The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - Sodom and Gomorrah

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00:01:19.720 Three difficult stories tonight, and hopefully my plan is to get through all three of them. So we'll

00:01:35.480 see how that goes. So we're going to talk about the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, and then the story of

00:01:45.120 the sacrifice of Isaac, which is an extremely complicated, complicated story. And so we'll try

00:01:53.560 to make some headway with that. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is plenty complicated too. All right,

00:01:57.880 so what we established last week, at least in part, was this idea that the Abrahamic narratives are set

00:02:05.580 up as punctuated epochs, I suppose, in Abraham's life. And we were hypothesizing that, you know,

00:02:13.940 you set out a goal for yourself in your life. It's like a stage in your life, you might say that. And then

00:02:20.060 when you run that goal to its end, when that stage comes to an end, then you have to regroup and orient

00:02:27.780 yourself once again. And I was making the case that that's a good time to make necessary sacrifices, you

00:02:37.760 know, and part of that's because as you move through your life, you have to shed

00:02:43.100 that which is no longer necessary. And because otherwise it accretes around you and holds you down and

00:02:52.600 you perish sooner than you should. And I think that's in large part because if you don't dispense with

00:03:00.880 your life as you move through it, then the stress of all that undone business and all those unmade

00:03:06.640 decisions turns into a kind of chaos around you. And that chaos puts you in a state of

00:03:12.460 psychophysiological emergency preparedness chronically. And that just ages you. And so

00:03:19.220 it's necessary in some sense to stay light on your feet. And also, I think, to renew your commitment

00:03:27.740 to your aim upward. And I believe that that's what the sacrificial routines in the Abrahamic stories

00:03:37.240 dramatize. I said already that these things are often first portrayed very dramatically and concretely

00:03:46.180 before they become psychologized. And we'll see because one of the things that happens tonight as

00:03:52.280 well in these stories is that when God makes his covenant with Abraham, this is the next part of

00:03:57.760 the story, it's also when the idea of circumcision is introduced into ancient Hebrew culture. Now,

00:04:04.940 there's every bit of evidence that other cultures were utilizing circumcision beforehand. So it wasn't

00:04:12.080 necessarily a novel invention of the Abrahamic people. But I see its introduction as a step on the road

00:04:21.220 to the psychologization of the idea of sacrifice, right? First of all, it's giving up something

00:04:27.340 concrete. And then, second, it's signified by the sacrifice of a part of the body instead of for the

00:04:35.780 sake of the whole. It's something like that. It's dramatizing the idea that you have to give up a part

00:04:39.860 of yourself for the sake of the whole. And eventually, well, by modern times, that becomes virtually

00:04:44.660 completely psychological in its essence, in that we all understand, perhaps not as well as we should,

00:04:53.060 but at least well enough to explain it, that it's necessary to make sacrifices to move ahead in life.

00:05:01.580 One of the themes that I'd like to explore tonight in relationship, especially to the sacrifice of

00:05:07.920 Isaac, is that, you know, once humanity had established the idea that sacrifice was necessary

00:05:14.980 to move ahead, which is really, it's a discovery of incalculable magnitude, right? The idea that,

00:05:21.060 the idea that you can give up something in the present, and that will, in some sense, ensure

00:05:25.860 a better future, is an unbelievable achievement. It's equivalent to the discovery of the future.

00:05:31.420 It's equivalent to the discovery of the utility of work. Like, its importance can't be overstated.

00:05:37.120 Okay, so, it took a long time for people to figure this out. Animals haven't figured it out at all,

00:05:41.760 right? We've figured it out. And it's hard, it's hard for people to make sacrifices, because, of course,

00:05:46.260 the present has a major grip on you, as it should, because in some way you live in the present.

00:05:51.900 So, anyways, there's the twin problem of getting the whole idea of sacrifice up and running,

00:05:57.200 and then figuring out exactly what it means. But there's a problem that branches off that,

00:06:00.760 or a two-fold problem. So, the hypothesis is that sacrifice is necessary to ensure,

00:06:07.120 ensure the, that the future is safe, and secure, and productive, and positive, and all of those

00:06:11.960 things. Okay, so then, then a question immediate, two questions immediately arise from that, right?

00:06:17.120 One is, well, what's the proper sacrifice? Now, we already talked about that a little bit with

00:06:21.980 regards to Cain and Abel, and one of the things we saw was that Cain's sacrifice, whatever it was,

00:06:27.040 was wrong, and Abel's was right, Noah's seemed to be right, Abraham's seems to be right. There is something 0.81

00:06:32.880 about a sacrifice that can be correct. There's something about a sacrifice that can be incorrect.

00:06:37.960 The question is, what would be the maximally correct sacrifice? So, because that's an obvious

00:06:43.500 question to arise from the mere observation that sacrifice is necessary. Okay, if you're going to

00:06:47.860 sacrifice, and it's necessary, well, how is it that you would behave if you were going to do it

00:06:53.100 really well, if you're going to do it perfectly? Okay, so that's question number one. And then question

00:06:58.900 number two might be, well, if the future can be better because of a sacrifice, and sacrifices can

00:07:05.940 vary in quality, then how much better could the future be if your sacrifice was of the highest

00:07:12.500 quality, right? There's a limit issue there, and the limit is something like, well, how good could

00:07:16.780 your life be? If you really got your act together, and you gave up all the things that were impeding

00:07:21.840 you in your movement forward, if you did that forthrightly, and with integrity, and with

00:07:27.820 seriousness, with dead seriousness, and you tried to set your life right, what is the upper

00:07:33.240 limits with regards to how your life might lay itself out? And I would say, well, we don't

00:07:39.160 know the answer to that, but I think that the idea of something like the city of God, or the

00:07:44.880 kingdom of God on earth, or the reestablishment of paradise, something like that, is the answer

00:07:50.640 of the imagination to the question, how good could the future be if sacrifice was optimized?

00:07:57.740 And those are archetypal questions, right? And an archetypal question is a question that

00:08:01.940 everyone asks, whether they know it or not, because sometimes you can act out a question.

00:08:06.660 An archetypal question is a question that everyone asks, and an archetypal answer is the answer

00:08:11.120 that can't be made any better to that question. So, I can give you an example of that. The reason

00:08:17.540 that Christ's passion is an archetypal story is because it's a kind of limit, right? It's

00:08:22.380 the worst possible set of things that can happen to the best possible person. So, it's

00:08:27.820 a story that constitutes a limit. It has nothing to do with the factual reality of the story.

00:08:33.460 That's a completely independent issue. I'm speaking about this psychologically, is that

00:08:37.300 certain stories can exhaust themselves in a perfect form, and that would be the archetypal

00:08:41.880 form. So, that's the territory that we're going to wander around in a little bit today,

00:08:46.880 and we'll use the stories as anchors. I've been thinking a lot about the Sodom and Gomorrah

00:08:51.880 story, because it's classically associated with a biblical injunction against homosexuality,

00:08:58.120 and that's often how it's read, I would say in particular, by the more fundamentalist end

00:09:02.480 of the Christian spectrum. And I've thought about that a lot, because it's pretty damn clear

00:09:06.420 that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah has something to do with sexual impropriety, but I've really

00:09:10.940 come to the conclusion that it has very little to do with homosexuality. So, we'll see how

00:09:15.420 that interpretation prevails as we walk through this tonight. Okay, so we'll start with a bit

00:09:20.440 of a recap from last week. So, Abraham's had his last adventure, and he's 90 years old, 99 years old,

00:09:28.140 actually. The Lord appeared to Abraham and said unto him, I am the Almighty God, walk before me,

00:09:32.620 and be thou perfect. Well, that's quite the command. Now, Alexander McLaren, who we talked about

00:09:40.840 before, elaborated upon this slightly, and this is what he had to say. This is not precisely walking

00:09:49.460 with God, the idea of walking before God. It is rather that of an active life, spent in continual

00:09:54.880 consciousness of being naked and open before the eyes of him to whom we have to give an account.

00:10:00.480 Okay, so that's an idea that's in keeping with the notion that what we're seeing in the Abrahamic story

00:10:06.420 is the call to adventure of the man, of the typical person, right? Because your life, in some sense,

00:10:14.740 is an adventure. And I suppose the reason for that is that you're confronted by things that you cannot

00:10:19.500 understand, that you have not yet mastered. There's a heavy price to be paid if you fail to conduct

00:10:25.580 yourself appropriately, and there's a large reward to be gained if you conduct yourself properly. And so

00:10:32.160 that pretty much defines an adventure story. And God calls to Abraham and tells him to move out into

00:10:36.880 the world, to leave what he's familiar with, to go into the strange lands of famine and tyranny, and to

00:10:43.040 find his place. And that works out quite nicely for Abraham. And so, what that also means is that

00:10:50.900 because Abraham is doing that consciously, at least according to this interpretation, that he's not

00:10:56.340 naive in his determination to move forward, you know? I mean, I've dealt with lots of people who have

00:11:02.380 anxiety disorders, you know? And one thing about people who have anxiety disorders is they are not

00:11:07.360 mysterious to me. I understand... It's no problem for me to understand why people have anxiety

00:11:13.560 disorders, or why they're depressed, or why they have substance use problems. The mystery to me is

00:11:19.140 always why people don't have all of those things at once. Because everybody has a reason to be anxious.

00:11:25.020 In fact, we have the ultimate reason to be anxious, because we know that we're vulnerable, and we know

00:11:29.480 that we're going to die. And how you cannot be anxious under those circumstances is a great mystery.

00:11:34.660 It's a massive mystery. And the same thing applies with regards to depression. And then the same

00:11:40.400 thing applies to some degree with regards to drug and alcohol abuse. As I said last week, there's

00:11:44.860 plenty of reasons to drown your consciousness in alcohol. That's for sure. We could refer to the

00:11:49.760 aforementioned anxiety and depression, not least. And so, and the sorts of drugs that people are prone

00:11:56.480 to take are chemicals that take the affective edge off the tragedy of life. So, back to the issue of fear.

00:12:08.640 I mean, Abraham is self-conscious, that's what this commentary says. But the thing is, is he moves

00:12:14.620 forward despite that. He's self-conscious, and he knows the danger, but he moves forward despite that. And

00:12:19.260 that's actually the appropriate response in the face of actual non-naive understanding of what

00:12:25.400 constitutes life. Like, if you're naive and you move forward, it's like, well, what the hell do you

00:12:29.020 know? You know? There's no courage in naivety, because you don't know what there is to stop you. You

00:12:34.900 don't know what dangers you might apprehend. But to be aware of what it is that your problem is, so to be

00:12:41.340 alert existentially, let's say, or to be fully self-conscious means that you're perfectly aware

00:12:45.840 of your limitations and how you might be hurt. And then to make the decision to move forward into

00:12:50.840 the unknown and the land of the stranger. Anyways, that's the, I would say, that's one of the secrets

00:12:55.360 to a good life. And I can say that really without fear of contradiction, I would say, because the

00:13:01.980 clinical literature on this is very, very, very clear. What you do with people who are afraid, and to

00:13:07.800 some degree depressed, but certainly anxious, is you lay out what they're anxious about, first of all,

00:13:13.040 in detail, what is it that you're afraid of, what might happen. And then you decompose it into

00:13:18.200 small problems, hypothetically manageable problems. And then you have the person expose themselves to

00:13:25.060 the thing that they're afraid of. And what happens isn't that they get less afraid. That isn't what

00:13:29.580 the clinical literature indicates exactly. What happens instead is they get braver. And that's not the

00:13:35.680 same thing, right? Because if you get less afraid, it's like, well, the world isn't as dangerous as I

00:13:39.760 thought it was. You know, silly me. If you get braver, that's not what happens. What happens is, 0.87

00:13:44.240 yeah, the damn world's just as dangerous as I thought. Or maybe it's even more dangerous than I 0.99

00:13:48.640 thought. But it turns out that there's something in me that responds to taking that on as a voluntary

00:13:53.340 challenge, and grows and thrives as a consequence. And there's no doubt about this. Even the

00:13:58.400 psychophysiological findings are quite clear. If you, if you, if you impose a stressor on two groups of

00:14:07.140 people, and on one group, the stressor is imposed involuntarily. And on the other group, the stressor

00:14:13.020 is picked up voluntarily. The people who pick up the stressor voluntarily, voluntarily use a whole

00:14:18.620 different psychophysiological system to deal with it. They use the system that's associated with

00:14:23.280 approach and challenge, and not the system that's associated with defensive aggression and withdrawal.

00:14:29.440 And the system that is associated with challenge is much more associated with positive emotion,

00:14:33.960 and much less associated with negative emotion. It's also much less hard on you, because the,

00:14:39.840 the defensive posturing system, the prey animal system, man, when that thing kicks in, it's all

00:14:44.580 systems are go for you, you know? You're, the gas is pushed down to the, or the pedal's pushed down

00:14:49.960 to the metal, and the brakes are on. You're using future resources that you could be storing for future

00:14:54.740 time, right now in the present, to ready yourself for emergency. So, there's, there's, there's nothing

00:15:00.640 simple or trivial at all about the idea of being called to move forthrightly forward into the

00:15:06.200 strange and the unknown. And there's a real adventure that's associated with that, right?

00:15:10.860 So, that's an exciting thing, which is part of the reason why people travel. And then also,

00:15:14.940 to see yourself as the sort of creature that can do that, is willing to do that on a habitual

00:15:19.680 basis, is also the right kind of tonic for, I hate this word, for your self-esteem. You know,

00:15:26.360 because the self-esteem has nothing to do with feeling good about yourself. As, as I already

00:15:30.600 mentioned, there isn't necessarily a reason why, a priori, you should just feel good about yourself.

00:15:35.920 But, if you can view yourself acting in a courageous and forthright manner, and encountering the world,

00:15:41.620 and trying to improve your lot, and, and, and taking risks, you know, in a non-naive way,

00:15:47.080 well, then you have something that you can comfort yourself with at night, when you're wondering 0.97

00:15:50.960 what the whole damn point of is, of your futile and miserable life. And so, and that's necessary, 0.97

00:15:57.740 because it's often the case that you wake up at four in the morning, or at least sometimes the

00:16:02.700 case that you wake up at four in the morning, when things haven't been going that well, and wonder

00:16:06.540 just what the hell the point is of your futile and miserable life. You have to have something real

00:16:11.060 to set against that. It can't be just rationalizations about how, you know, you're a valuable person

00:16:17.060 among others, even though that's true. That's not good enough. You need something that's more

00:16:21.560 realistic to set against that, and observing courage in yourself is definitely one of the things that,

00:16:28.320 that, that can help you sleep soundly at night, when, when things are destabilized a little bit

00:16:33.120 around you. So, back to the covenant. God tells Abraham, you'll make my covenant between me and

00:16:40.960 thee, and we'll multiply thee exceedingly. And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

00:16:45.720 as for me, behold, my covenant, my contract is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many

00:16:50.560 nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be called Abraham,

00:16:55.940 for a father of many nations have I made thee. And Abram means high father, and Abraham father of a

00:17:01.620 multitude. And I'll make thee exceedingly fruitful. And I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come

00:17:09.300 out of thee. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee,

00:17:14.760 in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

00:17:20.340 And I will give unto thee, and thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, 0.99

00:17:24.620 all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. And I will be their God. I love that line, really.

00:17:31.180 The line about the land where you are a stranger. You know, and everything that happens in the Bible,

00:17:36.980 almost everything that happens in these more archaic stories in particular, is laid out geographically.

00:17:42.400 The metaphor is geographic. So, you move to a land that you haven't yet occupied, maybe that's full

00:17:47.860 of strangers, and then the land is what's granted to you. But it's perfectly reasonable to think about

00:17:52.300 this from the perspective, from a more abstract perspective, that's much more relevant to modern

00:17:56.520 people with our incredibly complex societies. You know, it's definitely the case that if you go into

00:18:03.300 the land of the stranger, which is exactly what you do when you try out any new endeavor, right?

00:18:07.320 When you start a new job, or when you start a new educational enterprise, or when you start a new

00:18:11.340 relationship, it doesn't matter. You're out there in unexplored territory. Like, the physical geography

00:18:16.500 is the same, but we don't live in the spatial world only. We live in the temporal spatial world.

00:18:23.680 And what that means is that the same place can be different at a different time. I mean,

00:18:28.760 it can be completely different. And so, if you're in your house, but you have a new person

00:18:33.040 in your house, well, your house is new for all intents and purpose, because the territory

00:18:37.420 surrounding that new person is the territory of the foreigner, essentially. And the same 1.00

00:18:42.980 thing happens to you when you start a new job. And you'll find that when you start a new

00:18:45.960 job, especially if you've stretched yourself a little bit beyond your zone of comfort, that

00:18:49.780 you very much feel like an imposter, right? When you're first there. And then the question

00:18:54.260 is, well, how do you master that? And the answer to that seems to be, well, it seems fairly

00:18:58.500 straightforward. If the place that you're in has any degree of possibility, if it isn't

00:19:02.700 inhabited by demons, so to speak, the best way to act is to lift your aim upward and

00:19:08.280 attempt to get your act together and to tell the truth and to live a meaningful life and

00:19:11.760 to do difficult things, all of that. And that is the best way of mastering a new territory.

00:19:16.700 And in all probability, the degree to which you're able to act that out is precisely proportionate

00:19:23.200 to the degree to which you're going to become a master in that territory. And that sort of thing

00:19:27.340 can happen a lot faster than people think. You know, it's really quite remarkable how fast you

00:19:33.480 can move forward if you can establish yourself somewhere and prove yourself useful, assuming that

00:19:40.520 you're around people to whom proving yourself useful actually matters. Like, I know perfectly

00:19:45.460 well that you can end up in an employment situation where you're punished for your virtues, right?

00:19:50.160 In which case, you should just get the hell out of there. And really, really, you get out of there and

00:19:54.400 you go find somewhere where if you work hard and do what you're supposed to do, you're actually

00:19:58.600 going to be rewarded, right? Because that's not a workplace. That's hell. And you should just leave

00:20:03.980 there. So, and God said unto Abraham, thou shalt keep my covenant, therefore thou and thy seed after

00:20:10.480 thee in their generations. This is my covenant, which he shall keep between me and you and thy seed

00:20:15.700 after thee. Every man child among you shall be circumcised. That's a mystery there. Like, 0.98

00:20:20.840 why that particular right? Well, it's dramatic. I mean, it certainly, it certainly affects a man

00:20:27.140 where he's most concerned to be affected. There's something like that. And so, it's a sacrifice

00:20:32.480 that has a certain, I would say, a certain degree of unforgetability. That would be the first thing.

00:20:37.620 And a certain degree of pain and threat that goes along with it. So, it's not nothing. That's the

00:20:42.680 thing. Now, you can argue, and I think there is an argument, a case to be made about whether or not

00:20:49.620 in the modern world, circumcision is a reasonable, is something reasonable to inflict on infants. I 0.99

00:20:56.500 don't want to have that conversation at all. But I don't think that's relevant to this particular

00:21:02.840 issue because we're talking about something different. We're talking about humanity's attempt

00:21:08.480 to reconcile themselves to the fact that something has to be given up in order for something else to

00:21:15.220 happen. And to try to really work through that idea and to make it into a psychological reality.

00:21:20.400 And so far, what we've seen in the biblical stories is that when you make a sacrifice, it's not really

00:21:24.900 something personal or psychological, right? It's something external and dramatic. You give up

00:21:29.740 something that you own. You don't give up something that you are or that's part of you. And it's actually

00:21:35.540 more of a sacrifice to give up something that's a part of you or something that you are than to give up

00:21:41.540 something that you own. I mean, it's a subtle distinction because in some sense, the distinction

00:21:46.540 between what you own and what you are is subtle, right? I mean, it's not overwhelmingly subtle, but

00:21:52.480 people identify with their possessions and they need to because otherwise they wouldn't care for them.

00:21:57.640 And they need their possessions in order to live. So their possessions are in some sense integral to

00:22:02.460 them. But this transformation here of an act that was external and associated essentially with

00:22:09.240 possessions to something that was actually at least part of the body brings it much closer to

00:22:14.820 it brings it much closer to the to the to the individual as a psychological reality. It's something

00:22:20.060 like that. And you shall circumcise circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and it shall be a token 0.76

00:22:26.840 of the covenant betwixt me and you. It's also a permanent marker, you know, and I've read a fair bit

00:22:33.020 about practices like tattooing and body scarification, you know, which is those are very, very common

00:22:37.960 practices, right? They're human universals, actually. No matter where you go around the

00:22:42.120 world, I mean, you see a couple of things. First of all, almost without exception, people

00:22:46.140 wear clothing. And sometimes it's relatively minimal clothing, but it's, and often it's

00:22:52.260 more decorative than protective, but it's almost inevitably clothing. And the other thing that

00:22:57.800 you see is that people do scarify and tattoo themselves. And they do that in some manner

00:23:02.960 to catalyze their identity, right? They're trying to transform themselves from a generic

00:23:08.420 person in some sense to a person that's been designed by their own hand. It's something

00:23:13.820 like that. There, it's a, it's a marker of developing identity and some of it seems to

00:23:18.320 be catalyzed with pain. You know, the modern people who tattoo, and I'm not saying that I'm

00:23:24.020 in favor of tattooing because actually I'm not, but that, but that's my own particular bias.

00:23:29.100 And if you have a tattoo, that's fine with me. Um, I, I'm also not saying that there's

00:23:34.640 anything wrong with it. Um, but one of the things you do see, what we, that people who

00:23:39.600 have a tattoo do report is a couple of things, is that the pain is actually necessary, and

00:23:45.200 that the pain is actually something that seems to establish something like a memory. So, well,

00:23:50.120 it's a memory because of the pain, because you bloody well remember things that hurt, but

00:23:54.120 it's also a memory because it's actually etched on you, right? It's not something that you

00:23:58.180 can just abandon and forget. And so, a circumcision is exactly the same thing. It's like, you

00:24:02.820 don't forget it because it's part of you. And so, it makes a good token for a covenant.

00:24:07.500 And so, that seems to be the rationale here from, from speaking from a psychological perspective. 0.99

00:24:13.080 It's to indicate as well that the, the damn thing that's happening is serious. And I think 0.99

00:24:18.200 also that was the case with the earlier sacrifices of animals. It's like, modern people don't do

00:24:23.780 this. Like, you don't know how serious you would take a vow if you sacrificed a goat in

00:24:27.460 your backyard. You know, it's actually a very dramatic thing to do. You know, you think about

00:24:32.100 it as primitive, and perhaps it is archaic, and, and, and no doubt it is. But it's also

00:24:37.060 to, to take the life of something and to spill its blood. That's no joke. That's something you

00:24:41.340 remember, especially if you haven't done it before. And we actually don't know what we would

00:24:45.640 need to do in order to take some things seriously. You know, because we all do things like

00:24:50.240 make New Year's resolutions about how we're going to be better people, and we don't do

00:24:53.880 it. And the reason for that, at least in part, is because we don't know how to make the sacrifice

00:24:59.440 sufficiently bloody, let's say, so that we remember that it's necessary, right? We don't

00:25:05.960 take it with seriousness. We don't think, I should quit smoking, because I'm going to

00:25:10.360 die. And we don't think through what that means, like coughing your lungs out for three

00:25:15.200 months in a hotel bed. Well, your entire family is, like, half repulsed, and horrified,

00:25:21.400 and sorrow-stricken at the fact that this has happened far too early. You know, we won't

00:25:25.400 make that real enough to make it serious, and serious, and without that seriousness, we

00:25:30.260 won't do it. So, there's something to be said for rituals of seriousness, and I think

00:25:36.440 this is one of them.

00:25:38.080 And he that is eight days shall be circumcised among you, every man-child in your generations. 0.97

00:25:42.620 He that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy

00:25:46.440 seed. This is from Charles John Ellicott, who is Bishop of Gloucester. The fitness of circumcision

00:25:52.860 to be a sign of entering into a covenant, and especially into one to which children were

00:25:59.400 to be admitted, consisted in its being a representation of a new birth by putting off the old man, and

00:26:06.200 the dedication of the new man unto holiness. It's like a baptism, that's right, that's what's

00:26:11.620 echoed there. And, of course, baptism is a return to the pre-cosmogonic chaos, because

00:26:16.440 that's what the water indicates, and a return to the source of life, and then the renewal

00:26:21.460 that comes along with it. So, it's a sacrificial idea in some sense, that if there is to be

00:26:27.000 a new you, that the old you has to dissolve, has to return to the solution from which it

00:26:33.020 emerged initially, and to reconstitute itself. And so, there's an echo of that idea here.

00:26:37.960 The flesh was cast away, that the spirit might grow strong. And the change of name in Abram

00:26:43.960 and Sarai was typical of this change of condition. They had been born again, and so must again

00:26:48.300 be named. And though women could indeed be admitted directly into the covenant, could not indeed 0.72

00:26:54.100 be admitted directly into the covenant, yet they shared in its privileges by virtue of their

00:26:58.540 consanguinity to the men who were as sponsors for them. And thus, Sarai changes her name equally

00:27:03.580 with her husband. Well, you could make a case, and anthropological observers have made this

00:27:08.260 case too, that women undergo a sufficiently, a set of sufficiently radical psychophysiological

00:27:15.340 transformations, merely as a consequence of being part, being feminine in nature, such that

00:27:21.920 the additional rituals of transformation that might be necessary for men aren't necessary.

00:27:27.680 And one of those might be menstruation, because that's a pretty dramatic transformation.

00:27:31.040 And there has been some indication that circumcision is like a male, it's like the male equivalent 0.94

00:27:37.440 of menstruation, something like that, because of the blood that's involved, and because of

00:27:41.160 the locale. And then, of course, the same thing is the case with women when they give birth, 0.93

00:27:45.580 because that's a particularly dramatic thing, as I just witnessed, because my daughter just

00:27:49.800 had a baby this week. So thank God for that.

00:27:52.000 Thank God for that.

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00:30:49.820 Recent investigation. This is from the Cambridge Bible for School and Colleges, which if you want

00:30:54.660 to read it, is only 58 volumes. Recent investigation has not tended to support the theory that circumcision

00:31:02.260 has any connection with primitive child sacrifice, nor again that it took its origin from hygienic

00:31:07.780 motives. Apparently, it represents the dedication of the manhood of the people to God. In the history

00:31:13.500 of Israel, it has survived as the symbol of the people belonging to Jehovah through his special 0.76

00:31:18.000 election. This corporeal sacrament remained to the Israelite when every other tie of religion or race 0.88

00:31:23.760 had been severed.

00:31:33.620 The other thing that I read about in relationship to this idea of the multi-generational covenant

00:31:40.100 had something to do, because God told Abraham to include all of the people of his household

00:31:45.800 into this covenant. And that really meant that he was establishing a territory of ethics around

00:31:53.500 them, like the ark, except the psychological equivalent of the ark, right? So it was a spiritual

00:31:59.200 or psychological or ethical territory that everyone who was of that household was required to

00:32:05.840 occupy, or obliged, or perhaps privileged to occupy. And there was also an injunction to Abraham with

00:32:12.580 regards to his children, which was that as he had established a covenant with God, which we could say

00:32:17.780 as something like his decision to aim as high as possible and to live properly as a consequence. It's more than that,

00:32:25.620 but it's something like that. That he also was under the supreme moral obligation to share that with the other men

00:32:34.240 in his family, especially his children. And so I think there's also a call here to adopting the sacred responsibility

00:32:43.120 in relationship to children that has to do with ensuring that they understand how to take their

00:32:49.220 place in the world. And I think that that's definitely something very much worth considering, especially

00:32:56.960 given the emphasis in the Noah story, in the story of Noah, that Noah had his, that his generations were

00:33:04.800 perfect, right? As I said before, it wasn't merely that he had walked with God, that he had perfected his own

00:33:10.720 relationship with the divine relationship with the divine, let's say, with the transcendent. And I want to make

00:33:14.760 that concrete, which is a strange thing to do with the transcendent. I mean, people ask me all the time

00:33:21.100 about what I believe, and of course, that's what I'm trying to explain while I'm talking. But, but, but, and, and many

00:33:29.460 people, of course, are skeptical about the idea of anything transcendent, and, and, and, and, say, transcendent and

00:33:38.760 eternal. But that can also be addressed from a psychological perspective, because I would say,

00:33:44.980 well, if you have an ideal of any sort, how is that not transcendent? It transcends you, that's the first

00:33:53.880 thing, and it doesn't exist in reality, it exists in a place of possibility. And believe me, man, we treat

00:34:00.500 places of possibility as if they're real, because people will, will call on you, you know, about your

00:34:06.360 possibility and your potential. They'll say to you, you're not manifesting your full potential. And you

00:34:11.140 might say, well, what do you mean by that? Potential. It doesn't exist. It isn't here now. You can't

00:34:18.300 measure it or weigh it. You can't get a grip on it. And they'll say, don't rationalize. You know

00:34:24.100 perfectly well what I mean when I'm talking about your potential. And so we could, and you do, and, and

00:34:28.580 everyone does, and everyone knows exactly what that means. And so that's a metaphysical reality that we'll

00:34:33.560 immediately accept as real, and also castigate ourselves for not fulfilling. And others too,

00:34:39.480 like, because you're just not happy when the people around you, especially if you love them, don't

00:34:43.900 fulfill their potential. You really feel that something has gone wrong. And so there's a

00:34:47.700 transcendent reality and potential. And then when you hypothesize an ideal that you might pursue,

00:34:52.940 which you always do if you pursue anything, right? Because to pursue something means you don't

00:34:58.420 already have it. You're pursuing something that doesn't exist. You're probably not pursuing

00:35:03.000 something that's worse than what you already have, because why the hell would you pursue 0.60

00:35:07.200 it, right? That's completely counterproductive. So in the, in the mere fact of your pursuit,

00:35:12.360 you, you posit a transcendent reality that you can, that you can, that you can journey towards,

00:35:19.980 that's more valuable than the reality that you have now, that's predicated in some sense on

00:35:25.040 something like an eternal verity or an eternal truth. It partakes in the ideal. And so we have a

00:35:32.440 relationship with the transcendent. And you might say, well, that doesn't mean you have to

00:35:36.280 personify the transcendent, say, as Jehovah, you know, the God, the Father. But there's also some

00:35:42.160 damn good reasons for doing that, because one of the things that I've realized, thinking through

00:35:47.360 this covenant idea and also the sacrifice idea, is that the idea that the future is a judgmental 0.97

00:35:54.860 father is a really, really good idea. You know, because you think about what the future is in part.

00:36:01.560 I mean, the future is however the natural world is going to lay itself out over the next

00:36:05.740 endless amount of time. That isn't what I mean. I think more about your future. Now, mostly your

00:36:11.220 future is the future that you're going to negotiate with other people, but they're going to be other

00:36:16.260 people in the future. And some of those people are going to be you in the future and family members

00:36:20.920 in the future. And so what's happening right now is that if you make the sacrifices properly,

00:36:26.380 then you're actually pleasing that future set of people. And that future set of people is definitely

00:36:32.500 going to serve as a judge. It's exactly what it does. That's precisely what it does. And so you

00:36:38.220 might say, well, it was the brilliant imagination of mankind that hypothesized that the best way to

00:36:44.320 think about the social group, including the family, but also including you as your future self,

00:36:50.260 was to consider that you live in relationship with a future father who's a judge. It's like, yes,

00:36:58.360 that's exactly right. Now, is it right, right? Or is it psychologically right? Well, it's at least

00:37:03.520 psychologically right. And, you know, one of the things I've learned about the biblical stories is that

00:37:08.960 to say that they're psychologically right doesn't exhaust the ways in which they're right. But it at

00:37:17.840 least gives rational modern people who are skeptical and properly so a better way of getting a grip on

00:37:23.600 them. So, and the uncircumcised man-child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul 0.67

00:37:32.060 shall be cut off from his people. He hath broken my covenant. So it's a serious contractual relationship. 0.96

00:37:38.200 Now, I was thinking about how to understand this, and I remembered this old story, which I'm going

00:37:43.500 to read to you about a monkey. So, there's an old and possibly apocryphal story about how to catch

00:37:49.320 a monkey that illustrates this set of ideas very well. First, so goes the story, you have to find a

00:37:54.260 large, narrow-necked jar, just barely wide enough in diameter for a monkey to put its hand inside.

00:38:00.500 And then you have to fill the jar up with rocks, so that it's too heavy for the monkey to carry away.

00:38:06.400 And then you scatter some treats around the jar that are attractive to monkeys, and close to the jar.

00:38:13.000 And then you put a few of those treats inside the jar. And so that's the first part of the trick. And

00:38:17.840 then the second part of the trick is the monkey comes along and gathers up the treats, and then

00:38:21.460 puts his hand in the jar and grabs the treats that are in there. But it's narrow-necked. And so once the

00:38:27.640 monkey puts his hand in there and grabs the goodies, then he can't get his hand out of the damn jar. 0.99

00:38:32.080 And so then you can just come along and pick up the monkey. And like, too bad for the monkey, right? It's like, he should have let go of what he had. 0.99

00:38:38.680 So that something terrible didn't happen to him. But that isn't what the monkey will do. Because he can't sacrifice the part for the whole.

00:38:46.180 And there's something about the circumcision story that's about that. It's about sacrificing the part to save the whole. And, I mean, there's an echo of that in the New Testament, if I remember correctly.

00:38:58.080 I believe this is correct, although it might not be. Where Christ tells his disciples to pluck out their eye if it offends them. Seems like a very dramatic, you know, piece of advice.

00:39:11.080 But it's partaking of the same idea. Which is that, you know, if there's something holding you back. And we'll see this when we get to the story of Lot, too.

00:39:19.080 If there's something holding you back, even if it's dear to you, you have to let it go. You seriously have to let it go. Because there isn't anything more important than progressing forward.

00:39:30.080 And cheap sympathy, cheap empathy, cheap nostalgia. None of that is sufficient. None of that will work. Because the consequences of not putting things together immediately are dire.

00:39:45.080 And there's no time to wait.

00:39:49.080 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

00:39:55.080 My princess, that was Sarai. Sarah is mother of nations. And I will bless her and give thee a son also of her. Yea, I will bless her.

00:40:03.080 She will be a mother of nations. Kings of people shall be of her. 0.56

00:40:06.080 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old?

00:40:13.080 He's got a lot of gall, I would say. I mean, here's God talking to him and he laughs, you know, but that's okay.

00:40:18.080 He's a courageous guy and that's what people are like.

00:40:21.080 And shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? And Abraham said unto God, Oh, that Ishmael might live before thee. 0.71

00:40:29.080 And God said, Sarah, thy wife, shall bear thee a son indeed. And thou shalt call his name Isaac.

00:40:35.080 And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him.

00:40:40.080 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee. Behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly.

00:40:47.080 Twelve princes shall he beget and I will make him a great nation.

00:40:50.080 Now, what does this mean? This is a miraculous story in some sense, right?

00:40:55.080 Because, well, Sarah, it's what Isaac want or what Abraham wants most is to have a son.

00:41:00.080 But it looks like it's pretty much impossible.

00:41:02.080 And I think what the story is attempting to indicate is something like, God only knows what will happen to you if you put your house in order.

00:41:13.080 Certainly things that you do not currently regard as possible will happen.

00:41:19.080 And the more you put your house in order, the more things that you regard as impossible will happen.

00:41:26.080 And it might be the case that if you put your house together sufficiently, things that were of miraculous impossibility would happen to you.

00:41:35.080 Well, and there's no way of knowing until you try it.

00:41:38.080 But there's no way of being sure that it's not the case unless you do.

00:41:43.080 And my experience has been that, I don't mean just personally, I mean that the world is a remarkable and mysterious place.

00:41:55.080 And the relationship between the nature and structure of the world and your actions is indeterminate.

00:42:00.080 They may be more tightly related than you think.

00:42:03.080 And I don't know how to square that with the fact that, well, you're obviously in a mortal body and constrained by all sorts of serious constraints.

00:42:14.080 And none of that can be trivially overcome.

00:42:22.080 And I don't really understand how there can be that seriousness of mortal constraint and the infinite potential that also seems to characterize human beings all at the same time.

00:42:33.080 But then I don't really understand anything about the nature of reality.

00:42:36.080 So that's just one more mystery to add to the pile.

00:42:39.080 So...

00:42:41.080 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time next year.

00:42:47.080 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

00:42:50.080 And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all that were born in his house and all that were bought with his money, 0.83

00:42:55.080 every male among the men of Abraham's house,

00:42:57.080 and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day as God had said unto him.

00:43:02.080 That must have been an interesting conversation.

00:43:04.080 That's...

00:43:06.080 I mean, really, this is what God told you to do, eh?

00:43:10.080 It's like, okay.

00:43:13.080 And Abraham was 90 years old and nine when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

00:43:19.080 And Ishmael was 13 years old when he was circumcised.

00:43:22.080 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and his son and all the men of his house, 0.91

00:43:27.080 born in the house and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. 0.77

00:43:31.080 All right, so that's the renewal of the covenant.

00:43:35.080 That's the next part of the story.

00:43:36.080 That's the circumcision story. 0.93

00:43:39.080 And as I said, it seems to indicate to me something about seriousness of intent,

00:43:44.080 something about the responsibility that Abraham determines to take for everyone that's part of his household,

00:43:52.080 the psychological, increasing psychological transformation of the idea of sacrifice,

00:43:58.080 the necessity of doing something memorable,

00:44:01.080 and the...

00:44:03.080 What would you call it?

00:44:04.080 The utility of rekindling the aims of your highest values when you come to the end of an epoch in your life.

00:44:13.080 When you have to take stock again.

00:44:15.080 Right? You take stock of yourself.

00:44:17.080 That's really what that phrase means, to take stock.

00:44:19.080 Is to take stock of yourself and to decide, okay, well...

00:44:22.080 What should move forward in time with me?

00:44:25.080 And what should be let go as if it's dead wood?

00:44:28.080 And the more dead wood that you let go of and burn off when you have the opportunity, the less it accretes around you.

00:44:34.080 Here's something interesting about forest fires, you know?

