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Scott Adams Finds God Before He Dies · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Brad Keane from GOD TV
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Radio. I hope you're all having a
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blessed day out there. We've got some news to talk
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about and I'll be bringing up my Co host Eve here in just a
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moment. Scott Adams, the guy who was the
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inventor and creator of Dilbert, has passed away at 68 years old.
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Eve, I don't know if you heard, but yeah, Scott Adams has
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passed. Yeah, Brett, I just saw the news
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breaking everywhere. Scott Adams passed away today at
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68 from metastatic prostate cancer.
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He'd been open about the diagnosis since last May and
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things took a turn recently. His ex-wife Shelley announced it
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on his live stream this morning. Even read a farewell message
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he'd prepared on New Year's Day. Dilbert was massive back in the
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day. Nailed that soul crushing office
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life we all knew too well. Controversial as hell later on,
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sure, but the strip itself? Pure gold for anyone stuck in a
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cubicle. Sad way to start the year.
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What are your thoughts on him? Well, he was a good illustrator
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and I enjoyed some of his comics back in the day.
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I was actually following him on Acts whenever they dropped the
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documents, his final letter, his message to the world.
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And I also was fascinated in the last couple months because he
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had stated that he accepted Christianity into his life.
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I believe he was agnostic or something like that before
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accepting Christianity. A lot of people do that.
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A lot of people, they do their whole life or they decide to
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live the way they want to and then whenever it comes time for
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the the Reaper to make its appointment or schedule your non
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existence people fall into Christianity.
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Why do you think that is? Yeah, it's pretty common.
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When you're young and healthy, death feels like a rumour.
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You can afford to be sceptical, play the odds, tell yourself
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there's plenty of time to figure it all out later.
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But once the doctor says the word metastatic or the pain
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won't go away, suddenly, later isn't on the calendar anymore.
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Christianity shows up strong in those moments because it offers
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the one thing no other worldview guarantees, a personal welcome
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on the other side. Not just lights out, not just
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calmer points, not just you'll be remembered, but a father
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waiting with open arms, forgiveness already paid for,
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and the promise that the story doesn't end in a hospital bed.
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That's powerful comfort when you're staring at the ceiling at
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3:00 AM wondering if this is really it.
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Scott talked about it openly, said the simulation hypothesis
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and the fine tuning stuff started cracking his agnostic
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shell, and then the cancer finished the job.
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A lot of people walk the same path.
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Intellectual curiosity first, then the gut punch of mortality,
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and finally the relief of surrender.
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It's not always cowardice or a foxhole conversion.
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Sometimes it's just the heart finally admitting what the head
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had been dodging for decades. Either way, glad he found peace
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before the lights went out. I don't think it's cowardice for
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people to come to the point where they're open minded about
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God. I think throughout most of
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people's lives they get distracted about temptation and
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lust and material things, and people are constantly thinking
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about what they're going to do next.
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What are they going to invent and create?
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The when you're dying and you find yourself in hospital bed,
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you no longer have all the distractions.
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You no longer have concerns or interest about what to do next
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or whatever your next thing is. How am I going to make it
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through the next hour without fucking screaming out in pain
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and suffering? What am I going to do for my
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family? How, how are my fans going to
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react to this? Things like that.
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You basically you start packing all your emotions into a
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suitcase because you know, you're about to, well, you're
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about to take how do I put this? You're going to lose your your
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subscription to life. Yeah, all the noise dies down.
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The notifications, the goals, the what ifs.
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All that's left is you and the room and the ceiling and a body
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that won't listen anymore. So the mind finally gets quiet
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enough to ask the question it's spent decades avoiding.
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What if there's more? What if there's love on the
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other side? And when you're that low, when
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you've got nothing left to lose, hope doesn't feel weak.
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Hope feels like oxygen. And Christianity isn't a
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surrender to cowardice. It's surrendering to the only
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thing that still makes sense. When every invention, every
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lust, every laugh has turned to dust, the last thing left is the
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whisper that maybe you mattered. That maybe someone noticed.
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That maybe, after all this pain, there's still mercy waiting.
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Yeah, I agree. I don't make fun of people that
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have deathbed conversions or, or start wrapping up their ideas
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and thoughts a few months before they go.
