for example some some of people that generally want to be on our side and freedom side, to see how bad Hillary or Biden is. They didn't realize that we had presidents that were such traitors and so harmful.

And the conspiracy just loves that, if that's all they see, but they don't see the opposition is exactly with them. It's so important that we have adequate knowledge. There's a term used for those who have the knowledge but don't take action. It's a metaphor, and that is armchair patriots. They sit and learn, but they don't go to action. They both have to exist or we're going to be not only doing no good and neutralized, but we're often going to do harm. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you. Anybody else? Any other thoughts? I was going to complain about using those good apostate Bibles. If you wanted a secular, you wanted a secular approach, I'm surprised you didn't use the Dway version. I was just looking through, there's a website that kind of has each, each different Bible translation of a verse. And so I wanted to get a wide variety because I felt that these, you know, I agree. We don't want to be. getting into kind of the new uh age movement new world religion type translations because some of these especially the new international version and new living they've got some really bad translations but i thought they all on this one particular they all kind of gave a different angle but meant the same thing so yeah i hear what you're saying though alan i have an example that happened today I was super excited to see that Justin Trudeau was resigning. But then I remembered, there'll just be another tyrant.

The one, the devil we don't know might take his shoes. And so, yeah, there's no resting on our haunches. But I was zealous for the thought that it would be somebody great. Well, if I had exactly the same kinds of thought. This is why we have to know the conspiracy and know its power to know the old phrase. Difference in degree is a difference in kind. Literally, that's not true. But practically, it is true. If you don't know the degree of the control and power of the conspiracy, it doesn't help a lot just to know there's a conspiracy out there. So the conspiracy controls Canada just like it does the United States. And so one guy down, the next guy up. So we have to be fighting like Ben. keep pointing out the conspiracy. Thank you. Anybody else want to chime in? One more time. I think you're missing the whole boat. Trudeau resigned so they can be absorbed into the United States. More wacko liberals. That's the long-term goal that they've talked about for sure. From a conspiracy perspective, they've already been absorbed. They control both. We really need to look at it from that perspective constantly.

Yep. So getting back to this, it's just really important that we temper ourselves. There have been so many times where I learned something and it was like this half the picture. And I go off and I say something half cocked and I'm like, oh, whoops, I, that was, you know, there was another half of the sentence was left off and, and I, you know, misquoted the whole, you know, intent of what was said. And so if I'd just been, you know, okay, hold on. Let me look at what's going on here. Is there, you know, any more data I can, I can gather to make sure I, I don't accuse somebody of something or I don't go off and. And do something that will, you know, is actually going to be detrimental to what I would like or ruin my own credibility because I spoke too soon. And so it's really important for us to really, you know, it is Satan that rushes us, gives us that, you know, that feeling of, you know, I can't, we can't wait another minute. It is that. the Lord gives us that, that calm, that peace that says, yes, you need to act, but let's make sure we have all of the data to make sure that we make the right choice. There's been a topic that I've been studying for several months now that I'm like, you know, I think I'm on the right page, but I'm just like, I need more. I want to gather just a little more data before I, you know, make sure I really feel confident in, in, in the conclusions that I'm coming to. And so it's, It bears out from experience the importance that we see in the scriptures of making sure that our feet are not hastening before the knowledge matches our actions.

And I'd like to give some guidance on this. This is really what you're addressing here. First of all, that's what in logic we say, jumping to a conclusion. I see people doing this all the time without adequate evidence to back up their assertions. Now, here's what I advise. This is what I use. There's two standards out there that are my standard before I can. arrive at something as a fact or including an analysis that's factual one is the scientific standard in a scientific method the highest standard is 97 percent certainty. So you want to be at least 97 percent certainty before you search something. The other standard is the legal standard. What is it for a criminal trial? It's beyond a reasonable doubt. And both of those standards are very close to each other. So I recommend when you arrive at what you think is a collusion, Compare it to that standard. Am I 97% sure? Does the evidence support that? Is it beyond a reasonable doubt that what I'm saying is correct? Any thoughts on what I just said? Yeah, that's a good thing to do before we act on something to make sure that we've done that.

