Jay Dyer (88:41)
$5. In this world of day of so much data, how do we digest information and make it stick? How do we gain wisdom and intelligence and apply it? Great question. That is definitely a challenge in the never ending infinity data world that we're in. Well, let's go ahead and kick off our wisdom section. This will be our wisdom segment. We're going to actually see if we can gain some wisdom. Of course, Proverbs was for those that don't know, a catechism. It was intended to be a catechism for young men during the Old Testament period. And of course this the church fathers often recommend the wisdom text and catechism Proverbs and other deuterocanonical texts for catechesis. So it's pretty much the same for us as well. So let's read one chapter and see if we can gain wisdom. We'll make this a segment in every one of our streams. Proverbs 11. We're going to skip past the chapters on. I guess I should begin with 10, the wisdom chapters. So we're going to start with 10 because the all the way up to nine are the wisdom text. Rusa, $10 and he's got a Hanukkah candelabra. Are you a Russian spy? Yes, absolutely. Russian spy, Never been to Russia, been invited to Russia, haven't gone. But because I'm an Orthodox Christian, I must be a Russian spy. Yep. And what's funny is that people don't even realize that most of the people that are expatriates who make up Rokor in Europe and in America were actually fleeing Bolsheviks and the NKVD and were aided by the CIA and British intelligence to come to the west. The White Russians for example. But today's people are so dumbed down, no nuance, they assume Russian Orthodox churches must be kgb. Even though the KGB persecuted Rokor in Russian church. This is what people think A lot of the trad cats think this. It's completely stupid Proverbs. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother. So honoring our father and mother is very important in proverbs and the beginning of catechesis here. Now at the beginning of Proverbs we learned that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And that's relevant I think for the atheists because all of the atheists number one flaw isn't really their lack of information or iq. It's actually a moral problem. That's the problem with atheism. The fool has said in his heart there's no God in the Psalms. So atheism is actually a moral and spiritual problem that has to do with pride and arrogance as opposed to a lack of evidence or knowledge. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing but righteousness delivers from death. So if we make our focus on just getting paid and stacking, stat, stacking cash, our life will be profitless, our life will be travail. But it's more important to be righteous, to live according to the virtues, according to the ten Commandments. That's more important than attaining wealth. But of course most of this world follows the attainment of wealth over any concern for righteousness. The Lord will not allow the righteous soul to famish, but. But he casts away the desire of the wicked. And remember in a lot of the proverbs we have what are kind of, it's its own unique type of literature, wisdom literature, and they're giving generalities. So we have to understand when we interpret these, these are not absolute universal claims, okay? It's not as if no righteous person was ever hungry. But generally speaking, God will provide for his people and not allow them to be destroyed or to go hungry. And that could be interpreted both physically and spiritually as well. And we should always put of course, the spiritual first over the physical and the temporal. He who is lazy or has a slack hand becomes poor. But he, but the hand of the diligent makes one rich. Now notice how many of the proverbs deal with economics. And we have a lot of people who are super spiritual and they're too spiritual for money and economics, especially when they're broke. Young dudes who don't want to think about how to actually make money or be successful, it's much easier to pity, signal and talk about how spiritual they are. Even though they're not actually monks or monastics or they haven't taken any vows of poverty, they use that as a Way to feel better than other people, when in fact, no, it is still the case that working hard is what will make you successful, both in terms of spiritual things and in terms of earthly things. He who gathers in the summer is a wise son, but he sleeps and harvest the son who causes shame. So here we have another one against sloth. So the idea that just laying around and wasting time and not doing anything, not putting the hand to work or savings. Notice this is also a principle of economically, of saving money. Now, fiat money, not the wisest thing to save. You might want to have some fiat money saved up for, you know, because it's not always easy to get out of gold or out of bitcoin per se. But until we get onto a bitcoin standard, you might want to have some fiat. And certainly gold is better than fiat. But ultimately I would say in my view, bitcoin is the ultimate time tested. Well, I think we'll see it's time tested. But compared to gold, it will be the ultimate time tested money because it's already been