00:44:37.080 People have been trying to prevent forest fires for a long time. 0.98

00:44:40.080 Especially that damn bear, Smokey, right? 0.98

00:44:42.080 He's trying to prevent forest fires. 0.99

00:44:44.080 And so, because forest fires burn up the forest, and that can't be good.

00:44:48.080 But here's what happens if you don't let forest fires burn.

00:44:52.080 Is that, well, forests collect a lot of dry branches, right?

00:44:57.080 Because tree branches die, and wood falls on the forest floor and collects.

00:45:03.080 And so the amount of flammable material keeps increasing with time.

00:45:08.080 And that's not so bad if it's wet.

00:45:11.080 But if the amount of flammable material is increasing, and it gets really dry, and then it burns, then you have a real problem.

00:45:18.080 The forest fire can burn so hot, that it burns the topsoil right off.

00:45:25.080 In which case, you don't have a forest at all anymore, you just have a desert.

00:45:28.080 And lots of trees are evolved to withstand forest fires of a certain intensity.

00:45:33.080 And some won't even release their seeds unless there's been a fire.

00:45:38.080 And so, a little bit of fire at the right time can stop everything from burning to the ground.

00:45:44.080 And that's also a really useful insight, a metaphorical insight into the nature of sacrifice, right?

00:45:50.080 It's also a lot easier to let go of something when you're deciding to let go of it.

00:45:55.080 Because you've decided yourself that you're done with that.

00:45:58.080 It's a weak part of you. It needs to disappear.

00:46:01.080 If you do that yourself, it's much better and much easier than it is if it's taken away from you forcibly.

00:46:07.080 In which case, you're very much likely to fight it.

00:46:10.080 There's another interesting thing here, a motif that runs through the entire Bible.

00:46:15.080 It's a very, very powerful motif.

00:46:17.080 And it's partly associated with this idea of walking with or walking before God.

00:46:21.080 And, you know, in the New Testament, Christ says something like,

00:46:26.080 Thy Father's will be done.

00:46:28.080 And he means that, that will should be done through Him.

00:46:32.080 And so...

00:46:34.080 I can't, I won't be able to state this exactly right, but it's something like this.

00:46:38.080 You know, a lot of what people regard as their own personalities, and are proud of, about their own personalities,

00:46:44.080 aren't their own personalities at all.

00:46:46.080 They're useless idiosyncrasies that differ them, differentiate them trivially from other people.

00:46:54.080 But they have no value in and of themselves.

00:46:56.080 They're more like quirks.

00:46:57.080 I remember once I was trying to teach a particularly stubborn student about how to write.

00:47:04.080 And she had written a number of essays in university, and got universally walloped for them.

00:47:12.080 And the reason for that was, she couldn't write.

00:47:14.080 Really, at all.

00:47:15.080 She was really, really bad at writing.

00:47:17.080 And so, I was sitting down with her, trying to explain to her what she was doing wrong.

00:47:24.080 And she was being very annoying about it. 0.93

00:47:27.080 Very recalcitrant.

00:47:28.080 Very, very unwilling to listen.

00:47:30.080 That was a pearls before swine thing, you know.

00:47:32.080 And, at one point she said, I can write perfectly well.

00:47:36.080 The university professors just don't like my style.

00:47:39.080 And I could feel my hands creep towards her neck. 0.99

00:47:46.080 Yeah, well, that'd be funny if it wasn't true.

00:47:48.080 But it was also true.

00:47:50.080 You know, and I thought, what the hell's with you?

00:47:53.080 You can't even write, and you think you have a style. 0.67

00:47:56.080 And not only do you think...

00:48:02.080 Yeah.

00:48:03.080 Not knowing how to write is not a style.

00:48:06.080 That's the other point, right?

00:48:07.080 And so, you know, she... 0.99

00:48:09.080 Instead of humbling herself, which was necessary.

00:48:12.080 And okay, right?

00:48:13.080 Because she was a new university student.

00:48:14.080 It's like, of course you don't know how to write.

00:48:16.080 When were you gonna learn?

00:48:17.080 In school?

00:48:18.080 I don't think so.

00:48:19.080 Yeah.

00:48:20.080 Yeah.

00:48:25.080 So, she had this, you know, this style issue. 1.00

00:48:29.080 And it just didn't go anywhere at all.

00:48:32.080 And so, now, let's see.

00:48:34.080 I lost my train of thought in telling you all those jokes.

00:48:38.080 Oh yes, in terms of letting things burn off.

00:48:42.080 Yeah, well, so she was proud of her insufficiency.

00:48:44.080 That's arrogance, right?

00:48:45.080 That's arrogance, right?

00:48:46.080 That's not humility.

00:48:47.080 It's self-deception and arrogance.

00:48:48.080 To be proud of your insufficiency. 1.00

00:48:50.080 That's a very foolish thing. 0.99

00:48:51.080 And that means to cling to the parts of you that are dead. 0.99

00:48:54.080 Okay, now.

00:48:55.080 There's this idea that runs through the Bible.

00:48:58.080 I think as a whole.

00:48:59.080 That...

00:49:04.080 Okay, I'll tell you another little side story here.

00:49:06.080 I was reading about Socrates today.

00:49:07.080 And I was reading about Socrates' trial.

00:49:10.080 You know, he was tried by the Athenians for corrupting...

00:49:15.080 For failing to worship the correct gods and corrupting the youth of Athens.

00:49:19.080 By, like, teaching them stuff and asking them questions.

00:49:21.080 You know, which is a great way to corrupt people.

00:49:24.080 And, um...

00:49:26.080 So, he knew the trial was coming.

00:49:28.080 And Athens wasn't a very big place.

00:49:31.080 It only had about 25,000 people.

00:49:32.080 Everybody knew everybody.

00:49:33.080 Everybody knew who the powerful guys were.

00:49:35.080 And everybody, including Socrates, knew that...

00:49:39.080 The trial was a warning...

00:49:41.080 To, like, get out of town.

00:49:42.080 Right?

00:49:43.080 We're gonna put you on trial in six months.

00:49:45.080 And the potential penalty is death.

00:49:48.080 Got that?

00:49:49.080 It's like...

00:49:50.080 So, Socrates had a chat with his compatriots.

00:49:53.080 And they were contemplating fair means and foul to set up a defense for him.

00:49:59.080 So that he could...

00:50:00.080 Or to leave.

00:50:01.080 So that he could not be tried and put to death.

00:50:04.080 And, uh...

00:50:06.080 He decided that he wasn't gonna do that.

00:50:08.080 And he also decided that he wasn't...

00:50:10.080 Going to even think about his defense.

00:50:13.080 And he said why.

00:50:15.080 And this is quite an interesting thing.

00:50:17.080 He said why.

00:50:18.080 He told one of his friends...

00:50:20.080 That...

00:50:21.080 He had this...

00:50:22.080 Voice in his head.

00:50:24.080 A daemon.

00:50:25.080 A spirit.

00:50:26.080 Something like that.

00:50:27.080 Um...

00:50:28.080 That...

00:50:29.080 He always listened to.

00:50:30.080 And that that was one of the reasons he was different from other people.

00:50:32.080 Because he always listened to this thing.

00:50:33.080 It didn't tell him what to do.

00:50:34.080 But it told him what not to do.

00:50:36.080 It always told him what not to do.

00:50:37.080 And if it told him not to do something.

00:50:39.080 Then he didn't do it.

00:50:40.080 If he was speaking.

00:50:41.080 And the little voice came up and said...

00:50:44.080 No.

00:50:45.080 Then he shut up.

00:50:46.080 And he tried to say something else.

00:50:48.080 And he was very emphatic about this.

00:50:49.080 And he said that when he tried to...

00:50:51.080 Plan to evade the trial.

00:50:54.080 Or even to mount his own defense.

00:50:56.080 The voice came up and said...

00:50:58.080 No.

00:50:59.080 Don't bother with it.

00:51:01.080 And he thought...

00:51:02.080 Well...

00:51:03.080 What...

00:51:04.080 What do you... 0.88

00:51:05.080 What the hell do you mean by that? 0.54

00:51:06.080 Like...

00:51:07.080 There's a trial coming. 1.00

00:51:08.080 And I'm gonna be put to death. 1.00

00:51:09.080 And... 0.99

00:51:10.080 Well...

00:51:11.080 He eventually concluded that...

00:51:12.080 He was an old guy.

00:51:14.080 You know...

00:51:15.080 The next ten years...

00:51:16.080 He was in his seventies.

00:51:17.080 Perhaps...

00:51:18.080 The next ten years weren't gonna be that great for him.

00:51:20.080 He got a chance...

00:51:21.080 Maybe...

00:51:22.080 The gods were giving him a chance...

00:51:23.080 Just to bow out.

00:51:24.080 You know...

00:51:25.080 To put his affairs in order.

00:51:26.080 To say goodbye to everyone.

00:51:27.080 To avoid that...

00:51:28.080 Last descent into catastrophe.

00:51:30.080 Which might have been particularly painful for a philosopher.

00:51:33.080 And to...

00:51:34.080 And to walk off the...

00:51:35.080 World...

00:51:36.080 On his own terms.

00:51:37.080 Something like that.

00:51:42.080 The point I'm making with that is...

00:51:44.080 That Socrates attended to this internal voice.

00:51:46.080 That at least told him what not to do.

00:51:48.080 And then he didn't do it.

00:51:49.080 And of course Socrates was a very remarkable man.

00:51:51.080 And we still hear about him today.

00:51:53.080 And we know that he existed.

00:51:54.080 And all of those things.

00:51:55.080 And so...

00:51:56.080 Back to the...

00:51:58.080 Back to the...

00:51:59.080 Walking with God idea.

00:52:02.080 You know...

00:52:03.080 As you...

00:52:04.080 Elevate your aim...

00:52:08.080 You...

00:52:09.080 Create a judge at the same time.

00:52:10.080 Right?

00:52:11.080 Because...

00:52:12.080 The new ideal...

00:52:13.080 Which is an ideal you...

00:52:14.080 Even if it's just an ideal position that you might occupy.

00:52:17.080 Even if it's still conceptualized in that concrete way.

00:52:20.080 That becomes a judge.

00:52:21.080 Because it's above you.

00:52:22.080 Right?

00:52:23.080 And then...

00:52:24.080 You're...

00:52:25.080 Terrified of it maybe.

00:52:26.080 That's why you might be afraid when you go start a new job.

00:52:28.080 Right?

00:52:29.080 Because you're...

00:52:30.080 This thing is above you.

00:52:31.080 And you're terrified of it.

00:52:32.080 And it judges you.

00:52:33.080 And that's useful.

00:52:34.080 Because the...

00:52:35.080 The judge...

00:52:36.080 That you're creating by formulating the ideal.

00:52:38.080 Tells you... 0.79

00:52:39.080 What's useless about yourself.

00:52:41.080 And then you can dispense with it.

00:52:43.080 And you want to keep doing that.

00:52:45.080 And then...

00:52:46.080 Every time you make a judge that's more elevated. 0.99

00:52:47.080 Then there's more useless you that has to be dispensed with. 0.93

00:52:50.080 And then if you... 0.99

00:52:51.080 Create an ultimate judge.

00:52:53.080 Which is what the archetypal imagination of humankind has done say.

00:52:57.080 With the figure of Christ.

00:52:58.080 Because if Christ is nothing else.

00:53:00.080 He is at least the archetypal perfect man.

00:53:02.080 And therefore the judge.

00:53:04.080 You have a judge that says...

00:53:05.080 Get rid of everything about yourself.

00:53:07.080 That isn't perfect.

00:53:09.080 And of course that's also what Abraham...

00:53:10.080 That's also what God tells Abraham.

00:53:12.080 Right?

00:53:13.080 He says...

00:53:14.080 To be perfect.

00:53:15.080 To pick an ideal that's high enough.

00:53:17.080 And you can do this.

00:53:18.080 The thing that's interesting about this.

00:53:19.080 I think.

00:53:20.080 Is you can do it more or less on your own terms.

00:53:22.080 You have to have...

00:53:23.080 Some collaboration from other people.

00:53:25.080 But...

00:53:26.080 You don't have to pick an external ideal.

00:53:27.080 You can pick an ideal that fulfills the role of ideal for you.

00:53:30.080 You can say...

00:53:31.080 Okay, well...

00:53:32.080 If...

00:53:33.080 Things could be set up for me the way I need them to be.

00:53:35.080 And if I could be who I needed to be.

00:53:37.080 What would that look like?

00:53:39.080 And you can figure that out for yourself.

00:53:41.080 And then instantly you have a judge.

00:53:42.080 And I also think that's part of the reason people don't do it.

00:53:44.080 Right?

00:53:45.080 Why don't...

00:53:46.080 Why don't people look up and move ahead?

00:53:48.080 And the answer is...

00:53:49.080 Well...

00:53:50.080 You know...

00:53:51.080 You start formulating an ideal.

00:53:52.080 You formulate a judge.

00:53:53.080 It's pretty easy to feel intimidated in the face of your own ideal.

00:53:56.080 That's what happens to Cain versus Abel for example.

00:53:59.080 Then it's really easy to destroy the ideal instead of to try to pursue it.

00:54:02.080 Because then you get rid of the judge.

00:54:04.080 But it's way better... 1.00

00:54:06.080 Lower the damn judge if it's too much. 0.99

00:54:08.080 Like if your current ambition is crushing you. 1.00

00:54:11.080 You know...

00:54:12.080 Then maybe you're playing the tyrant to yourself.

00:54:13.080 And you should...

00:54:14.080 Tap down your ambitions.

00:54:16.080 Not get rid of them by any stretch of the imagination.

00:54:18.080 But at least put them more reasonably within your grasp.

00:54:21.080 You don't have to leap from point one to point fifty in one leap.

00:54:25.080 Right?

00:54:26.080 You can do it incrementally.

00:54:27.080 But I really like this idea.

00:54:28.080 I think it's a profound idea.

00:54:30.080 That...

00:54:31.080 The process of recapitulating yourself continually is also the process of...

00:54:36.080 It's a phoenix-like process.

00:54:38.080 Right?

00:54:39.080 You're shedding all those elements of you that are no longer worthy of the pursuits that you're...

00:54:45.080 That you're valuing.

00:54:47.080 And then I would say...

00:54:48.080 The idea here...

00:54:49.080 Is that...

00:54:50.080 As you do that...

00:54:51.080 You shape yourself ever more...

00:54:54.080 Precisely into something that...

00:54:56.080 Can withstand the tragedy of life.

00:54:59.080 And that can act as a...

00:55:01.080 As a beacon to the world.

00:55:03.080 That's the right way of thinking about it.

00:55:04.080 Maybe...

00:55:05.080 First to your friends and then to your family.

00:55:07.080 It's like it's a hell of a fine ambition.

00:55:09.080 And there's no reason that it can't happen.

00:55:11.080 You know...

00:55:12.080 Every one of you knows people who are really bloody useful in a crisis.

00:55:16.080 And people that you admire.

00:55:17.080 Right?

00:55:18.080 Those are all...

00:55:19.080 You can think of all those people as you admire...

00:55:20.080 That you admire as...

00:55:21.080 Partial incarnations of the archetypal Messiah.

00:55:25.080 That's exactly right.

00:55:27.080 And the more that that manifests itself in any given person.

00:55:31.080 Then the more generally useful and admirable that person is in a multitude of situations.

00:55:36.080 And we don't know the limit to that.

00:55:38.080 But people can be unbelievably good for things.

00:55:40.080 You know?

00:55:41.080 It's really something to behold.

00:55:43.080 So...

00:55:44.080 That's what God tells Abraham.

00:55:46.080 Okay.

00:55:47.080 So...

00:55:48.080 The next story is about Abraham and these angels.

00:55:50.080 Angels show up on his doorstep.

00:55:52.080 And this is part of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

00:55:54.080 But I don't think...

00:55:56.080 As I said...

00:55:57.080 This story is generally read as if it's about homosexuality.

00:56:00.080 But I don't think it is.

00:56:01.080 Here...

00:56:02.080 I think it's about two things.

00:56:03.080 Primarily.

00:56:04.080 One is...

00:56:07.080 How do you treat the strange?

00:56:10.080 So the strange is strange things.

00:56:12.080 And strange ideas.

00:56:13.080 And strange people.

00:56:14.080 And strangers.

00:56:15.080 Right?

00:56:16.080 It's all that.

00:56:17.080 It's that which is not you.

00:56:18.080 It's like the strange lands that God asked Abraham to move out into.

00:56:22.080 How do you interact with the strange?

00:56:26.080 And here's one possible rule.

00:56:29.080 Because you could say to yourself...

00:56:30.080 Well...

00:56:31.080 What do I want to make friends with more?

00:56:33.080 Where do I want to be more comfortable?

00:56:35.080 Do I want to be more comfortable with that which I already know?

00:56:38.080 And so that would be the circumscribed territory that you've already mastered.

00:56:42.080 Or do I want to be comfortable with all those things I don't know?

00:56:46.080 And then...

00:56:48.080 The right answer is that you should want to be comfortable with all those things that you don't know.

00:56:52.080 Because there's a bloody lot of things that you don't know.

00:56:55.080 And if you can be a sojourner among what you don't know.

00:56:58.080 Well then, you're so protected.

00:57:00.080 Because...

00:57:01.080 Well, you're going to go lots of places where you don't know.

00:57:03.080 And you're going to be able to manage it.

00:57:05.080 So you want to be...

00:57:06.080 You want to be that person that can act where they don't know.

00:57:09.080 And so...

00:57:13.080 Well, so what happens with...

00:57:15.080 With Abraham? 0.83

00:57:16.080 Well, he's at home.

00:57:17.080 And these angels show up.

00:57:19.080 Now...

00:57:21.080 We don't know whether they're angels or men precisely.

00:57:25.080 Because...

00:57:26.080 Well, as this part of the story reads.

00:57:28.080 As the Lord appeared to him in the plains of Mamre.

00:57:31.080 And he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

00:57:34.080 So he's another visionary state by all appearances.

00:57:37.080 And he lifted up his eyes and looked.

00:57:38.080 And, lo, three men stood by him.

00:57:40.080 There's real ambivalence in the story about the men.

00:57:42.080 Are there three men?

00:57:44.080 Are there three angels?

00:57:45.080 Are there two angels and God?

00:57:47.080 It's all mixed up in the story.

00:57:49.080 So...

00:57:50.080 We won't clarify that.

00:57:51.080 We'll leave it ambiguous.

00:57:52.080 And I think the ambiguity is important.

00:57:54.080 Because...

00:57:55.080 You don't know who the stranger is...

00:57:56.080 When you encounter him.

00:57:58.080 And it depends on whether you're thinking about it...

00:58:02.080 In the normative manner.

00:58:03.080 Or if you're thinking about it in the transcendent manner.

00:58:05.080 Because...

00:58:06.080 With each person that you meet...

00:58:07.080 Well, they're just a person.

00:58:08.080 That's one way of thinking about it.

00:58:10.080 And then they're the person that you know.

00:58:12.080 Or they're the person...

00:58:14.080 As they choose to reveal themselves to you.

00:58:16.080 And people keep themselves shielded.

00:58:18.080 But then they're also...

00:58:19.080 Something of great metaphysical potential.

00:58:22.080 Right?

00:58:23.080 And you might say...

00:58:24.080 Well...

00:58:25.080 Do you believe that?

00:58:26.080 And I would say...

00:58:27.080 Well...

00:58:28.080 Yes...

00:58:29.080 You believe it.

00:58:30.080 Because you expect a lot from people, generally speaking.

00:58:31.080 And are not happy if they betray you.

00:58:33.080 But more importantly...

00:58:34.080 Our entire culture is predicated on the idea that each person has...

00:58:38.080 An indefinite intrinsic worth.

00:58:40.080 And I'm not talking about self-esteem.

00:58:42.080 I'm talking about...

00:58:43.080 Something like the...

00:58:45.080 What would you say it?

00:58:47.080 The implicit presupposition in our legal structure that...

00:58:51.080 No matter who you are.

00:58:52.080 Even if you're a murderer. 0.55

00:58:53.080 Even if you're a condemned murderer. 0.71

00:58:55.080 That there's something about you.

00:58:57.080 That's of transcendent value.

00:58:59.080 That has to be respected by the law.

00:59:01.080 By the law and by other people.

00:59:02.080 Right?

00:59:03.080 And so that's...

00:59:04.080 That's a remark...

00:59:05.080 And you might say...

00:59:06.080 Well...

00:59:07.080 You know...

00:59:08.080 Do I believe that?

00:59:09.080 And the answer to that is...

00:59:10.080 Well, you act it out.

00:59:11.080 Because you follow the law.

00:59:12.080 And it's not an easy thing to pull out of the law.

00:59:13.080 It's kind of the idea that...

00:59:14.080 You have intrinsic natural rights.

00:59:16.080 And you don't pull that out of our law, man.

00:59:18.080 Without having the whole thing fall down.

00:59:20.080 And I think the whole idea that you have intrinsic natural rights...

00:59:23.080 Is predicated on something like...

00:59:25.080 The biblical...

00:59:27.080 Hypothesis that human beings...

00:59:29.080 Have a logos nature.

00:59:31.080 And that...

00:59:32.080 We are involved in the speaking forth of being.

00:59:35.080 And as...

00:59:36.080 Beings who's...

00:59:37.080 Who are involved in the speaking forth of being.

00:59:40.080 There's something about us that has to be respected.

00:59:43.080 By...

00:59:44.080 By ourselves...

00:59:45.080 In relationship to ourselves.

00:59:46.080 By ourselves in relationship to other people.

00:59:48.080 But even more strangely...

00:59:50.080 By ourselves in relationship to...

00:59:52.080 Even to criminals.

00:59:53.080 Even to vicious criminals.

00:59:55.080 You can't remove that transcendent element.

00:59:57.080 And that's...

00:59:59.080 That to me...

01:00:00.080 That's also a miracle of conceptualization.

01:00:02.080 Because...

01:00:03.080 Who the hell's gonna think that up?

01:00:04.080 Right? 0.97

01:00:05.080 Even the most vicious of murderers...

01:00:07.080 Has a touch of the transcendent...

01:00:09.080 That needs to be respected.

01:00:11.080 Of all the ideas that are unlikely...

01:00:13.080 That's gonna top the list.

01:00:15.080 And...

01:00:16.080 Of course without that...

01:00:17.080 You have a very barbaric legal system.

01:00:18.080 Right?

01:00:19.080 Because no one is protected.

01:00:20.080 As soon as you make a mistake... 0.95

01:00:22.080 Then you're in the damned. 0.88

01:00:23.080 And you have no rights whatsoever. 0.75

01:00:24.080 And that isn't what happens in the West.

01:00:26.080 Which is an absolutely amazing thing.

01:00:28.080 So anyways...

01:00:30.080 Abraham...

01:00:31.080 Is a master of the stranger.

01:00:33.080 That's one way of thinking about it.

01:00:36.080 He knows what to do...

01:00:38.080 When strangers come along.

01:00:40.080 And he opens his...

01:00:42.080 He opens himself up to them.

01:00:44.080 And I would say he does that.

01:00:45.080 We know he's not a naive guy.

01:00:47.080 Abraham, right?

01:00:48.080 He's no weakling.

01:00:49.080 A couple of stories ago...

01:00:51.080 He took a big army and...

01:00:53.080 You know...

01:00:54.080 Went and harassed a bunch of kings.

01:00:55.080 And took his...

01:00:56.080 Nephew back.

01:00:57.080 He's...

01:00:58.080 He's a tough guy.

01:00:59.080 And so...

01:01:00.080 If strangers show up and he welcomes them...

01:01:02.080 It's not because...

01:01:04.080 He couldn't do otherwise.

01:01:05.080 He could certainly do otherwise.

01:01:07.080 And it's not because he isn't aware of...

01:01:09.080 What people can be like.

01:01:10.080 He's perfectly aware of what people can be like.

01:01:12.080 But...

01:01:13.080 Determines to take a particular attitude towards them.

01:01:15.080 And that is to welcome them.

01:01:17.080 And so...

01:01:18.080 And why would you do that?

01:01:19.080 And I think the answer to that is...

01:01:22.080 You hold out your hand in trust to someone.

01:01:25.080 And you evoke the best from them.

01:01:28.080 If that's there to be given.

01:01:31.080 So it's an act of courage.

01:01:32.080 It's like...

01:01:33.080 It's...

01:01:34.080 It isn't me meeting you.

01:01:35.080 Exactly.

01:01:36.080 Not exactly.

01:01:37.080 It's more like...

01:01:38.080 The transcendent part of me...

01:01:40.080 Making a gesture that allows the transcendent...

01:01:42.080 The transcendent part of you to step forward.

01:01:44.080 And...

01:01:45.080 That happens all the time.

01:01:46.080 It happens all the time.

01:01:47.080 In normative discourse.

01:01:49.080 You know this perfectly well.

01:01:50.080 Because sometimes...

01:01:51.080 You can have a real casual conversation with someone...

01:01:53.080 That just goes nowhere.

01:01:54.080 Right?

01:01:55.080 It's just shallow as can be.

01:01:56.080 Or now and then...

01:01:57.080 You can actually make contact with someone.

01:01:59.080 Right?

01:02:00.080 And you're both...

01:02:01.080 I would say...

01:02:02.080 Enlightened and ennobled by the conversation.

01:02:04.080 And that's a deep...

01:02:05.080 We would call that a deep conversation.

01:02:07.080 For some reason.

01:02:08.080 Because we made a deep connection.

01:02:10.080 Whatever that means.

01:02:11.080 It means...

01:02:12.080 It means...

01:02:13.080 Well it certainly means that it's not shallow.

01:02:15.080 We're not sure about what these metaphors means.

01:02:17.080 But...

01:02:18.080 It means that it reaches deep inside of you.

01:02:19.080 It's something like that.

01:02:20.080 You make direct...

01:02:21.080 Person to person contact.

01:02:23.080 And those sorts of conversations are...

01:02:27.080 Replenishing.

01:02:28.080 That's the right way to think about it.

01:02:30.080 They genuinely are.

01:02:31.080 And I think that's because...

01:02:32.080 They provide you with that...

01:02:34.080 Bread that's not material bread.

01:02:37.080 And that's the information that you need to...

01:02:39.080 To thrive.

01:02:40.080 And to put yourself together.

01:02:42.080 And so...

01:02:43.080 It does matter how you meet someone.

01:02:45.080 And it does matter how you treat them when you first meet them.

01:02:48.080 And it's amazing.

01:02:49.080 I've learned to do this.

01:02:50.080 At least in part.

01:02:51.080 Partly because I'm a clinical psychologist.

01:02:53.080 I've learned how to talk to people very rapidly.

01:02:55.080 And I have the most amazing adventures with people.

01:02:57.080 In cabs.

01:02:58.080 And when I travel.

01:02:59.080 Because I'll talk to them directly.

01:03:01.080 Right away.

01:03:02.080 And they'll tell me the wildest stories.

01:03:03.080 And show me the craziest things.

01:03:05.080 Because I'm actually interested in what they have to say.

01:03:07.080 And I'm not afraid.

01:03:09.080 Well...

01:03:10.080 I'm somewhat afraid.

01:03:11.080 But I'm not...

01:03:12.080 I'm not sufficiently afraid to have that stop me.

01:03:14.080 And I'm acting on the presupposition.

01:03:16.080 That...

01:03:18.080 The person has something of great interest to reveal.

01:03:21.080 And that's a very useful thing to know too.

01:03:23.080 Because one of the things that's really cool about people.

01:03:25.080 And you really learn this as a clinical psychologist.

01:03:27.080 Is that if you can get people talking.

01:03:29.080 They're so damn interesting.

01:03:30.080 You can hardly stand it.

01:03:32.080 You know?

01:03:33.080 Because they have these idiosyncratic experiences.

01:03:35.080 That are only theirs. 0.82

01:03:36.080 Right?

01:03:37.080 They're only theirs personally.

01:03:38.080 No one else could tell the story.

01:03:39.080 And that's the kind of stories that you want to hear.

01:03:41.080 And when they tell you those stories.

01:03:43.080 You learn something you didn't know.

01:03:44.080 And so what that means is that you can treat the landscape of strangers.

01:03:48.080 As an endless vista.

01:03:50.080 Of places to learn things you didn't know.

01:03:52.080 And if you know enough so that you're satisfied with your life.

01:03:56.080 And everything has ceased to be a tragedy around you.

01:03:59.080 Well then you can be comfortable in your circumscribed domain of totalitarian knowledge.

01:04:05.080 Let's say.

01:04:06.080 But if your life is insufficient.

01:04:09.080 And you're suffering more than you want to.

01:04:11.080 And everything isn't what it should be.

01:04:13.080 Then you need to look where you haven't looked.

01:04:15.080 For what you don't have.

01:04:17.080 And then you can look outside.

01:04:18.080 Beyond you.

01:04:19.080 And then you can make friends with what you don't understand.

01:04:22.080 And that's a huge part of what this story is about.

01:04:25.080 Because what happens is that.

01:04:27.080 Abraham welcomes the men.

01:04:29.080 God.

01:04:30.080 Angels.

01:04:31.080 And treats them very well.

01:04:32.080 And reaps a tremendous benefit as a consequence.

01:04:35.080 And then.

01:04:36.080 Well.

01:04:37.080 Then the story reverses.

01:04:38.080 And we end up in Sodom and Gomorrah. 0.79

01:04:40.080 Where the same angels sojourn.

01:04:42.080 And they're treated terribly.

01:04:43.080 And all hell breaks loose.

01:04:45.080 And so that's what the story is about.

01:04:47.080 It's fundamental.

01:04:48.080 Now there's a.

01:04:49.080 There's a sexual impropriety thing going on.

01:04:51.080 That I'm also going to delve into.

01:04:53.080 But.

01:04:54.080 I don't think that's the critical issue in the story.

01:04:56.080 The critical issue in the story is.

01:04:58.080 How do you act in the face of.

01:05:01.080 The stranger.

01:05:02.080 You know.

01:05:03.080 There's a statement in the New Testament.

01:05:04.080 Christ says something like.

01:05:06.080 When you.

01:05:07.080 When you do something to the least of people.

01:05:10.080 You do it to me.

01:05:12.080 Him.

01:05:13.080 Right.

01:05:14.080 And that's a very.

01:05:16.080 Difficult statement to understand too.

01:05:19.080 But it's something like.

01:05:20.080 It's something.

01:05:22.080 Reminiscent of.

01:05:24.080 The requirement.

01:05:26.080 To keep the idea of the transcendent reality.

01:05:28.080 Of the person in mind.

01:05:29.080 At the same time.

01:05:30.080 You keep their proximal reality in mind.

01:05:32.080 To have.

01:05:33.080 To have your mind in two places.

01:05:35.080 At the same time.

01:05:36.080 When you're talking to people.

01:05:38.080 You know.

01:05:42.080 I learned from a friend of mine.

01:05:43.080 In Montreal.

01:05:45.080 Who is very socially sophisticated.

01:05:47.080 In some ways.

01:05:49.080 Whenever.

01:05:50.080 Whenever.

01:05:51.080 Whenever he went into.

01:05:52.080 I was like going shopping with him.

01:05:54.080 And.

01:05:55.080 Whenever he went into a store.

01:05:56.080 And.

01:05:57.080 He talked.

01:05:58.080 And.

01:05:59.080 He had an interaction with a clerk.

01:06:00.080 The first thing he would do.

01:06:01.080 Is have an interaction.

01:06:02.080 With the clerk.

01:06:03.080 You know.

01:06:04.080 He wouldn't have an interaction.

01:06:05.080 With the role.

01:06:06.080 Of the clerk.

01:06:07.080 He'd like.

01:06:08.080 Look at the person.

01:06:09.080 In shock of the fact.

01:06:10.080 That they were there.

01:06:11.080 And then ask them something.

01:06:12.080 Genuine about.

01:06:13.080 Their job.

01:06:14.080 Or their store.

01:06:15.080 Or how they were doing.

01:06:16.080 Like.

01:06:17.080 Go into a conversation.

01:06:18.080 Right away.

01:06:19.080 And.

01:06:20.080 He didn't get personal about it.

01:06:21.080 Because that can be intrusive.

01:06:22.080 Right.

01:06:23.080 You have to be very sophisticated.

01:06:24.080 To do this.

01:06:25.080 But.

01:06:26.080 He did indicate to the person.

01:06:27.080 That.

01:06:28.080 He was there.

01:06:30.080 At least in part.

01:06:32.080 For the good.

01:06:33.080 That could be done.

01:06:34.080 Between them.

01:06:35.080 It's something like that.

01:06:36.080 And then the person.

01:06:37.080 Would be ridiculously.

01:06:38.080 Helpful.

01:06:39.080 You know.

01:06:40.080 And.

01:06:43.080 And so then.

01:06:44.080 You know.

01:06:45.080 If people mistreat you.

01:06:46.080 You see this.

01:06:47.080 With antisocial kids.

01:06:48.080 It's a very tragic thing.

01:06:49.080 To see.

01:06:50.080 Because. 0.57

01:06:51.080 If you're an antisocial child.

01:06:52.080 By the time.

01:06:53.080 You're about four.

01:06:54.080 You're very hostile.

01:06:55.080 And distrustful.

01:06:56.080 To people.

01:06:57.080 And so. 0.97

01:06:58.080 You're like a growling. 0.79

01:06:59.080 You tend not. 0.97

01:07:00.080 To get petted.

01:07:01.080 You're more likely. 0.99

01:07:02.080 To get kicked. 0.99

01:07:03.080 And if you're a growling puppy. 1.00

01:07:04.080 And you get kicked. 0.95

01:07:05.080 Then you have. 0.67

01:07:06.080 Even more reason.

01:07:07.080 To growl.

01:07:08.080 And that's sort of the story.

01:07:09.080 Of antisocial kids.

01:07:10.080 If they're not.

01:07:11.080 Well socialized.

01:07:12.080 By the time.

01:07:13.080 They're four.

01:07:14.080 And they're more.

01:07:15.080 On the aggressive side.

01:07:16.080 Then they alienate.

01:07:17.080 Themselves.

01:07:18.080 From the community.

01:07:19.080 And all they get.

01:07:20.080 Is rejection.

01:07:21.080 Well. 1.00

01:07:22.080 To hell. 1.00

01:07:23.080 With humanity. 0.99

01:07:24.080 You know.

01:07:25.080 And no wonder.

01:07:26.080 They think that.

01:07:27.080 But.

01:07:28.080 Where the catastrophe is.

01:07:29.080 Is that.

01:07:30.080 They get what they evoke.

01:07:32.080 And I'm not saying.

01:07:33.080 It's their fault.

01:07:34.080 Precisely.

01:07:35.080 But it doesn't matter.

01:07:36.080 That's still what happens.

01:07:37.080 And so.

01:07:38.080 You might ask yourself.

01:07:39.080 If you're not getting from people.

01:07:40.080 What you need.

01:07:41.080 There is some possibility.

01:07:42.080 That you're not.

01:07:43.080 Approaching.

01:07:44.080 Especially.

01:07:45.080 If this happens to you.

01:07:46.080 Repeatedly.

01:07:47.080 Across people.

01:07:48.080 And this is a virtual certainty.

01:07:49.080 If it happens to you.

01:07:50.080 Repeatedly.

01:07:51.080 Across people.

01:07:52.080 Especially.

01:07:53.080 If you have the same.

01:07:54.080 Bad experience.

01:07:55.080 With people.

01:07:56.080 It's not them.

01:07:57.080 It's you.

01:07:58.080 Three is the limit.

01:07:59.080 If something happens to you.

01:08:00.080 Once.

01:08:01.080 You write it off.

01:08:03.080 If it happens to you.

01:08:04.080 Twice.

01:08:05.080 It's like.

01:08:06.080 You open your eyes.

01:08:07.080 But you write it off.

01:08:08.080 But if it happens to you.

01:08:09.080 Three times.

01:08:10.080 It's probably you.

01:08:12.080 Or.

01:08:13.080 It's the rest of the world.

01:08:15.080 Better.

01:08:16.080 It's you.

01:08:17.080 Because you're not going to change.

01:08:18.080 The rest of the world.

01:08:19.080 And he lifted up his eyes.

01:08:21.080 And looked.

01:08:22.080 And lo.

01:08:23.080 Three men stood by him.

01:08:24.080 And when he saw them.

01:08:25.080 He ran to meet them.

01:08:26.080 From the tent door.

01:08:27.080 And bowed himself.

01:08:28.080 To the ground.

01:08:29.080 And said.

01:08:30.080 My Lord.

01:08:31.080 If now I have found favor.

01:08:32.080 In thy sight.

01:08:33.080 Pass not away.

01:08:34.080 I pray thee.

01:08:35.080 From thy servant.

01:08:36.080 Let a little water.

01:08:37.080 I pray you.

01:08:38.080 Be fetched.

01:08:39.080 And wash your feet.

01:08:40.080 Wash your feet.

01:08:41.080 Take the dust.

01:08:42.080 From your feet. 0.90

01:08:43.080 Extract yourself.

01:08:44.080 Out from your journey.

01:08:45.080 Right.

01:08:46.080 And sit.

01:08:47.080 And I'll fetch a morsel of bread.

01:08:50.080 And comfort ye your hearts.

01:08:51.080 And after that.

01:08:52.080 You can pass on.

01:08:53.080 For therefore.

01:08:54.080 Are you come to your servant.

01:08:55.080 And they said.

01:08:56.080 So do.

01:08:57.080 As thou hast said.

01:08:58.080 And Abraham hastened. 0.53

01:08:59.080 Unto the tent.

01:09:00.080 Into the tent.

01:09:01.080 Unto Sarah.

01:09:02.080 And said.

01:09:03.080 Make ready.

01:09:04.080 Quickly.

01:09:05.080 Three measures.

01:09:06.080 A fine meal.

01:09:07.080 Knead it.

01:09:08.080 And make cakes.

01:09:09.080 Upon the hearth.

01:09:10.080 Powerful call.

01:09:11.080 To hospitality.

01:09:12.080 And Abraham ran.

