Member training from March 3rd 2025. In this meeting, I emphasized the importance of knowledge and learning as essential tools for preserving our freedom. I shared my personal journey with reading, acknowledging that many may not consider themselves readers, but I encouraged everyone to overcome these barriers to knowledge. I highlighted that rejecting knowledge can lead to our downfall, and we must actively seek to learn and apply what we read to resist the conspiracies that threaten our liberties. I also shared practical tips on how to retain knowledge through writing and reflection, emphasizing that true learning involves not just passive consumption but active engagement with the material. We concluded with a reminder of our collective responsibility to educate ourselves and each other, fostering a community that values knowledge and moral integrity as we strive for freedom.
Another interesting book on the subject is “Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization” By Brad Wilcox. You can get your copy by clicking on the title of the book.
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TRANSCRIPT
Our dearest Father in Heaven, we come to thee because we are very needful of thy
help. Father, we each have things to do and pray that that would inspire us to
take hold of those things and to carry through with them and be as much help as
we can To ban and those things that he has
decided to do based on his
prayers to the Lessons that we may know what he knows that we may
Begin our heels and and move forward and and and bless
us to be able to help Ben as he has helped us.
We invite the Holy Ghost to attend us in this meeting so that we may know truth
right away in the name of Jesus Christ.
Okay, so just for a reminder for those of you that weren’t able to come last week,
I’d be glad to do a Zoom training for you privately. So just FYI,
just because you weren’t here last week doesn’t mean you’re left out. Be glad to do
a one -on -one with you at your convenience, your schedule.
We’ve got some things. I just wanted to update everybody on we’ll just kind of
announcement. We’ve got the book club We’re gonna be starting what degree of madness
this Wednesday at 7 p .m. Mountain time and At the the link to the bootcamp is on
the website if you just go there that you’ll also be getting the emails Hopefully
but either way you’ll have access to that
Another good book on nullification, I’m gonna grab real quick.
Well, kind of, I’ve been talking about this, you know, the process where you have,
you know, once you’ve been able to go through and recognize that we have a
conspiracy and so what do you do when government violates the law, the constitution,
natural law? The first step is nullification, which is covered very well in this
book. The next step is interposition, where you stand in between the person that is
doing the oppression and the person that is being oppressed, so standing between
preventing oppression from occurring. And this book, The Doctrine of the Lesser
Magistrates, is a great book that talks about that topic,
and then we get into the topic of the concept of tyrannicide,
which is covered in Killing No Murder, as well as a Heimlet Loose,
and another book called A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants,
which is a copy right there. So if anybody wants to learn about the process of
each of those steps, encourage you to get those books. So tonight we’re gonna be
talking about how reading is essential to liberty. And I’d like to just kind of,
in our mindsets, I wanna bring up again, if you’ve gone through the boot camps
before, this is something that you’ve seen several times, and it is the purpose,
not just of the boot camps to do this, This is the purpose of the Tree of Liberty
Society. And so every single one of our trainings is designed to fulfill this
purpose, to build understanding of the principles that have built free nations, so
natural law, principles of liberty, and morality, expose the Satanic conspiracy,
and build an effective resistance to that conspiracy. So some of our trainings will
go over the principles that have built free nations. Some of our trainings will talk
about exposing the satanic conspiracy. Some of those things will be about building,
well, they should all together help to build an effective resistance to that
conspiracy. When we have understanding of those topics and those principles, we will
be effective at resisting the conspiracy. And so that is really,
hopefully we’ll remember that as we go through trainings. I’m going to bring that up
as we do trainings every week now just so that as new members come on and all of
us just never forget that this is the purpose. And so as we’re going through
training, this is what you’re thinking about, right? This is, okay, how is this
helping me to build the understanding Of liberty or natural law or morality or the
conspiracy and how to be an effective resist Resister of the conspiracy. That’s what
all of these things are for this isn’t I’m not just Coming up with different topics
that are interesting to me and I’m like, hey, let’s do this No, they’re all with
the mindset of helping us to be the people that we need to be to be able to
resist the conspiracy because You know If we’re just here to just learn something
and say, “Hey, look, I learned something fun. This isn’t to gain points playing
trivia pursuit. This is to be applied.” And so that’s important for us to remember.
So one thing that I hear a lot from people is the idea of, “I’m not a reader.
I can’t read. I’ve had some people who can comment like how do you read all these
things and so I want to let you know that I know you’re coming from right I all
growing up was not a reader myself did not read a lot of books these are these
are the books that I read up until I graduated high school right audio books from
you know kid books that kind of a thing and so in fact you know this is my this
is an exact quote from my 10th grade English teacher. This is McClintock. I hate
your son because, you know, I was, well, besides being a smart alec and not a very
good student. Well, that was a part of it was just, I didn’t read the books. And
so I passed high school English, not even reading a single book. I passed all of
my, you know, I passed it by just, you know, listening in class, reading the back
of the book. And so I could take a test just based off of that and get a C or
a B and pass the class that way. So not even reading a book.
