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Pride · Urantia Radio

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What's this about aliens visiting Earth?
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Wait to hear about this one? Plus we're going to talk about
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Pride this time up on the Rancher Radio podcast.
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just love to share. I've been reading the book now
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that first time where it took me a couple of days after I picked
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and try to understand what God was thinking, when he put all of
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this in a motion, it's an intelligent approach to
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understanding an enlarged universe.
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And that's what I try to tell people and not try to get bogged
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down with details about, you know, it's got this many
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chapters and there's this many segments and this part is About
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this, as I find that, the more detail you give the less people
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are prone to be curious. You just want to give them
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enough say, you know, if you really want to get a better
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perspective of what the universe is all about, I urge you to pick
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up the book. Find a find a chapter in there
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that you are interested in and go for it, you know, that's what
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I did. I started with Adam and Eve and,
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and start bouncing around, and kind of look red different
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things. And then when it really dawned
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on me, was the first five papers and it was that point I really
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grasp the conceptual importance of what was being presented.
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So anyway, we're gonna have a good program.
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Today we're going to talk about Pride.
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I have a take Con Pride because it's pride month and it's a
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cultural phenomenon. And I wanted to share some
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thoughts about it. Some serious thoughts about it
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because you know you know and I know we're all going through an
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ideological struggle. And you know, we have to be
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careful about the steps that we take.
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I think the Rancho book warns us, you know, we're going to try
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new things. But, you know, we have to be
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careful not to go too fast because if we do it becomes
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destabilizing and I think a lot of what we're seeing now in the
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world today is destabilization. You know, this is an
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experimental Planet, a decimal world.
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And so things are not in the usual order and we know that
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anyway. So we'll get to some of that.
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I looked up the word pride, in the Rancho book, it appears 58
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times. and I want to go through some of the references that it
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makes to it and see if you can agree with me, that we need to
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be very careful about those ideologies that we take at face
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value and not think about the implications But before we get
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to that, I do want to talk about this article, I read it was in
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one of my regular Reeds and it's written by a guy who calls
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himself Sovereign man, and he's pretty good writer.
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He writes a lot about current cultural streams and how they,
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you know, how they mesh with, you know, Western Society.
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So he's always got some insight that I enjoyed and it's all
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about how problematic it would be if we ever had contact with
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intelligent life. So he says, okay, well, let's
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take a look at the future. Let's say it's June 2nd 20:28,
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and then he and then it's a brief story, but it's an
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interesting story. He says worldwide hopes for
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friendly relations with our extraterrestrial.
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Visitors vanish this morning when the aliens climb back
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aboard, their spaceship and flew away.
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After nearly three weeks of failed talks with senior US
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government officials. Now, remember this is satire The
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aliens had known of Earth's existence for centuries, but
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they deliberately avoided our planet in their Interstellar
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travels because they viewed human civilization as to
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underdeveloped. Like make that bigger however,
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after monitoring NASA's first ever public hearing on UFOs,
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which took place five years ago today, Mark, May 31st 2023,
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which by the way did happen, the aliens decided to initiate first
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Contact Their journey to Earth took several hours and when they
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arrived last month, a collective sigh of relief.
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Could be felt around the world when the aliens came bearing
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gifts. Their initial contact with our
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planet seemed expertly planned to calm our nerves as they
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distributed miracle, cures for viruses, parasites, and even
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cancer. And as they spent the entire
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Journey learning our language, they were easily able to
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communicate the first world leader of the aliens met with
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was US president Kamala Harris. And they showed her a small
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metallic box, which they had said will provide Limitless free
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energy to the world. However, relations with the
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alien visitors quickly, took a turn for the worst when the
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president began talking about science.
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According to several observers at the meeting, President Harris
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explained to the aliens that basic principles of biology,
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like, sex and gender are myths and that are rooted in violent.
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Heterodoxy, at which point the space diplomats appeared to
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burst out laughing. Of course, president Harris and
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her scientific advisors found the reactions, deeply offensive,
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and they try to explain that the aliens were displaying
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problematic colonizer attitudes. Federal officials have spent the
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last several years, trying to re-educate.
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The aliens about science leading to strayed relations between our
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species. The aliens countered by
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producing thousands of holograms worth of data disproving the
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Americans claims data, which the White House called ignorant and
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defensive. Finally the aliens in apparent
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exasperation grab their energy Cube and stormed out their ship
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was observed leaving with Earth's atmosphere this morning
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and there has been no contact since despite the loss of
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revolutionary alien technology top officials say they don't
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regret the outcome as president Harris told reporters this
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morning, frankly, there's no room on Earth or anti-science
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hate speech, whatever the species.
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In other news pharmaceutical and energy stocks which initially
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plunge to near zero value. Amid alien, contact have
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rebounded in to record highs, I kind of have to laugh.
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That's a good. Good story, he who has an ear.
