In this episode of Sunday Uncensored, we discuss all things nuclear weapons, from the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal to our own nuclear arsenal, and why we don't have them. Plus, we talk about why the U.S. doesn't have nuclear weapons at all.
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00:02:16.000But what America did is it decided that if you can hit a target Then it's immoral to have too big of a blast radius.
00:02:26.000The reason that the Russians needed these giant multi-megaton bombs is because their missile wasn't going to hit the target.
00:02:31.000Which, when I say not going to hit the target, it's pretty amazing you can shoot an ICBM into the air 3,000 or 4,000 or 5,000 miles away and have it hit within a couple miles of an American city.
00:02:41.000But a couple miles, while pretty impressive from a technology point of view, isn't a hit.
00:02:45.000And so they needed a bomb that if they missed by two miles, it still destroyed the target that they were trying to destroy.
00:02:52.000Our goal was put a missile down somebody's chimney.
00:02:56.000So all of America's deployed strategic nuclear weapons are variable yield, which means that it can range in yield how big it is, and they decide depending on what target they want to hit.
00:03:08.000And most of them are probably in like the 100 to 200 kiloton No.
00:03:12.000range, but we hit our targets. So we're scared of Russia.
00:03:15.000Russia's Tsar Bomba at the maximum design 100 megatons would flatten Baltimore, Annapolis, and
00:03:24.000DC if it targeted DC. But here's the reality. You think a bomber is going to make it over DC
00:03:30.000to drop that Tsar Bomba? No. Have you ever seen the Tsar Bomba? I've seen... there's a video of
00:03:50.000I mean, so what about... Are you familiar with the Strategic Defense Initiative?
00:03:55.000What have we deployed, or what do we know?
00:03:57.000What does the public know about what the U.S.
00:03:59.000has deployed in terms of stopping nuclear weapons hitting the United States?
00:04:02.000Well, first of all, we're better at it than people think we are.
00:04:04.000You know, our Aegis cruisers are very successful in knocking down missiles.
00:04:08.000The other thing, though, that I think people don't really think about when they talk about nuclear deterrence is the intelligence piece of this.
00:04:15.000It's very popular to hate our intelligence agencies, and they definitely play political roles.
00:04:20.000They don't always know the things that they say that they know.
00:04:22.000I'm not making a defense of all of that.
00:04:24.000But there are sort of core competencies that they have.
00:04:27.000And one of their core competencies is knowing the status of these weapons.
00:04:32.000And my guess is that in practice, a lot of the weapons would never get off the ground.
00:04:37.000I don't want people to have a false sense of confidence.
00:04:40.000That's not what I'm trying to instill.
00:04:41.000But the American military is not like other militaries.
00:04:44.000You're seeing it right now in Ukraine.
00:04:47.000One of the reasons that people don't know what to make of the situation in Ukraine It's because they've always thought that there are other militaries like our military.
00:06:21.000I think you'd have to ignore technological advancement over the past 40 years to believe that a mutually assured destruction could happen, too.
00:06:27.000I had an argument with, or debate, with Majid Nawaz, because I don't believe mutually assured destruction makes sense or is correct.
00:06:36.000It's this, like, archaic idea of, if you nuke me, I'll nuke you.
00:07:17.000The thing just looks at the drone and the drone bursts into flames and falls.
00:07:21.000So they certainly have prepared for if an ICBM was coming towards us.
00:07:26.000I think what we might see, though, and correct me if you think I'm wrong, tactical weapons, smaller yield bombs from Russia or NATO or otherwise.
00:07:34.000So the first thing I would say is that I do believe in mutually assured destruction.
00:07:37.000It may be that we no longer live in an era where it is mutual.
00:07:42.000It may be that America has so outpaced our rivals technologically that we could successfully conduct a first use nuclear strike.
00:07:50.000But I believe in the philosophy of mutually assured destruction.
00:07:52.000I think it kept the peace for 60 years.