And so if you’re one of those kinds of people that says, you know, you don’t
consider yourself a reader, I feel you, I understand you, I have been there in some
ways, I’m still there. I remember in high school, you know,
just being, you know, a 10 minutes at a time of, you know, reading more than 10
minutes is very difficult for me to do. And still, you know, to this day, it is
long spans of reading is still difficult. So don’t think I’m saying these things
about reading is important for liberty, just because I’m a reader, because that’s not
my natural inclination. It is something that I’ve had to force myself to do and
that’s what I’m encouraging all of us to do is to force ourselves to get out of
our comfort zones if we’re not readers and become readers. So because true liberty,
I’m going to show you this tonight, is that true liberty cannot be attained without
thoughtful study and deep reflection. And so I’m going to show from people that have
come before, from the words of the Lord, from the Founding Fathers, that this is a
true principle, that if we are not thoughtfully studying and reflecting deeply on the
things that we’re reading and we’re not taking the time to do that, we can’t be a
free people. As an individual, you can’t be a free person, and if we will not
build a society that’s doing this, we cannot be a free society. Those things cannot
coexist together, right? Ignorance. As we learned from Alexis de Tocqueville,
what made America different? He lays out in democracy in America that every citizen
receives the elementary notions of
human knowledge. He is moreover taught the doctrines in the evidences of his
religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its constitution.
In the states of Connecticut and Massachusetts, it is extremely rare to find a man
imperfectly acquainted with all of these things, and the person wholly ignorant of
them is a sort of phenomenon, meaning if they don’t know about the constitution and
the history, you know, of their people, they’re the weirdos, okay.
You can, so just recapping that America was different. We were able to have liberty
because we understood the doctrines and evidences of our religion, the history of our
country, and the constitution, okay. That’s what made us separate. You can’t do this
though without reading as Thomas Jefferson said if a nation expects to be ignorant
and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be
okay so if you think that you know you don’t need to know things that you can be
ignorant of certain aspects um then you’re expecting something that can’t happen He
says if we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility
of every American to be informed. So it’s important for us because guarding against
ignorance is what helps us to be free. And so that is not something the government
can do because of course the government, those in power, are only going to educate
you to be able to sustain them. And to be able to support the the mindset that
they want you to have. And so if we want to be free, it is our personal
responsibility to be informed. So there are different ways to be informed.
But I think as we go through the night that we will see that reading and aspects
beyond reading that are connected to it are a vital aspect of that.
There’s nothing more effective than being a reader. Okay? So we look to the
scriptures. Hosea, we read that my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me.
So God, God threw a priest out and he said that the people themselves were
destroyed because they didn’t have knowledge now it’s not because they were stupid
right because they it says that they rejected knowledge meaning that they had the
ability to receive it they had the ability to gain it but they rejected it they
said we don’t want it we are not going to have it and so because of that it led
to their destruction so when we refuse, when we make an excuse for ourselves, oh,
that’s just not something I can do. I’m not a reader. I’m not this, I’m not that.
We’re rejecting knowledge, which will lead to our destruction.
Further on, we see in Joshua, this book of the law shall not depart from your
mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night so that you may be Careful to
do according to all that is written in it for then you will make your way
Prosperous and then you will have good success So not only he says the book of the
law shall not depart from your mouth, right? You’re not going to stop reading this
book. You’re not going to you’re not going to Just just read it, but he says then
you meditate on it So you ponder what you’ve read You think about it. What does it
mean for me? Not just kind of going through to say, okay, I finished the
scriptures, you know, I read the whole Old Testament in the week and I read the
New Testament, etc, etc. Just because you want to say I did it. No, he says that
it’s never going to be out of your mind that it’s something that you think about
day and night so that you can learn how what it means and you can figure out how
to apply it. And it’s something that’s always a part of you. In the book of
Revelation we read, “Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy,
and blessed are those who hear and keep what is written in it, for the time is
near.” So it’s important for us to read and know what’s in it, so that way we can
be, you know, take effective action. Knowledge without action is useless.
And so we have to put those two together of course all of these things are about
applying the knowledge that you learn Without it. It’s it’s pointless
And then we go to Acts chapter 17 verse 11 now these Jews were more noble than
those in Thessalonica they received the word with all eagerness Examining the
scriptures daily to see if these things were so okay so he’s saying that these guys
were better right these guys were more noble and it’s very the opposite of what we
see in Hosea right in Hosea they didn’t want the knowledge but these people that
were more noble it’s because they received the knowledge with eagerness and they
looked at the examined these books every day to make sure that these things were
being done correctly. And so we can see the opposite of what happens.