way more successful than gold has been if you compare the last 15 years. Blessings are on the head of the righteous. But violence covers the mouth of the wicked. Think about the way that the people in the antifa and the leftist crowd operates, right? Think about revolutionaries, think about Robespierre or Trotsky or Lenin. And these people are out for blood. The left these days, they want blood, right? Why? Because they're wicked. Because their violence even comes out of their mouth. They can't even talk without expressing a demonic furor. To have blood and violence. But those that are righteous, that don't follow that path, we end up blessed. The memory of the righteous is even blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot. This is another proverb that backs up the idea of saints and honoring the lives of the saints, honoring the relics and the images of the saints, because their memory is a blessing. It is blessed. But wicked men oftentimes in history go out with a bang and no one remembers them. Their name rots. They. They get forgotten. Here's a really important one for what we deal with on a daily basis now. It definitely applies to today's stream, but it applies to everybody in our lives. A wise man receives instruction, receives commands, receives rebukes. But prattling fools fail and will fall. Think about the debate sphere. How appropriate is this to the debate sphere? How many prattling fools have we heard over the last five, seven, ten years of online debate? How many prattling feminists have Andrew and Rachel encountered? How Many prattling atheists, prattling feminists, like, not so erudite that I've encountered and debated. And what happens? They make fools of themselves. Their very words hang themselves within their own five minute diarrhea fits. But a person who's wise is willing to receive instruction. He's willing to be corrected, willing to follow the truth no matter what. That's the goal here. The wise man doesn't try to make reality fit what he wants to be the case. He follows the truth and thus is willing to be wrong, willing to be correct and willing to be instructed. Everybody should be willing to be that way. He who walks with integrity will walk, surely. But those that pervert their way will become known. So remember, personal integrity is very important. And your reputation with other people is really important too. And when it comes to, it comes to integrity, if you do not have integrity, what ends up happening is eventually you burn the bridges with everybody else, right? Mainly because you don't have integrity. How many people have we seen in the media sphere, in the al alt media sphere, the Internet sphere, with no integrity, who burn all the bridges, lose all their friends, stab everybody else in the. And they pervert their way. And ultimately a lot of times this becomes known. The mouth of the righteous is a well of life. But violence covers the mouth of the wicked again. So the righteous is a well of life. We can think of Jacob's well, we can think of the woman at the well. We can think of Jesus comparing himself to the flowing forth of the waters of life as the ultimate well. Jesus is that well, and his words are life. And so likewise those of us who talk and explain this to other people, as our catechism say, those are works of mercy to correct the errant, to rebuke the wicked. In our little catechisms and in our little prayer books, we learn that those are good things to do, and it is actually good to do that. Now, you can have bad motives for doing that, but as long as you're doing it with good motives, those are good things. And thus the righteous own wellspring out of his own heart, out of his own mouth becomes a fountain of life. Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers sins. Why would you reach out to Fuentes? Why would you try to say that you would like to, you know, see him flourish and do well? Why do, why do you even do that? Why do you reach out to these people? Because hatred stirs up strife, Love and peace. Try to make amends. Paul says, as much as depends on you, try to be at Peace with all men. Now, obviously there's limitations. I don't reach out, try to be friends with every single wicked person. That's wisdom, knowing when and where to apply it. But if you see people going in directions that you would like to help them not go into to, then it may. I think it makes perfect sense. Why would I do debates with Tim Gordon? Do I hate Tim Gordon? Not at all. I loved him. I liked him a lot. I consider Tim a bro. His wife, his family, they're amazing people. They're great people. The debates, even if they get heated and intense from my vantage point or because I don't want to see him being in a bad situation. When I debated Nick Fuentes, I didn't hate Nick Fuentes. I don't judge him on anything. I would like to see him move in the right direction. And look, it's the same method and approach that you get from me with everybody. When Alex Jones asked me about an Orthodox church, this and that, I say, here's a good Orthodox church in. In Austin, Texas. Check out Father Moses Church. A lot of people said, how come Dyer didn't call out Elijah Schaefer? Well, first of