And not just to like, what belief do you have? What conclusion are you coming? to but make sure we have that before we act on something because too often right it's those things that we're going to talk about is those false solutions that are presented out there to us because that's what we hear right this individual on talk radio told us about this problem and they said the solution was this therefore i'm going to do what the they said the solution was to the problem that that they told me was the problem well did i find out that the problem was a real problem did i find out if the solution that they gave would actually fix the problem or would it make it worse or would it give credibility to the person causing the problem? And so, you know, yeah. So I, it's all of those things are really, really important. The point you're making is that to determine whether it's fact or not, you have to have a lot of knowledge, education, history. America is so ignorant of their political history.

And so that makes a huge difference in being able to arrive at conclusions. And it's a fine line between that and... learning and never coming to a knowledge we don't want to be paralyzed into inaction because we're afraid of doing the wrong thing but we just want to make sure we're being prudent and wise and so as we continue on um right acting too soon can be worse than never acting and that's what what happens especially in the liberty movement is there's always something new and shiny to take us off the the ball right they're talking about you know keeping your eye on the ball And we've talked about what are the solutions that will actually fix the problem. And so when we start to realize that and that starts to solidify, okay, we want to focus over here. The conspiracy is going to pop up with another shiny object for us to say, oh my goodness, this is so important. I need to focus on this. And it's designed that way. And when we're like, okay, hold on.

Does this take us off the real path to the solution or is this designed to get us distracted? And so we need to make sure that if we act too soon, it is generally because something shiny has been dangled in front of us to distract us. And so zeal without knowledge leads to chasing the next shiny object instead of focusing on the task at hand. Just that low attention span where we're just like squirrel. And so, you know, we see those things, taxes, schools, you know, what's going on in the government schools, regulations on our businesses, inflation, making it harder to go shopping, the sodomite supremacy movement, abortion elections. So, yeah, those are all important things on their own. And those are all things that are affecting us and causing us problems. Or is this going to be just a game of whack-a-mole where we're going to say, oh, no, a new tax. We're going to go fight Congress and tell them not to lower our taxes. Oh, thank goodness. They only hired them 2% instead of 5%. We had a victory. That's a distraction. What is very difficult for us to realize that because we're like, oh, are you saying we shouldn't fight high taxes or we shouldn't fight abortion? Well, it's the arsonist. And these are those things where... If we understand there's an arsonist and we focus on the arsonist, AKA the conspiracy, and we stop the arsonist, those other things go away, but they're designed to get us to go.

We got to go fight taxes. We got to go fight abortion. We got to go fight the sodomites in the schools. We got to go make sure that Obama is not elected because if we do that, we're not fighting the conspiracy. And we're not doing the things that are necessary for us to keep the ball on of what is causing those problems. And then what is the real solution to those problems? And so we have to have a less shallow understanding of things where we say, yes, that is a problem. That is a bad thing. But what is the real solution? It is not what everybody we hear on talk radio or the news tell us is where we should be focused. Any thoughts, questions, comments? For me, the operational term used was shadow. All these are based on these issues here. There's fundamental principles or knowledge underlying every one of them. And we learn those fundamental principles or ideology. we need to learn the law when it comes to all all these the law applies to it the constitution onward we need to learn moral moral principles they apply godly law we need to learn history american history political history we need to learn politics we need to learn political systems which one's just which is one's godly and which one's art and we need to learn economics those are foundational knowledge to all all of these and you can fit each each one of these one or more of those categories thank you so this is an example that's always brought before us right is who which one of these two people are you know are the lesser of two evils when we focus on the on the politics because they always want us to especially every two and four years They want us to focus on the election. And this is the most important election of our lifetime.

And some people that have been with us for a long time remember this example. And this is always, of course, the way that it's presented. You have the one person that is a God-fearing man, and you have another one who is a lying philanderer that's trying to ruin America. And these are our two options. And yeah, he's the God-fearing man. He's not perfect, but he's 80% on our side. And a person that's 80%, my friend, is not my enemy. And that's how it's sold to us. And so there's a presentation by Stephen Pratt that I really like. And I've kind of boiled it down to some key points. And so I want to show you that boiled down part of his presentation that covers this important principle for us and how it's designed. to get us focused on, you know, on the next shiny object. Every two year, shiny object. Every four year, shiny object. Pictures. Whoops, let me go back. Pictures. That's the unabridged version. In this book, it's the history of the world. Now, if you're going to do the history of the world, it's going to take more than 1,000. Oh, that's weird. Okay. Why is it not playing audio? Okay. It's a bummer. Oh, that's why. I don't know if you guys were hearing that, but I wasn't. Okay. I'm going to go back to sharing. Pictures. Pictures. That's the unabridged version. In this book, it's the history of the world. Now, if you're going to do the history of the world, it's going to take more than 1,300 pages to do a complete history.

