But some of my friends have met. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. And when I was

a kid, I used to play these games called Dynasty Warriors where you would take on the role

of these big gigantic weapon wielding second century AD Chinese warriors. And you would

run around, I'm telling you, you could use this big long like six foot halberd, you could

swing it around, and like 300 Chinese peasants would go flying. You just try to rack up ruthless

kill after ruthless kill. It's kind of dark, but also it's kind of fun. There's probably a reason

that I kept playing it. There's this story woven into the whole Dynasty Warriors game. And what I

eventually found out is that all of these little story bits I was getting while I played the game,

it's all derived from a very famous Chinese novel called The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by a

man named Lu Guangjiang. So as a young man, I said out to read them and they were really fun and

really interesting. And as I was reading this for the first time ever, in chapters that were

dedicated to court intrigue and deception and politicking and backstabbing, there are these groups

of guys hanging around who were called unix. They were characters in imperial courts and the courts

of kings who had their sexual urges suppressed either by a decision made by someone who got their

hands on them when they were a kid. And we're like, this person is going to be dedicated to court

service. And we can't have them having sexual urges. We need to know that nothing's going to happen

there. So they would castrate a certain class of children and dedicate them to political service

in the court. Other people who served in these courts weren't made unix by any decision that

some adult made when they're a little baby. Other people, there was a birth defect or something

went wrong. I don't know. Is it mean to say birth defect? I really want to be incredibly sensitive

to people who struggle with their wrestle with identity and these issues that go along with it.

Please give me grace if I'm saying that like a chump. But however, someone became a unic,

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