All right, so here's another question that came up. Oh now it just jumped out of my sight. I was
just about to read it and it just disappeared. I wonder if I, did I push the button that it
was answered or what? But anyway, it was something about an online resource for finding
local churches in their area. And so, I always point people to a website called Military Get Saved.
So, if you just google Military Get Saved, it's, you know, it has every independent Baptist church.
So, the good, the bad, and the ugly, except for one. It's Missing One Church, Faithful Word Baptist
Church, but it has every other church. And so, I always recommend people to go on Military Get Saved
and to just do like find on page control F and type the word soul because churches will say that
they're soul-winning. Typically, a church that's a soul-winning church is going to be right on a
lot of other stuff and right on the gospel. And then, or sometimes you could type Hyles and
you could get like a Hyles Anderson graduate that's a good church. So yeah, Military Get
Saved is the most comprehensive list that I've seen. Pastor Shelley, can we hear you now?
Can you hear me? Yes, all right. What's up, man? Sorry, my mic wasn't working, but okay.
So, what's going on? Not much. How are you guys doing? We're doing good. I'm going to look
through some of the Q&A to look for questions to answer. So, until then, why don't you just
tell us what life in Texas is like? You guys are in a state of emergency or state of disaster
or what's going on, man? Tell us about that. I don't know if we're still in the technical
state of emergency necessarily or not. We definitely were for a little bit just because
they snowed like half an inch or something like that and that's a state of emergency in Texas.
So, but really it was just, you know, it was really cold. I think was mostly the problem was
the temperature and because of the temperature, you know, most of Texas is not very well
insulated as far as their pipes or plumbing and things like that. So, a lot of people were
having their pipes frozen and they were bursting. So, that was one problem. Another
problem is a lot of people are losing electricity, which is, you know, actually life-threatening for
some people just because, you know, maybe you're elderly, you may depend on, you know, emergency
and medical equipment or just heat in general. And I think I've seen reports of like 4 million
people in Texas losing power, which I think our state's about 28 million. So, it's a pretty
sizable. It's about, I think some estimates are saying around 10% of the population or maybe
even above that had lost power. And I knew of my church specifically several families that lost
power and for even days, which, you know, can be a major inconvenience. I mean, you could lose
your entire fridge, like all your food and if you don't have anywhere to go. Every hotel was booked
because I had somebody that was curious about just maybe getting a hotel to just kind of get
through the week and every hotel was booked. I called like 20 or 30 hotels just to like see
what was going on, but it warmed up really quick on Friday and Saturday. And so,
most things are probably restored by then. I know some people were still in convenience.
Our church building didn't have water for Sunday service. So, we couldn't use the bathroom,
but everything's pretty thought at this point. So, it's lots of conspiracy theories and
conjecture on what all is happening with all that. But,
you know, at this point, I think we're just kind of moving on. So,
Well, you know, I don't know how any of you guys feel about this, but this is kind of a
random subject. But, you know, when it comes to power in this country, because obviously, like
most of our power is produced in America through burning of coal, burning of gas, some kind of
a fossil fuel, quote unquote, is the vast majority of power production in this country.
And then you've got nuclear power. And then you've got just this tiny percentage of our power
that comes from hydroelectric or wind or solar, you know, that's like such a tiny amount
of where the power comes from. And, you know, what I wonder sometimes listening to some of the
environmentalists is like, where do you think we should get our power from? Because of the fact
that they don't like it when you dam rivers. But the thing about that is that, like, there's only
so many rivers you can even dam. Like, pretty soon you're going to run out of dam rivers,
you know. And it's like, there's nothing to dam anymore. And so, you know, when you hear,
like, these politicians talk about like, oh, we're going to get all our power from wind
and solar and hydro dams and stuff. It's ridiculous. There's no way. That's like
such a tiny percentage of where power comes from. And really, you know, the bulk of it
is coming from, like I said, burning coal and gas and other, you know, so-called fossil fuels.
And so, if we're supposedly going to all convert over to electric cars in 10 years, you know,
like California is saying, hey, by 2030, it's going to be only electric cars that are being
sold in California and everything. It's like, then you're going to require more electricity.
