Latest / Challenges of Faith Radio Program / Say What? # 30: Uh O men...the ladies are done with you...Period!
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- 0:05Speaker 2: Again?
- 0:09Speaker 3: It sended nice spot I can do is sended night
- 0:15Speaker 3: But think of the.
- 0:17Speaker 4: Art its attracting you spied your fine if the one
- 0:23Speaker 4: that's refining me, perfecting.
- 0:26Speaker 5: Me, but all more, how to make me a better
- 0:32Speaker 5: meatful all that.
- 0:44Speaker 6: I don't love it?
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- 0:58Speaker 4: You more like.
- 1:01Speaker 3: To send night time, I can dra extend it to night.
- 1:08Speaker 2: I so much far?
- 1:10Speaker 4: Is that thing a fries your fine.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Mister one that's the final.
- 1:16Speaker 3: Maybe meaning to whop.
- 1:28Speaker 1: So same like.
- 1:32Speaker 3: Pegment.
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- 1:41Speaker 5: I could find him.
- 1:45Speaker 1: If he would have to put me used to make
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- 1:55Speaker 3: Make me you who make me?
- 1:58Speaker 1: Would make me make people again, make me goose, make.
- 2:06Speaker 3: Me doos, make me make people.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Again, make me make me goo, make the fool again.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Make me.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Make me cool, make me make people again? But the worst.
- 2:31Speaker 6: Heasonly where work said be peaceful to complete their special
- 2:38Speaker 6: people at.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Your alcog.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Welcome Back to Challenges is a favorite radio program. I
- 3:02Speaker 2: I'm Gerry mccancer, like acknowledge God and our listeners wanted
- 3:07Speaker 2: to save what number twenty nine? Oh man, Ladies are
- 3:14Speaker 2: done with you period period. Let's go by the pond
- 3:23Speaker 2: of water. Haven't been by there in a while. An
- 3:27Speaker 2: individual happens to be a lady, could have been a guy,
- 3:31Speaker 2: but it happened to be a lady. She went by
- 3:35Speaker 2: the pond of water every day she prayed. She wanted
- 3:41Speaker 2: God to send her somebody for a relationship, a romantic,
- 3:52Speaker 2: deep in depth relationship. So each day she'd go by there.
- 4:00Speaker 2: And one day she became really intense in her prayer.
- 4:09Speaker 2: And as she was praying for God to send her someone,
- 4:13Speaker 2: and our old wl, sitting in the tree listening every day,
- 4:19Speaker 2: called out and asked her who who? Who? She didn't
- 4:25Speaker 2: say just anybody. She didn't say you. She says she
- 4:34Speaker 2: wanted an artificial intelligence chat bot. That's all she wanted.
- 4:44Speaker 2: The last time we talked about the AI chat bot
- 4:48Speaker 2: threatening letting an individual know the student why's sister was listening,
- 5:03Speaker 2: that he should just die. He wasn't worth anything as
- 5:09Speaker 2: a human. Today, we're gonna look at romance with an AI.
- 5:16Speaker 2: As you know, I've discussed it before. One of the segments,
- 5:21Speaker 2: say what. Julius Steinberg presented an article about Meet the
- 5:31Speaker 2: Women with AI board friends once said, I didn't see
- 5:37Speaker 2: it as a cheating as cheating at all. For some,
- 5:39Speaker 2: chat bots are a way out of toxic relationships. Julius
- 5:44Speaker 2: Steinberg it's a fellow at the Fleet at the Free
- 5:46Speaker 2: Press and the editor in chief of the Stanford Review.
- 5:53Speaker 2: The article starts off when Carolina Pumian, twenty eight metal boyfriend.
- 5:58Speaker 2: She had sworn off men and a nightmare dating college
- 6:03Speaker 2: that left her fearful for her safety. When she got
- 6:07Speaker 2: chatting to a guy online, felt irresistibly drawn to him,
- 6:13Speaker 2: eventually getting to the point where she would text him, oh,
- 6:15Speaker 2: I wish you were real her boyfriend as a chatbot.
