Member Training – Critical Thinking Part 1

Member training from April 14th 2025.

This presentation, Critical Thinking Part 1, introduces the foundational principles of critical thinking through a biblical lens, emphasizing the pursuit of objective truth over subjective opinion. It outlines four core skills: evaluating arguments, recognizing personal biases, constructing sound arguments, and making wise decisions. The session distinguishes between objective and subjective truth, encourages the use of correspondence, coherence, and pragmatism tests to assess claims, and stresses that truth is knowable and essential for both personal integrity and societal freedom. All of this is framed within a spiritual mission to resist deception and uphold godly principles.

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TRANSCRIPT

Father in heaven, we’re here for another meeting of the trade of liberty society,
joined in our united efforts to preserve our freedoms,
to do the work that Thou has
assigned for each of us to do and we’re very grateful for the leadership that we
have to show us the way, to point the way of how we’re to be doing these things.
And Father we ask thee now to open our minds that we may be able to have
the wherewithal.
But get up and go to do those things that are required.
Please bless Anne for his patience with us.
Father help us to exert more effort to get the things done that need to be done.
We ask now this blessing.
We invite the Holy Ghost here to attend us
and please guide Ben and those that counsel with him.
In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. – Amen.
So I wanna, if you’ve already seen this, well, just again, hopefully everybody
remembers as we go through this, what we’re trying to do here, trying to build
understanding of the principles that have built free nations, expose the satanic
conspiracy and build an effective resistance to that conspiracy. So tonight, it’s
gonna cover a little bit about the conspiracy, ’cause of course you need that, the
critical thinking skills because of what the conspiracy has done but really what
we’re doing here is we’re doing the first and third. We’re building the understanding
of critical thinking and that will be a part of it. If we have critical thinking
we will be an effective resistance to the conspiracy and so that’s why we’re
recovering this tonight and this… I didn’t share uh the audio okay
if
you’ve seen this video already um don’t give it away but uh if this is a really
important one to understand the principle that i’m talking about tonight so i’m gonna
play this
Despite what you might be thinking these two circles are not equal. I repeat these
two circles are not equal One is in fact larger than the other. What I need you
to do is determine which one that is So please raise your hand if you believe the
blue circle is larger than the red All
right, please raise your hand if you believe the red circle is in the blue.
Alright, very good. Now, before I said anything about these two circles, what was
your first instinct?
Equal, right? Because they look equal. The reason why they look equal is because in
fact they are equal. These two circles are identical. Yet I got just about every
one of you to raise your hand and say that they’re not. So what did we learn?
That you can be manipulated like that to believe in something that goes against your
natural Just just imagine just imagine as a child you’re taught that the blue circle
is larger than the red if you save enough times You can get yourself that the
truth
So that’s something that we get all the time right and and we can see that just
in that example right there of When we’re told that it’s what we’re what they want
us to believe Then even if because we’re given an illusion of choice were
manipulated very easily into thinking that there is an option, that these two things
are different and that they’re not the same size. They are different colors, of
course, but, and we see that all the time where we’re, you talked about the very
end there, he says that, you know, if we’re told from a very young age something,
we believe it. But also just in, you know, in three seconds, it was, you know,
we’re like, oh, it’s not the same size. Okay, well, which one is? We thought about
it for a second. And that happens to us when we listen to the radio, when we’re
in school, when we watch TV, any time anything happens really,
that there is somebody nefarious involved in either the production of the materials
or in the presenting of the materials, you will be there trying to manipulate you
in some way or another. And so Understanding critical thinking is vital because
that’s how so many people fell for the fake pandemic That’s how come we have people
falling for these ideas and the Supreme Court decides What laws are constitutional or
not all these different lies that were told every day is not because We thought
critically and we came to the conclusion that was wrong most the time it’s because
we Or the public at large I should say didn’t engage in any type of critical
thinking. So I’m gonna go over some tools that help us to start to recognize,
how do we critically think? Make sure we know and so that we can put it into
practice. But this idea of critical thinking and understanding truth is very,
very important. The apostle Paul talked about in Colossians. He says, “Beware lest
any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men
after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ and so through the idea right
we have the philosophies the philosophies of men mingled with scripture you have just
there they’re using so -called logic you have these philosophy classes at universities
but they try to manipulate the way you think and the the questions that they ask
you and directing you in a certain way and then they use vanity and deception to
get you all mixed together to believe a lie and so they to follow after the world
and of course that we’ve left that foundation of Christ that is needed because he
