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That GenX Friend For Those We Will Never Meet · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  grew up on static and midnight shows.
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  MTV raised us. You already know latch key
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  hearts and wild eye dreams. Feral mind staring at the scene.
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  If you say it's too much to unpack but I'll see you wait and
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  I've got your back. Talk to me.
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  world. No one replied, but we danced
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  through it. Good morning.
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  Welcome or welcome back to that Gen.
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  X trend podcast. Before I begin, as usual, I want
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  to give a shout out to MB Radio. Thank you.
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  I see all the teen is it's pretty neat.
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  I see them all the time. So I wanted to I do notice.
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  Thanks anyways, let's get started.
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  I hope everybody had a great time during the 4th of July
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  celebrating our nation's 250th birthday.
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  And for those who do not like loud noises, I hope you were you
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  did well too. So I scrolling through social
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  media, you know, I I've been talking a lot, a lot of about
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  watching our current state of affairs.
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  Like I saw people who are against celebrations.
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  I saw people who were for it and you know it.
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  Regardless of how you feel, there's a level of dis ease that
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  I felt watching this divide and it let me to ask as usual,
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  'cause you know, I never stopped thinking.
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  I'm sure most of you guys can relate.
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  So it let me to ask some really uncomfortable questions which
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  then made me feel like man, I I need to stop thinking.
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  I really need to stop thinking. So what do I do?
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  I never skip a chance to watch some good movies, free movies,
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  right 'cause I'm unwilling to pay for these now that I don't
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  have I I think I have these on DVD anyways.
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  It doesn't matter. Scrolling through YouTube, you
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  know the Matrix, the trilogy was on 'cause I think there's a new
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  movie coming out. So the fifth one, so there was a
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  fourth one I missed because it came out during COVID, I'm not
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  quite sure about it, yada yada, yada.
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  So because it's free, I'm like, I'll sit down and watch it,
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  distract myself and you know, 'cause it The Matrix came out
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  when I was like, you know, the peak youth stupid times.
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  We were doing all kinds of crazy stuff before all the the social
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  media cameras and everything. So I'm like, yeah, no, I love
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  that movie. Of course.
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  I think a lot of people was all because the way they, the
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  characters look were so sleek. The sunglasses, the black trench
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  coats and, you know, Trinity kicking butt all over the place.
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  Not saying Neo wasn't cool, but anyways, I'm like, I, I'm down,
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  I'm down for it. Let me distract myself so I
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  don't go down this rabbit hole, which I often fall into because
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  this is who I am. So, you know, I watch, I binge
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  watch all three and wow, that movie, it has staying power.
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  It I think it's so true. It couldn't be truer now.
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  It almost seems like a documentary in my mind, in my
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  opinion, in a way of how society has sort of become and that sort
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  of like dystopian world that we live in.
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  Beyond that, I'm like, yo, I'm down.
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  So I watch it. And of course, it the one even
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  for people who do not have not seen it, who have heard of the
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  movies, the trilogy, right? Basically, it opens up with Neo
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  having to make a choice to take the pill to like make a choice
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  which pill you want to take. Either you can stay in the
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  current world or you can because it's not real, or you can take
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  the pill that brings you to reality.
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  But this reality obviously was shown to be much less pleasant
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  because it's not a simulation, it is not an illusion.
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  It is not whatever that he was living in this digitized world
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  because he was, he was the energy feeding this whatever,
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  right? I don't want to ruin anything
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  for people who have not watched it.
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  I I do suggest watching it. It's not for the art.
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  Man, that movie was fantastic like this.
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  The first time they used like this, the way they did it, like
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  opening scene with Trinity kicking butt and how she kind of
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  froze in midair, that was like groundbreaking just for stuff
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  like that. You can watch it.
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  It's a very enjoyable movie, regardless of whether you you
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  take it deeper or not, you know, and there's always characters in
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  there that did not want to actually take the pill, that
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  regretted taking the pill to come into reality.
