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Man Ta1k 133 | Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence & the End Times: Are We Losing Our Spiritual Discernment? · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  What's going on everybody? Welcome to the show Question.
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  Are we using technology to improve our lives or are we
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  slowly surrendering our ability to think?
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  What do y'all think? What do y'all think?
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  You know what I mean? Cause the world is changing, but
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  are we paying attention? Everything around us is changing
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  y'all. Are we paying attention to
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  what's really going on? Welcome to Man talk 133.
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  What men unit. I am the host.
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  Y'all know me, Shaw, Whitaker. And today we're going to talk
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  about some of the day. Y'all is it going to make people
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  think? It's going to really make y'all
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  think we're talking about technology, we're talking about
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  artificial intelligence, AI, we're talking about data
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  centers, we're talking about the Bible, and yes, we're talking
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  about the end times. Y'all, we're going to get into
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  all of that. But before anybody, because I
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  know, I know, I know how this thing goes, y'all before anybody
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  hops out there and before anybody get out there and start
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  saying, hey, I'm putting out these conspiracy theories and
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  all this stuff like that. Before they do that, before
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  y'all do that, Listen, I ain't here.
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  Let me be clear. I ain't here to frighten you.
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  Listen, I ain't here to. I'm just here to make y'all
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  think about what's really going on around us.
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  Because I believe one of the greatest dangers facing our
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  generation isn't simply technology that is getting
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  smarter. I think people may be getting
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  less intentional about how they think, right?
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  So we have smart TV's, we got smartphones, we got smart
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  vehicles, smart homes, and now we got AI, y'all.
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  But here's my question, with all this small technology, why do we
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  struggle to make wise decisions? Why we have access to more
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  information than any generation before us, yet misinformation
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  spreads faster than ever. Or to me, just like soon,
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  somebody to say something, bam, before it, even before people
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  can even confirm it. Guess what folk and all the way
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  to to put out some misinformation.
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  We have more ways to communicate yet people are struggling with
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  loneliness. We have access to thousands of
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  sermons, Bible studies, Christian podcast, yet many
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  believers still struggle to explain what they believe.
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  How? How is that even possible?
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  Y'all How? Maybe because information and
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  transformation are two completely different things.
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  You can download information, but transformation requires
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  something deeper. Romans 12 and two tell us not to
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  be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing
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  of our minds. Notice that scripture doesn't
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  say we are. Excuse me, All doesn't say we
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  are transformed by collect, by collecting information.
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  It says we're transformed by the renewing of our minds.
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  And today I want to ask a difficult question.
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  Who's who's renewing your mind? God's word or the algorithm
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  algorithms on your phone? Because somebody's competing for
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  your attention, somebody's competing for your loyalty,
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  somebody's competing to influence your decisions.
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  Y'all, the question is whether you recognize that competition.
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  You know, I'm saying tonight we're going to talk about these.
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  It's all over the news, y'all. It's all over the news.
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  Tonight. We're going to be talking about
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  massive buildings being constructed around the county.
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  Call the country. I'm sorry, we call data centers,
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  y'all. We're going to talk about data
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  centers. We're going to discuss what they
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  do while companies are investing billions of dollars into them
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  and how technology they support is changing society.
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  Y'all, for real? We're going, we're going to get
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  into that, but we are going to also ask the Christians, shit, I
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  mean, what, what should Christians, what do Christians
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  think about this surveillance and this, this, this artificial
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  intelligence and this digital identity and the properties
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  found, prophecies found in Revelations, y'all, We're going
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  to separate the biblical truth from speculation.
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  We're going to separate technological, technical,
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  logical facts from fear. We're going to get into this
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  tonight, y'all. And most importantly, we're
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  going to talk about spiritual discernment.
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  We got to get into that because everything that is technology,
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  technology, y'all. I can't get the word out.
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  Technology I need. I need my wife to help me with
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  this word technologically possible.
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  It's not necessarily spiritually beneficial, y'all, And
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  everything that is new is not necessarily evil because some
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  people think, some people think that AI causes new is evil.
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  It ain't evil, y'all. It ain't everything that is new.
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  It ain't evil. AI ain't evil.
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  I think. I think AI actually helps more
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  than it hurts. That's my personal opinion on
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  it. I think it helps people do
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  things easier, but I also don't think we should be really
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  dependent on it. You know, I think some people,
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  excuse me y'all, I think some people are really dependent on
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  AI. Don't.
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  I don't think we should be dependent on AI.
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  Although I think AI is one of those things where we can, if we
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  use it the right way, we can grow.
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  So it's been all over the news. Y'all heard about these data
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  centers, right, Right. I know y'all heard about them.
