George Washington's Vision of the Virgin Mary (Patrons Questions!) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

We regularly give Patrons the opportunity to ask Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli their mysterious questions and make them available exclusively to Patrons first and then later to the whole audience. This time the questions cover George Washington's reported vision of the Virgin Mary; whether demons can reveal your confessed sins; the Taotaomo'na spirits from Guam; and more.
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• Reddit - Check Out the Sea Bat: / check_out_the_sea_bat
• IFL Science - World's Only Cold-Blooded Mammal Lived on an Island and Aged Like a Crocodile: www.iflscience...

[@TheMadhubi]

Hi Jimmy, i am having a moral dilemma here, is it immoral to like your video even before watching it? I just want to be thankful of your wonderful work.

[@jtrlatinist2227]

No, for two reasons. First, based on his content in the past, it is a fair assumption that you will indeed like it therefore liking it is a vote of confidence in Jimmy Akin’s content. Second, if you didn’t end up liking the episode, which is unlikely. Then you can always click like button again, taking back your like. Example through analogy if I’m walking down the street, I see an old friend. And I say good to see you, buddy. And that person turns out not to be my old friend. sorry, I thought you were my old buddy. My excitement was genuine and so was my disappointment .

[@TheMadhubi]

@@jtrlatinist2227 Thank you for the explanation🙂 very logical indeed.

[@joachim847]

This is an important question for me too, for the sake of the OP. He caused me to like the video before watching it. Did he lead me into sin too, and if so, how much culpability does he share? 🤭

[@paull5609]

Scrupulousity is a serious condition. Assuming you are not posting in jest, I suggest you seek help for this.

[@millriverfarm]

No because no matter wha he posts t Jimmy is leading people in the right direction and his channel deserves a lot more attention

[@clgmafnas]

Thanks Jimmy for including Guam 🇬🇺

[@ericfaith2810]

Aye. One of my best friends growing up was from her sister island, Palau.

[@kimfleury]

I might return to add thoughts that came to mind during the various questions and answers. For now, I just want to say, first, congratulations again on your teaching position. I'm a teacher, and I appreciate the time and effort it takes to create lesson plans. I also understand what's involved with moving back to your home state and setting up house. So I don't mind missing out on the viewer feedback as you settle in. I do, however, find viewer feedback interesting, so perhaps it can be an annual thing, perhaps as an anniversary special.

[@rivereuphrates8103]

Psyched for the upcoming Zodiac episode. Very interested in that case.

[@faithcap]

Thanks for the knowledge and research.

[@rosecorcoran]

Re the rent vs mortgage/interest discussion, when you have a mortgage, you also aren't at the mercy of rent hikes. In my city, for example, rents have gone so high that my mortgage (for a similar if not larger property) is lower than most people's rent.

[@ShaunCKennedyAuthor]

My parents helped my wife and I put a down payment on a house instead of helping us get an extravagant honeymoon. We bought at a point when interest rates were at historic lows and the prices were at historic lows. Six years later, because of medical bills, we were struggling to make ends meet. We looked into selling our three bedroom and moving into a one bedroom apartment, except our mortgage was $500 per month and rent on a studio apartment was $520 per month. I have no doubt at all that we were money ahead paying a mortgage than renting.

[@fragwagon]

Excited for this one 👍

[@nightyew2160]

May God bless you, Dom and Jimmy, and may St. Michael protect you. Thanks for all the work you are doing to keep this wonderful show going. You are definitely progressing with the catch-up since you can announce the next episodes again.

[@mickyboyakari1502]

I can't wait for the Zodiac Killer episodes!

[@JoseGomez-n4k]

The most vintage and classic of all serial killers

[@tonyl3762]

Thank you again for your educating the public on basic economics and moral principles involved. Wish more Catholics knew these things.

[@JohnSmith-yr1dc]

He's wrong though, opportunity cost isn't a real good, it can't actually be sold. Full recourse loans for consumption with interest are a moral hazard where the borrower bears all the risk whereas the lender's profits are guaranteed (while they do no work). The classical understanding of usury is correct, and usurious loans are both socially and economically destructive. Besides the devastation it wreaks on lower classes who drown in debt, the macroeconomic effect is even worse. The US spends more on the interest payments for its debts than on defense - when the debts become too expensive to service the effect will be catastrophic.

