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How to make a $1 million reservation for a hotel room on the moon · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Thursday, February the 5th, 2020-6 edition of Denison Forums Daily Article podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's Daily Article is written by friend and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by yours truly, Chris Elkins.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's take a break from bad news around the planet by considering a way to escape the planet altogether.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A California-based startup plans to open a hotel on the moon by 2032.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Galactic resources utilization space launched their booking website last month.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Construction is expected to begin in 2029, pending regulatory approval.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're looking for a less expensive way to manage the stress of our times, however, you can look to history rather than to the heavens.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For example, the Wall Street Journal reports that, quote, a severe bout of nostalgia is spreading in America as young adults are
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the first two weeks of January, the number of user-generated 2016 playlists on Spotify surge nearly 800%.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A New York Times columnist points to the surge of people posting online content from 10 years ago as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Some might blame the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: but a history professor responded, part of it is that we have lost some hope of the future.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's true of the right and the left.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's some consolation in looking back, in quote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: According to the previously mentioned journal article, some think the nostalgia stems from a shift in the past decade to a darker period of online life and that celebrating 2016 brings people back to a less dystopian era of the internet, in quote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For a different way to escape the news, you can join the 213.1 million U.S. adults who plan to watch the Super Bowl this Sunday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This year, 121.1 million intended to throw a party or a 10-party while another 18.2 million planned to watch the game at a bar or restaurant.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, the Sunday Scaries will be waiting for you when the game is over and you have to contemplate the week to come.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You may even be experiencing Lune de Saphobia, an intense fear or extreme anxiety regarding Mondays.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a better way to redeem the stress of our days, in one sense it'll cost you nothing, while in another it will cost you everything, but in the end it will bring you a piece and purpose you'll find nowhere else.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's begin with two book reviews.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: First, the Humanities Professor Samuel Goldman reviews for the Wall Street Journal a book titled The Rise and Fall of Rational Control, the History of Modern Political Philosophy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Based on Harvard Professor Harvey C. Man's feels signature course, it shows how ancient thinkers viewed reason as an Indian itself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, beginning with Machiavelle of the late 15th and early 16th centuries,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In Western context, this quest produced representational government, capitalistic commerce, and a secularized society all intended to improve our lives by improving our world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But as the current epidemics of depression, loneliness, and deaths of despair illustrate, our efforts have been less than successful.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This leads us to our second review.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This one is in the
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  [SPEAKER_00]: where the author Stewart Jeffries apprases the latest book by Psycho-Analyst Adam Phillips titled The Life You Want.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In it, Phillips explains why our quest for happiness and fulfillment is so often unfulfilled.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We are goaded by our materialistic society and the advertising that engulfs us to make our lives better with things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As Jeffries notes, quote,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quote, this is because, according to Phillips, we do not know what we truly want, and thus cannot be truly satisfied.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As a result, when we obtain something, we think we want, it soon loses its luster.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, we often feel worse than before we obtained it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, if the path to peace and purpose is not to be found within our society or ourselves, where are we to look?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you know what I'll suggest, but I'd like to take guess there through a route I had not considered before.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In my morning Bible study this week, I came upon First Essalonians 5 verse 3.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here Paul says of the return of Christ, while people are saying there is peace and security,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then, a sudden destruction will come upon us as labor pains upon a pregnant woman and they will not escape.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's modify his metaphor for our conversation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One, we are all pregnant with regard to ideas, attitudes, character, and our interior lives.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 23 verse 7, King James Version reveals, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 2.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like a child in their mother's womb, that which is within us must inevitably come to birth in the world, quoting Matthew 10 verse 26, nothing is covered that will not be revealed or hidden that will not be known.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 3.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When it does, what we have been growing in the unseen dimension of our lives will be obvious to ourselves and to others declared in Matthew 1234 out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks for.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We must therefore form our interior lives in ways that produce the exterior peace and purpose.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We were created to seek from Philippians 4, verses 8 and 9, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Such formation in God's plan costs us everything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We must be crucified with Christ, according to Philippians 2, verse 20,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As we give our entire self to the Lord in a living and perpetual sacrifice noted in Romans 12 verse 1, and take up our cross daily, taught in Luke 9 verse 23.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In another sense, however, this costs us nothing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our Holy Father can accept our surrender, not because we are worthy, but because His Son paid our debt and purchased our salvation announced in 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We can even ask God to help us submit our lives to God, praying with the despairing father of a demon-possessed boy in Mark 9, 24.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I believe, help my unbelief.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We can pray for the faith to have faith, the strength to have the strength to yield our lives and conditionally to our Lord.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When we seek to abide in Christ in this holistic way, he assures us through John 15 vs. 5, whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, he also warns us continuing in John 15 vs. 5.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Apart from me, you can do nothing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our lives can't produce much fruit with Jesus, or we can produce nothing by ourselves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is a binary choice with a binary result.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In yesterday's my utmost for his highest reading, Oswell Chamberstates, this abandoned to the love of Christ, is the one thing that bears fruit in the life, and it will always leave the impression of the holiness and of the power of God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Will you choose this one thing today?