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  And as we get deeper and deeper into the movie, it was revealed
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  that this has happened multiple times before this version,
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  right? This version of Neo, you know,
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  I'm watching it. I, I, I didn't think about this
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  while I was watching the movie, but I did think about it
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  afterwards. And This is why I came up with
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  this topic for the podcast. It's like, so after finding out
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  there was numerous versions, and I'm not saying let's move past
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  the the sort of storyline of the Matrix, right?
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  In the same way we have gone through maybe not the same
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  things, but similar events like turbulence, war, this chaos.
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  We've also as humanity, like the collective humanity, have gone
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  through iterations just like the characters in the Matrix,
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  although they did not know that this was another version.
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  I get a few people did know, but we as a collective know this is
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  not the first time humanity has experienced war, famine, all
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  kinds of. You can name all kinds of things
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  that's going on right now. So there are still people who
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  continue to choose to fight, right?
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  I'm not saying war is good, but to fight for the right things
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  based on morality and benefit to humanity, right, regardless of
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  what side you're on. But there are people that were,
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  that is and that will be that will continue to choose to take
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  the pill to fight against that sort of controlled.
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  To being controlled by this whatever right, this illusion of
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  the world that we live in because we would rather live in
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  an illusion than to live reality and fight to make it better,
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  right? And yes, there is a right and
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  wrong if you if people, I don't put sides.
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  However, there is a right and wrong side and that demands
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  logic, right? You can see it, you can follow
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  the past, like history is doomed to repeat itself.
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  And that's why we are doomed to repeat ourselves, which we have
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  done through many iterations to do the same thing, the war, all
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  this stuff, because we failed to learn the lessons.
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  So why I'm I'm not focusing on the failure.
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  I want to focus on those who will bravely choose to take the
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  pill to, to live in reality, to see the world for what it is and
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  then take on the burden while living in hardship.
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  Because reality is much harder than an illusion that we could.
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  We can imagine all sorts of things.
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  Like I said, watch the movie. The illusion is to sort of
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  pacify our need or our ability to see there's something wrong
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  that needs to be fixed. But those who continue to choose
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  to take that pill, right, to then shoulder this burden, this
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  hardship of in reality make the world better, however it is
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  better, right? Why does it do this?
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  Why did they do it? Because, you know, there's so
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  many dystopian movies out there. There's 12 Monkeys, which also
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  came around the like, you know, I'm not saying the same years,
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  but at the same time, like it's so easy to fall into the oh, you
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  know, this, this, this is horrible.
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  Let's just end it all sort of thing.
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  And there are people out there like that too.
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  But why? Why do people continue to and
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  fight for a better day even though they may not live it
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  today, they may not have lived it today, or they will never
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  live it today? Why?
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  Why do people continue to be, I don't know what other word for
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  it to be patriotic in a way. I'm not talking about country.
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  Sort of let's take it beyond a country, right?
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  Patriotic as in patriotic towards like bettering humanity,
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  bettering the world, right, As a collective, Sure, we can take it
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  to each country too. And we can do that.
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  And obviously I live in America and I, I, I believe myself to be
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  a patriot 'cause I would still fight for her today.
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  If my body wasn't falling apart anyways I I would still do it
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  today. But but why do people keep doing
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  it if in the moment, in their lifetime they have not seen
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  changes right for the better? Because if we look back through
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  history, there has been times where chaos lasted for multiple
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  generations and one generation may be born into chaos and die
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  in chaos. But yet we can always find
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  people who are willing to do the right thing and why?
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  And that's why I came up with the, that's how I came up with
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  the title beyond the I'm not trying to be like clever or
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  remember back in the 80s or 90s, there were deep thoughts or it
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  it not trying to give you any like deep thoughts.
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  But I did come up with this. Why do people continue to choose
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  to do the right thing despite of potentially never having to
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  realize what they're fighting for?
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  It's for those we will never meet.
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  And it's not exclusive to those who will never meet in the
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  future because we only have one lifetime to live.
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  And what we do in this lifetime matters, right?