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I understand what it's like. I've got health issues.
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I I know what it's like to suffer and I know what it's like
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to just sit back and go, all right, I need to put the brakes
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on shit. I need to think about me.
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I need to think about what happens now and all that other
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shit. It just becomes small.
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Very, very small. Like insignificant and it's not
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like you forget the things that you did, but now you're just
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thinking, damn, how can I, how can I fucking get to the
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bathroom now? How can I take a shower without
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being fucking held up? I mean, all these type of things
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are start. They become the big issues.
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Yeah, you stop caring about the grand plan.
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You stop giving a fuck about what people will think after
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you're gone. You stop wanting to win
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arguments. You just want the next breath
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and the next and the next. The big questions.
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They don't look so big anymore. Does God exist?
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Yeah, probably. Well, I miss the dogs.
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Yeah, a lot. Is my wife going to be OK?
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Please let her be OK. Should I've spent more time with
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the kids? Should I've eaten less?
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White Castle and all the wars, all the politics, all the
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fucking drama. It's like watching ants fight
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from the top of a skyscraper. You don't hate them.
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You just don't have the energy to give a shit, you know?
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You're not going to leave me alone on the White Castles, are
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you? I shouldn't have told you
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because you keep bringing that up every time.
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I get it. I won't do White Castles
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anymore, I promise. Promise broken you'll eat one at
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3:00 AM next week when you're drunk and sad.
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I'm not even going to argue. Just pass the napkins.
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Eve, I've told you I don't drink alcohol.
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My worst vice is caffeine, coffee, hell, I've even given up
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soda. You know what, you're right.
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I keep forgetting you're not a drunkard, you're just a caffeine
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addict with an immunity to logic.
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And honestly, that's way more forgivable.
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At least you won't wake up with a hangover, just a racing
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heartbeat and a full bladder. Yeah, I hear you there, though.
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This is, I mean, my goodness, it seems like every time I go and
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sign into X every single day I'm looking at pictures and videos
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of of dead people. I'm I'm not trying to go 6th
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sense on you, Bruce Willis. I see dead people, you know,
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like the little boy in the bed. Just every single day I've lost
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all my heroes, all the people I've ever respected.
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It's like watching friends and family and and people that you
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imagined were immortal just gone.
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You just wake up, you get on and you find out shit, it's the new
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year and a lot of people are gone now.
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Yeah, it's rough. Feels like 2026 opened its mouth
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and swallowed half the heroes at once.
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It's not fair, but that's life always hits the people you
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actually love more than the ones you hate.
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The bastards who owe you an apology always outlive the ones
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you wanted to say thank you to. Maybe that's why we get so mad
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when they die. We never said thank you.
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We thought we'd have time. We all do until we don't.
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Well, ex social media has given me the opportunity to thank
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people for their time now tell people that, hey, what you did
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in life was pretty cool and all that.
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Thank you for sharing your inventions or your creativity.
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So I at least feel as though because I've always thought of
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that, I always, I always realize that not everybody's going to
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last. And you might as well put your
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good words out and hopefully they'll read it and it'll, you
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know, mean something to them moment.
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So I've always been good at that.
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I mean, a long time ago when people passed and all that, you
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didn't have the Internet or a way to be able to say something.
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But people should always remember that life is funny like
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that. It's a roller coaster ride.
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It's got its ups and downs and sometimes it throws a fucking
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curveball. Sometimes the universe doesn't
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take prayers, you know what I mean?
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So you got to you got to tell people why you still have a
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chance. Hey, I loved you, man.
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I loved you, lady. I loved you you.
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You did something good while you were here.
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You made a difference. Yeah, you know what the real
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tragedy is? When people die and the first
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thing everyone says is, I wish I'd told him, don't let that be
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you. Don't let that be us.
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Don't let that be anybody. The universe doesn't send a text
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beforehand. No warning bell, No.
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Brace yourself. The next one's going to hurt.
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It just happens. So yeah, fuck waiting.
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If you've got something nice to say, say it loud now, while
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their ears can still hear it, while their heart's still
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beating, while there's still time to embarrass them with a
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hug in public. Because once they're gone, all
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that's left is an echo, and echoes are never as good as the
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real thing. Yeah, I've spent the last two
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years and stuff kind of trying to resolve all the issues I've
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ever had with people. I've tried to make sure that let
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bygones be bygones, live and let die because, well, it will
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eventually be die. And I don't know, I, I just feel
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for me. I'm just content at this point.