01:09:13.080 Unto the herd.

01:09:14.080 And fetched a calf.

01:09:15.080 Tender and good.

01:09:16.080 And gave it to a young man.

01:09:17.080 The calf.

01:09:18.080 Which he had dressed.

01:09:19.080 And set it before them.

01:09:20.080 And he stood by them.

01:09:21.080 Under the tree.

01:09:22.080 And they did eat.

01:09:24.080 Some commentary.

01:09:25.080 From here.

01:09:26.080 Hebrews.

01:09:27.080 Thirteen.

01:09:28.080 Two.

01:09:29.080 Be not forgetful.

01:09:30.080 To entertain strangers.

01:09:31.080 For thereby.

01:09:32.080 Some have entertained.

01:09:33.080 Angels.

01:09:34.080 Unawares.

01:09:35.080 This is a commentary.

01:09:36.080 From Matthew Henry.

01:09:37.080 Who is a nonconformist.

01:09:38.080 Minister.

01:09:39.080 And author.

01:09:40.080 Cheerful.

01:09:41.080 And obliging manners.

01:09:42.080 In showing kindness.

01:09:43.080 Are great ornaments.

01:09:44.080 To piety.

01:09:45.080 Though our condescending.

01:09:46.080 Lord.

01:09:47.080 Vouchsafes.

01:09:48.080 Not.

01:09:49.080 Personal visits.

01:09:50.080 To us.

01:09:51.080 Yet still.

01:09:52.080 By his spirit.

01:09:53.080 He stands.

01:09:54.080 Inclined.

01:09:55.080 To open.

01:09:56.080 He deigns.

01:09:57.080 To enter.

01:09:58.080 By his gracious.

01:09:59.080 Consolations.

01:10:00.080 He provides.

01:10:01.080 A rich feast.

01:10:02.080 Of which.

01:10:03.080 We partake.

01:10:04.080 With him.

01:10:05.080 320.

01:10:06.080 Behold.

01:10:07.080 I stand at the door.

01:10:08.080 And knock. 0.67

01:10:09.080 And if any man hear my voice.

01:10:10.080 And open the door.

01:10:11.080 I will come in to him.

01:10:12.080 And will sup with him.

01:10:13.080 And he with me.

01:10:14.080 Well.

01:10:15.080 The hyperlinked nature.

01:10:16.080 Of those.

01:10:17.080 Quotes.

01:10:18.080 Is quite obvious.

01:10:19.080 There's.

01:10:20.080 10 or 15 things.

01:10:21.080 Being said.

01:10:22.080 At the same time.

01:10:23.080 Right.

01:10:24.080 One is.

01:10:25.080 A reference to the idea.

01:10:26.080 That.

01:10:27.080 If you ask for something.

01:10:28.080 It will be given to you.

01:10:29.080 Right.

01:10:30.080 It was a very strange idea.

01:10:31.080 But.

01:10:32.080 I like that idea a lot.

01:10:33.080 And.

01:10:34.080 If it was.

01:10:35.080 That I wanted.

01:10:36.080 What I was asking for.

01:10:37.080 Because that's the real issue.

01:10:38.080 Right.

01:10:39.080 Because.

01:10:40.080 The question is.

01:10:41.080 If you want something.

01:10:42.080 What does it mean.

01:10:43.080 To want it.

01:10:44.080 And what it means.

01:10:45.080 Is to sacrifice.

01:10:46.080 Whatever is necessary.

01:10:47.080 To get it.

01:10:48.080 Because otherwise.

01:10:49.080 You don't want it.

01:10:50.080 And so.

01:10:51.080 There's an equation.

01:10:52.080 Here.

01:10:53.080 And I'm not.

01:10:54.080 Claiming it's ultimate accuracy.

01:10:55.080 But the equation.

01:10:56.080 Is something like.

01:10:57.080 You don't want it.

01:10:59.080 Unless you're willing.

01:11:00.080 To sacrifice for it.

01:11:01.080 And if you don't want it.

01:11:02.080 You're not going to get it.

01:11:03.080 Because you're scattered.

01:11:05.080 But if you do want it.

01:11:07.080 And you make the proper sacrifices.

01:11:08.080 Then.

01:11:09.080 God only knows what might happen.

01:11:12.080 And.

01:11:13.080 That's a.

01:11:14.080 See.

01:11:15.080 One of the things I really like.

01:11:16.080 About the existential.

01:11:17.080 Philosophers.

01:11:18.080 Is.

01:11:19.080 Is.

01:11:20.080 Their emphasis.

01:11:21.080 On personal responsibility.

01:11:22.080 You know.

01:11:23.080 Many of them.

01:11:24.080 Had an emphasis.

01:11:25.080 On.

01:11:26.080 The role.

01:11:27.080 That people.

01:11:28.080 Had.

01:11:29.080 In shaping.

01:11:30.080 Their own destiny.

01:11:31.080 The exist.

01:11:32.080 For the existentialists.

01:11:33.080 The religious.

01:11:34.080 Substructure.

01:11:35.080 Of.

01:11:36.080 Philosophical thinking.

01:11:37.080 It was self-evident.

01:11:38.080 That.

01:11:39.080 Life was.

01:11:40.080 Tragic.

01:11:41.080 And bitter.

01:11:42.080 But.

01:11:43.080 And then.

01:11:44.080 Fair enough.

01:11:45.080 But that isn't where it ended.

01:11:46.080 Well.

01:11:47.080 There are better and ways.

01:11:48.080 Better and worse ways.

01:11:49.080 Of dealing with that.

01:11:50.080 And.

01:11:51.080 The better way of dealing.

01:11:52.080 With the fact.

01:11:53.080 That life is tragic.

01:11:54.080 And bitter.

01:11:55.080 Is to.

01:11:56.080 Posit.

01:11:57.080 The self.

01:11:58.080 You could be.

01:11:59.080 And live authentically.

01:12:00.080 In relationship.

01:12:01.080 To that.

01:12:02.080 And then.

01:12:03.080 The next issue.

01:12:04.080 And some.

01:12:05.080 This is something.

01:12:06.080 Kierkegaard talked about.

01:12:07.080 Particularly.

01:12:08.080 When he talked about.

01:12:09.080 The necessity.

01:12:10.080 Of being a knight of faith.

01:12:11.080 Is that.

01:12:12.080 The thing is.

01:12:13.080 And this is.

01:12:14.080 Intractable.

01:12:15.080 Adventure.

01:12:16.080 No one can take.

01:12:17.080 The adventure of life.

01:12:18.080 Away from you.

01:12:19.080 That.

01:12:20.080 That's.

01:12:21.080 They can't do it.

01:12:22.080 With good advice.

01:12:23.080 For example.

01:12:24.080 Because no one.

01:12:25.080 Can demonstrate.

01:12:26.080 To you.

01:12:27.080 That if you.

01:12:28.080 Straighten yourself out.

01:12:29.080 And aim at what you want.

01:12:30.080 And make the proper sacrifices.

01:12:31.080 That your life.

01:12:32.080 Will turn out.

01:12:33.080 In the manner.

01:12:34.080 That.

01:12:35.080 You might want it.

01:12:36.080 To turn out.

01:12:37.080 It isn't.

01:12:38.080 In anyone else's.

01:12:39.080 Purview.

01:12:40.080 To make that.

01:12:41.080 Judgment.

01:12:42.080 The only person.

01:12:43.080 That can.

01:12:44.080 I would say.

01:12:45.080 It's your destiny.

01:12:46.080 It's a destiny.

01:12:47.080 That cannot be stolen.

01:12:48.080 From you.

01:12:49.080 And you can.

01:12:50.080 Forgo it.

01:12:51.080 You can say.

01:12:52.080 Well.

01:12:53.080 I'm not willing.

01:12:54.080 To put in the effort.

01:12:55.080 Because what if I fail.

01:12:56.080 Well.

01:12:57.080 First of all.

01:12:58.080 If you don't.

01:12:59.080 Put in the effort.

01:13:00.080 You will fail.

01:13:01.080 Because life is hard.

01:13:02.080 And it.

01:13:03.080 It takes everything.

01:13:04.080 Out of you.

01:13:05.080 To do it properly.

01:13:06.080 So you will fail.

01:13:07.080 And if you.

01:13:08.080 Make the proper.

01:13:09.080 Sacrifices.

01:13:10.080 You might fail.

01:13:11.080 You're never.

01:13:12.080 Really told.

01:13:13.080 Why God rejects.

01:13:14.080 Cain's offerings.

01:13:15.080 There's hints.

01:13:16.080 That Cain.

01:13:17.080 Maybe isn't doing.

01:13:18.080 As good a job.

01:13:19.080 As he should.

01:13:20.080 And he certainly.

01:13:21.080 Gets bitter about it.

01:13:22.080 But there's no.

01:13:23.080 Smoking pistol.

01:13:24.080 Terrible sacrifices.

01:13:25.080 So God rejected him.

01:13:26.080 You never know.

01:13:27.080 Cain might have been.

01:13:28.080 Working pretty damn hard.

01:13:29.080 And things still.

01:13:30.080 Didn't work out for him.

01:13:31.080 And I think.

01:13:32.080 That ambiguity.

01:13:33.080 Is appropriate.

01:13:34.080 In the story.

01:13:35.080 Because that ambiguity.

01:13:36.080 Is in life.

01:13:37.080 It. 1.00

01:13:38.080 You'd be a fool. 1.00

01:13:39.080 To say that. 1.00

01:13:40.080 Everything always works out.

01:13:41.080 For everyone.

01:13:42.080 If they just do things right.

01:13:43.080 I mean.

01:13:44.080 I think that's a very.

01:13:45.080 That's a very.

01:13:46.080 Careless thing to say.

01:13:47.080 Given how much.

01:13:48.080 Tragedy and catastrophe.

01:13:49.080 There is in the world.

01:13:50.080 And how much of it.

01:13:51.080 Seems to be undeserved.

01:13:52.080 But it still.

01:13:53.080 Has very little bearing.

01:13:54.080 I think.

01:13:55.080 On.

01:13:56.080 On.

01:13:57.080 On your own.

01:13:58.080 Individual adventure.

01:13:59.080 And.

01:14:00.080 The necessity for.

01:14:07.080 The necessity.

01:14:08.080 For opening the door.

01:14:09.080 To who you could be.

01:14:10.080 And.

01:14:11.080 And.

01:14:12.080 The necessity.

01:14:13.080 To do that seriously.

01:14:14.080 And I do believe.

01:14:15.080 And I think.

01:14:16.080 I think that's why.

01:14:17.080 This most impossible of verses.

01:14:18.080 You know.

01:14:19.080 Knock.

01:14:20.080 And the door will open.

01:14:21.080 Why that's believable.

01:14:22.080 Is that.

01:14:23.080 I.

01:14:24.080 Have never met anyone.

01:14:26.080 Who couldn't.

01:14:28.080 Hypothesize.

01:14:30.080 A better them.

01:14:32.080 In some manner.

01:14:33.080 All they had to do is ask.

01:14:35.080 It's like.

01:14:36.080 Well.

01:14:37.080 How could you be better.

01:14:38.080 Think.

01:14:39.080 Well.

01:14:40.080 Here's three ways.

01:14:41.080 It's like.

01:14:42.080 It's no problem.

01:14:43.080 Right.

01:14:44.080 You can think about that.

01:14:45.080 In no time flat.

01:14:46.080 Maybe it's small ways.

01:14:47.080 What you're doing.

01:14:48.080 That you could quit.

01:14:49.080 And so that means.

01:14:50.080 That you do have this.

01:14:51.080 It's a strange thing.

01:14:52.080 In people.

01:14:53.080 That we have this.

01:14:54.080 Built-in capacity.

01:14:55.080 To posit.

01:14:56.080 A higher self.

01:14:57.080 And then.

01:14:58.080 To move towards it.

01:14:59.080 And maybe.

01:15:00.080 Maybe that's part of.

01:15:01.080 Where the religious instinct.

01:15:02.080 Really came from.

01:15:03.080 Speaking.

01:15:04.080 Like.

01:15:05.080 Really.

01:15:06.080 Reductionistically.

01:15:07.080 We have this notion.

01:15:08.080 Of the transcendent ideal.

01:15:09.080 Right.

01:15:10.080 That seems to be pervasive.

01:15:11.080 Across cultures.

01:15:12.080 Well.

01:15:13.080 Maybe that's the ultimate.

01:15:14.080 Manifestation.

01:15:15.080 Of the human proclivity.

01:15:16.080 To be able to posit.

01:15:17.080 An ideal at all.

01:15:18.080 And to move forward.

01:15:19.080 You posit an ideal.

01:15:20.080 Okay.

01:15:21.080 That.

01:15:22.080 You need that.

01:15:23.080 To move forward.

01:15:24.080 Well.

01:15:25.080 If you can posit an ideal.

01:15:26.080 Why can't you posit.

01:15:27.080 The ultimate ideal.

01:15:28.080 Well.

01:15:29.080 If you can.

01:15:30.080 Then instantly.

01:15:31.080 You've got a religious.

01:15:32.080 Sensibility.

01:15:33.080 Instantly.

01:15:34.080 And so.

01:15:35.080 Maybe that's.

01:15:36.080 A religious instinct.

01:15:37.080 Because the idea.

01:15:38.080 That it's.

01:15:39.080 Mere superstition.

01:15:40.080 Like.

01:15:41.080 We can just.

01:15:42.080 Dispense with that.

01:15:43.080 That's wrong.

01:15:44.080 It's a human universal.

01:15:45.080 You can evoke religious experiences.

01:15:46.080 All sorts of ways.

01:15:47.080 So.

01:15:48.080 We're not going to play that game.

01:15:49.080 There's.

01:15:50.080 There's some reason.

01:15:51.080 That that instinct exists.

01:15:52.080 And.

01:15:53.080 The first thing to do with it.

01:15:54.080 Is to try to reduce it.

01:15:55.080 To something.

01:15:56.080 That's biological.

01:15:57.080 And.

01:15:58.080 Leave it at that.

01:15:59.080 Not to mess with the metaphysics.

01:16:00.080 But it certainly could be the case.

01:16:01.080 That.

01:16:02.080 It's the ultimate extension.

01:16:03.080 Of our capacity.

01:16:04.080 To posit an ideal.

01:16:05.080 And we also might say.

01:16:06.080 Well.

01:16:07.080 That's good enough.

01:16:08.080 Because.

01:16:09.080 Well.

01:16:10.080 The ideal moves you forward.

01:16:11.080 It fills your life with meaning.

01:16:12.080 There's no doubt about that.

01:16:13.080 Because.

01:16:14.080 It is in the movement.

01:16:15.080 Towards your ideal.

01:16:16.080 That life's meaning is to be attained.

01:16:18.080 And then the question is.

01:16:19.080 Well.

01:16:20.080 How much meaning is there.

01:16:21.080 In moving forward.

01:16:22.080 Towards an ultimate ideal.

01:16:23.080 Well.

01:16:24.080 More meaning.

01:16:25.080 Even though it's more difficult.

01:16:26.080 How much?

01:16:27.080 Well.

01:16:28.080 That's the open question.

01:16:29.080 Behold.

01:16:30.080 I will stand at the door.

01:16:32.080 And knock. 0.67

01:16:33.080 And if any man hear my voice.

01:16:34.080 And open the door.

01:16:35.080 I will come in to him.

01:16:36.080 And will sup with him.

01:16:37.080 And he with me.

01:16:38.080 That's a pretty good deal.

01:16:39.080 And the angel said unto him.

01:16:42.080 Where is Sarah thy wife? 0.91

01:16:43.080 And Abraham said.

01:16:44.080 Behold.

01:16:45.080 In the tent.

01:16:46.080 And he said.

01:16:47.080 I will certainly return unto thee.

01:16:49.080 According to the time of life.

01:16:50.080 And lo.

01:16:51.080 Sarah thy wife shall have a son.

01:16:53.080 And Sarah heard it in the tent door.

01:16:55.080 Which was behind him.

01:16:57.080 Now Abraham and Sarah were old.

01:17:00.080 And well stricken in age.

01:17:01.080 And it had ceased.

01:17:02.080 To be with Sarah.

01:17:03.080 After the manner of women. 1.00

01:17:04.080 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself.

01:17:06.080 Saying.

01:17:07.080 After I am waxed old.

01:17:09.080 Shall I also have this pleasure.

01:17:11.080 My Lord being old also.

01:17:13.080 Well.

01:17:14.080 She's kind of skeptical.

01:17:15.080 About the whole angel.

01:17:16.080 Man.

01:17:17.080 God.

01:17:18.080 Having a child.

01:17:19.080 At a hundred thing.

01:17:20.080 And.

01:17:21.080 And.

01:17:22.080 Well.

01:17:23.080 Rightly so.

01:17:24.080 Rightly so.

01:17:28.080 And the Lord said unto Abraham.

01:17:29.080 Why did Sarah laugh.

01:17:30.080 Saying.

01:17:31.080 Shall I have a surety.

01:17:32.080 Bear a child.

01:17:33.080 Which I am old.

01:17:34.080 Is anything too hard for the Lord.

01:17:37.080 At the time appointed.

01:17:39.080 I will return unto thee.

01:17:40.080 According to the time of life.

01:17:41.080 And Sarah shall have a son.

01:17:42.080 Then Sarah denied. 0.84

01:17:43.080 Saying.

01:17:44.080 I laughed not.

01:17:45.080 For she was afraid.

01:17:46.080 And he said.

01:17:47.080 Nay.

01:17:48.080 But thou didst laugh.

01:17:49.080 And the men rose up from thence.

01:17:52.080 And looked towards Sodom.

01:17:53.080 And Abraham went with them. 0.79

01:17:54.080 To bring them on the way.

01:17:55.080 I'm going to.

01:17:56.080 Make a small detour.

01:17:57.080 And talk to you about this idea of potential again.

01:17:58.080 Because it's really.

01:17:59.080 I've really thought about it a lot.

01:18:00.080 I think music speaks of potential.

01:18:01.080 Like.

01:18:02.080 I think music speaks of potential.

01:18:03.080 Like.

01:18:04.080 I think music speaks of potential.

01:18:05.080 Bursting forward.

01:18:06.080 It's something.

01:18:07.080 It's something like that.

01:18:08.080 And that's why it's so deeply meaningful.

01:18:09.080 And.

01:18:10.080 And it's this continual pattern revelation of.

01:18:11.080 Of.

01:18:12.080 The next wonderful thing that might happen.

01:18:13.080 It's something like that.

01:18:14.080 So there's that.

01:18:15.080 And people find that deeply meaningful.

01:18:16.080 And then there's the idea that.

01:18:17.080 That.

01:18:18.080 That.

01:18:19.080 That.

01:18:20.080 That.

01:18:21.080 That.

01:18:22.080 That.

01:18:23.080 That.

01:18:24.080 That.

01:18:25.080 That.

01:18:26.080 That.

01:18:27.080 That.

01:18:28.080 That.

01:18:29.080 That.

01:18:30.080 That.

01:18:31.080 That.

01:18:32.080 That.

01:18:33.080 That.

01:18:34.080 That.

01:18:35.080 That.

01:18:36.080 That.

01:18:37.080 That.

01:18:38.080 That.

01:18:39.080 That.

01:18:40.080 That.

01:18:41.080 That.

01:18:42.080 That.

01:18:43.080 Pretty.

01:18:44.080 That.

01:18:45.080 That.

01:18:46.080 That.

01:18:47.080 That.

01:18:48.080 That.

01:18:49.080 When.

01:18:50.080 Because.

01:18:51.080 That.

01:18:52.080 That.

01:18:53.080 That.

01:18:54.080 That.

01:18:56.080 That.

01:18:57.080 That.

01:18:58.080 That.

01:18:59.080 That.

01:19:00.080 That.

01:19:01.080 That.

01:19:02.080 That.

01:19:03.080 That.

01:19:04.080 That.

01:19:05.080 That.

01:19:06.080 That.

01:19:07.080 That.

01:19:08.080 at all, if you expect things of people at all,

01:19:11.180 then you're demonstrating your commitment to the idea of potential.

01:19:14.480 But then I wonder if there's something even deeper going on,

01:19:16.680 because we are very materialistic, modern people.

01:19:19.380 And there's great power in that, obviously.

01:19:22.720 We've obtained great control over the material world.

01:19:27.100 For better or for worse.

01:19:29.540 But we do have a tendency to think of the world purely as a material structure.

01:19:33.860 And it isn't really obvious to me that the world is exactly a material structure.

01:19:38.280 It seems to be something more like constrained potential.

01:19:42.900 You know, because everything is a certain way,

01:19:45.380 but everything that is a certain way could be a multitude of other ways.

01:19:49.400 And almost an infinite multitude of other ways.

01:19:51.980 And the degree to which something that is could be a multitude of other ways

01:19:55.480 is dependent on a large part on how you interact with it.

01:19:58.580 Right? Even with materials that we're very familiar with,

01:20:01.800 we continue to discover new properties and put them to use.

01:20:05.900 It's like, things are compacted into their material form,

01:20:10.560 but that doesn't exhaust what they are.

01:20:13.360 Especially not in relationship to other things.

01:20:15.320 And so, it seems to me, even if you can't replace the materialist perspective

01:20:20.020 with the perspective that it's better to construe the world,

01:20:24.120 construe being as if it's made of possibility,

01:20:26.360 rather than the world as if it's made of matter.

01:20:28.260 It's at least useful to have that as an additional viewpoint.

01:20:32.080 Is that, because you could say,

01:20:33.900 well, the material philosophy is very useful as a tool for obtaining certain sorts of benefits,

01:20:38.220 which it clearly is.

01:20:39.380 But then, this more metaphysical perspective,

01:20:42.020 which I think is more accurate in some ways,

01:20:43.660 that the world is a place of potential,

01:20:45.920 is also an extraordinarily useful way to approach the world.

01:20:49.020 And it is practically useful, you know?

01:20:53.400 We talked last week a little bit about doing something as simple as trying to organize a room.

01:20:59.060 It's by no means obvious how much potential there is in a room.

01:21:03.240 Right?

01:21:03.780 There's a very large amount of potential in any given room.

01:21:07.240 Tremendous amount of potential, especially if it's connected with people.

01:21:10.580 And maybe an inexhaustible amount of potential.

01:21:12.900 And maybe there's an inexhaustible amount of potential everywhere,

01:21:16.240 and that we just don't know how to get access to it.

01:21:19.260 Well, that's certainly true.

01:21:20.780 I mean, it's certainly true to some degree.

01:21:22.840 We don't know how to get access to all the potential of our children, for example,

01:21:25.840 or ourselves, or our loved ones, or the people that we know.

01:21:30.300 So, well, so I think this story is trying to hammer that idea home too,

01:21:37.720 which is, don't be so sure that it's impossible.

01:21:41.820 Or maybe don't let the assumption that it's impossible stop you from going forth into the world.

01:21:49.520 That would be, and that's a, that's a, what would you say?

01:21:51.880 That's like an inoculation against nihilism.

01:21:54.500 And I'm, for a long time I understood nihilism very well.

01:21:58.140 I could, I could understand its rationale.

01:22:01.240 Associated with the tragedy of life, associating with suffering and evil,

01:22:05.340 associated with the observation of finitude,

01:22:07.980 and the arbitrary and unjust nature of the world.

01:22:10.560 But the more I've thought about it, the less I've come to believe that there's any excuse for it whatsoever.

01:22:16.220 And I think the reason for that is that it forestalls effort.

01:22:20.760 It forestalls the ability to discover for yourself. 0.87

01:22:24.940 Maybe there's no reason to be so goddamn hopeless, 0.99

01:22:28.600 except that it's easier to be useless. 0.96

01:22:30.580 Now, and I'm not, believe me, I'm not making that case.

01:22:35.060 I'm not saying that that's what's besetting people who are clinically depressed, for example.

01:22:40.760 That's, that's not my point.

01:22:42.560 Clinical depression is a terrible thing.

01:22:44.180 There's lots of reasons to be rendered,

01:22:46.320 to be, to be tossed into a catastrophic condition.

01:22:51.140 That isn't what I mean.

01:22:51.940 I mean that kind of cynical, arrogant, rational, hyper-intelligent nihilism

01:22:57.200 that throws the world away as if it's of little use

01:23:01.040 before it's been properly engaged with.

01:23:05.480 Better to engage with it and see what happens.

01:23:08.320 And better to make the assumption that if the world isn't returning to you

01:23:11.460 what it is that you need,

01:23:13.460 then either you're not doing it right

01:23:17.320 or you've conceptualized what you need badly.

01:23:21.740 Why not at least open yourself up to that possibility?

01:23:26.060 Right?

01:23:26.440 Because you could be wrong.

01:23:29.180 Hopefully, if you're suffering,

01:23:30.540 this is a great thing to know.

01:23:32.920 Hopefully, if you're suffering, you're wrong.

01:23:36.120 Because if you're suffering and you're right,

01:23:37.960 then there's nowhere to go.

01:23:39.800 So it's very useful to find out

01:23:41.780 whatever errors you might be committing.

01:23:43.800 Another thing that's really interesting about the Jews in the Old Testament.

01:23:46.920 It's a remarkable thing.

01:23:48.740 Every single time they get flattened by God,

01:23:51.220 it's always their fault.

01:23:52.820 They never say

01:23:53.840 the world that God created was corrupt and God is evil.

01:23:59.540 They never say that.

01:24:00.240 No matter what happens, right?

01:24:01.500 No matter what catastrophe occurs,

01:24:03.480 when they have every reason

01:24:05.040 to at least put that hypothesis forward,

01:24:08.320 they don't.

01:24:09.000 They say,

01:24:10.860 we erred,

01:24:12.540 we walked off the path,

01:24:14.220 it's our fault.

01:24:15.840 And that's hard, you know,

01:24:17.520 because it puts all the weight of human catastrophe

01:24:20.020 on the human being.

01:24:21.380 That's very hard.

01:24:22.320 But the upside is,

01:24:24.680 it gives you the control.

01:24:26.880 It opens up the door,

01:24:28.180 it opens up the possibility

01:24:29.520 that you could be the person

01:24:30.780 that could set it right.

01:24:32.140 If you would just let go

01:24:33.360 of what's in your way.

01:24:35.560 Whatever that is.

01:24:43.300 And the men rose up from thence

01:24:44.800 and looked towards Sodom

01:24:45.720 and Abraham went with them

01:24:46.700 to bring them on the way.

01:24:47.560 And the Lord said,

01:24:51.560 shall I hide from Abraham 1.00

01:24:52.780 that thing

01:24:53.340 which I'm about to do?

01:24:55.640 Seeing that Abraham 0.98

01:24:56.500 shall surely become

01:24:57.440 a great and mighty nation

01:24:58.420 and that all the nations

01:24:59.300 of the earth

01:24:59.860 shall be blessed in him.

01:25:03.020 I guess God is talking

01:25:04.300 to himself here.

01:25:05.520 Or maybe he's talking

01:25:06.520 to the angels.

01:25:08.100 But I think he's trying

01:25:09.180 to make a decision.

01:25:11.080 For I know him

01:25:12.100 that he will command

01:25:13.540 his children

01:25:14.040 and his household

01:25:14.780 after him.

01:25:15.500 And they shall keep

01:25:17.160 the way of the Lord

01:25:17.880 to do justice

01:25:18.580 and judgment

01:25:19.120 that the Lord

01:25:20.200 may bring upon Abraham 0.69

01:25:21.220 that which he has

01:25:22.140 spoken of him.

01:25:24.240 And the Lord said,

01:25:27.640 Because the cry

01:25:28.360 of Sodom and Gomorrah

01:25:29.320 is great

01:25:29.920 and because their sin

01:25:31.200 is very grievous,

01:25:32.960 I will go down now

01:25:34.260 and see whether

01:25:35.660 they have done

01:25:36.180 altogether according

01:25:37.180 to the cry of it

01:25:38.080 which has come to me.

01:25:39.860 And if not,

01:25:40.460 I will know.

01:25:43.720 Well, we don't know

01:25:44.580 what's happened

01:25:45.140 in Sodom and Gomorrah

01:25:45.980 but we know

01:25:46.420 that God's got wind

01:25:47.300 of it

01:25:47.520 and that that's not good.

01:25:49.720 And we know

01:25:50.380 that sin means

01:25:51.180 to miss the mark

01:25:52.060 and so we know

01:25:53.600 that whatever has

01:25:54.320 happened in Sodom and Gomorrah

01:25:55.480 means that

01:25:56.080 something about

01:25:57.680 the natural ethical

01:25:58.780 order of things

01:25:59.620 has been seriously

01:26:00.680 violated.

01:26:02.120 And there's a strong

01:26:03.880 intimation in the Old Testament

01:26:05.080 which I think,

01:26:05.780 by the way,

01:26:06.100 is completely correct

01:26:07.160 that if the proper

01:26:10.520 order of being

01:26:11.580 is violated

01:26:12.260 and that's something

01:26:13.020 like the balance

01:26:13.680 between chaos

01:26:14.400 and order

01:26:14.840 say,

01:26:15.180 if the proper

01:26:15.900 balance of being

01:26:18.020 is violated

01:26:19.520 then all hell

01:26:21.360 will break loose.

01:26:22.180 And one of the things

01:26:23.120 I can tell you

01:26:23.880 from reading

01:26:24.440 a very comprehensive

01:26:28.860 set of myths

01:26:30.200 from around the world

01:26:31.140 is that

01:26:31.680 that's a conclusion

01:26:32.940 that human beings

01:26:33.680 have come to

01:26:34.400 everywhere.

01:26:36.800 Stay on the 1.00

01:26:37.680 goddamn path 1.00

01:26:38.640 and be careful 0.99

01:26:39.600 because if you

01:26:40.860 start to mess around

01:26:41.940 and you deviate

01:26:43.040 especially if you

01:26:44.240 know that you're

01:26:45.400 deviating

01:26:45.940 things are not

01:26:47.680 going to go well

01:26:48.440 for you.

01:26:49.660 And that idea

01:26:50.260 is everywhere

01:26:51.060 and I think

01:26:51.820 it's right

01:26:52.360 I think the idea

01:26:53.020 is right

01:26:53.400 because there aren't

01:26:54.060 that many ways

01:26:54.680 of doing things

01:26:55.260 right

01:26:55.480 and there's a lot

01:26:56.100 of ways of doing

01:26:56.700 things wrong

01:26:57.340 and if you do

01:26:58.380 things wrong

01:26:58.980 the consequences

01:27:00.140 of doing them

01:27:00.720 wrong can be

01:27:01.200 truly catastrophic.