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  But it's also for those in the past.
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  This is my opinion now. I believe those people continue
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  to choose to fight for the betterment of humanity, for the
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  country or and so on, and to honor those in the past, to
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  honor those who are presently fighting for, to do what's
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  right. And also for those who are yet
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  to come in the future, to honor them because, well, they will
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  inherit what we leave. And as hard it is to see,
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  perhaps because I, I fight about like in my mind about it, like,
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  what's the point? It, it just like I'm only one
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  person. There's nothing I can do
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  realistically. Like, what can I do by myself,
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  right? And, and I think about it and
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  sometimes I go into a very, very, like I said, those rabbit
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  holes. You do not want to, you do not
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  want to end up in being black pilled.
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  I guess that's what people say because you're just like,
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  everything is horrible. I give up.
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  I fall into those sort of states of mind before.
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  But then I don't know, maybe it's because I am a veteran.
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  I was in the military and as much as I have my opinions about
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  the military, 'cause we all do now 'cause it's it's a crazy
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  world that only those who have served will understand.
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  A man, the values that I was taught, right?
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  I I swear they were, I was in two branches, but it it was it
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  was the Marine Corps that they say we're brainwashed.
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  Truly, truly I do. It is the Marine Corps has a way
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  of doing things that I it's incomparable.
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  Anyways, it was the Marine Corps that solidly sort of imprinted
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  this, the like honor, courage and commitment right into my
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  mind in a way that it sort of permeates, permeates so many
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  things that I do without even me having to think about it, right?
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  I'm not saying I'm great, I'm not.
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  But quite often those 3 words sort of just, they pop into my
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  mind. I'm like, am I doing the
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  courageous thing? Am I honoring this God-given
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  life and doing what's right, right and commitment?
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  Am I able to commit myself to doing what's right through
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  hardship, even if I'm just one person right, even if I, and
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  this is where I sort of had to I, I had to walk myself step by
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  step through this. And I share this because I know
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  most of us have a lot of opinions about what's going on
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  and some of us like, hands off, I'm, I'm done, I'm going to step
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  away. And I'd rather remove myself
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  from the situation and then to engage because first of all, I,
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  what does engagement mean? How do I engage meaningfully,
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  right, in an effective way without worsening the situation,
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  regardless what side you're on or whatever?
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  And, and then am I committing to the right thing?
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  Like first we have to work it out in our minds using facts,
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  not emotions. And to be able to say, yeah, no,
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  I, I believe that. I truly believe that I am living
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  by God's will, God's command and, and all, the, all the 10
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  commandments. Sorry, had the cost.
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  So am I living by those things? Can I can I honour that?
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  Can I commit to it and do I have the courage to actually live it?
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  IA lot of us wonder about what is really right because only
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  history hindsight is 2020. When we look back, we can say,
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  Oh yeah, no, I was on the right side.
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  But I think we have the sort of. Not sort of we have the
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  directions to do what is right. Can we do it for those who are
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  Christian, right? And even for those who are not,
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  because the 10 commandments were kind of sort of been sort of
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  been, I guess put into a lot of the things, whether you you are
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  into Stoicism or you can find the sort of same ideas in a lot
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  of different places, let's say other than Christianity.
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  So can we do that? And and then I look back, am I
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  willing to do that just as one person, even if the world
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  thought I was the entire world, I'm talking about billions of
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  people, am I willing to stand here to do this?
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  And why would I even, why would I even bring that pawn myself to
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  do this? And that's, that's a question
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  that I had to think about deeply.
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  Why don't I just give up? And it sort of led me to this
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  answer, which led me to more or well, not an answer well, to
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  what I came up with. Sure, I can be like, well, the
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  whole world is against me. What's the point?
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  I'll just join in, right? There's, there's nothing I can
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  do. I'm just one person.
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  But if I stand in my if I stand to do what God says is right to
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  do, I might get life will not be pleasant.