What's the point of switching to an electric car if you're then, like, generating that power
by burning gas? Like, either way, you're burning the hydrocarbons, you know. So,
I'll give you my personal opinion. I think that everything should go to nuclear,
you know, because here's the thing, and I'm not saying that nuclear is perfect or that it's
wonderful, but like every form of generating power is going to produce waste. It's going to
produce pollution. It's going to, there's hazards associated with it. And to me, the
nuclear is the one that is the best option. But the thing about it is that I don't see
these liberals, like, living off the grid. And, you know, I see these, it's like, you see these liberals,
they've got their Starbucks in their hand, and they've got their iPhone and their laptop,
and they're driving around, whether it's an electric car or gas powered car. It's like,
the power has to come from somewhere. Where do you want it to come from? It's like,
they don't want to come from anywhere. Have you guys thought about that issue at all, or?
Well, specifically in Texas, I think we have 10% from renewable energy. Like, mostly it's wind
meals. And so, or wind turbines, but, and they're littered everywhere. I think they have a lot of
California and even maybe some in Arizona, even I'm driving out there. But in Texas, specifically,
they weren't winterized. And so, they literally froze and they couldn't even turn them on.
And that was also supposedly part of the reason why we even lost power was because the renewable
energy didn't even work. And like with, what is it? Solar panels, you know, I guess,
depending on the weather that can even affect or impact how well the solar panels will work.
And so I personally, you know, I'm not an expert in that area. I just, I don't believe that our
government genuinely cares about solving that problem. I think it's just all lobbyists
interests, just trying to get grant money for these special projects. And a lot of it's just
funneled through and, and probably siphoned off to for other reasons, and that they're not
really solving these issues. I don't think that the majority of liberals, like, you know,
your Starbucks person that you just kind of put out there has any idea what energy even is,
or like how any of these forms work. I think that there's a lot of ignorance when it comes
to this topic. They just kind of know that dams are bad, nuclear power plants are bad,
coal plants are bad, burning stuff's bad. So then it's just like, what's left? Because if
you're just going to tell me it's all windmills and solar panels, it's not going to work. That is
like not even close to provide the power that America uses. Right. They can't just store energy
necessarily. So like the, if the wind turbines are not actually operating, you're not generating
that energy. And so you kind of have to have a continual process of generating energy. And
from what I've heard from experts or people that actually look into this, you know, nuclear waste
for a particular person has been quantified as like, could fit in size of one Coke can for
their entire life. Whereas the waste from a lot of these other devices or methods, you know, is
substantially more. I heard the exact same statistic that like, like if I got all of my electricity
from nuclear for an entire lifetime, the nuclear waste that I generate would be the size of a Coke can.
But if I got it from like coal or something, it'd be like a literal mountain. And people are worried
about radiation and stuff. But there's there's harmful radiation coming from coal powered plants
as well. I mean, they're all everything's going to pollute to an extent or, or put out some
kind of radiation or put out some kind of a harmful vibe. So it's like pick your poison,
you know, might as well go with what's cheap and the most advanced effective, you know, anyway.
Robinson, what were you saying?
Yeah, no, I kind of heard the same thing about the, about the nuclear. Obviously,
the big fear with nuclear is meltdowns and all that when it comes to how they have to store it.
But, but I obviously it's the most efficient is the cleanest. When it comes to everything. I
agree with you. I think nuclear would be the best way I do. I do see and I think you preached on it
before Pastor Anderson is like the idea of like, when God judges the earth and, and the rivers
being turned in the warm wood and all that I could definitely see nuclear power being I just
feel like I'm helping fulfill prophecy. You're like that. You're like the person that's putting
the money into the plate for the temple rebuilding. I just feel like I'm helping fulfill
prophecy, right? People who watch Marching Design will get that.
We had, we had those windmills, we had those windmills in West Virginia as well.
And just to add to those people that live in the area have, have gotten sick because there's like
this low droning that happens because of it that you don't really notice it like you're just
there. But it's like the people that are living around them have been like complaining about like
being sick and nauseous. And so there's like some outside effects of, of those windmills.
Besides the windmills aren't just all unicorns and rainbows, right? They have their issues.