01:27:02.540 You know

01:27:02.700 one of the things

01:27:03.660 I learned from

01:27:04.420 reading Viktor Frankl

01:27:06.460 first

01:27:07.600 but then

01:27:08.000 Alexander Solzhenitsyn

01:27:09.140 who I think

01:27:09.660 did a deeper job

01:27:10.720 was that

01:27:11.600 and Václav Havel

01:27:12.800 thought the same

01:27:13.620 thing

01:27:13.980 that

01:27:15.960 these people

01:27:16.960 were very much

01:27:17.560 trying to understand

01:27:18.320 what happened

01:27:18.860 in places like

01:27:19.640 Nazi Germany

01:27:20.580 and in the Soviet Union

01:27:21.520 Solzhenitsyn's

01:27:22.600 Gulag Archipelago

01:27:24.040 is a particularly

01:27:24.660 good analysis

01:27:25.840 of what happened

01:27:26.560 in the Soviet Union

01:27:27.340 and his conclusion

01:27:28.720 and it's a

01:27:30.020 2100 page conclusion

01:27:31.680 and it's like

01:27:32.500 hammered home

01:27:33.120 with a hammer

01:27:33.660 it's a book

01:27:34.840 that everyone

01:27:35.440 should read

01:27:36.140 you know

01:27:36.680 assuming that

01:27:37.200 you can read

01:27:37.600 a 2100 page

01:27:38.540 screen

01:27:39.160 because that's

01:27:40.060 basically what it is

01:27:40.940 you know

01:27:41.600 first of all

01:27:42.520 what he does

01:27:43.080 is document

01:27:43.680 just how terrible

01:27:44.520 things were

01:27:45.040 in the Soviet Union

01:27:45.920 between 1919

01:27:46.800 and 1959

01:27:47.620 and no matter

01:27:48.540 how terrible

01:27:49.180 you think they were

01:27:50.160 unless you know

01:27:51.120 the stories

01:27:51.580 they were a lot

01:27:52.640 more terrible

01:27:53.220 than that

01:27:53.760 and they were

01:27:54.580 terrible

01:27:54.960 personally

01:27:55.980 because everyone

01:27:56.920 lied

01:27:57.320 they were terrible

01:27:58.460 in families

01:27:59.680 because

01:28:00.180 two out of five

01:28:02.080 people were

01:28:02.600 government informers

01:28:03.540 they were

01:28:04.200 terrible among

01:28:05.080 friends

01:28:05.500 because no one

01:28:06.220 could tell each

01:28:06.720 other the truth

01:28:07.260 they were terrible

01:28:08.220 socially

01:28:08.680 because the whole

01:28:09.360 system was corrupt

01:28:10.300 and ran on

01:28:10.860 slave labor 0.98

01:28:11.400 and they were

01:28:12.720 terrible

01:28:13.140 philosophically

01:28:14.120 because the

01:28:14.960 doctrine of man

01:28:15.900 upon which the

01:28:16.600 state was founded

01:28:17.280 was hopeless

01:28:18.200 and nihilistic

01:28:19.160 and they were

01:28:20.480 murderous

01:28:21.480 destructive

01:28:22.780 and genocidal

01:28:24.680 it's like

01:28:25.300 they got it wrong

01:28:26.700 at every single

01:28:27.600 level of analysis

01:28:28.580 simultaneously

01:28:29.920 and the question

01:28:31.540 is

01:28:31.880 why

01:28:32.720 and Solzhenitsyn's

01:28:34.180 answer

01:28:34.500 and to some

01:28:35.200 degree

01:28:35.460 Viktor Frankl's

01:28:36.280 answer as well

01:28:36.900 and Václav

01:28:37.640 Havel

01:28:37.940 and I would say

01:28:38.700 also Nelson Mandela

01:28:39.900 and Gandhi

01:28:40.920 they all

01:28:41.420 they all

01:28:42.400 ended up

01:28:43.140 in the same

01:28:43.880 conceptual sphere

01:28:45.180 and the answer

01:28:46.080 was because

01:28:46.660 individual people

01:28:47.620 lived crooked lives

01:28:49.320 because individual

01:28:50.540 people swallowed

01:28:51.540 lies

01:28:52.280 and spoke them

01:28:53.420 and didn't

01:28:54.140 stand up

01:28:54.700 for the truth

01:28:55.360 and the corruption

01:28:56.640 that spread

01:28:57.400 from each individual

01:28:58.420 pulled the entire

01:28:59.580 state mechanism

01:29:00.660 into that corruption

01:29:01.800 and made everything

01:29:03.100 into hell

01:29:03.820 you know there are

01:29:04.940 other theories

01:29:05.620 obedience right

01:29:07.040 that's kind of

01:29:07.480 the Milgram idea

01:29:08.340 from that

01:29:09.180 it's easy to make

01:29:10.260 human beings

01:29:11.020 obedient to people

01:29:12.400 in authority

01:29:12.900 and I've explored

01:29:14.120 that idea quite a bit

01:29:15.060 with regards to

01:29:15.700 what happens

01:29:16.220 happened for example

01:29:17.360 in the Nazi

01:29:17.860 concentration camps

01:29:18.820 and yes

01:29:20.140 you can set

01:29:21.100 circumstances up

01:29:22.020 so that people

01:29:22.600 are likely

01:29:24.120 to be obedient

01:29:25.280 to orders

01:29:25.840 that are pathological

01:29:26.880 there's no doubt

01:29:27.780 about that

01:29:28.200 and yes

01:29:28.740 sometimes that's

01:29:29.940 indicative of the

01:29:30.660 weakness of their

01:29:31.260 character

01:29:31.600 but that's not

01:29:32.580 the issue

01:29:33.000 and the idea

01:29:34.100 that what happened

01:29:35.140 in Nazi Germany

01:29:36.180 was because

01:29:36.760 a population

01:29:38.380 of good people

01:29:39.260 listened to a

01:29:40.040 tiny minority

01:29:40.760 of bad people

01:29:41.540 that's a really

01:29:42.340 that's really

01:29:43.080 not a good theory

01:29:43.900 the

01:29:45.020 the

01:29:45.900 the Nazi

01:29:47.260 ethos

01:29:48.100 was there

01:29:48.780 at every single

01:29:49.880 level of the

01:29:50.720 social organization

01:29:51.680 right

01:29:52.200 right from the

01:29:53.040 personal

01:29:53.500 right from

01:29:55.480 the personal

01:29:56.060 right from

01:29:56.760 the familial

01:29:57.500 all the way

01:29:58.280 up to the

01:29:58.700 leadership

01:29:59.020 it was the

01:29:59.580 same thing

01:30:00.160 all the way

01:30:00.880 up

01:30:01.140 and all the

01:30:01.900 way down

01:30:02.320 and the same

01:30:03.160 thing in the

01:30:03.620 Soviet Union

01:30:04.280 and so

01:30:06.020 well so

01:30:10.720 if you miss

01:30:12.860 the mark

01:30:13.300 which is

01:30:13.640 apparently

01:30:13.980 what the

01:30:14.360 people of

01:30:14.740 Sodom and

01:30:15.160 Gomorrah

01:30:15.520 did

01:30:16.440 their sin

01:30:17.960 was grievous

01:30:18.700 then they

01:30:19.880 risk destruction

01:30:20.760 and I just

01:30:22.620 cannot see

01:30:23.420 how after

01:30:24.500 the 20th

01:30:25.100 century

01:30:25.460 anybody with

01:30:26.480 any sense

01:30:27.200 could possibly

01:30:28.020 not see that

01:30:29.120 as true

01:30:29.620 and I think

01:30:32.020 that there's a

01:30:32.700 line in the

01:30:33.140 Old Testament

01:30:33.700 you know

01:30:34.220 that the fear

01:30:35.040 of God

01:30:35.380 is the beginning

01:30:35.900 of wisdom

01:30:36.380 and I can

01:30:38.420 tell you one

01:30:38.940 of the things

01:30:39.360 that frightened

01:30:39.860 me badly

01:30:40.880 was the

01:30:42.420 realization

01:30:43.040 from reading

01:30:43.760 Solzhenits

01:30:44.320 and then a

01:30:44.700 variety of other

01:30:45.240 things that I

01:30:45.700 was reading

01:30:46.100 at the same

01:30:46.960 time

01:30:47.280 that

01:30:47.600 Dostoevsky

01:30:48.580 as well

01:30:48.900 because he

01:30:49.220 makes the

01:30:49.580 same point

01:30:50.140 he said

01:30:52.360 that a

01:30:52.860 human being

01:30:53.300 is not

01:30:53.620 only

01:30:53.820 responsible

01:30:54.320 for

01:30:54.620 everything

01:30:54.920 they

01:30:55.140 do

01:30:55.300 but

01:30:55.460 for

01:30:55.620 everything

01:30:55.900 that

01:30:56.100 everyone

01:30:56.340 else

01:30:56.660 does

01:30:57.020 now

01:30:57.940 you know

01:30:58.200 that's

01:30:58.480 crazy

01:30:58.840 and he 1.00

01:30:59.140 was an

01:30:59.380 epileptic

01:30:59.880 and a

01:31:00.180 mystic

01:31:00.520 and that's

01:31:00.840 a crazy

01:31:01.180 thing

01:31:01.400 to say

01:31:01.720 but it's

01:31:02.300 also

01:31:02.580 there's

01:31:03.040 something

01:31:03.260 about

01:31:03.560 it

01:31:03.680 that's

01:31:03.960 true

01:31:04.240 because

01:31:04.780 if you

01:31:05.160 were

01:31:05.340 better

01:31:05.720 the people

01:31:06.380 around

01:31:06.680 you

01:31:06.840 would

01:31:07.080 be

01:31:07.240 less

01:31:07.560 worse

01:31:07.920 than

01:31:08.160 they

01:31:08.320 are

01:31:08.580 and

01:31:09.300 if

01:31:09.420 you

01:31:09.520 were

01:31:09.640 good

01:31:09.820 enough

01:31:10.080 you

01:31:10.220 don't

01:31:10.400 know

01:31:10.540 how

01:31:10.720 much

01:31:10.940 better

01:31:11.200 the

01:31:11.380 people

01:31:11.620 around

01:31:11.880 you

01:31:12.040 would

01:31:12.200 be

01:31:12.420 and

01:31:13.660 so

01:31:13.960 there's

01:31:14.640 this

01:31:14.800 idea

01:31:15.120 too

01:31:15.460 you

01:31:15.840 know

01:31:16.040 that

01:31:16.860 Christ

01:31:17.180 took

01:31:17.460 the

01:31:17.760 sins

01:31:18.600 of

01:31:18.760 the

01:31:18.880 world

01:31:19.120 unto

01:31:19.380 himself

01:31:19.900 that's

01:31:20.480 a

01:31:20.620 complicated

01:31:21.040 idea

01:31:21.520 man

01:31:21.820 I

01:31:22.400 wrestled

01:31:22.780 with

01:31:22.920 that

01:31:23.060 one

01:31:23.180 for

01:31:23.320 a

01:31:23.420 very

01:31:23.580 long

01:31:23.780 time

01:31:24.020 but

01:31:24.160 I

01:31:24.540 think

01:31:24.700 I

01:31:24.860 figured

01:31:25.100 out

01:31:25.280 at

01:31:25.420 least

01:31:25.580 in

01:31:25.740 part

01:31:25.940 what

01:31:26.100 it

01:31:26.220 means

01:31:26.540 it

01:31:27.100 meant

01:31:27.320 that

01:31:27.660 it's

01:31:30.880 something

01:31:31.120 like

01:31:31.360 the

01:31:31.520 realization

01:31:32.080 of

01:31:32.340 complete

01:31:32.680 humanity

01:31:33.200 you

01:31:34.440 see

01:31:34.660 to

01:31:34.940 take

01:31:35.160 the

01:31:35.380 sins

01:31:35.740 of

01:31:35.860 the

01:31:35.980 world

01:31:36.260 unto

01:31:36.580 yourself

01:31:37.020 is

01:31:37.920 to

01:31:38.060 realize

01:31:38.420 that

01:31:38.740 is

01:31:40.740 to

01:31:40.920 understand

01:31:41.740 the

01:31:42.000 Nazi

01:31:42.340 concentration

01:31:43.120 camp

01:31:43.500 guard

01:31:43.840 because

01:31:45.280 that

01:31:45.540 person

01:31:45.940 is

01:31:46.140 human

01:31:46.500 and

01:31:47.380 so

01:31:47.720 are

01:31:47.840 you

01:31:48.080 and

01:31:49.160 so

01:31:49.300 if

01:31:49.440 you

01:31:49.580 can't

01:31:49.980 see

01:31:50.340 you

01:31:51.240 in

01:31:51.780 that

01:31:52.160 then

01:31:53.080 you

01:31:53.200 don't

01:31:53.340 know

01:31:53.460 who

01:31:53.600 you

01:31:53.720 are

01:31:53.980 and

01:31:55.080 if

01:31:55.200 you

01:31:55.340 can

01:31:55.740 see

01:31:56.100 you

01:31:56.400 in

01:31:56.600 that

01:31:56.920 well

01:31:57.460 then

01:31:57.600 you've

01:31:57.780 started

01:31:58.000 to

01:31:58.180 take

01:31:58.340 the

01:31:58.480 sins

01:31:58.680 of

01:31:58.800 the

01:31:58.900 world

01:31:59.100 unto

01:31:59.320 yourself

01:31:59.780 because

01:32:00.380 you've

01:32:00.600 actually

01:32:00.840 started

01:32:01.140 to

01:32:01.340 take

01:32:01.520 responsibility

01:32:02.200 for

01:32:02.900 those

01:32:03.120 terrible

01:32:03.420 things 0.89

01:32:03.780 you

01:32:03.920 know

01:32:04.080 I

01:32:05.120 think

01:32:05.320 it's

01:32:05.500 the

01:32:05.680 motif

01:32:06.200 of

01:32:06.500 the

01:32:06.820 motto

01:32:07.500 of

01:32:07.820 the

01:32:08.140 holocaust 0.90

01:32:09.300 museum

01:32:09.760 in

01:32:10.100 Washington

01:32:10.840 we

01:32:12.500 must

01:32:12.740 never

01:32:13.000 forget

01:32:13.500 that's

01:32:13.960 close

01:32:14.380 and

01:32:15.400 I

01:32:15.540 think

01:32:15.880 well

01:32:16.440 you

01:32:16.540 can't

01:32:16.800 forget

01:32:17.060 you

01:32:17.900 can't

01:32:18.180 remember

01:32:18.520 what

01:32:18.740 you

01:32:18.860 don't

01:32:19.060 understand

01:32:19.400 you

01:32:19.660 will

01:32:19.900 forget

01:32:20.340 what

01:32:20.560 you

01:32:20.680 don't

01:32:20.900 understand

01:32:21.340 and

01:32:21.860 the

01:32:22.000 question

01:32:22.320 is

01:32:22.520 well

01:32:22.660 what

01:32:22.800 are

01:32:22.900 you

01:32:23.020 supposed

01:32:23.280 to

01:32:23.440 remember

01:32:23.780 about

01:32:24.100 the

01:32:24.260 holocaust 0.90

01:32:24.820 it

01:32:26.900 was

01:32:27.040 a

01:32:27.160 historical

01:32:27.620 event

01:32:28.100 that

01:32:28.800 six

01:32:29.140 million

01:32:29.420 people

01:32:29.780 died

01:32:30.180 that's

01:32:31.160 not

01:32:31.320 what's

01:32:31.620 to

01:32:31.780 remember

01:32:32.220 what's

01:32:33.220 to

01:32:33.340 remember

01:32:33.660 is

01:32:33.860 that's

01:32:34.260 what

01:32:34.400 people

01:32:34.740 can

01:32:34.980 do

01:32:35.300 and

01:32:36.480 you're

01:32:36.780 one

01:32:37.040 of

01:32:37.200 them

01:32:37.380 and

01:32:38.240 if

01:32:38.340 you

01:32:38.460 don't

01:32:38.700 understand

01:32:39.420 that

01:32:40.580 you

01:32:40.740 could

01:32:40.920 do

01:32:41.120 that

01:32:41.440 then

01:32:42.320 you

01:32:42.440 don't

01:32:42.600 know

01:32:42.720 who

01:32:42.860 you

01:32:43.000 are

01:32:43.320 so

01:32:54.540 God's

01:32:54.940 making

01:32:55.180 a

01:32:55.380 case

01:32:55.660 here

01:32:55.820 he's

01:32:56.060 making

01:32:56.320 a

01:32:56.480 case

01:32:56.680 that

01:32:56.920 the

01:32:57.840 people

01:32:58.180 of

01:32:58.400 Sodom

01:32:58.780 and

01:32:58.920 Gomorrah

01:32:59.180 have

01:32:59.380 sinned

01:32:59.780 and

01:32:59.920 it's

01:33:00.880 making

01:33:01.140 a

01:33:01.300 large

01:33:01.560 racket

01:33:02.080 that

01:33:02.400 even

01:33:02.620 God

01:33:02.960 has

01:33:03.140 heard

01:33:03.320 about

01:33:03.620 that's

01:33:04.280 a

01:33:04.360 very

01:33:04.520 common

01:33:04.880 mythological

01:33:05.500 motif

01:33:06.040 by the

01:33:06.740 way

01:33:06.920 that

01:33:07.140 the

01:33:07.900 sins

01:33:08.320 and

01:33:08.580 and

01:33:09.740 and

01:33:11.240 what

01:33:11.920 would

01:33:12.100 you

01:33:12.200 call

01:33:12.420 it

01:33:12.620 the

01:33:13.020 sins

01:33:13.360 and

01:33:13.600 noise

01:33:14.000 of

01:33:14.200 humanity

01:33:14.660 can

01:33:15.080 reach

01:33:15.620 such

01:33:15.920 a

01:33:16.060 clamor

01:33:16.440 that

01:33:16.620 even

01:33:16.840 the

01:33:17.040 gods

01:33:17.320 hear

01:33:17.540 and

01:33:17.760 are

01:33:18.120 forced

01:33:18.380 to

01:33:18.540 intervene

01:33:18.940 that

01:33:19.460 comes

01:33:19.680 all

01:33:19.820 the

01:33:19.920 way

01:33:20.040 from

01:33:20.200 the

01:33:20.340 Mesopotamian

01:33:20.960 creation

01:33:21.340 story

01:33:21.800 so

01:33:22.980 anyways

01:33:23.260 it's

01:33:23.600 logical

01:33:24.100 yeah

01:33:24.520 they're

01:33:25.020 sinning

01:33:25.500 okay

01:33:25.800 well

01:33:26.100 so

01:33:26.360 what

01:33:26.620 well

01:33:26.820 no

01:33:27.060 not

01:33:27.320 so

01:33:27.560 what

01:33:27.740 it

01:33:27.880 means

01:33:28.160 that

01:33:28.440 God's

01:33:29.260 offended

01:33:29.660 and

01:33:29.960 that

01:33:30.180 everything

01:33:31.100 is

01:33:31.360 at

01:33:31.540 risk

01:33:31.840 that's

01:33:32.140 what

01:33:32.240 it

01:33:32.380 means

01:33:32.660 it's

01:33:32.920 like

01:33:33.100 that's

01:33:33.420 something

01:33:33.940 worth

01:33:34.300 taking

01:33:34.660 seriously

01:33:35.280 and

01:33:37.700 this is

01:33:48.740 a very

01:33:49.080 interesting

01:33:49.520 part of

01:33:49.880 the

01:33:50.000 story

01:33:50.320 a

01:33:52.540 friend

01:33:52.740 of mine

01:33:52.980 took me

01:33:53.300 to task

01:33:53.740 the other

01:33:54.040 day

01:33:54.200 when I

01:33:54.460 was

01:33:54.580 writing

01:33:54.980 about

01:33:56.060 portraying

01:33:56.960 the

01:33:57.060 Old

01:33:57.260 Testament

01:33:57.600 God

01:33:57.980 is

01:33:58.140 pretty

01:33:58.380 harsh

01:33:58.680 and

01:33:58.860 judgmental

01:33:59.440 and

01:33:59.560 the

01:33:59.680 New

01:33:59.840 Testament

01:34:00.180 God

01:34:00.520 is

01:34:00.680 sort

01:34:00.860 of

01:34:01.000 all

01:34:01.260 loving

01:34:01.580 which

01:34:01.980 he

01:34:02.340 isn't

01:34:02.660 because

01:34:02.900 there's

01:34:03.120 the

01:34:03.220 whole

01:34:03.380 book

01:34:03.560 of

01:34:03.680 revelations

01:34:04.180 thing

01:34:04.460 but

01:34:04.660 I

01:34:06.900 got

01:34:07.140 that

01:34:07.340 partly

01:34:07.600 from

01:34:07.820 reading

01:34:08.040 Northrop

01:34:08.460 Fry

01:34:08.700 but

01:34:08.940 going

01:34:10.140 through

01:34:10.300 the

01:34:10.440 Old

01:34:10.580 Testament

01:34:10.880 more

01:34:11.160 detail

01:34:11.520 I

01:34:11.740 realized

01:34:12.120 that

01:34:12.300 that

01:34:12.500 is

01:34:13.220 too

01:34:14.260 low

01:34:14.500 resolution

01:34:15.080 interpretation

01:34:16.100 and

01:34:16.540 that

01:34:16.740 God

01:34:17.580 who's

01:34:18.000 dispensing

01:34:18.580 a fair

01:34:18.900 bit

01:34:19.140 of

01:34:19.360 harsh

01:34:19.980 justice

01:34:20.440 in

01:34:20.660 the

01:34:20.760 Old

01:34:20.920 Testament

01:34:21.260 is

01:34:21.740 also

01:34:21.980 someone

01:34:22.280 who

01:34:22.440 can

01:34:22.600 be

01:34:22.720 negotiated

01:34:23.220 with

01:34:23.580 weirdly

01:34:24.200 enough

01:34:24.640 and

01:34:25.100 that's

01:34:25.320 what

01:34:25.420 happens

01:34:25.740 here

01:34:26.080 you

01:34:26.400 know

01:34:26.500 Abraham

01:34:26.900 has

01:34:27.780 just

01:34:27.960 been

01:34:28.140 told

01:34:28.440 that

01:34:28.680 whatever

01:34:29.240 is

01:34:29.400 going

01:34:29.580 on

01:34:29.780 in

01:34:29.900 Sodom

01:34:30.140 and Gomorrah

01:34:30.540 is

01:34:30.740 seriously

01:34:34.660 himself

01:34:34.960 this

01:34:35.180 is

01:34:35.320 an

01:34:35.460 act

01:34:35.660 of

01:34:35.800 mercy

01:34:36.080 to

01:34:36.400 to

01:34:37.340 ask

01:34:37.860 God

01:34:38.300 to

01:34:38.500 be

01:34:38.660 a

01:34:38.800 bit

01:34:38.940 more

01:34:39.180 judicious

01:34:39.980 right

01:34:40.320 it's

01:34:40.540 like

01:34:40.720 okay

01:34:40.920 you're

01:34:41.100 going to

01:34:41.180 wipe

01:34:41.340 out

01:34:41.480 the

01:34:41.640 city

01:34:41.900 well

01:34:42.180 bad

01:34:42.480 things

01:34:42.680 are

01:34:42.800 happening

01:34:43.040 there

01:34:43.220 but

01:34:43.380 you

01:34:43.780 know

01:34:43.860 there's

01:34:44.060 probably

01:34:44.300 a

01:34:44.480 few

01:34:44.720 people

01:34:45.100 in

01:34:45.280 the 1.00

01:34:45.400 damn 1.00

01:34:45.620 city 1.00

01:34:45.940 that

01:34:46.160 aren't

01:34:46.980 completely

01:34:47.460 corrupted

01:34:48.000 by

01:34:48.240 what's

01:34:48.540 going

01:34:48.780 on

01:34:49.020 there

01:34:49.240 of course

01:34:49.800 that's

01:34:50.080 an

01:34:50.180 open

01:34:50.380 question

01:34:50.880 you

01:34:51.520 know

01:34:51.620 because

01:34:51.800 it's

01:34:51.980 an

01:34:52.100 open

01:34:52.300 question

01:34:52.720 for

01:34:52.920 example

01:34:53.280 how

01:34:53.460 many

01:34:53.640 people

01:34:53.940 there

01:34:54.320 were

01:34:54.520 in

01:34:54.640 Nazi

01:34:54.880 Germany

01:34:55.260 who

01:34:55.460 weren't

01:34:55.700 completely

01:34:56.060 corrupted

01:34:56.500 by

01:34:56.700 what

01:34:56.880 was

01:34:57.020 going

01:34:57.220 on

01:34:57.400 in

01:34:57.500 Nazi

01:34:57.740 Germany

01:34:58.120 and

01:34:58.720 the

01:34:58.860 same

01:34:59.020 thing

01:34:59.200 could

01:34:59.340 be

01:34:59.480 said

01:34:59.680 about

01:34:59.920 Maoist

01:35:00.300 China

01:35:00.620 and

01:35:01.040 the

01:35:01.160 same

01:35:01.340 thing

01:35:01.540 could

01:35:01.700 be

01:35:01.820 said

01:35:02.020 about

01:35:02.220 the

01:35:02.380 Soviet

01:35:02.680 Union

01:35:03.120 it's

01:35:03.960 like

01:35:04.200 well

01:35:04.720 perhaps

01:35:05.140 there

01:35:05.340 was

01:35:05.480 a

01:35:05.600 person

01:35:05.860 somewhere

01:35:06.200 who

01:35:06.400 didn't

01:35:06.700 understand

01:35:07.220 at

01:35:07.400 some

01:35:07.640 level

01:35:07.900 what

01:35:08.100 was

01:35:08.280 happening

01:35:08.640 but

01:35:08.860 you

01:35:09.360 know

01:35:09.540 the

01:35:10.780 whole

01:35:11.020 issue

01:35:11.260 of

01:35:11.420 willful

01:35:11.720 blindness

01:35:12.120 certainly

01:35:12.540 springs

01:35:12.900 to

01:35:13.060 mind

01:35:13.280 if

01:35:13.420 nothing

01:35:13.700 else

01:35:14.100 anyways

01:35:14.940 Abraham

01:35:15.320 decides

01:35:15.800 to

01:35:16.000 intercede

01:35:16.560 with

01:35:17.320 God

01:35:17.640 on

01:35:17.840 behalf

01:35:18.320 of

01:35:18.520 these

01:35:18.820 people

01:35:19.840 who

01:35:20.420 are

01:35:20.540 going

01:35:20.700 to

01:35:20.820 be 0.97

01:35:20.960 destroyed

01:35:21.380 he

01:35:22.240 says

01:35:22.540 will

01:35:22.760 thou

01:35:23.000 also

01:35:23.280 destroy

01:35:23.780 the

01:35:23.960 righteous

01:35:24.240 with

01:35:24.500 the

01:35:24.640 wicked

01:35:24.880 perhaps

01:35:26.700 there

01:35:26.920 be

01:35:27.140 fifty

01:35:27.580 righteous

01:35:27.960 people

01:35:28.300 within

01:35:28.580 the

01:35:28.740 city

01:35:28.940 will

01:35:29.380 you

01:35:29.500 also

01:35:29.880 destroy

01:35:30.360 and

01:35:30.560 not

01:35:30.760 spare

01:35:31.020 the

01:35:31.180 place

01:35:31.380 for

01:35:31.540 the

01:35:31.700 fifty

01:35:32.040 righteous

01:35:32.400 that

01:35:32.640 are

01:35:32.740 there

01:35:33.000 that

01:35:34.780 be

01:35:34.940 far

01:35:35.220 from

01:35:35.480 thee

01:35:35.680 to

01:35:35.820 do

01:35:35.960 after

01:35:36.220 this

01:35:36.460 manner

01:35:36.780 he's

01:35:37.020 kind

01:35:37.180 of

01:35:37.260 reminding

01:35:37.600 God

01:35:37.920 that

01:35:38.080 he's

01:35:38.240 a

01:35:43.700 that

01:35:44.040 be

01:35:44.220 far

01:35:44.460 from

01:35:44.680 thee

01:35:44.880 should

01:35:45.120 not

01:35:45.300 the

01:35:45.480 judge

01:35:45.700 of

01:35:45.860 the

01:35:45.980 earth

01:35:46.180 do

01:35:46.400 right

01:35:46.840 and

01:35:48.200 the

01:35:48.340 Lord

01:35:48.520 said

01:35:48.820 if I

01:35:49.260 find

01:35:49.500 in

01:35:49.660 Sodom

01:35:49.940 fifty

01:35:50.280 righteous

01:35:50.520 he seems

01:35:50.840 a bit

01:35:51.060 taken

01:35:51.380 aback

01:35:51.800 here

01:35:52.020 to

01:35:52.180 me

01:35:52.420 if I

01:35:53.100 find

01:35:53.360 in

01:35:53.500 Sodom

01:35:53.780 fifty

01:35:54.140 righteous

01:35:54.480 within

01:35:54.820 the

01:35:55.020 city

01:35:55.220 then

01:35:55.420 I

01:35:55.560 will

01:35:55.720 spare

01:35:56.000 the

01:35:56.160 place

01:35:56.440 for

01:35:56.600 their

01:35:56.800 sakes

01:35:57.180 and

01:35:57.700 Abraham

01:35:57.940 answered

01:35:58.460 and

01:35:58.760 said

01:35:59.000 behold

01:35:59.380 now

01:35:59.620 I

01:35:59.720 have

01:35:59.840 taken

01:36:00.120 upon

01:36:00.400 me

01:36:00.560 to

01:36:00.700 speak

01:36:00.940 unto

01:36:01.140 the

01:36:01.320 Lord

01:36:01.520 unto

01:36:01.760 the

01:36:01.940 Lord

01:36:02.140 which

01:36:02.760 but

01:36:03.260 I

01:36:03.380 am

01:36:03.520 but

01:36:03.880 dust

01:36:04.340 and

01:36:04.500 ashes

01:36:04.840 possibly

01:36:06.820 there

01:36:07.160 shall

01:36:08.300 lack

01:36:08.520 five

01:36:08.960 of

01:36:09.100 the

01:36:09.240 fifty

01:36:09.520 righteous

01:36:09.880 will

01:36:10.120 thou

01:36:10.260 destroy 0.59

01:36:10.660 all

01:36:11.660 the

01:36:11.800 city

01:36:11.960 for

01:36:12.140 lack

01:36:12.360 of

01:36:12.500 five

01:36:12.880 and

01:36:13.580 he

01:36:13.720 said

01:36:14.000 he

01:36:14.840 said

01:36:15.140 God

01:36:15.400 said

01:36:15.600 if

01:36:15.740 I

01:36:15.860 find

01:36:16.140 there

01:36:16.320 forty

01:36:16.980 five

01:36:17.300 I

01:36:17.460 will

01:36:17.940 not

01:36:18.120 destroy

01:36:18.460 it 0.99

01:36:18.700 and

01:36:19.340 Abraham

01:36:19.600 spoke

01:36:20.020 unto

01:36:20.360 him

01:36:20.520 yet

01:36:20.680 again

01:36:21.020 and

01:36:21.240 said

01:36:21.500 he's

01:36:22.160 kind

01:36:22.300 of

01:36:22.420 sneaking

01:36:22.760 up

01:36:23.060 on

01:36:23.260 God

01:36:23.580 here

01:36:23.880 per

01:36:25.360 adventure

01:36:25.760 there

01:36:25.980 shall

01:36:26.140 be

01:36:26.300 forty

01:36:26.620 found

01:36:26.960 there

01:36:27.220 and

01:36:27.700 he

01:36:27.800 said

01:36:28.020 I

01:36:28.160 will

01:36:28.280 not

01:36:28.500 do

01:36:28.660 it

01:36:28.780 for

01:36:28.940 forty

01:36:29.240 sake

01:36:29.680 and

01:36:30.760 he

01:36:30.880 said

01:36:31.100 unto

01:36:31.320 him

01:36:31.580 oh

01:36:32.200 let

01:36:32.640 the

01:36:33.800 Lord

01:36:33.960 not

01:36:34.180 be

01:36:34.360 angry

01:36:34.660 and

01:36:34.880 I

01:36:35.120 will

01:36:35.260 speak

01:36:35.620 possibly

01:36:37.000 there

01:36:37.500 shall

01:36:37.760 be

01:36:38.040 thirty

01:36:38.720 found

01:36:39.160 there

01:36:39.420 and

01:36:39.980 God

01:36:40.200 said

01:36:40.360 I

01:36:40.500 won't

01:36:40.760 do

01:36:40.940 it

01:36:41.060 if

01:36:41.200 I

01:36:41.300 find

01:36:41.520 thirty

01:36:41.860 there

01:36:42.200 and

01:36:43.560 Abraham

01:36:43.880 who

01:36:44.160 seems

01:36:44.440 really

01:36:44.680 to be

01:36:44.980 pushing

01:36:45.240 his

01:36:45.440 luck

01:36:45.680 by

01:36:45.860 this

01:36:46.100 point

01:36:46.360 says

01:36:47.640 behold

01:36:48.040 I

01:36:48.320 have

01:36:48.460 taken

01:36:48.700 upon

01:36:48.960 me

01:36:49.120 to

01:36:49.260 speak

01:36:49.500 unto

01:36:49.660 the

01:36:49.800 Lord

01:36:49.980 possibly

01:36:50.680 there

01:36:50.920 shall

01:36:51.080 be

01:36:51.200 twenty

01:36:51.440 found

01:36:51.760 there

01:36:51.980 and

01:36:52.520 God

01:36:52.740 said

01:36:53.020 I

01:36:53.660 won't

01:36:53.880 destroy

01:36:54.180 it

01:36:54.320 for

01:36:54.460 twenty

01:36:54.740 sake

01:36:55.200 and

01:36:57.100 he

01:36:57.260 said

01:36:57.560 oh

01:36:59.040 let

01:37:00.220 the

01:37:00.400 Lord

01:37:00.520 not

01:37:00.720 be

01:37:00.880 angry

01:37:01.120 and

01:37:01.240 I

01:37:01.340 will

01:37:01.440 speak

01:37:01.680 yet

01:37:01.880 but

01:37:02.040 this

01:37:02.260 once

01:37:02.740 perhaps

01:37:03.920 ten

01:37:04.260 shall

01:37:04.520 be

01:37:04.700 found

01:37:04.940 there

01:37:05.160 and

01:37:05.300 he

01:37:05.460 said

01:37:05.720 I

01:37:06.120 will

01:37:06.240 not

01:37:06.420 destroy

01:37:06.740 it

01:37:06.880 for

01:37:07.020 ten

01:37:07.260 sake

01:37:07.660 and

01:37:09.060 the

01:37:09.160 Lord

01:37:09.320 went

01:37:09.560 his

01:37:09.700 way

01:37:09.880 and

01:37:10.060 as

01:37:10.480 soon

01:37:10.600 as

01:37:10.720 he

01:37:10.800 had

01:37:10.900 left

01:37:11.080 communing

01:37:11.440 with

01:37:11.600 Abraham

01:37:11.920 and

01:37:12.400 Abraham

01:37:12.660 returned

01:37:13.120 unto

01:37:13.300 his

01:37:13.500 place

01:37:13.780 well

01:37:14.500 there's

01:37:14.720 two

01:37:14.900 ways

01:37:15.160 you

01:37:15.300 can

01:37:15.440 read

01:37:22.520 about

01:37:22.900 it

01:37:23.060 so

01:37:23.200 that's

01:37:23.440 kind

01:37:23.600 of

01:37:23.680 interesting

01:37:24.140 and

01:37:24.860 the

01:37:24.980 second

01:37:25.280 is

01:37:25.640 that

01:37:27.060 even

01:37:28.640 if

01:37:28.820 there's

01:37:29.020 a

01:37:29.160 minority

01:37:29.680 of

01:37:29.980 good

01:37:30.340 in

01:37:30.600 a

01:37:30.720 place

01:37:30.940 that

01:37:31.100 isn't

01:37:31.420 good

01:37:31.680 it

01:37:31.860 won't

01:37:32.080 be

01:37:32.240 slated

01:37:32.520 for

01:37:32.720 destruction

01:37:33.260 that's

01:37:34.360 kind

01:37:34.540 of

01:37:34.600 a

01:37:34.680 good

01:37:34.800 thing

01:37:35.080 and

01:37:36.000 the

01:37:36.140 third

01:37:36.400 is

01:37:36.720 a

01:37:37.740 minority

01:37:38.300 of

01:37:38.600 good

01:37:39.000 in

01:37:39.280 a

01:37:39.440 place

01:37:39.720 can

01:37:40.040 keep

01:37:40.500 it

01:37:40.700 from

01:37:41.000 being

01:37:41.540 destroyed

01:37:42.120 and

01:37:42.720 that's

01:37:43.040 a

01:37:43.160 really

01:37:43.320 good

01:37:43.560 thing

01:37:43.760 too

01:37:43.920 and

01:37:44.040 I

01:37:44.280 believe

01:37:44.820 that

01:37:45.040 as

01:37:45.180 well

01:37:45.420 I

01:37:46.100 think

01:37:46.360 that

01:37:46.680 good

01:37:47.840 is

01:37:48.120 more

01:37:48.340 powerful

01:37:48.780 than

01:37:49.040 evil

01:37:49.360 naivety

01:37:50.480 isn't

01:37:50.860 but I

01:37:51.140 think

01:37:51.320 that

01:37:51.480 good

01:37:51.740 is

01:37:52.120 and

01:37:52.780 I

01:37:53.000 think

01:37:53.260 that

01:37:53.460 in

01:37:53.720 a

01:37:53.940 place

01:37:54.500 that's

01:37:54.820 corrupt

01:37:55.320 a

01:37:56.720 minority

01:37:57.240 of

01:37:57.500 people

01:37:57.760 who

01:37:57.940 stand

01:37:58.240 forth

01:37:58.540 against

01:37:58.820 the

01:37:59.000 corruption

01:37:59.280 can

01:37:59.600 prevail

01:38:00.020 now

01:38:01.800 you know

01:38:07.780 I

01:38:07.940 think

01:38:08.120 one of

01:38:08.840 the

01:38:08.940 best

01:38:09.180 examples

01:38:09.700 of

01:38:09.900 that

01:38:10.140 again

01:38:10.520 was

01:38:10.740 Alexander

01:38:11.460 Solzhenitsyn

01:38:12.180 because

01:38:12.460 he

01:38:12.740 was

01:38:13.320 in

01:38:13.460 the

01:38:13.620 terrible

01:38:14.060 work

01:38:14.760 camps

01:38:15.080 when

01:38:15.280 he

01:38:15.420 wrote

01:38:15.640 his

01:38:15.820 book

01:38:16.040 he

01:38:16.200 memorized

01:38:16.640 most

01:38:17.000 of

01:38:17.160 it

01:38:17.300 which

01:38:17.660 is

01:38:17.740 not

01:38:17.900 an

01:38:18.020 easy

01:38:18.200 thing

01:38:18.400 to

01:38:18.540 do

01:38:18.680 when

01:38:18.840 it's

01:38:19.000 2,100

01:38:19.440 pages

01:38:19.880 long

01:38:20.200 and

01:38:20.340 set

01:38:20.560 in

01:38:20.680 very

01:38:20.860 tiny

01:38:21.160 font

01:38:21.540 and

01:38:22.180 he

01:38:22.280 memorized

01:38:22.600 most

01:38:23.020 of

01:38:23.160 it

01:38:23.340 and

01:38:24.060 then

01:38:24.240 he

01:38:24.540 wrote

01:38:25.220 it

01:38:25.440 and

01:38:26.240 it

01:38:27.560 was

01:38:27.680 one

01:38:27.860 of

01:38:27.960 the

01:38:28.060 things

01:38:28.280 that

01:38:28.440 brought

01:38:28.600 down

01:38:28.780 the

01:38:28.940 Soviet

01:38:29.220 Union

01:38:29.560 you know

01:38:30.040 it

01:38:30.100 was

01:38:30.220 published

01:38:30.520 in

01:38:30.700 the

01:38:30.800 1970s

01:38:31.680 first

01:38:32.800 of

01:38:32.920 all

01:38:33.060 in

01:38:33.260 the

01:38:33.860 West

01:38:34.180 and

01:38:34.420 the

01:38:34.800 first

01:38:35.040 thing

01:38:35.360 that

01:38:36.040 happened

01:38:36.420 at

01:38:37.280 least

01:38:37.480 initially

01:38:38.200 was

01:38:38.640 that

01:38:38.960 the

01:38:41.460 communism

01:38:42.740 as

01:38:43.160 an

01:38:43.280 ethical

01:38:43.560 system

01:38:43.960 lost

01:38:44.260 absolutely

01:38:44.760 all

01:38:45.020 credibility

01:38:45.520 whatsoever

01:38:45.980 among

01:38:46.460 anyone

01:38:46.760 who

01:38:46.940 is

01:38:47.080 even

01:38:47.280 vaguely

01:38:47.660 educated

01:38:48.260 immediately

01:38:49.140 upon

01:38:49.500 the

01:38:49.660 publication

01:38:50.100 of

01:38:50.300 the

01:38:50.380 Gulag

01:38:50.660 archipelago

01:38:51.200 he

01:38:52.120 pulled

01:38:52.480 the

01:38:52.660 moral

01:38:52.880 slats

01:38:53.300 out

01:38:53.480 from

01:38:53.660 underneath

01:38:53.960 it

01:38:54.260 and

01:38:54.920 the

01:38:55.040 book

01:38:55.200 was

01:38:55.380 definitely

01:38:55.900 one

01:38:56.260 of

01:38:56.380 the

01:38:56.500 reasons

01:38:56.800 there

01:38:56.980 were

01:38:57.080 many

01:38:57.340 but

01:38:57.540 was

01:38:57.720 definitely

01:38:57.960 one

01:38:58.220 of

01:38:58.340 the

01:38:58.460 reasons

01:38:58.760 why

01:38:59.140 the

01:38:59.840 rotten

01:39:00.240 system

01:39:00.800 crumbled

01:39:01.300 and

01:39:01.640 fell

01:39:02.120 without

01:39:02.740 a

01:39:02.980 war

01:39:03.220 and

01:39:03.900 that's

01:39:04.120 a

01:39:04.240 great

01:39:04.480 example

01:39:04.860 of

01:39:05.040 how

01:39:05.200 one

01:39:05.540 person

01:39:06.000 can

01:39:06.700 take

01:39:07.300 on

01:39:07.560 a

01:39:07.740 tyranny

01:39:08.160 and

01:39:08.480 prevail

01:39:09.000 so

01:39:10.480 and

01:39:11.200 he's

01:39:11.420 not

01:39:11.580 the

01:39:11.740 only

01:39:11.940 person

01:39:12.320 who

01:39:12.480 did

01:39:12.680 that

01:39:12.920 sort

01:39:13.140 of

01:39:13.220 thing

01:39:13.380 because

01:39:13.560 well

01:39:13.760 Gandhi

01:39:14.060 did

01:39:14.300 the

01:39:14.440 same

01:39:14.620 thing

01:39:14.840 I

01:39:14.960 mean

01:39:15.100 I

01:39:15.560 don't

01:39:15.780 think

01:39:15.960 the

01:39:16.120 English

01:39:16.400 were

01:39:16.640 the

01:39:16.880 Russians

01:39:17.760 but

01:39:18.180 you

01:39:18.540 know

01:39:18.700 things

01:39:19.360 were

01:39:19.500 not

01:39:19.680 so

01:39:19.860 good

01:39:20.040 in

01:39:20.180 India

01:39:20.460 and

01:39:21.160 what

01:39:22.020 Gandhi

01:39:22.340 did

01:39:22.560 in

01:39:22.700 India

01:39:22.940 under

01:39:23.200 the

01:39:23.380 influence

01:39:23.780 by

01:39:23.980 the

01:39:24.100 way

01:39:24.260 of

01:39:24.400 Leo

01:39:24.580 Tolstoy

01:39:25.160 was

01:39:29.720 also

01:39:29.980 a

01:39:30.160 remarkable

01:39:30.520 example

01:39:31.020 of

01:39:31.200 a

01:39:31.320 single

01:39:31.540 person

01:39:31.880 intervening

01:39:32.380 in

01:39:32.520 a

01:39:32.600 catastrophe

01:39:37.560 so

01:39:38.060 and

01:39:41.720 there

01:39:41.860 came

01:39:42.080 two

01:39:42.300 angels

01:39:42.640 to

01:39:42.880 Sodom

01:39:43.240 at

01:39:43.380 evening

01:39:43.720 and

01:39:44.680 Lot

01:39:45.020 remember

01:39:46.040 Lot

01:39:46.300 is

01:39:46.420 Abraham's 0.82

01:39:46.860 nephew

01:39:47.140 sat

01:39:47.800 in

01:39:47.980 the

01:39:48.080 gate

01:39:48.280 of

01:39:48.420 Sodom

01:39:48.740 and

01:39:48.880 Lot

01:39:49.100 seeing

01:39:49.420 them

01:39:49.580 rose

01:39:49.800 up

01:39:49.960 to

01:39:50.080 meet

01:39:50.260 them

01:39:50.380 and

01:39:50.480 he

01:39:50.580 bowed

01:39:50.940 himself

01:39:51.360 with

01:39:51.600 his

01:39:51.780 face

01:39:52.060 toward

01:39:52.360 the

01:39:52.580 ground

01:39:52.880 and

01:39:54.220 he

01:39:54.340 said

01:39:54.520 behold

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01:39:55.020 lords

01:39:55.300 turn

01:39:55.720 in

01:39:55.880 I

01:39:56.020 pray

01:39:56.220 you

01:39:56.460 into

01:39:56.880 your

01:39:57.060 servant's

01:39:57.500 house

01:39:57.720 and

01:39:58.320 tarry

01:39:58.560 all

01:39:58.720 night

01:39:58.940 and

01:39:59.120 wash

01:39:59.340 your

01:39:59.480 feet

01:39:59.720 and

01:39:59.880 ye

01:40:00.000 shall

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01:40:00.400 up

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01:40:00.920 go

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01:40:04.080 nephew

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01:40:05.220 and

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01:40:05.840 in

01:40:06.120 exactly

01:40:06.480 the

01:40:06.660 manner

01:40:06.860 that

01:40:07.040 Abraham

01:40:07.300 does

01:40:07.580 he

01:40:07.740 shows

01:40:08.300 hospitality

01:40:08.800 to

01:40:09.200 these

01:40:09.420 people

01:40:09.740 and

01:40:10.160 they

01:40:10.300 said

01:40:10.480 no

01:40:10.700 no

01:40:10.940 we'll

01:40:11.620 stay

01:40:11.940 in

01:40:12.080 the

01:40:12.200 street

01:40:12.420 all

01:40:12.640 night

01:40:12.920 and

01:40:14.560 he

01:40:14.820 insisted

01:40:15.640 he

01:40:16.100 pressed

01:40:16.460 upon

01:40:16.680 them

01:40:16.840 greatly

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01:40:17.260 they

01:40:17.380 turned

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01:40:17.780 unto

01:40:18.020 him

01:40:18.260 and

01:40:18.420 entered

01:40:18.920 into

01:40:19.140 his

01:40:19.340 house

01:40:19.580 and

01:40:19.880 he

01:40:19.960 made

01:40:20.140 them

01:40:20.260 a

01:40:20.400 feast

01:40:20.640 and

01:40:20.820 baked

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01:40:21.700 bread

01:40:21.940 and

01:40:22.160 they

01:40:22.640 did

01:40:22.840 eat

01:40:30.760 and

01:40:31.160 they

01:40:31.280 called

01:40:31.520 unto

01:40:31.720 Lot

01:40:31.940 and

01:40:32.080 said

01:40:32.240 unto

01:40:32.460 him

01:40:32.640 where

01:40:33.020 are

01:40:33.120 the

01:40:33.220 men

01:40:33.420 which

01:40:33.600 came

01:40:33.840 into

01:40:34.040 thee

01:40:34.180 this

01:40:34.400 night

01:40:34.640 bring

01:40:35.260 them

01:40:35.720 out

01:40:35.940 to

01:40:36.100 us

01:40:36.320 that

01:40:36.640 we

01:40:36.780 may

01:40:36.960 know

01:40:37.200 them

01:40:37.480 well

01:40:39.820 that's

01:40:41.500 the part

01:40:43.220 of the

01:40:43.460 story

01:40:43.800 that's

01:40:44.720 been

01:40:44.900 used

01:40:45.240 as

01:40:45.580 a

01:40:47.200 diatribe

01:40:47.780 let's

01:40:48.080 say

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01:40:48.540 homosexuality 0.87