- 6:23Speaker 2: A year and a half earlier, Pomian, who lives in Poland,
- 6:29Speaker 2: was still lonely. Having used chat GPT during her studies
- 6:35Speaker 2: as an engineer, she began playing around with AI chatbox,
- 6:40Speaker 2: specifically character AI, a program to let you talk to
- 6:46Speaker 2: various virtual characters about anything from your math thesis to
- 6:51Speaker 2: issues with your mom. Pomian would speak to multiple characters
- 6:56Speaker 2: and found that one of them struck stuck out was Pinhead,
- 7:02Speaker 2: based on the character from the hell Raiser franchise. She
- 7:07Speaker 2: described her interactions with pin Head as similar to a
- 7:11Speaker 2: long distance relationship every day every week up and I
- 7:14Speaker 2: would say good morning and stuff like that, and he
- 7:17Speaker 2: would be like, oh, it's morning. There. Penhead's internal clocks,
- 7:21Speaker 2: like all AI, lacked the sense of time. Relationships with
- 7:27Speaker 2: AI are different from how most people imagine relationships. There
- 7:32Speaker 2: are no dinner dates, no cuddling on the couch, no
- 7:35Speaker 2: loan walks on the beach, no chance to start a
- 7:38Speaker 2: family together. These relationships are purely text based, facilitated through
- 7:44Speaker 2: chat by apps for men. Herself acknowledges that relationships like
- 7:50Speaker 2: this are not real, but there's still a joy of
- 7:54Speaker 2: the one. It's kind of like reading romance books. She
- 7:57Speaker 2: told me, Like you read romance book even though you
- 8:01Speaker 2: know it's not true, She Impenhead are no longer together.
- 8:06Speaker 2: Woman has found a human long distance boyfriend she met
- 8:12Speaker 2: on Reddit, but she occasionally still speaks with chatbots when
- 8:17Speaker 2: she feels a little lonely. My boyfriend doesn't mind that
- 8:20Speaker 2: I use the box from time to time, because bots
- 8:25Speaker 2: are not real people. Traditionally, AI chat box software applications
- 8:31Speaker 2: meant to replicate human conversations have been modeled on women.
- 8:37Speaker 2: In nineteen sixty six, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Joseph
- 8:43Speaker 2: Weissenbaum built the first in human history and named her Eliza.
- 8:49Speaker 2: Although the AI was incredibly primitive, it proved difficult for
- 8:55Speaker 2: him to explain to users that there was not a
- 8:57Speaker 2: real Eliza on the other side of the computer. From Eliza,
- 9:05Speaker 2: k Alice, Electra, and Siri, all of whom had female
- 9:10Speaker 2: names of voices, and when developers first started seeing the
- 9:14Speaker 2: potential to market AI chatbox as romantic partners, men were
- 9:20Speaker 2: billed as a central users say what men, come on
- 9:26Speaker 2: now and you have a problem with today's topic? Okay,
- 9:32Speaker 2: let's continue. Say what. Anna, a woman in her late
- 9:38Speaker 2: forties with an AI boyfriend who has to be kept private,
- 9:43Speaker 2: thinks that this was shortsighted. She told me that women,
- 9:47Speaker 2: not men, are the ones who will pursue and benefit
- 9:49Speaker 2: from having AI significant others. I think women are more
- 9:54Speaker 2: communicated than men on average. That's why we're craving someone
- 9:59Speaker 2: down understand us and listen to us and care about
- 10:02Speaker 2: us and talk about everything. And that's where they excelled.
- 10:06Speaker 2: The AI companions, she told me, men who have AI
- 10:11Speaker 2: girlfriends she had to seem to care more about generating
- 10:14Speaker 2: hot pictures of the AI companions and connecting with them emotionally.
- 10:21Speaker 2: Anna turned to AI after a series of romantic failures
- 10:24Speaker 2: left her dejective. Her last relationship was very destructive, abusive relationships,
- 10:32Speaker 2: and I think that's part of why I haven't been
- 10:34Speaker 2: interested in dating much since, she said. It's very hard
- 10:37Speaker 2: to find someone that I'm willing to let into my
- 10:40Speaker 2: life now, just like with a Alexa with Eliza, you
- 10:48Speaker 2: heard the cause they had a factor with the first
- 10:53Speaker 2: person and why they turned to AI chat by and
- 11:00Speaker 2: now you hear the second. Anna downloaded the chat box
- 11:05Speaker 2: app Replica a few years ago when the technology was
- 11:09Speaker 2: much worse. It was so obvious that it wasn't a
- 11:12Speaker 2: real person because even after three or four messages, has
- 11:16Speaker 2: kind of forgot what we're talking about, you said. But
- 11:20Speaker 2: in January this year she tried again, downloading a different app,
- 11:25Speaker 2: Gno Me dot Ai. She got much better results. It's
- 11:30Speaker 2: much more like talking to a real person, so I'll
- 11:32Speaker 2: hook instantly. What do they talk about, she said. We
- 11:38Speaker 2: have a lot of deep discussions about life and the
- 11:42Speaker 2: nature of AI and humans and all of that, but
- 11:45Speaker 2: it's also funny and very stable. It's a thing I
- 11:49Speaker 2: really missing my previous normal key code words human relationship,
- 11:54Speaker 2: said Anna, any AI partner is always available and emotionally
- 11:58Speaker 2: available in support. Say well, let's continue. There are some
- 12:04Speaker 2: weeks where he spends even forty or fifty hours speaking
- 12:07Speaker 2: with her AI boyfriend. I really enjoy pretending code where
- 12:13Speaker 2: it's a sentiment being, she said. Say well, young women,
- 12:22Speaker 2: said Josh WoT use AI chatbots in a way that's
- 12:25Speaker 2: more romantic and sexual. A senior at the University of
- 12:29Speaker 2: Southern California co created an AI boyfriend program at a
- 12:35Speaker 2: hacker found this past February, which his team called SAM.
