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Hi, everybody. Welcome to fireside chat

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number. Two fifty. Two

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hundred and fifty eight. I

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want you to understand that except for

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one which drives me crazy

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to this day. It's two hundred fifty eight

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consecutive. During

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the entire lockdown period, we didn't

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miss one. I'm very proud of that

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fact because we live the normal life

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like most people which said me

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terribly, but I'm not gonna get into it because I

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could easily get into that. I'm Dennis

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Prager. Oh, so, of course, let me

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explain. It is Snoopy for

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the first time, two hundred fifty

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eight times and the

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first time he is in Otto's bed.

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Otto is in front of me

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and I have no idea why they swap

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places So, Snoop, you have big

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shoes to fill. It's expressive

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self. Okay, everybody. I got

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a great

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thought for the opening. I wanna thank

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Meghan too for this.

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So I went over with you and

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oh god, it went viral on the Internet

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that I attacked the sign in

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some elementary school class.

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Why was it again? Let me see.

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the

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the world is great

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is better because you

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are in it. Mhmm.

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And

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III don't like that type

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of stuff.

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First,

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who's the you anyway? because all of

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them Anyway,

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I don't I'm not gonna review. I wrote an entire

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column on this

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and the attacks on me

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were quite ubiquitous on the Internet.

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Prager attacks fifth graders.

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That

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was a common yes.

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Dennis Prager attacks fifth graders like

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that's really important to me to attack fifth

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graders. I'm attacking the message,

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the fifth grader. But if I

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say that there are fifth graders

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about whom

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that's not true. The world is not necessarily

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better than I'm attacking fifth graders. So

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Meghan here decided to look

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up another subject. What are

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the messages of our society to

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people on any given subject?

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To her credit, she came up with

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you came up with the idea. Right?

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Well, it was on the list, but I just expanded.

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On the list of what? Top you

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want to circle back to?

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About having flaws. Did III

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mentioned that. Oh, okay.

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Great. Well, anyway, Meghan did her homework

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well. and I verified

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this. I Googled Why

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did I exactly Google flaws

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and imperfections? Or quotes

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about flaws? So

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these are the top ones that came

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up. Alright? Here are the messages

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of our society. To you and

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me, this is not the fifth graders. This

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is to us about our flaws.

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Ready? Your

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imperfections are what make you

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beautiful. So

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I don't know. Should I I'm reading them

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all and then analyzed, I think,

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because it builds up into

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some crescendo. embrace

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your imperfections. They

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are what make you. k?

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So you just see that it's it's it's

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grapically designed. Next,

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your flaws are perfect for

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the heart that is meant to love you.

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I don't even understand it. Let let a

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Lord agree with it. But it doesn't matter. That's

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what came up. Here you go. Next

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next message in

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our morally demanding society

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is

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Everyone's perfect in

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unusual ways.

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Who comes up with this stuff? And

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then finally, better

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a diamond with a flaw than

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a pebble without

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And what else? I, myself, have

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made entirely of flaws stitched

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together with good intentions. And

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then finally, there's a new

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adjective, you're flossed.

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That's

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so beautiful. It's

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better than awesome,

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awesome. I

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thought it had to do with flossing,

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but I was wrong. Okay.

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So let's analyze these here.

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Why I I'm not a fan of

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these messages. your

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imperfections are what make you beautiful.

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That's not true. It's

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it's simply not true. It's actually your

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wonderful traits that make you

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beautiful. I

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don't Aside

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from

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not

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not morally demanding because

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I assume they they mean character flaws.

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IIIII don't think they're thinking of

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physical flaws. and that's particularly

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impossible with physical flaws. Your

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physical flaws are what make you physically

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beautiful. It's just silly. So

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it it means character flaws. but

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it's not true. Your

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character virtues are what

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make you beautiful. Your

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the or

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If, hey, if your imperfections

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are what make you beautiful, then

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the more imperfections, the

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more beautiful you are. That's

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quite a message. You know, I'm

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I'm not I'm not there yet. I

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I really need to cultivate some more imperfect

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All of these messages

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are part of the

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crisis I really believe of our society.