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Let him hear boy, that's but doesn't that tell you something?
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When I first read that article, I said you know that there's a
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metaphor there and the metaphor for me being a student of the
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Rancher Revelation as did. It kind of helped me understand
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why people are indifferent to the teachings of the Urantia
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book. In this age, they're not
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politically correct. Now, they may have been at the
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time that the book was written. But you can you can see how much
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culture has changed in the last 100 years.
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And at this point, many people today, unlike in my generation
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before who had some majority of us were somehow influenced by
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basic Christian or judeo. Christian theology right now.
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That is not a true statement. so consequently as a result of
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that, many people don't have the foundation or the construct in
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which the Urantia book would fit because if you study the ranch
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attacks, it definitely presents itself along judeo, Christian
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ideological lines but not because it's a judeo Christian
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book but rather because judeo Christian theology has a
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timeline that dates back to the beginnings of the Revelation the
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actual first Revelation when caligastia came and in
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subsequent Adam and Eve and Jesus and Melchizedek, those are
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all Revelations that are tied to the same story storyline for the
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same story book. So it's a matter of truth that
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the Canaanites who studied under Melchizedek, for example, would
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carry the teachings of Melchizedek 800 years later to
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where Moses would inherit those. And then go on to be credited
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with the first five books of the Torah which was influential to
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no end. So you can see that the what I'm
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trying to say is it without that pre knowledge without that
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foundational without the soil. You're not going to produce very
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good. Figs.
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And, and right now, we're also wrapped up in political
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correctness and pronouns, and everything else that we're not
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paying attention to the real story, which is that humanity is
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in very deep doo-doo. If we don't come up with some
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ideological equilibrium And so on that note, I want to
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transition and I've given a lot of thought to this and it is not
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my intent for me to caused any offense to anyone who might be
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part or a member of the lgbtq community because I have too
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much respect for people's individual freedoms and rights
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to even there. Go there.
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In fact, many people, I love family, members included are a
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member of the LGBT community, so I'm not talking to them.
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I'm talking to people who have taken the pride.
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The pride flag The Pride symbol, and I want to expand upon it
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because pride, in and of itself, most people understand is not a
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good thing for a lot of reasons. And I thought we could gain some
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knowledge of it by finding how it's referred to in the Rancho
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book and see what we can. And some of this, by the way,
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I've discussed in previous podcast so it's nothing new
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here. But I did find it interesting
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that the ranch a book mentions Pride 58 times and I want to go
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through some of them. Not all of them, but enough.
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If of them so we get a sense of the dangers and the subtleties
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of Pride and because it is pride month with better time to do it,
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right. So let's go back to the
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beginning. The first time, the word pride
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is mentioned in the ranch, a book is a paper, 53 section 2,
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in reference to Lucifer's pride in self deception and believing
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his rebellion was actually good for the universe.
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The second reference comes in paper 66 again, but this time in
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reference to caligastia rebelling alongside Lucifer.
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The author comments on the planetary, Prince, siding with
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Lucifer, quote, I did not. Then so fully understand the
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subtleties of Personality Pride Then again, in paper 68, in
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reference to the fact that both Lucifer and caligastia have been
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warned by their superiors quote, respecting their critical
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Tendencies and subtle developments of their pride of
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self, and its Associated exaggeration of the feelings of
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self-importance. See, so, now in this third
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reference to it, it's talking about how Pride leads to this
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exaggerated feeling of self-importance.
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Paper 68 section 2 paragraph 11. It says, as a factor of social
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progression, quote, vanity contributed mightily to the
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birth of society. But at the time of these
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Revelations, the devious strivings of a bain, glorious
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generation threatened to swamp and submerge.
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The whole complicated structure of a highly specialized
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civilization. So the time of the revelations
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are they referencing this new community of people who have
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great pride, what would they be referring to?
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But at the times of these Revelations, the devious
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strivings of a vein, glorious generation threatened to swamp
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and submerge the whole complicated structure of a
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highly specialized Civilization. Now I could also take that to
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mean that It was just at the end of The Roaring 20s and the
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Roaring 20s was a very materialistic age, lots of
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drunkenness and there was well it was the age of Gatsby.
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It goes on to say pleasure want has long been as long since
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superseded hunger want the legitimate social aims of
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self-maintenance are rapidly translating themselves into base
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and threatening forms of self-gratification
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self-maintenance. Build Society.
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Unbridled self-gratification unfailingly destroys
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civilization. All right, so we move along on
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the subject of Pride. What else can we learn from the
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ranch papers? Well, I'm a contact of the human
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Paradox where it talks about our human cells that are spiritual
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cells and sort of that battle that takes place in our material
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life. It reads of all the dangers was
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which beset Mortals man's nature and jeopardizes.
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His spiritual Integrity pride is the greatest courage is velours
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and but egotism is vainglorious and suicidal.