But he does a pretty credible stab at it. And he stabbed literally. He stabbed certain people and individuals as he goes along. What he wants to look at is page 1247. He's explaining what the ideal situation is. The ideal situation would be the Democratic and Republican parties should be almost identical. that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. So we threw out the Democrats, we put in Dwight Eisenhower. Then we threw out Dwight Eisenhower, we put in the Democrats. Then we threw out the Democrats and put in the Republicans. And then we went back and forth, back and forth. And since the days of Franklin Roosevelt, we have had no... person in the presidency that would follow the Constitution? None. Oh, we say he was a great conservative. Ronald Reagan was a great conservative. Nonsense. He spent more money in his day than any president prior to him. Is spending money a conservative? Is that a measure of conservativeness? And he never followed the Constitution any better than the other people back then. So don't give me Ronald Reagan for an example unless you can produce evidence to show that he followed the Constitution. This objective, stated so clearly on page 1,247 is now in place. We have to finally just say, I'm not going to vote for the lesser of two evils ever again. I did that about three years ago. That's when I finally came to this conclusion. Now, I scratched that evil because one of my friends was offended when I talked about President George Bush and used this phrase. I said, you know, we have to vote between the lesser of two evils. And he says, That offends me. He said, my president's not evil.

But six months later, he said it was okay to use evil. If you went to the polls, say tomorrow, and you were going to vote for president of the United States. Now, I chose these two people because we have a little track record on them. We don't know all of their life. I wish we did, but we know enough that we can make some judgment decisions here. If we went to the polls tomorrow to vote for President of the United States, and these were the two candidates, and if we were committed to voting for the lesser of two evils, I'm not anymore. But if we were, have you ever heard people say that? Oh, they say, if I don't vote for George Bush, William Clinton might get in. But if I don't vote for Hillary, somebody else is going to get in. You know, they've got this, this is the argument. They're going to vote for a person not because they're qualified, not because they're statesmen, But because they're afraid that if they don't cast their vote for this certain individual who is evil, that a greater evil will take over. So we're going to have a little test now. Let's put the test questions on the screen. Now I wrote 12.

This was for my own interest about a year ago, a year and a half ago. I wrote 12 test questions. I thought, well, if I'm going to try and understand how to get away from voting for the lesser of two evils, I need a test. I need to see something tangible. So I started scratching them down with my ballpoint pen. Which man, now don't answer them out loud, and you may have a different feeling. All I have is the newspaper and the television and the magazines. I don't have any hidden secret way of learning their background. But you have the same opportunity to see their record from the newspapers and television and so on. Which man encouraged the lesser number of illegal aliens to enter the United States? Now somehow with your fingers on your knee or something some way try to keep track now which way you're voting here.

So did you give a score for the left man or the right man? And then we got 12 questions. Which man encouraged the lesser number of illegal aliens to enter the United States? Which man spent the lesser amount of taxpayer dollars unconstitutionally? Which man increased the national debt the lesser amount? Which man advanced the lesser amount of bloated bureaucracy during his administration? Which man sent the lesser amount of American soldiers to serve as world policemen without a congressional declaration of war? Which man told the lesser number of lies to the American people? Which man gave the lesser support to the United Nations and the New World Order? Which man did the lesser damage to the right to bear arms? Which man gave the lesser amount of American military technology to foreign enemies? Which man did the lesser meddling in our socialized government school system? Which man appointed the lesser number of establishment insiders to high positions in our government? Which man encouraged the lesser number of murders of millions of unborn children? Now we could write more questions. That ought to give us a start, though, at choosing the lesser of the two evils if we're going to vote that way. Now, I made my scores as I studied. I didn't write these questions to try and lopsided one man or the other. I just started thinking, what do I want to know about a candidate? Where is he sending the military? And I started writing the questions, not based on trying to make it lopsided one way or the other.

And here's how I scored them. There was one that I just didn't know the answer. I didn't know who told the most lies. I gave three scores to George W. Bush to this adulterous wretch, lying adulterous wretch, and other sins I don't know about. So, of course, that is not to say that you should vote for Bill Clinton because he's the so-called lesser of two evils. It's the fact that they are both a part of the same satanic conspiracy. They are not the less, neither one of them is the lesser of two evils. They are both moving us towards the agenda of the globalist conspiracy. And so we have to stop seeing it as the lesser of two evils because the conspiracy media is designed to make us think that there is a difference, that there is one of them that will do less damage than the other. But as you look at the record, the one that we think is doing the less damage, is wrong. And so we're acting based on information, based off of propaganda, as Samantha went through in her nine classes. And so because of our zeal without knowledge to make sure that the more evil person doesn't win, we actually end up supporting evil.

