 On a less depressing, more philosophical note, our faith and objectivism in any way compatible, would it be possible, for instance, to be a dais or to believe in a higher power or an afterlife or just something greater than the material while still adhering to objectivist precepts and principles? Well, first, I would separate out religion or mysticism generally from everything just being material. We don't know that everything is material or not. Suddenly, there is a human consciousness. Consciousness is not cannot be boiled down to just material. It is created something new, you know, exactly the physical biological explanation for it. I don't have nobody has, but you know, objectivism is not materialism. And even though I will say that religion and objectivism are incompatible, a belief in an afterlife or in a God or in some kind of consciousness that is above and beyond human consciousness that is guiding things that is there's just zero evidence for and we believe in evidence. So it's not that we negate religion. We are pro reason. Reason is what negates religion. That is you as long as religion relies on faith. And faith is by definition the negation of reason, at least in a certain part of life. Objectivism rejects religion, rejects all forms of mysticism. You know, lots of secular people are absolutely unmitigated mystics, because they don't accept science and reason as they means of knowledge. They accept some other mechanism. So and ultimately, I think all all religion and all mysticism boils down to subjective emotion. I mean, ultimately, nobody has revelations. So and so you decide which book you want to listen to and how do you decide, either based on training, because that's the book you were born with. If you're Jewish, you go by the Jewish book. If you're Catholic, you go by a Catholic book Protestant, you go by the positive book. They few people actually use actually evaluate all the religions and choose one. They go by what they what they tradition has dictated. You know, and they subjectively choose a book and they subjectively follow that book. There's no there's no there's nothing there. So yeah, I don't think you can be consistent with objectivism and hold that in some portion of your life, you're going to adhere to faith. So you can accept certain premises within objectivism and reject others, but then you can't be consistently with within that philosophy. So they will consistently be an objectivist. Yes, you have to reject all forms of faith. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, women or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impedance and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist brought. All right, before we go on reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now. 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I think at least 100 of you actually like the show. Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it. But but at least the people who like it, you know, I want to see, I want to see a thumbs up. There you go. Start liking it. I want to see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a click of a thing, whether you looking at this and you know, the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego. It's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. So, you know, and if you don't like the show, give it a thumbs down. Let's see your actual views being reflected in the likes. But if you like it, don't just sit there, help get the show promoted. Of course, you should also share and you can support the show at your on book show dot com slash support on Patreon or subscribe star or locals and and show you support for all for the work, for the value, hopefully you're receiving from this. And of course, don't forget, if you're not a subscriber, even if you even if you just come here to troll or even if you're here like Matthew to defend Marx, then you should subscribe because that way you'll know when to show up. You'll know what shows are on when they're on. You'll get notified, right? So, yes, like, share, subscribe, support, like, share, subscribe, support. There you go. Easy. Do one or all of those please.