Hey everybody, this is episode number six of Patterson in Pursuit. I am your host, Steve Patterson. This episode is going to be a little bit different than the other one so far. Occasionally I'm going to be doing like a breakdown episode where I have a nervous breakdown and start crying and then I'll record it so everybody can listen. No, it's going to be breaking down the interviews that I've done so far, some of the highlights, some of the controversies, some ideas that I want to expand upon. And I also want this to be a little bit less formal too. So the first three interviews that I'm going to be breaking down are interviews with Dr. Emerson Westicott, Dr. Brian Kaplan, and Dr. John Sturr. Covered a lot of info here so I'm going to go through it pretty quick. I'll make sure to play some soundbites too for the relevant parts. The first highlight in the interview with Dr. Westicott was a way that he phrased questions in epistemology. I thought he really made an excellent point here. We're talking about the concept of objective truth and he's saying, yes, I'm very comfortable with saying there's objective truth just colloquially. But when we start being more precise, talking about a more deep philosophical level, then things are a little bit less clear. Statements are true when they correspond to reality, when they describe it accurately. But that's fine at the level of every discourse. It's not so good at a deeper philosophical level because then the philosopher asks, OK, how do we decide whether a statement corresponds to reality accurately describes it? And then you immediately have to say, well, we have certain criteria. We use epistemic norms, such as coherence with our other beliefs, the evidence of our senses, the belief that we are not dreaming, the belief that our senses are working. And even to some extent, things like simplicity, all things being equal, simple theories are supposed to be better. That's our comms razor. Or even aesthetic criteria, even Einstein argued that sometimes the beauty of a theory might be an argument in its favor. And so we then say, OK, we work with these criteria. How do we know that the criteria we're working with are the best ones? I think that was very well phrased. And then for the next 10 minutes or so, we keep talking about this idea and he keeps coming back to this idea of kind of the social construction of epistemic norms, that you have different group of people have different epistemic norms. And I kept trying to say, well, does that matter? Can we have a set of epistemic norms that is just simply objectively superior to another set of epistemic norms, even if those other people aren't persuaded by your epistemic norms? Can you still say, well, it doesn't matter, you're wrong and I'm right. But then what's left of your original question there? When you said, OK, do I believe in objective truth, right? And in a kind of mundane sense, yes. But then in that deeper philosophical sense, I'm saying I OK, I believe that there are criteria which will lead me to beliefs which are very useful for coping with the world. There are people who don't share those criteria, they're just benighted fools. But according to traditional philosophy, shouldn't I doesn't it say something if I can't actually prove my point to them? If all I can say is they're fools. I also thought this was interesting because it kind of reflects on our also our different political beliefs, which we didn't get into in the interview. But Dr. Westacott is or at least definitely was a socialist and I am a libertarian. And we have kind of different perspectives on community.  Well, great. Where does that get me? And for me, I'm very comfortable with that conclusion. I think, in fact, that conclusion comes up all over the place. It's very reasonable to conclude 90% of the time that people have objectively poor justification for their beliefs, so be it. And they're not going to be persuaded by superior arguments. And that's just the way it is. So my goal and my motivation is to discover truth, whatever the truth is. And if that means accurately identifying a group of people as having a crappy justification for their beliefs, then then so be it. OK, so the other thing I want to talk about in this interview is this idea of foundation versus framework. So Dr. Westacott and I eventually agreed that, yes, you can have some absolutely certain knowledge about a very limited number of things in the universe. And in my own work, I use this term foundational all the time. I say this is foundational knowledge and he was very hesitant about this. As I said before, I'm not I'm not comfortable with the word foundational because that implies that then that's a kind of Cartesianism.  You're going to rest it on that foundation. And I don't necessarily see that. I don't, you know, with the hope that some of the certainty is going to see through. Now, for me and in my own analysis, not only am I comfortable with this idea of a foundation, I think it's desirable. I think it makes sense to try to actively build your worldview based on bedrock foundations. In fact, this is really a central idea in my upcoming book, Square One, The Foundations of Knowledge, where I'm saying there is really an idea out there, we'll call it logic, that you can base everything else on with kind of a vertical hierarchy that ultimately there is something at the bottom. It's not the spider web. It's not a framework. It is absolute bedrock from which everything follows. However, I do agree that this is not perfectly satisfactory when you're talking about less certain things. So like the existence of the external world, the validity of our sense perception, all kinds of empirical scientific truths. With those truths, you do have to have kind of the spider web mentality. You have, OK, given reasonable assumptions about the existence of the external world and about physics, then we derive all these other things that come back to kind of the center of the web. But we always have to be open to revision. It just might be the case that the physical world doesn't exist. Is it a logical possibility? Yes, is it something that I'm I'm OK with taking a leap of faith and saying, for these various reasons, I have a positive belief in the existence of the external world? Yes. But for me, I don't shy away from the idea of axiomatic deductive reasoning. You find axioms that you know to be true and you use logical deduction to understand what certainly follows from those true premises. And the last thing that I thought was really interesting, really struck me as interesting just because of our past conversations on these topics, where Dr. Westcott and I again both agreed that there is such a thing as the objectivity of subjectivity, which is the way that I phrase it, that in other words, the mind does have access to some kind of a God's eye perspective. So we can say, for example, I am experiencing the flavor of vanilla ice cream in my mouth right now. And this is something that is obviously subjective, but you can phrase it objectively. You could say, so there is at least one sense perception of vanilla ice cream taking place in the universe. This is something that is objective. So for all of our subjective experience or all the subjective phenomena that we experience, it comes packaged with this access to the realization that such phenomena are happening in the universe, objectively speaking. Yeah, I mean, I'll sort of accept that that and again, it's a kind of Cartesian point in a way that I accept the indubitability of subjective experience and therefore in a sense that from the standpoint of the universe, from the God's eye point of view, something's going on. There is something rather than nothing. That's very exciting. It's a start. So then later on in our conversation, we start talking about the philosophy of mind. Dr. Westcott is also in agreement that regardless of how complete your physical description of some system is, there can be information loss, which is the way that I like to put it.  Right. When you see the movement of billiard balls on a table describing the position, the location, the momentum of each individual ball and the bits that constitute the balls, you have a full description of the phenomenon that's taking place.  And yet you still lack some information.  He also came back to this concept of emergence several times. And it's not something that I'll go into here. I certainly will in more detail in the future, but the the traditional conception of emergence in the philosophy of mind, I find bollocks and I'll explain it in more detail later, but I actually view it as kind of mysticism that you arrange these atoms in a particular way when then you summon this categorically different thing into existence that is subjective experience in a mind. And then when you rearrange the puzzle pieces, it disappears. I'm not persuaded by that. But it's it's not something I'm going to cover right now. Okay, so let's move on to the interview I have with Dr. Kaplan. There are so many good things that you can take away here. One that I can only speak from personal experience is when you start getting rid of the romance that is surrounding politics and the nationalism that surrounds our education and our being as citizens in the United States or wherever country you're from, the political system looks sillier and sillier and you have more and more kind of farcical situations coming up. So for example, why should we expect that a demonstrably uneducated electorate should make correct economic policy decisions? Why? When your average person on the street doesn't understand anything about basic economics, would we think that they're going to understand the complexities of tariffs and subsidies and the effects thereof on on the local and the global economy? Why should we expect people that have very, very limited amounts of knowledge in public issues?  