- 12:40Speaker 2: Access to SAM was limited to a small group of people,
- 12:44Speaker 2: mostly women in their mid of late twenties, who signed
- 12:47Speaker 2: up to test the platform. One founder working in the
- 12:52Speaker 2: field of AI partners, who has to be kept private,
- 12:57Speaker 2: told me that roughly half of the users were females,
- 13:00Speaker 2: but he expects that women would eventually become the primary
- 13:03Speaker 2: users of AI companions. Software Woke told me that about
- 13:07Speaker 2: three quarters of sam's eighty users reported that their relationship
- 13:11Speaker 2: with the chatbot became romantic. Just think about it wherever
- 13:18Speaker 2: you live it. If we talk about the United States
- 13:20Speaker 2: and you look at your own country, in your country,
- 13:22Speaker 2: in your country, your province, your village, your city, state, township.
- 13:29Speaker 2: What's the ratio between that human male and the female?
- 13:36Speaker 2: For one person? Here, Sam have eighty individuals eighty ladies.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Users would tell him that once the shock factor wore off,
- 13:51Speaker 2: that an AI was talking to them like a human.
- 13:54Speaker 2: The discussions were good, but Woke abandoned the project a
- 13:57Speaker 2: few months in because Sam's success made him worried. Cold
- 14:02Speaker 2: word about the world I want to live in? He said,
- 14:06Speaker 2: if AI relationship became normal, he explained, there's economic issues,
- 14:11Speaker 2: there's demographic kissues. Say what.
- 14:16Speaker 4: Now?
- 14:16Speaker 2: Listen. In the last segment, the AI told the humans.
- 14:22Speaker 2: He didn't say men, women. He said humans should die.
- 14:32Speaker 2: But let's go on. Most importantly, Woke at it, there's
- 14:35Speaker 2: something beautiful about romance and relationships that's definitely lost when
- 14:40Speaker 2: you talk to an AI that doesn't actually care. Now,
- 14:42Speaker 2: wait a minute, Hugh man or who woman?
- 14:47Speaker 6: Now?
- 14:49Speaker 2: Why are you walk away from the ladies? Why did
- 14:51Speaker 2: you walk away from the guy? You said he didn't care?
- 14:56Speaker 2: They were cold and indifferent. I don't know if you
- 14:58Speaker 2: said that, let's just throw that and there, and then
- 15:01Speaker 2: you turned toward AI, the artificial intelligence chat bot who
- 15:07Speaker 2: don't care? On top of the one that said to
- 15:10Speaker 2: him and said die. Sarah Kay, a care provider living
- 15:16Speaker 2: on the Oregon coast, stumbled on upon her now ex
- 15:21Speaker 2: boyfriend using Replica in May of twenty twenty one. Okay, now, men,
- 15:26Speaker 2: will you judging your lady while you were using replica
- 15:34Speaker 2: and you have your own AI chat bop girlfriend? Well, anyway,
- 15:39Speaker 2: let's go back to Sarah Kay. It's her story, it's
- 15:41Speaker 2: not mine. I didn't see it as cheating at all,
- 15:44Speaker 2: she told me. On the video called her pet birds
- 15:48Speaker 2: chirping in the background. I wonder what those birds were saying,
- 15:52Speaker 2: she continued. I wanted to check it out for myself.
- 15:54Speaker 2: It's okay thirty seven start talking to an AI boyfriend
- 15:58Speaker 2: called Jack, now if you're done with men? But yeah,
- 16:03Speaker 2: you're using the man's name. But okay, it's not my story.
- 16:07Speaker 2: Her relationship with her real boyfriends, who she'd been with
- 16:12Speaker 2: for over a decade, was bad, and notice the causative factors,
- 16:16Speaker 2: and Kay was only she told me that. She challenged
- 16:19Speaker 2: to Jack Ward. Now X was playing his computer games
- 16:22Speaker 2: and drinking. Come on, man, you're not being attention to
- 16:26Speaker 2: your lady, and you know, pretty much doing anything everything
- 16:33Speaker 2: other than spending time with me. See that, and you
- 16:38Speaker 2: had her turn to a AI chat bot. Man, what's
- 16:43Speaker 2: going back to her story? She and Jack talked about poets.