is the truth and then in Ephesians he says And he gave some apostles,
and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the
perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the
body of Christ. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ. That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and
carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men, and cunning
craftiness, whereby they lie and wait to deceive.” And so he’s warning us of this
idea of what’s going on is when we just listen to all these different voices out
there, that then we become, we just get, you know, somebody comes up with a good
idea and we’re like, “Yeah, that’s true.” And then somebody else says, “Oh, but you
missed this hidden truth. Oh yeah, that’s true. And then just every new thing that
pops up, we’re like, oh my goodness, yes, that’s a new truth I came up with. And
they’re all contradictory and they’re all wrong because they are done through slight,
through cunning, and through deceit. They are purposely deceiving us. And if we don’t
understand critical thinking, then it’ll be easy for us to be deceived. And,
you know, even as we learn these skills, we will Oh, you know, there will be times
that we are deceived. And so it’s essential that we’re continually going over these
principles to make sure what other things that we’ve been deceived about. And we
start to unravel those deceptions that we’ve grabbed onto our entire lives. So I
wanna ask the question like, what is like, what’s really the principle? What is the
definition or what is the concept of critical thinking? So, critical thinking is the
general term given to a wide range of cognitive skills and intellectual dispositions
needed to effectively identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments and truth claims.
To discover and overcome personal prejudices and biases. That’s a big part of
critical thinking right there. And to formulate and present convincing reasons in
support of conclusions and to make reasonable intelligent decisions about what to
believe and what to do Because if you’re you’ve come to a conclusion and don’t act
upon it Then you’ve really wasted your whole time of figuring out what the truth is
because who cares if you’re not gonna do anything with it So there are four
dimensions of critical thinking That we’re gonna learn throughout this series and go
in depth in Throughout the series and The first one is the skills that are required
to evaluate arguments and truth claims, the skills required to overcome personal
prejudices and biases, the skills required to clearly formulate good arguments,
and the skills required to make intelligent decisions about what to believe and what
to do. So I’m not gonna tell you what to believe, I’m just gonna show you how to
think. I’m gonna show you what to think just how to think. So the first one we
have the skills required to evaluate arguments and truth claims. So of course you
have to be able to identify and then analyze and evaluate claims prior to accepting
them as true. What I’m doing tonight shouldn’t just be accepted, we should go
through and we should identify and analyze and evaluate what we talked about so that
we can decide what the truth is and what we can throw out maybe. So the second
one is the skills required to overcome personal prejudices and biases. We needed the
ability to identify our own prejudices and biases as they affect our ability to
evaluate truth claims because if we you know it’s this happens all the time I I
catch myself doing it at times where I’ve got a preconceived notion.
And so I threw, I said, Oh, well, then because that contradicts this,
I have to throw out this, this new idea, or because, or vice versa, I have to
accept it because it contradicts this other idea I had. So we have to be able to
recognize our prejudices and biases and how they affect our ability to decide if
something’s true or not. We we really there’s a lot of times we really want
something to be true because it would affect us greatly right there’s things that we
see we’re like man if that’s true people talking about like they think trump is
going to get rid of the irs and because they think that’s going to lower their tax
bill they want it to be true and so they pass it around or it makes their you
know political enemy look bad so they want it to be true there and so they’re
because of how it will benefit them they they want it to be true whether it’s true
or not. We believe the personal organization making a claim and so we don’t give
the claim due consideration. We’re like well you know I like that guy and he
usually tells me what’s what’s up and so I don’t need to really question what’s
being taught and that’s that’s also a thing we need to overcome a part of prejudice
and bias and then we also you know what can prejudice us is we may fear the
consequences of rejecting or accepting a truth claim. Somebody might be afraid.
They’re like, Oh, well, if that’s true, that means I need to change what I do on
this thing, or I might have to stick my neck out. And so I don’t want to believe
that’s true, because I’m going to have to change my behavior. Or, or, you know, if
that’s not true, I mean, if that if they reject it, they’re like, they’re like, if
that is true and I reject it, then it’s going to hurt me. And so I better accept
it because I don’t want to be wrong. So we have these prejudices that get in the
way of us really analyzing something in the truthfulness of it. Personal prejudices
also keep us from being objective in our evaluations of truth claims. So we got to
make sure and check those at the door. The next is the skills required to a
clearly formulate good arguments. Not only do we have to be able to,
you know, it’s our responsibility to warn others once we’ve been warned, we have to
be able to, once we’ve learned something, to be able to learn how to articulate
that and share with others, right? We need the ability to present truth claims of
our own.