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  They what are exactly data centers and where are why are
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  they, why are they all over the place?
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  Like they, you know, people want them in there areas and stuff
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  like that. A data center, basically this is
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  the definition of a data center. A data center is a facility
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  filled with servers, networking equipment, and systems designed
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  to store, process, and transmit digital information.
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  Think about it. We do everything online.
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  We open Facebook, watch YouTube, check your bank account, order
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  something from Amazon or ask AI, which is chat BT, ChatGPT and
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  other things questions. You know computers somewhere
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  it's processing those requests, right?
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  Y'all y'all y'all know that right?
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  Many of these computers are located in what they call data
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  centers, and these facilities are growing because of our
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  demand for digital services is growing.
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  That's why. That's why basically they're
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  putting up these data centers everywhere.
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  Now, do I agree with them? I'll tell you all about that in
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  a little while. AI, which is artificial
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  intelligence, is particularly important because developing and
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  operating advanced AI models can require enormous computing
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  resources, right? But let me ask you something.
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  Have you ever wonder why companies are willing to spend
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  so much money in these facilities, in these buildings?
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  Have you all ever thought about that?
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  The answer is that digital infrastructure has become
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  essential to modern economies. I'm to my you think of
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  businesses needed, hospitals needed.
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  Think about it, governments needed, financial institutions
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  needed and everyday people depend on it.
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  That's why it's so popular, right.
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  But with this growth comes serious questions, right?
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  I know y'all think yeah, it got to come with some kind of
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  serious questions, right. What is it like this electricity
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  come from the power all these big buildings because you know,
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  if you got a computer, if you if you remember back in the day,
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  they had the old school computers, the, you know, CP us
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  and they burnt a lot of lot of lot of power, right?
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  The room would be hot and it'd be blowing and doing all this
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  other stuff when it was old, right.
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  The old ones, they don't do too much because you know, we own
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  laptops and stuff like that. How much water is needed for
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  cooling? What happens when communities
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  experience pressure on the on their electrical infrastructure
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  because these big buildings, these big pretty buildings, they
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  putting up everywhere. Who benefits economically from
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  these projects and who ultimately controls the
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  information processed through these systems?
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  These are, these are legitimate questions, right?
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  Some y'all will probably want to know and they ain't putting it
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  out on the news. Not conspiracy theories, not
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  paranoia. Legitimate questions about
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  resources, accountability, and power.
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  And here's where the spiritual conversation begins.
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  This where it begins when it's. Excuse me, y'all?
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  When a society becomes deeply dependent on something, that
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  dependency can create vulnerability, right?
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  You think about. You think about when everybody
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  you know, depending on like online paying stuff online,
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  guess what hackers was just were able to hack into it because it
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  created vulnerabilities and people would hack into people's
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  stuff and you know, get the information right.
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  Now, I'm not saying dependence on technologies is is
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  automatically sinful, y'all, That's not what I'm saying.
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  I'm saying we need to recognize the difference between using A2
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  and becoming controlled by our own relationship with that tool.
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  In other words, not let the tool control you, you control it.
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  You know what I'm saying? And sometimes, you know, we, we
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  are, we don't understand how powerful these these tools and
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  things are, right? So we got to start thinking.
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  We got to start thinking like, hey, we got to start thinking
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  that. Excuse me, y'all, I'm sorry.
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  I, I kind of, I'll renew my stuff.
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  I really know my stuff y'all. And I messed around and hit the
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  wrong button and it just took me somewhere where I did not meet
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  the need to be. This is what live radio and
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  stuff doing. You got to be able so the people
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  that want to record and want to do this stuff like this, you got
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  to understand that this is what will happen when you're doing
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  live radio. Live radio it'll cause people to
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  lose a place and you got to be able to understand this is what
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  happened happens doing live radio right?
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  So I'm still trying to find my place because I'm I'm being for
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  real y'all. I hit I hit a button, everything
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  just flew off of it off the screen.
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  Y'all. I don't even know what happened
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  to it. Honestly, I really don't know
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  what happened, so just give me one second y'all I mean this is
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  lives. I mean I can't stop it.
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  It's live, so I need to you know find my information while I'm
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  alive. How everybody doing this evening
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  while I'm finding this out how how's everybody doing hope
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  everybody doing good out there while I continue to look for my
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  information right that just my research just shot off the
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  screen. I don't I don't really know what
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  happened. You know what I'm saying?
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  Like, all right, so I I'm saying we need to recognize the
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  difference between using the tool and becoming controlled by
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  that tool. Y'all, Let me give y'all an
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  example. I'm back on track, y'all.
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  How many people wake up and reach for their phone before
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  they pray? How many?