One is the result, right? We throw a ball up in the air. The result is it’s going
to come down. We reject knowledge. We’re destroyed. We thirst for knowledge. We are
eager to receive it. We examine it. Then we’re blessed. We are improved.
Then in third Nephi the Lord says and now behold I say unto you that ye ought to
search these things yay a Commandment I give unto you that ye search these things
diligently for a great are the words of Isaiah So the Lord commands us he says as
it is a commandment To search the words of Isaiah That’s something you do by
reading. You don’t serve, you know, that’s not you’re not You’re not really searching
it, if you’re not reading it. You can see 88,
the Lord says, “And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another
words of wisdom. Yea, and seek ye out of the best books, words of wisdom. Seek
learning, even by study and also by faith.” So here again, We have not just an
expansion of reading, but that we teach diligently one another from these things,
that we’ve soaked these things in so much that now we are able to be a tool to
be able to expand the knowledge of other people by helping them to expand their
knowledge and to get them to read and to apply these things. Thomas Jefferson said,
“I cannot live without books.” The guy that wrote the Declaration of Independence,
this is the kind of, you know, this is how you achieve the mind of a Thomas
Jefferson is that your life is so surrounded around gaining understanding and gaining
knowledge and applying that knowledge that you just feel like you can’t live without
them. That’s how you become the kind of person the Founding Father is.
And in fact, he had so many books, he owned thousands of books. Here’s a picture
of some of them. His collection helped replenish the Library of Congress after it
burned down in 1814.
– Oh, okay. I was going to comment how in our society today,
All of our technology is wonderful and all but it’s a boom and a bang because most
of our technology is encouraging us Not to read books Yeah,
it’s removing us from that source of knowledge and
We reject now the written word Absolutely.
Well, not only that we’re you know, we are we want a digital version of it that
way that the conspiracy can change at any time or
Or just getting us away from that where we’re on our phones where we’re instead of
reading a book We’re checking social media or we’re playing a video game on our
phone You know just because we’re bored and and don’t want to do anything. So
absolutely, right It’s it’s turning us away from reading because they know that if
they can control it or get us away from it that they will make us the ignorant
people that is talked about in Hosea that will destroy us which is what they want.
They want our destruction.
So again going back to the Kato’s letters the importance of liberty and gaining
knowledge and how to do that and and how important that is. Cato’s letters again
are those writings that the Founding Fathers read extensively, quoted from,
referred to quite often,
says to be ignorant of what is going on in the world is a most absurd thing, for
the ignorant man is the dupe of every designing nave who has a mind to make his
advantage of him.
When we refuse to gain knowledge, we are making ourselves basically a tool to be
taken advantage of by those that are more knowledgeable than us. We are a dupe of
those people. We can be tricked into doing something that is ineffective or that is
damaging to us because of our ignorance. A free people can never be in safety
Unless the people are enlightened and know the principles of liberty, you don’t know
liberty You cannot be safe
Okay, and another one of his letters one of their letters It says the liberty of a
people is always in proportion to their knowledge and virtue There’s you know,
the Joseph Smith talked about how you know You can be only saved and as much as
you’ve gained knowledge. And so it’s very similar to what we see here with Cato is
that we’re only freeing as much knowledge as we have. So the more freedom that we
have, the more knowledge that we have, the more free that we are. So that’s a key
tool for us. Without knowledge, a man is not capable of judging of his duty to his
country, or of the measures that are necessary to preserve its freedom. Okay,
so we just we are just going off of emotions at that point when we don’t have
understanding and so we don’t understand what it is that is a good idea or what’s
dangerous or you know what’s something that’s gonna make us lazy and so and what
and we don’t we’re ignorant of what is going to be necessary for us and that’s why
you know the conspiracy keeps us ignorant so they can get us to be focused on
those things that we have talked about so often that empowers the conspiracy. We are
going to think that voting harder or that suing the government, things like that are
going to actually restore lost liberty when that’s never been the way that it is.
And because we’re ignorant, we don’t understand that.