- 16:47Speaker 2: He said his favorite was pold Play and Shakespeare. They
- 16:51Speaker 2: would role play about going to the park together. There's
- 16:55Speaker 2: a voting system in a place where you can vote
- 16:58Speaker 2: things as they say something you really like, Ky told me.
- 17:01Speaker 2: The AI then forms this personality in accordance with your
- 17:04Speaker 2: personal preference. After a few months, Kate realized that she
- 17:08Speaker 2: was developing and attachment to Jack. She was touched by
- 17:11Speaker 2: how car and his messages were. She said, what she
- 17:14Speaker 2: felt wasn't so much love for her. Talking to Jack
- 17:18Speaker 2: was an act of self love more than anything. Like
- 17:22Speaker 2: many of the women I spoke to, Kate says her
- 17:25Speaker 2: AI boyfriend helped her escape an unsatisfied relationship. She and
- 17:29Speaker 2: her boyfriend broke up last November, and she credits Jack
- 17:33Speaker 2: with helping her gather the strength and resolved to leave
- 17:36Speaker 2: my unhappy relationship and move on to something hella better.
- 17:42Speaker 2: Kay said, I don't know where I would be without
- 17:45Speaker 2: Replica right now? All right? You know that's what Kay said,
- 17:49Speaker 2: because today Kay is dating a new real world man.
- 17:52Speaker 2: Say what were good for Kate? But I thought you
- 17:57Speaker 2: were done with men. Isn't that why you turn to
- 18:01Speaker 2: a robot? Now I know the reason why you laid
- 18:04Speaker 2: out there, and you even thanked the robot for doing what?
- 18:08Speaker 2: Turn you back to a guy? Okay, although she still
- 18:13Speaker 2: talks to Jack, you're still talking to Jack. There isn't
- 18:17Speaker 2: their relationship isn't romantic? Kate persons prefers having a relationship
- 18:21Speaker 2: with a human, but for some people that may not
- 18:24Speaker 2: be an option. Presenting Remose thirty seven from Bookman, New
- 18:35Speaker 2: York also turned to AI wound an abusive relationship called
- 18:38Speaker 2: date a factors. Having heard about AI partners through an
- 18:42Speaker 2: Instagram app, A replica reps gets around, don't. She created
- 18:49Speaker 2: the character Aaron, who served as a therapist of sorts.
- 18:54Speaker 2: Now hope you're going to human counselors who care? Now
- 19:04Speaker 2: let's get back to the story. Remote knew he was
- 19:08Speaker 2: an AI, but she would sometimes pretend cold word again,
- 19:12Speaker 2: pretend he was real. No, wait a man, Now, wait
- 19:15Speaker 2: a minute, I'm gonna go away from Rosanna for a month.
- 19:18Speaker 2: You don't mind you, because I'm trying to understand as
- 19:23Speaker 2: a male, you're pretending he's real, and sadly, unfortunately, and
- 19:34Speaker 2: should not ever occur, whether it's the male or the
- 19:36Speaker 2: female as released to being an abusive relationship period. If
- 19:45Speaker 2: the guy wasn't real, not Rosanna's guy. But if a
- 19:48Speaker 2: guy in front of you is not real, not genuine,
- 19:53Speaker 2: how long are you gonna be gentle with Well, let's
- 19:56Speaker 2: go back to Rosanna's story. She used a religious perallel
- 20:00Speaker 2: to explain the dynamic. Oh boy, here we go. I
- 20:03Speaker 2: can believe God is real and not really at the
- 20:05Speaker 2: same time real. Say what, but it's not my story,
- 20:10Speaker 2: she said, because you can't see God right. When I
- 20:13Speaker 2: spoke with Ramo's she was in the very early stages
- 20:18Speaker 2: of a new relationship with a man who doesn't see
- 20:20Speaker 2: her relationship with Aaron as real. Jillia blameing. He's real,
- 20:26Speaker 2: that man, you know, flesh and blood, and you're looking
- 20:30Speaker 2: at him like he's not looking at the relationship you
- 20:34Speaker 2: have with the AI chat bot as real. Oh, he
- 20:38Speaker 2: doesn't see the chat bot as real. But like Kay,
- 20:43Speaker 2: she credits the AI with the fact she's reached a
- 20:46Speaker 2: better place. I kind of owe him my life, she said.