[@tonyl3762]

@@JohnSmith-yr1dc Having use of the money NOW instead of later is indeed a very real good/service, as any person (even a child) can understand and already knows. How can you deny that? Whether the lender gets all his money back at all (let alone a profit) is a separate issue, but I don't believe there is any guarantee at all anywhere that that will happen, even if such laws did exist. I'm no expert, but I believe filing for bankruptcy is one way the lender can be prevented from recovering his loss. lol, without loans, many people could not afford cars, houses, businesses, etc., things that are absolutely not destructive but quite the opposite. Yes, it is true that many people have indeed destroyed themselves in their choices to take on too much debt or certain kinds of debt and that the US govt has been on a course of economic self-destruction, but just because something can be abused or is even uniquely tempting to abuse (money, sex, firearms, alcohol, TV, internet, etc.) does not make it inherently evil.

[@owlintrenchcoat]

The St. Joseph day table was such a staple of my childhood that I didn't even realize until a couple years ago that it was controversial to some and unknown to even a lot of other Catholics. I've recently found out that even a good portion of the parishes around me don't participate when an Italian-American FB page I'm on posted a list of all the St. Joseph Day tables and pasta dinners happening in the city and it was less than 10.

[@jendoe9436]

I’m not surprised. The world is pretty big and people have all sorts of ways of celebrating. A St. Joseph’s Day table sounds pretty cool to me 😁 I’m sure there’s lots of little community and local traditions that still happen but are unknown, and many that have fallen away from disuse or been ‘updated’ over time. Would be cool to see a complete list of that kind of stuff, though probably a very time consuming endeavor.

[@owlintrenchcoat]

@jendoe9436 Yeah. It's always crazy to step outside of our own traditions and realize how many different things are out there. They are very cool. If there's ever one by you I definitely recommend stopping in. The tables are so beautiful and it's usually an opportunity to raise money to feed people struggling in the community. So any money spent on a dinner or baked goods is well spent.

[@markiangooley]

I didn’t know about it until ten years after my return to regular attendance of Mass, and I was reading a lot about Catholic practices and traditions back then.

[@markiangooley]

We Americans seem okay with the metric system when it involves drugs, legal or illegal…

[@markiangooley]

Pineapple pizza was invented by a Greek immigrant to Ontario and maybe his brother. Doesn’t necessarily mean it’s wrong…

[@RebeccaLynne2046]

We make a St. Joseph's altar down here. We have big parades in New Orleans. It's always an Irish/Italian event for St. Patrick's Day and St. Joseph's Day. If you're lucky, some handsome Italian will hand you a lucky bean, which is a fava bean blessed by a priest. Sometimes, they are painted red, green, and white, and sometimes they are plain. They say if you put it in your kitchen, you’ll never go hungry like the Italians did back then. You also save some of the bread from the altar to throw in your yard when a storm is in the Gulf, asking St. Joseph to protect you and your belongings. We roll out the Cappelletti and also make Cuchidati, which is a cookie made of figs and dates. It's a big holiday down here.

[@jendoe9436]

My company is based out of Louisiana and a number of my co-workers are from there. I’ll have to ask them about St. Joseph altars next time.

[@RebeccaLynne2046]

@jendoe9436 Yeah, lots of Italians and Irish down here. Always a good time. You should ask for a transfer 😂

[@kevinkane9446]

​@RebeccaLynne2046 So you basically idolize a human being, make an altar for him, and participate in superstitious rituals instead of following Christ.

[@RebeccaLynne2046]

@kevinkane9446 Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid and willfully ignorant. You have no excuse in this day and age when we have Google and Jimmy Akin.

[@kevinkane9446]

@RebeccaLynne2046 Just a tip because I'm guessing you've never actually read the bible in your life, it is very dangerous to call other Christians stupid(Matthew 5:22). The Word of God is our guide, not Google and Jimmy Akin, but this certainly explains why you are so lost. When you stand before the Lord on judgment day, you will not be able to say you participated in idolatry because Jimmy Akin said it was okay. God gave you a brain in your head and His Word, so you will be held accountable. There's absolutely nothing in scripture about making an altar for Joseph and nothing about him being able to protect you (Romans 1:24).

