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Inside the Urantia Book · Urantia Radio

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  Well we're going to do something new and different this time on
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  the Rancho podcast, for those who are listening to the
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  podcast. We're actually doing a video
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  version and we're going to call this series inside the Urantia
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  book. And my intention is to introduce
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  people who are just now hearing about the book and maybe want to
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  know a little bit about it and a little bit about me, I've been a
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  reader for a long, long time. And I've had a podcast now.
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  Now for a few years and in every podcast which you can find at
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  your Ranch radio dotnet, I tackle issues in the book having
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  to do with current life. The way things are going in
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  society, new discoveries that are made that substantiate the
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  Rancho book and I just want to go over a couple of things.
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  This time, I wanted to get at least four points to you, which
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  I think are pretty interesting. Now, I'm just too laid-back guy,
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  I am not a preacher and I don't claim to have any kind of
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  affiliation with with any church or any belief system.
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  I don't I mean I believe in the Divinity of Christ and I believe
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  that all human beings are endowed with the spirit and that
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  we all have potential and that there is a great life ahead.
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  This life is also extremely important and will probably
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  prove to be one of the more Resting, but it's a starting
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  point. It's where we learn the
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  rudiments of morality and ethics and how to get along, how to
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  treat people and how to serve one another, you know, no other
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  animal species thinks about any of those things, they simply
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  exist as they were born and they have their characteristics and
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  they just do what they do without questioning.
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  But human beings were different. You know, we have, will we have
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  choice? We have self-determination, we
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  have wisdom. Well, some of us anyway, and we
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  are always exploring. We're always looking for
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  something. We're always building better
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  things. We're always trying to figure
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  things out and manipulate, and make our life better and more
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  pleasurable. And along the way.
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  And our human history, we've been giving we've been given
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  glimpses of Truth just enough that we can understand but also
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  that help us to become better at being human beings.
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  And so I thought, what I would first do is just explain to you
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  what the Rancho book is. It's a 2,000 page book.
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  It's divided into four parts. It's about 196, separate
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  individual, Essays or papers and each one of those specific
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  papers. It's almost like a history book.
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  It Starts from the very beginning of things and then it
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  moves along a linear time scale to eventually the appearance of
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  human beings. And then it also gives us a
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  glimpse into two things, one where our Earth is headed.
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  As the species and what we can expect in the future.
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  And to what's ahead for each of us in our own personal spiritual
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  journey that we are destined to go to a specific place.
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  And but that's not the last place we'll go to the the
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  overall presentation of the Urantia book is that there is a
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  huge Universe of multiple universes and multiple kinds of
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  life forms. And we represent one specific
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  type of What they call a sending Sons.
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  We are ascending human beings or as science likes to call a
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  sentient human beings but we are sending we're becoming more
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  intellectual more spiritual with each life that we take up in
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  this journey. So, the Urantia book is
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  basically the story of that it simply tells us what we can
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  expect in this journey and what is expected of us as well, in
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  terms of personal behavior and conduct.
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  And the way that we think, you know, one of the things I like
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  about the Rancho book is that the authors put a lot of
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  emphasis on thinking the quality of thinking and the quality of
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  thinking can only be improved. By the choices that a person
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  makes in their life, whether they read, whether they are
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  constantly seeking for new knowledge, if they make a choice
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  and their quality of thinking improves, generally speaking
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  that person's life also improves.
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  And and I think I've seen a lot of examples in this smart people
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  got there because they made decisions that made them
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  smarter. So, the Rancho book to me, You
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  know, I don't want to call it a religion because there's no
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  formality. There's nothing that you do, you
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  don't even have to adhere to believe, any of the Rancho book
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  is true if you're worried about. You know, resurrection and
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  having a soul, the Urantia book very plainly states that we all
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  have the spirit of God in us and it's up to us to make that
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  connection and to develop that connection and have that
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  connection carry us into the next life.
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  So where did it come from? Well, no one knows who exactly
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  wrote it but we do know that each of the papers has a
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  signatory, a being a personality States that they are responsible
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  for that specific paper. Now if you read the book that
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  each of the personalities is actually explained, So, for
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  example, the first five papers are written by someone who
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  refers to themselves as a Divine Minister.
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  Now, what is the Divine Minister?
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  Well, if you read in the first part of the Rancho book, where
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  it gets to those groups of personalities, it explains who
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  they are, where they came from, what their role is, and then you
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  understand. Okay?
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  Well, that's why this person was assigned to write this
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  particular paper. So for example, Ample, you have
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  some papers, some sections of the book that are written by
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  seraphim. Angels one is actually written
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  by solonian who claims to be the angel, that spoke to Eve and
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  Adam in the Garden of Eden. So, there's other books papers
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  that are written by various. Melchizedek's one is written by
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  a Melchizedek who is still really important in the
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  government of our world, even as we speak.