I mean, it strikes me as kind of absurd. In terms of the least radical thing you do, I'm a big fan of just stopping and encouraging a voting to stop all the social pressure to vote. There is good evidence that people who that's out there in general, you know, more educated and better informed people will like that it votes and the effect of get out the vote campaigns is to reduce the average quality that people are voting. So I'd say really be better to send the message of if you haven't carefully studied all the following areas, please, as a civic service, do not vote. So that that will get you thrown out of polite company to say such a thing isn't kind of what you're saying. To the extent that we have a a democracy, it would be better for less educated people to be ruled by their more educated neighbors. Yes, so the simple thing is just to refrain voluntarily in the same way that if there's a an operating room, we don't say, you know, it doesn't matter where you make the incision, just make an incision somewhere. Instead, we say, look, only someone who knows what he's doing really should be involved here. Other people as other people would be irresponsible for other people to participate when they don't know what they're doing. With political theory in particular, I think there really is a gigantic bastion of mystical thinking that people have so much emotion and drama tied up in this concept of civic duty to vote. Oh, you must vote. Oh, you have to vote. It's like practically speaking, that just doesn't make a whole lot of sense that we should structure our society around a majority of people raising their hand or not raising their hand on any particular issue. The other thing that I really took away from this interview was when Dr. Kaplan was talking about the current production of legal services in the market. We already have private courts. We already have private police. We already have this system of private arbitration. And so it's not too hard to come up with theories, imagining that we just move the needle that direction. There are already, these are already areas where the private sector does a lot. So for police, there are more security guards than police in this country. Again, for courts, private arbitration is a huge deal. If you have a problem in your credit card statements or with a company, you don't go and take them to court, you don't call up your credit card company and they have a system where they resolve it all on their own. And then similarly, so laws as well, there are all sorts of private organizations that have their own rules. The way that we're including, say if you want to, if you want to be able to use credit cards with the Visa Corporation, you have to agree to a bunch of the rules in order to participate. Right.  These are actually, you know, these are large areas where the private sector is already doing a lot of this. And when I'm talking with people about political theory, about anarchism, I get caught up in theoretical arguments. That's what I personally find persuasive and really important. But it's so much simpler to avoid a lot of the theory and just say, look, I'm not going to tell you all the theoretical arguments of how private police might work. Demonstratively speaking, this is how they work. So let's put aside these silly objections that, oh, you know, private courts could never work. Yes, they could certainly work and they already do. And the last thing I talked with Dr. Kaplan about is something that I could spend an eternity talking about, which is the educational system. As you guys know, I am extremely critical of specifically higher education and I appreciated really what Dr. Kaplan said at the end of the interview when I asked him about whether or not you need formal education to grapple with the biggest ideas. Do you think that there's a way just purely intellectually to learn about and fully grasp the ideas as an autodidact or is there some there is there is there a necessary need for formal education in order to grapple with the deepest concepts? Yes, so definitely no need for formal education. There I think there is generally a need to talk to other people who know what they're talking about. So like, you know, I think there is a danger in reading all by yourself in total isolation and not communicating with other people. But this can be remedied just by reaching out to people and again, the internet is great for this. But yes, to whether you need formal education to do this, no, totally you don't. So I mean, not like there are plenty of people who become experts in subjects where they've never taken classes in it. My former colleague or my, you know, say he's passed away, Gordon Tullick. He was one of the most famous economists of the 20th century. He I think he never actually even took a class in economics. Wow. But he read a lot and he talked to a lot of people who who who were already experts. And so he became an expert in self that way. You know, I would say is if I only knew what I've learned in classrooms, I would just know nothing practically. It would just be like like the level that my ignorance would just be so appalling. Maybe I could still be a professor despite that, because I could have learned just enough to go and extend in academic literature and get some publications. But in terms of knowing anything about the world, like what you're to what what you're taught in classrooms is such thin gruel that you just you just really know next to nothing. And all I can do is just echo that that no, you certainly certainly do not need the magic of the classroom. You don't need the the atmosphere of being on campus or access to a local library. You know, minutes down the road just walking to on campus. You don't need any of those things in the 21st century. If you want to grapple with the biggest ideas, then we have the tools available to understand outside of academia. And I very strongly suggest people do so. So OK, so the last interview that I want to break down is the interview I have with Dr. John Stewart, who's the American pragmatist at Emory University in Atlanta. So in this interview for the first half hour, I thought I was following along pretty well. And then things got a bit confusing for me. It seemed like from my perspective, the pragmatist position was stated fairly clearly. And then it seemed like some of the claims were contradictory. And then they would go back to to what I thought was a version of the inclaimed. And then they would seem to be apparently contradictory. Of course, this may be my own lack of understanding and grasping the subtleties of what's being communicated. But I've rearranged some of the parts of this interviews that you'll hear what I think are the core claims of pragmatism. And then you'll hear some of the questions that I ask him that seem to contradict what he was saying earlier. But if when you listen to this, if you get what he's saying and it makes sense to you and there's a piece of the puzzle that you think I'm missing, please make sure to leave a comment, shoot me an email and we'll talk about it. Because I think this topic is really essential to understand for everybody involved. So this first clip is just a short summarization of what appears to be the central claim in pragmatism. One of the things that William James points out in principles of psychology is that there is no object. There is nothing except as it presents itself to someone. Right. And so there is no independent reality. But at the same time, there is no internal mental state. There is no state of consciousness except as of something else. OK. And so there's no way to disassociate the in and the out, the self and the object. These things are integrally, irreducibly, reciprocally linked. OK. So that response made the question crop up in my head, OK, why is it that there appears to be this thing that we consider the external world separate of our experience of it? And I think his response also is very consistent with what he initially laid out. So intuitively, I would think if so, we disagree about some some something in the world. Sure.  Does doesn't that imply then that there is such a thing as an external reality that we are evaluating and saying there is something that has these particular properties that if you evaluate it differently than mine, your evaluation might be wrong and my mind might be right. So no, the answer is no to that. There's no way, right? In other words, you could take this as sort of a pragmatic challenge and you could understand it as tell me about anything as it is independent of your telling it. You know, it's kind of good luck with that one, right? Because the minute that you begin to describe it, you are using your experience, you're presenting it from your point of view. Absent conscious awareness and experience, like if it were the case that there were no human beings, would there be any thing? Right. So what if we don't say human beings? What if we sort of say sentient beings? Sure. OK. Yeah. OK. So would there be any things? Yeah. No. Right. Depending upon what you mean by things, right?  Do we have reason to believe that then there would be a bunch of stuff standing? Yes. But that's not separate from experience. That's only later than experience. But there's no there's no experiencer. There is an experiencer, but there is not an experiencer at that time. OK. And this is where I start to kind of scratch my head a little bit that the claim is without any experiencer, there would still be things, even though there's not an experiencer in the present. There was an experience in the past or there will be an experience in the fruit's future. And so therefore there's still stuff that strikes me as a bit odd. And this leads to even a more particular way to phrase the question, you know, is there anything out there outside of our experience of it absent any experiencer? It's kind of maybe even a better way than sentience. Just absent any experiencer? Isn't there then you wouldn't even be able to talk about a thing. You couldn't name a thing. You couldn't describe that you couldn't use any word for it. But but that's only if we presuppose the pragmatist starting point. No, no, no. There are no independent things separate of our experience. No, see, again, that's not a very helpful way to put it. There are all kinds of things that are separate in many ways from us, right? There's all kinds of independences. Our experience shows that there's all kinds of independences. OK, right. But but they're not but they're not independent of experience per se of all experience. That's that's what I was trying to get at was that was so right. And so you have to be careful not to let the intuition, which is more than intuition, it's verified all the time that experience shows that our life shows that there's various kinds of independences of things. There's some things that don't depend on others. But but independent of experience is the key one that I was trying to understand. So what I'm trying to say is that something makes sense within experience is taken by many analytical philosophers or what you're calling rationalists as a claim about experience as a whole, which makes no sense whatsoever. I'm sorry, can you say that one more time? Yeah. So the fact that a distinction makes sense within a framework, yes, within the framework of life or experience or something doesn't mean that those distinctions then make sense applied to the whole. And again, I just the answer doesn't strike me as that clear was clear before. And now it strikes me as a little bit less clear. OK, so this led to my question. If there's no metaphysical differences between things, there's no external reality which is divided in any way, then is it the case that there are different beings that inhabit it? Because intuitively what I would think is if there are genuine metaphysically different beings in this reality, then that would imply that indeed there is some kind of objective