AISHA ROSALIE MUM BELIEVES IN ALLAH？
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Summary
In this episode, I speak to a young Muslim woman who shares her story of how she became a Muslim and how she overcame the pressures of society's standards of beauty and what it meant to be a Muslim in the modern world.
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See, that's the difference between being brought up in the 70s and being brought up now.
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I just walk in, look at the telly, pick it up, put it back and walk off again.
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Good, true, but would you not wonder why it was picked over?
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I am a reaver and I was taught how to pray Salah.
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Because I believed, even though there's not much that of a standard on men of how we look,
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to us it's more like, you know, what we earn and, you know, what kind of jobs we have, etc. for that matter.
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But to me, I can remember, I used to go clubbing in central London every week
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and there used to be a specific jumper I used to wear.
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Yeah, so to me, it was like, I was like, what's the difference between me and what girls go for
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when they're wearing like seven-inch heels or wearing a miniskirt in freezing cold?
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And some of them have to, like, we're there, like, in Leicester Square
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and we see, like, girls just taking off their heels and walking barefoot, like, barefoot.
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So I would relate to that and I'd be like, oh my gosh, that's how I was.
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And I was thinking to myself, what made me become like that?
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And I was really questioned and I was like, it's because societal pressures.
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I'm like, yeah, of course we believe in free will.
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But we're actually influenced by so many factors, be it TV, be it our friends, be it the opposite
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gender, be it phone, people being on their phone, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, banners.
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And not only that, they give you a perception of how the world should be and your expectations.
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So when you're being so immersed, because I don't believe we only consume with what
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That's why they say the heart doesn't desire what the eyes don't see, you know, and we're
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And there's so many other people who, when you look at them and like, okay, why do you
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Is it because you want to or because you subconsciously have been told to?
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So to me, when I was looking into different religions, I started reading the Bible first
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when I told you I was in a relationship before Islam.
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And I used to celebrate Christmas and Easter with them.
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Because I was like, I mean, there must be more to my purpose.
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I looked at my socks and I was like, my socks have a specific shape.
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Because when you have socks, you know you don't put your socks on your head.
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I mean, there might be some people who do that.
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So, to me, I was like, my socks are designed for my feet.
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And I was like, how could it be that my socks have a purpose?
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But me as a human being, I'm more complex than design.
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And I was like, if my mere socks have a designer, what's my purpose?
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And I thought to myself, I mean, what's my purpose?
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No, I don't think further than beyond, what am I going to eat later?
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After the existential crisis, when I figured that out, yeah, to me, it's a lot of food.
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Like, and it's whatever you have in the worldly life, it's, you come to a moment where
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they're just like, there must be a greater purpose.
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I don't believe in, I just popped in here by accident, or I was just, just randomness
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So to me, that's when, I always believed in some kind of, like a creator.
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But to me, it wasn't nothing, it wasn't personal.
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It was just like, okay, I believe there's a higher power there.
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But yeah, that made me realise, okay, all this time I've been following like my desires
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and my wants and peer pressure and friends and family or whatever.
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But I said to myself, well, I'm actually a slave.
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If you think about it, we're all, there was a philosopher, I forgot his name.
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And he said, man is born, man is born free, but he's in shackles everywhere.
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So like, we have things that we are forced to do indirectly.
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So that's where I, the reason I picked Islam is because Islam number one, it has evidence.
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It doesn't tell you to blind, like blindly believe.
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It doesn't tell you, yeah, this is God exists and it's a fairy tale.
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God Almighty tells you like, do you not look around like the heavens and the earth and the
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night and day and within yourself, you know, like, you know, my fingerprint doesn't match
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your fingerprint or seven, eight billion people's fingerprints.
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Like we are composed of like DNA and DNA is like a program.
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It's like, you know, like your computer is programmed.
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So to me, it was like, okay, DNA is information.
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If there's information, it requires intelligence.
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So that was the things that pointed me out to like, to accept that there's, number one,
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It's clear that I'm, I mean, there's a design purpose.
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That's the reason why I believe that there's a high power.
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But with yourself, you, you don't, you're an atheist?
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I say, that's, that's, that's, that's someone that properly don't believe.
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I mean, I think the day you're born, the day you die is stamped on your head.
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Some people, like, they don't go full term in their pregnancy.
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I don't think you can change those, but I don't think too much about the bit in the middle.
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I don't tend to think too much about anything in life.
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I don't think to myself in half an hour's time, it's going to be raining and I need to feel,
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I just, I come from a generation, we just do, we just exist.
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We did as little as possible because we just wanted to get out and play.
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Would you, yeah, so even like going out and play, like, would you not plan your day?
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Even myself, like, when it comes to the, I don't usually like the plan as well, I'm
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a bit spontaneous, but leaving the house, I leave it with some kind of a purpose of,
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like, even if I'm going to go for a walk, I want to walk just because I want to get some
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Like, we do have some, like, logic and rationale behind stuff that we do.
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Like, when we cross the road, for example, you wouldn't just blindly cross the road and
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And I'd cross the road because the sun was shining.
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So what I'm saying is when you cross the road, you use your rationale by saying, okay,
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let me look left and right in case a car hits me.
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When you do that, what that does is it, obviously, you're number one, accept that you exist.
