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Don't Let Work Steal Your Last Saturday: Living Before You Die · Eye Opener Society

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  Hello, everyone, and welcome to a Thursday night sermon.
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  My name is Gary Dean, and this is Eye Opener Society.
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  I just wanted to welcome everybody that comes in. And if you give me just one
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  minute, I've got to set a couple things up.
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  Okay, I do apologize for that. Just getting things set up for the sermon here.
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  I wanted to start off by saying that a couple weeks ago, my mind had gone pretty quiet.
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  And I had even told Lizzie during our last recording, I said,
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  you know, I'm having a little bit of difficulty trying to get some ideas just
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  because my mind has been quiet.
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  And it's really was no big deal. It's not like writer's block or anything,
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  but my mind just went quiet. So I had nothing really to talk about.
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  But it's amazing how things change, the way things develop,
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  over life And because I had no real topic, all of a sudden I have something
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  very personal Something very deep to share And I figured I'd wait for the sermon,
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  Because there's a big life lesson involved in all of it.
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  I always talk about work and I still don't talk too much.
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  Like I said, I keep work off the air and all, but,
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  I use work as an example for us as human beings, because we are always kind
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  of slaves to this grind where we have to go into work every day and it sucks up most of our life.
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  And people say, well, you're overreacting or, you know, well,
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  it's not, it's not overreacting because life continues to move, and it's continuous.
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  So when work gets in the way, we tend to miss things that we probably should not miss.
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  Now, I also wanted to put in the lesson of life and death, and I wanted to do
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  this personally because I have my beliefs on death.
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  Death is nothing more than a continuation of life. I don't fear death. I never feared death.
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  Again, it's the part of the life cycle, the life loop. There's really no fear you need of death.
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  I've spoken about this many times in previous podcasts, and this blends in what
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  we do in our everyday living life.
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  The two kind of overlap. And if we don't live each day as if we were dying,
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  we start to lose a little bit of something in us.
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  And that becomes an issue. It becomes an issue with how we feel,
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  how we go about doing things.
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  And we seem to lose a little bit of ourselves each day.
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  So here's why I want to try and combine together And I want to get my thoughts straight on this,
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  So I was asked to work Not really asked, I was told to work on a weekend A Saturday,
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  And I was extremely frustrated about that Probably more frustrated than most
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  I become very animated when I'm angry.
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  And I made it a point. I said, I do not work on weekends.
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  My normal work week is Monday through Friday.
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  If I have to come in for something and I don't even get overtime for it,
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  I'm not going to come in. I am not showing up.
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  I'm not working six days straight.
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  It's just not happening.
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  And again, when people say, oh, you're overreacting or whatever that case may be,
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  You have to understand, if I gave up my weekend, I'm going to give up one day
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  that I'm not going to be with my wife, whom I normally don't see on occasions
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  because of her work schedule.
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  I could be losing time with someone who I cherish in my life.
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  Or there could be something happening that day that I'm not going to be able
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  to be a part of, that I really wanted to be a part of, to fulfill my life because
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  I have to spend it. at work.
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  This is not overreaction. This is standing up for yourself, your well-being and your sovereignty.
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  I make a post, obviously, I get comments on it too, when I say you should be
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  living life and doing things that you enjoy and go out there and do them and
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  stop worrying so much about work and start fulfilling your life.
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  And I get these comments that, oh, dude, you know, it's so hard.
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  We can't do that, man, because, oh, wow, we need to work to survive.
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  And get money and everything's so expensive.
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  Here's the problem that I'm having with that. And forgive me if I'm getting angry.
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  As a minister, I want to bring something out to people that's going to better you.
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  You don't have to agree with it and you don't have to follow it.
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  I am nothing more than another person on the internet giving some advice or talking.
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  Since I have my own ministry, I must say.
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  I implore to you that when I say you are nothing more than a victim playing
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  the victim card when it comes to this, that's my truth to you.
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  Every time you say, oh, I got to work because I have all these things that I
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  got to pay for. Well, here's your problem. You have all those things that you need to pay for.
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  If you truly want to be involved in your life for real, spiritually,
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  Give up these things that are holding you back,
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  You could take it to one extreme, to another You could go take everything,
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  get rid of everything Go buy a cheap van and live out of the van And be happy
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  every day of your life By seeing new things, exploring the world, fulfilling your soul.
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  So don't play the victim with me the whole problem we have
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  is that work has been so ingrained in us all of these rules have been so ingrained
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  in us and i don't want to repeat myself because i know i have podcasts on this very thing,
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  so i have to let everyone know once again that you are the most important person
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  in your world and you need to start living like such,
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  so here's the thing,
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  We must take into consideration our own feelings.
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  This is completely natural for us.
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  So here's the next thing now that happens. After I worry so much and I wind
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  myself up over working on a Saturday,
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  what happens next is more personal and I wind up with anxiety.
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  Some things that are going to teach you a little bit about life and death.
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  Going back to work, someone who works, you know, with me, and I'm not going
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  into too much detail, passed away unexpectedly, okay?
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  And I've also dealt with deaths this year as well, because if we remember,
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  I had my own solo episode about Charles Erzlick, who ran a podcast that I was very close with.