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  How many people spend an hour scrolling through social media
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  but struggle to spend 10 minutes reading scripture?
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  How many? I know y'all lot of people
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  right? How many people become anxious
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  when their phone battery dies and they can't?
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  They ain't got to actually access to their phone.
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  How many people? How many people do that?
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  You know what I'm saying? Now compare their reaction to
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  what happens when they miss an important prayer or worship
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  session. They I ain't listen.
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  I ain't asking these questions to condemn y'all and make nobody
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  feel bad and none of that. Excuse me, I'm asking because
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  our habits reveal our priorities, right?
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  That's normally what happens. Our habits reveal our priorities
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  and right before before I go to break, I want to say this, Jesus
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  said in Matthew 6 and 21 for where your treasure is, there
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  will your heart be also. So I'm just saying we got to
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  understand that's why our treasure is in these things like
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  our phones and stuff like that. Hey, so I will be right back at
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  the the break if I can find my stuff.
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  Y'all, I'm telling you know what?
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  Will you take some time off? Will you take some time off?
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  This really throw you off? So I apologize y'all for not
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  Welcome back to Man Talk 133 what men and unite.
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  Welcome back to the show y'all this evening.
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  You know what I'm saying? So we're talking about tonight
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  about data centers. We're talking about we're
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  talking about data centers AI and we also talking about end
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  times and stuff like that. So before I went to the break, I
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  was, I read about, I read in Matthew, I think it's Matthew 6
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  and 21. Where it talked about.
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  Where it talked about. Yeah, my bad.
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  Yeah. Well, I talked.
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  We're talking about where your treasure is or where your heart
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  will be also, right. The most times, most times, if
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  we're honest with each other, you know, we will.
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  We will reach for our phone before we even read a scripture
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  or before we pray, before we do anything.
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  And we will make priority is Matthew 6 and 21.
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  And we also will make other things priority other than, you
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  know, reading the word or doing whatever it is.
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  You know, I'm speaking from a Christian perspective, you know
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  what I mean? So that's the perspective I'm
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  speaking from. So other people, you know, they
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  may read whatever they read. I don't know, right?
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  I'm not here to judge all that. So let me ask you, let me ask
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  you, of course, where is your attention?
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  Where your attention at? Where is your time?
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  Where is your trust because of whatever consistently captures
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  your attention can eventually influence your thinking no
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  matter what it is, right? Because the Bible just, it's
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  clear where your treasure is, is where your heart be also.
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  And whatever influences your thinking can influence your
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  behavior. Think about it, y'all, I mean,
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  OK, think about, think about this.
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  I'm asking these questions y'all, I'm asking these
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  questions you know and you can answer.
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  You can answer in the in the in the in the comments.
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  Can you go 7 days without social media?
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  Can you do you do you believe technology is making us more
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  intelligent or more dependent? I'm going to say more dependent
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  because the more people start to understand how AI works and how
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  how it makes things more simple or how they can figure out a
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  ways to kind of scam around through it, the more they figure
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  it out, the more they're going to want to start using it,
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  right? Should communities have more
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  influence over where data centers are built and how they
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  use use resources? Of course I think they should.
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  I wouldn't want to do a data center by my house because what
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  I was going to do is cause electricity and water and all
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  this stuff going to go up because these things require a
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  lot. You know what I'm saying?
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  They're going to require a lot. So hey, go in the depth in the
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  comments section. Y'all, y'all, let me know, you
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  know, tell me why. You know what I'm saying.
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  Just, I mean, honestly, just tell me why, you know what I'm
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  saying? It's technology replacing our
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  dependence on God. Think about it.
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  Now we're going to get into something a little deeper.
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  You know, we're going to get into it 'cause just I want to
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  talk about spiritual dependency verses, you know, data centers.
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  Exodus 20 and three says thou should have no other gods before
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  me. None.
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  No other gods. If you're a Christian, you
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  supposed to believe that, right? You have no other gods before
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  me. When people heard the word
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  idolatry, they often imagine somebody like bound down to a
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  statue or something like that, right?
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  That's that's mostly what they think about.
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  But idolatry can't involve giving something created, the
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  ultimate loyalty and trust that should belong to the creator.
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  You think about that. That's all our our Dollar Tree
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  is. And that brings us to AI
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  autovisual intelligence. AI can write essays.
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  It can answer questions. It can analyze information.
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  It can help create music, images, videos, books, whatever
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  you wanted to create. All you got to do is just take a
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  picture and say hey, create different and it'll create it.
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  But here's the question. Here's the question.
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  Just because AI can produce religious language, does it mean
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  it possess the spiritual understanding?
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  Do you think that AI has? Absolutely yes.