[@lynnek199]

great questions and great answers

[@mfburk2010]

I would like Jimmy to review what is arguably the greatest ghost story of modern times. This would be the case of Eastern Airlines Flight 401, which crashed in the Everglades in 1972. In the months following the crash, passengers, crewmen and mechanics witnessed apparitions of the deceased pilot and flight engineer.

[@tomershahrabani129]

Fun fact: in modern Hebrew, the colloquial designation for stingrays, manta-rays, etc., translates literally to “sea bat,”-“ataleph yam.” Love the show, Jimmy!

[@edwardbreau]

Very interesting topics.

[@annkonzal6724]

We celebrate St. Joseph's table every year at our church.

[@markiangooley]

Handel’s setting of Dixit Dominus, HWV 232, simply sets “Tu es sacerdos..” as a rather exciting fugue. Anything connected with a law , especially if it wasn’t especially inspiring and didn’t call to mind anything more obvious, usually got a fugue - Bach used one for “Wir haben ein Gesetzt” (we have a law, and by that law He must die) in the St. John Passion.

[@maryofventura4767]

When you learn the basis for metric measurements for length, it explodes the notion it is more "scientific".

[@charbelyoussef604]

How so?

[@maryofventura4767]

@@charbelyoussef604 Try Googling the basis upon which the meter, kilometer etc...was established, it's little better than the cubit.

[@tyrannosaurusimperator]

​​@@charbelyoussef604The meter is originally a fraction of the distance between Paris and either the north pole or equator (i don't remember which). The issue with that is they started with the wrong circumference of the Earth, so the meter is as just an arbitrary unit of length as the foot. Of course, now they have ret-conned the definition of meter to be based on the speed of light in a vacuum under the gravitational attraction experienced on Earth. However, even the meter being based on a random distance is still more scientific than the kilogram, which, up until relatively recently, was defined as a cylinder of platinum, which would actually change weight as it was handled.

[@maryofventura4767]

@@tyrannosaurusimperator Well done!

[@dr.tafazzi]

who cares where they came from. It's base 10 therefore objectively superior to imperial. There's no and i mean no good reason at all to use imperial.

[@anitavaughn1968]

I hope the lady who saw the orb contacts you. That is interesting..

[@davidp9860]

Re: Devil knowing confessed sins. I was taught that absolution not only forgives but obliterates sins, so to speak, and we leave the sacrament guilt-free as if sins had never even been committed. So the devil wouldn't know them for its as if they never existed. Also...if we are NEVER to believe a demon (I agree!) and if they always LIE then why worry what they say even about sins...it could be assumed they are just lying to make us feel embarrassed, guilty, etc.

[@christianmyhre7154]

Amazing

[@dawsonehlke1290]

Um do we have a deathbed orb video update?

[@Emschough]

There’s a guy who said he time traveled to a Pizza Hut in 1998. Because he says it, I think it needs a full episode dedicated to solving the mystery.

[@mcmlxix69]

I can attest about the pair bonding telepathy. My husband and I are always thinking the same thing and we even have the same dreams on occasion.

[@yankeecitygirl]

I wish timestamps or chapters were posted.

[@millriverfarm]

Cry about it. Baby.

[@yankeecitygirl]

@@millriverfarm okay 😪😢😿

[@ShaunCKennedyAuthor]

If there's anything I can do to help you get ahead again, let me know. I know how to go from 18 ahead to struggling to keep up on my own, but all my ways to go from struggling to keep up to getting ahead involve help.

[@erock5b]

I'm glad someone asked the pineapple on pizza question. IMO, I don't pizza without it.

[@youraveragemarianjoe6507]

We don't know that the rich man in Jesus' parable was in hell. The rich man had love for his brothers, (by wanting to warn them) and hell is devoid of love. Makes more sense he was in purgs

[@markiangooley]

I’m now imagining a novel that Evelyn Waugh didn’t write and probably never could have, Bigfoot Revisited… There is actually a very bad movie called Bigfoot vs. D. B. Cooper, and it doesn’t explore the possibility very well.

[@owlintrenchcoat]

If the demon thing is true, I would guess it's more likely that they wouldn't care much about sins that have been confessed because stuff you've already been absolved of is less useful to torment someone with than a shameful secret sin.