00:07:55.000And there's a lot of good that we can learn from that.
00:07:59.000To your second point, could we see battlefield or tactical nuclear weapons used?
00:08:05.000I think, um, America contemplated the use of battlefield nuclear weapons to hit Iranian, uh, underground hardened nuclear, uh, nuclear facilities.
00:08:14.000And there's a good argument for why that would be a good tool to use if your goal was to stop, uh, the construction of nuclear weapons in hardened targets in a country like Iran.
00:08:24.000Um, you have to understand that when we talk about those kinds of weapons, we're not talking about these big city killer nuclear weapons.
00:08:30.000We also talked about the use of thermobaric weapons, which are not nuclear, but are also very massive destructive weapons in Tora Bora when we were trying to get Bin Laden.
00:08:40.000We didn't know what cave he's in, so we wanted to do something that would be... Suck the air out.
00:08:44.000And a nuclear weapon may have been a successful tool in that case, too, because you're not hitting an urban center where you're going to kill a million people because you used a nuclear weapon.
00:08:51.000You're just going to kill the same number of people that you would have killed with conventional bombs, but you're going to have more success in the instance of Tora Bora.
00:08:59.000I think it was smart not to actually do those two things, because even though I think that they would have been moral and effective weapons in those two particular cases, I do think that there's the possibility that it would have led to kind of a dominoing use of nuclear weapons.
00:09:11.000But what I think the real threat in the world is today is I think that we have removed most of the incentives
00:09:19.000to not use battlefield and tactical nuclear weapons from Vladimir Putin.
00:09:24.000You know, Putin, in the situation he's in right now, where we're not opposing him militarily,
00:09:29.000but we are opposing him economically, I actually think that that's one of the worst ideas
00:09:34.000that we've ever seen tested in all of human history.
00:09:49.000He's used thermal barrack weapons both against the Chechens and and and and and it's been reported these use thermal barrack weapons against urban populations in Ukraine so far and Hey, it's Kimberly Fletcher here from Moms4America with some very exciting news.
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00:11:51.000Top Russian military figures Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov suddenly vanish from public eye.
00:11:59.000I did a segment on this on my main channel.
00:12:00.000These two individuals are the only two other men with the Russian nuclear football.
00:12:04.000They're in the chain of command and they've dropped out of public eye.
00:12:07.000It could be as simple as these men are being protected because of the potential abuse of nuclear weapons.
00:12:12.000Some people fear that because Shoigu's last appearance was with Putin, Putin may have stripped him of his nuclear access or of his life.
00:12:21.000To consolidate power so he can unilaterally fire these nukes.
00:12:25.000I think, with the absence of evidence, the solution is these men, for obvious reason, are being protected.
00:12:30.000But if that's the case, is that indicative of Russia does intend to use some kind of nuclear weapon?
00:12:35.000The one thing that Russia's very good at is PSYOPs, and so I think you also have to just contemplate the idea that he wants us to think that he's contemplating the use of nuclear weapons.
00:12:43.000The nuclear weapons that they control are strategic nuclear weapons.
00:12:48.000So, like, the nuclear football isn't for battlefield or tactical nuclear weapons.
00:13:45.000I haven't seen anything about this yet.
00:13:46.000Well, Grozny was in Chechnya, so it was in the past.
00:13:49.000But it's the one time we've seen Putin engage in this kind of conflict.
00:13:53.000And Grozny was a city in Chechnya, and Putin flattened it.
00:13:58.000At a certain point, when he wasn't getting his victory through more conventional means, he used sort of the World War II flatten-a-city approach.
00:14:05.000So, he can flatten cities without nuclear weapons.
00:14:08.000My point is, if you're in the position he's in today and you've decided to flatten the city and you're already an international pariah, you might be tempted to use a weapon that would actually rattle your enemies.
00:14:19.000Now, a 100 kiloton weapon is still a strategic weapon.