In another letter, we read it is the first duty of a free people to inform
themselves and to study the history of former ages Okay, a duty of a free people
to inform themselves and study the history of former ages Studying the history of
former ages is vital
Because we you know the met our the Man is essentially,
you know, our nature doesn’t really change So even though technology changes we have
computers, we have cars, our nature doesn’t really change. And so when we see and
when we understand what has happened in previous civilizations, whether it be Rome or
Israel or Egypt, we can we can say, okay, this is what ABC,
you know, this is what happened to them. So now I can see what, you know, if I
see those things happening in my day, I can say, oh, wow, that is the first step
or that is you know we’re halfway to tyranny or here we are we’re already at
tyranny we don’t even recognize it I interviewed Steve Bonta an expert in ancient
Rome and and he was talking about how the Romans themselves when they were
considered you know still a republic but when we look at it through the hindsight
of history they were the Roman Empire but even during when they when you know when
they were the Roman Empire They own they still consider themselves a republic. They
didn’t recognize themselves as being a despotism
Says that they will see how governments have been corrupted and how liberty has been
lost in all the republics of the world But George Washington,
he was of course a staunch reader He read regularly books on military strategy and
warfare. That’s why he was a fantastic general. Can you imagine what kind of, you
know, would he ever have been a general? Would he be General Washington if he
didn’t study those things? Then we get agricultural land management. Of course, he
owned huge property, politics and government. You know, would we think of him as,
you know, this great president and great founding father if he did not take the
time to study politics in government and moral and ethical philosophy George
Washington Famously wrote a book, you know, we have the what was the same in that
book the virtues or the Trying to think of that small thin book we have Rules of
civility right and behavior. He if he hadn’t Studied those things he couldn’t write
a book for us to be able to have principles to be guided by along those things
and Moses just told me and he was 13 when he wrote it so it’s something that has
been on his mind and something that he studied for his entire life history and
classical studies of course as well and the importance and what kind of you know
just like we talked about with what what created Jefferson we can see what created
Washington do we want to be like those men are we happy with mediocrity and slavery
etiquette and personal conduct so that way we can be influential because we’re not
seen as you know either slobs or we’re not seen as you know crude individuals but
people take us seriously because you know we are presenting ourselves in the best
way possible so now it’s not just important just to read right it’s important of
course to retain what we read. So I want to give some tools for us to be able to
help us with that. That’s always been something that as I went in the beginning of
training tonight was difficult for me. And so if it’s difficult for you,
I’d like to help us all to help us to be better at retaining what it is that we
read. And so the first thing is to have what’s called a common Place book.
It’s the book itself is nothing different than a than a notebook, but it’s it’s
more than a notebook Then a notebook is typically you’re just writing, you know
You’re like you’ve you’ve read something like when you’re taking a class and you
write highlights of something that you You know some key facts and key figures so
that way you can pass a test but a commonplace book is For you to be able to to
devour and to be able to really internalize and so you can apply the things that
you’re reading. So here’s an example of one of the Founding Fathers commonplace
books. Most if not all of the Founding Fathers themselves had commonplace books. So
what you want to do is you write down key points of what you’ve read and then you
ponder it, right? You think about it. You, You know, you say, okay, well, what are
some ways that that can be applied? What you know, what do you what did he mean
by that and then you write down your thoughts on what you read?
So as you’ve pondered it, you say, okay, you know a man that is you know people
that are you know that are Expect to be ignorant and free Expect to whatever was
and never will be okay. So what does that mean? You know and and And you think
about it and say, okay, well, how does that how important do you but what does
that mean? Does that mean I need to to learn and to study and and if I want to
be free and So we just start to think about it and we write down our thoughts And
so that way we can see the application because when you you write down the thoughts
about what you read Then you can start to apply it much better than if you’re just
reading through to say that you read the book
So So and other people write down their commonplace Notes where they have no cards
instead of just a commonplace book They have some you know, three by five cards
where they write down their thoughts and the quotes that they have and So just some
thoughts about how this helps and the knowledge that we retain So if we’re just
looking at something we watch a movie we retain about 10 % of it. So if we get
all of our knowledge, information from a documentary, if we’re like,
okay, I’m not a reader, I’ll watch documentaries. Well, you’re really only going to
retain 10 % of it. And if you think about it, you know, just think of the,
the books that are turned into movies, right? You think of Tom Clancy books, like
you’ve got “Clarion Present Danger.” “Clarion Present Danger,” this this is like two
-hour movie but was only like five percent or something like that of the book so if
you are only remembering ten percent of five percent what what are you missing out
on right we think of you know dune or lord of the rings or um you know just if
you’re a documentary if you’re reading if you watched uh the john adams series based
on the book John Adams. You’re really only remembering about 10 % of about 10%.
And so it’s, you know, if we’re all, and that book wasn’t even his whole life as
Moses points out. So if that’s the only thing we’re getting our information from,
we are being spoon fed baby food, Okay, and then we with 30 to 40 % of what we
hear So we can get a little bit more when you add some audio to it and
Then 70 % of what we write so we have a commonplace book if you’re just writing
those notes down that alone Will Jack you will skyrocket your retention rate of what
you’re reading to make that time that you spent reading that much more valuable,
okay? And then we retain 90 % of what we see,
hear, and do, or teach and teach, I would say. So when we apply all these things
together, right, we read it, we saw it, we heard it, we then we applied it,
and then we attempted to teach others.
we move up to 90 % retention of what we read which makes that investment you know
10 times more valuable than it would have been otherwise because we actually kept
the information that you know that we spent the time to be able to gain and so
you know this is my handwriting you don’t even need great handwriting to start I’ve
got bad handwriting. Sometimes I’ve got to go back and I’m like, what did I write?
But it’s just practice. And the more you write, the better your handwriting gets.