[@Robert-fx3ng]

Pretty close to what an exorcist. A confessed sin has been washed away and as far as GOD or demons are concerned, the sin never occurred.

[@nightyew2160]

Honestly, I wouldn't put it past a demon to just make up sins to try to distract and shame the exorcist.

[@smedrano1964]

Jimmy what do you think of Lou Elizomdo? I think he can talk a long time without saying anything. If conversation was sword Play he would be a master swordsman. I think he is a disinformation agent or an transformational agent introducing a new religion or beliefs.. Have you studied him or invited him for a interview. He is also a remote viewer.

[@richardkasper5822]

I see evolution as nothing more than physical alterations of our body acccording climate and other conditions over time. Its a good thing God made the human body with that type of dna that is adaptable.

[@tonyl3762]

I guess some stories of saints preaching to animals shows some take the preaching to all creation literally.

[@timstauffer8563]

Another enjoyable episode. Always like to hear about George Washington.

[@trad-lite]

ZODIAC!!!!! Yessssssss!!

[@Nolzei]

I think referring to the possibility of Jesus being born in between 2-4 BC misses the mark. Since the epoch is the Incarnation, shouldn't we say we're living in between 2022 and 2020?

[@tonyl3762]

Telepathy with the dead? I guess Catholic prayer looks like that at times, but you might have at least repeated your caution that it is not wise for average person to seek out two-way communication with the dead in general, though I guess you basically say that later in episode.

[@smartismarti4049]

Mormons do claim to hold the Melchizedek priesthood. It's treated as a higher form of priesthood there.

[@sacredartsource8297]

Regarding paying interest, the swindle is when compound interest is used to charge interest, which charges interest in the interest thereby growing your debt. Usury is the charging of exploitative compound interest which turns into enslavement to the loan. It’s very astute: Compound interest means people are paying interest on the interest. Credit cards calculate interest on a daily basis, and the interest accrued each day is added to the outstanding balance, and the next day's interest is calculated based on this new balance. This is referred to as "daily compounding." For daily compounding, the Annual Percentage Rate (APR) is divided by 365. Thus, because of the compounding, if one carries a balance from month to month, they end up paying interest on the interest which only leads to a growing debt, and if a payment is missed or late the penalties are expensive. This same method is used to financially enslave countries, and depleting them of their natural resources, especially the poor countries. Thus John Paul II, Benedict, and Francis, have called on debt forgiveness for these poor countries that have been enslaved by their financial masters; yet those calls always go unheeded.

[@JohnSmith-yr1dc]

Compounding interest is particularly odious, but all usury is poison. Sad that the Church's messaging on this has softened so much - charging interest on full recourse loans for consumption was rightly considered elicit and it destroys whoever embraces it in the long run; whether a natural person, corporation, or government.

[@tonyl3762]

Compounding can either work for you or against you; it's not a one way street. Yes, credit cards are traps for many people to abuse and self-destruct, which is why I've told my children (who aren't even old enough yet to have one) about their dangers/consequences and how I pay off the full balance every month and don't spend more than I can pay off (like my parents taught me). A little education goes a long way. No reason to get laws and governments involved when some basic education is sufficient. So taxpayers of the lending countries should have to carry the _entire_ debt burden that other countries took on? That's fair and just? Should that happen on a smaller scale too? Are you trying to abolish lending altogether? You and the popes have not thought this through very well. Though there's a strong argument to be made that taxpayers who voted for politicians to lend money to such countries in such ways do deserve the consequences of their unwise votes. But then there would be less aid lending to other countries, causing them to struggle. And even the US govt can't keep up the charade of making money out of thin air and piling on trillions of debt forever.

[@sacredartsource8297]

@@tonyl3762 Don’t confuse lending with usury. Usury is a sin as it takes advantage of people; it’s people making money off the backs of their slaves. Making their original debt grow and grow and grow.

[@sacredartsource8297]

@@tonyl3762 Don’t confuse lending with usury. Usury is a sin as it takes advantage of people; it’s people making money off the backs of their slaves. Making their original debt grow and grow and grow.

[@wms72]

It's sinful to use telepathy to contact the dead.