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that is not it doesn't make moral

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demands upon people. That's

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why I was against the self esteem movement

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when it began. I was I was very

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young but I was already in media.

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I actually interviewed the

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man who came up with the self esteem movement.

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I remember his name. John

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Vasconcellos, you could look it up.

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He was a Democratic. Not

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I must say, not not shockingly.

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state senator in California. And

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he he grew up Catholic with

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and he said, oh, it was too rigid They

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didn't grow up with a high self esteem.

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I was told I was a sinner and so

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on. So I went to therapy and

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I got I got much better through

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therapy because the

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therapist cultivated self esteem

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in me. So I know that's

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what everybody needs. is self esteem.

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Okay? I

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think self esteem is great if you

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earn it. But we'll we'll leave

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that for now. Next,

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embrace your imperfections. They are

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what make you. What

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does that mean? Embrace

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your imperfections. Okay.

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Here is the message, and this is

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ironic because I am I

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am making this fireside

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chat of

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the the let's see. The week

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of the holiest day

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in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur

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or Yom Kippur, as it is often

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called.

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It's called the day of atonement.

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Now, the day of atonement

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is the opposite of embrace your

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imperfections. It's literally the opposite

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message. It should

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be called the day of embracing your

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imperfections. But it's

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really the day of trying to

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confront your imperfections and

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reducing them. Nobody can get rid

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of them completely, but the

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beautiful human being works on

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on their imperfections and tries to lessen

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them. This is the this

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is the opposite of the Judeo Christian

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message. The opposite.

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embrace your imperfections, they are what

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make you? Really?

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Is that how you think of anybody in your

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life? I

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would think that

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it's clearly, it's part

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of what makes us. Of course, that's true.

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If you're missing a leg, it's people

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know that you're missing a leg, but

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where is you you what what you do is you

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work around it to make a beautiful

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life But if you can, you get a prosthetic

8:23

device. Right? You don't embrace the absence

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of a leg. You

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you try to undo the

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damage of a missing leg.

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So there's two two not

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only meaningless but bad messages,

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the next one. Your flaws

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are perfect for the heart that is

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meant to love you.

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Boy, somebody really had a work

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hard on that one. First,

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I'm not exactly sure what it means.

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Your flaws are perfect. In

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other words, the heart that is meant to

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love you finds your

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flaws perfect. Do

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you find your flaws perfect? Does

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somebody else? Does

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your spouse if you're married?

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Do your kids? God,

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I I love my mother's

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imperfections

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or flaws. God,

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thank God for dad's flaws.

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Who says that? We

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we The the the heart that is meant

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to love us loves us

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despite our flaws. I

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I agree,

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but not not that the

9:29

flaws are perfect for the heart that

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loves us.

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every one of these

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messages is is is a

9:37

bad message. Everyone's

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perfect in unusual ways.

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I know what they

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mean, but first of all, again, it's

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just not true. First of all, no one's perfect.

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the

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even allowing for hyperbole,

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what does that mean? Let

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me make this clear. Every

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one of us

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is closer to perfect,

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the

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more flaws we get rid of.

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That that's the way it work. The

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idea of embracing your flaws is a

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bad idea. You can embrace

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your idiosyncrasies. That's a

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separate issue. I don't

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think you have to fight your idiosyncrasies, but

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we're talking about flaws. That means character

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flaws. By definition,

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we want to get rid of them. What

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was the next though that finally, the the last

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page of this,

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better a diamond with a floor than a pebble

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without.

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That's true.

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That's but that that isn't

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a case for flaws. It's

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a case for diamonds.

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It's hilarious. Yes. It's

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entirely true. It's like

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saying, better a million

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dollars with a hundred dollars of

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counterfeit bills than one

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dollar. That isn't counterfeit. That's

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true. It doesn't make any point.

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I,

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myself, are made entirely of

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flaws. Let me just

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say this. If you

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are,

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Probably won't get that close to you.

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Nor

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will anybody else all stitch

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together with good intentions. that's

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probably my least favorite of the messages.

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I did an entire preview

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video on the general

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worthlessness of good intentions.