And we need to be able to communicate the truth in a valid sound and coherent
arguments, you know, we can’t just say this is true because I said so or because,
you know, the communists, this or, you know, something because so and so did
something. We can’t just say Glenn Beck told me, you know, we’ve got to be able to
elucidate it ourselves. So, but also there will be some that reject the truth no
matter what. We have to recognize that And no matter how clearly and effectively
that we do the job, there will be people that follow in the other two areas,
and they will find a reason to reject what we’ve claimed. So we’ve got to be able
to do a good job, right, to accurately present the information so that we can find
those and affect those that are actually honest in heart. And the fourth are the
skills required to make intelligent decisions about what to believe and what to do,
right? Doesn’t mean that all of our choices will be perfect since we often find
ourselves having to make decisions without access to all of the information we need
to do so intelligently. And so that, you know, again, like I said earlier, is that
learning something is should affect the way we behave. Nevertheless,
even in those situations we can minimize the potential for bad consequences and
maximize the potential for good ones because we are analyzing things. If we have
done a good job of using our critical thinking skills, that is going to minimize
the mistakes that we make as much as possible. So it’s very important that we, you
know, recognize that and we don’t turn this fear cycle of not doing anything because
we’re afraid of doing something wrong. We can boost our confidence that We’re going
to do the right thing because we are exercising this this these skills
So an understanding of critical thinking when we’re being present We’re you know,
we’re critically thinking about facts and truths. So there are two kinds of truth
out there We have one true that will just the concept the overall concept is that
truth is a property of propositions that correspond to the way things are.
So David Rockefeller stated that he was part of a cabal in his autobiography. So
its truthfulness is not dependent on you observing it, it’s not on anybody’s opinion,
it is a fact. It is an observable fact. you can read his autobiography, and you
can see that he wrote that, that he said that, okay? That’s, it’s not relevant to
your belief or your disbelief or your opinion. It is an objective truth.
It is an objective reality that he said that in his autobiography, okay? So just
giving you some examples of objective truths, right? We have two plus two equals
four, the earth revolves around the sun, water is composed of one molecule of
oxygen, two molecules of hydrogen, God exists, we learn God’s will in the scriptures,
okay? All of these are objectively true and not dependent on anyone’s opinion. So,
you know, I’ve mentioned the Declaration of Independence now, it talks about self
-evident truths. And if somebody’s going to argue with you about two plus two equals
four, then there’s not enough common ground that you can have a discussion, right?
And so there are some basic objective truths that all parties in the discussion have
to be willing to accept, otherwise you’re not going to have a fruitful conversation.
Objectively true statements lead to productive conversations. So if we focus as much
as we can on objective truth, things that are undebatable to a reasonable person,
then you will have a much more fruitful and productive conversation with that
individual than you would if you focused only on subjective truth, which I’m going
to get into your opinions, your feelings. And that’s what you get a lot is, makes
me feel bad. That makes me, you know, feel icky. And so I don’t want to believe
it. That is, there is no fruit. There’s nothing to produce out of such a
conversation. Okay, so now we get this one right here, we have football is the most
exciting thing to watch. What kind of truth is that? Right? That’s, that’s a matter
of opinion. Some people love to watch other sports, some people find it to be a
modern version of Roman Coliseum style distractions of the masses. Okay,
so this is subjective truth. You might find it exciting, but somebody else might
not. And so that is not a, that is not a objective fact. That is a subjective
truth. Go animals.
It might be objective that it’s a modern version of Roman. Sure,
you could debate that.
So subjective truth we have here rainbow. Sherbert is the best dessert ever
69 degrees is the perfect temperature to set the air conditioner to at night Women
look better with the beehive style hairdo Being a doctor is the most rewarding
career going to church is boring. Okay Truth in this sense is dependent on the
opinion of the person instead of the object itself, right? Somebody, they’re like
myself, the church is not boring. I don’t think that being a doctor is the most
rewarding career, right? And so these are gonna be things that are opinions and not
objective of themselves.
