Well, good morning, everybody.

Hope you doing well.

It's a family from Freedom.

And we are talking about Bible verses this morning.

Proverbs 2717.

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

So we cannot think in isolation.

We do not have thoughts in isolation.

There's a hive mind, there's a Borg mind, there's a collective mind,

and if you doubt this, of course, you simply have to look at the number of words

that you yourself have invented or the number of concepts that you yourself have invented, and most of us

will come up with a few over the course of our lives, but for the most part, we inherit everything from

everyone else. So we cannot think on our own. We cannot communicate on our own.

Imagine if you, as most people do, I know my daughter did, try and come up with your own language,

you realize sort of this Esperanto thing, right? If you try to come up with your own language,

you'll quickly realize that nobody's particularly interested, and it's kind of a futile project, and you're not going to get anybody else to learn your language interested and it's kind of a futile project and you're not

going to get anybody else to learn your language and it's a ridiculously complicated thing to do. One of the

reasons that I have studiously avoided becoming an expert in a language other than my own is I have a deep appreciation for the complexity and nuance of

English and I think I'm fairly good at wielding it and then realizing how long it's going

to take to be able to think in another language and get all of the complexity and nuance in

that other language. It's just a, it's like trying to consider climbing Mount Everest using only your teeth and neck to climb.

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