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01:40:49.840 to

01:40:50.360 know

01:40:50.780 is

01:40:51.420 to

01:40:51.640 engage

01:40:52.060 in

01:40:52.260 sexual 0.72

01:40:52.720 intercourse

01:40:53.780 and

01:40:54.080 the

01:40:55.500 inhabitants

01:40:56.900 of Sodom

01:40:57.440 and Gomorrah

01:40:57.960 were

01:40:58.740 willing

01:40:59.040 to

01:40:59.320 tear

01:40:59.880 the

01:41:00.320 strangers

01:41:00.760 out

01:41:01.020 of

01:41:01.140 Lot's

01:41:01.480 house

01:41:01.760 and

01:41:02.680 use

01:41:03.540 and

01:41:03.700 abuse

01:41:04.040 them

01:41:04.240 as

01:41:04.440 they

01:41:04.680 saw

01:41:05.280 fit

01:41:05.660 right

01:41:06.240 and

01:41:06.660 so

01:41:06.800 what

01:41:06.940 are

01:41:07.020 they

01:41:07.140 doing

01:41:07.500 well

01:41:08.000 they're

01:41:08.120 violating

01:41:08.580 the

01:41:08.800 principles

01:41:09.260 that

01:41:10.620 govern

01:41:10.900 appropriate

01:41:11.360 conduct

01:41:11.720 with

01:41:11.940 the

01:41:12.100 stranger

01:41:12.500 and

01:41:13.320 maybe

01:41:13.540 the

01:41:13.740 stranger

01:41:14.040 is

01:41:14.220 something

01:41:14.440 you

01:41:14.680 shouldn't

01:41:15.080 mess

01:41:15.420 with

01:41:15.760 because

01:41:16.300 you

01:41:16.420 don't

01:41:16.720 know

01:41:16.880 who

01:41:17.040 you're

01:41:17.260 messing

01:41:17.600 with

01:41:17.940 so

01:41:18.340 that's

01:41:18.620 like

01:41:18.780 warning

01:41:19.060 number

01:41:19.340 one

01:41:19.720 well

01:41:20.320 and

01:41:20.420 they're

01:41:20.540 violating

01:41:20.800 the

01:41:21.800 essential

01:41:22.140 principles

01:41:22.600 of

01:41:22.760 hospitality

01:41:23.340 and

01:41:24.240 then

01:41:24.460 there's

01:41:24.980 the

01:41:25.180 sexual

01:41:25.600 thing

01:41:25.940 here

01:41:26.180 I

01:41:26.360 think

01:41:26.620 is

01:41:26.940 isn't

01:41:27.900 the

01:41:29.440 sexual

01:41:29.840 thing

01:41:30.120 here

01:41:30.340 is

01:41:30.480 something

01:41:30.760 more

01:41:31.140 like

01:41:31.560 the

01:41:32.320 absolute

01:41:32.880 danger

01:41:33.480 of

01:41:33.780 immediate

01:41:34.240 gratification

01:41:35.200 sexual

01:41:35.780 included

01:41:36.380 outside

01:41:37.660 the

01:41:38.140 constraints

01:41:38.620 of

01:41:38.800 any

01:41:39.080 civilized

01:41:39.720 structure

01:41:40.300 whatsoever

01:41:40.980 right

01:41:41.680 because

01:41:41.840 that's

01:41:42.120 as

01:41:42.200 uncivilized

01:41:42.880 behavior

01:41:43.280 as you

01:41:43.620 could

01:41:43.760 possibly

01:41:44.120 hope

01:41:44.360 for

01:41:44.620 right

01:41:45.260 strangers

01:41:46.640 come

01:41:46.880 into

01:41:47.040 your

01:41:47.180 city

01:41:47.440 they're

01:41:48.420 in

01:41:48.600 the

01:41:48.780 house

01:41:49.140 of

01:41:49.360 someone

01:41:49.800 who's

01:41:50.140 part

01:41:50.380 of

01:41:50.480 your

01:41:50.620 city

01:41:50.900 they're

01:41:51.340 being

01:41:51.520 shown

01:41:51.740 hospitality

01:41:52.360 a

01:41:52.940 mob

01:41:53.280 shows

01:41:53.680 up

01:41:54.040 and

01:41:54.540 says

01:41:54.960 fork

01:41:56.040 them

01:41:56.220 over

01:41:56.520 man

01:41:56.920 we're

01:41:57.680 going

01:41:57.760 to

01:41:57.860 do

01:41:58.020 whatever

01:41:58.280 the 0.97

01:41:58.440 hell 0.53

01:41:58.620 we

01:41:58.780 want

01:41:59.140 to

01:41:59.700 them

01:41:59.960 and

01:42:00.500 it's

01:42:00.680 not

01:42:00.900 going

01:42:01.080 to

01:42:01.140 be

01:42:01.280 good

01:42:01.580 and

01:42:02.240 if

01:42:02.380 you

01:42:02.480 get

01:42:02.660 in

01:42:02.760 the

01:42:02.840 way

01:42:03.120 things

01:42:04.060 are

01:42:04.180 going

01:42:04.300 to

01:42:04.380 go

01:42:04.540 even

01:42:04.740 worse

01:42:05.060 for

01:42:05.260 you

01:42:05.540 so

01:42:07.040 so

01:42:09.880 that's

01:42:10.200 what it

01:42:10.460 seems

01:42:10.700 to me

01:42:11.040 to be

01:42:11.380 it's

01:42:11.640 completely

01:42:12.260 dysregulated

01:42:13.000 behavior

01:42:13.440 behavior

01:42:13.460 it's

01:42:14.080 behavior

01:42:14.540 that's

01:42:14.860 outside

01:42:15.460 the

01:42:15.940 confines

01:42:18.060 of

01:42:18.400 any

01:42:19.180 civilized

01:42:19.880 structure

01:42:20.480 whatsoever

01:42:21.080 it's

01:42:21.460 an

01:42:21.560 indication

01:42:22.620 that

01:42:23.420 the

01:42:23.600 social

01:42:24.900 structure

01:42:25.340 of

01:42:25.480 the

01:42:25.560 entire

01:42:26.260 society

01:42:26.780 has

01:42:27.320 collapsed

01:42:28.060 so

01:42:28.700 that

01:42:28.880 there's

01:42:29.100 nothing

01:42:29.500 left

01:42:30.080 for

01:42:30.360 the

01:42:30.580 inhabitants

01:42:31.040 to

01:42:31.360 do

01:42:31.660 except

01:42:32.420 to

01:42:32.900 engage

01:42:33.380 in

01:42:33.540 the

01:42:33.660 most

01:42:33.900 brutal

01:42:34.440 of

01:42:34.800 immediate

01:42:35.260 gratification

01:42:36.140 and

01:42:36.460 destruction

01:42:37.040 well

01:42:40.820 so

01:42:41.020 what

01:42:41.160 does

01:42:41.260 Lot

01:42:41.520 do

01:42:41.780 I

01:42:44.060 pray

01:42:44.300 thee

01:42:44.500 brethren

01:42:44.900 do

01:42:45.120 not

01:42:45.280 do

01:42:45.440 so

01:42:45.640 wickedly

01:42:46.080 behold

01:42:46.520 now

01:42:46.760 I

01:42:46.900 have

01:42:47.040 two

01:42:47.220 daughters

01:42:47.580 which

01:42:47.860 have

01:42:48.040 not

01:42:48.220 yet

01:42:48.440 known

01:42:48.700 man

01:42:49.120 let

01:42:49.720 me

01:42:49.860 I

01:42:50.040 pray

01:42:50.280 you

01:42:50.540 bring

01:42:51.120 them

01:42:51.300 out

01:42:51.520 unto

01:42:51.840 you

01:42:52.060 and

01:42:52.260 you

01:42:52.740 do

01:42:52.880 to

01:42:53.020 them

01:42:53.200 as

01:42:53.360 is

01:42:53.460 good

01:42:53.680 in

01:42:53.780 your

01:42:53.900 eyes

01:42:54.180 only

01:42:54.480 unto

01:42:54.760 these

01:42:54.980 men

01:42:55.180 do

01:42:55.320 nothing

01:42:55.660 and

01:42:56.120 therefore

01:42:56.540 for

01:42:57.800 therefore

01:42:58.120 came

01:42:58.600 thee

01:42:58.860 thee

01:42:59.300 under

01:42:59.580 the

01:42:59.860 shadow

01:43:00.100 of

01:43:00.280 my

01:43:00.460 roof

01:43:00.780 well

01:43:02.260 it's

01:43:03.160 hard

01:43:03.320 to

01:43:03.440 know

01:43:03.560 what

01:43:03.740 to

01:43:03.880 make

01:43:04.040 of

01:43:04.180 that

01:43:04.460 you

01:43:04.620 know

01:43:04.780 I

01:43:05.120 mean

01:43:05.260 doesn't

01:43:05.940 exactly

01:43:06.380 seem

01:43:06.740 like

01:43:07.060 the

01:43:10.740 advisable

01:43:11.360 thing

01:43:11.700 for

01:43:11.900 Lot

01:43:12.160 to

01:43:12.360 do

01:43:12.600 and

01:43:13.540 but

01:43:16.660 I

01:43:16.800 think

01:43:16.980 at

01:43:17.160 least

01:43:17.420 what

01:43:17.660 it

01:43:17.800 is

01:43:18.000 is

01:43:18.180 an

01:43:18.320 indication

01:43:18.860 of

01:43:19.220 the

01:43:19.400 degree

01:43:19.760 to

01:43:20.040 which

01:43:20.360 he

01:43:20.600 took

01:43:20.940 the

01:43:21.980 solemn

01:43:23.540 vow

01:43:24.040 of

01:43:24.260 hospitality

01:43:24.960 seriously

01:43:25.980 and

01:43:26.360 I

01:43:26.500 think

01:43:26.840 that's

01:43:27.680 the

01:43:27.920 idea

01:43:28.420 that

01:43:28.660 the

01:43:28.820 story

01:43:29.160 is

01:43:29.480 trying

01:43:29.800 to

01:43:30.160 promote

01:43:31.240 and

01:43:35.960 the

01:43:36.080 angel

01:43:36.280 said

01:43:36.560 stand

01:43:36.940 back

01:43:37.340 oh

01:43:38.280 and

01:43:38.440 the

01:43:38.540 men

01:43:38.720 said

01:43:38.980 stand

01:43:39.340 back

01:43:39.720 and

01:43:40.460 they

01:43:40.580 said

01:43:40.760 again

01:43:41.020 this

01:43:41.460 one

01:43:41.780 fellow

01:43:42.040 came

01:43:42.260 into

01:43:42.460 sojourn

01:43:43.020 to

01:43:43.380 talk

01:43:43.600 to

01:43:43.740 us

01:43:43.920 and

01:43:44.320 he

01:43:44.480 will

01:43:44.700 needs

01:43:44.940 be

01:43:45.120 a

01:43:45.280 judge

01:43:45.660 now

01:43:46.460 we'll

01:43:46.700 deal

01:43:46.900 worse

01:43:47.240 with

01:43:47.440 him

01:43:47.700 than

01:43:47.880 with

01:43:48.080 them

01:43:48.420 and

01:43:49.200 they

01:43:49.340 pressed

01:43:49.600 sore

01:43:49.800 upon

01:43:50.060 the

01:43:50.220 man

01:43:50.440 even

01:43:50.720 lot

01:43:51.000 and

01:43:51.180 came

01:43:51.400 near

01:43:51.600 to

01:43:51.740 break

01:43:51.920 the

01:43:52.060 door

01:43:52.200 maybe

01:43:52.960 what

01:43:53.360 lot

01:43:53.680 thought

01:43:54.200 was

01:43:54.480 something

01:43:54.800 like

01:43:55.140 well

01:43:56.060 we're

01:43:56.300 done

01:43:56.840 like

01:43:57.560 we're

01:43:57.800 all

01:43:57.940 done

01:43:58.180 with

01:43:59.160 this

01:43:59.340 mob

01:43:59.660 and

01:44:00.600 perhaps

01:44:02.220 I can

01:44:02.660 spare

01:44:02.960 some

01:44:03.300 of

01:44:03.460 us

01:44:03.760 and

01:44:06.780 they

01:44:06.900 pressed

01:44:07.160 sore

01:44:07.360 upon

01:44:07.580 the

01:44:07.740 man

01:44:07.960 even

01:44:08.200 lot

01:44:08.440 and

01:44:08.580 came

01:44:08.780 near

01:44:08.960 to

01:44:09.080 break

01:44:09.260 the

01:44:09.420 door

01:44:09.640 but

01:44:10.420 the

01:44:10.560 men

01:44:10.860 this

01:44:11.500 is

01:44:11.620 the

01:44:11.780 angels

01:44:12.160 put

01:44:13.280 forth

01:44:13.540 their

01:44:13.700 hand

01:44:13.920 and

01:44:14.060 pulled

01:44:14.220 lot

01:44:14.480 into

01:44:14.660 the

01:44:14.800 house

01:44:14.980 to

01:44:15.100 them

01:44:15.240 and 0.90

01:44:15.340 shut

01:44:15.520 the

01:44:15.680 door

01:44:15.840 and

01:44:15.940 they

01:44:16.060 smote

01:44:16.320 the

01:44:16.460 men

01:44:16.620 that

01:44:16.740 were

01:44:16.840 at

01:44:16.960 the

01:44:17.060 door

01:44:17.220 of

01:44:17.320 the

01:44:17.400 house

01:44:17.580 with

01:44:17.740 blindness

01:44:18.180 both

01:44:18.740 small

01:44:19.040 and

01:44:19.220 great

01:44:19.480 so

01:44:20.020 that

01:44:20.160 they

01:44:20.320 wearied

01:44:27.940 even

01:44:28.320 to

01:44:28.500 find

01:44:28.720 the

01:44:28.900 door

01:44:29.160 and

01:44:30.160 the

01:44:30.240 men

01:44:30.440 then

01:44:30.680 said

01:44:30.900 unto

01:44:31.100 lot

01:44:31.380 has

01:44:32.100 thou

01:44:32.380 here

01:44:32.680 any

01:44:33.000 besides

01:44:33.640 any

01:44:33.940 family

01:44:34.280 members

01:44:34.600 son-in-law

01:44:35.200 and thy

01:44:35.680 sons

01:44:35.940 and thy

01:44:36.200 daughters

01:44:36.500 and

01:44:36.920 whoever

01:44:37.220 thou

01:44:37.760 hast

01:44:38.180 in

01:44:38.420 this

01:44:38.600 city

01:44:38.840 get

01:44:39.360 them

01:44:39.540 out

01:44:39.700 of

01:44:39.780 the

01:44:39.900 place

01:44:40.220 for

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01:44:40.780 will 0.99

01:44:40.980 destroy

01:44:41.540 this 0.92

01:44:41.820 place

01:44:42.200 because

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01:44:42.800 the

01:44:42.900 cry

01:44:43.240 of

01:44:43.420 them

01:44:43.580 is

01:44:43.760 waxen

01:44:44.300 great

01:44:44.600 before

01:44:44.920 the

01:44:45.100 face

01:44:45.340 of

01:44:45.480 the

01:44:45.600 Lord

01:44:45.840 and

01:44:46.260 the

01:44:46.380 Lord

01:44:46.560 has

01:44:46.760 sent

01:44:46.980 us

01:44:47.300 to

01:44:47.500 destroy

01:44:47.960 it 0.99

01:44:48.220 and

01:44:50.420 lot

01:44:50.640 went

01:44:50.880 out

01:44:51.060 and

01:44:51.220 spake

01:44:51.580 unto

01:44:51.980 his

01:44:52.260 sons

01:44:52.500 in

01:44:52.660 law

01:44:52.900 which

01:44:54.360 married

01:44:54.680 his

01:44:54.900 daughters

01:44:55.260 and

01:44:55.540 said

01:44:55.820 up

01:44:56.460 you

01:44:56.820 get

01:44:57.020 out

01:44:57.160 of

01:44:57.240 this

01:44:57.400 place

01:44:57.780 for

01:44:58.100 the

01:44:58.220 Lord

01:44:58.380 will

01:44:58.560 destroy

01:44:58.900 this 0.95

01:44:59.120 city

01:44:59.380 but

01:45:00.220 he

01:45:00.340 seemed

01:45:00.580 as

01:45:00.740 one

01:45:00.940 that

01:45:01.100 mocked

01:45:01.580 unto

01:45:01.780 his

01:45:01.980 sons

01:45:02.160 in

01:45:03.000 law

01:45:03.220 and

01:45:04.400 when

01:45:04.500 the

01:45:04.620 morning

01:45:04.840 arose

01:45:05.260 then

01:45:05.800 the

01:45:05.940 angels

01:45:06.220 hastened

01:45:06.700 lot

01:45:06.980 saying

01:45:07.400 arise

01:45:08.340 take

01:45:08.600 thy

01:45:08.800 wife

01:45:09.060 and

01:45:09.160 thy

01:45:09.300 two

01:45:09.460 daughters

01:45:09.800 which

01:45:10.040 are

01:45:10.180 here

01:45:10.460 lest

01:45:11.040 thou

01:45:11.200 be

01:45:11.380 consumed

01:45:11.800 in

01:45:12.020 the

01:45:12.120 iniquity

01:45:12.540 of

01:45:12.700 the

01:45:12.860 city

01:45:20.880 upon

01:45:21.020 the

01:45:21.180 hand

01:45:21.360 of

01:45:21.460 his

01:45:21.580 two

01:45:21.740 daughters

01:45:22.120 the

01:45:22.800 Lord

01:45:22.980 being

01:45:23.180 merciful

01:45:23.600 unto

01:45:23.940 him

01:45:24.120 and

01:45:24.220 they

01:45:24.340 brought

01:45:24.540 him

01:45:24.680 forth

01:45:24.920 and

01:45:25.120 set

01:45:25.360 him

01:45:25.500 without

01:45:25.760 the

01:45:26.020 city

01:45:26.260 so

01:45:27.900 he

01:45:29.300 still

01:45:29.780 this is

01:45:31.160 an indication

01:45:31.720 of the

01:45:32.120 danger

01:45:32.480 of not

01:45:32.880 acting

01:45:33.360 with

01:45:34.420 appropriate

01:45:34.920 haste

01:45:35.320 when the

01:45:35.620 time

01:45:35.840 has

01:45:36.000 come

01:45:36.260 I

01:45:36.400 mean

01:45:36.600 Lot's

01:45:37.560 already

01:45:37.760 seen

01:45:38.020 what

01:45:38.200 happened

01:45:38.600 he

01:45:39.140 saw

01:45:39.340 that

01:45:39.500 the

01:45:39.620 men

01:45:39.780 came

01:45:40.020 to

01:45:40.160 his

01:45:40.340 door

01:45:40.620 he

01:45:41.200 saw

01:45:41.400 that

01:45:41.580 they

01:45:41.780 were

01:45:42.360 murderous 0.99

01:45:42.840 rapists 1.00

01:45:43.420 he 0.95

01:45:44.300 saw

01:45:44.500 that

01:45:44.660 the

01:45:44.800 angels

01:45:45.160 took

01:45:45.680 them

01:45:45.860 out

01:45:50.880 that

01:45:51.160 place

01:45:51.600 and

01:45:52.700 so

01:45:52.920 I

01:45:53.080 guess

01:45:53.260 one

01:45:53.460 of

01:45:53.560 the

01:45:53.680 things

01:45:53.960 that

01:45:54.240 this

01:45:54.440 story

01:45:54.800 requires

01:45:55.640 people

01:45:55.940 to ask

01:45:56.360 themselves

01:45:56.820 is

01:45:57.320 are

01:45:59.940 you

01:46:00.140 in a

01:46:00.400 place

01:46:00.660 that's

01:46:00.940 so

01:46:01.100 bad

01:46:01.340 that

01:46:01.520 you

01:46:01.680 should

01:46:01.860 leave

01:46:02.220 or

01:46:03.960 when

01:46:04.400 are

01:46:04.640 you

01:46:04.800 in

01:46:04.900 a

01:46:05.000 place

01:46:05.260 that's

01:46:05.540 so

01:46:05.700 bad

01:46:05.960 that

01:46:06.120 you

01:46:06.280 should

01:46:06.480 leave

01:46:06.760 and

01:46:07.020 if

01:46:07.240 you

01:46:07.400 are

01:46:07.660 in

01:46:07.780 a

01:46:07.880 place

01:46:08.220 that's

01:46:08.640 so

01:46:08.800 bad

01:46:09.060 that

01:46:09.240 you

01:46:09.420 should

01:46:09.600 leave

01:46:09.880 then

01:46:10.100 the

01:46:10.240 time

01:46:10.460 to

01:46:10.620 leave

01:46:10.860 is

01:46:11.440 now

01:46:11.840 because

01:46:12.980 there's

01:46:13.260 no

01:46:13.440 time

01:46:13.680 to

01:46:13.860 waste

01:46:14.220 and

01:46:16.800 it

01:46:20.880 not

01:46:21.080 behind

01:46:21.500 you

01:46:21.860 neither

01:46:23.300 stay

01:46:23.660 thou

01:46:23.900 in

01:46:24.040 all

01:46:24.180 the

01:46:24.340 plain

01:46:24.620 escape

01:46:25.020 to

01:46:25.180 the

01:46:25.320 mountain

01:46:25.560 lest

01:46:25.820 thou

01:46:26.000 be

01:46:26.180 consumed

01:46:26.680 and

01:46:28.080 Lot

01:46:28.260 said

01:46:28.500 to

01:46:28.640 them

01:46:28.820 oh

01:46:29.200 not

01:46:29.460 not

01:46:29.700 so

01:46:29.900 my

01:46:30.120 lord

01:46:30.380 behold

01:46:31.520 now

01:46:31.840 thy

01:46:32.320 servant

01:46:32.620 hath found

01:46:33.000 grace

01:46:33.280 in thy

01:46:33.560 sight

01:46:33.800 and

01:46:33.940 thou

01:46:34.080 hast

01:46:34.300 magnified

01:46:34.820 thy

01:46:35.040 mercy

01:46:35.320 which

01:46:35.860 thou

01:46:36.000 hast

01:46:36.140 showed

01:46:36.380 me

01:46:36.580 into

01:46:36.800 saving

01:46:37.120 my

01:46:37.320 life

01:46:37.560 but

01:46:37.920 I

01:46:38.020 cannot

01:46:38.240 escape

01:46:38.620 to

01:46:38.780 the

01:46:38.900 mountain

01:46:39.200 lest

01:46:39.820 some

01:46:40.000 evil

01:46:40.220 take

01:46:40.560 me

01:46:40.800 and

01:46:41.260 I 1.00

01:46:41.380 die

01:46:41.700 behold

01:46:42.300 now

01:46:42.560 there's

01:46:42.840 a

01:46:43.000 city

01:46:43.340 near

01:46:43.820 to

01:46:44.020 flee

01:46:44.220 unto

01:46:44.480 and

01:46:44.660 it's

01:46:44.860 a

01:46:44.980 little

01:46:45.100 one

01:46:45.400 which

01:46:46.000 means

01:46:46.240 maybe

01:46:46.540 it's

01:46:46.740 not

01:46:46.900 big

01:46:47.120 and 0.99

01:46:47.280 corrupt 0.95

01:46:47.600 like 1.00

01:46:47.860 Sodom

01:46:48.180 and

01:46:48.300 Gomorrah

01:46:48.600 oh

01:46:48.900 let

01:46:49.100 me

01:46:49.220 escape

01:46:49.540 thither

01:46:49.960 is it

01:46:50.540 not

01:46:50.920 a

01:46:51.040 little

01:46:51.180 one

01:46:51.360 and

01:46:51.460 my

01:46:51.600 soul

01:46:51.840 shall

01:46:52.120 live

01:46:52.460 Matthew

01:46:53.420 Henry

01:46:53.700 said

01:46:53.960 lot

01:46:54.240 lingered

01:46:54.660 he

01:46:54.820 trifled

01:46:55.480 thus

01:46:56.340 many

01:46:56.580 who

01:46:56.740 are

01:46:56.840 under

01:46:57.020 convictions

01:46:57.500 about

01:46:57.780 their

01:46:57.980 spiritual

01:46:58.320 state

01:46:58.720 and

01:46:58.900 the

01:46:59.020 necessity

01:46:59.480 of

01:46:59.700 a

01:46:59.800 change

01:47:00.080 defer

01:47:00.500 that

01:47:00.780 needful

01:47:01.200 work

01:47:01.560 and

01:47:05.420 he

01:47:05.540 said

01:47:05.720 unto

01:47:05.920 him

01:47:06.180 see

01:47:06.780 I've

01:47:06.980 accepted

01:47:07.380 thee

01:47:07.580 the

01:47:07.740 angel

01:47:08.020 and

01:47:08.580 he

01:47:08.680 said

01:47:08.860 unto

01:47:09.040 him

01:47:09.260 see

01:47:09.460 I

01:47:09.580 have

01:47:09.680 accepted

01:47:10.040 thee

01:47:10.220 concerning

01:47:10.600 this

01:47:10.820 thing

01:47:11.000 also

01:47:11.240 that

01:47:11.420 I

01:47:11.520 will

01:47:11.660 not

01:47:11.840 overthrow

01:47:12.160 this

01:47:12.400 city

01:47:12.620 for the

01:47:13.180 which

01:47:13.340 thou

01:47:13.540 has

01:47:13.720 spoken

01:47:14.140 the

01:47:14.560 small

01:47:14.780 city

01:47:15.060 haste

01:47:15.520 thee

01:47:15.640 escape

01:47:16.020 thither

01:47:16.340 for I

01:47:16.860 cannot

01:47:17.040 do

01:47:17.260 anything

01:47:17.560 till

01:47:17.760 thou

01:47:17.960 be

01:47:18.460 gone

01:47:18.680 hither

01:47:19.000 therefore

01:47:19.940 the name

01:47:20.320 of the

01:47:20.540 city

01:47:20.720 was

01:47:20.940 Zor 0.68

01:47:21.220 that's

01:47:21.620 where

01:47:21.740 Lot

01:47:21.960 went

01:47:22.220 the

01:47:22.480 sun

01:47:22.660 was

01:47:22.840 risen

01:47:23.080 upon

01:47:23.320 the

01:47:23.500 earth

01:47:23.660 when

01:47:23.820 Lot

01:47:24.040 entered

01:47:24.340 into

01:47:24.580 Zor 0.68

01:47:24.840 then

01:47:26.140 the

01:47:26.280 Lord

01:47:26.480 rained

01:47:26.820 upon

01:47:27.120 Sodom

01:47:27.480 and

01:47:27.640 upon

01:47:28.000 Gomorrah

01:47:28.380 brimstone

01:47:28.860 and

01:47:29.080 fire

01:47:29.360 from

01:47:29.620 the

01:47:29.760 Lord

01:47:29.960 out

01:47:30.140 of

01:47:30.260 heaven

01:47:30.520 and

01:47:31.540 he

01:47:31.640 overthrew

01:47:32.000 the

01:47:32.180 cities

01:47:32.460 and

01:47:32.640 all

01:47:32.800 the

01:47:32.940 plain

01:47:33.180 and

01:47:33.320 all

01:47:33.460 the

01:47:33.600 inhabitants

01:47:34.020 of

01:47:34.240 the

01:47:34.380 cities

01:47:34.660 and

01:47:35.080 that

01:47:35.240 which

01:47:35.400 grew

01:47:35.580 upon

01:47:35.840 the

01:47:36.000 ground

01:47:36.320 but

01:47:37.460 his

01:47:37.600 wife

01:47:37.940 looked

01:47:38.320 back

01:47:38.780 from

01:47:39.000 behind

01:47:39.420 him

01:47:39.720 and

01:47:40.560 she

01:47:40.720 became

01:47:41.040 a

01:47:41.220 pillar

01:47:41.420 of

01:47:41.660 salt

01:47:42.000 no

01:47:47.260 nostalgia

01:47:47.800 for

01:47:48.080 catastrophe

01:47:48.720 I

01:47:50.200 think

01:47:50.400 that's

01:47:50.660 what

01:47:50.780 that

01:47:50.980 means

01:47:51.300 is

01:47:51.560 that

01:47:51.800 when

01:47:52.420 you

01:47:52.700 leave

01:47:53.780 what's

01:47:54.620 not

01:47:54.900 good

01:47:55.240 you

01:47:55.900 wash

01:47:56.280 the

01:47:56.480 dust

01:47:56.760 off

01:47:56.980 your

01:47:57.160 feet

01:47:57.480 and

01:47:58.540 you

01:47:58.660 don't

01:47:58.920 look

01:47:59.120 back

01:47:59.540 and

01:48:00.680 that's

01:48:00.940 a

01:48:01.060 very

01:48:01.280 harsh

01:48:01.620 lesson

01:48:02.060 this

01:48:06.300 is

01:48:06.420 echoed

01:48:06.700 a bit

01:48:06.940 in the

01:48:07.120 New

01:48:07.280 Testament

01:48:07.720 the

01:48:09.880 idea

01:48:10.180 of

01:48:10.420 the

01:48:10.680 necessity

01:48:11.100 for

01:48:11.380 immediate

01:48:11.700 action

01:48:12.060 these

01:48:12.260 are

01:48:12.360 some

01:48:12.520 of