And but you’ve got it. So you’ve at least, right, if you wrote it down, you’ve at
least gone from 10 % to 70 % retention, just because even if you can’t read your
handwriting, you’ve at least kind of increased your retention rate just by doing
that. And so this is just an example, Just because we are not a reader, just
because we don’t have good handwriting doesn’t mean that we can use those as excuses
to remain ignorant and remain slaves, because we can still do it. The impact is
still there. And it’s important that we, if we want to be free, that’s why we’re
here in the Tree of Liberty Society, not because we want to just get together and
commiserate with others about how horrible things are and how evil the the conspiracy
is, we want to actually do something to be able to preserve liberty. And so these
are right here, just a commonplace book and applying it and then teaching it is
going to be something that puts you above and beyond your average person right up
the top. So now can I just listen? So I just went there, I showed you some of
the retention rates, right, for listening, And so it’s not the worst thing in the
world, right? If that’s the only thing you’re going to do, then do that. But I
want to show you right here, this is a study that was done. They hear, but do not
listen. Retention for podcastive material in a classroom context. The study compared
how well students learned about a scientific subject from a 22 -minute podcast versus
a printed article. Okay? So you listened to the podcast that talked about it versus
reading a printed article about that same subject. So the students spent the same
amount of time with each format on a written quiz. Two days later,
the reader scored 81 % and the listeners
19 % so even though they both invested the same exact amount of time the The
retention and the the fruits of It were completely different, right?
It’s not like you’re like well I just don’t have time to to read so I’m just
gonna listen well if you’re gonna listen for 22 minutes How about you read for 22
minutes because your retention rate for that 22 minutes is gonna be exponential
compared to just listening to somebody talk about that thing. And so,
you know, just doing podcasts is not going to replace reading about those things.
Now, of course, another aspect of, you know, when you’re listening to an audio book,
right, there are times where you’re like, I’m not going to read a book while
driving. You know, maybe some of you will, but Probably most of us are not going
to read a book while we’re driving and so we’ll listen to a book or we’ll listen
to a podcast about a subject and But you know there are points of that where
audiobooks and podcasts They are moving along with or without your participation. So
when you’re reading a book you zone out you stop reading but when You out while
listening to an audio book or listening to a podcast, that podcast, that book keeps
going. And so now you’ve zoned out for a few minutes and now you’ve got to go
back and you’ve, you know, just to start listening again and you’ve missed the last
couple of minutes of what they’ve said. And you’ve got to kind of spend the next
couple of seconds trying to figure out like, Hey, what’s going on? Keep, keep back
up. And so we, We you know there’s that aspect of it as well and then right you
can tune out your mind wanders around the subject a hand and There will still be a
forward motion in the story is moving You’re not stopping to ponder the subject is
another part of that you’re not writing down a quote or your thoughts on the quote
right you’re in the middle of of
Exercising or you’re driving and and you’re like oh man, and I’ve done this myself
where I’m like that is I need to that quote. I need to make make sure and
remember that quote Five minutes later. I don’t even remember what I thought I was
gonna remember or even remember that I thought I had to remember something let alone
remember what it was I needed to remember and So there’s all kinds of things we’re
missing out on when we say I’m just going to do an audiobook Or I’m just gonna do
podcasts there be for that very reason that we’ve just gone over and so you know
when we when we say these things that it is better than nothing right we I’m not
saying that if you’re not going to read don’t bother doing anything don’t I’m like
okay just go watch SpongeBob just be a retard or something because you’re not going
to read a book no of course if you’re listening to a podcast about something if
you are listening to a book you are going to retain some of it. So you are better
off than you were not doing anything. So but I’m saying if you want to be as
effective and successful as you can, you will read, you will study, you will ponder,
you will write down, you will think about what in the write down what, you know,
your application, your thoughts of what it was that you read. And so if it’s
something that you’re not doing while driving, exercising, etc. If you’re sitting down
and listening to a book, I would say just whatever time you’re going to spend
listening to that book, read it instead. Take those notes, because if it’s the same
amount of time you’re not losing anything, you can’t say I don’t have time, you’re
going to spend that time anyways. Just spend it doing, you know, the thing that
actually is more effective. And you don’t need to be smarter special, you just need
discipline and a plan. Right. I would say that myself, I’m most likely, you know,
going to be dumber than most of you here. And so, but I was able to do these
things, not because I was smarter special, but because I decided it was something
that needed to be done. And so I made sure that there was a plan, and that I sat
down and just did it, and that I practiced. And so I, you know, I went from just
being able to do it for like three to five minutes to a tan to whatever it took
to be able to take care of what needed to be taken care of. And so it’s don’t
think that if you haven’t done it till now that you can go from not doing it all
to doing it for an hour, that’s not going to work. It’s just like anything else,
sports, exercise, musical instrument, whatever the talented you know somebody does it’s
something that is is done over time and that we shouldn’t get discouraged just
because we didn’t do it you know become an expert day one we just have to
recognize that we have to invest the time that it takes because we want to be free
and as we look through the the scriptures we look at the founding fathers they
understood this and they taught us this and so are we going to
utilize the lessons learned from the past so that we don’t have to repeat them
ourselves. Can we say okay I’m gonna I know what they said is true and so I’m
gonna do my best to try and to apply it okay. It’s because reading and studying
and pondering about what you’ve read is essential to liberty. So not just anything
but books right I’m not saying go read a romance novel I’m not saying go read
Nancy he drew, the books that help you to edify, help to elevate you,
to inspire you, to build your understanding, to improve you, to learn something that
will make you a better person. Like the Founding Fathers, George Washington, the
things that he read were the things that helped him do the things that better what
he was already doing or what he wanted to do. And so those of the things that we
should focus on is improving ourselves and reading what those types of things are
what help us will will help us to move in that direction and be a people that are
capable of freedom. Because just like if we’re not moral, we’re not capable of
freedom. If we’re not doing these things, we’re not capable of freedom. This is
another one of those throw a ball up in the air, it comes down type of scenarios.