00:14:22.000I think the more likely thing is that he'll use battlefield or tactical nuclear weapons if he uses a nuclear weapon.
00:14:27.000And I think the unfortunate reality is, if he does, I don't think we have any tools left with which to respond.
00:14:35.000Other than the ones that we've already deployed and that's why I say we've I think we've removed the incentive for him to show restraint, right?
00:14:41.000So I on the map I just pulled up is a 100 kiloton bomb the w76 common US and UK over Kiev the reason why I ask this is If it is true that Vladimir Putin is losing and his real goal is just to strip away what he believes is the corrupt government of Kiev, the 2014 coup, whatever you want to call it.
00:15:00.000He wants to assert control over what's happening in Ukraine.
00:15:03.000He wants to destroy their command structure.
00:15:05.000He wants to cause chaos and panic, making it easier.
00:15:08.000I mean, if he dropped a 100 kiloton bomb on Kiev for Militarily?
00:15:13.000threatening the center of the city, it would cause chaos and disarray in Ukraine to the
00:15:17.000point where he'd pick up the pieces and walk through the rest of the country.
00:15:39.000And that's why I asked the question because Vladimir Putin might be sitting there saying,
00:15:42.000now. We hit Kiev with a nuke. It's over.
00:15:45.000This is the problem with the position that's popular on the right today, that signs of American strength are going to lead to a world war.
00:15:54.000It has always been the case, historically, that it is signs of American weakness that precipitates, or Western weakness, that precipitates world wars.
00:16:01.000We're in a position now where we ask these questions like, should we impose a no-fly zone?
00:16:07.000A month ago, if we had imposed a no-fly zone, we wouldn't have had to have shot down Russian planes, and there wouldn't have been an invasion of Russia.
00:16:13.000They would have had to attack the United States.
00:16:46.000If America decided it wanted to remove the Russian military conventionally from the Earth, even from Russia, three or four weeks, we would remove their entire military.
00:17:08.000If we wanted to impose a no-fly zone over Russia, or over Ukraine, which I'm not proposing, but if we did, Russian MiGs would be falling out of the sky.
00:17:19.000It would take them a day to even figure out why all their MiGs were falling out of the sky, because the F-22 is invisible to Russians, and it fires its missiles from over the horizon.
00:17:29.000It is this nuclear threat that is his ultimate ace in the hole.
00:17:46.000Not, he doesn't have 5,000 probably strategic, but he has certainly 1,500 more that size.
00:17:52.000I don't see how we're unwilling to fight against him today, but we're gonna be willing to fight against him after he uses a nuclear weapon?
00:19:04.000One of the things I was saying is like, do you think someone's going to nuke an urban center, like an ICBM, like Moscow, because Moscow's attacking Ukraine?
00:19:13.000It's insane to think, let's wipe out the whole planet over Ukraine.
00:19:17.000So I'm like, I'm not convinced that someone's going to be like, I'm going to destroy the entire planet because, you know, a nuke has been launched or fired here.
00:19:24.000The question is, Obviously, I think if Russia fired nukes at us, we might have a very strong response, but I'm not even convinced it's going to be like in the movies, like in war games where the missiles just go flying or like in GI Joe.
00:19:36.000Especially considering SDI or our SAM sites or whatever we have in terms of shutting these things down, probably satellites that can do it.
00:19:43.000But right now, the big question is about using an ICBM on Kiev, and I don't see why the West would intervene if he did.
00:19:51.000If we did intervene, it would be conventional.
00:19:52.000I can't imagine a world where we'd remove the Ukrainian military from Ukraine.
00:19:57.000I'm sorry, we would remove the Russian military from Ukraine conventionally.
00:20:01.000I just don't see a world where we do that under Joe Biden.
00:20:04.000And I think strength is the only thing that deters war.
00:20:08.000And so at the end of the day, the thing that I'm the most afraid of right now is that none of us think that the West would respond to a nuclear attack on Ukraine today.