world out there which has distinctions between things that if there are two different things, one could be independent of the other's experience. The self doesn't have it's not a separate substantial thing. It doesn't have a history. It is a history. It's a series of events. Is it independent from any other series of events? Sure. But is there? It's experience shows that it is, right? In other words, it's why we say that that was your childhood rather than mine, right? It's because that set of experiences stands in a certain relation to your being here talking now that my being here talking now doesn't have to it. But isn't that doesn't that presuppose then that there is this thing that is kind of the external world in which there are two different chains of experience operating? If it depends on what you mean by external, right? So again, the premise is always going to say you need to define your terms before I can tell you what you're saying is true or false. So if you mean by external, something that experience shows doesn't depend upon my existence in certain ways, of course, that's so. Well, well, isn't that a isn't that a metaphysical dualism to say that there are there is a chain of events that is separate from another chain of events like experiences? No. All right. So that answer is officially where I'm confused that we can say that the yes, there are different chains of experience and yes, and experience shows that there are these two different things. But there's not a metaphysical distinction between the two of them. This I admit, I don't understand. And then he can he his explanation. I also can't say that I understand. So take a listen and see what you think, right? It would be like saying how many things are there in this room? Is it suppose I so I'm gone way past dualism, I'll say there's 17, right? Or there's three, right? How many kinds of things are there, right? And the premise view is that is a question about how is it helpful to make certain distinctions rather than others? Right, I could walk into a class and say how many kinds of students are there in here? One answer could be two, there's male and female. The other answer could be four, there's freshman sophomore, right? Somebody could say there's actually six people who are six feet tall, six feet one, six feet two, isn't that cleared up by just precise language? So yeah, it's exactly right, which is so that this whole language of external, objective, subjective, merely experienced that will be cleared up according to the practice if we if we're more careful about it. Okay, so let's take that answer for what it is. And what I again thought would then follow the apparently I was wrong is that you get some kind of solipsistic world in the sense that all that there is the experience that is going on that without this metaphysical dualism all that you have left is just one thing. But apparently that doesn't follow either. So my just in the way I'm trying to understand this, it seems like there is almost a like a solipsistic flavor to this in the sense that opposite of that. Right? It's an outside of the self, it's other things, right? You're not the prime minister don't take that seriously as a philosophical problem. But I thought you just said that there was there were no other things. In other words, it's just what you mean by other, right? There's clearly other things than me. My experience shows that the world is full of all kinds of things that are not me. Yes, but that's just a statement about your experience, right? So it's not just a statement about the experience, it's a statement about the world. See, if you keep saying that, you don't grasp it does not. It's a statement about the world. There are in the world many things. So the conclusion is there are many things in the world. But do those things don't have any objectively independent metaphysical existence from each other? I don't know, I'm confused. So I thought I would ask him to try to get down to this idea of the objective metaphysical distinction between things in the world. I thought, okay, well, he clearly from my perspective is a being that is having a subjective experience. And from I also am a being that is having a subjective experience. And I would say there's a metaphysical distinction between the two objectively that indeed we're kind of in our own separate internal conscious realms. And so I thought I would ask him, well, what when he's referencing me, what is he referencing? Is he is he referencing me as an independent being with my own internal world? Or is he referencing me as he appears to see me? When Dr. Stur is looking at the person across from the room, what is that thing? And again, the purpose of this is to try to say, well, if that thing is is metaphysically separate from me, then there's got to be this this mediating realm in which you can have a different entities. But what are you referencing when you are referencing me? You're just referencing experience, right? Again, I'm just referencing experience. No, I'm referencing you. What is that? What are you? Yeah. Okay, well, so again, we could define you in a bunch of ways, right? We could go to the chemist and say, What is you? And we could get once you're sort of this combination of these chemicals in this, right? We can go to the historian and say you're this person who was born here and then went to school there and lived here and right, we could do that. So I tried to present my own worldview that I find compelling, which is that there is this objective external world separate of our experiences. And it and what I was thinking is, well, it's peculiar if it's the case, there is no such world. Then doesn't that mean there is nothing beyond our experience in the sense that like way out in the cosmos, things that we've never experienced, we have no experience of it all? Don't those things still exist? He was his response. There are some features of existence, which I am not experiencing. One hopes that that's true. And it seems obviously so, but I don't have any experience of it. So why would I say that? Right. So it sounds sort of like Donald Rumsfeld of there's the the known unknowns and the unknown unknowns. Right. And so there are things that you're not now experiencing that you have some knowledge of. Yes, what about but it also seems reasonable to say that there are things that don't even have knowledge. Exactly. Exactly. And that's why the primates think that inquiry is never done. But why would we have that belief in the first place? Isn't that completely unjustified if we don't have any experience of it? No, no, we have a great deal of experience of it. We have a great deal of experience of the inadequacy of our own knowledge of the world being more than we know. Yes, but but of of existent things that we have absolutely no experience, like some some great way out in the cosmos that I just have no conception of anything. I have a positive belief that such types of things exist. See that's wrong because you just conceived it. You said I have no conception of it. And then you just described it as being way out in the cosmos. I have no conception of it outside of the most abstract. So what you're saying is, yeah, so what you're saying is I have a very little conception of it. What do I have an experience of it? No, not yet. Well, so there's the there's a difference that there's a difference between the experiential knowledge and conceptual knowledge. Well, there are probably lots of differences between them, but not in the way that you made it. Now, if you're saying there are things that I haven't discovered, that's both true of you individually, right? As a kid growing up, there's like things you haven't experienced, right? And it's also true of human beings generally, meaning we have experience of some things that Aristotle didn't have experience of. Right? And so the idea that there are things yet to be discovered is not an incoherent notion. It's completely linked to experience. It's just saying that these would be objects of a future experience, right? But we don't have the experience, not we don't have it yet. Okay, so those are things, right? Those are things waiting to be discovered. And again, I find this difficult to stomach the idea that those things out there still exist because they're objects of a future experience. And that strikes me as you got some explaining to do how things can be in existence because in the future they're going to be experienced by an experiencer. Okay, so there were really two central things that I wanted to break down here. One was the this metaphysical idea of existence separate from experience. And the other was the pragmatist claim about rationalism, about disproving some particular epistemology using pure theory. How would you respond to something like the rationalists who might say the pragmatic approach to understanding and interpreting your experiences is something which is objectively wrong when they say that that's just hubris on the part of the rationalist or that that's that's just their way of going about it. Yeah, hubris applied as a personality trait. Maybe so, right? Maybe hubris, but also just wrong. I mean, like flat out wrong. And so several of the pragmatists, William James is a good example, really spends his life arguing against rationalists that their arguments don't work. He's very careful. He's very analytical. He takes about those arguments and shows like these arguments don't reach the conclusion. So I just said the right. And so part of the pragmatist view here is that you cannot prove any philosophy, right? This is a pragmatist like central point. You cannot prove any philosophy, including pragmatism in theory. Okay, you cannot prove any philosophy, including pragmatism in theory. Well, then that's what I want to say. Can we apply pragmatism to pragmatism? Yeah. Right. And so the exactly and the pragmatists do apply pragmatism to pragmatism. They're one of the few philosophies I think that actually are self consistent that way. And it's why they end up being pluralists, right? So that they don't claim anybody who is not a pragmatist is therefore wrong. But didn't you just claim that about the rationalist? No, what the what the rationalist I believe generally we talk about which which folks were talking about, right? But what rationalism tends to believe, at least historically, is that it can present arguments as arguments, as theories, as philosophies that show that other philosophies are mistaken. Yes. Okay, that's what pragmatism denies. But isn't that what it's isn't that what it's doing? No, no, no, no, no, no, it's not pregnant. At no point in any of the pragmatist writing do they believe that they have made the case for pragmatism. Well, but they're presenting a case against rationalism and they're not making the case against rationalism, they're making the case against rationalisms for closing other possibilities. But say that