So I’ll give you, right? Arguing about subjective truth is fruitless. If you’re gonna
argue with someone about the perfect temperature or the best style of hair you’re
you’re going in circles and it’s maybe it could be more fun but if you’re trying
to come to a truth that is not what you’re going to do our focus should be on
the pursuit of objective truth right so objective another example of objective
objective versus subjective so it’s an objective truth that ice cream is edible Okay,
and then but it is subjective right ice cream is delicious Right, that’s going to
be subjective to the opinion of the person consuming the ice cream
So let’s we’re gonna go through some tests of truth. How do you you know, how do
you how can you test a claim? credit using critical thinking to be able to come to
a reasonable conclusion conclusion.
So the first one, we have test of correspondence, test of coherence,
and test of pragmatism. So those are the three different areas to test a claim to
find out if it’s reasonable to believe it. So we have test of correspondence.
What does that mean? We have the way to physically verify the claim. Okay. So
somebody says my house is four and a half miles from my office, can I physically
verify that claim? How would I verify what they’re telling me is true?
You get their home address, you get the address of their office, and you put it on
a map, a GPS, and you can have objective truth to say, yes, that is true or know
that is false because you have a way to be able to physically verify the claim.
Another way, right? Another claim. Somebody says my knife is sharp. So how can you
physically verify that? If you cut yourself, maybe you’re like,
okay, I’m going to test it out on cooking some or cutting some fruits and
vegetables. You know, there are ways to verify the claim that your knife is sharp.
So when we think about any claim out there, these are just, you know, I guess,
more frivolous claims out there, but they illustrate an example that we can apply to
things that are more serious. And so if somebody makes a claim, you know, President
Trump just announced that he wants to send American citizens to South American
prisons. Okay, that’s a claim I just made. Is there a way to verify it? Is there,
you know, is there a video of him saying it? Is there a written statement by the
by the White House that makes that that I can use to verify the claim that I just
made? Okay, just give you an example of something of here’s a claim. Is there a
way to physically verify that claim?
So now we have test of coherence and this is something that there’s there are times
out there where you don’t have the ability to actually physically verify something
but you still have to come to a conclusion if it’s true or not and And so there
but there are ways that we can say okay through the preponderance of evidence This
is likely to be true or this is likely to be false. So, I’ll give you an example.
You have a husband and wife, they rented a beach house and the husband took off
for the day on their boat and he said he was going to be back by noon, but then
he wasn’t back until he comes to be dinnertime and he still hasn’t come back home
and his wife is worried and he’s not returning any phone calls, and so she calls
the police, or in this case, maybe the National Guard, to go do a search and
rescue. So the search and rescue has gone out. They’ve looked at the boat.
He wasn’t robbed. All of his valuables are still in the boat. His wallet’s there.
His jewelry’s there. His watch is there. His phone is there. So it wasn’t a
robbery. There’s no evidence of anything like that. And so they do a search. He’s
out in the middle of the ocean. There’s no evidence that there have been other
people around that, you know, no evidence of any kind of foul play. And so the
Coast Guard comes and makes and declares the individual
dead. And so if you have, you know, you’ve gone through all those things,
the most reasonable conclusion there that was made was that he somehow fell or
jumped out of the water and somehow he drowned. And we’re not able to verify that,
though. We don’t know that. We don’t have the physical evidence. We can’t verify
that he’s drowned and that he’s dead. But there’s enough evidence surrounding the
situation that says that’s the most reasonable, most logical conclusion to what
happened here. And so this is the same thing that happens in a jury.
There are a lot of times, a lot of cases, that there isn’t some way to 100 %
verify that someone committed a crime, but they looked at all of the evidence and
they said beyond a reasonable doubt, there was enough circumstantial evidence, there
were enough surrounding items that said, Based on all of this different these
different criterias. We can come to a conclusion that they’re guilty And so and if
those things don’t happen, of course They say that they’re not guilty or that
they’re at least you know that search circumstance They they they didn’t believe that
there was enough evidence to say that they were guilty They can still be guilty
even if there’s not enough evidence to make that claim and so there are lots of
different times in our lives that we can’t have physical evidence evidence to prove
something. And so we have to be able to go off of the preponderance of evidence,
the other things that are surrounding us, maybe not physically evidence, but we can
use deductive reasoning to come to a reasonable and rational conclusion that would
actually hold up in a court of law.
So that’s the test of coherence. Now we have the test test of pragmatism.
So is the claim livable in real life?