00:20:16.000That is what's going to precipitate in a world war.
00:20:18.000And the other thing that I would say about a world war is they don't all they they often don't.
00:20:23.000Global conflict often doesn't happen the way you think it will.
00:20:26.000And so we're all talking about will what is Putin going to do in Ukraine?
00:20:42.000North Korea fired a missile into the Sea of Japan last week.
00:20:48.000Because our administration is so hubristic in its belief that it can consequence-free reorganize the world order, we're trying to make a deal with Iran so that we can buy their oil.
00:21:01.000And then we're complaining that the Sauds, the mortal enemies of Iran, won't lower the price of their oil to sell us while we're about to make their enemies nuclear-armed and rich.
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00:22:40.000But what I was saying is, if NATO intervenes, The first thing we're doing is packing up one of our trailers with the gear to do the show and supplies and sending it to our secure location.
00:22:52.000We stay here, we keep doing the show as normal, but the moment we get any kind of, you know, dramatic escalation that could be catastrophic or apocalyptic, we already have our supplies ready to go.
00:23:04.000I've always thought that where you really want to go, if there's going to be a strategic nuclear exchange between superpowers, you really want to go to Times Square.
00:24:45.000Well, yeah, also, this is exactly what I think whenever I hear people making very grim predictions about the future.
00:24:51.000I think things can and probably will get bad in some respects, but at the same time, when people come out talking about overpopulation and how we're going to reach a number where we can no longer sustain people, I mean, firstly, that's contradicted by the evidence.
00:25:03.000As the world population has grown, poverty has decreased, more people have had access to resources.
00:25:08.000But even if that wasn't the case, you would have to negate the human ability to solve problems in order to believe that we wouldn't be able to provide for ourselves.
00:25:20.000A lot of these models of climate change don't account for technology where we could withdraw the carbon from the atmosphere, turn it into graphene, and then reproduce it.
00:25:27.000We'll actually be competing for carbon with the trees at that point.
00:25:30.000That's another problem we've got to look for.
00:25:32.000I wonder to what extent, um, you know, we didn't know about the Manhattan Project.
00:25:35.000I wonder to what extent bioweapons could be the actual, you know, weapon of choice.
00:26:09.000What if they have their population wear masks so they're perfectly safe from the bioweapon?
00:26:14.000They wash their food before they get off the plane.
00:26:16.000What if they only have dinner after 9pm in public places?
00:26:19.000What if the United States has actually developed a very serious weaponized smallpox or something, and the true purpose of the COVID vaccine was to protect the American people because the US is planning on purging its enemies with a bioweapon?
00:26:30.000Yeah, the only problem with that is that we've given that same vaccine to just about every person on Earth.
00:26:36.000Community, it is legally distinct, is what was given out in Europe, and the biosurprise was different here.
00:26:43.000And look, it's grand conspiracy, don't get me wrong, but if the U.S.
00:26:47.000was actually planning on unleashing a bioweapon on its enemies, it would be giving the cure to people while giving the cure to its own people.
00:26:56.000If I believe that Joe Biden was capable of chewing gum and walking at the same time, I might be able to get behind it.
00:27:03.000This warfare feels like just a distraction from Biden's terrible, terrible presidency and the inflation.
00:27:08.000I truly believe the existential threat is the metaverse and get people getting into proprietary coded situations where they don't realize they're inside of it and they're owned by a corporation.
00:27:17.000Yeah, it's like, Ready Player One was, that was not a good movie.
00:27:22.000I mean, it was a good movie, but it was like, nothing good came about in that movie.
00:27:25.000Like, they're like, we reclaimed the digital virtual space, but I'm like, no, all of it is bad, because your mind is...
00:27:32.000You spend a year or two years, especially a child, in this metaverse.
00:27:43.000They might be a squid when they go and play the game and they're flopping around tentacles and they come out in the real world and they're like, It's certainly true if you've ever put one of these headsets on and played in virtual space.