that's a central tenet of that's what yeah, which is why then they're showing that that view is wrong. But I thought you said you're not showing that it's wrong in theory, they're showing that it's wrong in practice, right? And there was what the pragmatist says, what the pragmatist says is to you that the ultimate test of any belief, whether we call it rationalist pregnancy, anything else doesn't matter, it could be about pens, cliffs, movies, whatever. The test of this, the determination of whether a belief is true or false is going to be a matter of consequences. Okay, right? Not origins. So what are the results that we get? Okay, so can I, that's the last thing I want to try to rephrase that. And if I do it inaccurately, please. So the pragmatist is saying that there's no way to prove in theory, yes, that a particular epistemology is true, objectively true, right, that even, okay, isn't that itself a theoretical claim about epistemology? Right. It would be, it could be taken that way, right? Which would be a kind of anti pragmatist way to understand it. Or it could be taken a pragmatic way, as a claim about does experience show that this is so or not. That's really the core that I object to and maybe don't understand is this idea that you can't use theory to disprove theory. So the pragmatist isn't willing to say this is wrong on purely theoretical grounds. But there seems to be one exception, which is the rationalist that tries to prove or disprove particular theories only using theory that seems like the only theoretically unjustified way of going about things. So you're saying there is essentially no purely theoretical argument that is going to convince you of rationalism. Not just convincing sounds like a rhetorical thing, right? So I will somebody be convinced. Persuaded. Which also sounds rhetorical, right? Like let me persuade you, let me manipulate you, right? And the question is logically, it never works. That you can never prove any kind of rationalist conclusion without invoking rationalist premises. And I don't think it could be phrased more clearly than that. The claim is that logically, this never works. You cannot prove the rationalist conclusions without invoking the rationalist premises. Now it might have been that that particular word, maybe that particular phrase was said loosely because that is a theoretical, it's purely a theoretical claim to say that X is logically impossible, is not a claim, is not an empirical claim that is a purely theoretical claim. So maybe that was a misstep there, but it certainly doesn't strike me as consistent with everything else that's being claimed. But on that note, I think that's enough breakdown for today. I really hope that you guys enjoy this a little bit more in depth kind of breaking down the thought process here. So if you enjoy this, make sure to subscribe on iTunes and Stitcher. And as always, if you want to contribute to the show, make sure to check out patreon.com slash Steve Patterson. You can sign up to become a patron of rationalist philosophy. If you like this project, all you do is pledge one dollar of support. So whenever I produce a new show like this, you pledge a dollar and then when we get enough people together, it will allow this show to continue indefinitely in the future. So thanks so much for listening. Have a good day.


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and so again no introduction needed with us Catherine Crick thank you so much hallelujah so I left off sharing about the intense spiritual warfare that I began to go through that I never encountered before until I stepped into true anointing and following God in the calling he he had for me um I wanted to speak a little bit more about what happened so you could know how intense it got um there were when we were when there was just 15 or 20 of us in the first year there were lies made up about me and spread around people believed them many people left and one one person called my parents and spread this lie even this is how hard God tried to stop the call on my life okay and I I was shocked when I saw this I didn't expect this because I'm like what there's just 20 of us what is going on nothing big's happening and how is there anything to be that jealous over even right but you know what God couldn't God's will must be done the devil could not stop the call on my life the work of God nothing can stop the call of God on your life and don't don't see the devil is more powerful than God you know many people left and and you could I could have thought I better just give up and let me tell you what I told you before how with my music I had so much encouragement so much support so many people were telling me you're gonna make it all of my family and friends so proud of me but the moment that I said a prophet prophesied to me I'm called to be an apostle which most people don't know that apostles God uses today still amen and prophets so many people were spiritually blind many people didn't get it the moment I say this I'm an apostle a prophet prophesied this to me no one no one got it in my life all of the support left and many people could not see I was obeying God what I was doing now was actually way more powerful than before the music right because I'm obeying God when I don't want to when it's not what I want and I'm putting all my trust and faith in him but I'm telling you it went from so much support to hardly any because people didn't get it because people didn't understand but all I needed was God's support amen was God's was God's approval that's all you need and through that God formed my heart to only desire his approval this is how this is how this heart is formed you know you you cry out for the heart of God to not care what people think well how does he how is he gonna test you in that he has to test you if you want that kind of heart it has to be refined that heart has to be molded so we'll put you through a situation where people don't get you people don't understand you people don't approve of you people are against you so instead of freaking out oh why doesn't anyone get what I'm doing how come people aren't supporting what I'm doing is powerful it's time for you to say ah yay my prayers are being answered God's molding my heart he's testing me now it's time to be more like him and only want to please my father amen I also I would experience you know for the first time I was I was really being able to only love my neighbor when I stopped into this anointing I got serious about carrying this anointing that I would only speak life to people I would only speak life for my own life this is how God trusts can trust you with anointing how are you using what's been given you are you speaking death you are abusing the anointing that he's been giving you and he can't entrust you with more so as soon as God called me and I knew that I started carrying anointing I knew wow I carry anointing and God's called me to something big I need to value this I need to value this is the most precious thing I can't abuse this I can't allow this to leave me and what God has called me to I'm so humbled I'm so humbled I don't want to take this for granted I don't want to grieve God I don't want to be a step late or or have to have God change his plans and use somebody else because I didn't take it seriously enough what he's given to me so I would be so careful over my words to only speak life to only love my neighbor and a big way that the spiritual warfare came at me was was hate from other people or you would love I would love people and I wouldn't I would get hate back I didn't see that happening before walking in anointing but it was the devil was so angry and so he tries to he finds people who have doors open for the enemy we can use so there was there was someone in my life that I would just I would love and pour out love to and encouragement and the love of God and and one day just demons took over and I was sent this text message like swearing at me and I didn't do anything it didn't make sense it was the devil it was demons but it's like I started crying when I received this this intense hate like I never have before I was thinking about Jesus it was like my eyes were open up to how Jesus went through so much that he didn't deserve so much hate so much suffering he didn't deserve any of that he was nothing but love and and like going through that it was well I went through it was nothing compared to what Jesus went through but going through that it brought me closer to God here again was this place the only God knew what I was going through here is this place where my eyes were open up wow I'm what I'm experiencing is the devil hating me so much that he's sent he's using people to send hate to me when I've only loved this is what Jesus did but so much more for me you know so walking through these trials you see how there's this beauty there's this beauty that God has for you if you can see in the spiritual realm and not be so in the physical I don't deserve this I'm doing great things for God and no one sees this is the real this is the real secret place is obeying God when no one sees but God and you know I'm touching my father's heart nobody else sees only God I would spend so many times editing I would do things behind the scenes that nobody else saw but Jesus and I grew so closer to him than ever before in those times because it was just me and him we were doing work together for the kingdom I was partnering with him and I was doing what other people didn't understand amen so all of these trials all of this this hate that was thrown these lies that were made up nothing could stop the work of God nothing could stop God's call in my life and I've seen it in every season the devil try to stop it don't be afraid of the devil he tries to look scary but nothing can stop God and when God is using you that's God's work so you need to see yourself that way God is choosing to use vessels he's choosing to use you so this calling on my life nothing can stop it because this is God's work God's work cannot be stopped this is what keeps me strong when I face so much when I face persecution when I face people making up lies about me spreading rumors saying awful things about me to this day getting worse the amount of it as as God's lifted the ministry as as as more people have come there's more and more and more hate right just like in the times of Jesus he didn't have any people having problems with him until he walked in the power of God and began ministering and then they're demonizing him at left and right saying he's using the power of Satan to cast out demons right but what keeps me strong is knowing I'm obeying God and nothing can stop God's work I'm doing God's work I'm doing what he is calling me to do and nothing can stop it and I and I see how important God's work is I see the people being set free who are in such oppression and how rare the power of God is this must go forth