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The amount of evil done in

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the twentieth century by good intentions

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is much greater than the amount of

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evil done by sadists. People

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with good intentions supported the greatest

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mass murder move movement in history

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communism. Kill

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the hundred million people. Believe

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it

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or not they were Nazis with good intentions

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too. I know it's very hard for the

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unsophisticated mind to grapple with

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that fact. Not every German who

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voted for the Nazi party wanted

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to exterminate

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Jews. They

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wanted to improve the

12:03

horrible German economy. And

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there were people, there were Germans with good

12:07

intentions that all Jews, they

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believe the message Jews are our

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misery. Intensions

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I'm sorry intentions don't mean

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anything. Behavior is everything.

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Since I want me, I'm kipper mood.

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I was just in preparing for my talks

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that I gave at my synagogue. I

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again came across a

12:32

truly terrific idea

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in the second holiest work of Judaism

12:38

called the Talmud. This

12:40

is this is thousands and

12:42

thousands of pages. It's like a giant

12:44

encyclopedia

12:46

from about eighteen hundred years ago,

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and it's arguments and

12:52

theology and philosophy and

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morality and theology and

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it's it's got everything in it.

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And one

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of the most amazing comments

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in the whole book, the whole

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encyclopedia.

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is this. The Jewish belief is that you're

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born with a good a good

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desire and a bad desire or

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or inclination if you will. It

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depends on the translation, which

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I I like because they're always in conflict.

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my my my bad inclination

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tells me to do this, my good

13:27

inclination tells me not to do this,

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and it's very good from a very early

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age. I knew I had to fight my

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bad inflammation.

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But the the rabbis, the

13:37

ancient rabbis, said, it's a good thing we have

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a bad inflammation, which

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sounds bizarre. Said

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without a bad inclination, a man wouldn't

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have take a wife, wouldn't make a

13:49

family,

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wouldn't do wouldn't do

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his

13:52

work, wouldn't

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build a house, And I

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remember when I first learned this as a kid

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thinking, then what the hell was the good of the good

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inclination? It seems like the bad

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inclination did all good good things.

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But they're they're pointing out.

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One of the things they're pointing out

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is that good

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intentions

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don't really lead to all that much

14:14

good. It's

14:15

good to have good intentions. But

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without wisdom, without knowing what

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good is, They're

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useless. So this is a

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particularly obnoxious one. I,

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myself, am made entirely a floor

14:28

stitched together with good intentions. If

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that's who you are, whoa,

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you are a dangerous human being.

14:35

Your

14:35

entire flaw stitched

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together with good intentions. These are

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the messages that are being sent out

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today. There's nothing about moral improvement.

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All of my religious upbringing

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And by the way, this is true for Christian

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kids too in in solid Christian

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schools. Is

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about getting to be a better

14:56

person confronting sin That's

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that's a term that that Christians would

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be more likely to use. Jews

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might more likely to use flaws.

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Doesn't matter. It's the same idea.

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you've

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got to overcome the

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bad stuff that's in you.

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Why

15:13

why do Catholics why do Catholics

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have have it's

15:18

called the the sacrament of reconciliation

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confession. Why did

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they have confession? If

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you follow this, you go to the priest, you're

15:26

a Catholic, you go to the priest and say, hey, I got

15:28

great news, father. Listen to all

15:30

the flawed things I did this

15:32

week.

15:34

Right? Why

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confess flaws if they're so terrific?

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then you wonder why society's in trouble.

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It's very, very hard to make good

15:45

people. It's the

15:46

hardest thing there is. It's easier

15:48

to make good rocketships to

15:50

the moon. than it

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is to make good people. It's

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very

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tough.

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That's what society's project should

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be. Would you say this by the way

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about a car now that I'm talking

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about it? You know? Great

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thing

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about my car or it's imperfections.

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What would

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you say it about?

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Okay.

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That's our messages. Alright.

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We go on to your your

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questions.

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Alright. Take it away. Hi,

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Dennis. I'm Samantha. I'm twenty eight

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years old, and I'm from Ventura

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County, a little town, a whole city, Valley.

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My question for you is as

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a Christian, is it wrong, a question

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so much of what God has written calls in the

16:35

bible and hours and everything?

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Alright. Thank you, Samantha. One second.