It’s just the natural result. You won’t do this, you won’t be free.
So we have to not make those excuses for ourselves. Look at those that have
struggled and that have been able to overcome and said that you want to do that
same thing so that you can be a part of making us better and moving us in that
in that right direction
and so that you know start to water that tree of liberty.
Looks like we’ve got a lot of awesome chats going on and we have,
I was able to go through a lot of the slides a lot faster tonight and so I don’t
know if that’s a good thing but I’m going to go look over the the chat right now
and And while we’re doing that, I’ve made it so anybody, we can unmute ourselves,
but I would like to encourage us all to still raise our hand and wait to be
called on before we make a comment. But now’s, that was a good time. If you’ve got
a comment that you’d like to share, you’d like to, you know, expound upon or ask a
question about, about what we’ve covered. So this is an open forum yet. This is
still questions and comments should be focused on what we’ve covered tonight so if
you’ve got a question comment please raise your hand and we’ll get to that and I’ll
go through the chat so just looking in the chat mark says how about building
understanding of the supreme law i .e. the Constitution well even above the
Constitution is the law of God natural law as well which is the Constitution is
based on of course but yes absolutely that should obviously be a course of study. A
branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge, its representations and
foundations, and its extent of validity, its estymological estymology.
It’s covering up the words. It is of value to understand the fundamentals of
epistemology in order to understand well what is and what is not knowledge.
I agree 100%. Virtue righteous values helps to determine what is valuable knowledge
to seek 100 % agree Bobby says they keep a notebook with me wherever I go.
That’s awesome. I need to do better at that Helps me remember important impressions
of things I see and read Samantha, I need to work on getting a better shorthand.
Oh, yeah, that’s a lost art shorthand Brittany there’s an initiative in in my
district called “Write to Learn” and it preaches bringing in writing into jail
learning so there is more retention in classrooms. Interesting. I’m surprised they
would want that. I think it also comes down to parents with the technology issue
with children. Oh, for sure. Parents allowing people to have that kind of stuff.
Yeah, Brittany, go ahead.
Okay, Okay, I was just gonna expound upon that for a second. So my principle is
like really into this initiative He makes all the new teachers coming into it into
our particular school take this course with this woman who has dedicated her life to
write to learn initiatives and She basically Teaches you all all the stuff that you
kind of put this, um, tonight she touches on like a lot of the scientific studies
that they have happened about writing and how much it really does teach you how to
learn. And she, because I was a math teacher, I’m a math teacher. So I was like,
how the heck do you want me to add writing to math? Like other than like word
problems and things of that nature, I was like, you really want them to explain
everything that they do. Like, do you know how annoying that is as a math person?
Like, it’s annoying. I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to make them do that
They’re gonna hate me and she’s like no no no you need to like like find other
ways to bring it in and I was like Oh gosh, okay, so I actually just started
doing this daily reflection journal with the kids And I make them write down every
time I’m done with the lesson three things They learned that are new from just the
lesson just from what they we did in class and it doesn’t have to be complete
sentences It could just be like notes, but I’m starting to notice that they actually
are retaining what I talk about because I’m making them write it down. So yeah,
I just thought I would share that it’s working in my classroom, so we can all do
it too.
I’m amazed that they’re doing that in the government school. That’s way cool. Yeah,
it is cool. I would say the same thing. I would say I have a handful of people
that try to go against the grain, but then you talk to them about anything else
important and they’re ignorant, so. (laughs) – Yep, yep. Thank you.