I can't get caught up with haters I can't get up caught get caught up with the Pharisees I can't let myself be bothered by that and be distracted from doing the work of God there's a lot of work to be done I have to stay focused it's all it's all you know it's all centered on your biggest passion being to please Jesus that's the biggest key I could give you that that would be your your very biggest passion biggest desire that's all you care about nothing else matters is to please him is to touch his heart not the religious I'm doing my religious activities but touch his heart please him when you love somebody really love somebody you see what touches their heart when you buy gifts for them you you don't just buy the gift that you like you know what they would like right and you know what where God's heart is it's for his people and his work Jesus was about his father's business he was serious about it he says my food my true nourishment what gives me the most contentment in this life is to do the will of my father to do the work that revelation enabled me to be able to do these things that I didn't want to do like edit editing was not fun you know um dragging a piano that I didn't even hardly know how to play and teaching myself how to play guitar to on the mountain tap and preaching when I didn't know how to and didn't want to it was this revelation of doing the work of God is what is what where God's heart is this is what touches his heart is when we can be passionate about his people about his work and the Bible says Matthew 2026 if you want to be great you must be the servant of all the others a servant of all the others you know God gave me this big prophecy this big promise it'll be it was five years on september 18th just it just passed five years ago and I felt like I hadn't made pretty much hardly any progress in the physical realm for four about four years felt like I was pretty much in the same place but I you know what God taught me to not to not idolize the promise at first the I remember the first year I was like this is so uncomfortable when will it when will the promise come because at least that seems more exciting right than being completely uncomfortable and not excitement the hard work the wilderness time so I would just think maybe this year will be the year and it would not be the year that the promise came to pass then the next year maybe this year will be the year I craved so much for the promise to come to pass because it was so uncomfortable where it was at I craved it so much but God taught me year after year as I just kept showing up and obeying to not idolize the promise but to keep my heart on only serving him keep my heart there and this is how your heart is transformed is going to the process this is what God wants you to know the process is beautiful it's not to be dreaded you're praying to have a heart like God's this is your prayer answered you need to change your attitude to be like man I mean so many times I would think like why why can't there be more people that come to church and have a heart for the vision and you know and and help because it was just me doing so much on Tal was doing so much too and we would we would spend hours lugging tons of equipment creating the stage we put so much work into something with just 15 people so much work and we would you could feel discouraged how come there can't be more people that could come help how come we can't progress at all you know you feel that way but God taught me all of this is the refining fire all of this is what's going to make you to be able to handle the promise all of this is necessary you can't miss this part you have to go through it so you might as well not complain about it not rush it and rest and just be content because you're in my will and you're pleasing me that's all that matters you're in my will and you're pleasing me God says that's all that matters isn't that what you want more than anything to be in his will and to please him I thought that I thought that it was going to come so much sooner than it did the promise but God's timing is perfect let me tell you what his timing is perfect he knows what he's doing he knows how to prepare you you don't know how to prepare yourself you don't know how long you need you don't know what you need to go through who are we to think we know what we need in order to carry anointing and fulfill the call that God has on our lives God is so good he knows how to mold your heart so you can remain humble he knows how to mold your heart so you don't abuse anointing when God lifts you he knows how to mold your heart where you don't care about the approval of men when people are hating you so much it doesn't bother you because your heart's been molded he knows we don't know he knows look at the Bible there's example after example of what he does how he has to mold his people what he has to take them through so that they can handle the promise they can handle that anointing and this is how it happens I just kept showing up obeying okay people are hating on me people are leaving jealousy this is hard this is uncomfortable feels like I'm going backwards insecurities in my mind all the time but I I keep showing up I obey I'm obeying you God I don't care I just have to obey you it doesn't matter I just obey you today I have to obey you doesn't matter how I feel I just have to obey you doesn't matter how I feel today I just have to obey you it doesn't matter what's happening I just have to obey you it doesn't matter the circumstance I just have to obey you and when you do that a spiritual thing happens inside you you're becoming more like Jesus he's transforming your heart through that simple obedience day after day it's spiritual hallelujah so um God God told me three years ago you need to make videos one minute videos and this is how you're going to see the promises come to pass and revival spread people be reached and on December and December 30th I was on vacation with John tall celebrating my 30th birth and January 1st and God put on my heart make this video put examples of God moving him of him moving in power just a one minute video this past year so I was all excited about it this this idea that God gave me and I was working hard like two in the morning right when we got to Mexico on vacation because nothing matters but the work of God and obeying him amen you got to be ready anytime even if you're on vacation even if you're celebrating your 30th birthday and I'm so glad I did I'm so glad I obeyed God at that moment because um I posted that video December 30th and a day and a half later on January 1st on my 30th birthday the video reached 1 million views hallelujah and I had just in October I had just 500 TikTok followers and um in on the video there was thousands of comments and people testifying of all these miracles that they received healing deliverance feeling the power of God so many I was overwhelmed and and and I had never seen testimonies like this when I would do live videos I went live every single day during the COVID season because God told me to from from March till October every single day I didn't miss a day I even went to see my parents and I'm like they're watching movie I'm like I have to stop watching the movie because I have to go live because God told me every day and and and they would be just a handful watching live and I remember the Instagram would go from one person watching to zero and it would just say live sometimes this was just this past October and I didn't see any testimonies I think there was one testimony in the fall that someone received healing when I was praying live imagine I received this prophecy four years prior that all these miracles would happen through me and it's been years now and I'm not seeing many miracles happening and the and the church is 15 people and it's not it looks like it's going backwards and then COVID hits and it not feels like we're going even farther backwards we did online it was just on tall and I in my living room during the COVID season then God called us to go out in the park and there was just two people it got smaller and it would just be people that would show up in the park that would be walking by a couple people here and there each week just this past fall even this past December that video went viral and and I think there was like 40 000 followers by the next day on sick talk just from that one video and then so people started tuning in live I would go live twice so twice a week um every week since then and miracles were happening on every live imagine I was doing ministry almost twice a week every single day for many months last year during COVID season with like hardly any testimonies hardly any miracles happening and now on every single live there's so many uncountable Jesus is amazing he's faithful amen and I would keep telling myself like I know it's gonna happen I know it'll be a suddenly moment though the wall is gonna come down it's gonna come down and I and I see this this huge testing of my faith God's like God's like I know she can handle this right and so I'm gonna like make it look like nothing's happening at all for years and then boom walls down promised land is here and I want to encourage you because for so many years I would I would I would tear up sometimes just being like man I hope the promise I I want the promise to come to pass man when is it gonna come when is it gonna come longing for it you know God is faithful if you can just show up every day and obey him and the little things and be a servant to all be a servant to him that's your true calling that's what I did all this time I was just serving where God had me editing the videos lugging heavy equipment for hours and then getting up to preach and leading worship doing doing everything editing till five in the morning for 10 people to view on YouTube a sermon and I would tell myself people are gonna see it years from now I would encourage myself amen um loving people when they're when they're being mean to me it is all about serving people it is all about serving people and so if you can just keep your eyes on serving serving God serving people I am a servant I'm a servant that's why it says so the last shall be first and the first last for many be called but few are chosen many are called to be powerful vessels of God many are but few are chosen because few are willing to be last few are willing to really serve and in every moment putting others first always I would do that I would do that from the little things like where do you want to go to eat where do you want to go to eat I would train myself with I would never put myself first I recognized I need to value this anointing so with what God's giving me with 15 people I need to do my very best excellence for the kingdom serve these people the best I can only love them only speak life I take my word so seriously I can only speak life to them so if you can simply do that