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  The podcast was called, oh, goodness
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  gracious, I'm getting a little bit emotional, so here's the thing.
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  Just us thinking was the podcast, just us tasting, he also did Echo Aura Productions,
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  passes away unexpectedly as well.
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  So I wind up now with this whole thing, everything combined.
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  I have things now to talk about.
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  Well, I made something to do about living life.
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  And now we're throwing death into there. And it brought me back to my point
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  why I shouldn't be working on that Saturday for this very reason.
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  Because if something happened to me where I die unexpectedly tomorrow.
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  Or after that Saturday that I worked, well, that Saturday would have been the
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  last Saturday that I had in my life. And I completely gave it up over nonsense because of work.
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  I'd much rather have a smile on my face than to have money.
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  And I want to make that an extreme point.
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  This is my point. Because we can always not be here at any moment.
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  That's the reality. I can accept that.
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  But here's the thing. We need not fear death. what we do need to fear is being
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  alive and living like we're dead,
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  my name is gary dean this is eye opener society and if you give me a couple
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  minutes i'm going to bring on lizzie um so just give me a second to set everything up with that.
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  Okay thank you i'm sorry we'll say hey Give me a second Everybody,
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  our Cosmic Fairy Princess Lizzie Take it away, Lizzie Thank you very much I'm
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  going to turn my camera back off Because,
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  In honor of doing whatever I want I want to lounge in my car here And I don't
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  want you to have to stare at my ceiling So you're just going to have to Enjoy
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  listening to me Please, Gary, interrupt me if you can't hear me,
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  So, recently, I've been playing with everything, as always, and I couldn't come
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  up with a topic to talk about today.
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  Everything circled. Quantum healing, frequency of money, you know,
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  life purpose, your dreams, reality, truth, everything.
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  It all kind of circled back to one idea, so that's what I want to talk about
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  today. And I might even keep it short because I'm just having a fun time out here in the sun here.
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  Everything that I know is kind of built around the idea that reality is perspective.
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  You'll find people in all kinds of religious structures, people who don't believe
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  in religion and rely heavily on science to build that structure.
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  Their childhood, the ideas that they learn and experience.
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  Everything builds into this perspective. And the truth is, is that a lot of
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  us who would identify their lives as either going through an awakening
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  or on a spiritual journey, we're kind of on this quest to play with our reality and our perspective.
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  And one thing I've learned is that the more flexible your perspective is,
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  the more flexible reality becomes.
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  And that's just kind of like automatic. If you know something to be true,
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  you won't see anything else.
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  And that goes for people, opportunities, ideas, information, everything.
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  But how do you really change your, how do you change your perspective?
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  Because everything that you know is kind of built off of it until you have that
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  moment where you start questioning everything.
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  And I'm just kind of assuming that if you're listening to this,
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  you're questioning everything.
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  In my experience, perspective is built off of what you know,
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  which is really what you assume to be true, what you think you can expect, and your morals.
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  What you assume to be true,
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  is like, what makes you a good person? Is it being kind? Is it being helpful?
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  Is it just doing your best like whatever it is that makes you a good person,
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  that's what you assume to be true what you expect,
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  is like what you expect for being a good person do you expect to be rewarded,
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  do you expect to be surrounded by other good people.
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  And then your morals. I'm so sorry about my voice. I'm out here in the nice little world, son.
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  Your morals are what you're willing to uphold under pressure.
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  When the discomfort of the world starting to argue with what you know to be
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  true, what you assume to be true, what you expect to be true,
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  what are you willing to cave on? What are you willing to change and flex?
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  That's how flexible your perspective is.
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  And I think that a lot of people have kind of two perspectives.
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  One where everything is going good, and one where everything is going bad.
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  And the truth is, I think we bounce between these. And, oh my goodness.
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  The more awareness we have to which one we're currently sitting in,
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  the more we can play with what is happening in our perspective and in our reality.
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  When we know that we're thinking like everything's going to go wrong,
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  you can take your thoughts and feelings?
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  Under advisement of that, what are you processing?
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  When everything feels like it's going good, it's a good time to start playing
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  with and assessing, expanding, and what you can learn and grow.
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  And I just want to invite everybody to take some time this weekend to really
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  think about what they see to be true. What do you know for what you would call factual to be true?
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  What do you expect builds off of that?
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  And what are your actual morals?
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  What do you expect other people's morals to be?
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  These are questions we all play in but I find that a lot of people don't take
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  the time to write it down and when you start to write it down you start finding
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  the holes in what you think you know,
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  and that's all I wanted to share today thank you so much for listening to me.
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  Thank you so much, Lizzie I really appreciate it Thank you for struggling through
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  that You're amazing And I appreciate you very much I appreciate everyone who's listened to us,
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  And don't forget We do this every Thursday night 7pm Eastern Standard Time Live
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  across Facebook and across YouTube Join us live It's always appreciative to see you,
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  But don't forget Right after we do this I put the recording up on all major
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  podcast platforms as well as YouTube and BitChute.
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  Once again, this is EyeOpener Society. This is our ministry.
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  You are our wonderful audience, and we enjoy each and every one of you.
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  So thank you again for joining us, and we hope to see you again next Thursday.