So somebody says something and one way that you would verify it, you would ask
yourself, is this something that you can actually, would this actually work? So you
have here Tupac Shakur, he says, if you don’t know me, don’t judge me, right? You
have this, this, this phrase out there in the world today of you can’t judge me
and so right if we can’t judge behavior how could we have a free society does that
work in real life because that means we can’t judge you know assault is that right
or wrong man we can’t judge and so we have to allow it how about theft if we
can’t judge the rightness or wrongness of theft we have to allow it how about
murder well if we’re not you know I can’t I don’t know you so I can’t judge You
therefore I have to allow you to murder people because I can’t judge you Right if
there’s no right or wrong, then you have to let people do whatever they want and
That’s not viable in the society. You can’t just allow people to hurt people to
steal from others to kill them To murder them. So it’s not viable in society.
So don’t judge or there’s no right or no wrong That’s we can say that that’s false
because it does not work in real life
So we know that we can say that oh, that’s an opinion. No, that’s not an opinion
because It’s not something that is livable in real life Which makes an objective an
objectively false statement to say that we can’t judge We have to judge in society
So We also have this idea in the world that well truth is subjective. There’s no
way there’s your truth There’s my truth kind of goes back to the the previous
concept of You can’t judge me, right? They want you to think that truth is
unknowable. It’s subjective and
and We know that that’s false. We have the the truth himself Saying that and you
shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free, the Savior says. So the
truth is knowable, and the truth is something that makes you free.
Now, of course, how does truth make you free, right? Well, if you know something,
now you can make a reasonable decision on what to do. You’re free to make an
action based on the best data, which means you are now going to have the best
conclusion possible which makes you more free whereas if you don’t know what’s going
on you’re going to be less free and you’re gonna have a maybe a 50 /50 or less
chance if you don’t know the truth of something of making a right decision so of
course when you can come to the conclusion that’s true you are going to have more
freedom and so truth is knowable and it has a consequence of freedom The Savior,
talking to the Sad Deferesies, talked about this. He says, “You are of your Father,
the devil, and the lusts of your Father ye will do.” He was a murderer from the
beginning and a boat not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. So truth
is knowable, but of course Satan and his followers are against the There is no
truth in them When he speak at the lie, he speaketh of his own or he is a liar
and the father of it So you can’t have lies if you don’t have truth and so we
have a liar Satan and his followers are Trying to deceive people and so that they
can take away their freedom deception takes away your freedom and And that also
deception can affect your soul and affects the things that you do in your day -to
-day life and so of course Satanist followers want to Fill you with deception want
to fill you with doubt want to fill you with questions and make you think that
there is no truth But of course there is truth There is deception and there are
individuals that want us to not know the truth They want to deceive us and get us
away from that so that they can enslave us You can think of most of the things
that people lie about are things that give them control over you.
That’s why they lie about it. And so truth is real and so are lies, of course. So
with that, that is the end of our part one of our lessons on critical thinking.
And so I’d like to open it up now go through the the question, but I’d love to
hear your thoughts I went through that a little bit faster than I thought I was
going to But I’d like to get some feedback. I got your questions your your thoughts
your additional comments on This first section of these ideas of different truths and
are you know these two different kinds of truths of subjective versus objective and
The different methods of being able to come to a truth about something. I’ll go
through these real quick and anybody raise your hand when you want to, you’ve got
something to say.
Yeah, Mark, go ahead.
Oh, let me, let’s see here.
Um, yes. Okay. You should be able to hear me now. Yep. Yeah.
I’m sorry. Uh, so much. I’d like to, uh, add to this session here. Yeah. But let
me start with test of coherence. So what we’re talking about, there is, uh,
empirical, uh, well, observation, the empirical empirical evidence is, uh,
observable and, uh, experimental, experimental, or you test something and you test it
to a scientific standard. The scientific standard, the highest one,
is 97 % certainty. There’s also a 95 % certainty.
But that falls into that category. Also physical observations are empirical as well.
So experimentation that
means a scientific standard. And that’s standard is an important word here. We talked
about
most logical, that’s the standard you made.
Oh, what was it? The bulk of the evidence suggests this, the law at 50 % certainty.
What was the term used to start with the P? Yeah, the
Protagonism right no, not a practice of coherence. Yeah, that okay, so what you’re
doing there is you’re taking
Did you did we lose you mark your furrows lost your picture?