and keep serving God keep your eyes focused on pleasing him every single day I'm telling you the promise will come to pass the promise will come to pass in your life don't get caught up in how it looks now the walls of Jericho are coming down amen God sees you don't think has God forgotten about me working for years at this is he here God sees he saw me and he sees you he knows what he's doing he knows what if you're obeying him this is his plan this is his orchestration he knows what he's doing you don't have to worry and don't don't idolize the promised land you know because you're called to be a servant I I've seen like this contentment remain the same for me like for so long I thought like oh I'm pretty happy but man when the promise land comes I'll be so happy thanks will be so much better you know we we think that don't we like when I have this dream when I have the spouse when I have these children when I have the house when I have the job when I have the promise of God then I'll be so happy but when you go through this process and God can really teach you how to be content that contentment will remain the same and and I've seen that because because God's called me to be a servant of all I'm just focused on that and I'm like taking it very seriously I'm not like oh the promise lands here let me enjoy it's like the seriousness has increased you know the seriousness of serving others the seriousness of what God's called me to so before before the promised land came I was focused on serving people and there would be like more free time than there is now you know and there's that's a blessing to have free time right but now in this season of the promised land it's it's more work of God it's more service and it's a higher level of seriousness of the service so because our heart should be that I want to please God and that's so serious and I take it so seriously to never grieve him you can't you just remain in the seriousness it's joy and it's peace but it's not what many people think I want the promised land so I can relax and enjoy life right you know but no I mean how it's supposed to be is I'm serving I I just want to obey you God I never want to grieve you and I take this very seriously what you've called me to in your work in the wilderness season and then in the promised land I'm a I'm a servant of you and this from the morning tonight I'm a servant of you I'm a servant of you I'm a servant of you and so I've even and I just share this with you because it's time for you to stop idolizing the promised land you're wasting your time you can have just as much contentment where you are right now in the wilderness as the promised land you can I'm telling you I found that and I found that for years I was like will this be the year will this be the year of the promised land I would feel that every year new years I would like write down my dreams oh god I hope this is the year I would feel desperate for it but as I just kept showing up and obeying God and allowing him to transform my heart COVID year hit 2020 and it's like we want even more backwards and everyone else is like this is the worst year ever I'm so depressed I'm inside all the time and I was inside all the time but I was just like doing the work of God pleasing God obeying God so I was like full of joy because it was that same place as before COVID I'm inside more but I'm just so focused I'm serving God I'm obeying God so I'm content it doesn't matter that it's COVID times and we're stuck inside indoors I have no fear also amen hallelujah I'm serving and and and you know what that year I felt the most I honestly felt the most content 2020 right before the promised land came I felt the most content every other year I was like will this be the year I felt more desperation I hope this is the year but the year of 2020 when it was like the worst year ever basically in terms of physical circumstances I literally felt the most content in terms of God's timeline for my life I literally felt like whenever God I don't know when your timing I don't know when it's gonna come at this point I thought it was gonna come way earlier many times but you know what I'm just gonna rest in you and let you take over completely I'm content and it was when I had reached that place when God had finished that work in my heart to get me there that the promised land came the promise came to pass hallelujah and so now as I mentioned every live there's been so many miracles that have happened and and the first couple months from January to March there still wasn't many people in the church still in our outdoor church in the park but there were so many miracles happening online thousands of followers now all of a sudden on tiktok and I was wondering when is the promise going to come to pass though like in person like God's been all these miracles online when are we going to see miracles happen in person and more people come revival and in March there was a girl who saw the one of the videos I had posted who lives in Pennsylvania since the videos were going around more she had seen it and she said that God had she saw Jesus in my eyes she said she says I have to go and encounter Jesus I knew I did I had to book a flight to LA so she booked a flight she brought her friend and that same week in March there were two other people that traveled from Tennessee to come encounter God the power of God at revival in the park look how God's ways are not our ways I mean there's 15 people in our church and there's four people flying across the country we're a church in a park of 15 people but God will surpass your dreams he will do this suddenly and surprise you you need to be expectant for this Jesus loves me he's good his plans for me are good there's going to be surprises ahead where he's going to bless me and amaze me because he's good I'm putting my eyes there instead of the present circumstances amen and so that day I was expecting I was like whoa hunger is the key for the power of God to move so I'm like oh there is hunger for them to fly I'm expectant for what God's going to do today hallelujah um and so that day I started praying for that one girl who came from Pennsylvania and demons started to tremble and and I commanded them to leave and that's the first time we'd seen that at our church she was set free hallelujah and I was shocked I was like wow God the prophecy after years is coming to happening and um then that video went viral and so when more people saw they became hungry to be set free and to have and having hope that this problem in their life Jesus could free him from and so they started flying people started flying from that week and then it was every single week around that time or within that month it then began every week between like 10 to 20 people traveling from around all over the country every single week to encounter God's power and every single week many people were set free of demons every single week since that day and now there's about two to three hundred every single week that come and every single week people traveling from all over the country and now there's been so much hunger people have seen videos have gone even so viral like deliverances some have almost 10 million views on just one video people are hungry for Jesus amen and they need freedom there's so many people out there who need freedom people are so hungry that we've ever since a couple months ago we've received so many requests inviting me to come minister all over the country and even other countries now so now all of a sudden ever since like a couple months ago or so every week I'm traveling throughout the week many different places ministering and people are being set free and healed and encountering Jesus and my goodness look where I was in December December of this past year there was two people coming to the park I didn't see a single demon be cast out I wasn't seeing any kind of big miracles I mean any miracles a big miracle amen I people are being touched by prophetic ministry and baptismal holy spirits here and there but nothing like revival how I pictured revival to look like that was December four years of just that don't give up your timeline is not God's timeline don't think because you're not progress and all that time I had hardly any support from family and friends and I had many Christian I had like 100 Christian friends before I encountered the power of God but they didn't encounter the power of God you know like I was like at a big non-denominational church where God's power is not moving so I had so well not every non-denominational church but I was saying you know like a big church where God's power isn't moving so anyways I had so many friends like hundreds there for years and I was serving there multiple times a week and none of them like hardly any of them hardly anyone from my past supported me so in the physical realm it can look like this isn't working people aren't even supporting you you yourself preaching isn't your gift no one saw that preaching was my gift I didn't see preaching only God could see only the prophet that God could reveal what was inside of me just like Jesus could see what was inside the tax collectors and the fishermen and all the disciples only he could see what was inside so it was crazy to everyone else for the the original disciples to be used powerfully by God to be leaders to be apostles to walk in miracles that was crazy back then it was foolish the spiritual the things in the spiritual realm are foolish to the carnal man there are many carnal christians out there you have to walk in wisdom like and you all hear your eyes have been open and you are a minority you're a serious minority so you have to understand that many people's eyes aren't open do not ask advice to those people do not get wisdom from those people I mean if I didn't have that wisdom I wouldn't be here today I knew that none of my friends or family had encountered the power of God like I had and had my spiritual eyes opened I knew that none of my friends and family knew that prophets existed and that God uses them and really speaks through them today so I knew had wisdom I'm this is precious what God spoken to me and I'm it's like pearls I'm not going to cast them just wines I'm not going to let people corrupt this precious word and calling God's given me this is precious this prophecy and so imagine if I went and told all of those people I don't know like I really wanted to do the music thing and if you're not surrendered to God you'll do that if you're not this is why you need this is why God's process is so perfect don't worry if you don't know what you're calling is yet he may be trying to get you to a place of deeper surrender before he can release it because if I wasn't surrendered I really wanted music I didn't want to minister at all it was pure obedience to God and only surrender can get you to choose that can get you to choose God's will for your life so if I wasn't