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Reasonable self-confidence is not to be deplored.
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Man's ability to transcend. Transcend himself is the one
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thing which distinguishes him from the Animal Kingdom, but
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then in the next paragraph pride is deceitful, intoxicating and
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sin breeding whether found in an individual, a group or race or a
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nation. It is literally true Pride goes
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before a fall. So they're, they're even
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borrowing from a new testament quote, or an Old Testament
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quote. this is in reference to Judaism as preserved by the key
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nights, which we mentioned before, it was a small group of
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students of Melchizedek during Abraham's time, the key nights,
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there are mentioned in the Bible and they were the ones that pass
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that those, those principles those teachings on to Moses
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parents, who themselves were of keen-eyed ancestry and so From
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paper 131, it reads. God has made, man, a little less
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than Divine and has crowned him with love and mercy.
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The love knows, the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but
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the way of the ungodly Shall Perish.
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
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The knowledge of the Supreme is understanding, says, the
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almighty God walk, before me and be perfect for getting off the
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pride. Goes before, destruction and a
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haughty spirit before a fall he who rules his own.
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Good spirit is mightier than he who takes a city. the same
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paper, but this time on Shin to now we're talking about the
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conception of Judaism and that was a reference to Judaism a
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teaching in Judaism And from the same paper on the world's
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religions and the use of Pride. Now we learned from Shin to was
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his shin to have to say about Pride Shin-Soo is an East Asian
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religion. From paper 131 every time, man
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yields to anxiety. He takes one step away from the
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leading of the spirit of his heart Pride.
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Obscures God, if you would obtain Heavenly helped put away
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your pride, every hair of Pride shuts off, saving light as it
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were by a great Cloud. If you are not right on the
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inside, it is useless to pray for that, which is on the
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outside. If I hear your prayers, it is
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because you come before me with a clean.
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Heart, free from falsehood and hypocrisy with the soul, which
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reflects truth, like a mirror. If you would gain, immortality
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forsake, the world and come to me, For paper 141, in reference
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to Jesus. As he's beginning his new period
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of public teaching. He says, Jesus portrayed
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conquest by sacrifice the sacrifice of Pride and
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selfishness by showing Mercy. He meant to portray spiritual
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deliverance from all grudges grievances angers and the lust
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for selfish power and revenge. This was during the initial days
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of when Jesus is public teachings began and of the 70 or
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those among his early followers who went about teaching Jesus,
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truth to the masses and upon their Victorious returns, he
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speaks to them. So this is from paper, 163
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paragraph. 6 section 6, the next day being the Sabbath.
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Jesus went apart with the 70 and said to them.
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I did indeed Rejoice with you when you came back During the
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Good Tidings of the reception of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
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By so many people scattered throughout Galilee Samaria and
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Judea. Why were you so surprisingly
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elated? Did you not expect that?
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Your message would manifest power in its delivery.
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Did you go forth with so little faith in this gospel that you
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come back and surprised at its Effectiveness?
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And now while I would not quench your spirit of rejoicing I would
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sternly warned you against The subtleties of Pride, spiritual
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Pride, if you could understand the downfall of Lucifer, the
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iniquitous one, you would solemnly shun all forms of
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spiritual Pride. From The Last Supper, when Jesus
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and forms the apostles, one among them is considering
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betraying the master that very night from paper 179, paragraph,
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4 section 2. He says, while it is necessary
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that I go to the father, it was not required.
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That one of you should become a traitor to fulfill.
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The father's will. This is the coming to Fruit of
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the concealed evil in that heart of one who failed to love the
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truth with his whole heart. And so how deceitful is the
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intellectual Pride that precedes the spiritual downfall?
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My friend of many years who even now eats my bread will be
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willing to betray me. Even as he now dips his hand
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with me in the dish. And of course, referring to
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Judas. And this is why I have often
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times said the pride flag. While I certainly understand the
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social statement and makes about inclusion.
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I think it's also a subtle disguise for his flagrancy
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against those standards that make for a real stable Society.
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And recently by the way, in reference to this, I read an
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article that states the separation of church and state
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has created a vacuum. That must be filled by something
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man, is naturally a religious person and this is maybe our
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biggest Folly humans are not capable of not having religious
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impulses, but through secularization and resistance to
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religion itself humans. Now take up new causes whether
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they be for social injustice or supposed human rights to
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privilege. It was only natural for a
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humanistic religion of the exalted self that would come
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along and seek to replace God. And I think that's where we are
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today. And I think it's worth
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mentioning and having a discussion about it, so I hope
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that you gain something from that and certainly with the
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Rancho book had to say, was quite revealing about the
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different kinds of Pride and so we leave it there but I do want
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to make one final comment, disregarding the your Rancher
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Radio website. We are now streaming 24 hours a
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Until next time, this is Jim Watkins.
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Thanks again for stopping by