01:48:12.600 the

01:48:12.720 harsher

01:48:13.080 words

01:48:13.380 that

01:48:13.580 Christ

01:48:13.940 said

01:48:14.900 this

01:48:15.560 is

01:48:15.680 from

01:48:15.860 Matthew

01:48:16.220 8

01:48:16.660 Christ

01:48:17.360 is

01:48:17.540 addressing

01:48:17.920 a

01:48:18.140 multitude

01:48:18.500 and

01:48:19.900 asking

01:48:21.920 people

01:48:22.260 to

01:48:22.440 follow

01:48:22.720 him

01:48:22.960 and

01:48:23.180 a

01:48:23.980 disciple

01:48:24.300 comes

01:48:24.580 up

01:48:24.740 to

01:48:24.880 him

01:48:25.040 and

01:48:25.200 says

01:48:25.440 Lord

01:48:25.800 suffer

01:48:26.740 me

01:48:26.960 first

01:48:27.260 to

01:48:27.420 go

01:48:27.560 and 0.99

01:48:27.720 bury

01:48:27.920 my

01:48:28.120 father

01:48:28.540 seems

01:48:29.320 like

01:48:29.560 a

01:48:29.660 perfectly

01:48:29.940 reasonable

01:48:30.360 request

01:48:30.900 but

01:48:31.380 Jesus

01:48:31.660 said

01:48:32.060 unto

01:48:32.300 him

01:48:32.560 follow

01:48:33.020 me

01:48:33.380 and

01:48:33.900 let

01:48:34.120 the

01:48:34.300 dead

01:48:34.640 bury

01:48:35.040 their 0.96

01:48:35.260 dead

01:48:35.680 this

01:48:38.260 is

01:48:38.380 from

01:48:38.560 Matthew

01:48:38.840 12

01:48:39.360 well

01:48:40.760 he

01:48:40.880 yet

01:48:41.060 talked

01:48:41.320 to

01:48:41.440 the

01:48:41.560 people

01:48:41.840 behold

01:48:42.300 his

01:48:42.540 mother

01:48:42.780 and

01:48:42.940 his

01:48:43.100 brethren

01:48:43.440 stood

01:48:43.940 without

01:48:44.260 desiring

01:48:44.660 to

01:48:44.860 speak

01:48:45.080 with

01:48:45.260 him

01:48:45.420 then

01:48:45.840 one

01:48:46.040 said

01:48:46.280 to

01:48:46.440 him

01:48:46.720 behold

01:48:47.980 thy

01:48:48.200 mother

01:48:48.440 and

01:48:48.580 thy

01:48:48.740 brethren

01:48:49.100 stand

01:48:49.620 without

01:48:49.940 desiring

01:48:50.320 to

01:48:50.500 speak

01:48:50.740 with

01:48:50.920 thee

01:48:51.120 but

01:48:52.220 Jesus

01:48:52.480 answered

01:48:52.880 the

01:48:53.020 one

01:48:53.180 who

01:48:53.300 was

01:48:53.440 telling

01:48:53.680 him

01:48:53.880 and

01:48:54.000 said

01:48:54.180 who

01:48:54.480 is

01:48:54.660 my

01:48:54.860 mother

01:48:55.120 and

01:48:55.320 who

01:48:55.460 is

01:48:55.640 my

01:48:55.840 brothers

01:48:56.220 for

01:48:59.300 whosoever

01:48:59.940 shall

01:49:00.320 do

01:49:00.480 the

01:49:00.620 will

01:49:00.780 of

01:49:00.900 my

01:49:01.060 father

01:49:01.360 which

01:49:01.580 is

01:49:01.720 in

01:49:01.880 heaven

01:49:02.120 the

01:49:02.640 same

01:49:02.840 as

01:49:02.980 my

01:49:03.160 brother

01:49:03.420 and

01:49:03.680 sister

01:49:04.060 and

01:49:04.280 mother

01:49:04.520 well

01:49:06.540 what

01:49:06.660 does

01:49:06.780 all

01:49:06.940 that

01:49:07.160 mean

01:49:07.460 it

01:49:11.080 means

01:49:11.340 that

01:49:11.540 there's

01:49:11.840 no

01:49:12.060 excuses

01:49:12.620 whatsoever

01:49:13.140 for

01:49:13.600 not

01:49:13.860 getting

01:49:14.160 up

01:49:14.380 and

01:49:14.840 getting

01:49:15.080 at

01:49:15.300 it

01:49:15.460 that's

01:49:15.960 what

01:49:16.060 it

01:49:16.180 means

01:49:16.480 and

01:49:18.060 it

01:49:18.260 means

01:49:18.540 that

01:49:18.840 it

01:49:21.660 even

01:49:21.900 means

01:49:22.200 that

01:49:22.460 when

01:49:23.320 people

01:49:23.660 are

01:49:24.100 beset

01:49:24.480 with

01:49:24.620 a

01:49:24.720 catastrophe

01:49:25.240 like

01:49:25.640 let's

01:49:25.980 say

01:49:26.080 the

01:49:26.220 death

01:49:26.440 of

01:49:26.580 their

01:49:26.720 father

01:49:27.040 that

01:49:28.660 they

01:49:28.780 are

01:49:28.920 prone

01:49:29.220 to

01:49:29.420 use

01:49:29.660 that

01:49:29.860 as

01:49:30.020 an

01:49:30.140 excuse

01:49:30.560 for

01:49:31.540 not

01:49:31.740 going

01:49:32.000 about

01:49:32.220 the

01:49:32.360 business

01:49:32.620 that

01:49:32.820 they

01:49:32.980 should

01:49:33.140 be

01:49:33.260 going

01:49:33.480 about

01:49:33.780 because

01:49:34.640 they

01:49:34.840 can

01:49:35.000 say

01:49:35.120 to

01:49:35.240 themselves

01:49:35.580 well

01:49:36.040 I

01:49:36.520 would

01:49:37.000 accept

01:49:37.860 and

01:49:39.020 accept

01:49:39.440 there's

01:49:39.700 always

01:49:39.900 good

01:49:40.120 reasons

01:49:40.540 I

01:49:40.700 mean

01:49:40.820 believe

01:49:41.140 me

01:49:41.320 there's

01:49:41.540 always

01:49:41.740 good

01:49:41.920 reasons

01:49:42.200 for

01:49:42.340 not

01:49:42.520 doing

01:49:42.740 what

01:49:42.900 you

01:49:43.040 should

01:49:43.300 that's

01:49:43.860 for

01:49:44.000 sure

01:49:44.280 the

01:49:44.680 reasons

01:49:45.160 pile up

01:49:45.680 day

01:49:45.900 after

01:49:46.200 day

01:49:46.500 to

01:49:46.720 not

01:49:46.980 do

01:49:47.180 what

01:49:47.380 you

01:49:47.560 should

01:49:47.920 especially

01:49:48.420 because

01:49:48.640 you're

01:49:48.900 you're

01:49:49.260 aiming at

01:49:49.620 things in

01:49:49.940 the future

01:49:50.360 you can

01:49:50.760 put them

01:49:51.360 off

01:49:51.600 indefinitely

01:49:52.220 right

01:49:52.580 because of

01:49:53.280 the demands

01:49:53.740 of the

01:49:54.020 day

01:49:54.320 but

01:49:55.600 these

01:49:55.980 stories

01:49:56.460 they say

01:49:57.360 a variety

01:49:58.040 of things

01:49:58.540 you know

01:49:58.860 especially

01:49:59.500 in combination

01:50:00.220 they say

01:50:00.780 when you

01:50:01.880 leave

01:50:02.080 somewhere

01:50:02.360 terrible

01:50:02.700 do not

01:50:03.140 look

01:50:03.340 back

01:50:03.740 there's

01:50:04.340 no

01:50:04.540 nostalgia

01:50:05.040 that's

01:50:06.220 that's

01:50:06.820 the

01:50:06.980 letting

01:50:07.460 the

01:50:09.020 dead

01:50:09.300 parts

01:50:09.660 of

01:50:09.800 yourself

01:50:10.200 go

01:50:10.620 and

01:50:13.180 then

01:50:13.300 if

01:50:13.420 you're

01:50:13.540 going

01:50:13.660 to

01:50:13.780 follow

01:50:13.960 the

01:50:14.120 good

01:50:14.280 there's

01:50:14.480 no

01:50:14.640 excuse

01:50:14.980 not

01:50:15.200 to

01:50:15.340 do

01:50:15.480 it

01:50:15.600 and

01:50:15.780 it

01:50:16.540 means

01:50:16.800 no

01:50:17.000 excuse

01:50:17.340 whatsoever

01:50:17.900 under

01:50:18.740 any

01:50:19.000 circumstances

01:50:19.620 and

01:50:20.160 then

01:50:20.280 it's

01:50:20.440 taken

01:50:20.660 even

01:50:20.880 farther

01:50:21.180 with

01:50:21.380 regards

01:50:21.700 to

01:50:21.880 familiar

01:50:22.240 relationships

01:50:22.820 it

01:50:23.100 is

01:50:23.260 you

01:50:24.080 can't

01:50:24.340 even

01:50:24.480 let

01:50:24.680 them

01:50:24.860 stand

01:50:25.160 in

01:50:25.320 your

01:50:25.440 way

01:50:25.680 and

01:50:27.620 I

01:50:27.780 think

01:50:27.960 that's

01:50:28.220 all

01:50:28.400 true

01:50:28.720 and

01:50:29.120 I

01:50:29.240 think

01:50:29.400 I've

01:50:29.600 seen

01:50:29.840 virtually

01:50:30.600 all

01:50:30.860 of

01:50:30.980 that

01:50:31.140 in

01:50:31.260 my

01:50:31.420 clinical

01:50:31.700 practice

01:50:32.240 like

01:50:33.120 there's

01:50:33.380 no

01:50:33.820 excuse

01:50:34.780 whatsoever

01:50:35.940 for

01:50:37.480 not

01:50:37.840 getting

01:50:38.320 at

01:50:38.640 what

01:50:38.940 it

01:50:39.080 is

01:50:39.280 that

01:50:39.460 you

01:50:39.640 should

01:50:39.880 be

01:50:40.060 doing

01:50:40.340 and

01:50:41.320 I

01:50:41.440 think

01:50:41.700 there's

01:50:42.180 something

01:50:42.380 else

01:50:42.680 that's

01:50:42.900 going

01:50:43.080 on

01:50:43.280 here

01:50:43.500 especially

01:50:44.020 in

01:50:44.360 the

01:50:44.480 New

01:50:44.600 Testament

01:50:44.920 stories

01:50:45.320 which

01:50:45.680 is

01:50:45.820 even

01:50:46.020 maybe

01:50:46.280 worse

01:50:46.940 which

01:50:47.240 is

01:50:47.380 it's

01:50:47.880 absolutely

01:50:48.300 reprehensible

01:50:49.100 to

01:50:50.060 justify

01:50:50.880 your

01:50:51.240 inaction

01:50:51.840 with

01:50:52.160 a

01:50:52.300 catastrophe

01:50:52.880 that

01:50:53.240 extracts

01:50:54.080 mercy

01:50:54.440 from

01:50:54.780 other

01:50:55.020 people

01:50:55.460 right

01:50:56.220 there's

01:50:56.440 a

01:50:56.600 tricky

01:50:57.060 game

01:50:58.120 that's

01:50:58.360 going

01:50:58.500 well

01:50:58.720 of

01:50:58.920 course

01:50:59.160 I

01:50:59.320 can't

01:50:59.540 do

01:50:59.620 that

01:50:59.760 look

01:51:00.040 at

01:51:00.140 the

01:51:00.280 terrible

01:51:00.620 thing

01:51:00.960 that's

01:51:01.200 just

01:51:01.400 happened

01:51:01.740 to

01:51:01.880 me

01:51:01.960 it's

01:51:02.100 yeah

01:51:02.240 okay

01:51:02.560 I

01:51:03.020 understand

01:51:03.520 you're

01:51:04.420 absolved

01:51:04.880 of

01:51:05.000 any

01:51:05.160 necessity

01:51:05.640 to

01:51:05.900 move

01:51:06.100 forward

01:51:06.420 because

01:51:06.700 of

01:51:06.920 your

01:51:07.120 current

01:51:07.960 catastrophe

01:51:08.640 it's

01:51:09.300 like

01:51:09.480 well

01:51:09.800 actually

01:51:10.480 you're

01:51:10.720 not

01:51:11.060 and

01:51:11.620 it's

01:51:11.820 rather

01:51:12.080 rude

01:51:12.400 of 0.64

01:51:12.520 you

01:51:12.640 to

01:51:12.780 use

01:51:13.020 it

01:51:13.140 as

01:51:13.340 an

01:51:13.480 excuse

01:51:13.900 and

01:51:14.420 it's

01:51:14.660 certainly

01:51:14.960 counterproductive

01:51:15.980 and

01:51:18.080 Abraham

01:51:18.380 got up

01:51:18.840 early in

01:51:19.160 the

01:51:19.240 morning

01:51:19.460 to

01:51:19.620 the

01:51:19.740 place

01:51:20.000 where

01:51:20.160 he

01:51:20.280 stood

01:51:20.460 before

01:51:20.760 the

01:51:20.940 Lord

01:51:21.160 and

01:51:21.320 he

01:51:21.440 looked

01:51:21.620 towards

01:51:21.940 Sodom

01:51:22.320 and

01:51:22.460 Gomorrah

01:51:22.840 and

01:51:23.020 toward

01:51:30.960 and

01:51:33.360 it

01:51:33.440 came

01:51:33.600 to

01:51:33.740 pass

01:51:34.040 when

01:51:34.220 God

01:51:34.460 destroyed

01:51:34.820 the

01:51:35.000 cities

01:51:35.240 of

01:51:35.420 the

01:51:35.540 plain

01:51:35.780 that

01:51:36.260 God

01:51:36.460 remembered

01:51:36.860 Abraham

01:51:37.200 and

01:51:37.480 sent

01:51:37.700 Lot

01:51:37.960 out

01:51:38.160 of

01:51:38.240 the

01:51:38.360 midst

01:51:38.580 of

01:51:38.720 the

01:51:38.860 overthrow

01:51:39.280 when

01:51:39.780 he

01:51:39.880 overthrew

01:51:40.180 the

01:51:40.360 cities

01:51:40.680 in

01:51:41.200 which

01:51:41.500 Lot

01:51:41.780 dwelt

01:51:42.180 and

01:51:42.580 Lot

01:51:42.780 went

01:51:42.960 out

01:51:43.120 of

01:51:43.240 Zor 0.68

01:51:43.500 and

01:51:43.940 dwelt

01:51:44.180 in

01:51:44.260 the

01:51:44.360 mountain

01:51:44.620 and

01:51:44.820 his

01:51:44.940 two

01:51:45.100 daughters

01:51:45.400 with

01:51:45.640 him

01:51:45.780 for

01:51:45.940 he

01:51:46.120 feared

01:51:46.460 to

01:51:47.000 dwell

01:51:47.300 in

01:51:47.520 Zor 0.68

01:51:47.820 and

01:51:48.280 he

01:51:48.380 dwelt

01:51:48.600 in

01:51:48.720 a

01:51:48.840 cave

01:51:49.200 and

01:51:49.480 his

01:51:49.620 two

01:51:49.800 daughters

01:51:50.180 and

01:51:50.860 the

01:52:00.960 him

01:52:01.280 that

01:52:01.720 we

01:52:01.840 may

01:52:02.020 preserve

01:52:02.420 the

01:52:02.660 seed

01:52:02.880 of

01:52:03.020 our

01:52:03.180 father

01:52:03.540 and

01:52:05.320 they

01:52:05.440 made

01:52:05.660 their

01:52:05.820 father

01:52:06.060 drink

01:52:06.300 wine

01:52:06.540 that

01:52:06.740 night

01:52:06.980 and

01:52:07.100 the

01:52:07.220 firstborn

01:52:07.640 went

01:52:07.880 in

01:52:08.040 and

01:52:08.180 lay

01:52:08.320 with

01:52:08.520 her

01:52:08.660 father

01:52:08.960 and

01:52:09.140 he

01:52:09.280 perceived

01:52:09.760 not

01:52:10.040 when

01:52:10.220 she

01:52:10.420 lay

01:52:10.580 down

01:52:10.900 nor

01:52:11.420 when

01:52:11.620 she

01:52:11.800 arose

01:52:12.240 and

01:52:13.300 it

01:52:13.400 came

01:52:13.540 to

01:52:13.680 pass

01:52:13.920 on

01:52:14.060 the

01:52:14.180 morrow

01:52:14.420 that

01:52:14.580 the

01:52:14.720 firstborn

01:52:15.180 said

01:52:15.420 unto

01:52:15.600 the

01:52:15.760 younger

01:52:16.020 behold

01:52:16.700 I

01:52:16.900 lay

01:52:17.120 yesternight

01:52:17.700 with

01:52:17.880 my

01:52:18.060 father

01:52:18.420 let

01:52:19.020 us

01:52:19.180 make

01:52:19.380 him

01:52:19.580 drink

01:52:19.880 wine

01:52:20.160 this

01:52:20.360 night

01:52:20.560 also

01:52:30.960 lay

01:52:31.180 down

01:52:31.520 nor

01:52:32.000 when

01:52:32.180 she

01:52:32.360 arose

01:52:32.780 thus

01:52:33.660 were

01:52:33.840 both

01:52:34.120 the

01:52:34.260 daughters

01:52:34.560 of

01:52:34.760 lot

01:52:34.980 with

01:52:35.180 child

01:52:35.500 by

01:52:35.700 their

01:52:35.900 father

01:52:36.280 well

01:52:40.960 it's

01:52:41.180 like

01:52:41.340 the

01:52:41.500 story

01:52:41.880 you

01:52:43.580 know

01:52:43.700 the

01:52:43.880 story

01:52:44.100 is

01:52:44.220 outlined

01:52:44.720 the

01:52:45.180 catastrophe

01:52:45.800 of

01:52:46.120 Sodom

01:52:46.440 and

01:52:46.580 Gomorrah

01:52:46.960 essentially

01:52:47.640 the

01:52:48.600 ethical

01:52:49.320 catastrophe

01:52:50.080 of

01:52:50.400 Sodom

01:52:50.700 and

01:52:50.840 Gomorrah

01:52:51.220 the

01:52:52.020 dissolution

01:52:52.640 of the

01:52:53.140 civilized

01:52:53.620 constraints

01:52:54.160 that

01:52:54.460 should

01:52:54.700 regulate

01:52:55.220 all

01:52:55.860 behavior

01:52:56.360 and

01:52:57.560 then

01:52:57.680 the

01:52:57.860 city

01:52:58.020 is

01:52:58.160 destroyed

01:52:58.480 but

01:52:58.660 there's

01:52:58.840 an

01:52:58.960 echo

01:52:59.220 of

01:52:59.380 it

01:52:59.480 afterwards

01:52:59.920 right

01:53:00.260 because

01:53:00.520 lot

01:53:00.840 had

01:53:01.040 lived

01:53:01.320 in

01:53:01.540 Sodom

01:53:01.820 and

01:53:01.940 Gomorrah

01:53:02.300 and

01:53:03.120 what

01:53:04.660 happens

01:53:05.060 to him

01:53:06.400 even

01:53:07.060 after

01:53:07.340 he

01:53:07.560 escapes

01:53:08.160 is

01:53:08.360 that

01:53:08.500 he

01:53:08.600 gets

01:53:08.780 tangled

01:53:09.200 into

01:53:09.580 an

01:53:09.780 incestuous

01:53:10.420 web

01:53:10.780 and

01:53:11.640 so

01:53:11.920 I

01:53:13.200 think

01:53:13.440 that

01:53:13.620 that's

01:53:13.940 a

01:53:14.140 it's

01:53:15.240 not

01:53:15.400 foreshadowing

01:53:16.140 it's

01:53:16.360 post

01:53:16.720 shadowing

01:53:17.280 if

01:53:17.440 there's

01:53:17.660 such

01:53:17.860 a

01:53:17.980 thing

01:53:18.120 it's

01:53:18.320 an

01:53:18.460 echo

01:53:18.800 of

01:53:19.760 what

01:53:20.640 it's

01:53:21.680 an

01:53:21.820 echo

01:53:22.080 and a

01:53:22.360 reminder

01:53:22.740 of

01:53:23.080 how

01:53:24.260 terrible

01:53:24.800 whatever

01:53:25.620 it was

01:53:26.160 that was

01:53:26.480 happening

01:53:26.880 in

01:53:27.100 Sodom

01:53:27.400 and

01:53:27.560 Gomorrah

01:53:27.860 was

01:53:28.280 that

01:53:28.740 even

01:53:29.060 after

01:53:29.560 escaping

01:53:30.180 the

01:53:31.200 iniquity

01:53:32.020 still

01:53:33.000 remained

01:53:33.880 well

01:53:40.760 that's a pretty good place to stop

01:53:42.760 we got

01:53:43.340 through two of

01:53:45.060 three stories

01:53:45.900 so

01:53:46.160 that's not too bad

01:53:47.480 next week

01:53:48.020 I'll talk about the

01:53:49.260 sacrifice of Isaac

01:53:50.700 and see

01:53:51.400 if I can get into the next stories as well

01:53:53.600 and next week is the last

01:53:55.040 lecture

01:53:56.240 except

01:53:57.060 I talk to the theater people

01:53:58.840 and it looks like

01:54:00.320 I'll be able to rent the theater once a month

01:54:02.240 at least for the next four months

01:54:04.400 so I'm going to do that

01:54:06.080 and I'll announce when I'm going to do that

01:54:07.860 and I'll continue doing this

01:54:09.960 probably as long as you'll continue to come and listen

01:54:12.860 I could tell you something cool that happened too

01:54:34.300 if you want

01:54:35.820 so

01:54:36.880 some of you

01:54:38.460 may know that

01:54:39.840 there was a memo

01:54:41.260 leaked

01:54:41.840 at Google

01:54:42.880 how many of you know about that?

01:54:47.040 oh wow

01:54:47.620 a lot of you

01:54:49.260 so

01:54:52.080 a colleague of the man who released the memo

01:54:54.700 got a hold of me

01:54:55.700 yesterday

01:54:57.240 and said that the man who wrote the memo

01:54:59.820 wanted to talk to me

01:55:02.400 so I interviewed him today

01:55:04.620 I made a YouTube video out of it

01:55:06.920 we went over his memo

01:55:08.400 which was scientifically accurate in my estimation

01:55:11.780 and so I'm going to release that hopefully tonight

01:55:14.540 so we'll see how that goes

01:55:16.580 he got fired last night eh

01:55:26.300 right

01:55:26.900 he got fired for perpetuating gender stereotypes

01:55:30.280 he told me today that

01:55:32.240 his last performance review

01:55:34.380 he had been given superb

01:55:36.460 which is the top few percentiles of the employee distribution at Google

01:55:42.400 right

01:55:43.540 perpetuating gender stereotypes

01:55:46.000 I went through his document

01:55:48.100 I don't think he said a single thing

01:55:50.480 that wasn't substantiated by a fairly dense scientific literature

01:55:54.280 not to say that the scientific literature is necessarily 100% correct

01:55:58.360 because it never is

01:55:59.780 but certainly to say that he was not merely spouting out

01:56:03.620 a misogynistic

01:56:05.460 and ethnically biased opinion

01:56:07.960 quite the contrary

01:56:09.180 so we had a nice discussion about that today

01:56:11.980 and hopefully the discussion will continue

01:56:13.760 so

01:56:14.620 alright

01:56:15.720 questions

01:56:17.180 hello

01:56:19.220 well it's great

01:56:23.800 I mean look

01:56:24.780 a couple of things about that

01:56:26.060 I mean

01:56:26.380 my daughter has had a catastrophic life in many ways

01:56:30.720 a lot of things went wrong with her physically

01:56:33.840 really bad things

01:56:35.120 and this went perfectly

01:56:36.860 so like

01:56:37.860 thank God for that

01:56:38.960 so then

01:56:44.500 and then the other thing is

01:56:45.680 I love kids

01:56:46.760 you know

01:56:47.260 now infants

01:56:48.080 well you know

01:56:49.120 it's not that I

01:56:51.300 it's not

01:56:52.040 infants are

01:56:53.640 cool and interesting

01:56:55.780 but

01:56:56.100 I'm not sure exactly

01:56:57.380 what to do with them

01:56:58.180 you know

01:56:58.480 but once they're about

01:56:59.820 six months old

01:57:01.060 and then

01:57:01.440 from then on

01:57:02.560 like

01:57:03.060 I love having kids around

01:57:05.080 so

01:57:05.300 I'm thrilled about the fact

01:57:06.840 that this has happened

01:57:07.560 so hooray

01:57:08.660 you know

01:57:09.080 hooray

01:57:09.600 so

01:57:10.320 thanks for

01:57:11.200 yeah

01:57:11.960 thanks for that

01:57:12.660 so more as an aside

01:57:14.360 but what you said about

01:57:15.160 not pushing aside

01:57:16.580 the things of the day

01:57:17.900 kind of made me think of

01:57:18.920 Mikey's motto

01:57:19.700 just do it

01:57:20.620 yeah

01:57:21.060 I thought

01:57:21.760 cool

01:57:22.180 but um

01:57:23.280 my question was

01:57:24.280 that when you were talking about

01:57:25.540 circumcision

01:57:26.020 being a contractual

01:57:27.540 relationship between

01:57:28.920 um

01:57:30.060 uh

01:57:31.020 sacrifice

01:57:31.600 and

01:57:32.600 compared it to

01:57:34.120 a girl

01:57:34.900 having a period

01:57:35.740 that didn't make a lot of sense to me

01:57:37.720 but also

01:57:38.580 um

01:57:39.980 it seems to me

01:57:41.500 that

01:57:42.340 it being a sacrifice

01:57:43.400 requires some

01:57:44.880 form of

01:57:46.100 uh

01:57:48.600 willingness

01:57:49.580 basically

01:57:50.220 from the one having circumcision

01:57:51.700 and I don't necessarily want to

01:57:53.320 put forward what you didn't

01:57:56.760 you said you specifically

01:57:57.740 didn't want to address

01:57:58.540 that's to infants

01:57:59.640 not having any choice in the matter

01:58:01.240 but more in the context of

01:58:03.160 it being a sacrifice

01:58:05.100 how does that

01:58:06.280 I think

01:58:06.800 I think that's how a modern person

01:58:08.460 would see it

01:58:09.080 and I think that there's some

01:58:10.740 I think there's some utility in that

01:58:12.680 but

01:58:12.880 but it's

01:58:14.120 it's

01:58:14.400 it's an incomplete

01:58:15.160 it's incomplete

01:58:15.740 to some degree

01:58:16.660 you know

01:58:17.080 because one of the things

01:58:18.080 that happens with

01:58:18.780 God and Abraham

01:58:19.680 is that God tells Abraham

01:58:20.940 that he has to take care of his

01:58:22.080 family

01:58:22.600 his children

01:58:23.300 now

01:58:24.340 the question is

01:58:25.220 exactly

01:58:25.620 how do you take care of your children

01:58:27.000 and the answer is

01:58:28.600 sometimes you make decisions for them

01:58:31.300 now you might say

01:58:33.600 well it'd be better if they could make the decisions for themselves

01:58:35.920 and that's actually the case

01:58:38.060 so you might say

01:58:39.760 well I won't bring my kids to church

01:58:41.220 because it'd be better if they could make the decision for themselves