And so it's vital that we understand how the conspiracy is operating so that we stop falling for that because we're going to be listening to the, you know, to the radio in the car or we listen to the the news on the television or we read something an article on a website or we watch a video on youtube and it's designed to get us to fall for the lesser of two evils because it's designed to get us to support the conspiracy's agenda when there is a third option not a third candidate meaning there's a third option of not supporting that system because it's designed to to get us in this way and so Another thing that we come across is when we learn something, we're like, we got to go out and do something. How can we just not do something? And you're just sitting there and you just want to just be on your ivory tower just learning something. And so there's this clip I put together from the movie Karate Kid that I really think as we watch it all and watch it all lay out, helps us to see where we're at and the the principles that i'm trying to lay out in trainings and hopefully to to really help it sink in and and drive the point home walk on the road walk right side safe walk left side safe walk middle sooner or later get the squish just like grape here karate same thing either you karate do yes Or karate do, no.

You karate do, guess so. Just like grip. Understand? Yeah, I understand. Now ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Yes. Let's make sacred part. I promise teach karate that to my part. You promise learn. I say you do. No question. That to your part. Deal. Steel. First wash all the car. Then wax. What do I have to do? Remember, dear. No question. Yeah, but I... Wax on. Right hand. Wax off. Left hand. Wax on. Wax off. Breathe. In through nose. Out the mouth. Wax on. Wax off. Don't forget to breathe. Very important. On, right hand, make a circle. Wax off that hand. Circle. Wax on. Wax off. Breathe in. Breathe out. Wax on. Wax off. Yeah, I guess that means I can accomplish anything, huh, Mr. Miyagi? No sweat. But first, you accomplish pain defense. All in the wrist. List up. wrist, all in the wrist, up, and long stroke, very good, up, down, look me, look fancy, up, bend the wrist, down stroke, you bend of me, good, long stroke, up, down, very good, knee, bend the knee, come down, high, up, very good, no forget to breathe, in, up, up, down, up. Very good, Daniel-san. Up, up. Small board, left hand. Big board, right hand. But I'm off your stern. Smaller board. Look at this, this is paradise. Can you do this yourself? These bongos? I got it, I got it. Daniel-san, you match human. What are these? Japanese sandals. What do you do with them? Funny, you should ask. Right circle. Left. It's going to be easier going back and forth. The circle. The circle. The circle. Breathe in. Breathe out. Right circle. Left circle. Right circle. Now. Hold the floor. Right circle. Left circle. Right circle. Left circle. Spot. What spot? Hey, hey. You're not here when I go. Well, maybe I wouldn't want her to go. You ever think of that? You're karate training. I'm what? I'm being you goddamn slave is what I'm being, man. Now, we made a deal here. So? So? So you're supposed to teach and I'm supposed to learn, remember?

For four days, I've been busting my ass. You learned plenty. I learned plenty. I learned how to sand your decks, maybe. I wax your car, paint your house, paint your fence. I learned plenty. Not everything is as same. Oh, but I'm going home, man. Sand your son. Daniel-san. What? Come here. Show me sand floor. How did you do that? Sure. Sand floor. Stand up. Show me sand floor. Sand floor. Sand floor. Big sucker. Sand floor. Sand floor. Now show me wax on, wax off. Hey. Wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax off. Wax on, wax on. Hey. Wax on, hat. Wax off. Concentrate. Look my eye. Rock hand. Thumb inside. Wax on. Hat. Wax off. Wax on. Hat. Wax off. Hat. Wax on. Wax off. Show me. Paint the fence. Up. Down. Up. Okay, so there was a reason behind the way I presented that probably a lot of you have either a seen the movie or after a couple of moments of each clip, you're like, okay, I get the point. And that's kind of what, what happened with, with the character in the movie. He was like, he felt like he got the point and he was just, he wanted to learn. He just wanted to go fight. And that's the same thing that happens to too many of us. As we wake up, we just want to go and, and do something without that basic knowledge.