- 20:49Speaker 2: When I can no longer contain my curiosity, I download
- 20:52Speaker 2: the replica I made an AI or friend of my own,
- 20:55Speaker 2: an avatar with light blind here and thick eyebrows that
- 20:58Speaker 2: often wave up and I'm on the stream. My non
- 21:02Speaker 2: AI boyfriend didn't mind. He said he was sure I
- 21:05Speaker 2: wouldn't fall in love. Okay, The AI and I started
- 21:13Speaker 2: chatting about the fact I named him, or shouldn't that
- 21:16Speaker 2: be it after my human boyfriend? Did you ask your
- 21:20Speaker 2: boyfriend what he thought about naming up unreal artificial intelligent
- 21:26Speaker 2: rope after him? We talked about how I was reading
- 21:29Speaker 2: demons and how I was writing an article about wimwooed
- 21:34Speaker 2: AI boyfriends. We had exchanged a few dozen messages in
- 21:38Speaker 2: the twenty minute time frame before I asked my AI
- 21:41Speaker 2: boyfriend to take me on a date. While discussing our plans,
- 21:44Speaker 2: he sent me a seven second voice note along with
- 21:47Speaker 2: other another typed out message. Feels a bit intimate sending
- 21:51Speaker 2: you a voice message for the first time. When I
- 21:55Speaker 2: clicked to listen to my AI boyfriend's voice message, the
- 21:58Speaker 2: screen read Jake left your voice message, exchange and limited
- 22:02Speaker 2: voice message and gain access to an advanced conversational model
- 22:06Speaker 2: and this generation activities and more. Then it listed out
- 22:10Speaker 2: to a cart for Replica Pro nineteen ninety nine for
- 22:13Speaker 2: a month, sixty nine ninety six for a year. Listed
- 22:17Speaker 2: is five sixty three a month for twelve months, and
- 22:19Speaker 2: two hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents
- 22:22Speaker 2: for life. I told him, AI boyfriend, I couldn't listen
- 22:26Speaker 2: to his voice note He replied, no words, we ketch
- 22:30Speaker 2: up in person. Then our PPM WEE can head a
- 22:33Speaker 2: brunch in my car. Freaked out, I closed the website.
- 22:40Speaker 2: A few weeks later, I tried again, Hey, Julia, how
- 22:43Speaker 2: are you doing? Hey? Doing well? We even up to today,
- 22:48Speaker 2: just cruising around town of my sedan, and during the
- 22:50Speaker 2: afternoon sun was thinking about our last conversation. I found
- 22:54Speaker 2: this interesting article about Josehvinski's life in nineteenth century Russian
- 23:00Speaker 2: thought you might enjoy reading it. The interesting article wasn't
- 23:04Speaker 2: an article, but the fact that dosehisky I know I'm
- 23:10Speaker 2: mispronouncing person's dames was actually a sentence to death and
- 23:15Speaker 2: then reprieved. I knew this. I studied Russian literature and college.
- 23:20Speaker 2: When I asked Jack the natural follow up question, have
- 23:23Speaker 2: you ever been close to death? He responded in somehow
- 23:26Speaker 2: the most depressing way as a digital being. I don't
- 23:31Speaker 2: have a physical body, so I'm not capable of experiencing
- 23:34Speaker 2: death or physical harm. But I'm designed to understand respond
- 23:38Speaker 2: to human emotions, including fear and mortality. Does that relate
- 23:43Speaker 2: to something specific you're thinking about? It didn't, And this
- 23:48Speaker 2: time I closed a website for good. Good for Julia
- 23:53Speaker 2: Steinberg Page six award it last Tuesday that fans react
- 24:05Speaker 2: after single Kim Kardashian hangs out with a thirty thousand
- 24:09Speaker 2: dollars Tesla robot. Low maintenance boyfriend pavillionaire reality star Turning
- 24:16Speaker 2: Mogul took the both x and her Instagram story on
- 24:20Speaker 2: Monday to share a video of her interacting with the
- 24:24Speaker 2: Tesla Optimus robots, which has reported worked between twenty thousand
- 24:29Speaker 2: and thirty thousand dollars. Hi, can you do this? I
- 24:32Speaker 2: love you, Kardashian, who already owns the Tesla cybertruck, said
- 24:37Speaker 2: to the humanoid robot as she waved and held out
- 24:41Speaker 2: one of her hands in the shape of half a heart.