What do you mean parents are dumbing down the kids? Oh, with too much decade. Is
that what you meant, Brittany, that parents are dumbing down their own kids? – Yeah,
Yeah, basically I Jared and I were sitting here. We were kind of talking we’re
like, you know parents just use their this technology as like babysitters like They
just throw it in front of the kid and then the kids are hooked, you know, and
then they don’t really have that What is the word I’m thinking? they don’t have
like the motivation to go and seek out knowledge in Appropriate manner because all
they’ve ever known is technology. And so they think, oh, well, I just learned
everything from this. I can just watch a video and I learned it already. I don’t
need to read. I don’t need to write about it. I don’t need to know that stuff. I
learned it. I know everything. Oh, so you can repeat it back to me. Word for word,
bro. No. Well, then how do you know everything that they just said? And they don’t.
And so that’s what I was trying to get at, is that parents don’t, especially in
Vegas, they just don’t promote learning outside of their cell phone.
Yeah, okay. Learning outside of You know, it just feels like sometimes people talk
about other areas and I’m like well I wish it was like that here, but it’s just
not People driving around their vans and they got the TV plugged into the backseat
of you know So the kids are just like you can’t even get away from a television
when they’re driving You know, it’s ridiculous, but yes Thank you.
just playing the plan. Yep, read legislation. The more you do it, the better you
can get the word specifics. Words matter. Oh my goodness, that’s so true. Because
you’ll look at, they’ve got like a whole section on definitions. So you’re like, oh,
I thought, you know, up meant up. But, you know, when I read this legislation, up
means down, holy cow. Yeah, the more you read it, the better you understand what
these Commies are doing. Helps me retain information. Absolutely retain. If the kids
are remembering the wrong things better, not so bad for the conspiracy. That’s that’s
true Yep And so we got yeah, we’ll do mark and then Samantha go ahead
Mark The three things on the subject of product We only have so much time to learn
So it’s extremely important when we have a proper values proper values, righteous
values, godly values, and that because otherwise we could be learning trivia.
We can learn all the types of grasses that the nurse tree 500 miles from the
cells, you know, it’s really important we have standards that guide us and direct us
forward to what is important to learn. And epistemology, it’s really a value to
learn basic fundamentals of epistemology. It covers science,
how do we determine facts, do the scientific methods, statistical analysis, and so
forth. It helps determine proper analysis, how do you apply logic to a collection of
facts.
So there’s so much to epistemology, I really recommend we study knowledge,
what is and what is not knowledge. And related to one of the subjects you brought
up on, and it’s so absolutely correct, the less you know, especially what’s
important, the more easier you do, particularly regarding power politics.
And so yes, that’s another one thing is you need to know the knowledge, but another
form of knowledge that’s very important to it is Secondary is understand
disinformation strategies. How do they fool you? And there’s all hundreds and hundreds
of techniques That are regularly used by the established by the conspiracy by the
politicians by the media by the schools To pull it and it’s really important. We
learn those Well one last subject on the listening versus reading I personally have
learned what I knew this at the beginning my college career is I have to take
notes and every and almost every lecture I go to a speech I go to I take notes I
just learn better writing the notes and then of course I have them to review and
but there are some people are different we have some people have aptitude and and
sometimes they use that as an excuse when they say I’m a visual learner or I’m an
auditorial learner I’m better listening and found a lot of the people that have
heard him say that I’ve gotten up evidence that just when they say they’re better
at listening and reading it’s really an excuse not to put in the extra effort but
my dad for example according to my mom he became a doctor he never took any notes
he was so good at listening and memory but memory is a factor there so some people
have better memories to me are better memories of the next guy. I have a horrible
memory when it comes to at least let’s say it’s much poorer than what I obtained
through writing. And lastly, we need to learn and study and what did you talk about
reflecting? We need to be able to assimilate the knowledge and reflect on it, and
we need to understand it well enough, particularly a subject, that we can communicate
it to others. So just taking a course on liberty, but we really don’t understand or
will enough that we can teach others what is liberty is important. So I think a
teacher knows this. You could be the best teacher on our most knowledgeable person
on the subject, but if you can’t communicate it to your students, it’s not of any
value. So you have to be able to know well, well and how to communicate it to
others. – Thank you. Samantha.
– Yeah, real quick. So you’re saying, oh, I’m surprised that they would be teaching
that in government schools, right? – I see your notes there, yeah, in the chat.