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  Do Some words about faith is not the same, not at all, not at
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  all. Generating a prayer through AI
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  is not the same as praying. It's not because God is going to
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  give you when you're praying, He's going to download to you
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  what he wanted to say. Summarizing scripture is not the
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  same as living in obedience to the scripture and producing a
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  sermon is not the same as being called to preach.
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  Some people think they can go on AI create a sermon or book and
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  that makes them an author. That does not make you a
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  preacher or an author. Now don't get it mixed up.
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  Don't misunderstand what I'm saying.
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  You know, as I said, technology can be extremely helpful.
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  Even in ministry, technology can be like extremely helpful, but I
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  believe it can help us communicate, organize and study
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  and reach people. I do believe that, but it's but,
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  but but that too should never become the ultimate authority
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  over a person's over the person that's using it.
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  Some people let this AI thing take over and run them up do
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  whatever they don't even think for they self no more.
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  You know I I need to figure out how to do a a chat.
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  It used to be YouTube, YouTube you know people used to go to
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  YouTube. Hey YouTube search a video, how
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  do I do XYZ now is AI Hey go to whatever, hey how do I do blah
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  blah blah blah blah in seconds. They got it.
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  You know what I'm saying? Think about Proverbs 3 verse 5
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  and 6, right? Trust in the Lord with all that
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  in heart and lean not to thy own understanding in all thy ways.
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  Acknowledge Him and he shall direct thy paths, right?
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  And think about that. Now imagine if we begin
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  replacing prayer, prayer for prayer, prayerful discernment
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  with whatever and answer appeared on the screen.
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  Think about that. Whatever popped up on the
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  screen, that's what we're going to go with.
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  We ain't going to try to pray and seek none.
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  That what chat said. Chat said I need to do this.
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  That's what I'm going to do. Think about that for once.
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  I really want y'all to think about that for one second.
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  Imagine if we stop examining the scripture for ourselves because
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  a computer could summarize it for us, give you all different
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  type of variations of it and all kind of stuff.
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  Think about that and then some of y'all might say, hey, well
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  shoot, count me in and I ain't got to do much studying.
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  Now imagine if, if, if pastors stop preparing spiritually
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  because the program could generate a sermon in 30 seconds
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  just like that. Don't we got to do no studying
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  none of that don't got to do they don't have to do any of
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  that no more. What would be would that be
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  technology, technological advancement or spiritual
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  negligence? I would say spiritual
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  negligence. That's that's just me.
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  I'm I'm a you study and where the guy you study it, you don't.
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  I mean, you have to do research and you know, net AI so
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  integrated into all the what you call the things is so integrated
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  into everything now that sometimes your answers are going
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  to be through AI. It's just what it is.
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  You just ain't nothing. You can change that, but you
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  shouldn't base everything on that when you're doing your
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  research and whatnot, right? So here's a statement that I
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  want you to remember. AI or artificial intelligence
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  can organize biblical information, but it cannot
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  replace the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a
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  believer. Let me say it again so y'all can
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  really get that and I'm going to get closer to Mike as I can get.
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  AI can organize biblical information, but it cannot
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  replace the work of the Holy Spirit period.
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  The Bible tells us in John first John 41 to test the Spirit by
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  the Spirit. That is a call for discernment.
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  I don't know why I got this coffee.
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  I just started like a couple days ago my badge are sorry, but
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  that's a that's a call for spiritual discernment.
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  It means we shouldn't blindly accept every spiritual claim
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  that we hear. We should seek the Holy Spirit.
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  Think about it. You're accepting every claim
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  that we hear and that claim includes delivered through
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  digital platforms. Think about it.
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  It's through digital platforms. It's nobody's taking and nobody
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  is talking to taking the time. Nobody's taking the time to say
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  I'm a sit down and seek the Holy Spirit on nothing.
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  You know, I'm saying they just, I'm just print it out and preach
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  it. They do a lot, a little bit of
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  yelling, a little bit of spinning around, a little bit of
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  this and that and, you know, look like it's anointing.
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  And the message can sound powerful and, and still be
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  accurate and the video can look convincing and still can be
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  fabricated. A voice can sound like someone
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  you know and still be artificially generated.
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  We got to be careful. We got to have discernment.
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  So how do we respond? How do we respond?
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  We verify the information. You won't just take whatever.
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  We verify that information. We examine Scripture and
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  context. We seek wise counsel.
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  We pray and we we refuse to confuse popularity with truth.
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  That's what we do. A challenging question for
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  pastors, pastors, ministers, teachers, and church leaders.
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  Let me ask y'all something real quick.