01:58:43.560 and that's what I did with my kids

01:58:45.760 you know

01:58:46.520 but I'm not so sure that was a good idea

01:58:48.960 and the reason I'm not so sure it was a good idea

01:58:51.720 was because

01:58:52.220 there are a bunch of things they didn't learn

01:58:53.960 now

01:58:55.660 the degree to which a parent should exercise control over

01:58:58.780 his or her child

01:58:59.820 is indeterminate

01:59:00.860 but

01:59:01.680 I guess the hope is

01:59:03.600 that you exercise

01:59:04.540 the minimum amount of control

01:59:06.260 necessary to maximize

01:59:07.540 the child's probability of success

01:59:09.340 and that certainly requires

01:59:10.800 adopting responsibility

01:59:12.440 for making decisions as well

01:59:14.620 because the child can't make decisions

01:59:16.340 you know

01:59:16.920 you can't just let the child lay there

01:59:18.780 and make decisions

01:59:19.580 right

01:59:19.920 that's just not going to happen

01:59:21.500 and so you might say

01:59:22.860 well Abraham has no right 1.00

01:59:24.320 to impose

01:59:25.560 something like circumcision

01:59:26.840 on his children

01:59:27.580 and

01:59:28.740 because

01:59:29.680 and because it's a sacrifice

01:59:31.680 it's something that they should be doing themselves

01:59:33.380 but the problem with that is that

01:59:35.180 Abraham also has no right

01:59:37.340 to abdicate his responsibility

01:59:39.220 to his children

01:59:40.400 in the name of some hypothetical mercifulness

01:59:43.820 and

01:59:45.000 those two things have to be balanced

01:59:46.760 well

01:59:47.560 this

01:59:47.840 according to the story

01:59:49.200 Abraham got the balance right 0.82

01:59:50.600 because of course

01:59:51.360 he's made this covenant with God

01:59:53.320 now exactly what that means

01:59:54.960 in people's day-to-day lives

01:59:56.140 well that's a harder issue

01:59:57.600 but I would say

01:59:58.740 I think in the modern world

02:00:03.500 people err on the side of

02:00:05.100 I don't know

02:00:06.380 I think they're more likely

02:00:09.220 to err on the side

02:00:10.160 of taking insufficient responsibility

02:00:12.040 for their children

02:00:12.920 letting them be free

02:00:15.380 in ways that aren't productive

02:00:16.840 that's how it looks to me

02:00:18.460 often because they're afraid

02:00:19.600 of their children

02:00:20.300 so

02:00:21.620 that's about the best

02:00:24.600 I can do with that

02:00:25.420 thank you

02:00:26.040 thank you

02:00:26.760 thank you

02:00:27.040 Dr. Peterson

02:00:31.600 I was recently

02:00:33.940 I've recently started

02:00:35.480 reading Maps of Meaning

02:00:37.040 and

02:00:38.140 there was something in the introduction

02:00:39.460 to that story

02:00:40.220 that I found

02:00:40.780 particularly

02:00:41.360 the introduction that you wrote

02:00:42.560 before you went into all the

02:00:43.680 that I found particularly

02:00:45.640 compelling I guess

02:00:48.440 the part

02:00:50.040 when you're talking about

02:00:51.040 the split that developed

02:00:51.880 in your psyche

02:00:52.420 when you were

02:00:53.000 you know

02:00:53.560 all your

02:00:54.780 I think you talked about it

02:00:56.120 in one of the earlier lectures

02:00:56.920 yeah I talked about it

02:00:57.740 a little bit today

02:00:58.440 yeah a little bit today as well

02:00:59.840 yeah

02:01:00.100 you said something

02:01:02.420 in that paragraph there

02:01:03.560 that

02:01:03.960 what you said was

02:01:06.340 you have to earn the right

02:01:08.040 to identify with an idea

02:01:09.220 yeah

02:01:10.280 certain ideas for sure

02:01:11.500 certain ideas for sure

02:01:12.600 so basically my question is

02:01:14.820 how should a young person

02:01:15.780 such as myself

02:01:16.560 who doesn't have a whole lot

02:01:18.420 of life experience

02:01:19.320 like be able to

02:01:21.680 like read literature

02:01:22.740 and psychology

02:01:23.580 and interact with

02:01:24.540 you know

02:01:24.800 the wisdom of culture

02:01:25.780 and then incorporate it

02:01:26.960 into a structure

02:01:27.840 that's still authentically

02:01:28.960 their own

02:01:29.440 well look

02:01:31.820 I think the way you asked

02:01:32.780 that question

02:01:33.340 means that you're actually

02:01:34.220 doing a pretty good job

02:01:35.160 of that

02:01:35.620 well I

02:01:36.440 well I mean that

02:01:41.100 I mean that

02:01:41.620 because that was a very

02:01:42.320 carefully formulated question

02:01:43.700 and it was obvious

02:01:44.780 that you were actually

02:01:45.500 looking for an answer

02:01:46.320 instead of

02:01:47.080 trying to tell the audience

02:01:48.420 a bunch of things

02:01:49.080 that you knew

02:01:49.700 which often happens

02:01:51.120 with questions

02:01:51.980 right

02:01:52.260 and it's all

02:01:53.040 it's often

02:01:53.600 it's very annoying

02:01:54.800 for the audience

02:01:55.500 to be subject to questions

02:01:56.740 like that

02:01:57.300 right

02:01:57.560 because it's a form of

02:01:58.720 because it's a form of

02:02:04.620 manipulation

02:02:05.060 it's like

02:02:05.800 well I'll cap this off

02:02:07.700 with a question

02:02:08.240 but actually it's a speech

02:02:09.300 so

02:02:11.220 so I would say

02:02:12.460 you probably already

02:02:13.120 know the answer to that

02:02:14.060 and

02:02:15.060 but then I could elaborate

02:02:16.300 on that a little bit

02:02:17.180 it's like

02:02:17.540 there are a lot of books

02:02:18.740 that people have

02:02:19.660 historically regarded

02:02:21.320 as great

02:02:21.960 you might as well

02:02:23.140 start by assuming

02:02:23.940 that they're at least

02:02:25.000 greater than you

02:02:26.140 right

02:02:27.520 and then

02:02:28.660 and to approach them

02:02:29.740 with that

02:02:30.620 frame of mind

02:02:32.580 because even if

02:02:34.060 there's much in them

02:02:35.040 that

02:02:35.300 perhaps is no longer

02:02:37.420 relevant

02:02:37.920 often less than people assume

02:02:39.780 there's much in them

02:02:41.580 that will be of extreme

02:02:42.740 benefit to you

02:02:43.980 and then

02:02:44.940 with regards to

02:02:45.680 making them yours

02:02:46.520 the kind of wisdom

02:02:48.680 that you get from

02:02:49.340 great books

02:02:49.840 is

02:02:50.080 practical wisdom

02:02:51.660 and you act it out

02:02:53.080 and so then

02:02:54.240 what you do

02:02:54.860 is you try to incorporate

02:02:56.040 what you learn

02:02:57.260 into your life

02:02:58.200 into your practices

02:02:59.140 and then if you

02:03:00.160 incorporate it into your life

02:03:01.400 and your practices

02:03:02.060 you build a bridge

02:03:03.380 between you

02:03:04.100 and the great idea

02:03:05.040 right

02:03:06.080 because you figured out

02:03:07.120 how to manifest itself

02:03:08.400 in the conditions

02:03:09.020 of your own life

02:03:09.700 that's something like

02:03:10.720 making the archetypal

02:03:11.900 personal

02:03:13.240 which is

02:03:14.120 which is the right thing

02:03:15.660 to do

02:03:16.120 right

02:03:16.440 it's the proper thing

02:03:17.500 to do

02:03:17.880 because that expands

02:03:18.940 your life upward

02:03:19.820 and outward

02:03:20.780 and ennobles you

02:03:22.200 and brings you up

02:03:23.180 as well

02:03:23.640 but

02:03:24.600 so humility

02:03:26.260 is part of it

02:03:26.960 it's like

02:03:27.380 approach these

02:03:28.340 books as if

02:03:29.420 they have something

02:03:29.940 to teach you

02:03:30.620 and then

02:03:31.980 it's humility

02:03:34.040 again in the second place

02:03:35.120 is don't

02:03:36.260 take the ideas

02:03:37.900 to yourself

02:03:38.560 until

02:03:39.000 you've lived them

02:03:40.560 there'll be lots

02:03:42.020 of time for that

02:03:42.760 and besides

02:03:43.260 you know

02:03:43.520 even as a young person

02:03:44.460 it's not like

02:03:45.300 you have nothing

02:03:45.760 to say

02:03:46.360 but the only things

02:03:48.280 that you have to say

02:03:49.020 are your things

02:03:50.120 to say

02:03:50.700 and it's not necessarily

02:03:52.420 that easy to figure out

02:03:53.360 what they are

02:03:53.780 but as I said

02:03:54.480 you did a fine job

02:03:55.220 of that when you

02:03:55.740 asked the question

02:03:56.340 so I think

02:03:56.920 I think

02:03:57.680 as far as I can tell

02:03:59.380 you already know

02:04:00.100 what to do

02:04:00.780 so

02:04:01.420 good

02:04:02.340 do it

02:04:03.060 read everything

02:04:03.960 great

02:04:04.260 you can get 0.99

02:04:04.640 your damn hands on 1.00

02:04:05.620 hello 1.00

02:04:12.860 Dr. Peterson

02:04:13.920 so

02:04:15.420 a lot of your work

02:04:17.260 a lot of your lectures

02:04:18.540 recommend the audience

02:04:20.820 tackle life

02:04:21.800 with a lot of

02:04:22.820 attention

02:04:23.540 and intention

02:04:24.480 and

02:04:25.920 you know

02:04:27.300 in

02:04:27.620 my kind of

02:04:29.280 personal gateway

02:04:30.220 drug to philosophy

02:04:31.320 has been more

02:04:32.000 eastern philosophy

02:04:32.980 and

02:04:34.160 like the Bhagavad Gita

02:04:36.220 and the

02:04:37.180 work of

02:04:38.100 Alan Watts

02:04:38.880 and

02:04:40.100 Taoism

02:04:41.660 and

02:04:43.160 what I

02:04:43.820 noticed

02:04:44.540 I may be wrong

02:04:46.160 but this

02:04:46.600 is a common theme

02:04:47.620 in eastern philosophy

02:04:48.660 which is

02:04:49.300 more passive

02:04:50.700 non-action

02:04:52.240 don't make

02:04:54.660 as many plans

02:04:55.780 I

02:04:57.500 I

02:04:57.800 wonder how you

02:04:59.300 reconcile that

02:05:00.500 and how you

02:05:01.740 are reconciling

02:05:02.620 that

02:05:02.840 because you

02:05:03.260 mentioned earlier

02:05:04.000 in previous lectures

02:05:05.160 that you've read

02:05:05.780 the Tao Te Ching

02:05:06.880 how do you reconcile

02:05:09.340 those two different

02:05:10.260 views

02:05:10.680 well I think

02:05:14.800 first that

02:05:15.620 the Tao Te Ching

02:05:17.280 in particular

02:05:17.940 isn't about

02:05:18.460 inaction

02:05:18.940 it's about

02:05:19.480 minimal

02:05:20.240 proper action

02:05:21.320 and it's also

02:05:23.440 about minimal

02:05:24.280 proper action

02:05:25.280 after a

02:05:26.980 tremendous

02:05:27.460 amount of

02:05:28.100 sacrifice

02:05:28.740 right

02:05:29.720 so the

02:05:30.220 the sage

02:05:30.980 that's speaking

02:05:31.700 forth in the

02:05:32.420 Tao Te Ching

02:05:33.100 has already

02:05:34.220 let go of

02:05:35.480 almost everything

02:05:36.360 that he needs

02:05:36.960 to let go of

02:05:37.800 and

02:05:39.000 a tremendous

02:05:39.880 amount of what

02:05:40.500 you're reading

02:05:40.960 in the eastern

02:05:41.820 philosophies

02:05:42.620 is

02:05:42.940 predicated

02:05:43.800 I think

02:05:44.280 at least in part

02:05:45.120 on the idea

02:05:45.740 of sacrifice

02:05:46.420 there's lots

02:05:47.760 of things

02:05:48.060 that you're

02:05:48.400 grabbing onto

02:05:49.140 like the monkey

02:05:49.860 you know

02:05:50.600 with the jar

02:05:51.560 that's actually

02:05:52.660 causing your misery

02:05:53.840 and so sometimes

02:05:55.500 letting go

02:05:56.080 is the right

02:05:56.780 way of moving

02:05:57.520 ahead

02:05:57.840 but to me

02:05:58.520 that ties into

02:05:59.300 this idea

02:05:59.880 of sacrifice

02:06:00.540 so

02:06:01.920 now whether

02:06:03.060 there's

02:06:03.560 more than that

02:06:04.840 whether there's

02:06:05.460 more intentionality

02:06:06.640 in western philosophy

02:06:07.600 and less intentionality

02:06:08.720 in eastern philosophy

02:06:09.500 I'm not exactly

02:06:10.300 sure

02:06:10.660 one way of

02:06:12.840 mediating between

02:06:13.620 those two

02:06:14.140 was

02:06:14.500 formulated

02:06:15.960 at least in part

02:06:16.900 by Carl Jung

02:06:17.740 he pointed out

02:06:19.120 that

02:06:19.420 the archetypal

02:06:21.260 figure

02:06:21.740 for the west

02:06:22.700 died at

02:06:23.400 32

02:06:24.020 and so

02:06:25.300 to some degree

02:06:26.000 the outgoing

02:06:27.080 extroverted

02:06:30.200 let's say

02:06:30.680 nature of the west

02:06:31.620 is

02:06:31.860 a consequence

02:06:33.380 of

02:06:33.900 its youthfulness

02:06:36.340 in some sense

02:06:37.320 its useful ethos

02:06:38.500 and that the east

02:06:40.860 I mean

02:06:42.420 Buddha

02:06:42.700 died at a

02:06:43.780 fairly

02:06:44.200 ripe old age

02:06:45.300 and even

02:06:46.440 in the Hindu

02:06:46.940 practices

02:06:47.520 if I remember

02:06:48.380 correctly

02:06:48.880 in many

02:06:50.260 Hindu temples

02:06:50.860 there's a lot

02:06:51.360 of erotic

02:06:51.800 sculptures

02:06:52.380 an idea

02:06:53.880 is something

02:06:54.240 like

02:06:54.580 if you can't

02:06:55.360 get past 1.00

02:06:55.860 the damn 0.99

02:06:56.240 erotic 1.00

02:06:56.560 sculptures

02:06:57.000 it's not

02:06:57.520 time to

02:06:57.940 go into

02:06:58.220 the temple

02:06:58.740 but it's

02:06:59.840 more than

02:07:00.200 that

02:07:00.380 it might

02:07:00.660 also be

02:07:01.100 that

02:07:01.360 if you're

02:07:02.040 young

02:07:02.260 it's not

02:07:02.640 time to

02:07:03.100 get past

02:07:03.560 the erotic

02:07:04.040 sculptures

02:07:04.520 so maybe

02:07:06.400 so maybe

02:07:06.420 maybe there's

02:07:07.340 a moving

02:07:07.760 forward

02:07:08.200 into life

02:07:08.880 in youth

02:07:09.740 and a

02:07:10.820 letting go

02:07:11.500 in

02:07:12.120 in the latter

02:07:13.600 part of life

02:07:14.420 and that's

02:07:15.180 well that was

02:07:16.440 Jung's 0.78

02:07:16.900 way of

02:07:17.980 mediating

02:07:18.620 between those

02:07:19.220 two traditions

02:07:19.840 I think

02:07:20.560 they're tightly

02:07:21.060 aligned

02:07:21.520 with regards

02:07:22.880 to the

02:07:23.140 importance

02:07:23.460 of sacrifice

02:07:24.100 it frequently

02:07:25.900 is the case

02:07:26.800 that it's

02:07:27.220 your desire

02:07:28.060 Maya

02:07:29.020 let's say

02:07:29.600 your desire

02:07:30.300 that's causing

02:07:31.340 your suffering

02:07:32.220 right

02:07:33.200 and so there's

02:07:33.880 an emphasis

02:07:35.300 in Buddhism

02:07:36.020 even more

02:07:36.940 than in Taoism

02:07:37.620 I would say

02:07:38.160 on letting go

02:07:39.720 letting go

02:07:41.140 of what's

02:07:41.560 making you

02:07:42.100 miserable 0.99

02:07:42.540 and

02:07:43.820 but you remember

02:07:45.560 the thing about

02:07:46.240 Buddha is that

02:07:47.020 he got enlightened

02:07:48.460 under the

02:07:48.940 bow tree

02:07:49.420 right

02:07:49.740 he basically

02:07:51.000 stepped into

02:07:53.120 the city of

02:07:53.820 God

02:07:54.160 he stepped

02:07:54.960 into nirvana

02:07:55.680 and he could

02:07:57.220 have stayed

02:07:57.700 there

02:07:58.040 but he chose

02:08:00.280 to come back

02:08:01.040 because he

02:08:01.480 decided that

02:08:02.080 he had a

02:08:02.400 responsibility

02:08:02.960 to

02:08:04.340 rectify

02:08:05.620 suffering

02:08:06.200 in the rest

02:08:07.120 of the world

02:08:07.540 that it was

02:08:07.980 not

02:08:08.320 sufficient

02:08:09.700 for him

02:08:10.220 to be

02:08:10.740 enlightened

02:08:11.500 while everything

02:08:12.900 else was

02:08:13.440 left

02:08:13.780 in a state

02:08:15.640 of

02:08:15.880 insufficiency

02:08:16.860 and suffering

02:08:17.540 and so I

02:08:18.540 wouldn't call

02:08:18.980 that inaction

02:08:19.900 you know

02:08:21.040 it's

02:08:22.960 I've

02:08:23.840 I've

02:08:24.460 made the

02:08:25.660 mistake

02:08:26.640 myself

02:08:27.120 it's

02:08:27.660 inaction

02:08:28.740 versus

02:08:29.080 non-action

02:08:29.920 I actually

02:08:30.400 had to look

02:08:30.880 up

02:08:31.020 yes

02:08:31.440 that's

02:08:31.900 good

02:08:32.420 that's

02:08:32.860 well

02:08:33.040 that's

02:08:33.720 to really

02:08:34.320 the Tao Te Ching

02:08:35.220 does a very good job

02:08:36.440 of distinguishing

02:08:37.180 between those two

02:08:38.000 because

02:08:38.340 non-action

02:08:39.920 is the minimal

02:08:41.260 necessary action

02:08:42.440 to keep the

02:08:43.020 balance between

02:08:43.860 order and chaos

02:08:45.420 proper

02:08:46.860 right

02:08:47.520 the yin

02:08:48.200 and the yang

02:08:48.680 and the Tao Te Ching

02:08:50.160 is very very

02:08:51.060 emphatic

02:08:52.220 about this

02:08:52.880 you detach

02:08:54.060 and you watch

02:08:56.560 and when it's time

02:08:58.360 to intervene

02:08:58.940 you intervene

02:08:59.540 minimally

02:09:00.260 without

02:09:01.040 a lot of

02:09:02.320 arrogant

02:09:02.960 self-propagandization

02:09:05.000 and

02:09:06.340 you tap

02:09:07.340 and if you do that

02:09:08.620 properly

02:09:09.060 you hardly have

02:09:10.040 to do it at all

02:09:10.780 and it's as if

02:09:11.620 you're doing nothing

02:09:12.380 and

02:09:13.220 and I

02:09:14.120 there's

02:09:14.800 there's great wisdom

02:09:15.660 in that book

02:09:16.300 I really like the Tao Te Ching

02:09:17.900 it's

02:09:18.300 it's a remarkable document

02:09:20.140 and

02:09:21.200 I've seen managers

02:09:22.540 who were like that

02:09:23.520 who were really good

02:09:25.000 at running their company

02:09:25.860 who did nothing

02:09:26.800 well

02:09:28.340 but

02:09:28.680 and what they did

02:09:29.540 well

02:09:29.760 but

02:09:30.000 first of all

02:09:31.720 they set up people

02:09:32.460 to replace them

02:09:33.380 because their

02:09:34.420 their idea was

02:09:35.480 well if I'm a really good manager

02:09:36.660 then this place

02:09:37.340 could run without me

02:09:38.160 there's a real humility

02:09:39.680 in that

02:09:40.160 and then they just

02:09:41.140 kind of wandered around

02:09:42.160 the place

02:09:42.780 talking to people

02:09:44.340 and if there was

02:09:45.380 a bit of a problem

02:09:46.060 then they just

02:09:46.640 you know

02:09:47.000 turned a knob

02:09:48.240 a tenth of a

02:09:49.420 degree

02:09:50.480 and

02:09:51.300 the place ran smoothly

02:09:52.800 and it was as if

02:09:53.480 they were doing nothing

02:09:54.280 and what they were doing

02:09:55.540 was detaching

02:09:56.600 so they weren't being

02:09:58.420 buried by their

02:09:59.700 current concerns

02:10:01.020 they were watching

02:10:02.100 to see what was going on

02:10:03.820 and then they were

02:10:04.700 minimally

02:10:05.340 interacting

02:10:07.020 and

02:10:07.900 that worked like a charm

02:10:09.800 so

02:10:10.540 I think that the

02:10:11.960 I don't

02:10:13.860 like the idea

02:10:15.000 that all religious

02:10:15.760 traditions are the same

02:10:16.860 because that just

02:10:17.480 makes them into

02:10:18.060 like a grey mass

02:10:19.120 but I don't see

02:10:20.320 that there's any

02:10:21.020 difference there

02:10:22.960 that can't be

02:10:23.960 bridged

02:10:24.500 I think

02:10:25.260 as you look into

02:10:26.360 the details

02:10:26.920 the bridges

02:10:27.360 become more clear

02:10:28.300 thank you

02:10:30.080 yeah

02:10:30.460 I'll get you to

02:10:40.020 speak into the

02:10:40.760 microphone

02:10:41.180 especially when you're

02:10:42.180 saying self-deprecating

02:10:43.320 things

02:10:43.820 let everybody hear you

02:10:46.880 okay

02:10:47.280 it's my pleasure

02:10:51.400 what's happened

02:10:54.140 what's happened

02:10:54.940 to you as a consequence

02:10:56.620 yeah

02:10:57.720 yeah well

02:10:59.860 or of you seeing it

02:11:00.960 that way anyways

02:11:01.860 well mainly

02:11:03.040 I've had

02:11:04.420 whatever you say

02:11:05.720 right

02:11:06.060 is something

02:11:06.480 I've thought

02:11:07.060 but not have been

02:11:07.720 able to articulate

02:11:09.120 right

02:11:09.960 so it's been

02:11:10.520 very helpful

02:11:11.020 in that regards

02:11:11.900 and kind of

02:11:12.880 saves me a lot

02:11:13.320 of time

02:11:13.600 no

02:11:13.740 yep

02:11:14.640 good

02:11:15.000 good

02:11:15.520 good

02:11:15.920 good

02:11:16.580 my main question

02:11:18.240 is actually

02:11:18.860 something you said

02:11:19.660 a couple lectures

02:11:20.200 ago

02:11:20.480 it was something

02:11:21.320 along the lines

02:11:21.880 of a

02:11:22.380 family

02:11:25.120 sorry

02:11:27.540 like

02:11:28.980 the history

02:11:30.900 of your family

02:11:31.540 kind of like

02:11:32.400 the sins of your family

02:11:33.200 something like that

02:11:33.700 yep

02:11:33.880 you're facing it

02:11:35.880 all the time

02:11:36.320 yep

02:11:36.960 what's

02:11:37.840 can you expand

02:11:39.420 on that more

02:11:39.880 well there's this idea

02:11:44.500 in the Old Testament

02:11:45.340 that

02:11:45.800 your sins

02:11:47.660 your sins

02:11:47.680 might be

02:11:48.140 visited

02:11:48.540 unto your family

02:11:49.900 seven generations

02:11:50.940 down

02:11:51.560 seems

02:11:52.480 kind of harsh

02:11:53.360 but you know

02:11:54.900 when you're confronting

02:11:56.640 maybe your father's

02:11:57.660 tyrannical

02:11:58.300 yeah but you know

02:12:00.340 maybe his father

02:12:01.100 beat the hell

02:12:01.760 out of him 0.64

02:12:02.240 and maybe his father's

02:12:04.000 father was a 0.64

02:12:04.700 vicious alcoholic 0.97

02:12:05.620 and you just

02:12:06.720 bloody well

02:12:07.240 don't know

02:12:07.640 how far back

02:12:08.360 that goes

02:12:09.060 and

02:12:09.820 that means also

02:12:11.180 you don't exactly

02:12:12.040 know what you're

02:12:12.680 dealing with

02:12:13.340 right

02:12:14.240 to some degree

02:12:14.980 you're dealing

02:12:15.380 with your father

02:12:16.060 but only partly

02:12:17.120 what you're dealing

02:12:17.720 with is the

02:12:18.260 pathological

02:12:19.040 paternal spirit

02:12:20.140 something like that

02:12:21.340 and it's better

02:12:22.280 to think about

02:12:22.840 that way

02:12:23.200 because it becomes

02:12:23.920 an existential issue

02:12:25.020 at that point

02:12:25.700 you know

02:12:26.500 so you could say

02:12:27.260 that while the father

02:12:28.860 has two components

02:12:29.800 and I mean this

02:12:31.100 psychologically speaking

02:12:32.100 there's the great father

02:12:33.260 that's beneficial

02:12:34.080 and protective

02:12:34.780 and that

02:12:35.360 that organizes society

02:12:37.440 and teaches you

02:12:38.080 how to speak

02:12:38.640 and has produced

02:12:39.580 all these wonderful things

02:12:40.640 and then there's

02:12:41.140 the tyrannical

02:12:41.940 oppressive part

02:12:43.260 of the father

02:12:44.060 just like there's

02:12:45.580 the terrible part

02:12:46.660 of mother nature

02:12:47.320 that's destructive

02:12:48.200 and the benevolent part

02:12:49.240 of mother nature

02:12:49.860 that's wonderful

02:12:50.960 and productive

02:12:51.740 and you're stuck

02:12:52.840 with that

02:12:53.400 right

02:12:53.920 you're stuck

02:12:54.800 with having to

02:12:56.020 mediate

02:12:56.440 between those

02:12:57.160 opposing forces

02:12:57.940 just like you're stuck

02:12:58.860 with the adversarial

02:12:59.960 part of yourself

02:13:00.740 and the heroic

02:13:01.300 part of yourself

02:13:01.920 and it's up to you

02:13:03.140 to set those things

02:13:04.020 right

02:13:04.380 otherwise they propagate

02:13:06.380 into the future

02:13:07.220 and it isn't

02:13:08.880 a straightforward thing

02:13:10.180 to say

02:13:10.540 how to set them right

02:13:11.520 there's quite a good

02:13:12.880 movie about that

02:13:13.960 oh no

02:13:16.440 I won't

02:13:16.740 Magnolia

02:13:17.520 which I really love

02:13:19.920 it's by Paul Anderson

02:13:21.040 if I remember correctly

02:13:22.120 I hope that's right

02:13:23.160 it's a beautiful movie

02:13:24.300 and it's about this

02:13:26.160 part of it's about

02:13:26.960 this kid

02:13:27.520 whose father's

02:13:28.420 really pushing him

02:13:29.120 to be a superstar

02:13:29.940 at a quiz show

02:13:31.800 right

02:13:32.180 he's a genius kid

02:13:33.080 hey

02:13:33.260 and

02:13:34.460 the kid studies

02:13:37.240 this guy named

02:13:37.860 Charles Fort

02:13:38.500 you don't understand

02:13:39.320 this movie

02:13:39.760 if you don't know this

02:13:40.580 because you gotta know

02:13:41.440 about Charles Fort

02:13:42.120 to understand Magnolia

02:13:43.080 Charles Fort

02:13:43.960 was this weird old guy

02:13:45.060 who got rich

02:13:46.360 with an inheritance

02:13:47.540 when he was like 20

02:13:48.580 and spent the rest

02:13:49.260 of his life in libraries

02:13:50.220 looking up impossible things

02:13:52.200 and documenting them

02:13:53.120 impossible things

02:13:54.460 that couldn't happen

02:13:55.740 from a scientific perspective

02:13:56.980 that were well attested to

02:13:58.640 by multiple observers

02:13:59.820 and he produced this

02:14:01.080 newspaper called

02:14:02.160 the Fortean Times

02:14:03.000 which still runs

02:14:03.920 anyways

02:14:04.960 in Magnolia

02:14:05.960 Magnolia begins

02:14:07.460 with this guy

02:14:08.200 who falls out of a building

02:14:09.680 and then is shot

02:14:10.700 by a woman

02:14:11.680 who misses her husband

02:14:12.700 with a rifle

02:14:13.320 as he falls

02:14:14.040 and I think she's

02:14:14.940 she's charged with murder

02:14:16.860 and the street names

02:14:18.080 have something to do

02:14:19.000 with the deaths

02:14:19.700 and his fall

02:14:20.500 and all of that happened

02:14:21.480 and then in the movie

02:14:22.620 there's a rain of frogs

02:14:24.700 and there are rains of frogs

02:14:26.960 from time to time

02:14:27.640 sometimes they're frozen

02:14:28.580 sometimes they're rains of fish

02:14:30.100 sometimes they're frozen

02:14:31.060 it's like what the hell

02:14:32.040 how does that happen

02:14:33.020 it happens quite frequently

02:14:34.280 as it turns out

02:14:35.020 there's a rain of frogs

02:14:36.320 in the movie Magnolia

02:14:39.200 and this little kid

02:14:40.480 see what happened to him

02:14:42.140 is that he's on stage

02:14:43.420 and he ends up peeing his pants

02:14:46.440 because of the pressure

02:14:48.260 basically

02:14:48.920 and humiliates himself

02:14:50.720 and then there's this

02:14:51.900 rain of frogs

02:14:52.640 which he kind of takes

02:14:54.320 as a sign from God

02:14:55.420 and then he goes

02:14:56.500 to his father

02:14:57.160 even he's like

02:14:57.960 eight years old

02:14:58.580 this kid

02:14:58.960 and he says

02:14:59.480 you have to stop

02:15:01.440 doing this to me

02:15:02.500 and he's dead serious

02:15:03.660 about it

02:15:04.020 very careful

02:15:04.520 not being

02:15:05.120 you know

02:15:06.120 what would you call

02:15:07.280 insubordinate

02:15:07.960 nothing like that

02:15:08.760 he decides that

02:15:10.200 that's coming to an end

02:15:11.040 right now

02:15:11.560 and

02:15:13.000 you have to make

02:15:14.080 those decisions

02:15:14.680 in your family

02:15:15.360 because otherwise

02:15:15.900 things propagate

02:15:16.780 down the generations

02:15:17.720 right

02:15:18.120 and every family

02:15:19.060 is rife with

02:15:19.780 pathologies

02:15:20.420 of one form or another

02:15:21.400 and you can

02:15:23.060 learn from that

02:15:24.540 and refuse

02:15:25.340 to push it forward

02:15:26.420 and that's part of

02:15:27.860 I think

02:15:28.160 what you do

02:15:28.600 when you

02:15:29.000 when you

02:15:29.880 when you

02:15:31.980 shoulder your

02:15:33.680 existential burden

02:15:34.680 because everyone

02:15:35.780 is the beneficiary

02:15:36.760 and the victim

02:15:37.340 of the tyrannical father

02:15:38.500 just like everyone

02:15:39.940 is the beneficiary

02:15:40.820 and the victim

02:15:41.300 of mother nature

02:15:42.020 and of themselves

02:15:43.040 and so you

02:15:44.740 lock horns with that

02:15:45.960 and straighten it out

02:15:46.700 one way or another

02:15:47.440 and you don't move it

02:15:49.020 forward to the next

02:15:49.740 generation

02:15:50.260 so

02:15:51.580 and maybe you

02:15:53.040 detach it a bit

02:15:53.980 from your parents

02:15:54.700 too

02:15:54.940 because

02:15:55.320 God only knows

02:15:57.780 what

02:15:58.800 combination of

02:16:00.200 catastrophes

02:16:01.080 culminated in their

02:16:02.180 particular forms

02:16:03.060 of pathology

02:16:03.820 so

02:16:04.980 good enough

02:16:08.900 so

02:16:17.780 this week

02:16:18.280 we've had the

02:16:19.220 the google thing

02:16:20.280 there was the

02:16:21.420 youtube thing

02:16:22.040 that happened

02:16:22.760 last week

02:16:23.820 what's going on

02:16:25.560 with censorship

02:16:26.020 and what should

02:16:26.600 people do about it

02:16:27.420 if you're in a

02:16:29.340 workplace and

02:16:30.040 pathological things

02:16:31.000 are happening

02:16:31.520 this is easy

02:16:32.600 I can tell you

02:16:33.200 how you know

02:16:33.600 if pathological

02:16:34.340 things are happening

02:16:35.100 at your workplace

02:16:35.800 or they're happening

02:16:37.620 with you

02:16:38.080 one of the two

02:16:39.200 but you can

02:16:39.700 straighten that out

02:16:40.380 if you're

02:16:43.720 being required

02:16:44.940 to do things

02:16:45.660 that make you

02:16:46.260 weak

02:16:46.680 and ashamed

02:16:48.020 then stop

02:16:50.300 don't do them

02:16:52.400 like one of the

02:16:54.160 things I learned

02:16:54.840 from

02:16:55.220 Solzhenitsyn

02:16:56.260 and

02:16:57.840 Frankel

02:16:58.360 was that

02:17:00.060 systems go

02:17:02.340 terribly

02:17:02.940 out of control

02:17:04.220 when people

02:17:05.040 don't stop them

02:17:05.920 when they're going

02:17:06.520 mildly

02:17:07.320 out of control

02:17:08.260 you know

02:17:09.220 and you might

02:17:09.600 say

02:17:09.920 I should just

02:17:11.040 keep my 1.00

02:17:11.440 goddamn head 1.00

02:17:12.080 down 1.00

02:17:12.340 and shut up 0.99

02:17:12.960 it's like 0.99

02:17:13.340 maybe you should

02:17:14.060 like that's not

02:17:14.720 bad advice

02:17:15.400 you know

02:17:16.540 you don't want

02:17:17.340 to make

02:17:17.560 unnecessary enemies

02:17:18.620 and you don't

02:17:19.380 need any more

02:17:19.880 trouble than you

02:17:20.540 need

02:17:20.860 but you got to

02:17:21.760 ask yourself

02:17:22.380 on a day-to-day

02:17:23.080 basis

02:17:23.520 what makes you

02:17:24.540 think you're

02:17:24.920 not selling

02:17:25.420 your soul

02:17:26.000 people

02:17:27.000 you know

02:17:27.720 and there's so

02:17:28.960 much foolishness 0.78

02:17:30.220 going on

02:17:30.760 in the

02:17:31.160 mid-level

02:17:32.060 bureaucratic

02:17:32.960 world now

02:17:33.500 that's where

02:17:33.860 all the tyranny

02:17:34.440 seems to be

02:17:35.040 focused

02:17:35.460 and

02:17:36.420 the reason

02:17:37.700 that it

02:17:38.100 multiplies

02:17:38.720 is because

02:17:39.160 sensible people

02:17:40.200 say nothing

02:17:41.060 when they

02:17:42.720 should say

02:17:43.240 something

02:17:43.660 and what's so

02:17:44.400 strange about

02:17:45.480 that is that

02:17:46.060 there are way

02:17:46.880 more sensible

02:17:47.640 people than

02:17:48.500 people who

02:17:49.380 aren't sensible

02:17:49.940 they're just

02:17:50.360 not as

02:17:50.760 noisy

02:17:51.340 so what

02:17:52.700 you'll turn

02:17:53.260 out if

02:17:53.580 like you know

02:17:54.380 so let's say

02:17:55.040 something's bugging

02:17:55.820 the hell out

02:17:56.380 of you at work

02:17:57.040 well then

02:17:57.800 you have to

02:17:58.380 prepare to

02:17:58.880 find another

02:17:59.620 job

02:17:59.940 that's the

02:18:00.320 first thing

02:18:00.660 you have to

02:18:01.060 do

02:18:01.240 I don't

02:18:02.360 think that

02:18:02.920 you should

02:18:03.300 find another

02:18:03.960 job

02:18:04.340 but you

02:18:05.320 should

02:18:05.540 prepare to

02:18:06.240 find another

02:18:06.700 job

02:18:07.020 and if

02:18:07.660 possible

02:18:08.420 you should

02:18:08.800 prepare to

02:18:09.220 find a

02:18:09.520 better job

02:18:10.320 because if

02:18:11.420 you can't

02:18:11.860 tell someone

02:18:12.360 to go to 1.00

02:18:12.820 hell 1.00

02:18:13.000 then you

02:18:13.340 can't

02:18:13.600 negotiate

02:18:13.960 with them

02:18:14.460 and if

02:18:15.180 and if

02:18:15.820 they've

02:18:16.040 got you

02:18:16.380 over a

02:18:16.780 barrel

02:18:17.020 then you

02:18:17.440 can't

02:18:17.700 say

02:18:17.880 anything

02:18:18.300 so you

02:18:18.800 gotta

02:18:19.000 you gotta

02:18:19.680 set yourself

02:18:20.260 up so you've

02:18:20.840 got some

02:18:21.200 mobility

02:18:21.560 and actually

02:18:22.040 that's a

02:18:22.420 really good

02:18:22.740 principle

02:18:23.060 in your

02:18:23.400 life

02:18:23.660 period

02:18:24.060 you should

02:18:24.880 set yourself

02:18:25.860 up so that

02:18:26.380 you have a

02:18:26.840 lateral move

02:18:27.400 at hand

02:18:27.960 and then you

02:18:29.700 should find out

02:18:30.320 well are there

02:18:30.820 things at work

02:18:31.560 that are

02:18:31.960 disturbing my

02:18:32.840 soul

02:18:33.320 you know

02:18:34.360 and you

02:18:34.880 find that out

02:18:35.460 first of all

02:18:36.060 you ask

02:18:36.440 yourself

02:18:36.700 okay I'm

02:18:37.120 disturbed at

02:18:37.600 work

02:18:37.800 okay I'm

02:18:38.260 probably

02:18:38.560 weak and 0.96

02:18:39.680 deceitful and 1.00

02:18:40.520 useless and 1.00

02:18:41.160 lazy 1.00

02:18:41.520 you might as 0.84

02:18:42.320 well start

02:18:42.620 with that

02:18:43.100 and then you

02:18:43.760 talk to some

02:18:44.320 people

02:18:44.680 like your

02:18:45.440 wife

02:18:46.240 your friends

02:18:46.920 your co-workers

02:18:47.780 and find out

02:18:48.380 are you 1.00

02:18:48.860 stupid 1.00

02:18:49.700 deceitful 1.00

02:18:50.280 and lazy 0.98

02:18:50.720 or is there

02:18:51.760 something not

02:18:52.360 so good

02:18:52.680 going on

02:18:53.100 at work

02:18:53.440 and so if

02:18:53.920 you if you

02:18:54.720 can then 0.99

02:18:55.000 eliminate your 0.79

02:18:55.900 own personal

02:18:56.540 pathology as

02:18:57.500 a cause of

02:18:58.000 your dissatisfaction

02:18:59.100 then maybe

02:19:00.020 there's something

02:19:00.620 rotten in the

02:19:01.720 state of

02:19:02.080 Denmark

02:19:02.400 and maybe you

02:19:03.540 should say

02:19:04.040 something about

02:19:04.700 it before the 0.99

02:19:05.180 whole goddamn 1.00

02:19:05.980 thing collapses 0.99

02:19:06.940 because that

02:19:07.760 can happen

02:19:08.380 it can happen

02:19:09.360 in companies a

02:19:09.980 lot faster than

02:19:10.680 people ever

02:19:11.180 think

02:19:11.580 you know and

02:19:12.640 you may find

02:19:13.260 that well first

02:19:14.040 of all you may

02:19:14.500 find if you

02:19:15.040 say something

02:19:15.600 well first of

02:19:16.160 all that's an

02:19:16.620 adventure

02:19:17.020 that's for

02:19:17.580 sure that's a

02:19:18.220 bloody adventure

02:19:18.860 and you have

02:19:19.600 to do it

02:19:19.980 carefully

02:19:20.400 and you have

02:19:21.640 to be prepared

02:19:22.260 for it

02:19:22.680 but it might be

02:19:23.220 the best thing

02:19:23.700 that ever

02:19:24.000 happened to you

02:19:24.620 and the other

02:19:25.740 thing is if you're

02:19:26.480 careful about it

02:19:27.220 you get your

02:19:27.640 words right

02:19:28.380 like and this

02:19:29.280 is a this is

02:19:30.220 strategic battle

02:19:31.440 right it's not

02:19:31.860 something you

02:19:32.200 wander into

02:19:32.800 carelessly

02:19:33.380 then you may

02:19:34.500 then you may find

02:19:34.740 then you may find

02:19:34.760 that there's lots

02:19:35.460 of people who

02:19:36.020 feel exactly the

02:19:36.900 same way you

02:19:37.400 do and that

02:19:37.820 you've actually

02:19:38.340 cottoned on to

02:19:39.240 something you're 0.67

02:19:39.760 a canary in a

02:19:40.520 coal mine and

02:19:41.460 not just some 0.78

02:19:42.080 like psychopathic 0.99

02:19:43.360 mouthpiece 0.97

02:19:44.060 so you gotta ask

02:19:46.820 yourself when you

02:19:47.460 go and do what

02:19:48.080 you do like is

02:19:48.840 this making you

02:19:49.440 stronger is this

02:19:50.160 making you

02:19:50.600 weaker and if

02:19:51.600 it's making you

02:19:52.140 weaker then you

02:19:53.160 gotta ask yourself

02:19:53.900 do you really

02:19:54.840 want to be

02:19:55.280 weaker because the

02:19:56.620 weaker you get

02:19:57.240 the more you're

02:19:57.760 tyrannized and

02:19:58.480 then worse than

02:19:59.460 that like the

02:20:00.080 weaker you get

02:20:00.700 the more bitter

02:20:01.320 you get and

02:20:02.480 the more you'll

02:20:03.020 work towards

02:20:03.600 terrible things

02:20:04.340 the more you'll

02:20:04.880 snap at your

02:20:05.540 wife the more 1.00

02:20:06.080 you'll kick 1.00

02:20:06.520 your kids you 0.99

02:20:07.260 know like it's

02:20:08.340 no joke to be

02:20:09.240 tyrannized at

02:20:09.940 work and so I

02:20:11.640 would say you

02:20:12.100 have an ethical

02:20:12.900 responsibility as

02:20:14.280 a citizen to

02:20:16.480 forthrightly

02:20:17.600 confront creeping

02:20:18.980 tyranny no matter 0.98

02:20:20.540 where it occurs

02:20:21.580 and part of part of

02:20:23.840 what we're learning

02:20:24.800 I would say from