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  Not that life was pleasant if I joined in right, because joining
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  in chaos is just add to chaos. So I'm like, oh, well, there's
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  something I can't do. I, I don't have to join it even
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  just by taking a stand and not joining in the chaos, That's it.
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  Like, like consciously I'm just not going to join it.
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  I'm not going to add to it. I, I couldn't do that, but why
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  would I want to? And being military, I do.
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  I love watching sort of documentaries and war
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  documentaries and stuff like that because I make it sort of
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  like, oh, the world is against me.
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  It's not true. I'm not the only one.
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  I'm not the only one that feels this way or thinks this way.
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  And throughout history, even in our immediate past, like, well,
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  not immediate, I guess like within the last 100 years or so,
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  we can see that people's people could have just said, you know
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  what, no, let's not do this. Let's step away from the current
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  chaos. Just let let them deal with it
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  because we don't want to contribute.
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  But people stepped up, did what they needed to and and gave all
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  to fight for what's right. To give me today the freedoms
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  that I live surrounded by, right to live in this country, to
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  benefit from it, to benefit from a world that, well, obviously,
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  if you just think about World War 2, to benefit from the
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  freedom of the consequences of that World War 2.
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  If let's just talk about Americans, right?
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  If America did not join in, there's actually a, a show on I
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  think it was Hulu, like man in the high tower is an alternate
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  sort of storyline where Germany did win.
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  I think there's other countries anyways, you can watch that.
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  So it, it could have ended much differently, but people stepped
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  up and I'm benefiting from that, from those who gave their lives
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  for it, even though they knew they may not live long enough to
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  see any of it. So being being military, when I
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  look at things like that, when I see the suffering people went
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  through and the suffering people endured it it like I, I feel
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  guilty. I'm like, oh man, if I just
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  didn't do anything, didn't say anything, didn't stand up for
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  what is right, man. And I I don't deserve I don't
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  deserve to benefit from the freedoms and we which in which
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  we in which I live in in America, right?
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  And, and I'm a 1st generation immigrant and I'm so thankful to
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  be here. So there's the past, right?
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  For those we will never meet, I will never meet those people,
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  but man, I'm benefited from it. And for me to sit here to
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  potentially disengage and not just disengage, but withdraw to
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  a point where I'm like, that's, that has nothing to do with me.
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  I'm I'm not going to do anything.
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  I'm not going to take a stand, right?
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  And for each one of us, for me taking a stand might be
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  different from how you take a stand.
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  And for each of us, we have to find our own way to take a
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  stand. But none the less, if I just
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  threw my hands up like there's nothing I can do, the world's
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  going crazy. So I'm just going to sit here
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  and, you know, fill my mind with distractions, not just with a
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  Matrix movie, but my God, there's an endless amount of
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  content out there in the world that I will never have to even
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  look up from my phone to even know what's going on.
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  I I can I have plenty of time to to Yeah, I I would never have to
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  worry about being bored or feeling uncomfortable thinking
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  about what's going on and how it doesn't really align with my
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  beliefs with with God. And then I'm thinking, oh, well,
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  it's kind of weird for those we will.
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  I will never meet even present day thinking, OK, I think like,
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  well, everybody, everybody has a choice today.
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  If they're alive, they can do their own thing.
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  Obviously I'm never going to meet everybody today.
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  But if I don't, if I sit, stand to the side and let things
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  happen, am I letting people down today?
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  Because there have been times in my life where people have
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  watched me suffer greatly, didn't stand up, didn't say what
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  should have been said, didn't do the right thing, right, even
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  though they knew me. But there are people who along
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  the way who have encountered the same things and didn't say
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  anything. I was impacted by that, right?
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  So if one little wrong, not corrected, not voiced, not
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  opposed, just one little one, but think about the piles of
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  wrong things. If we just let it slide, what's
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  the big deal? It's just one little thing.
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  It's just one person. No, there's countless people
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  that we will never meet, I will never meet that may not be
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  impacted by the choice that I'm making today to stand up for
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  what's right. But if we, if I let it become
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  the standard, right, the oh, that's just what it is.