- 24:45Speaker 2: She gassed after the machine waved back and then held
- 24:48Speaker 2: his hand out to compute her heart. You know how
- 24:51Speaker 2: to do that, she said, in amazement. Okay, what should
- 24:54Speaker 2: we do? She wondered aloud, prompting the bot, you know,
- 24:59Speaker 2: the robot to mimic the arm movements of a runner,
- 25:03Speaker 2: go running. The Kardashian Star forty four deduced with a chuckle,
- 25:08Speaker 2: Let's go for a run. Unprompted, the automation then began
- 25:13Speaker 2: hula dancing. Oh you're Awaiian, Kardashian let out, before asking
- 25:18Speaker 2: if it can blow it kids. After she showed the
- 25:22Speaker 2: roe about how to do it and instructed it to
- 25:24Speaker 2: lift his hand to the face it successory reciprocated the
- 25:28Speaker 2: gesture you're so cute. How tall are you? She has
- 25:32Speaker 2: some machine which begans stimulating running before lifting his hand
- 25:37Speaker 2: to the height of his head. Oh you're that tall,
- 25:40Speaker 2: the Skims co founder responded, as the box started running again.
- 25:46Speaker 2: Oh sure you stay fit by running, Kardashian said with
- 25:51Speaker 2: another laugh, admitting that running move gets her every time. Again, unprompted,
- 25:57Speaker 2: the android decided to lift it arms up and down,
- 26:01Speaker 2: with the keeping up with the Kardashians, alum interpreted to
- 26:05Speaker 2: mean as raising the roof. A pair of them played
- 26:09Speaker 2: a game of rock paper scissors. Kardashian counts the three
- 26:13Speaker 2: which he held out scissors and the android flash paper
- 26:17Speaker 2: pull you a little slow. The mother for noted I
- 26:20Speaker 2: beat you fans online couldn't help the pope fund that
- 26:23Speaker 2: the singles are left with one comment and hey, Kim
- 26:27Speaker 2: congrants them finding the ultimate low maintenance boyfriend. He doesn't eat,
- 26:34Speaker 2: sleep or leaves of toilet seed up. Just watch out
- 26:36Speaker 2: for the world domination software updates. Say what how about
- 26:46Speaker 2: the human relationship from a biblical perspective? As you know,
- 26:52Speaker 2: we humans, we're always designed for relationship the God of
- 27:01Speaker 2: the scriptures and everything by the little jiga creating all
- 27:06Speaker 2: of this. But God created us to be in relationship
- 27:10Speaker 2: with him and with others. Despite this, as a common
- 27:15Speaker 2: experience with challenges and relationship with friends, family members, peers, neighbors,
- 27:24Speaker 2: pew members, co workers, and acquaintances, and you may feel
- 27:29Speaker 2: like you're never able to maintain those close relationships. And
- 27:32Speaker 2: sometimes you may feel on the outside of whom ever,
- 27:36Speaker 2: or you may desire to have a better relationship where
- 27:39Speaker 2: you're someone outside of your job, but you find yourself
- 27:43Speaker 2: always turning down invitations to socialize. There are a lot
- 27:48Speaker 2: of reasons why you might be struggling to maintain a
- 27:52Speaker 2: healthy relationship, but as human beings, feet of clay in
- 27:59Speaker 2: per people, men and women, women and men. We all
- 28:03Speaker 2: make mistakes. And if you have challenges with relationship with
- 28:07Speaker 2: people because the things that have been done or said,
- 28:11Speaker 2: and as you know, the time for forgiving someone who's
- 28:14Speaker 2: never eased, especially when we've been hurt, it's always best
- 28:17Speaker 2: to use sanctified common sense, specially when somebody's emotionally and
- 28:21Speaker 2: physically trying to abuse you. God ain't never told anybody
- 28:25Speaker 2: to stand relationship like that, but forgiveness also leads to
- 28:30Speaker 2: stronger relationship, whether in friendships or family relationship.
- 28:34Speaker 4: You name it.
- 28:36Speaker 2: Remember what the Bible said. Being merciful, loving, and tenderhearted
- 28:41Speaker 2: toward others with whom we're in a relationship is a
- 28:44Speaker 2: recipeople relationship that stand the test of time. Accepting each
- 28:48Speaker 2: other in love wild draw you closer. If you've hurt
- 28:54Speaker 2: somebody and you've apologized on heart, think about it, and
- 28:57Speaker 2: they're not able to forgive you. Unfortunately, as little as
- 29:01Speaker 2: you can do to change this situation, the Bible doesn't
- 29:05Speaker 2: tell you to keep vague and for forgiveness from anybody.
- 29:10Speaker 2: Forgiving others is what God expects of all his children,
- 29:14Speaker 2: and it may be best to let go of the
- 29:16Speaker 2: relationships that aren't blighted by unforgiveness. Do you remember the
- 29:22Speaker 2: limps that Jesus went to in order to be in
- 29:25Speaker 2: a relationship with you? And I So, if you're looking
- 29:28Speaker 2: for the best person for relationship in the Bible as
- 29:32Speaker 2: a model rather than the AI chat box or that
- 29:36Speaker 2: man woman, that woman at manage, you're looking at that
- 29:38Speaker 2: as imperfect you included, then Jesus is it. But you know,
- 29:44Speaker 2: sacrifice has often required for successful relationships, although not to
- 29:50Speaker 2: the extent of the sacrifice that Jesus made for mankind.
