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[Assistant] They were both too big to be so freakish. She made up her mind that in the near future she'd have to poison one of them. The other could go a little later. If Porky just had to have a freakish dog, she'd get him a small poodle and train it. Smokey brought out the tiny bags and held them out to the men. They accepted them because there was nothing else they could do. Porky went back into the bedroom and continued dressing. A little later Big Ed came into the bedroom.


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[Assistant] Dave got the car from Porky, he said. He had daddy, Smokey said, holding on his cashmere overcoat.


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[Assistant] I hate to leave them niggas here, Ed.


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[Assistant] Bear might try and get mean when he finds out ain't nobody here but Gigi and Smokey. He glanced at his watch. We still got 15 minutes. We'll wait until they leave or put them out before we go.


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[Assistant] When they went into the living room, Lenny was having trouble hitting in the neck, but Bayer finally caught the vein for him. After shooting the dope, they got up to leave.


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[Assistant] Porky and Big Ed followed them out of the apartment and down the steps. The men didn't bother to speak to each other as each group went its way out on the street. Bear and Lenny piled into Teddy's car.


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[Assistant] You think he's going to cop now?


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[Assistant] The question went unanswered, as the men wondered to themselves if that was what Porky was on his way to do.


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[Assistant] Why don't you follow him for a few minutes? Bear asked on the spur of the moment. The big caddy leaped away from the curb. The men in it were not aware of the smaller car that pulled out more slowly in their wake.


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[Assistant] I won't be but a few minutes, he said, as he lifted his huge weight out of the car. Big Ed and Dave remained quiet as he got out. They knew he was going to make the payoff. He did it every month. The only thing that varied was the place where they dropped him off. He never went to the same spot twice.


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[Assistant] They watched Porky as he waddled down the street. Two Occupy did notice the car, with Teddy driving, go slowly past. When they saw Porky get out of the car by himself, Bear shouted with joy. He's going to cop, he yelled. Man, he's really on his way to cop. He turned to Lenny. Let's take the fat son of a bitch off now. This was something Teddy hadn't figured on. Robbing Porky had never entered his mind really. He sat shaking with fear.


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[Assistant] Hoping that Lenny would refuse.


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[Assistant] Should we wait until after the fat bastard cops or should we rip him off now while he's got the cash on him? The question was a two-bladed one. Either way was trouble. I don't know. Teddy answered truthfully. Well, I know. Bear answered quickly. Catch up with him, he ordered in a voice that would tolerate no refusal. Teddy turned the corner behind Porky. Bear watched Big Ed and Dave closely as they turned. I don't think they even see us.


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[Assistant] Park behind that car up there, he ordered, pointing at a car in front of Porky.


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[Assistant] Duck Lenny? He yelled as they went past the fat man.


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[Assistant] He continued on his way, hoping to get far enough away so that Teddy wouldn't see whose car he got into.


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[Assistant] His heart leaped, and fear choked his mouth and throat.


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[Assistant] He asked, as he pulled a large bankroll from Porky's pocket. We ain't got time for games, Porky. Porky could feel his legs giving out from under him. He wondered if he could stand without their aid. In his heart, he knew he was a coward. His huge size meant nothing.


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[Assistant] Any amount of exertion was enough to cause him pain and loss of breath.


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[Assistant] Even now, he could feel his breathing becoming shallow. It was pure terror that leaped from his eyes.


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[Assistant] He glanced up and down the street praying to catch sight of the detectives.


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[Assistant] Bear swung his fist into Porky's stomach. A hard, short blow. Porky grunted as though someone had let out all his wind. The rest of the money, Porky!


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[Assistant] Bear growled angrily, We want that money you was going to use to cop with!


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[Assistant] Hastily, Porky fumbled under his coat and drew out the envelope containing the detective's $1,000. He shoved the money at them. That's it, he cried. Take it, but please, just leave me alone. Lenny grabbed the envelope and glanced in it. He could see the $100 bills. This is it, he yelled excitedly. We got it. Lenny jumped back into the car. Come on, Bear, we got it.


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[Assistant] Bear didn't bother to answer. His fists began to move viciously.


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[Assistant] His punches rained down on Porky until the fat man fell down on his knees. Then Bear kicked him viciously against the head. As Porky fell at his feet, Bear took his knife and bent down and stabbed him twice in the fat of his shoulder.


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[Assistant] As he watched, Teddy saw the knife plunge down. Don't kill him! He screamed in panic. Quickly, he started the motor of the car.


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[Assistant] Oh my God! Porky screamed, then started to shriek at the top of his voice. He sounded like a woman as his voice became shrill.


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[Assistant] Looks like somebody done worked old Porky over.


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[Assistant] He glanced up and down the street, afraid the men would come back.


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[Assistant] I'm going to need some help, the detective called as he staggered under the load of porky. The other officer got out of the car.


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[Assistant] Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, written by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D., read by Sen. Naomi Kier Schultz. This is Chapter 1, Part 1. We're all multiple.