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  Everybody throws their hands up and I become, I contribute to
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  the same sort of behavior. Then I am in a sense standing
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  there watching, watching people suffer.
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  I might even know these people and not doing what I can,
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  whatever that means within the situation, right?
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  It has to be appropriate because you can, there's a fine line
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  between stupidity and bravery, right?
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  So you got to be cognizant of a, is this proper?
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  Can I do this? Is this going to benefit
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  anybody? Right?
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  Because a lot of us, well, sometimes stupidity is rewarded
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  because, well, it became bravery because you know, you're still
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  here and you did the right thing, but you know, that's
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  today. And it also weighs heavy on my
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  mind. But is the future that I, that I
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  worry about the most, not that I will ever get to experience it,
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  because obviously we only have one lifetime to experience.
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  And whatever we do will be inherited, will be visited upon
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  our descendants, everybody's descendants, right?
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  It is the future that I worry about the most because
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  tomorrow's the future for me, for everybody, right?
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  So just say I, I died today that I leave.
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  Is whoever coming in the future for those what I've never I will
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  never meet. Do they inherit a better world a
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  a better place? I mean, we are living in an era
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  where resources are rather plentiful, right?
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  Obviously you can argue otherwise, like different
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  countries, famine and so on, but there are countries that are the
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  globe. If we everybody was just, if I
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  don't want to go down that route, like, oh, greed, yes,
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  there is greed and so on. But there is enough resources
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  for everybody in a sense, if we don't need to fight, obviously
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  there's global tensions, there's Paula geopolitics and so on and
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  so forth. That's not my that's not the
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  point of this podcast, nor do I want to drag in that bucket of
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  dirty water. And it's pretty dirty and it's,
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  it's worthy to talk about, but it, it, it's just going to muddy
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  up this conversation here. So it's sure, sure, there's
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  enough resources for everybody. But man, when I stand by and
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  watch groups, populations, twistings, what is wrong is
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  right. What is right is wrong,
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  regardless of whatever, because resources could be mental
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  resources, physical resources, all kinds of things.
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  Am I doing future generations, those who I will never meet, am
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  I doing what's beneficial for them?
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  Because history will come back to condemn if taken in totality
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  and we judge, right? Like when we look at World War
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  2, obviously there's a population that was condemned
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  for the right reasons if we continue to sort of allow
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  illusions, allow the twisting of right and wrong.
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  To be, to become established, it doesn't have to be written in
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  the history books. All right?
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  History will condemn us because we're alive now.
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  I'm only talking to people who are alive now, right?
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  Each generation has to find that space.
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  Like do I want history to contend this generation to
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  condemn us to the the destruction of the future, that
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  the future that we allow our descendants to inherit?
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  I don't want that. I'm not I'm not saying I'm like
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  this, you know, like I want to fight with roads, right, you
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  know, and go make a better world.
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  First of all, I don't think I have the capabilities, and I'm
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  not so arrogant to think that what I do will make even a bit
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  of a difference that's actualizable in the global
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  scale, right? But I do know that if I stood by
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  and did nothing, I will be contributing to whatever I think
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  is going badly today. And however I take a stand
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  because I do, obviously I'm a mother and I think about the
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  future, just the immediate future for my child if I sit by.
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  And I didn't say anything, I just totally disengaged and went
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  into that illusional world, right?
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  Like the Matrix, because you can basically in we can create
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  whatever world we want to living to live in to am I, and this is
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  somebody obviously I have met my child.
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  So you know, am I leaving him a better world because he's going
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  to go on to impact people that I will never meet for those who
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  I've never met. If I sat by and just whatever,
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  I'm just going to make myself happy and live in this delusion.
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  It it's, it doesn't end with me and ends with the people that I
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  will never meet because how I am impacts the people I know,
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  whether big or small, subtle or not subtle.
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  I'm impacting people just by being, just by behaving, just by
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  doing or not doing. And man, that rests heavy in my
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  mind because I don't want to think about my child and his
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  future family living in a sort of dystopian world like The
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  Matrix or anything like 12 Monkeys.