[@PhuzzPhactor]

Bump

[@JohnSmith-yr1dc]

Jimmy's very wrong on Usury, and it's unfortunate to see prominent Catholics like Jimmy, who is usually very discerning, repeating specious arguments like "opportunity cost" to the lender. Opportunity cost, or hypothetical profits, are not real goods that can be sold. Profits that I might have made in alternate circumstances aren't real; the lender may have made a profit with that money, but that also would have entailed work and *risk*. All full recourse loans (where the borrower personally guarantees the principle + interest, rather than the lender having recourse to collateral) are usury, and the classical understanding of them was correct. They're a moral hazard where the lender's profits are guaranteed, and the borrower does all the work while bearing all the risk. Take Jimmy's own example: a loan for starting a business. If the business succeeds and turns a profit then that's great, everybody's happy. But what if the business goes bust (which happens very regularly) and so obliterates both the principle and whatever other assets the borrower sunk into it? Well the borrower isn't happy, he's ruined - but the lender's fine. He's laughing - he owns a perpetual claim on all of the borrower's future labour until the debt + continually accruing interest is repaid! Unequal contracts like this where one party does and risks nothing while the other risks becoming a legal slave is totally contrary to charity, and it's horrible modern Catholics will stand for it. All responsible loans with interesr for industrial development are rightly given with the guarantee being either discrete capital the borrower owns or equity in the enterprise. That way all parties share in both the risks and the potential profits while claims are limited to goods and not to *persons*. The only reason to issue a full recourse loan would be if the lender suspects there's a high chance that the borrower *won't* succeed and they want to still profit without the risk. Which as I said is contrary to charity - "You may fail but you'll pay me either way." And this is all just on the small scale and personal level - it doesn't take into effect the social and macroeconomic effect of usury. Debt is both the ruin of lower classes and leads to asset concentration into the hands of very few rich lenders generally, with all the economic misallocation and social instability monopolies entail. Maybe even worse is government debt from usurious loans - the US government spends more on interest payments on its gargantuan debt than on the already bloated defense budget. This isn't sustainable and will blow up catastrophically eventually. The Church softening its messaging on usury isn't due to a more refined understanding of the phenomenon - It's just another compromise with the spirit of the age and an unwillingness to confront a society's popular vices. It's no different than their softening message on homosexuality, gender roles, and the centrality of Christian Faith in public life. And genuinely faithful people like Jimmy should be the last ones spreading this kind of self-interested talking point around. Even if it were licit in the abstract (it's not) usury is self evidently evil and destructive in practice, its a scourge any faithful Christian should want eradicated.

[@SAGKavin]

13:47 did you mean islamic origin?

[@1thingistrue]

The caller specifically asked if the Church has any teachings on practicing telepathy with people live or dead. It’s definitely a sin to practice necromancy and I’ve been getting a weird vibe from Jimmy lately, I’ll pass on his videos from now on. ✌️

[@WesternManofthePlains88]

You need to show evidence that jimmy is advocating for or saying necromancy is permissible

[@nightyew2160]

He did say later in the episode that we should not be the ones to make contact with spirits, but that if one happens to make contact with us scripture tells us to test the spirit. That would necessarily involve communication of some kind. I think he would say that using telepathy, which would be a natural human ability if it even exists, would be an acceptable way of testing a spirit claiming to be a dead person if such a spirit made the contact. However, telepathy would not be okay to use in order to initiate contact with the dead. Incidentally, there would be many sinful ways to use telepathy if one were using it as a means of sinning, for example telepathically lying to someone. It would be the lying that was sinful, though, not the telepathy. The telepathy would just be the tool used to commit the sin. Lying in writing is another way of committing this sin, but that doesn't make all writing sinful. I hope that helps. I wouldn't want you to stop being able to enjoy this wonderful show just because of a misunderstanding.

[@JMJ-Jim]

I've been getting the same vibe from Jimmy where the line between New Age and Catholic is too blurry.

[@1thingistrue]

@@nightyew2160thanks for the reply, I honestly stopped watching after that part so I didn’t see him say that later on.

[@1thingistrue]

@@JMJ-Jimsame. As someone who used to be interested in that kind of stuff before I became Catholic, I know how blurry those lines can be, I just want to keep the simple faith.

[@Pete_B_773]

Akin is "Judeo-Christian"....that explains a lot!

[@fragwagon]

Stop