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  Let me ask y'all something. If AI can generate a sermon in
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  seconds, what distinguishes a spiritual prepared message from
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  a computer generated speech? Is it the vocabulary and how it
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  is it's done how how I word it? Because you know certain things
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  that AI has a certain cadence. You know what I'm saying that
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  you listen to. Is it the structure in the way
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  you structure your script? I mean your, your sermon.
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  Is it the emotional delivery or is it the preacher preacher's
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  understanding, integrity, prayer and study and commitment to the
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  living word? Which one is it y'all?
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  Now, I said this before and I'm going to say it, you know, I'm
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  going to say it again. You know, I'm not saying pastors
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  and everybody else and people that bring forth the word of God
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  like myself, you know, and other people like my wife and people
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  like that and, and pastors and leaders and all that.
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  I'm not saying a minister cannot use technology assist with the
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  research. I'm saying spiritual leadership
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  requires, requires more. It requires more spiritual it
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  it, it requires more y'all. I'm just saying it's, it's not
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  just something that we can, it's not just something that we can
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  just sit and we can just you know it sometimes, OK, let me
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  say it like this before because I'm up against the break y'all.
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  Let me say it like this. Sometimes we think that we can
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  just whatever our way through like a like message, like if
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  you're a spiritual leader, we feel like we can just hey, I got
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  this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that and boom boom,
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  boom and it don't work like that.
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  Y'all. We got to put time in with God
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  y'all period is no question about it.
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  So before I go to the break, y'all, 'cause I'm getting ready
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  to go, I'm getting ready to head to this break.
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  Y'all think about it, leaders, pastors, leaders, think about
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  it. Are we going to let AI be the
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  tool that takes us away from the Holy Spirit or we are we going
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  to, or are we going to use AI as it not like we're supposed to,
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  you know, as a, as a, in a way where it's responsible.
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  Hey, I'll be right back after the break.
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  So we've been to get into something that's a little bit
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  yeah, little bit out there, right?
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  But we could talk about data centers, digital control and the
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  mark of the beast, right? So let's address something that
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  address the subject some of y'all been waiting on the mark
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  of the beast right found in Revelations chapter 13.
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  Go read it right now Revelations 13 y'all go check it out digital
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  characters, which you know crypto and all that AI we
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  already know about that and biometric identification, which
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  means read your eyes, open up your phone and all that stuff
• 37:49
  like this. Surveillance and the possibility
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  of a future society in which participation in economic life
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  is controlled through technology, technological
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  systems, right. So before we go any further, I
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  want to establish something the Bible does not mention mention
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  Martin data centers. This this is not in the Bible.
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  I haven't read it in there. It does not identify AI
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  intelligence as the beast, as the mark of the beast.
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  It does not do that. And it does not say that using
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  digital technology means someone has accepted the mark of the
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  beast. I want to be clear on that.
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  I want to be. We got to be clear.
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  I look, we must be careful not to add to the scripture and not
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  to take away from it. The scripture does not say that.
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  OK, I'm just putting it out up front.
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  The scripture does not say that, so don't go back to say it.
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  Man. Talk 133 said, you know, AI and
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  all this stuff is the mark of the beast.
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  That's not what I said. But we can still examine these
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  questions raised by technology, right?
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  Revelations 1316 and 17 describes people receiving a
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  mark and restrictions on buying and selling right.
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  We all you know, if we don't know what go to go to read
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  Revelations 13 that tell you about it right.
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  Excuse me now, precious interpretate interpret this
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  patches different. You know, some some
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  understanding as as as describing as future events.
• 39:37
  You know others, you know, emphasizing the symbolism of
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  allegiance to worldly powers opposed to God.
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  What do y'all think? What do y'all think?
• 39:48
  It's sage when if you go when you go read it or if you know
• 39:51
  about the mark of the beast. What do y'all think?
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  And some understand this patches in relation to both its 1st
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  century setting and broader and broader patterns of opposition
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  of opposition to God, right. We should acknowledge those
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  differences. I'm not saying.
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  Excuse me y'all, I'm not saying that neither one of them is
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  right or wrong, right? But here's what interests me
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  now. Modern technology.
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  Modern technology. Hold on for one second y'all.
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  Give me one, right? I'm struggling with this call
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  but I don't know where it come from.
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  Y'all, I'm sorry. Now, modern technology makes it
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  possible, makes it possible to identify people, process
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  financial transactions, and restrict access to digital
• 40:52
  services at enormous scales, Right?
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  It does. That is a technological reality.
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  Does that prove Revelation 13 is being fulfilled through today's
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  data centers? Do y'all think that's what that
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  mean? I don't think that's what that
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  mean. That's just me personally that I
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  don't think that's what it mean. But we should discuss at least
• 41:20
  discuss the ethical implications of, you know, concentrating
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  power over identity, money and information, right?