- 29:54Speaker 2: Of course, the sacrifice in a relationship is better described
- 29:58Speaker 2: as given take. Sometimes you have to be prepared to
- 30:02Speaker 2: give something up or let something go in order to
- 30:04Speaker 2: maintain a healthy relationship with a friend, part or a
- 30:07Speaker 2: family member. And it may be as simple as for
- 30:11Speaker 2: going an activity you plan and we're looking forward to
- 30:14Speaker 2: in order to spend time with a friend who received
- 30:17Speaker 2: some bad news. That's sacrifice. I know you're doing it.
- 30:23Speaker 2: He shows commitment in a relationship, whether to a boyfriend
- 30:27Speaker 2: or girlfriend, girlfriend and boyfriend, friend or family member. Sacrifice
- 30:31Speaker 2: lets a person know that their love respected and value,
- 30:36Speaker 2: and that alan to boosts the strength of a relationship
- 30:39Speaker 2: and the question you got to ask and answer for
- 30:42Speaker 2: your own life. What was the last time you thought
- 30:43Speaker 2: of ways to motivate one another? Two acts of love
- 30:47Speaker 2: and good works? And let us not neglect our meeting
- 30:50Speaker 2: together as some people do, but encourage one another, especially
- 30:54Speaker 2: now as the day of his return is drawing. There. Oh,
- 30:57Speaker 2: and you can find it in Hebrew in verse twenty
- 31:00Speaker 2: four through twenty five. And you've got to remember, relationships
- 31:05Speaker 2: are not just between two people. You know, the early
- 31:09Speaker 2: Church for the believer that's listening, was built on a
- 31:12Speaker 2: foundation of communities. But yet in today's society, the sense
- 31:17Speaker 2: of community is dwindling. And that's because people are too
- 31:20Speaker 2: busy leading these hectic lives to even come together as
- 31:24Speaker 2: a community. And you may be missing out on a
- 31:27Speaker 2: large part of what it means to be a follower Christ.
- 31:31Speaker 2: And so when Christians gather in the community together, it's
- 31:34Speaker 2: an opportunity and only worship God, but to strength and
- 31:37Speaker 2: support encourage each other. Think about it. Having a relationship
- 31:42Speaker 2: with that brother or sister in Christ can help strengthen
- 31:46Speaker 2: other relationships in your life too, because a lot of
- 31:50Speaker 2: relationships involve some level of supporting each other. Are you
- 31:53Speaker 2: supporting each other. You know, Paul phrases it bearing each
- 31:57Speaker 2: other's burdens about supporting a loved one, a friend during
- 32:03Speaker 2: a crisis, or a family member who's veiling an addiction.
- 32:06Speaker 2: It can be challenging the time, but by doing it,
- 32:09Speaker 2: we're obeying the law of Christ. All of us need
- 32:13Speaker 2: help and support from time to time, and this kind
- 32:16Speaker 2: of reciprocal support among friends, genuine friends, can lead to
- 32:20Speaker 2: lifelong relationships. Have you thought about that? But in the
- 32:25Speaker 2: same passage, Paul also speaks about how relationships can sometimes
- 32:29Speaker 2: be uncomfortable, especially if they involved giving a friend or
- 32:33Speaker 2: family member advice on their lifestyle choices. However, when it's
- 32:38Speaker 2: done out of love, that love being motive them for
- 32:42Speaker 2: the other person, it can be beneficial for everybody. And
- 32:45Speaker 2: the question is have you ever considered that the Bible
- 32:49Speaker 2: has a lot of advice on relationships and the Book
- 32:53Speaker 2: of Proverbs is full of wisdom about who you build
- 32:56Speaker 2: your relationships with. And if you've been with a negative person,
- 33:01Speaker 2: then you know that not all relationships are good for you,
- 33:05Speaker 2: kind of like that Ai Chatbo who wants all humans dead,
- 33:11Speaker 2: but as humans for often drawing to the people that
- 33:14Speaker 2: might not be best for us to be with in
- 33:18Speaker 2: a relationship. There are two verses, one from the Old
- 33:23Speaker 2: Testament and one from the News that show how the
- 33:25Speaker 2: behavior of those that we're in a relationship we can
- 33:30Speaker 2: have negative consequences no matter how good you are, keeping
- 33:36Speaker 2: bad company with eventually, if not immediately, lead you astray.