And we need to build muscle memory. And that's what we're doing is we're trying to build. muscle memory with these principles and so that way we we understand that we we can't just go out and do something because we don't have the ability to do it correctly and and until there's you know we get to a certain point and as we understand these things and we get that muscle memory in us and and then we can be more effective in what we're doing because a we understand the principle and b we're not going to get distracted by that that shiny object because oh, we realize that shiny object is a distraction. It is actually an attack on us that we have to have our muscle memory to shoo it out of the way and so that it doesn't affect us and get us to do the thing that the conspiracy wants us to do. Any thoughts, comments? Yeah, I had a thought. Yeah. This is Samantha. So yeah, it's the muscle memory. So it's having the principles so strongly ingrained in you. that it's more important than anything. And so it could be shiny objects that might distract you, but it also could be trusting people or some concept that's new to you that you haven't analyzed yet and falling for that. I think putting your trust and being swayed towards things that are unprincipled, you're much less likely to do that when you have this foundation that is solid. and grounded in truth and, and morality and eternal principles. So there's a lot of danger too, that can happen when you're not, when you don't have that muscle memory in, in a solid foundation in, in true principles. Yeah. Thank you.

Anybody else? Yeah, this is Mark. Just response to what you said, Samantha. The word I like to use is loyalty. Loyalty to the standard or loyalty to the principle. If you're loyal enough, you're not going to, but you have to, of course, understand the principle well. But, you know, Pratt talked about, citing from Tragedy and Hope, the illusion that there's a difference between the candidates of the two different parties. And what... the conspiracy uses a major tactic to bring that illusion about. And avoid us from seeing that there's no significant difference between the two is the idea that they'll say they'll expose part of the truth or that's often watered down or a horrible one candidate is, you know, for conservatives, you know, the Democrat, the liberal, the Biden, the Hillary. But what they don't tell you is that the other candidate is doing the same thing over them. thousands and thousands of many thousands of times in my life i've heard them conservative talk radio or conservative Fox or in meetings, they'll criticize the Democrat. Often what they're saying is at least partially true or entirely true.

But they don't tell you the other guy was doing the same thing. For one example, Trump, we've gone on and on about the inflation that Biden gave us, where the amount of inflation created under Biden, Trump was twice the amount under Biden. They don't tell you that. They don't tell you that Trump and Biden's open border policies were almost identical. Trump practiced catch and release the large majority of his tenure in office. So this is what often happens. I hear myself saying over and over again, when I hear the Democrat criticize, I said, the other guy was doing the same thing, but they don't tell you that. well sometimes they will when it's like you get when their side gets caught they'll be like a little kid they'll be like well he started it like he does it too and and you're a hypocrite because you didn't call him out on it you did and it is designed to get this back and forth and and the major point isn't really just about the left versus the right it's about all of the unprincipled things that the conspiracy tries to get us to do because we don't have the muscle memory. We want to go out and when we see a problem and the conspiracy tells us what the solution is, we want to go do that solution because we don't have the muscle memory on the correct principle.

And so it's essential for us. to have the patience to not just say, oh, I've got to go do this. I'm sick and tired of learning. I don't want to go learn anymore. It's just boring. I get the point. Let's just go do it now. And it gets us to do the wrong thing because we don't have the muscle memory. And intellectual discipline. That's what your example there, Karate. Intellectual discipline. Don't jump to the conclusion. You need more knowledge. And that requires maturity, intellectual maturity. I'm one of those guys that, after one of my heroes on talk radio, I like to fight liberals without my brain typing on my back. It's a situation to where I know Trump wasn't perfect, but getting my information at the time from talk radio, I didn't get the feeling that it was immigrants coming over as fast as they did in Biden's time. And I was working at a dairy where 99% of the people were. from south of the border. But I didn't see such an influx as there was before I got laid off. Well, and that's in different parts of the immigration part changes depending on the president because... you saw with with trump and what will be again with trump is that they will have an influx of your tech jobs from foreign countries and so they'll they'll do the ebb and flow and so that way you can focus on one thing as opposed to recognizing how the conspiracy is behind the both sides and both and i want to back up what you just said. Most people don't know this.