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  That's what she I would say absolutely yes, we should the
• 41:35
  issue of control and all that, right?
• 41:38
  I would say so, so imaginable side with almost every
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  transaction is transaction is digital.
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  Now you think about that everything is almost like that.
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  You can pay your phone cat beside that boop boop and to pay
• 41:57
  your identification is digital. Your banking is digital.
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  Think about this stuff, right? Just imagine a a world like
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  that. Everything is digital.
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  Your medical records are digital.
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  Your transportation depends on a a a connected on connected
• 42:18
  systems. You think about all this stuff.
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  Your employment depends on online platforms, which they do.
• 42:24
  If your stuff ain't done online, you, you might not get paid, you
• 42:28
  know what I'm saying? And everything is transformed
• 42:33
  electronically. Now imagine losing access to
• 42:36
  those systems. How would how would we function?
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  How would the world function? How would we function?
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  I'm just saying, how would you purchase food if you won't put
• 42:52
  up no cash? How would you receive your
• 42:55
  paycheck? If it's digital?
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  How? How would you communicate if
• 43:04
  your phone cell phones off of offline, how would you travel
• 43:08
  when everything is is done through done digitally, through
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  digital? Think about that.
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  Think about this now, this is not a prediction that you know
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  that a system will inevitably be used for religious persecution.
• 43:26
  That's not what I'm saying. It's a question about how
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  dependent we are on centralized systems and how it can affect
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  freedom. Think about it.
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  It's a question worth asking regardless of who you are,
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  because think about it, your religious belief, it don't
• 43:45
  matter. Your skin color don't matter.
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  We do a lot of stuff that's digital, a lot of stuff that's
• 43:51
  digital. And what if the system go down?
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  If you think about that, the Christian response should not be
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  panic. We shouldn't panic when those
• 44:05
  things happen. It should be wisdom.
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  How do we work this thing out? Because fear can make people
• 44:11
  just as vulnerable to manipulation as an ignorance as
• 44:18
  ingredients can. It can just make you it make
• 44:22
  people trip out. In other words, because of
• 44:25
  because of fear. Fear make people do some crazy
• 44:27
  stuff, right? Second, Timothy one and seven
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  reminds us For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of
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  power and of love and of a sound mind.
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  Sound mind, not a frightened mind y'all, not somebody that's
• 44:48
  fearful, not a gullible mind, not a mind that believes every
• 44:52
  viral video that pops out and half of it done by AIA sound
• 44:57
  mind. So so when somebody tell you
• 45:03
  that a new data center is secretly fulfilling, obviously
• 45:07
  ask for evidence. That's wisdom that's show me.
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  Show me when somebody claims a particular technology is the
• 45:18
  mark of the beast, ask him to do this to demonstrate that claim
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  from Scripture. Show me.
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  I need to see it. I need to see it.
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  Somebody, somebody show that to me.
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  If you said that, if you got that claim, I want to see it.
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  I want somebody tells you that Christians should ignore every
• 45:44
  concern about surveillance and digital control.
• 45:50
  Ask whether that position is wise.
• 45:55
  Ask is that wise? Is what?
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  They don't make sense to me. Why?
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  Why? Why should Christians?
• 46:02
  They know that. Why?
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  We need to know that stuff too, y'all?
• 46:08
  As Christians, we got to be wise.
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  We have to be. We do not have to choose between
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  freedom and complacency, y'all. We don't.
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  There's another option. Discernment.
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  Discernment. That's it.
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  Do you believe Christians are discussing modern technology
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  responsibly, or are we allowing fear and speculation to dominate
• 46:39
  our conversations? I want to hear from y'all in the
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  in the in the comments. Y'all do we?
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  Do we think about it? Do we?
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  Is that what we doing? I don't know.
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  I mean, y'all put y'all comments, y'all answers in the
• 46:58
  comments. Are algorithms becoming the new
• 47:00
  authority? Think about it.
• 47:05
  Or is it, It's something we got to discuss?
• 47:09
  Y'all algorithms for the people who don't know, excuse me.
• 47:16
  An algorithm is a set of instructions used by computer
• 47:22
  systems to process information or make decisions.
• 47:27
  In other words, when you start watching something, when you
• 47:31
  start watching something on YouTube or whatever or Facebook,
• 47:36
  the computer going to start sending that stuff your way.
• 47:39
  Excuse me, it's going to start sending that stuff your way.
• 47:43
  That's what we're going to start doing.
• 47:44
  Online platforms use algorithm for many purposes and can
• 47:49
  including which content to recommend.