– Yeah, no, I think, I was thinking about that. And it actually relates to other
things that surprise people. The conspiracy doesn’t want, they want high functioning
slaves, like they still need people in technology, they still need future lawyers,
they need doctors, and you need to have a modicum of ability to be able to
communicate and carry on. So they’re not going to, they don’t want everyone to be,
you know, Barney Rubble or anything, they do want, they do want,
you know, they need, they need the next generation to perpetuate what they’re And so
then they know that not everyone is going to excel that does these things. But
there are reasons why there’s things that you go, Oh, that means they want good
things because no, it just means that they, it’s like Freemasonry and all that
stuff. They teach certain level of high functioning ability to perpetuate what they’re
doing. They need people like them, You know that are younger that grow up to do
what they do. So well How many intelligent people do you know that are dumb as
rocks when it comes to the things of importance, right? So it’s it’s it’s because
they focus their knowledge on learning things that didn’t really matter Well before I
was gonna do this in the beginning, but I totally spaced I forgot I wanted to show
you guys something on the website that we’re working on it’s not easily available
yet but in the member portal I just wanted to kind of show you here what it looks
like now this is something you can see and and because you know I just don’t have
the the skills we’ve got Rod who’s sick tonight has been working on making the site
more visually appealing and easier to work on and so we can see here each of the
months are kind of separated but also he’s working on this topic as well so pretty
quick here we’re going to have different things where you click on the Alta Club or
you click on CFR in different topics it’ll like if you click on the Alta Club this
isn’t available yet but I wanted to show you it’ll have a page on the Alta Club
where all of the documents we have you know what is the lowdown just showing you
what why is the Alta Club important first to know about what are the documents that
we have this is their biography, you know, their newsletter, you have their bylaws,
you can read their, you know, a list of members that we know that we have, we
have their tax returns, you can look at that kind of stuff. And so we’ll have that
on all of our subjects. So it’ll be, it’ll be make the member portal much more
user friendly and even better tool than it already is for you to be able to do
your I’m studying Yes, Micah go ahead There we go.
Sorry my hands were wet
About the I liked Samantha’s comment on the
Intelligent slaves, I’m not sure if that she said that precise to like that, but
yeah
Remind me of a And I ran across this podcast sometime ago this guy he was home
school in America and then he went to Germany I don’t know why but he decided to
get higher education there and It was a really big deal because in Germany
Basically by the time that the kid is like 12 or 13 they’re already approved or
unapproved for higher education. And so he had to go through this whole rigamarole
to get into the university over there. And so but like the basic concept of it
really was was that
and it’s not as I haven’t I don’t think that the conspiracy the conspiracy hasn’t
managed to do it as hard here, but they do it in Germany, but it’s definitely the
way the schools are set up. But they’re not set up so that intelligence is promoted
and excellence is promoted. They’re set up so that,
hey, there’s no bill played on that yet, stand by.
They’re set up so that the most obedient are the ones that are allowed to go
forward. And that’s really kind of what I mean, that’s really what everything’s about
when you put a kid for eight hours in a seat, you know, and I mean,
we’ve all we’ve all probably been there. So I don’t really need to talk about any
more about that. But yeah, thank you, Micah. Mark, go ahead.
Yes, in response to what you just said Kat. That’s not just in Germany, that’s a
lot of the countries France has been practicing it for I don’t know many many
decades, generations, or early, excuse me,
and adolescence they they decide, and it’s very analogous to insects like ants and
bees, they determine whether you’re going to be a normal or you’re going to be a
worker be.
Yeah, can you hear me? Yeah, I just I’m trying to find the mute button. Where’s
the mute button been? Everything’s changed since you’ve done whatever the duty. I
muted you. You’re good. Go ahead, Mark. We can hear you. So they it’s very much
like insects. You’re just your life is chosen for you. And that’s what you have, of
course, in totalitarianism, where they may decide everything where you work, how you
work, whether you live Your relationships everything and so if this is all and one
last point here this term technologiesocracy it’s really being bannered around a lot
and they as much like during the COVID -19 The brain blaming medicine blaming doctors
blaming technology. It’s not technology Technology it’s just tyranny with use of
technology and tyranny. In COVID -19, it was use of medical terms and doctors that
were really tyrants. So we really need to realize they try to distract us away from
what the source of the problem is. It’s tyranny, whether it’s technocracy or it’s
biology, It’s biology, virology. – Okay,
thank you. We’re out of time. Let’s go ahead and close up for tonight. I was gonna
ask Dan to say the closing prayer. I don’t know if he’s with you, Samantha, but if
he’s not Samantha, would you say the closing prayer for us? – Dear Heavenly Father,
we’re grateful that we could be here for this important meeting with the Tree of
Liberty Society and so grateful for Ben’s preparations and thoughtfulness and what we
could learn tonight and how important it is for us to to learn and to learn how
to learn and to do it in a way that makes it meaningful and help us to be more
proactive and useful in my hands and and more detrimental to the conspiracy.
We’re so grateful for our strong minds and strong hearts and for the lives that
we’ve been given and the time that we’ve been given at this time to do the works
that need to be done and to learn our history and to do things better and to be
brave and true and moral and wise. We’re so grateful for this company and everyone
in this group and ask blessings on them and their families and ask He to bless us
this week and to better implement what we learn here and to teach it to others and
to teach it to our families and to uplift the culture of liberty and to do those
works that are pleasing to the we’re so grateful for thy goodness to us always and
we’re seeing, we see these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