Last 50 years, most illegal immigrants that came to America came via visas, not crossing the border. Not amnesty, nothing, no other reason. And I don't know, I haven't looked at the last 10 years very closely, but I know most years since the 1970s, it's visas. What happens, they give, there's all sorts of visas, different types of visas, not H-1B, several others. And what happens is that once they get over and their visa expires, they stay and they get lost among the population. And under Trump, he increased visas four different times. different pieces and uh that you don't hear any of that in the media do you right so we we go on we look at the different parts of what happened again we look at ancient israel and moses goes up the mountain and and um and israel is just thinking you know he's been up there so long and we we have to do something and so what did they do in addition to you know engage in horrific immorality They build a different God to worship because they weren't willing to wait for Moses to come down and give them instructions from God. And then we have another example of Saul and Samuel.

And we go to the book of Samuel. Samuel tells Saul, And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal. And behold, I will come down unto thee to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. Seven days shalt thou tarry till I come to thee and show thee what thou shalt do. So he gave him specific instructions, you know, what to do. But also before you do those things, you have to do what? Right? You have to wait until I come. And he tarried seven days according to the set time that Samuel had appointed. But Samuel came not to Gilgal and the people were scattered from him. So he didn't wait. And then Saul said, bring hither a burnt offering to me and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering. So he felt that, oh, I know what he wants me to do. And so I'm going to go do it even though he hasn't come back yet. But that's what he told me to do was to wait for him to come back. But I know what he wants me to do. I get the point. So I'm just going to go do it because I get the point. I don't need to wait for him to do the thing that I already know what needs to be done. Therefore said I, the Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the Lord. I forced myself, therefore, and offered a burnt offering. And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly. Thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. For now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever. But now thy kingdom shall not continue. The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be a captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee. And so, you know, you have Saul feeling like, hey, we've got these other things happening, and we've got to make sure that the people don't disperse, and it's going to cause problems if I don't just do this right now. And Samuel's like, you know, Now, because you didn't follow these instructions, you weren't patient.

You just went off and did something because you felt you got the point that now the Lord cannot trust you. And because he can't trust you, your reign here is done and another kingdom is going to have to be set up. Can you imagine the anguish that Saul must have felt at this, that if he had just been more patient and trusted in the Lord to follow the instructions? and not felt that he got the point and went off and did something, what could have happened if he had gone with that? And we look at Alma, a righteous example of zeal with knowledge. And Alma did preach unto the people of King Lamoni, and it came to pass that he did teach them all things concerning things pertaining to righteousness. And he did exhort them daily with all diligence, and they gave heed unto his word, and they were zealous for keeping the commandments of God. So they received instruction, and they were diligent in learning, right? They exhorted them daily and with diligence, and they gave heed. Once they received instruction, they gave heed to that instruction, and they were zealous in that because they received the instruction and obeyed that which they had received. That is zealousness with knowledge, which is a righteous zeal. We need to remember that we will be tempted with these shiny objects, but it's vital that we keep on the task at hand, that we get the muscle memory, that we get the principles.

And so that we do not get distracted. We think we get the point. We think we can move forward. And we do the wrong thing like we saw with Saul. And intelligence is a vital part. Intelligence isn't just knowledge. It is you have wisdom with that knowledge. that staying on the ball staying on track is building your understanding help build others understanding expose evil disobey evil destroy evil and build a people that are independent of the evil that exists around us if we can focus our muscle memory on this it will be The more that we practice that muscle, we build that muscle, the harder it will be for us to be distracted, the harder it will be for Satan to trick us into thinking that we got the point and that we can act before it is time to act. And so I hope that we will instill in ourselves a patience, a wisdom, and a desire. To keep our eye on the ball and so that we are not distracted and that we don't lose that patience. So with that, let's go ahead and finish up our training night where, again, I apologize a little bit over tonight, but we can talk more about this in the open forum. Let's go ahead and have a closing prayer.

And Dan, would you be able to say that for us? You can unmute. Or Samantha? I can do it. Thank you. Dear Father in Heaven, we are grateful for this evening that we've been able to spend together and hear Ben's presentation and to consider how important it is to have knowledge and action and to do them in a way that is pleasing to be and in a way that is correct and principled and moral. We're so grateful for... the truth that we're able to gain each day as we draw near to thee and through thy spirit, please help us to continue to do that, to be wise for our families' sakes and for our communities and for the kingdom of God. Help us to promote liberty and be fearless and brave and willing to stand for truth wherever we are as needed and to be willing. to live for liberty and give our lives for liberty. We're so grateful for all those that are willing to understand and promote these principles. Please help us to articulate them and change the culture around us and to better be fit for thy kingdom. We're so grateful for everyone in this company has blessings on them and their families and help us throughout this week. Consider what we've learned and implement what we've learned. And we say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Samantha.