all, I almost never call out people's personal lives over here. I don't do that. It's not. It's not a lot of drama streams. I will do a blood sports debate or something like that. It's not a huge deal to me. But we don't usually do a lot of the drama stuff over here. And doesn't bother me that people do it. That's fine. That's their thing. Just not what I typically do. Now, Elijah reached out to me after we were on the show a couple times with him. We did a interview and then I think we did a debate. We had Luigi down there, and then we had the debate with Tim. And Elijah said, hey, I'm interested in orthodoxy. Could you put me in touch with anybody, a priest or somebody? And he got Father Moses's number and they had one conversation. So what was it you thought I was supposed to do in this situation? Was I supposed to make exposed streams on Elijah? I don't follow Elijah's personal life. I don't know what he's up to. But in that situation, I did the exact same thing that I've done with every single other person in this sphere. If they ask me questions about orthodoxy or if we have that conversation, I point them in that direction. And it was the same thing with Sarah Stock. Now, if those people don't go in that direction, if they choose not to pursue that control, that. That's not up to me. People said years ago, why did you go hang out with Wicca phase? He's a Wiccan. He's not. It's just a name that he chose because he thought it was cool. And when I went and hung out with him, I got him to get an orthodox study Bible. He said, I want to talk to you about the Bible. Tell me what Bible I should get. Everybody said, oh, you're hanging out with him and doing magic rituals and Satanism. There was none of that told. Just absolute nonsense because we thought of a funny picture next to a casket that was a B movie set. There was also an airbrushed snake. Yeah, Satanists are really worshiping in an airbrushed snakes. Yeah, airbrush. People are doing the. The work at the satanic temples. Come on, dude. The whole vibe was hanging out and joking around. We did an interview. Why would you talk to Dasha? Because I want Dasha to become orthodox. I think her husband is okay. She moves in the direction of being interested in Eastern Catholicism. Hey, that's a step in our direction. Maybe she'll become orthodox. So people love to string together these conspiracies. It's like all we do is the same thing with all these people. Why were you on Crowder? You work for Crowder? Andrew helped me get an interview with Gerald, and we talked about all the same stuff we always talk about. Like, what do you expect, man, When I go on the Hodge twins, and the Hodge twins say, I think Islam based. Islam pretty based, ain't it? No, Islam is not based. Islam ain't based. What you mean? What you mean Islamic beast? We have the same conversation. I have anybody else. So there you go. I don't think it's a good idea to intentionally try to stir up strife without some good reason. You do have to have you draw your line in the sand. You have a red line, right? You don't cross that line. Sometimes it is necessary to call people out. But I think that the general attitude is we try to keep the peace. We try to be on good terms with people and, you know, say take. In the case of Nick, I've only disagreed with certain takes and positions. That's it. Same approach to Tim Gordon. Disagree with certain takes and positions. And by the way, remember the attitude of proverbs here. A true friend will tell you if he disagrees and will help you if he thinks you're making a. If you need a course correct. A yes man, a gopher, a Toty isn't a true friend. There's another thing too, that I think goes on in this sphere, and there's a reason for it. Again, as we've talked about in the media sphere, a lot of people are, you know, backstabber, narcissistic types of people, because it's media, it draws that kind of, you know, people that want attention and all that. So there is the tendency for people in media to. You have to be on guard because so many people, people are snakes and they'll burn you and they burn bridges. So it's understandable why people would be so guarded. And that makes perfect sense. I have to be guarded too. There was somebody reaching out to me, oh, let's do this, let's do this. And I'm like, I don't know you, so let's hold your horses, dog. I don't know you yet. So. But I think that our goal, not just in media, but whatever your job is, whatever you're doing in life, right? Proverbs is going to be a great instruction manual on how to handle things practically. And I'm just saying from my own experience over the years, I've. I've been doing Proverbs over and over and over since I was like 19. And, and that's because it's helped me a lot throughout life. I've always found new insights, new nuggets, new wisdom, and same with the rest of the durocanonical text too. But especially young men. I would, I would encourage young men to consistently get in the habit of, of Proverbs. Wise people store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool is near destruction. Well, you got all them books. You read all them books. What did we see Tate say the other day? I don't read books.