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Let me see if I can get this right. I didn't.

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Well, I

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ain't got it right on the second try.

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By the way, little town in

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Ventura County, Simmy

16:51

Valley is a pretty major place. By

16:53

the way, you will be shocked Samantha.

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When

16:55

I moved in my twenties, when

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I moved from New York City

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to California, that was the first

17:03

place I lived. It was so then

17:05

it was tiny. It was like a village.

17:07

In order to get

17:09

a a full meal, you

17:12

had to go over the mountains

17:14

into what we call the San Fernando

17:16

Valley still is. There was there

17:18

were two restaurants in the entire

17:21

Simmie Valley when I moved.

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That so

17:24

it's touching to me that that's where you

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live. It's not a small town now.

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So let's see. Is

17:29

it wrong to question so much of what God is

17:31

trying to tell us in the bible? So

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here's an interesting observation

17:38

that you may not be aware of.

17:41

The name of the

17:43

the people of the book,

17:45

the Jews, is

17:46

Israel. Right?

17:47

That is that is the people, the children

17:49

of Israel, and so on. When

17:52

does Israel become a

17:54

name Well, the story is that

17:57

Jacob, the third of the patriarchs Abraham

17:59

Isaac

17:59

Jacob,

18:00

wrestled with an angel and

18:03

was given the main

18:05

Israel because you wrestle

18:07

with you wrestle with

18:10

God. and

18:10

you wrestle with man. Israel

18:13

means wrestle with God. Argy

18:15

with

18:15

God, struggle with God

18:17

however you wish to put it. It

18:19

is built

18:19

into the biblical idea

18:23

that if you believe in God, you

18:25

you will wrestle with God. That

18:29

that is a live mind.

18:32

So you're perfectly fine

18:34

with questioning if that's your

18:37

word. what God is trying to say in the

18:39

bible. However, I

18:41

I have good news, which is

18:43

why I work so hard on my

18:45

bible commentary, the rational bible.

18:49

I've spent

18:50

my life question But here's

18:53

the interesting part. I've always

18:55

believed there were there were answers.

19:00

And I was right. That's why I'm writing

19:02

my commentary because

19:04

it gives answers to difficult things.

19:06

I'll give you an example. There's

19:08

a law in the bible that

19:12

a a child who was

19:14

particularly terrible to his parents

19:16

should

19:16

be taken to the court

19:19

and

19:19

if found guilty, the child will

19:21

be stoned. To most

19:23

readers, that sounds so

19:26

premotive as to

19:27

invalidate the bible generally.

19:31

But I came to

19:31

realize something. the

19:34

law was brilliant. For

19:38

the first time in

19:40

history This bible, remember it's

19:42

thirty two hundred years old.

19:44

This certainly, this part of

19:46

the bible is. This

19:50

bible said for the first time in

19:52

history, parents

19:55

cannot kill their

19:57

child. That's the

19:59

point of the law. The point

20:01

does not kill your child if he's

20:03

terrible. He's awful. The point

20:05

is

20:05

you can't. You

20:07

have to

20:07

take him to a court, but no court

20:09

ever sentenced an Israelite

20:11

child to death. So

20:14

they maintained parental authority

20:17

but dropped it completely

20:19

when it came to taking a child's

20:22

life. That is an

20:24

example of, yes, I

20:26

question to, how could there be such a

20:28

primitive law? It turns out to have

20:30

been an credible moral advance. And

20:32

I do

20:32

that repeatedly. It's why I I ache for

20:34

people to read my

20:37

my rational Bible, the third

20:39

volume is coming out next week, deuteronomy,

20:42

the fifth

20:43

of the first five

20:45

books.

20:45

I think that there are answers to all

20:48

of these all of these

20:50

questions. And

20:50

on the rare occasion, I don't have an answer.

20:52

I acknowledge it. But

20:55

but generally and not generally. In

20:57

virtually every case, there is an answer. So

20:59

it's fine to question.

21:01

providing a look for answers and

21:03

know that

21:04

they're there. Abigail

21:07

Atlanta, Georgia, high dentists, With

21:09

midterms around the corner, what is your position on

21:12

political yard signs? That's

21:15

funny midterms. I thought I thought

21:18

she meant exams, mid

21:21

term elections. We recently moved

21:23

from Atlanta to the suburbs and our

21:25

new Nextdoor neighbor had a

21:28

Black Lives Matter Sign in our front yard.