• 47:53
  If you watching Man Talk 133, which I hope y'all are watching
• 47:58
  Man Talk 133 with me and Unite on YouTube, they're going to
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  send y'all more content on it. It's going to be recommended.
• 48:09
  You know what I'm saying? Now think about think about the
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  implications. Two people can open the same
• 48:15
  social media platform and see completely different versions of
• 48:19
  the world, totally different versions of the world.
• 48:25
  One person sees constant political conflict, right?
• 48:30
  It's what we see. And now, you know, you have
• 48:32
  different platforms. Fox push one thing, the other
• 48:35
  one MSNBC and all the others push whatever they push and the
• 48:39
  other sees conspiracy theories. Another one sees financial
• 48:45
  success stories, another one sees religious debates, another
• 48:50
  one sees entertainment. Over time, repeated exposure to
• 48:55
  certain messages can influence how we understand reality.
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  Like think about it. You got people now that that are
• 49:04
  believe anything that certain politicians say anything, it
• 49:10
  don't matter what, because they've been influenced by the
• 49:14
  algorithm. The algorithm know they're
• 49:16
  looking at it and they push it straight to them and they just
• 49:20
  keep eating it, eating it, eating it, eating it, eating it
• 49:23
  and eating it until they use they lose touch with reality.
• 49:30
  This is especially important when digital systems prioritize
• 49:35
  content that keep people in to keep that keeps people engaged.
• 49:39
  You ever notice you watch one worship song and they just keep
• 49:44
  sending it. They keep sending.
• 49:46
  And then sometimes they'll send, you know, some little sliders in
• 49:50
  there like some, some, you know, conflict and you know, and it
• 49:56
  and it keeps the people engaged and keep their attention.
• 49:58
  You're like, I need to see the more that debate that now they
• 50:01
  got shorts where they're sending shorts and you go look for the
• 50:05
  whole video. You know what I'm saying?
• 50:08
  And because you like the, the sensation of it and how you want
• 50:14
  to just push it. You want to see it.
• 50:17
  You want to see more of it, more of it, more of it.
• 50:19
  Fear can attract attention. Conflict can attract attention
• 50:24
  and controversy can attract attention.
• 50:27
  This is the reason why when you're looking at social media
• 50:31
  drama and fights and all this stuff sells.
• 50:34
  Anytime you talk about some spiritual, excuse me, it rarely
• 50:38
  gets views like all the other stuff with people fighting and
• 50:41
  acting crazy because controversy and all this stuff like that
• 50:47
  attracts people. But what attracts attention does
• 50:53
  not necessarily is what nourishes people's soul here.
• 50:57
  Seeing people fight at the convenience store or what does
• 51:01
  that do for people? Honestly, Philippians four and
• 51:05
  eight, it instructs the believers us to think about,
• 51:11
  think on things, are pure, honest, just lovely, worthy of
• 51:16
  praise. You know, all of this stuff.
• 51:18
  That's what encourages to do. So here's the challenge.
• 51:22
  Here's the challenge. Take a serious look at what your
• 51:28
  social media feeds. You look at your social media
• 51:32
  feeds. See what it's give me.
• 51:33
  Does it encourage wisdom? Does it encourage compassion?
• 51:41
  Does it encourage truth? Or does it constantly provoke
• 51:45
  anger, comparison, jealousy, and suspicion?
• 51:51
  What it, what it? Just look at your feet and see
• 51:53
  what's coming up in it. They'll let you know if you got
• 51:57
  a lot of controversial stuff. They'll let you know if you're
• 51:59
  messy or not. Now I'm just playing as you
• 52:02
  know, if you're messy, you keep getting all that other stuff
• 52:05
  that you're supposed to get. So we need to understand that
• 52:08
  protecting our spiritual lives includes being intentional about
• 52:13
  what we consume. We got to be.
• 52:19
  We have to be. When we convince, when
• 52:24
  convenience becomes dependent, y'all, we got to understand.
• 52:30
  We got to. We got to.
• 52:32
  Anyway, let me move on. Let me ask another question,
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  y'all. Are we losing the ability to sit
• 52:38
  quietly? Think about it.
• 52:41
  Just think about it for a second.
• 52:44
  We don't like waiting no more. We want everything fast.
• 52:48
  We don't like silence, we don't like uncertainty.
• 52:55
  If we have a question, we want an answer now.
• 53:00
  That's why ChatGPT is so popular right now.
• 53:03
  Because you can put in a question less than 30 seconds,
• 53:06
  you got your answer. And the 9th time I know little
• 53:09
  bitty answer, I'm talking about a fool answer, almost an essay
• 53:13
  answer. If we feel bored, we reach for
• 53:18
  entertainment. We can't.
