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Behind the Scenes: Discord, Tension, and Building Community · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Eye Opener Society and welcome back to one
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  of our behind the scenes things where Lizzie and I are just sitting here and chatting.
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  And we bring you this because there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes when
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  we're trying to bring you, whether it's our podcast, whether we're trying to
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  bring you our ministry, there's so much.
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  And the fun thing is Lizzie actually contacted me and today is a Sunday on a
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  recording. We normally don't record on Sundays.
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  And I thought she had a topic. She thought she had a topic. It turned out she didn't.
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  So we just started chatting with what's going on behind the scenes.
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  But right now, Lizzie, you were discussing this discord that you're trying to get together.
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  Do you want to tell everybody? You want to talk to me a little bit more about
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  it? Because I think this is going to be something pretty big for us.
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  Yeah, so I've been building this for a while, but the thing is,
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  sometimes, cosmically, you're building things you don't quite see.
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  The thing is, everywhere that I look is a bunch of very beautiful,
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  amazing souls who just kind of are forced to isolate,
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  because the people around them don't understand the spiritual journey they're going through.
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  And the thing is, is when I consume content that like references like Gnostic texts or any,
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  of the like ancient traditions, it's all focused on isolating to correct yourself,
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  you know, getting back to center,
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  staying with people and situations that allow you to stay centered.
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  But the thing is is that's great and if your life is going to be in that tiny little zone,
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  but the truth is is most of us are people people you know what i mean we want
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  to be around the people we want to be interacting
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  it doesn't there's something fulfilling about connecting with other humans maybe
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  it's like part of what we're doing i don't know you can get into like all kinds of theories with that.
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  But the problem is is I think we're all stuck in a spot where we understand
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  a lot of things in theory we understand a lot of things in isolation but we're
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  now in a phase where as we're coming together,
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  we reach all this tension and nobody seems to really know what to do with it,
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  everybody's got their own perspective of truth But truth is inarticulatable.
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  And so it's like all the communities that I've seen, and I'm sure there's other
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  people who have done this, but
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  all the communities that I see are focused around people learning truth.
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  Which is the goal, but it's more like learning your own truth.
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  So like when we were arguing, who was right? Neither of us.
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  Neither of us were. That's why we never came to a conclusion. You know what I mean?
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  It doesn't matter. It's all meaningless, whatever it is that we do from here.
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  But by looking at your perspective and me looking at my perspective and we go
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  back and forth, we have the opportunity to expand.
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  Whereas if we were operating our businesses like the church like two separate churches
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  we would never have that opportunity to expand together it would just be whatever
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  you think is best and what you see out in the world but the problem is is what you see
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  is only what you already know you do you know what i mean.
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  Like for example tension with other people it explodes it always explodes
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  or or I cut it short those those are the two truths but but you and I managed
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  to do like the tension where we did neither,
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  and we just like did did the tension and neither got real upset or anything and,
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  see the thing is is I I know how to do this myself when I'm arguing with myself
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  I know how to do this with strangers it's hard when you're building things with
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  people that you care about. It alters things.
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  But you and I also are friends. We're.
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  Church business thing kind of separately kind of together which gives a unique
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  perspective for me in not having to learn this tension with somebody that depending
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  on how it goes changes everything,
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  no matter how our argument went it changed nothing do you know what i mean and
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  and so it it did something for me and giving me the opportunity to now feel that.
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  And so then when I got into the world and I experienced tension with other people
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  whom maybe I struggle more because,
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  there's like all these meanings attached to it, I now have an awareness of a
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  different frequency in my body than I would have before.
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  And so that's where everybody I think is trapped is in this loop of where you
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  know just enough that you've got it, but you can't do it with other people fully,
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  because it's different in application.
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  It's different in what we're expanding.
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  And to kind of fill everybody in, just in case they did not hear the sermon,
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  our last Thursday night sermon went off pretty well.
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  And normally what we were planning on doing was just like we're doing now is
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  giving this little behind the scenes.
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  My only problem with Thursday was when I hit stop recording,
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  it did not stop recording, which
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  was fine because we were going to do the behind the scenes anyway. it.
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  And I just want to reconfirm that this was not really an argument.
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  There was a little bit of friction because we both had a difference of opinions
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  on something. But here's the beautiful thing.
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  When I played it back afterwards, I said, all right, I'm just going to leave
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  it all because I don't get it. Some people just don't read synopsises,
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  I guess, because it literally said in the synopsis, we have a Thursday sermon
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  and then we have the behind the scenes afterwards.
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  I said it was a very candid discussion and that's what I like because yes I
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  for the first time now I don't know if you noticed.
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  Uh as of today this was our one year friendiversary on TikTok which yeah,
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  okay and I was excited to see that because I said wow it's been one year since
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  I've actually known you and look at everything we've done together.
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  Look at where we wound up in just one year. It's not a lot of time.
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  We also became extremely close friends.
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  And this was the first time I was, or I had to engage with you,
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  where you were very adamant about something.