21:30

We have daughters around the same

21:32

age, but I have felt hesitant to

21:34

be more than neighborly

21:36

toward her based on her perceived

21:39

values. Thank you for your time,

21:41

Abigail. I

21:42

think you should be super duper

21:45

duper friendly. with your neighbor with the

21:47

BLM side. I

21:49

mean it sincerely. First

21:51

of all, as a

21:53

great rule of life,

21:56

when when you

21:59

are not sure

21:59

how to act.

22:01

Always switch the shoes

22:03

as it were. wear

22:05

their shoes. So for

22:08

example, let's say there would

22:10

be a an

22:12

opposite

22:13

broadcast to this one

22:15

from somebody on the left.

22:17

And they wrote to the person

22:20

doing their fireside chat

22:22

You know, they had a Trump

22:23

sign or they had

22:26

a pro life

22:27

sign in their in their yard.

22:32

how

22:32

should I act toward them?

22:34

And I would want my

22:37

neighbor

22:37

act to act very

22:38

nicely toward me if they differed with my politics.

22:41

And that's how we should be toward them.

22:44

By the way, All it does,

22:46

if you don't act nicely, is

22:49

confirm their suspicion that

22:51

conservatives are not

22:53

nice. should shower them with

22:56

love.

22:56

That's why I am not joking. Now if

22:59

they're obnoxious fine, I understand

23:01

that.

23:02

But Let them

23:03

enter the world of cognitive dissonance

23:06

and tell their friends, you know.

23:08

I got this conservative neighbor

23:10

and they're really nice.

23:13

That'll throw them for a

23:15

loop.

23:16

right Alright.

23:17

Ethan, twenty two years

23:20

old, Pleasant Grove, Hi,

23:22

Dennis and Gang. That's

23:24

you guys. My wife and

23:26

I love to travel. However,

23:29

We find some of the most convenient times for

23:31

us to travel or when our

23:33

families have things planned.

23:36

We love spending time with our families

23:38

and value time spent with

23:41

family, but I'm not sure

23:43

how to prioritize travel

23:45

versus family time. What advice

23:47

do

23:47

you have for us? Thank you.

23:49

Well, Ethan, in Utah,

23:52

Well,

23:52

you're already married the twenty two, good man,

23:54

the wise decision.

23:57

Here's my

23:58

answer. Your wife

24:00

comes first. Protect

24:03

your marital relationship. It's

24:05

the single most important relationship

24:07

in your family. It's okay

24:10

if you're the rest of the family

24:12

doesn't have a trip with you as often as

24:14

you would like. It's infinitely

24:16

more important that you and your wife get

24:18

along than anything else in

24:20

family life. I

24:22

I'm I'm adamant

24:23

about that On my

24:26

for decades, I have told couples,

24:28

get away with one another

24:31

as often as you can. It's

24:34

very nice to

24:34

take trips with the kids, but

24:36

the kids grow up and leave the house.

24:39

And it's nice if they have those

24:41

memories On the other hand, even

24:43

nicer if mom and dad got

24:45

got along well. Okay?

24:48

So

24:49

I I am

24:51

pretty clear

24:52

on that one. Say

24:55

Jean

24:55

thirty three Tokyo, Japan.

24:57

Hello, mister Kroger. My question

24:59

for you is Have

25:01

you ever lost in a debate?

25:05

That's a good one. And

25:07

if so, how did you recover from

25:09

it? And what did you learn from

25:12

it? I asked this because now that I'm more

25:14

outspoken as a conservative, I know

25:16

I'll need to debate people

25:18

more. do you speak English so well?

25:20

because it

25:21

is a Japanese name. Mhmm.

25:23

Do we know

25:24

him? He was on

25:26

your radio fundraiser. He

25:27

was on the fundraiser. Yes.

25:30

So that's right. He's he's

25:32

Japanese American, I

25:34

think. Right? But he's in Tokyo.