00:28:08.000You do get disoriented, and when you take it off, you are disoriented.
00:28:10.000The only thing I'll say is humans are soul and body, and it's one thing to sort of abstract
00:28:15.000that we can disembody the human mind or the human soul.
00:28:19.000I don't think you can, because while you're wearing that Oculus, yeah, you are, or whatever, you are in a different world.
00:28:24.000But it's also heavy, and your neck starts to hurt, your palms get kind of sweaty, and your knees get weak.
00:28:31.000I'm talking about once they neural link you.
00:28:33.000Yeah, once they just plug you right in.
00:28:34.000And then what's going to happen is you're going to be in some kind of suspension suit to minimize the effects, or maybe like a zero-g chair that brings back.
00:28:48.000They'll plug your brain in, and all of your synaptic responses and everything you think and feel will be virtual.
00:28:55.000So you are still going to be a body-soul composite, and there is an attempt to remove you from that, and it's really more or less ultimately just insulating you from the reality that exists, which is that you are your body, right?
00:30:07.000The part where I get lost, though, is that, again, there will have to be people operating in the actual human world because we're not disembodied.
00:30:17.000Our body is still there and it still has all of its actual biological needs that we will either have to meet or other humans operating in physical space will have to meet.
00:30:25.000Yeah, it may be that the conscious or that your mind isn't necessarily shattered, but it's combined with other minds to create like another mind.
00:30:32.000Like our body is trillions of microorganisms working together and they all have their own desires and wants and we think that we are this, but we're a combination of things.
00:30:40.000So we might be recreating that in a digital sense.
00:30:47.000This perverse scenario of people living in a cyber world is something we're already seeing.
00:30:52.000And you can imagine people existing at a point in history where their minds are, quote unquote, uploaded.
00:30:57.000You know, they're connected to this machine and they're experiencing that reality.
00:31:00.000and they will see the difference between them and us is that we were just
00:31:03.000profoundly disabled because we were also spending all of our time in the cyber
00:31:06.000world but our only interface was this keyboard in the screen whereas that they
00:31:10.000can use their entire bodies to interact with it. So what's really disheartening is the fact that
00:31:14.000even though we have the limited control that a computer can give you over the internet we
00:31:18.000still spend all of our time there so of course we're going to when we can plug our brains in.
00:31:23.000They're gonna say, can you believe that to use the metaverse, like, in the 20s, you had to, like, look at a screen in your desk and, like, click a little thing.
00:31:30.000It'll be like the phone you had to crank and put up to your ear and then speak into.
00:31:51.000You're going to be able to download experiences from other people.
00:31:55.000So people will sell an experience like their memory or something.
00:31:58.000If we can transcode data off the brain, then you're gonna have Tom Cruise be like, would you like to experience what it's like to be Tom Cruise at the Oscars?
00:32:08.000Because I do believe that we are soul, mind, and body.
00:32:14.000I'm skeptical that some of the some of our ability to replicate that will actually come to pass like I don't believe that you can upload I don't think it's just technology like yeah today we can't upload your brain to the cloud but 500 years from now we will or at least a thousand years from now we will like I actually think like 25,000 years no nuclear wars you still won't be able to separate what is I don't think they can upload a person to the computer.
00:32:41.000I think they can copy data and then put it in your brain and stimulate your brain to make it experience and see and feel by that experience.
00:32:49.000that they'll stop using computers and start using human brains as the computers. I don't know about that. Because
00:32:55.000they work quicker. Yeah, I mean fundamentally I agree.
00:32:58.000There is something about the human being that can't be reduced to information processing.
00:33:02.000And in order to argue that these machines could be conscious, that's essentially what you have to believe.
00:33:06.000It's a total materialistic worldview that does not allow any possibility for the soul.
00:33:10.000And then on top of that, you also have to assume that given that framework, we would ever have the capability to recreate consciousness on a circuit board, which is also a stretch.