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  And you were on a different frequency that I was not prepared for.
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  And that was fantastic. And I love the fact that we were able to record that.
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  I'm glad that that recording actually went through. It's just all in one episode.
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  So check out our Thursday Night Sermon, the long one.
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  I think it's a 45-minute one because right after the sermon,
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  which was only like 20 minutes, the rest was just Lizzie and I getting into
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  all this because it all started with a discussion of where are we going to take
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  our lives to get more of an audience.
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  So now when Lizzie's talking to me about Discord, Discord is something I was
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  kind of opposed to at first because I said, well, we're going to have to get
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  everybody from our, you know, platform over to Discord.
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  But I said, you know what? Just like TikTok, well, we're going to get a new
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  audience on top of whom we already have.
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  So, and the fact that Lizzie said she was going to do all of the hard work for
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  this, which is awesome too, because I don't really know where to start,
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  but Lizzie actually has a plan and she has the whole setup in her head.
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  And that's going to be a beautiful thing and I'm going to be very excited to
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  be on board with it because we started that already and it just went on a different
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  path and so now we're just going to clean things up and we're going to have a discord channel,
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  just for this kind of thing like Lizzie said we can all argue
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  but that arguing is going to bring us into a new realization of ourself the
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  other people the community the society it keeps getting bigger and bigger because we are We're all on
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  different frequencies, but we are all one of the same. Lizzie's words.
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  Because exactly, we were arguing, but we were allowing the disagreement to happen.
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  We were allowing the other person to authentically say whatever we want.
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  And then we allowed ourselves to say, I think that's wrong. And I think I'm
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  right. And then we got to just exist in that. And then we both learned so much.
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  And I think that that's like the perfect kind of starter point to the community
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  is because that that's the thing is everything that I see teaches you to let go of resistance.
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  You know what I mean? Allow everything to flow. And that is so important to
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  learn how to do. Absolutely.
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  But it's so important. You got to learn how to flow through the attention because
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  that's that's where things like really built. You know what I mean?
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  And it's it's all in your definition.
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  And your ability to find people who are playing the same game as you.
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  And that's what I've been doing. I've been redefining things,
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  but I've been redefining it alone, which means my reality and my personal world
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  don't operate the same because my nervous system has learned
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  how to believe one thing inside my body and expect another from outside.
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  So they operate on two different frequencies. And the only way to combine that
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  is to find people playing the same game as you.
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  And this is why I'm really looking forward to the future with this Discord.
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  And it's going to be in conjunction with everything else that we have.
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  So just in case there are people listening now say, oh, I'm not going to go
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  on to another platform. That's fine. You don't have to.
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  We can get new audience. But you're more than welcome to join us on there because it's going to build.
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  And since I did look into Discord before, Discord is great for that kind of
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  community. is all separate threads you could have and all one person could help
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  a whole group out while another group can help one person out.
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  It can be set up in so many different ways. And I'm looking forward to this.
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  And going back to our argument, what people also don't know is that it continued
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  the next day, but not in any kind of argument.
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  It was like, we understood so much about each other that we were explaining ourselves,
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  and not not in a way where saying well yeah you were right you know but we were
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  explaining ourselves saying well this is just the way things were this is how,
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  we came together different separate ideas,
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  and probably neither one of them worked out because our frequencies were just
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  off you know on the whole idea of the thing so.
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  It gave us that chance to sit and actually learn even more about each other,
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  so that for when this happens again, we're already going to expect it.
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  We're already going to expect it.
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  But Lizzie, don't ever let it happen again because I'm tired of dealing with you.
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  No, my bad. But I'm an intense person, so.
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  Yes. And, you know, and that's the very first thing that Lizzie explained,
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  that she's a very intense person.
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  But what she doesn't realize is like, if I was really to argue,
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  she would want to see intense.
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  But we didn't have to get to that point. We're too close of friends to get to
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  that point. But we can sit and have these extreme differences in opinion and
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  to where, hey, maybe I'm right.
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  Or maybe she's wrong. Or maybe she's right. And maybe I'm...
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  We just didn't know. But we came to this wonderful conclusion that,
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  you know, we're going to sidetrack everything. because unless...
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  Something miraculous came out of this where everything works out you know we
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  didn't find that avenue and that's good because you know what the more you think
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  about it chances are it probably would not work because we were on such a different frequency with it so,
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  that's what this discord i believe is going to bring together and it's not but
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  listen i don't want a place where everybody gets together and argue but we do not.
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  Right i don't want that i I want it to be a place where we come together and
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  just share these ideas because some people have ideas that are working so well in their head.
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  But when it's presented to an audience of any kind, there will be friction because
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  some people are going to sit there and say, well, I don't believe anything.
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  And I go through that every day with some of my thoughts, the way I think in reality.
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  Well, like when I'm off the show, I have differences of opinions and I can bring
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  it forward and people are going to not like it or like it, but it doesn't matter.
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  There's still my thoughts, my theories, and nothing can change that and shame
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  on you if you're trying to.