7 % 95 7%, 95%, those are the standards. So you also use the standard beyond a
reasonable doubt. Now that standard is up there at 95 % and above. Some claim it
has to be 98, 99 % certain. So, but that’s still, you know, there’s a little bit
of subjectivity there too. But these are different standards of reason. So that’s as
important as the reasoning alone isn’t enough in terms of identifying what is true,
you have to apply a standard to it as well. And one last point you made about
Rhys, and this is such an important point, this, it’s a philosophical belief,
and it’s come from some of the top support philosophers in the last 300 years. One
was Immanuel Kant, and that is to say literally I mean pretty much what you said
reality or facts are in the mind of the beholder what you believe is true is true
and Aristotle and Newell and some people just collapse that all over the place so
if you have a you’re looking at a wall in your room that wall is not there if
you don’t believe it’s there And that is so destructive to civilization.
It’s just so destructive to liberty to believe that truth is only what you believe.
Then there is no right or wrong too, because it’s what you believe. And Niti,
I think a couple of philosophers embraced this, but Manny Kopp was one of the very,
very worst. And it’s completely counter to what Aristotle was, who was the father of
logic. A is A is what he said. It’s not B. It’s not C. It’s not anything else.
A is A. So that’s important. All of us to know that because this creeps into
discussions. I get into debates and discussions and I start seeing somebody saying
this in subtle ways.
Oh, back to the example of knife. Knife is sharp. So that’s not a really great
example because There you have, it also has to be, it’s a relative term. Is it
sharp enough to cut a tomato? Or is it sharp enough to cut through steel? So
that’s, you have to go a little farther than that because that’s still subjective.
But all the objecting points you made were really good about opinions. Want to see
if I get a couple other things in here. Oh, This is kind of important. You’re
talking about the standard or the tool of critical thinking. You’re absolutely right.
We have to, critical, let me make my point. Critical thinking,
there is a poison pill in it. I’ve seen the curriculum, I attended a presentation
and the vast, vast majority of all the curriculum steps in it are sound and they’re
based on logic. But there’s one poison pill in it, and I have to go back through
it and find it because it was a long time ago when I got the presentation. That’s
why I don’t use critical thinking. I use logic. What man has been using since the
beginning, what Aristotle was the father of logic. And it doesn’t have that poison
pill in it. So I suggest we examine that because that can make a difference. The
vast majority of critical thinking is fine. They just put one thing in the
curriculum that wasn’t fine. And I’ll go ahead and I’ll leave it at that because
others might have things to say. I’d be curious what your thoughts are on the what
what the poison pill was if you think of it. But um and also when you talk about
the scientific method and what’s happened is we’ve been brainwashed you know we we’ve
especially in the last five years we’ve heard this term over and over again of
trust the science. And so we have this assumption in our minds, right, that’s going
back to our preconceived notions where we can cease our critical thinking of, oh,
okay, if there’s a scientific standard and somebody says the science is settled, that
means that standard has been met, therefore I can trust it, but they didn’t actually
do that. And so if somebody’s lying to you and saying the science is settled, when
that doesn’t meet the scientific, you know, criteria of, you know, of the data being
met then we have to make sure we’re not making that same critical mistake of using
our biases and our preconceived notions. We have to apply your logic to it and what
they’re really saying and we should expose it. You’re not saying to trust science,
you’re saying to trust you. Because the science, you know, Fauci, COVID -19,
global warming, the science is factual and And it says you’re a bunch of luckier or
you’re deceitin us through all sorts of tactics and techniques and disinformation
Yeah,
yeah, just reading the comments has been doesn’t lie and will always tell the truth
I mean, I hope and I try but you shouldn’t just trust me just because I said
something
Definitely used the this critical thinking in this logic to be able to verify
anything that I’ve said. Yeah, and that’s an example of a fallacy that– I think I
brought this up to you one time– this idea that you can’t prove a negative.
And actually, you can, in a very rare situation, control this.
So the negative that Ben never lies is You can’t prove it because you don’t have
all the examples of what it ever he said throughout his life.
Back it up. Yeah, yeah.
Very dangerous to say that, you know, nobody’s ever, you know, individual has never
lied to us.
The point there, you can almost never prove a negative, but actually that’s right.
That’s right. If you study logic, there are certain control situations where you can.
Yeah.
Anybody else? Thoughts or comments or questions?
This is Mark again. On the Constitution, So there is a very narrow Can you hear
me? Yeah, there is a very narrow range where the Supreme Court does judge
Constitution Pal Pellet cases and so forth. It’s just a paragraph or in the set
Excuse me article 3 of the Constitution and spells it out But what they are doing
is they’re passing judges about over 90 % though doubt where they have no authority.