00:33:20.000Well, I'm not convinced that could happen.
00:33:23.000And there's questions about whether data is actually alive for sure, whether it's a soul or it doesn't.
00:33:27.000I'm just saying that if we can... Well, data's alive.
00:33:39.000I'm just saying, we can electrocute you and make your arm close.
00:33:45.000So there will come a point, in my opinion, where we can electrocute and send signals to your brain and figure out how to transcode information and trick your brain into experiencing or thinking things.
00:33:57.000Maybe it will always feel plastic, though, because it is your brain, you know what I mean?
00:34:01.000Like, something about the experience will be of uncanny value.
00:34:03.000The other thing is, this kind of goes to the question of why can't you just upload us to a cloud, and it's because even our thoughts aren't just our brain.
00:34:11.000Your thoughts are also connected to senses that happen in other parts of your body.
00:34:14.000And so, can you, is it like the Matrix, where you can teach me Spanish by pushing a button?
00:34:20.000I don't think so. Because to really understand Spanish, I have to have heard,
00:34:24.000and I have to have seen, and I have to have spoken. Like, there are actual sensory elements
00:34:29.000of that. And you couldn't give me your experience of those things because my sensory apparatus,
00:34:35.000while fundamentally similar to yours, are not identical to yours.
00:34:39.000The better example is actually, I don't think you'd be able to plug someone into the Matrix, teach them a language, because like for Italian, for instance, you need that physical, you know, fingertips pinching.
00:34:49.000I wonder if you can experience that, how do you actually speak the language?
00:34:52.000If a memory is like a neural pathway, like it's an exact combination of pathways that you can geometrically calculate, maybe you could imprint the ability to access that geometric convoy with like a certain, but like you said, every brain is different.
00:35:08.000That's the part that I think we're missing, that an experience is not just information, meaning information in the brain.
00:35:16.000It's also this tactile sensory apparatus that we have that is connected to everything that we know and everything we've ever experienced.
00:35:24.000I've got to imagine it's outside the body too.
00:35:25.000If it's like the neurons in your stomach and in your muscles, and those are electromagnetic, you have an electromagnetic field that surrounds you.
00:35:32.000You should look up human magnetic field if you want to see the image I'm talking about when I keep referencing that.
00:35:36.000But we have these dynamic magnetic fields that must be affecting our thoughts.
00:35:42.000Also, the God-like being, who definitely isn't God, but who exists out there, who probably made everything, and knows all of our thoughts, and is above all, he built the simulation, right?
00:35:52.000The simulation that we all think is reality.
00:35:55.000He's gonna have something to say about all this.
00:35:59.000They've taken high-powered magnets and put them on people's brains, turned them on, and then people say they felt the presence of God when that happened.
00:36:07.000I was wondering if God was like a huge- Haven't they also done the opposite?
00:36:10.000thing that's like hovering over our galaxy is playing with us like ants.
00:36:14.000I think they've said when they like they they use these machines there was there was a study
00:36:18.000right and if they use the machine to hit your brain with brain with certain electrical waves
00:36:22.000you'd be less likely to believe in God and more like it was very interesting.
00:36:26.000I have this I heard the exact opposite.
00:36:28.000I experienced God at a Paul McCartney concert and I'm not joking.
00:36:53.000And started singing along to Yesterday, and I felt the Holy Spirit.
00:36:56.000What I would describe as the Holy Spirit.
00:36:57.000I grew up in a somewhat Pentecostal church environment, and I knew this sensation to be the sensation of the Holy Spirit.
00:37:03.000And sitting there at Paul McCartney, I had this existential crisis of either Paul McCartney is God, or that experience is not the Holy Spirit.
00:37:13.000And that's one of the formative moments in my religious life.
00:37:18.000You do believe it was the Holy Spirit?
00:37:24.000Well, I want to mention this, so I just pulled this up.