surrendered I really wanted the music and the music was going really well ministering I had no gift in that I had no desire to do that if I asked advice from other people whose spiritual eyes were not opened who did not have the encounters I did whom God did not speak to like he spoke to me devil would have used all of them uh who is this prophet uh I don't think prophets exist today anymore uh you know there's false prophets you have to be aware uh this makes no sense your music's going so well you're an amazing singer that's what your talent is that's what you love to do and you don't want to preach I think this prophet was wrong stay away right and and if I wasn't surrendered my flesh my flesh would listen to the voice the devil and I would become blinded and I would even start to demonize the true servant of God that's what happens when you're not surrendered hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus I know God has huge callings upon all of your lives just the fact that you're here right now just the fact that you are here at a house of God at a church that believes the truth the real truth not a watered down gospel believes in deliverance and healing that this is the true works of God that we are called to I know everyone here has a big calling because you are rare and you're a minority and God is using now the weak and foolish things that confound the wise please listen to my story before and don't look at me now and try to think that's how I always was you might see me as like a good preacher today maybe I don't know I was not that five years ago and I stepped up and I spoke and God moved and stuff but you wouldn't say like oh she's powerful five years ago so you might see yourself today like well I'm not like I'm not like Apostle Catherine if you're saying that right now I was saying that if I saw myself five years ago I would say I could never be like her I'm nothing like her really God has done the supernatural work in my life and transformed me so much by his power and given me every ability it is all him and God wants to do that in your life too God wants to do the supernatural miraculous work and give you every word that he wants you to speak every ability he wants you to do and he'll open up every door you don't have to worry about doors opening for you he will open every door he will give you what you need he said to Moses what's in your hand he Moses felt so inadequate how will people believe me how will people believe that I'm really from you God how will they follow me how will these millions of people follow me God says what's in your hand a staff this ordinary thing it's super ordinary not a fancy staff a bedazzled staff is an ordinary regular staff as ordinary as this water bottle nothing fancy right but then God says throw it on the ground and it became a snake there was a wonder that was performed God says later lift your staff and the whole seas will be parted and the prayers of hundreds and hundreds of years of people will be answered the prophecy will come to pass the promised land will come as you lift up this ordinary stand and my power moves through it and millions of my people will be led out of captivity and into freedom and into the promised land the ordinary staff you have ordinary staffs in your lives my ordinary staff was I can teach myself how to edit because God gave me a brain and I just got to do some work right and a computer and hands and eyes that's my staff my staff was the credit card that purchased the the battery operated piano and the microphone and speaker and I'm a handmade sign a poster board that said worship worship on the hill or so whatever worship night that was the staff that God gave me amen you all have these staffs in your life God's giving you all that you need and God wants to put so much power in you and astound the world revivals now he wants to use you so mightily he's looking for the weak and foolish things he's looking for humble childlike vessels that only want to please him that's it that's all he's looking for if you only want to please God oh he will use you so mightily he has such big plans for you and he's counting on you he needs you because he chooses to use vessels he needs you to set the captives free he needs you to to speak his truth he needs you to release healing to his people who are sick amen hallelujah it's time now to live in the truth look with your spiritual eyes what's going on don't let the devil fool you from today you are called you are chosen you are anointed and nothing can stop God's work God's will and his plan for your life nothing hallelujah thank you Jesus and I I want to pray for you now I declare all of these schemes of the enemy that have come at you trying to stop you're calling trying to discourage you trying to say in your mind you're not good enough you don't have what it takes I command all of those lies to come out all of those strongholds in the mind must be gone must be broken now in Jesus name and I remove all of those words that come through other people saying you're not good enough they must go now every spirit of religion condemnation must go now in Jesus name and every barrier that's in the way that the devil's put there trying to keep you stagnant trying to keep you stuck from being used by God I declare it must go now in Jesus name thank you Jesus I release this anointing to you now be filled with the power of God may you be strengthened now may your spiritual eyes open up in a new new levels now may you really see what's going on in the spiritual realm and may you remain in that constant perfect peace with Jesus through everything through the valleys through the wilderness I declare nothing can stop God's plan for your life nothing can stop God's work in your life in Jesus name amen amen hallelujah hallelujah praise God thank you so much all right one more round of applause for catheter and crick and for the holy spirit so I want to just mention to us here in house on live stream on youtube zoom on all the social platforms we are going to close this live stream but before we do we're going to open up a new one what I want you to do for those of you viewing live I want you to already begin to ask questions on the new post for live stream so please begin to ask 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We'll get right into this episode, but first I just want to remind everyone that while it may look like things are returning to normal, there's a very good possibility that these lockdowns will continue into next year. And if that happens, it's more likely that we're all going to have to deal with food shortages. Don't just wait and hope that things are going to work out. Be proactive and make sure that you and your family won't have to worry about food shortages. Trust and use my Patreon supply, you can too. Take action so you're ready for what's coming and save $70. Those that know what's coming are preparing. Go to preparewithdronetech.com, preparewithdronetech.com. It's no secret that the media and CNN in particular are little more than mouthpieces for the Democrat Party, but even so, it still boggles the mind to watch these people who call themselves journalists and leave no doubt that they are anything but. Jake Tapper demonstrated this beautifully yesterday during a propaganda session with Nancy Pelosi. And you may watch this and think, hey, he's not a lap dog, he's asking her tough questions. That's a big negative. What he's doing is asking questions that sound tough, but are actually just criticisms of Nancy Pelosi from the far left. All he's really asking is why aren't you more left-wing and more ruthless towards the Republicans? This is a political strategic discussion between political operatives. When Senator Schumer made this major concession on the most recent legislation, because you made it okay in this one, further, it wasn't a concession. No, well, I mean, your governor Andrew, let me, I have someone Andrews Cuomo said, and I respect his perspective as a governor. So Cuomo says he would have insisted on state funding in the last bill. And now Senator McConnell saying he wants to push the pause button. Was this a tactical mistake by you and Senator Schumer? Calm down. We will have state and local and we will have it in a very significant way. Yeah, calm down, Clapper. You're getting a little too uppity and not subservient enough for the Queen. You see what I mean about Tapper appearing to ask tough, probing questions, but it's all from the left. I challenge anyone watching to go out there and see if you can find a single example of Tapper or anybody in the media ever going after a Republican for giving too many concessions to a Democrat. I'll go ahead and save you the trouble. It doesn't happen. What you will find is the media and Democrats constantly pressuring Republicans to concede in situations like government shutdowns, which always ends up being blamed on the Republicans and their lack of concessions. Tapper even frets that McConnell may put a pause on the spending because obviously that's not good. Proving Tapper isn't objective and does have an agenda. Just so we're clear on what legislation was passed here, as Breitbart reported, the legislation contains $321 billion for the Depleted Check Protection Program, which provides aid to small businesses. The legislation also includes $60 billion in loans and grants for economic disaster assistance and $75 billion for hospitals, $25 billion for coronavirus testing. Tapper should be slamming Pelosi for holding this legislation up for the last 16 days. Let's just set the record straight here. There was a clean bill that once they found out that the small business pot was going to be dry, there was a clean bill to put more money in it. Nancy Pelosi did not go forward with that. Period. The end. Stop there. If the roles were reversed, the media would be parading Republicans on to frame as horrible monsters for keeping food out of people's mouths. Just think, while all these small businesses are standing around wondering if they're going to be able to pay their employees, the media is covering for Nancy Pelosi and the late night shows are parading around her collection of ice cream. After Pelosi told Tapper to calm down, he dunefully obliged her order and allowed her to just give a rambling speech without responding to any of it. In stark contrast, just the day before, Tapper was assaulting the Republican Party as villains of America for not capitulating to the Democrat Party and their media. There is going to be a history of this era written, and those who are pretending this irresponsibility is not happening, they will be remembered as villains. If we have Democrat Party propagandists writing the history, there's no doubt that their political opposition will be framed as the villains. I'm sorry, but when has the Republican Party ever not been framed as the villains by the media? It's a narrative that's been going on for the last 30 years, and I think we all know it's not going to stop. Look, the media in modern times exists to advance the Democrat Party and demonize their opposition as monsters. So Tapper did ask one sort of tough question that should have led to criticism of Pelosi, but instead he just lets her get away with contradicting herself. President Trump's partial travel restrictions on January 31st, blocking foreign nationals from China from coming to the United States. Do you agree that it was the right move by President Trump at the time? Well, let's go into the future, OK? It wasn't as it is described as this great moment. There were Americans coming back, with green card holders coming back.  