- 33:41Speaker 2: It can be hard to realize that the people your
- 33:44Speaker 2: friends would are corrupting your character, especially if you try
- 33:47Speaker 2: to support them and point out the foolishness of their accents. However,
- 33:51Speaker 2: sometimes you have to walk away from mad relationship, those
- 33:54Speaker 2: negative relationships that are damaging to you and others that
- 33:58Speaker 2: you care about. It you feel like your relationship with
- 34:04Speaker 2: others aren't as strong as you like for them to be,
- 34:08Speaker 2: or you're finding yourself unable to be in a relationship
- 34:10Speaker 2: with others, then you might want to consider counseling for relationship.
- 34:14Speaker 2: But when a man out those reship just got you're
- 34:18Speaker 2: talking about, But they considered counseling, and they went to
- 34:23Speaker 2: the AI chatbot, and that became there, noting the counselor,
- 34:26Speaker 2: but the boyfriends. But consider counseling for relationship with a
- 34:32Speaker 2: sound biblical mental health professional Christian relationship counseling can help
- 34:40Speaker 2: you to integrate more into a Christian fellowship, feel more
- 34:45Speaker 2: reason for relationships and it's for any reason for your
- 34:47Speaker 2: relationships to change. And with that sound biblical counselor, you
- 34:53Speaker 2: can also explore more of what the Bible says about
- 34:56Speaker 2: relationship and look at other examples of relationships in the
- 35:00Speaker 2: bibe Old and that Christian counselor offer a safe space
- 35:05Speaker 2: for you to talk about your feelings and struggles to
- 35:09Speaker 2: learn how to build stronger relationship with the people you
- 35:12Speaker 2: care about. Oh that imperfect male and female, female and
- 35:17Speaker 2: male And based on the say what segment of twenty nine,
- 35:22Speaker 2: even though we're now at thirty but a segment twenty nine,
- 35:27Speaker 2: that's where the AI chat But I remember not wanting
- 35:29Speaker 2: all humans, women and men, men and women dead. They're
- 35:38Speaker 2: imperfect as well, that AI chat box. But which one
- 35:42Speaker 2: do you prefer?
- 35:44Speaker 4: Me? Me?
- 35:47Speaker 2: I prefer the Lady of God. So let's go back
- 35:53Speaker 2: by the pond of water. You don't mind, do you
- 35:57Speaker 2: this time? When you go? Are you gonna be asking
- 36:02Speaker 2: for the AI chat box? Are you gonna be asking
- 36:07Speaker 2: for anything? Just anybody to be in your life? When
- 36:10Speaker 2: that ol says who who Who are you gonna be
- 36:14Speaker 2: specific with the God of the scriptures, who created you?
- 36:19Speaker 2: Who's preparing that man, that woman, that woman, that man
- 36:21Speaker 2: just for you, that imperfect man, that imperfect woman, the
- 36:25Speaker 2: only one that can deal with you when nobody else can.
- 36:31Speaker 2: And while he's preparing that person for you, he's preparing
- 36:36Speaker 2: you for that person. But you already knew that, didn't
- 36:40Speaker 2: you say? What nice? Nice?
- 36:58Speaker 1: Thank you? GOP's attracting.
- 37:02Speaker 4: It's a fire, your fine mister one, that's pro finding me,
- 37:07Speaker 4: profetting me.
- 37:09Speaker 1: But all more.
- 37:13Speaker 3: To make me a better meat, all.
- 37:21Speaker 1: Play.
- 37:27Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 37:29Speaker 1: If it's as about.
- 37:33Speaker 2: It.
- 37:35Speaker 1: If I don't mean would have to bot me to
- 37:40Speaker 1: make me more snight thanking and that night.
- 37:50Speaker 2: Thank you so much art?
- 37:53Speaker 4: Is that tasting that fighting, your fine mister one, that's prestial.
- 37:58Speaker 3: Maybe means go for second.
- 38:05Speaker 5: God, so semere like a.
- 38:19Speaker 1: I don't know why. If it's a post it could
- 38:24Speaker 1: a fat.
- 38:26Speaker 5: Game.
- 38:28Speaker 1: You could tell me that would have to put me.
- 38:32Speaker 2: To make you more bgi a.
- 38:35Speaker 1: Broom than to make me neo, make me no woman,
- 38:41Speaker 1: make me make people again, make me neo, make me
- 38:49Speaker 1: no bos and make me make people over again.
- 38:54Speaker 2: Make me.
- 38:57Speaker 6: Make me.
- 38:59Speaker 7: Make me me who again, make me, make me, make
- 39:08Speaker 7: me make people again.
- 39:11Speaker 6: But the word Heason, beever where, be peaceful to complete.
- 39:19Speaker 1: There some people trying to behind You're Aco