00:37:27.000Magnetic brain stimulation, quote, reduces belief in God, prejudice towards immigrants.
00:37:32.000And it's very funny because when this was first published, I saw the responses on Twitter were like, oh, so brain damage makes you a liberal.
00:38:14.000You can't go, well, I understand God because I understand my dad.
00:38:16.000It's more like, because we have a universal understanding in some level of what a father is, we can begin to understand something about God.
00:38:24.000So a father is a term that we understand as humans?
00:38:27.000And everything good comes from God, right?
00:38:30.000And so God is actually... He's a father in a truer sense than an earthly father is, because everything comes from Him.
00:38:38.000But these are terms that help us understand as humans.
00:40:07.000He is literally more advanced than you, than you are from a person who is actually retarded.
00:40:14.000I'm not using that as a pejorative, I'm using it as a descriptive.
00:40:18.000Imagine if you were the only person on earth with 115, 120 IQ, and every single other person on earth had Down syndrome.
00:40:27.000That's what it's like to walk around and be Leonardo da Vinci or one of these 180 IQ guys.
00:40:32.000I say all of that to say, like, that tells you that you can't even imagine the things that he sees.
00:40:38.000Everybody with those breakaway IQs throughout all human history, they all speak, like, six or seven languages by the time they're eight or nine, and no one taught them any of the languages.
00:40:46.000They perceive patterns that we do not perceive.
00:40:50.000Now, even Antonin Scalia has a brain that is roughly the size of a cantaloupe.
00:40:55.000We cannot even begin to imagine, not just a god-like intelligence, we can't begin to imagine a 400... I mean, I'm using terms that we can't... You can't imagine their color!
00:41:25.000Have you programmed or worked on any of these game stuff?
00:41:28.000I tell you this, you can program a video game where you make a villain so strong that nothing can destroy him and then you can go into the base code of the game and remove him.
00:41:41.000The idea of creating a boulder so heavy that God can't lift it, the problem is that people, typically atheists, don't have It's not a religious thing.
00:41:52.000It's like the ability to understand that what we touch, smell, see, and hear is not reality.
00:41:58.000And so there's a limited understanding among some humans that the charged electromagnetic spectrum exists and we can't touch, smell, or see or hear that, and it's real, but then why stop there?
00:42:10.000It's a limitation in the human mind where they're like, Well, if God made a boulder so heavy he couldn't lift it, I'm like, why would God be in his own video game if he made it?
00:42:18.000So, this is the answer that I got from something I was reading recently.
00:42:22.000It's a book called Theology and Sanity by Frank Sheed, and his formulation of this is really brilliant.
00:42:26.000Basically, the concept of something too heavy for an infinitely strong being to lift an incoherent thought and therefore it is nothing? And so
00:42:37.000the answer is could God lift something so heavy? Is there something so heavy God he...
00:43:13.000I think God made an object so big that he couldn't lift it, and then he lifted it.
00:43:17.000And I think this is like the central moment in Christian theology, which is to say that there is a thing that God valued above every other thing, and it was a thing that God definitionally is incapable of having in himself.
00:44:10.000Through the entire mechanism of biblical history, the entire mechanism of the creation, the entire mechanism of the fall of man, the entire mechanism of the giving of the law, all of it, all of this leads to the moment where God can tent himself in human flesh in Christ.
00:44:26.000Live as a man not under the burden of sin but apart from the burden of sin and face uniquely among any human ever the actual opportunity as both God and man to faith God and the and the uniqueness of Christ among all religions in comparison to all humanity and even even anything we've ever dreamed up and is the idea that in Christ, God lifted the rock that God
00:44:49.000himself could not lift apart from Christ.
00:44:51.000That God valued faith most highly, and in Christ gave himself the opportunity to faith in himself.
00:44:58.000I think that's the actual most important thing that has ever happened in creation.
00:45:05.000We gotta wrap it up, because we are way too late.