• 53:19
  We got to watch TV or some phone or something, but we feel
• 53:22
  uncomfortable. We look for distractions.
• 53:27
  Think about that. But spiritual growth often
• 53:31
  requires patience, prayer, prayer, our prayer.
• 53:36
  When we pray it requires attention meditation on
• 53:40
  Scripture, which requires reflection or everything so
• 53:45
  quick healthy relations require presence got to be around each
• 53:50
  other. If you want a relationship with
• 53:52
  the Lord, you got to spend time with him and in this presence.
• 53:56
  Now I know for people that that are not Christians and when we
• 54:02
  say hey you spend time in his presence, it sounds weird like a
• 54:06
  way how you going to spend time with somebody you don't see.
• 54:09
  The same time you spend time with the devil when he talking
• 54:11
  to you and saying old crazy stuff to you and you go act on
• 54:14
  it same the same way you act on that spirit.
• 54:18
  It's the same way Christians can sit in the presence of the Lord
• 54:23
  and listen to him tell themselves the same way you can
• 54:25
  sit in the spirit of the devil and let him tell you something,
• 54:28
  you go act on it. Same thing y'all.
• 54:34
  And wisdom often develops through experiences that cannot
• 54:38
  be rushed. You cannot rush.
• 54:41
  You can try it, but I'm telling you right now it does not work.
• 54:47
  Psalms 46 and 10 says be still and know that I'm God be still.
• 54:56
  Be still now that's difficult for a generation surrounded by
• 55:01
  notification, their phone go up thing thing thing all day long.
• 55:07
  They got to reach for it. Excuse me, I got to reach for it
• 55:09
  got to reach for it got to reach for it.
• 55:13
  So maybe one of the greatest spiritual disciplines that we
• 55:15
  need to we need to recover is the ability to be still without
• 55:22
  reaching for a screen. A challenge to me, men, I know,
• 55:32
  I thought, I know y'all though, but it's man talk y'all.
• 55:35
  So it's man talk 133. So I got to throw something
• 55:39
  there for the men. I want to speak directly to
• 55:43
  y'all for a moment before I get out of here.
• 55:46
  We talk about leadership, we talk about protecting our
• 55:50
  families, we talk about responsibility.
• 55:54
  Well, how can we lead effectively?
• 55:56
  Effectively, and we are constantly distracted.
• 56:01
  How? How can we teach our tears and
• 56:05
  discernment if we believe everything we see on the screen?
• 56:10
  You got some folk and I ain't knocking none of the people
• 56:12
  that's doing this. You got some folk that's 4050
• 56:17
  years old still believe wrestling is real.
• 56:20
  You got some folk that's 30 years old, 40 years old, still
• 56:25
  believe in Santa Claus. I'm just like how?
• 56:33
  How can you teach your tear and discernment when you telling
• 56:35
  them Santa Claus is it going to come down to chimney?
• 56:38
  And the kids don't really understand that they ain't got
• 56:41
  no chimney. So how does Santa Claus going to
• 56:43
  come down to chimney and you ain't got no chimney on your
• 56:45
  house. What if you stay in the
• 56:48
  apartment? How does Santa Claus going to
• 56:50
  come down to chimney in the apartment?
• 56:55
  Stop doing that, y'all. How can we encourage spiritual
• 56:57
  maturity if we never createspace for prayer, reflection, and
• 57:02
  meaningful conversation? Tell me leadership requires
• 57:06
  intentionality. You got to be intentional and
• 57:09
  spiritual leadership begins with personal accountability, y'all.
• 57:14
  That's what it begins with. So before I get out of here, we
• 57:20
  got to examine we, we, we got to examine our habits.
• 57:26
  We can establish boundaries. We can teach our families to
• 57:30
  question what they see. Don't believe everything you
• 57:33
  see, because we can teach independent thinking, not
• 57:39
  ChatGPT and all this stuff. And we can make sure that
• 57:43
  technology remains A servant rather than becoming our master.
• 57:49
  So before I get out of here, y'all listen for the next 7
• 57:55
  days, I want you to try something.
• 58:00
  Spend your first 15 minutes awake without social media.
• 58:04
  Read scripture, pray, reflect, write down something you
• 58:12
  grateful for. Then ask yourself whether you're
• 58:19
  beginning the day differently changes your mindset.
• 58:24
  Ask yourself with me change is starting to date differently.
• 58:27
  My mindset change. Just don't talk about the
• 58:32
  spiritual discipline. We got to practice it.
• 58:36
  Thank you for joining Man Talk 133 with me and unite.
• 58:41
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  I really do appreciate it and to next time man, I'm signing off
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