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  You can, God, there's so many, so many different movies we can
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  bring about and books. I don't want that.
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  So bring it back all the way around, I guess.
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  You know, I'm not saying that taking the pill that wakes you
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  up from this illusion that a lot of people choose to live in is
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  easy. How I I don't even know what to
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  do at this point. I'm not saying that I see
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  things, I see the reality. Obviously, I can only logically
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  try to reason things out in real time as much as I can, but I do
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  know that I do understand now why going back to the movie,
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  why, right, the iterations of Neo continued trying to change
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  things. It could have ended, right?
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  Obviously, this is a program. You can take it.
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  Think about it in the real world way from the wars that's been
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  historically fought, that were thought to end wars, all wars.
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  Obviously it didn't, the First World War.
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  So why do people keep doing it? It is for those we will never
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  meet. It's to honor those who gave all
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  they could to do the right things in the past.
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  It's to honor those we will never meet today because
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  somewhere if we let one thing slide, more things will slide.
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  And it may, you may never meet these people who are living
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  today, but once the behavior becomes a pattern, becomes an
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  established way of life, well, the little things we choose to
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  do or not do today will, will impact people, whether to
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  benefit them or not. So it's honor those who we are
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  living amongst because, well, if I'm nice to you, hopefully
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  you're nice to me, right? It's to make today's environment
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  better. And also it's for those in the
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  future. Man, I do not want that
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  indictment that to be determined from history.
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  These people could have done something, but they didn't.
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  They chose to do nothing. They chose to stay in that
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  simulated world rather than to stand up for what's right and
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  how we go about it. How I go about it, I'm going to
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  have to determine the heck I like I said, I I don't have
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  answer. How do I even go about doing
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  anything? Do I just speak up?
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  Do I? Obviously I feel like I've been
• 40:14
  convicted to not stand it or to not.
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  Remove myself from this and to do something.
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  But what is it? That's not going to be an easy
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  answer and we I have to be cognizant of making the right
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  choices each time I'm confronted with something that I believe I
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  should take a stand on. Obviously there are all kinds of
• 40:44
  things that they're you don't fight.
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  We don't need to fight every single battle because some of
• 40:50
  them just like whatever, right, truly like like, I don't know,
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  somebody likes the color red and you like the color blue.
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  Does it matter, right, that pick and choose?
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  Pick your battles, right, as they say so.
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  But I do believe that we have to do the right things for those we
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  will never meet because we do each have an impact.
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  We do influence. We have a circle of influence,
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  and that circle continues because then that person,
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  whoever you just immediately influence, they have a circle
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  and they have a circle and it just goes on forever.
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  And whether we believe we're just one person, I believe that.
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  I believe that I must make the right choices for those I've
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  never met. And as a Christian, I want to do
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  what I want to do. God's will, I want to follow
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  that and it's up to the each one of us to decide what to do, how
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  to do it, and hopefully it's based on morals and values.
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  That truly is beneficial to everyone involved.
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  Man, that was heavy. It is 4th of July and you know
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  we can celebrate it, but there was a price that was paid by
• 42:40
  somebody we never knew, that I never knew, by a whole bunch of
• 42:44
  people I will never know and I will be.
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  We miss being a veteran to stand aside, not to honor that.
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  Happy 4th of July belated. I'm recording this on the 5th so
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  I hope everybody enjoyed it and it is an immense time to
• 43:18
  celebrate 250. You look pretty good overall, so
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  thank you for joining me. I'm sharing my thoughts in real
• 43:30
  time, living in this world, trying to make sense of it from
• 43:35
  the Gen. X perspective.
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  So I hope you enjoy your day and thank you, like I said for
• 43:47
  joining me again. And two weeks from now, I will
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  see you guys later. And as I as always, I I think
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  about you guys all the time and I pray for you guys all the
• 43:56
  time. Hope you guys have a good day.
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