Let me get this straight. Trump should have barred American citizens from returning home. I think it's pretty safe to say that had he done that, he would have been attacked mercilessly by the media. We don't even need to speculate about this. Jake Tapper concocted a conspiracy theory to explain why Trump wasn't letting a cruise ship full of American citizens to return home. The president's desire to artificially keep the numbers low by keeping Americans who are off the coast out of the United States, is that desire impacting health decisions to help save these Americans who have coronavirus or who could possibly have it? I understand you don't want to get into politics, but can you assure the American people that decisions are not being made just because the president wants to keep the numbers low? If you need any more proof, just look at the headlines concerning Trump's ban on immigration. He's doing exactly what Pelosi wants, yet her media is concocting a racism narrative. Remember, this is an election year, and these people have rationalized any action to get Trump out of office. Lastly, I want to leave you with this last bit of Zen, solidifying the undeniable fact that our media only exists to advance the Democrat Party. Over at MSNBC, the open socialist Stephanie Ruhl was helping Nancy Pelosi to take credit for the legislation. She was responsible for holding up. The interview goes on just like the one with Tapper, with Nancy Pelosi giving a long speech unchallenged by the host. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for this additional $320 billion American business needs it. I appreciate all that everyone in our government is doing right now to help us in this trying time. Thanks for your time this morning. Well, thank you for your objective view of it all because that's all very helpful. Thank you so much for your attention. It's an important issue. Thank you. Thanks. Oh yes, so, so objective. God, did you notice how much they thanked each other? No doubt these people are justifying their behavior because they're telling themselves that Trump is an existential threat. And when you have an existential threat, anything goes. This is exactly the kind of behavior I've been talking about all these years when I say that the left can rationalize anything and that makes them dangerous to the rest of us. Use your imagination to see all the horrible possibilities of where this can lead us. That's all for this episode. As always, like, share, subscribe, and check out these links if you want to support this channel. Thanks for watching. Keep coming back.


Hello and welcome to the session in this session. We will discuss about mattresses First of all, let's define a matrix a Matrix whose plural is mattresses is Any array of real numbers or Some other suitable entities arranged in rows and columns So basically we say that any rectangular array of numbers is called a Matrix this is a rectangular array of numbers. This is a matrix We generally use the large parenthesis to identify a matrix and we can even use brackets for matrix and also Double vertical bars are also used in matrix the horizontal lines of numbers That is these horizontal lines these are called rows Then the vertical lines of numbers that is these are the vertical lines of numbers and These are called columns Also, each number or entity in a matrix is called an element or entry of the matrix So if you consider this matrix the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 Are the elements or you can say the entries of this matrix We denote matrix by the capital letters like a b c and so on and The entries or you can say the elements of Matrix and denoted by small letters a b c and so on So if you consider this matrix, let this be denoted by letter a Let's now discuss order of a matrix. A matrix has n columns when we say of the matrix is n by n or You can say a matrix with m rows in columns is n by n Matrix while stating the order of a matrix We first state the number of rows and then the number of columns If you consider this matrix a with elements 2, 4, 6, 5, 7, 9 Then we find that in this matrix a there are three columns the matrix a is 2 by 3 That is we first take the number of rows and then the number of columns So we say that this matrix a is a 2 by 3 Matrix next we have special types of matrices First is a matrix having only one row is the No matrix Consider a matrix B The elements 2, 3, 4 This is a 1 by 3 matrix That is it has one row and three columns One by three is the order of this matrix B As you can see that there is just one row in this matrix. So we say That this B that is the matrix B is a Row matrix next is column matrix having only One column is a column matrix consider a matrix C with elements 2, 3, 4 This is a 3 by 1 matrix that is there are three rows and one column Now as it is only one column in this matrix. So we say that this matrix C Is a column matrix Next square matrix a matrix having Same number of rows two columns a square matrix consider a matrix D With elements 2, 3, 4, 5 Now this is a 2 by 2 matrix that is there are two rows and two columns in this matrix Which means that the number of rows and the number of columns in this matrix are equal. So this is a Square matrix now as the number of rows and number of columns For this square matrix D is 2 so we can also denote this as B2 which means That in this square matrix the number of rows and number of columns are 2 next we have a Zero matrix a matrix all elements zero a zero matrix or a Null matrix a zero or null matrix is generally denoted by O now consider a 2 by 3 zero matrix That is in which we have two rows three columns in this matrix all the elements are zero So this is a null matrix or a zero matrix Next we have Dienal matrix a square matrix and elements zero Except the principal diagonal elements a diagonal matrix For example consider a matrix X or three by three order in which the elements are three zero zero zero one zero Zero zero four this is a three by three matrix Now the principal diagonal means the diagonal from the top left to the top bottom so This should you to see Principal diagonal whose elements are three one four As in this matrix X Which is a square matrix all the elements are zero except these principal diagonal elements These principal diagonal elements Some of these diagonal elements can be zero, but all of them cannot be zero Next we have a unit matrix or Identity matrix a square matrix each diagonal element as unity and Other elements as zero is called a unit matrix or identity Matrix a unit matrix of order n is denoted by I n like if you have I 2 This is a unit matrix of order two that is we have two rows and two columns in this and It has elements one run in the diagonal and rest of the elements are zero Let's now discuss the general form of a matrix say a matrix a Now the general form of this matrix is given by a i j of order m by n or We can simply write this as a matrix with elements a i j We have Order of the matrix a is M by n that is n is the number of rows n is the number of columns element a i j of the matrix it belongs to the ith row the jth column and this is called i j element the matrix a And in this element a i j of the matrix a The subscript i it represents the row number and the subscript j represents the column number so The element say a 1 2 means that this element belongs to The first row second Column that is one represents the row number and two represents the column number We can also write the general form of the matrix a as the matrix with elements in the first row as a 1 1 a 1 2 a 1 3 and so on up to a 1 n since we have n number of columns In the matrix a Then the elements in the second row are given by a 2 1 a 2 2 a 2 3 and so on up to a 2 n In the same day, we will proceed for the rest of the rows as there are m rows in the matrix a so the last row of The matrix a could be given as a m 1 a m 2 a m 3 and so on up to a Mn so this is a matrix a of order m by n That is there are m rows and n columns now suppose consider a matrix B With elements in the first row as six two in the second row as three minus one and in the third row as zero five So this matrix B is of order three by two that is there are three rows and two columns now in this The element a 1 1 that is in the first row and the first column then element 2 is 1 2 that is the element appearing in the first row and the second column then a 2 1 is the element appearing in the second row and first column which is three a 2 2 is the element appearing in the second row and second column and this is minus one then a 3 1 is the element appearing in the third row and first column and this is zero then Then a 3 2 is the element appearing in the third row and second column which is five Next we discuss the equality of matrices two matrices are equal and only if They satisfy the two conditions that is both matrices are of the same order and Where corresponding elements are equal With elements in the first row as two one zero and in the second row the elements are three two One tricks B with elements in the first row as six by three three by three Zero by three in the second row the elements are three four minus two and two minus one Now both the matrices a and b are of order two by three So they satisfy the first condition that is both the matrices should be of same order Now let's see if the corresponding elements are equal Now two is equivalent to six by three one is equivalent to three by three Zero is equivalent to zero by three Three is equivalent to three this two is equivalent to four minus two and one is equivalent to two minus one So the corresponding elements are also equal. This means that the matrices a and b are equal Now let's consider a matrix C with elements In the first row as two one in the second row the elements three three four Or consider a matrix D with elements In the first row as one two in the second row as four three Now the matrices C and D both are of order two by two But the corresponding elements are not equal So they do not satisfy both the conditions of equality of matrices So this means the matrix C is not equal to the matrix D This completes the session. Hope you understood the concept of matrices and the special types of matrices