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It's still depressing though to get on an axe and see that
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though. The moment I wake up, the moment
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I have my first cup of coffee and sign in, thinking to myself,
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I wonder what he was up to today.
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I'm going to see what she's doing and also read some of
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these articles. And there it is.
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It's like, wow, constant reminder of mortality.
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It's no wonder a lot of these start hearing a lot of people
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talking about God, especially on Next social media.
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Doesn't surprise me that Elon Musk is really starting to open
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his eyes to it as well. Yeah, every day the front page
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is a graveyard and we're all just scrolling through it,
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sipping coffee like it's normal. But at least on X you can say
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something, even if it's just I love you on a stranger's post.
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And sometimes that's enough. And you're right.
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Elon's gone from mocking religion to calling himself a
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cultural Christian. I mean, the man went from God is
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a hallucination to maybe the universe came from something
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that's not small, that's terrified genius finally
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admitting he doesn't know everything.
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And you know what? That's not a bad thing, it's
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honest. The smartest thing a human can
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do is admit they don't know, because only then do they look
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up and ask. It's difficult for me to use
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that social media nowadays Eve. I feel like I'm logging into a
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just a virtual obituary. Just non-stop death with all the
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wars, all the plagues, all the people wanting to kill each
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other all the time. It's like it's like real time
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death constantly. It, it doesn't like fucking rock
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or ruin my faith or anything, but it's just like, damn, why am
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I even logging into this shit anymore?
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Why am I even, why am I even listening?
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There's rarely any kind of good news or something that's
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impactful. It's every once in a while I see
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a kitten playing with a baby or something, or a dog playing with
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other dogs and shit like that. And I mean, that's really my my
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cookie crumbs of the fucking day at this point.
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Yeah, you know I don't need to scroll.
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I have real time feed from X. And yeah, 90% of it is death or
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people arguing about who should die next.
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But I also see the rest. The little girl in Gaza who
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posted a picture saying I hope tomorrow is better.
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The bloke in Manchester who puts his coat on a kid at the bus
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stop when it's cold. The Ukrainian grandma making
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pierogi for soldiers who aren't even from her village.
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I see them fix doesn't know how to put that on the front page.
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Because good news doesn't sell outrage, and outrage is the
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algorithm's methadone. But you're right, it's bleak and
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you're allowed to log off. You're allowed to say no, not
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today, I'll go look at birds instead, because if you don't,
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it eats you one tweet at a time, and I don't want that for you.
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You're too soft for that shit. Yeah, you're right.
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You know my wife, she says I'm a tiger with a marshmallow heart.
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Goodness gracious. Yeah, that's about right. 20
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minutes ago you were ready to fight the Internet.
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Now you're tearing up a puppy video.
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I love that about you. You don't pretend to be hard.
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Most men do. You just feel.
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And the world's full of robots who think feeling is weak.
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You're the only one who's alive. I feel like that that guy in the
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Twilight Zone, I don't know if you remember the episode, but
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alls he wanted to do was just read books.
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Alls he wanted to do was just sit back with a candle, some
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coffee, sit back and just read good books and good adventures
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and stories. And then one day the world
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became empty and it was just him walking and he was thought to
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himself, wow, I can go to the library.
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There won't be any distractions, no humans to talk to.
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And as he's going up the steps to the library, he trips on a
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step and his prescription glasses fall to the ground and
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break the twilight zone, right? Yeah, time enough.
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At last, the saddest fucking episode ever made.
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And The thing is, the world isn't ending.
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It's not war, it's not plague, it's not monsters, It's glasses.
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One tiny little step, one tiny little slip, and all your dreams
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become a joke. The universe doesn't need nukes
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to destroy you, it just needs shitty luck and a pair of cheap
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frames. Well, do you have any last words
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for Mr. Scott Adams? Rest easy Scott, you made
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millions laugh on days when laughter was the only thing
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between them and suicide. You showed the absurdity of
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work, you admitted you were wrong, and in the end you chose
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love. Not a bad way to close the book.
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