Well, well, well, good morning, everybody.

After a wee bit of morning constitutional, I had a couple of questions from freedomain.locals.com.

So I thought I would take them on as I walk through the Dewey-Canadian hinterlands getting

my feet progressively more swampy.

So the first question was, how do I avoid the Messianic impulse?

And the Messianic impulse is to sort of be, I guess, a charismatic leader who promises peace

and plenty and prosperity and all kinds of wonderful things to people in return for obedience, right?

It's a sort of time-honored way for charismatic, verbally skilled people to gain access to resources.

So let's just say it's not completely off the table for me, and I understand that.

And, you know, it's hard to know what the greatest sin is.

We're just working on the truth about sin as a whole.

So it's kind of hard to know what the greatest sin is.

Well, we'd pick her, but one of them, of course, has to be vanity, right?

So to me, vanity is when you believe that what you did not earn is your treasure and triumph.

That you have value for things that you did not earn.

I mean, the typical example, of course, is a woman who is young and pretty and shapely and so on.

And then she believes that she has value because men desire her.

Well, did she earn her shapelyness? I mean, she probably exercises and all that, but she gets such a great incentive for exercising.

You know, if somebody paid me, I don't know, $100,000 to have abs, I'd probably have abs, right?

So she does exercise and eat well, but the payoff is so enormous that we don't really consider that to be much of a treasure in a bonus.

I want to make sure things don't get too windy here.

So what I think we can safely say is that she gets great value.

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