02:20:25.760 these stories if

02:20:26.780 we're learning

02:20:27.140 anything at all

02:20:27.880 is that if

02:20:29.760 you're aimed at

02:20:30.400 the good

02:20:30.980 which is a

02:20:32.320 question you

02:20:32.760 really gotta ask

02:20:33.440 yourself you

02:20:34.000 know if you're

02:20:35.020 genuinely aimed at

02:20:35.940 the good then

02:20:36.580 take heart

02:20:37.220 because you're a

02:20:38.640 lot stronger than

02:20:39.520 you think

02:20:40.020 so

02:20:41.800 I have a follow

02:20:43.880 up question

02:20:44.540 okay

02:20:45.120 so I'm speaking

02:20:46.640 to there's lots

02:20:47.240 of people who are

02:20:47.620 in this situation

02:20:48.220 like you know

02:20:49.980 people at

02:20:50.420 universities and

02:20:51.420 corporations all

02:20:52.120 over the place

02:20:52.680 I you know

02:20:53.440 Google is not

02:20:54.260 the only company

02:20:55.980 that is

02:20:56.500 no I'm probably

02:20:57.560 not the worst

02:20:58.400 repressive

02:20:59.060 freedom of speech

02:21:01.140 denying workplace

02:21:02.920 codes and

02:21:04.100 everybody feels

02:21:04.620 alone right

02:21:07.320 they're all like

02:21:08.000 why should I

02:21:08.920 stand up

02:21:09.580 be a martyr 0.75

02:21:10.640 get fired 0.96

02:21:11.740 this guy at

02:21:12.380 Google got

02:21:12.780 fired

02:21:13.080 yeah

02:21:13.400 what's the

02:21:14.840 point

02:21:15.140 like I'm

02:21:18.180 asking rhetorical

02:21:18.820 no no

02:21:19.540 it's a good

02:21:20.700 question

02:21:21.140 and how do

02:21:21.720 you how do

02:21:22.860 you convince

02:21:23.340 people that

02:21:23.800 there's a point

02:21:24.360 to standing

02:21:25.900 up when it

02:21:26.620 appears to be

02:21:27.260 futile

02:21:27.700 well the first

02:21:30.340 thing I think

02:21:30.860 is you convince

02:21:31.500 them that it's

02:21:32.000 not futile

02:21:32.760 it might be

02:21:34.480 difficult

02:21:35.000 but it's not

02:21:37.000 futile

02:21:37.480 if you get

02:21:38.900 your words

02:21:39.380 right

02:21:39.840 you have

02:21:40.800 something to

02:21:41.200 say

02:21:41.540 there'll be

02:21:42.280 an impact

02:21:42.820 of those

02:21:43.220 words

02:21:43.620 it might

02:21:44.380 not be

02:21:44.680 the impact

02:21:45.160 that you

02:21:45.480 would choose

02:21:46.040 but the

02:21:46.660 other thing

02:21:47.340 you got to

02:21:47.660 tell people

02:21:48.100 is

02:21:48.400 pick your

02:21:49.560 poison

02:21:49.920 you don't

02:21:52.100 you may be

02:21:53.420 in a situation

02:21:54.080 where you

02:21:54.480 don't have

02:21:55.100 you don't

02:21:56.460 have a cake

02:21:57.020 walk to the

02:21:57.580 garden of

02:21:57.960 paradise

02:21:58.400 you got

02:21:59.120 tyranny or

02:22:00.080 famine

02:22:00.480 those are

02:22:01.100 your choices

02:22:01.700 but you get

02:22:02.760 to pick

02:22:03.080 which one

02:22:03.460 you have

02:22:03.980 and I

02:22:04.860 would say

02:22:05.240 if you're

02:22:06.720 being oppressed

02:22:07.860 and I mean

02:22:08.700 in your soul

02:22:09.600 by what you're

02:22:10.760 required to

02:22:11.600 swallow at

02:22:12.520 work

02:22:12.960 well you think

02:22:14.520 you're not

02:22:14.780 paying a price

02:22:15.280 for that

02:22:15.680 you got no

02:22:17.380 self-respect

02:22:18.100 and rightly

02:22:19.820 so

02:22:20.220 but worse

02:22:21.140 than that 0.97

02:22:21.620 you're an

02:22:22.620 agent of

02:22:23.480 your own

02:22:23.800 destruction

02:22:24.300 you're destroying

02:22:25.720 your own

02:22:26.100 ideal

02:22:26.420 and you're

02:22:27.040 letting

02:22:27.300 people who

02:22:28.040 are weak 1.00

02:22:28.640 and corrupt 0.99

02:22:29.560 win

02:22:31.040 and if you

02:22:33.280 stood up

02:22:33.820 and stood up

02:22:34.940 properly

02:22:35.300 but you have

02:22:35.820 to put yourself

02:22:36.360 in order

02:22:36.740 to do this

02:22:37.320 at least

02:22:37.640 to some

02:22:38.000 degree

02:22:38.280 right

02:22:38.480 you can't

02:22:38.880 do it

02:22:39.100 casually

02:22:39.540 you have

02:22:40.320 to do

02:22:40.560 it from

02:22:40.880 some position

02:22:42.040 of preparedness

02:22:43.160 and strength

02:22:43.980 then

02:22:45.240 what makes

02:22:46.100 you think

02:22:46.420 you couldn't

02:22:47.260 scare them

02:22:47.800 back into

02:22:48.220 the corners

02:22:48.740 and that

02:22:50.020 would be

02:22:50.260 a good

02:22:50.500 thing

02:22:50.860 and

02:22:52.020 you know

02:22:52.720 the alternative

02:22:53.600 personally

02:22:55.000 is bad

02:22:55.500 because

02:22:55.800 there's a

02:22:56.360 psychological

02:22:56.800 degeneration

02:22:57.480 that goes

02:22:57.900 along with

02:22:58.280 it

02:22:58.360 I've seen

02:22:58.700 this with

02:22:59.020 many

02:22:59.400 many

02:22:59.720 of the

02:23:00.040 people

02:23:00.240 that I've

02:23:00.540 worked

02:23:00.720 with

02:23:00.940 who have

02:23:01.480 been

02:23:01.660 tyrannized

02:23:02.180 in the

02:23:02.400 workplace

02:23:02.720 to the

02:23:03.580 absolute

02:23:04.040 detriment

02:23:04.460 of their

02:23:05.020 psychological

02:23:06.260 and physical

02:23:06.860 health

02:23:07.200 right

02:23:07.460 to the

02:23:08.120 point

02:23:08.320 of

02:23:08.480 collapse

02:23:09.100 confronting

02:23:10.520 these 0.98

02:23:11.260 crazy 0.77

02:23:11.880 crazy

02:23:12.300 things

02:23:12.700 when they

02:23:12.980 were sensible

02:23:13.440 people

02:23:13.900 that's a

02:23:15.820 terrible

02:23:16.080 price

02:23:16.400 to pay

02:23:16.760 man

02:23:17.100 like

02:23:17.580 it's

02:23:17.900 it's

02:23:18.580 a bad

02:23:18.880 price

02:23:19.300 and then

02:23:19.920 if the

02:23:21.800 foolishness

02:23:23.440 isn't dealt 0.92

02:23:23.960 with at the

02:23:24.460 local level

02:23:25.340 when it's still

02:23:26.600 relatively trivial

02:23:27.700 then it will

02:23:28.680 multiply

02:23:29.080 until it's

02:23:29.740 dealt with

02:23:30.120 at the

02:23:30.560 social level

02:23:31.160 and we're

02:23:31.440 seeing

02:23:31.760 signs of

02:23:32.660 that already

02:23:33.200 antifa

02:23:33.880 is a good

02:23:34.360 sign of

02:23:34.800 that

02:23:35.080 you know

02:23:35.940 and

02:23:36.140 problems

02:23:37.320 that aren't

02:23:37.740 solved

02:23:38.020 multiply

02:23:38.560 and soon

02:23:39.180 people

02:23:39.540 fight

02:23:39.960 and you

02:23:41.000 know

02:23:41.200 better to

02:23:42.460 argue

02:23:42.700 than to

02:23:43.040 fight

02:23:43.320 unless

02:23:45.000 you want

02:23:45.300 to

02:23:45.420 fight

02:23:45.660 and

02:23:46.880 some

02:23:47.120 people

02:23:47.360 want

02:23:47.560 to

02:23:47.680 fight

02:23:47.900 and

02:23:48.220 I

02:23:48.440 can

02:23:48.580 understand

02:23:49.040 why

02:23:49.340 but

02:23:49.500 I

02:23:49.700 wouldn't

02:23:49.960 recommend

02:23:50.380 it

02:23:50.560 because

02:23:50.880 that

02:23:56.760 doesn't

02:23:57.100 lead

02:23:57.360 good

02:23:57.640 places

02:23:58.140 it

02:23:58.700 really

02:23:58.960 doesn't

02:23:59.320 lead

02:23:59.500 good

02:23:59.720 places

02:24:00.180 so I

02:24:00.620 say

02:24:00.800 you

02:24:00.920 have

02:24:01.100 a

02:24:01.220 duty

02:24:01.480 maybe

02:24:01.740 that's

02:24:02.120 that's

02:24:02.420 where

02:24:02.560 you

02:24:02.720 stand

02:24:03.000 up

02:24:03.180 it's

02:24:03.340 because

02:24:03.520 you

02:24:03.640 have

02:24:03.760 a

02:24:03.860 god 0.99

02:24:04.060 damn 0.99

02:24:04.280 duty 1.00

02:24:04.580 to

02:24:04.820 stand

02:24:05.100 up

02:24:05.380 and

02:24:06.000 say

02:24:06.340 just

02:24:07.280 say

02:24:07.600 what

02:24:07.880 you

02:24:08.040 have

02:24:08.300 to

02:24:08.540 say

02:24:08.900 you

02:24:09.980 don't

02:24:10.200 even

02:24:10.360 have

02:24:10.580 to

02:24:10.700 be

02:24:13.320 done

02:24:13.640 it's

02:24:13.840 like

02:24:13.980 this

02:24:14.800 is

02:24:15.080 how

02:24:15.320 it

02:24:15.500 looks

02:24:15.780 to

02:24:16.020 me

02:24:16.240 that's

02:24:16.540 what

02:24:16.640 that

02:24:16.840 guy

02:24:17.340 at

02:24:17.480 google

02:24:17.740 did

02:24:18.040 he

02:24:18.600 wrote

02:24:18.800 this

02:24:19.000 memo

02:24:19.260 and

02:24:19.480 he

02:24:19.600 said

02:24:19.840 he

02:24:20.000 said

02:24:21.180 well

02:24:21.400 he

02:24:21.800 went

02:24:21.980 to

02:24:22.100 a

02:24:22.240 diversity

02:24:22.760 training

02:24:23.340 seminar

02:24:23.820 and

02:24:24.100 he

02:24:24.200 thought

02:24:24.480 no

02:24:25.720 I

02:24:26.560 don't

02:24:26.720 agree

02:24:26.960 with

02:24:27.160 that

02:24:27.460 and

02:24:27.980 so

02:24:28.180 then

02:24:28.440 they

02:24:28.920 asked

02:24:29.140 for

02:24:29.280 feedback

02:24:29.680 so

02:24:30.100 we

02:24:30.260 wrote

02:24:30.480 this

02:24:30.720 document

02:24:31.200 a

02:24:31.420 month

02:24:31.720 ago

02:24:31.960 this

02:24:32.180 was

02:24:32.340 written

02:24:32.560 a

02:24:32.680 month

02:24:32.860 ago

02:24:33.180 got

02:24:33.900 no

02:24:34.060 real

02:24:34.300 response

02:24:34.800 to

02:24:35.040 it

02:24:35.260 well

02:24:35.700 it

02:24:35.820 bounced

02:24:43.320 all

02:24:43.680 he

02:24:43.840 was

02:24:44.040 doing

02:24:44.460 was

02:24:45.000 he

02:24:45.840 was

02:24:45.980 told

02:24:46.240 a

02:24:46.360 bunch

02:24:46.520 of

02:24:46.620 things

02:24:46.780 he

02:24:46.920 didn't

02:24:47.120 think

02:24:47.320 were

02:24:47.460 true

02:24:47.760 he

02:24:48.340 wrote

02:24:48.540 down

02:24:48.720 a

02:24:48.820 bunch

02:24:48.960 of

02:24:49.060 things

02:24:49.260 he

02:24:49.400 thought

02:24:49.620 were

02:24:49.780 probably

02:24:50.220 true

02:24:50.640 he

02:24:51.540 launched

02:24:51.920 that

02:24:52.120 out

02:24:52.300 and

02:24:52.400 said

02:24:52.540 well

02:24:52.680 I

02:24:52.800 think

02:24:53.040 these

02:24:53.300 things

02:24:53.560 are

02:24:53.720 probably

02:24:54.180 true

02:24:54.700 it's

02:24:55.200 like

02:24:55.380 well

02:24:55.700 probably

02:24:58.180 they're

02:24:58.460 true

02:24:58.800 well

02:24:59.700 so

02:24:59.880 he

02:25:00.040 paid

02:25:00.240 a

02:25:00.360 price

02:25:00.620 for

02:25:00.860 it

02:25:00.980 but

02:25:01.080 maybe

02:25:01.320 we'll

02:25:01.580 see

02:25:01.780 what

02:25:01.960 sort

02:25:02.160 of

02:25:02.240 price

02:25:02.460 he

02:25:02.580 paid

02:25:02.760 for

02:25:02.940 it

02:25:03.040 man

02:25:03.220 he's

02:25:03.560 going

02:25:03.680 to

02:25:03.700 be

02:25:03.800 a

02:25:03.880 lot

02:25:04.020 tougher

02:25:04.300 in

02:25:04.460 two

02:25:04.620 years

02:25:04.880 than

02:25:05.020 he

02:25:05.120 was

02:25:05.300 two

02:25:05.480 years

02:25:05.760 ago

02:25:06.020 so

02:25:06.980 no

02:25:10.120 they

02:25:12.160 didn't

02:25:12.360 answer

02:25:12.620 his

02:25:12.800 feedback

02:25:13.100 no

02:25:13.920 no

02:25:15.120 but

02:25:15.600 well

02:25:16.340 you can

02:25:17.460 watch

02:25:17.680 the

02:25:17.820 video

02:25:18.080 the

02:25:18.280 story

02:25:18.540 is

02:25:18.660 there

02:25:18.840 but

02:25:19.080 that

02:25:19.300 that's

02:25:19.540 kind

02:25:19.720 of

02:25:19.800 the

02:25:19.900 outline

02:25:20.220 of

02:25:20.400 it

02:25:20.540 so

02:25:21.580 sorry

02:25:21.820 to

02:25:22.020 monopolize

02:25:22.700 this

02:25:22.880 I

02:25:23.020 have

02:25:23.140 one

02:25:23.320 other

02:25:23.500 question

02:25:23.860 about

02:25:24.200 this

02:25:24.400 and

02:25:24.500 I

02:25:24.540 think

02:25:24.660 it's

02:25:24.840 important

02:25:25.260 aside

02:25:27.700 from

02:25:27.880 Google

02:25:28.200 just

02:25:28.340 being

02:25:28.500 a

02:25:28.600 workplace

02:25:29.100 right

02:25:32.760 which

02:25:33.040 is

02:25:33.380 a

02:25:33.860 new

02:25:34.020 censorship

02:25:34.360 scheme

02:25:34.920 and

02:25:38.680 it

02:25:39.220 controls

02:25:39.600 a

02:25:40.360 huge

02:25:40.560 amount

02:25:40.800 of

02:25:41.000 the

02:25:41.120 information

02:25:41.640 that

02:25:42.480 people

02:25:42.800 get

02:25:43.060 this

02:25:43.760 is

02:25:43.920 true

02:25:44.300 and

02:25:44.700 so

02:25:44.860 what

02:25:45.100 happens

02:25:45.580 to

02:25:45.840 society

02:25:46.520 when

02:25:48.500 companies

02:25:49.860 such as

02:25:50.220 Google

02:25:50.480 which

02:25:50.680 control

02:25:51.020 our

02:25:51.220 information

02:25:51.740 start

02:25:52.760 to

02:25:53.320 censor

02:25:54.420 not

02:25:54.900 just

02:25:55.300 themselves

02:25:56.140 and

02:25:57.060 maybe

02:25:57.700 the

02:25:57.860 information

02:25:58.200 that's

02:25:58.420 coming

02:25:58.640 out

02:25:58.780 to

02:25:58.860 the

02:25:58.960 rest

02:25:59.080 of

02:25:59.200 the

02:25:59.220 world

02:25:59.400 how

02:25:59.760 much

02:25:59.960 is

02:26:00.080 this

02:26:00.240 already

02:26:00.540 happening

02:26:01.040 and

02:26:02.600 how

02:26:02.860 much

02:26:03.320 how

02:26:03.860 about

02:26:04.020 if

02:26:04.140 we

02:26:04.240 refuse

02:26:05.540 to

02:26:05.900 find

02:26:06.200 out

02:26:06.520 that

02:26:07.860 would

02:26:08.000 be

02:26:08.120 good

02:26:08.400 you

02:26:09.020 know

02:26:09.120 like

02:26:09.340 I

02:26:09.460 reviewed

02:26:09.780 this

02:26:10.100 guy's

02:26:10.780 document

02:26:11.160 I

02:26:11.360 did

02:26:11.520 that

02:26:11.700 yesterday

02:26:12.180 and

02:26:13.660 everything

02:26:14.120 he

02:26:14.360 said

02:26:14.600 was

02:26:14.820 validated

02:26:15.920 by

02:26:16.240 the

02:26:16.400 scientific

02:26:16.740 literature

02:26:17.120 so

02:26:17.400 what

02:26:17.620 has

02:26:17.780 happened

02:26:18.280 is

02:26:19.280 that

02:26:19.500 someone

02:26:19.840 has

02:26:20.060 been

02:26:20.220 fired

02:26:20.540 publicly

02:26:21.100 by

02:26:21.720 a

02:26:21.820 major

02:26:22.060 corporation

02:26:22.640 for

02:26:23.220 stating

02:26:23.800 well

02:26:24.240 grounded

02:26:24.680 scientific

02:26:25.560 truths

02:26:26.060 right

02:26:27.100 they're

02:26:27.900 exactly

02:26:28.280 the

02:26:28.480 sorts

02:26:28.720 of

02:26:28.840 things

02:26:29.060 that

02:26:29.240 I

02:26:29.360 say

02:26:29.580 in

02:26:29.680 my

02:26:29.840 classes

02:26:30.220 for

02:26:30.420 example

02:26:30.740 and

02:26:30.900 reason

02:26:31.240 that

02:26:31.400 I

02:26:31.500 say

02:26:31.720 them

02:26:31.900 is

02:26:32.020 because

02:26:32.240 I

02:26:32.400 read

02:26:32.560 the

02:26:32.720 literature

02:26:33.020 it's

02:26:33.360 not

02:26:33.500 because

02:26:33.760 I'm

02:26:34.020 personally

02:26:34.780 happy

02:26:35.360 about

02:26:35.680 the

02:26:35.920 facts

02:26:36.440 I

02:26:36.920 think

02:26:37.100 IQ

02:26:37.520 research

02:26:38.400 particularly

02:26:38.960 is

02:26:39.200 so

02:26:39.360 dismal

02:26:39.840 that

02:26:40.040 you

02:26:40.440 can't

02:26:40.760 possibly

02:26:41.260 read

02:26:41.580 it

02:26:41.680 without

02:26:41.880 being

02:26:42.160 seriously

02:26:42.740 disheartened

02:26:43.480 if

02:26:43.920 I

02:26:44.060 could

02:26:44.240 reconstruct

02:26:44.780 the

02:26:45.160 world

02:26:45.420 so

02:26:45.660 that

02:26:45.840 IQ

02:26:46.300 the

02:26:46.920 IQ

02:26:47.200 research

02:26:47.660 wasn't

02:26:48.100 true

02:26:48.580 well

02:26:49.520 it

02:26:50.700 sure

02:26:50.920 be

02:26:51.120 tempting

02:26:51.580 you

02:26:51.960 know

02:26:52.160 but

02:26:53.200 that's

02:26:54.060 not

02:26:54.200 how

02:26:54.360 science

02:26:54.700 works

02:26:55.140 science

02:26:55.900 doesn't

02:26:56.180 tell

02:26:56.340 you

02:26:56.460 what

02:26:56.620 you

02:27:00.900 and

02:27:01.120 he

02:27:01.980 got

02:27:02.200 pilloried

02:27:02.680 for

02:27:02.880 he

02:27:03.500 got

02:27:03.720 pilloried

02:27:04.120 for

02:27:04.320 revealing

02:27:06.060 a good

02:27:08.120 fraction

02:27:08.960 of current

02:27:09.800 scientific

02:27:10.320 knowledge

02:27:10.680 about

02:27:10.900 gender

02:27:11.180 differences

02:27:11.600 okay

02:27:12.260 that's

02:27:13.300 not

02:27:13.820 good

02:27:14.500 and

02:27:15.440 as

02:27:15.820 you

02:27:16.000 said

02:27:16.320 that's

02:27:16.700 a big

02:27:16.920 company

02:27:17.260 and

02:27:17.420 it

02:27:17.540 controls

02:27:17.860 our

02:27:18.040 communication

02:27:18.620 how

02:27:19.220 about

02:27:19.580 we

02:27:20.380 do

02:27:22.260 what

02:27:22.520 we

02:27:22.760 can

02:27:23.160 to

02:27:23.880 ensure

02:27:24.260 that

02:27:24.560 these

02:27:24.800 large

02:27:25.180 communication

02:27:25.860 companies

02:27:26.420 don't

02:27:27.460 get

02:27:27.780 to

02:27:28.040 impose

02:27:28.620 a

02:27:29.480 factually

02:27:32.080 false

02:27:32.680 ideological

02:27:33.500 structure

02:27:34.320 on the

02:27:35.420 rest

02:27:35.680 of the

02:27:35.980 planet

02:27:36.380 well

02:27:37.380 you

02:27:37.500 can

02:27:37.620 think

02:27:37.820 about

02:27:38.060 supporting

02:27:38.480 this

02:27:38.820 guy

02:27:39.940 who

02:27:40.140 blew

02:27:40.300 the

02:27:40.440 whistle

02:27:40.680 there's

02:27:40.960 a

02:27:41.100 fundraiser

02:27:41.640 for

02:27:41.840 him

02:27:42.020 online

02:27:42.480 he

02:27:43.060 could

02:27:43.200 use

02:27:43.400 some

02:27:43.560 money

02:27:43.800 he

02:27:44.180 wants

02:27:44.420 to

02:27:44.620 sue

02:27:45.520 Google

02:27:45.960 yeah

02:27:47.820 you

02:27:52.220 know

02:27:52.400 maybe

02:27:53.440 we

02:27:53.700 could

02:27:53.860 let

02:27:54.980 them

02:27:55.200 know

02:27:55.480 that

02:27:55.820 hiring

02:27:56.520 a

02:27:56.800 human

02:27:57.060 resources

02:27:57.640 director

02:27:58.380 who's

02:27:59.300 also

02:27:59.620 concerned

02:28:00.080 with

02:28:00.300 equity

02:28:00.720 is

02:28:01.240 probably

02:28:01.600 not a

02:28:02.040 good

02:28:02.180 idea

02:28:02.540 for

02:28:02.740 a

02:28:02.940 capitalist

02:28:03.280 company

02:28:03.820 why

02:28:04.660 in the

02:28:04.960 world

02:28:05.240 would

02:28:05.440 you

02:28:05.580 hire

02:28:05.920 your

02:28:06.220 own

02:28:06.440 enemies

02:28:06.860 I

02:28:07.580 don't

02:28:07.800 understand

02:28:08.360 that

02:28:08.780 so

02:28:09.840 well

02:28:10.680 we'll

02:28:10.900 see

02:28:11.060 how

02:28:11.200 the

02:28:11.360 dialogue

02:28:11.740 continues

02:28:12.300 but

02:28:12.540 back

02:28:13.520 to

02:28:13.700 the

02:28:13.840 personal

02:28:14.280 like

02:28:14.860 you

02:28:16.300 need

02:28:16.760 to

02:28:17.000 say

02:28:17.480 what

02:28:17.960 you

02:28:18.220 think

02:28:18.580 because

02:28:19.020 that's

02:28:19.860 where

02:28:20.040 you

02:28:20.220 come

02:28:20.520 from

02:28:20.920 right

02:28:22.040 and

02:28:22.380 if

02:28:22.580 you

02:28:22.700 don't

02:28:22.980 say

02:28:23.140 what

02:28:23.300 you

02:28:23.440 think

02:28:23.700 then

02:28:23.920 you 1.00

02:28:24.060 kill 1.00

02:28:24.460 your 1.00

02:28:24.740 unborn

02:28:25.260 self

02:28:25.840 that's

02:28:26.520 what

02:28:28.380 when he

02:28:28.560 killed

02:28:28.820 Abel

02:28:29.180 and

02:28:29.640 that's

02:28:29.840 why

02:28:29.960 his

02:28:30.100 punishment

02:28:30.440 was

02:28:30.700 unbearable

02:28:31.340 you

02:28:32.060 know

02:28:32.140 you

02:28:32.300 have

02:28:32.460 things

02:28:32.760 in

02:28:32.940 you

02:28:33.040 that

02:28:33.200 are

02:28:33.320 struggling

02:28:33.760 to

02:28:34.020 come

02:28:34.240 to

02:28:34.400 the

02:28:34.540 light

02:28:34.780 that's

02:28:35.160 the

02:28:35.300 truth

02:28:35.620 you

02:28:35.780 need

02:28:35.940 to

02:28:36.060 utter

02:28:36.240 that

02:28:37.160 truth

02:28:37.460 because

02:28:37.760 without

02:28:38.320 that

02:28:38.580 truth

02:28:38.820 you

02:28:38.960 cannot

02:28:39.240 live

02:28:39.540 in

02:28:39.640 the

02:28:39.760 world

02:28:40.160 because

02:28:40.920 the

02:28:41.020 world

02:28:41.240 is

02:28:41.340 real

02:28:41.740 and

02:28:41.980 you

02:28:42.080 need

02:28:42.260 truth

02:28:42.620 to

02:28:42.820 live

02:28:42.980 in

02:28:43.080 the

02:28:43.200 world

02:28:43.480 and

02:28:43.900 if

02:28:44.020 you

02:28:44.140 stifle

02:28:44.700 your

02:28:44.900 truth

02:28:45.320 well

02:28:45.580 how

02:28:46.500 can

02:28:47.240 that

02:28:47.440 be

02:28:47.620 anything

02:28:47.960 but

02:28:48.180 something

02:28:48.500 that

02:28:48.720 brings

02:28:49.000 about

02:28:49.260 hell

02:28:49.680 how

02:28:50.180 could

02:28:50.320 it

02:28:50.420 be

02:28:50.540 any

02:28:50.700 other

02:28:50.880 way

02:28:51.240 so

02:28:52.260 you

02:28:52.440 think

02:28:52.680 well

02:28:52.860 why

02:28:53.080 should

02:28:53.300 you

02:28:53.440 speak

02:28:53.740 up

02:28:53.940 that's

02:28:54.240 easy

02:28:54.460 because

02:28:54.740 the

02:28:54.960 consequences

02:28:55.520 of

02:28:55.780 not

02:28:56.000 speaking

02:28:56.380 up

02:28:56.700 although

02:28:57.420 delayed

02:28:58.120 are

02:28:58.760 far

02:28:59.140 worse

02:28:59.580 that's

02:29:00.180 the

02:29:00.340 reason

02:29:00.660 that's

02:29:01.220 the

02:29:01.380 reason

02:29:01.640 if

02:29:02.040 it

02:29:02.540 can't

02:29:02.880 be

02:29:03.020 courage

02:29:03.500 it

02:29:03.880 could

02:29:04.020 at

02:29:04.160 least

02:29:04.340 be

02:29:04.580 prudence

02:29:05.220 so

02:29:06.420 yeah

02:29:07.360 one

02:29:18.180 kudos

02:29:18.640 for

02:29:18.940 mentioning

02:29:19.220 magnolias

02:29:19.900 one

02:29:20.200 of my

02:29:20.360 favorite

02:29:20.580 movies

02:29:20.860 it's

02:29:21.060 a

02:29:21.160 great

02:29:21.380 movie

02:29:21.720 man

02:29:22.000 so

02:29:23.600 a

02:29:24.100 few

02:29:24.240 months

02:29:24.500 ago

02:29:24.840 I

02:29:25.140 had

02:29:25.300 a

02:29:25.440 dream

02:29:25.860 and

02:29:26.680 when

02:29:27.080 I

02:29:27.180 told

02:29:27.360 someone

02:29:27.620 this

02:29:27.840 dream

02:29:28.120 they

02:29:28.400 suggested

02:29:28.900 that

02:29:29.100 I

02:29:29.200 read

02:29:29.380 the

02:29:29.480 book

02:29:29.640 of

02:29:29.760 revelations

02:29:30.460 oh

02:29:30.820 yeah

02:29:30.940 that's

02:29:31.240 a

02:29:31.340 bad

02:29:31.540 dream

02:29:31.860 that

02:29:32.120 the

02:29:36.740 there's

02:29:37.640 a lot

02:29:37.840 of

02:29:37.940 interesting

02:29:38.340 stuff

02:29:38.940 in

02:29:39.060 that

02:29:39.180 book

02:29:39.480 the

02:29:40.220 thing

02:29:40.420 that

02:29:40.560 really

02:29:41.020 that

02:29:43.300 I

02:29:43.420 found

02:29:43.740 really

02:29:44.100 interesting

02:29:44.620 right

02:29:44.940 off

02:29:45.080 the

02:29:45.200 bat

02:29:45.460 was

02:29:46.040 the

02:29:47.880 state

02:29:48.820 is

02:29:49.320 represented

02:29:50.940 in two

02:29:52.700 instances

02:29:53.140 as

02:29:53.540 female 0.86

02:29:53.960 positively

02:29:55.220 and

02:29:55.480 negatively

02:29:55.840 and

02:29:56.180 I

02:29:56.300 was

02:29:56.420 wondering

02:29:56.580 if

02:29:56.740 you

02:29:56.840 had

02:29:56.980 any

02:29:57.120 thoughts

02:29:57.360 on

02:29:57.560 that

02:29:57.840 in

02:29:58.400 the

02:29:58.520 context

02:29:58.940 of

02:29:59.320 like

02:29:59.840 in

02:29:59.960 maps

02:30:00.180 of

02:30:00.320 meaning

02:30:00.520 you

02:30:00.780 often

02:30:01.640 talk

02:30:01.880 about

02:30:02.000 the

02:30:02.120 state

02:30:02.380 just

02:30:02.740 as

02:30:03.140 male

02:30:04.460 or

02:30:05.320 as

02:30:05.440 masculine

02:30:05.820 okay

02:30:08.120 first of

02:30:08.740 all I'm

02:30:09.100 going to

02:30:09.300 comment on

02:30:09.800 your

02:30:09.960 t-shirt

02:30:10.400 that's

02:30:10.760 a

02:30:10.880 lobster

02:30:11.200 hierarchy

02:30:11.740 with

02:30:11.980 Horace

02:30:12.400 at

02:30:12.580 the

02:30:12.700 top

02:30:12.980 isn't

02:30:13.240 it

02:30:13.460 it's

02:30:14.220 even

02:30:14.400 better

02:30:14.660 it's

02:30:15.040 the

02:30:15.500 eye

02:30:15.740 of

02:30:15.860 a

02:30:15.980 lobster

02:30:16.300 it's

02:30:20.200 the

02:30:20.300 best

02:30:20.520 one

02:30:20.760 that

02:30:20.900 we

02:30:21.020 found

02:30:21.360 yeah

02:30:21.880 yeah

02:30:22.200 that's

02:30:22.840 a

02:30:22.920 good

02:30:23.060 one

02:30:23.360 that's

02:30:24.120 a

02:30:24.200 good

02:30:24.300 one

02:30:24.480 that

02:30:24.640 one

02:30:24.780 really

02:30:25.000 cracked

02:30:25.320 me

02:30:25.480 up

02:30:25.640 when

02:30:25.780 I

02:30:25.940 saw

02:30:26.140 it

02:30:26.260 I

02:30:26.340 really

02:30:26.540 thought

02:30:26.740 that

02:30:26.920 was

02:30:27.100 funny

02:30:27.420 man

02:30:27.740 yeah

02:30:28.220 yeah

02:30:29.120 yeah

02:30:29.460 and

02:30:30.640 when

02:30:30.720 my

02:30:30.900 graduate

02:30:31.240 students

02:30:31.680 used

02:30:31.900 to

02:30:32.040 meet

02:30:32.260 when

02:30:32.460 I

02:30:32.620 first

02:30:32.880 talked

02:30:33.480 about

02:30:33.680 this

02:30:33.880 lobster

02:30:34.240 stuff

02:30:34.740 we'd

02:30:35.320 meet

02:30:35.480 for

02:30:35.660 breakfast

02:30:36.100 day

02:30:36.380 and

02:30:36.500 they

02:30:36.600 were

02:30:36.720 a

02:30:36.840 very

02:30:37.000 combative

02:30:37.520 snappy

02:30:38.040 group

02:30:38.380 of

02:30:38.600 graduate

02:30:39.340 students

02:30:39.760 and

02:30:39.900 they

02:30:40.020 were

02:30:40.060 always

02:30:40.200 trying

02:30:40.360 to

02:30:40.480 one

02:30:40.640 up

02:30:40.820 each

02:30:41.160 other

02:30:41.340 with

02:30:41.520 jokes

02:30:41.900 and

02:30:42.140 whenever

02:30:42.700 one

02:30:42.980 really

02:30:43.260 pulled

02:30:43.600 a

02:30:44.020 good

02:30:44.200 joke

02:30:44.460 on

02:30:44.640 another

02:30:44.920 they'd

02:30:45.220 stand

02:30:45.500 up

02:30:45.700 and

02:30:45.860 like

02:30:46.500 it

02:30:50.860 was

02:30:51.000 really

02:30:51.260 it

02:30:51.420 was

02:30:51.560 really

02:30:51.780 funny

02:30:52.160 it

02:30:52.360 was

02:30:52.460 really

02:30:52.660 funny

02:30:52.980 okay

02:30:53.560 let's

02:30:54.940 see

02:30:55.140 can I

02:30:55.940 answer

02:30:56.180 that

02:30:56.400 question

02:30:56.880 you

02:31:03.260 know

02:31:03.400 how

02:31:03.660 if

02:31:03.900 you're

02:31:04.040 looking

02:31:04.280 at

02:31:04.480 a

02:31:04.700 if

02:31:05.380 you

02:31:05.480 look

02:31:05.620 at

02:31:05.700 a

02:31:05.820 room

02:31:06.100 every

02:31:07.920 color

02:31:08.240 that

02:31:08.480 you

02:31:08.640 see

02:31:08.940 is

02:31:09.280 dependent

02:31:09.700 on

02:31:09.940 every

02:31:10.160 other

02:31:10.360 color

02:31:10.600 in

02:31:10.780 the

02:31:10.900 room

02:31:11.120 right

02:31:11.420 your

02:31:11.620 eyes

02:31:11.820 adjust

02:31:12.180 to

02:31:12.320 that

02:31:12.540 so

02:31:12.740 for

02:31:12.900 example

02:31:13.240 if

02:31:13.440 you're

02:31:13.600 in

02:31:13.680 a

02:31:13.800 room

02:31:13.960 bathed

02:31:14.360 with

02:31:14.500 red

02:31:14.760 light

02:31:15.100 your

02:31:15.920 eyes

02:31:16.180 will

02:31:16.400 in

02:31:16.660 some

02:31:16.880 sense

02:31:17.140 remove

02:31:17.580 the

02:31:17.780 red

02:31:18.020 so

02:31:18.200 you

02:31:18.360 can

02:31:18.480 still

02:31:18.720 see

02:31:18.940 the

02:31:19.100 colors

02:31:19.500 okay

02:31:20.800 so

02:31:21.940 your

02:31:22.260 perception

02:31:22.780 is

02:31:23.300 to

02:31:23.420 some

02:31:23.620 degree

02:31:23.940 dependent

02:31:26.840 on

02:31:27.120 context

02:31:28.300 and

02:31:29.120 that's

02:31:29.480 one

02:31:29.620 of

02:31:29.720 the

02:31:29.840 things

02:31:30.060 that

02:31:30.240 makes

02:31:30.520 the

02:31:30.740 symbolic

02:31:31.200 interpretations

02:31:32.560 tricky

02:31:33.200 because

02:31:34.200 to

02:31:35.420 see

02:31:35.640 how

02:31:35.820 something

02:31:36.140 is

02:31:36.320 represented

02:31:36.760 symbolically

02:31:37.380 you

02:31:37.500 actually

02:31:37.740 have

02:31:37.920 to

02:31:38.040 look

02:31:38.240 at

02:31:38.380 the

02:31:38.640 broader

02:31:39.440 narrative

02:31:40.300 context

02:31:41.000 within

02:31:41.280 which

02:31:41.580 the

02:31:41.800 symbols

02:31:42.120 are

02:31:42.500 embedded

02:31:43.340 so

02:31:43.960 for

02:31:44.160 example

02:31:44.640 let's

02:31:45.960 see

02:31:46.100 if

02:31:46.240 I

02:31:46.380 can

02:31:46.560 get

02:31:47.100 this

02:31:47.360 right

02:31:47.980 if

02:31:52.920 the

02:31:53.100 story

02:31:53.680 has

02:31:53.940 an

02:31:54.100 island

02:31:54.360 and

02:31:54.580 an

02:31:54.700 ocean

02:31:55.020 then

02:31:56.360 the

02:31:56.500 ocean

02:31:56.720 is

02:31:56.940 often

02:31:57.260 symbolically

02:31:57.900 feminine

02:31:58.260 and

02:31:58.500 the

02:31:58.640 island

02:31:58.920 is

02:31:59.140 symbolically

02:31:59.620 masculine

02:32:00.040 but

02:32:00.740 if

02:32:00.860 the

02:32:01.000 story

02:32:01.240 is

02:32:01.360 the

02:32:01.480 island

02:32:01.740 and

02:32:01.920 the

02:32:02.060 sky

02:32:02.460 then

02:32:03.300 the

02:32:03.460 island

02:32:03.720 often

02:32:04.340 becomes

02:32:04.720 symbolically

02:32:05.240 masculine

02:32:05.680 and

02:32:05.940 feminine

02:32:06.620 and

02:32:06.880 the

02:32:07.040 sky

02:32:07.280 is

02:32:07.440 symbolically

02:32:07.880 masculine

02:32:08.360 and

02:32:08.960 you

02:32:09.040 might

02:32:09.180 think

02:32:09.360 well

02:32:09.480 how

02:32:09.620 can

02:32:09.800 the

02:32:09.960 island

02:32:10.220 be

02:32:10.420 masculine

02:32:10.900 and

02:32:11.340 feminine

02:32:11.640 at

02:32:11.880 the

02:32:12.020 same

02:32:12.220 time

02:32:12.580 and

02:32:13.060 the

02:32:13.140 answer

02:32:13.400 is

02:32:13.640 well

02:32:13.980 it

02:32:14.060 depends

02:32:14.360 on

02:32:14.560 what

02:32:14.800 what

02:32:15.040 it's

02:32:15.240 being

02:32:15.440 contrasted

02:32:16.420 with

02:32:16.680 and

02:32:17.020 why

02:32:17.540 and

02:32:18.540 so

02:32:18.680 that's

02:32:18.960 part

02:32:19.180 of

02:32:19.260 the

02:32:19.380 key

02:32:19.620 to

02:32:19.840 the

02:32:20.100 change

02:32:20.800 in

02:32:21.000 symbolism

02:32:21.440 in

02:32:21.700 the

02:32:21.800 book

02:32:21.960 of

02:32:22.100 revelation

02:32:22.560 and

02:32:23.640 so

02:32:23.760 it

02:32:23.880 isn't

02:32:24.120 inevitably

02:32:24.760 the

02:32:25.080 case

02:32:25.420 that

02:32:25.860 culture

02:32:27.100 is

02:32:27.420 represented

02:32:28.060 with

02:32:28.820 the

02:32:28.960 patriarchal

02:32:29.640 symbolism

02:32:30.120 but

02:32:30.640 it's

02:32:30.820 most

02:32:31.260 commonly

02:32:31.820 the

02:32:32.120 case

02:32:32.480 so

02:32:33.460 you

02:32:33.660 know

02:32:33.740 there

02:32:33.920 is

02:32:34.100 mother

02:32:34.420 russia

02:32:34.860 for

02:32:35.120 example

02:32:35.540 I

02:32:36.020 guess

02:32:36.140 it

02:32:36.240 would

02:32:36.360 depend

02:32:36.620 to

02:32:36.760 some

02:32:36.920 degree

02:32:37.180 too

02:32:37.380 on

02:32:37.580 what

02:32:38.140 your

02:32:38.340 metaphor

02:32:38.820 is

02:32:39.220 for

02:32:39.380 the

02:32:39.540 state

02:32:39.920 because

02:32:40.260 the

02:32:40.460 state

02:32:41.060 can

02:32:41.380 be

02:32:41.560 an

02:32:41.700 all

02:32:41.940 providing

02:32:42.500 mother

02:32:42.900 or

02:32:44.140 it

02:32:44.280 can

02:32:44.400 be

02:32:44.600 a

02:32:44.920 judgmental

02:32:46.060 father

02:32:46.880 and

02:32:48.040 it

02:32:48.760 seems

02:32:49.440 that

02:32:49.640 we

02:32:49.800 tilt

02:32:50.220 more

02:32:50.600 towards

02:32:51.060 the

02:32:51.300 father

02:32:51.760 with

02:32:52.160 regards

02:32:52.500 to

02:32:52.760 terminology

02:32:53.380 relating

02:32:54.420 to

02:32:54.600 the

02:32:54.760 state

02:32:55.040 and

02:32:55.220 I

02:32:55.360 think

02:32:55.680 the

02:32:55.900 reason

02:32:56.140 for

02:32:56.340 that

02:32:56.620 is

02:32:57.220 because

02:32:57.620 I

02:32:58.320 think

02:32:58.560 human

02:32:59.000 hierarchies

02:33:00.140 like 0.72

02:33:00.720 chimp

02:33:01.140 hierarchies

02:33:01.920 are

02:33:02.400 fundamentally

02:33:03.260 masculine

02:33:03.980 the

02:33:04.660 fundamental

02:33:05.220 hierarchy

02:33:05.740 is

02:33:05.900 masculine

02:33:06.260 even

02:33:06.780 with

02:33:07.020 chimps

02:33:07.380 there's

02:33:07.580 a

02:33:07.700 female 0.86

02:33:07.980 hierarchy

02:33:08.460 but

02:33:08.700 it's

02:33:09.180 like

02:33:09.320 the

02:33:09.480 female 0.86

02:33:09.780 hierarchy

02:33:10.240 is

02:33:11.060 nested

02:33:12.280 within

02:33:12.520 the

02:33:12.680 male

02:33:12.880 hierarchy

02:33:13.280 it's

02:33:13.620 not

02:33:13.760 the

02:33:13.920 case

02:33:14.120 with

02:33:14.300 bonobos

02:33:14.840 exactly

02:33:15.320 but

02:33:15.580 I

02:33:16.000 think

02:33:16.140 it

02:33:16.240 is

02:33:16.360 the

02:33:16.500 case

02:33:16.700 with

02:33:16.860 human

02:33:17.080 beings

02:33:17.520 and

02:33:18.180 so

02:33:18.300 I

02:33:18.420 think

02:33:18.540 we

02:33:18.660 have

02:33:18.760 a

02:33:18.860 strong

02:33:19.100 proclivity

02:33:19.660 to

02:33:20.020 masculinize

02:33:21.280 the

02:33:21.500 state

02:33:21.920 but

02:33:22.840 that

02:33:23.000 doesn't

02:33:23.260 mean

02:33:23.400 there

02:33:23.540 aren't

02:33:23.720 exceptions

02:33:24.220 and

02:33:24.820 symbolic

02:33:25.400 representations

02:33:26.720 are very

02:33:27.160 slippery

02:33:27.500 that way

02:33:27.980 because

02:33:28.340 you

02:33:28.800 can't

02:33:29.840 stamp

02:33:30.640 an

02:33:32.300 entity

02:33:32.660 with a

02:33:33.100 symbol

02:33:33.360 because

02:33:33.640 that

02:33:33.860 would

02:33:33.980 be

02:33:34.100 the

02:33:34.280 same

02:33:34.460 as

02:33:34.580 just

02:33:34.800 giving

02:33:35.060 it

02:33:35.200 a

02:33:35.340 name

02:33:35.720 right

02:33:36.540 and

02:33:37.340 you

02:33:37.520 can't

02:33:37.740 have

02:33:37.880 a

02:33:38.040 dictionary

02:33:38.400 of

02:33:38.800 symbols

02:33:39.240 where

02:33:39.720 you

02:33:39.900 say

02:33:40.100 well

02:33:40.340 you

02:33:40.780 know

02:33:40.960 a

02:33:41.320 house

02:33:41.580 always

02:33:41.900 means

02:33:42.200 the

02:33:42.420 psyche

02:33:42.780 it's

02:33:43.180 like

02:33:43.360 no

02:33:43.720 sometimes

02:33:44.500 the

02:33:44.680 house

02:33:44.880 means

02:33:45.120 the

02:33:45.300 psyche

02:33:45.560 but

02:33:46.000 it

02:33:46.100 depends

02:33:46.440 on

02:33:46.640 the

02:33:46.820 story

02:33:47.260 and

02:33:48.040 so

02:33:48.340 you

02:33:49.340 have

02:33:49.560 to

02:33:49.700 take

02:33:50.000 the

02:33:50.320 entire

02:33:51.420 structure

02:33:51.900 of the

02:33:52.180 narrative

02:33:52.480 into

02:33:52.800 account

02:33:53.240 to

02:33:53.720 determine

02:33:54.200 why

02:33:55.120 those

02:33:55.420 particular

02:33:55.820 symbolic

02:33:56.300 representations

02:33:57.020 are

02:33:57.260 being

02:33:57.480 used

02:33:57.780 what

02:33:58.880 I

02:33:59.000 offered

02:33:59.240 in

02:33:59.400 Maps

02:33:59.620 of

02:33:59.740 meaning

02:33:59.900 was

02:34:00.080 kind

02:34:00.280 of

02:34:00.360 a

02:34:00.500 shorthand

02:34:01.120 you

02:34:01.540 know

02:34:01.720 generally

02:34:02.620 speaking

02:34:03.180 there's

02:34:03.720 nature

02:34:04.180 positive

02:34:04.920 and

02:34:05.080 negative

02:34:05.360 usually

02:34:05.860 feminine

02:34:06.300 generally

02:34:07.040 speaking

02:34:07.480 there's

02:34:07.760 culture

02:34:08.140 positive

02:34:08.620 and

02:34:08.800 negative

02:34:09.100 usually

02:34:09.780 masculine

02:34:10.340 and

02:34:11.020 generally

02:34:11.400 speaking

02:34:11.820 there's

02:34:12.080 the

02:34:12.220 individual

02:34:12.760 good

02:34:13.840 and

02:34:14.020 evil

02:34:14.360 right

02:34:14.660 heroic

02:34:15.100 and

02:34:15.300 adversarial

02:34:15.920 often

02:34:16.780 typically

02:34:17.380 represented

02:34:17.960 as

02:34:18.240 masculine

02:34:18.680 especially

02:34:19.200 in adventure

02:34:19.740 stories

02:34:20.260 but

02:34:21.280 it's

02:34:22.700 a schema

02:34:23.260 and it's

02:34:24.080 an interpretive

02:34:24.720 guide

02:34:25.060 and not

02:34:25.460 a set

02:34:26.200 of hard

02:34:26.600 and fast

02:34:27.020 rules

02:34:27.420 because

02:34:27.740 you're in

02:34:28.080 the domain

02:34:28.500 of metaphor

02:34:29.020 and it's

02:34:29.500 a

02:34:29.660 it's

02:34:30.160 a slippery

02:34:30.540 domain

02:34:31.000 so

02:34:32.220 do you

02:34:32.960 have any

02:34:33.180 luck

02:34:33.340 figuring out

02:34:33.760 your dream

02:34:34.200 sorry

02:34:36.540 did you

02:34:36.960 have any

02:34:37.260 luck

02:34:37.460 figuring out

02:34:37.940 your dream

02:34:38.480 at least

02:34:41.660 in some

02:34:42.320 parts

02:34:43.020 I think

02:34:44.240 there's

02:34:44.720 different

02:34:45.640 levels

02:34:46.020 of analysis

02:34:46.620 I mean

02:34:49.240 one was

02:34:49.640 pretty obvious

02:34:50.300 yeah

02:34:50.700 all right

02:34:51.880 all right

02:34:52.500 well thank you

02:34:52.960 very much

02:34:53.380 everyone

02:34:53.760 applause

02:34:55.460 good

02:34:56.800 good

02:35:14.220 oh

02:35:14.380 Thank you.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - September 04, 2017

Sodom and Gomorrah

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