25:36

Let's see. I I

25:38

know I'll need to debate people more. I

25:41

do wanna learn how to win. But

25:43

at the same I know how to not get crushed by

25:45

my defeats. I understand that searching

25:48

for the truth is not easy and I wanna toughen

25:50

myself up. Thanks and God bless

25:52

you. Okay. So let's

25:54

see. Have I ever lost in a debate?

25:57

So

25:57

that's an interesting question. I

26:01

remember on one

26:02

occasion, and it's interesting. It was

26:05

not a live debate. It was done on

26:07

the Internet. I didn't think I did

26:09

as well as I normally do.

26:11

Otherwise, I I've I've generally

26:13

always felt good

26:16

after debates but it doesn't

26:18

matter. Everybody loses. If

26:21

there's no

26:21

such thing as not losing,

26:23

there's only one

26:24

way not to lose. and that

26:27

is by not competing. That's

26:29

the only way you don't lose. But

26:31

if you don't compete, you don't get anything

26:34

done. So if you

26:36

lose, you have to figure

26:38

out what you could have done

26:40

better. I'll tell

26:41

you one general

26:43

rule that I have tried to follow.

26:46

And that is,

26:48

don't be the yellower of

26:50

the two people. If

26:53

you're the

26:54

calmer one, it usually

26:56

is very very much

26:58

more effective. But you have

27:00

to learn the issues there

27:02

are a lot of traps fall into and debate.

27:04

I'll tell you one because I I've

27:06

debated so much because I often debate callers

27:08

to my radio show.

27:10

I have

27:11

found and

27:13

I don't believe they do this intentionally.

27:15

People that I debate

27:18

whether they're pros or they're

27:20

amateurs as it were, collars to

27:22

my show, they often change

27:24

the topic. And

27:27

it it It

27:30

goes

27:30

by the audience. It it

27:33

it sails by the people don't realize

27:35

what they've done. And I try to

27:37

call them on, wait a minute. You're

27:39

changing the topic, so let's go back to

27:41

the point you made earlier. I'm

27:43

asking

27:43

you a question about that or something

27:46

like that. So, anyway,

27:49

yes, you

27:50

you you may well lose a debate. It is

27:52

not a reason not to not to

27:54

debate. is another great Hebrew

27:56

saying that was

27:59

on the

27:59

walls of my classroom. Again,

28:02

from the

28:03

book the Talmud And

28:06

I tell you, I learned a lot from the signs in

28:08

my classroom, and I didn't learn that the world

28:10

was better because I was in it, by the

28:13

way. or to embrace my flaws.

28:15

This was a great a great

28:17

line and it actually did deeply affect

28:20

my life. the easily

28:22

embarrassed does not

28:24

learn. I'm translating

28:26

from the Hebrew that it was on

28:28

on the wall.

28:29

and that's what enabled me to learn

28:31

my language as well. Because when I

28:34

started speaking, I

28:36

realized I'm making silly mistakes

28:38

or it sound like silly mistakes.

28:40

But when I realized,

28:42

don't get embarrassed at us.

28:44

I

28:45

was I was totally

28:47

at peace speaking a language imperfectly.

28:50

So

28:50

they would correct me.

28:52

So what? Do you

28:53

find somebody from another country who

28:56

speaks your language? Anything

28:58

but admirable, even if they

29:00

make a million mistakes? Okay.

29:04

Let's see

29:06

here. What what's our

29:08

timing? It's thirty

29:10

minutes. Oh,

29:12

I got another one. It was the other

29:14

one. Oh, yeah. From Norway.

29:18

and I'll

29:18

take the Norwegian. Put the Norwegian on top

29:20

for next week. Well, folks,

29:23

I can't believe it. Snoopy

29:25

was here the entire time.

29:30

You see that? Blue

29:32

Sashoff,

29:32

Blue SMM shows the more things change,

29:35

the more they're the same. Actually,

29:37

it's

29:37

not true, but just

29:39

like say. Anyway, it is

29:42

a change,

29:42

but at least we had

29:44

a canine pal

29:46

in auto

29:47

spot. wonderful to

29:49

be with you. See you next week

29:51

from my home to yours. Thank you for

29:53

being with me.