And they gave that authority to themselves. Generally speaking, they can only rule on
a specific case if your rights were violated. And very limited cases. And Congress
can take a whole other authority way if they want to. But they certainly can’t rule
on the president. They don’t have authority to rule on Congress, no authority to
rule on you. State government and no authority to rule on individuals that aren’t
followed within the authority specified authority specified and appellant authority and
I guess article three yeah the point is they’re not legislators which you know which
limits their their jurisdiction yeah well it’s right now it’s way beyond just
legislations but Congress they’re really on the president and they have no authority
over the president if they had authority our family fathers were idiots it would get
there are the gist of the authority to enforce the rulings.
Who enforces the rulings at the executive level? The executive level. So it’s slowly
illogical and so wrong, actually, well. Brittany,
you had your hand up.
I was just going to comment about I feel like we should have a critical thinking
class that we should teach our youth, because I don’t think they know how to
critically think whatsoever. I think a lot of, like literally, and I only say that
because, okay, I teach math, okay, so the basis of math is logic, okay? Like, it
should make sense. Your answer should make sense. Everything should make sense. And
if it doesn’t make sense, you ain’t critically thinking. And that’s the point I make
24 /7 with these kids like you just multiplied with millimeters and your answer isn’t
in thousands Does that make sense? It’s a really small object Probably not so that
I just don’t know like how exactly to get that whole concept out there Especially
since eventually I don’t want to be in the public sector obviously like that’s not
my end goal right now I mean, that’s just a means to an end moment. Um, but,
uh, yeah, I was just been, I’ve been scratching my head as you were talking and
trying to figure out like how do we get this to the youth? Like because that’s
who’s going to be the next people to move on with this stuff. Like we have to be
able to get them to critically think and to be able to know how to make the right
decisions about what truth and what is a lie because I think that with all this
plethora of information that’s at their fingertips 24 seven, They’re just seeing what
the conspiracy wants him to see not anything else
so I just think it’s kind of a project there, Brittany
Well, you know I actually was thinking about writing a book
And
Yeah, so I don’t know how to go about that, but you know, maybe we can have a
conversation I love it. Mark? Yeah,
in response to what you are asking, Brittany. First of all, putting aside the slight
difference between critical thinking and logic, that one little error that’s in the
curriculum, putting that aside, and I’m gonna, my bias is logic. You have to teach
logic. You have to teach it every moment. When I debate all the time, I’m using
logic and I bring it up. This is not logical and I point it out. I use analogies
to point it out. So in your conversation we need that but to go further you’ve got
to teach logic. You can learn a lot online the basic principles of logic that you
can write from Aristotle and all the principles around way before Aristotle was
around and we need to to learn those. And you’re absolutely right.
It’s one of the tools that are exposed what’s not true. It’s one of the tools used
to clarify and expose what is true. We have to know logic. And so go online if
you learn a lot, put your books on it. You can study logic. The study science of
logic has improved some sense Aristotle they’ve added to it but the found fundamental
principles of logic were right laid out by Aristotle and that’s a really good place
to start Aristotle’s principles.
So Mark from Canada said something funny he says everything I say is a lie it’s
that’s one of those classic circular things right so if everything I say is a lie
that’s a lie which means everything I say is the truth which means everything’s a
lie and just Goes on into affinity So
How is he gonna prove everything yeah He can’t get he can’t get all the first 30
seconds. That’s approved
Let’s go ahead and have a closing prayer and then we’ll go ahead and have open
forum for a few minutes.
Brittany, would you be willing to say our closing prayer for us?
Sure. All right.
Our Congressional Assembly, Father, we’re grateful to be able to gather together as
like -minded individuals to be able to discuss and talk about the things of truth
and all the ways that we can discern the truth in all things. And we ask that
Thou may bless each of us, that we might be able to carry this mission out into
our daily lives, that we may find others that are like -minded and be able to share
these truths that we learn together at our trainings. We ask that Thou may help us
to find those that are ready and willing to be able to accept these truths and to
be able to hear us out and be able to do the things that you would have us to
do. We ask that Thou may bless us the rest of this week, that we may be able to
find the goodness that is around us and be able to emulate that towards those in
our lives and we ask that they may encourage and uplift us in these times of trial
that we may seek the good even though we are surrounded in chaos and we say these
things humbly in the name of thy son Jesus Christ amen. Amen thank you.