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  But it's good that we all talk about it and bring something new to the table
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  and bring a new way of thinking to the table. And I think that's exactly what
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  this discord is going to do.
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  Yeah not a place to argue a place to explore,
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  what you're disagreeing with because you know like in our cool argument you
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  know i was very like anti you know doing our sermon on tiktok because the energy
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  and you're like well lizzie where it's already basically the same thing on youtube and i was like oh.
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  Well why do i still have a problem with tiktok i still don't entirely know what
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  it is i think it's to survive but it's something i'm now exploring because
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  if i'm experiencing resistance on it obviously there's something in there that
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  i'm going to benefit from whether i do tiktok or i just like open the idea of
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  it i'm blocking something off for myself that's why there's resistance
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  and so i personally like to explore
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  these things it's like a tool like everything else that you're doing.
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  Right. And I like that too, because I'm the same way. And like,
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  you know, afterwards we came to, I said, well, I don't like the TikTok either.
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  That's always been my...
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  Even back when we met Hannah Rose, I met her because of the negative energy
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  that I was coming across on her very positive reels and all.
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  So I do feel exactly the same way with that. So, you know, we shelve it for
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  now. We have our own, you know, platform. So I don't care, really.
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  But it's just nice to connect with more and more people. And that's going to
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  be the purpose of that Discord. And I'm looking forward to that.
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  New learning curve for me. Because like I said, I never really dove deep into
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  it. But I think it'll be perfect. It's there.
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  It is. It's another tool. And I'm looking forward to that.
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  I'm looking forward to a lot of things.
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  I know Lizzie and I were talking about the season that's coming up.
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  And the people that we're trying to get on our show.
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  I don't want to make any announcements because I haven't confirmed anything
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  yet. But we are working on something right now that's very, very big.
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  In this whole spiritual and metaphysical community.
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  The 21st century witch hunts that are still going on and there is a case in
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  court that's going to be, I think it's in July.
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  I actually might go to that court case and sit in on it myself.
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  I think for support. Like I said, I don't want to give away too much of it until
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  I get some confirmation.
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  And I do apologize for all this autofocus on the camera. But.
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  I think Lizzie and I, we're going to be shooting for the stars.
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  We're going to be bringing you a lot more Especially a lot more It is behind
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  the scenes stuff Because,
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  it's good to see how we all interact And listen, I'm also trying very hard too
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  To get Halos back on some of these conversations As well as Elaine,
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  But everybody in this ministry They're on their own time And I'm not forcing
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  anything As much as we love them We got to give them that space And allow them
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  to come in naturally So I want to look for all of that.
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  What else are you looking forward to there, my friend?
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  Unfolding my quantum origami.
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  I knew that's probably going to be the hardest thing it's going to be.
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  And I'm going right back to this thing that we've met a year ago, only a year ago.
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  Holy shit. I thought we already hit that for some reason.
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  Same here. Who knows? But we really did.
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  We started something from you just became another co-host on my show and then,
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  here we are we're a we're a ministry we have,
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  built something and then never mind the show it's just you and,
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  i everything when i first met you again same joke over and over again i had
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  to make an appointment to text you now now here we are we can't shut up and
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  we now we're getting into arguments you know it's expanded beautifully.
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  And I'm so, so happy for it.
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  I'm so happy for your friendship and congratulations on the one year of dealing
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  with each other, I guess.
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  Well, it's been lovely. It's been lovely. Yeah.
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  Yeah, it certainly has been. And, you know, I can't think TikTok enough.
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  I've met some incredible people and Lizzie's absolutely the most amazing one.
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  And, you know, who knows, who knows what's going to happen down the line,
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  how many other beautiful people we're going to find, whether they're on TikTok,
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  whether they're on our platform, whether it's going to be through Discord, we never know.
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  But we're always on this search for people that are on the right frequency with
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  us. And I hope that we can find more of you.
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  I know you're all out there and my future, the way it looks,
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  I know I already have a whole handful of people too Extremely supportive And
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  we're going to hear from them So I want to get all that set up Little by little
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  Just don't want to overwhelm myself Or my buddy Lizzie.
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  So with that, but did you have anything else you want to bring to the table
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  today? Or I think this was pretty cool.
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  I think that was beautiful. I just look forward to doing this again on Tuesday.
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  Yeah, we'll have a topic on Tuesday and we'll have a regular show.
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  But I'm looking forward to bringing you more of these behind-the-scenes conversations.
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  No matter what frequency they're on, they're really insightful because it gives
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  people an idea of just what goes on inside of people's heads.
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  And I think it's a reflection of the entire world sometimes.
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  So I want to thank everybody for joining us. Thank you for tuning in.
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  Don't forget to visit AppalachianRootworks.com. Carly and Carla,
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  we're looking forward to actually having both of them on our show for the first
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  time in an official capacity where they can actually meet Lizzie.
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  So we look forward to that. And everybody, take care, go in peace, and we love you all.