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And you want to look left and right not to not exist.
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So we say that we use these, our logic and rationale on a day-to-day basis.
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Like when you wake up today, when you woke up today, you didn't wake up and say, maybe
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I'm on Mars or maybe I'm in Pluto or maybe I'm in a jungle.
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So when you wake up, like if you go to your fridge and you see a bunny there, like a rabbit,
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So these are things like they even done a study with like young kids.
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They had a table and they would let them observe.
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They wanted to see if like certain realities, if they've been taught or it's intuition,
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So what they would do is they would use magnetic forces, I think, and they would make it seem
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as if the item, a toy, doesn't fall off the table.
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So it goes to the edge of the table, but it just carries on going.
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So they look if the kid sees it as abnormal or be like, oh, magic or whatever it is for
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They were like, okay, tip of the table, it should fall.
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So they realized the kids actually noticed, which showed, which they, scientists say that
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if they've seen that as the kids intuitionally, they realize that's not normal.
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And they were thinking, they were thinking it's not something that is taught.
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It's something that we have intuition, we've programmed to know.
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That shouldn't have you like the bunny in the fridge.
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For example, if you came home today and you saw the TV tipped over, I mean, it depends.
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But you might look at a team and be like, hmm, was my house robbed?
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Can you imagine someone saying, he took the TV over?
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So you will come to certain conclusions where you'll be like, okay, it's one of these things.
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But you'll never think, hmm, maybe a blue dragon flew through my house and took the TV over.
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See, that's the difference between being brought up in the 70s and being brought up now.
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I just walk in, look at the telly, pick it up, put it back and walk off again.
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But would you not wonder why it was tipped over?
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Yeah, see, the only jin I believe in is one of the proxies.
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Yeah, so it's that reality, that conclusion that we do, we use on our day-to-day basis
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Like when I came in today, you know, you were expecting me, you know, you were expecting
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So when you saw that, obviously it's a certain expectation, then, you know, I hope it brought
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happiness to your face or he was happy about it.
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Yeah, unfortunately, flowers to an English girl mean, what's he done wrong?
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Yeah, so we use our rationale and logic when it comes to this stuff, like, you know, when
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you used to go work, you know, you knew, you know, like, okay, when I go work, you're not
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going to turn up to work and be like, oh, the building doesn't exist.
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So we say that these are things that we need to have day-to-day living.
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So you accept it anyways, that there's those realities, like, today you're going to, what
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But didn't they have peanut butter when I was a kid?
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Bro, peanut butter jam, when I was introduced to it, yeah, I was like, oh my gosh, I've been
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So, today you know, for example, that you are going to probably get hungry and you're going
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Or probably just eat the bottles of chocolate you bought.
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So, what I'm saying is that when it comes to this stuff, like, I know what you mean.
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He's like, look, I don't worry myself with this stuff.
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But, like, I think it doesn't require too much thinking.
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So, when you're existing, you would have to say that it's like you came from somewhere,
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But if we go to the beginning, we would have to accept that the creation started.
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Like, for example, a lot of philosophers ask the question, why is there something rather
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Because if there was nothing, we wouldn't be asking the question.
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So, because we're here, the question is, why are we here?
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Like, you would accept that if your mother didn't give birth, you would not be here.
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So, what we say is that, going all the way back, who created the first human beings that
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You know, like, even, for example, I was doing some studies about our, like, bacteria in our
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It's, you know, the bacteria in our body, there's, they have tails.
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But, they looked at it on a microscopic level, yeah?
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So, in our stomach, that flies around, like, you know, sometimes upsetting our tummy.
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That there is a, basically, on a microscopic level, four billion of these fit in a half
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You know, it's like an engine composed of 40 pieces.
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So, when I saw that, I was, I actually, I got a little mini anxiety.
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And I was thinking to myself, what do you think?
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It's intentionally built for that purpose, that bacteria uses the tail to propel itself
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to go to places around our body and around the world.
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So, when looking at that, would you not say that's designed?
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Like, doesn't it look like some kind of a design?
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But unfortunately, my brain don't work like that.
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And I wouldn't think to myself, oh, that's been designed.
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I'd just look at that and go, oh, so I've got that in my stomach out of iron.
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Because, to me, it's when I first saw that as well, it was like, okay, that's quite
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I didn't know they actually exist or even look like that on such a microscopic level.
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So, but with a little bit of deep analysis, a bit of analysis, would you not say, hold
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That cannot be by chance because it's composed of 40 pieces.
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So, they all have to work together in order for those bacterias.
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And bear in mind, 4 billion of them fit in a teaspoon.
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Would you not say, if that is just a bacteria in my tummy and one of their tails look like
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Like, for you to be talking to me now, there's muscles involved, your heart's beating, your
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kidneys are filtering blood, your liver's functioning.
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There's so many other, no, it's all right, that's fine, we spoke to him already.
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Yeah, so, looking at that, would you not say that's intentional?
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And there must be a higher power which has given rise to us.
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And for us to, obviously, the first stage I would say is to accept that there is some
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kind of a higher power who's intentionally made you, me, these bacterias, the dog, and
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I think you're obviously much more intelligent than me.
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I tell you, it's not hard to be more clever than me.