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  So where did it come from? Well in the 1920s this man, a
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  well-known doctor psychiatrist. Had a patient who talked in his
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  sleep. And during the treatment or
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  observation of this patient, they refer to as the sleeping
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  subject. There were conversations that
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  were had of a high order and the subject, informed the dr.
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  Sadler and his wife, dr. Lana, Sadler that there would be
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  a forthcoming Revelation and it appeared over a period of time
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  in handwritten form and it would appear at this person's house
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  and They tried to, you know, obviously the first thing you
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  think of is the person wrote it or someone this person knows
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  wrote it, but that was never made clear.
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  There was never any credit taken by any human being and so taking
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  at face value, the book, authors say that it's a revelation and
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  its intended to advance Humanity.
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  So, we have to judge it on that premise alone.
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  Why is it important? Why is the Rancho book
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  important? Well, you know, if you look
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  around, it's easy to see that we're transitioning from one
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  stage of existence to another You know, 100 200 years ago is
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  not that long when you think of the fact that intelligent man or
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  civilized man's been around for about four or five thousand
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  maybe 10,000 years. But this particular period of
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  time is much different. From any other previous time,
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  things move very slowly up until about the 1820s and then things
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  started to accelerate really really fast and because of that,
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  I think that while we might be intellectually, prepared, maybe
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  even physically prepared. We may not be spiritually.
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  Morally, or ethically prepared, because we're not, we're not
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  able to see the big picture. Of what's at stake of what else
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  is out there of where we're headed.
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  But we're supposed to be doing as a species where as a society
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  we have all these differing, opinions, and Views.
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  And there's, you know, geopolitical dominance.
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  There's war and there's, you know, we just went through a
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  pandemic which is probably the first time in modern history
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  that we all went through it together and we were able to
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  communicate with each other and communicate what was happening.
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  You know, the events of the last 20-30 years were unprecedented
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  in human history. So it is my belief that the
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  revelator's, those who sponsored and mandated the book felt that
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  it was necessary for us to have this new information, not only
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  about our humble beginnings but also the beginnings of the
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  universe and also projecting outward and forward what our
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  responsibilities are as a human race.
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  And you could take that on Merit, you know I always say to
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  people don't take my word for it, you know read the book.
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  Alright. And then my final statement, why
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  should anyone read it? Well if if you're trying to get
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  a sense of what could be true, and you really want to know that
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  this world isn't in vain or if you want to have a better
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  relationship with the Divine Creator or if you want to learn
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  more about the life and example of Jesus or learn about our
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  human history and how societies evolved or if you want to get a
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  glimpse as to what a possibility could exist for us, moving
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  forward, Then you're not going to be disappointed with the
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  ranch. I booked it, the pros, the
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  articulation the depth, the grammar, the the style.
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  It's just a pleasurable experience.
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  When you read the book you actually do sort of feel like
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  You know wow whoever wrote this know what they were talking
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  about, at least that's been my experience.
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  So, but as people will tell you, it's something that I've been
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  carrying with me for a long, long time.
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  Since I was a young guy, 20 years old and I've never stopped
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  reading it since And if you're wondering, if there's a church
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  or any kind of a group, there are a group of readers
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  worldwide, and a lot of them have started to form their own
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  organizations, but it's not a requirement, it's no church,
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  they don't have ministers, they don't have, they don't even have
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  teachers, they have people that you can call and go to study
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  groups and you can all Talk Amongst yourselves.
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  But there's no real organizational structure outside
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  of the association's and the organizations that that are
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  doing social events. I just had a guy on my show not
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  long ago, who took the book to a symposium by academics of
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  science or religion in the United States.
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  And he introduced the air at your book to the scholarly types
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  because so little Known about the book even though it's been
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  around for gosh you know little over almost a hundred years.
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  Yeah. Anyway, so I hope that I was
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  able to answer some questions and I hope that you will share
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  this with others. And if you have any questions,
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  my contact information, your Ranch a book radio at gmail.com
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  and we'll see how this goes and if people enjoy it and they like
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  it, perhaps we can Venture on down the road with these video
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  gas in the meantime. Thanks for stopping by.
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  Yeah. Anyway, so I hope that I was
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  able to answer some questions and I hope that you will share
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  this with others. And if you have any questions,
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  my contact information, your Ranch a book radio at gmail.com
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  and we'll see how this goes and if people enjoy it and they like
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  it, perhaps we can Venture on down the road with these video
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  gas in the meantime. Thanks for stopping by.