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[Assistant] We were all raised in what I'll call the monomind belief system. The idea that you have one mind out of which different thoughts and emotions and impulses and urges emanate.


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[Assistant] That's the paradigm I believed in too, until I kept encountering clients who taught me otherwise.


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[Assistant] Because the mono-mind view is so ubiquitous and assumed in our culture, we never really question the truth of it. I want to help you take a look, a second look, at who you really are.


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[Assistant] I'm going to invite you to try on this different paradigm of multiplicity that IFS espouses, and consider the possibility that you and everyone else is a multiple personality. And that is a good thing.


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[Assistant] I'm not suggesting that you have multiple personality disorder now called dissociative identity disorder.


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[Assistant] Or DID, but I do think that people with that diagnosis are not so different from everybody else.


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[Assistant] What are called alters in those people are the same as what I call parts in IFS, and they exist in all of us.


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[Assistant] The only difference is that people with dissociative identity disorder suffered horrible abuse and their system of parts got blown apart more than most so that each part stands out in bolder relief and is more polarized and disconnected from the others.


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[Assistant] In other words, all of us are born with many sub-minds that are constantly interacting inside of us.


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[Assistant] This, in general, is what we call thinking because the parts are talking to each other, and to you constantly about things you have to do or debating the best course of action and so on.


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[Assistant] Remembering a time when you faced a dilemma, it's likely you heard one part saying, And another saying,


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[Assistant] Because we consider that to be a matter of having conflicted thoughts, we don't pay attention to the inner players behind the debate. IFS helps you.


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[Assistant] Not only start to pay attention to them, but also become the active internal leader that your system of parts needs.


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[Assistant] While it may sound creepy or crazy at first to think of yourself as a multiple personality, I hope to convince you that it's actually quite empowering.


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[Assistant] It's only disturbing because multiplicity has been pathologized in our culture.


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[Assistant] A person with separate autonomous personalities is viewed as sick or damaged, and the existence of their alters is considered simply the product of trauma, the fragmentation of their previously unitary mind.


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[Assistant] From the mono-mind point of view, our natural condition is a unitary mind.


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[Assistant] Unless, of course, trauma comes along and shatters it into pieces, like shards of a vase.


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[Assistant] The mono-mind paradigm has caused us to fear our parts and view them as pathological.


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[Assistant] In our attempts to control what we consider to be disturbing thoughts and emotions,


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[Assistant] We just end up fighting, ignoring, disciplining, hiding, or feeling ashamed of those impulses that keep us from doing what we want to do in our lives. And then we shame ourselves for not being able to control them.


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[Assistant] This approach makes sense if you view these inner obstacles as merely irrational thoughts or extreme emotions that come from your unitary mind. If you fear giving a presentation, for example, you might try to use willpower to override the fear or correct it with rational thoughts.


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[Assistant] If the fear persists you might escalate your attempts to control by criticizing yourself for being a coward, numbing yourself into oblivion, or meditating to climb above it.


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[Assistant] And when none of those approaches work, you wind up adapting your life to the fear, avoiding situations where you have to speak in public, feeling like a failure, and wondering what's wrong with you.


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[Assistant] To make matters worse, you go to a therapist who gives you a diagnosis for your one troubled mind.


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[Assistant] The diagnosis makes you feel defective, your self-esteem drops, and your feelings of shame lead you to attempt to hide any flaws and present a perfect image to the world.


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[Assistant] Or maybe you just withdraw from relationships for fear that people will see behind your mask and will judge you for it.


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[Assistant] You identify with your weaknesses, assuming that who you really are is defective, and that if other people saw the real you, they'd be repulsed.


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[Assistant] It was this other thing that started to happen to me. When I looked in their eyes sometimes there was a little voice in my head wondering.


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[Assistant] The mono-mind perspective, in combination with scientific and religious theories about how primitive human impulses are,


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[Assistant] Created this backdrop of inner polarizations.


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[Assistant] One telling example comes from the influential Christian theologian, John Calvin.


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[Assistant] For our nature is not only so utterly devoid of goodness, but so prolific in all kinds of evil that it can never be idle.


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[Assistant] The whole man, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, is so deluged, as it were, that no part remains exempt from sin, and therefore everything which proceeds from him is imputed as sin."


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[Assistant] This is known as the doctrine of total depravity, which insists that only through the grace of God can we escape our fate of eternal damnation.


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[Assistant] Mainstream Protestantism and Evangelicalism have carried some version of this doctrine for several hundred years, and the cultural impact has been widespread. With quote-unquote, original sin, Catholicism has its own version.


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[Assistant] We can't blame this sort of thinking solely on religion, however.


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[Assistant] Generations of philosophers and politicians have asserted that primal impulses lurk just beneath the civilized veneer we present to the world.


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[Assistant] Well, Freud contributed important insights regarding the psyche.


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[Assistant] Many of which are compatible with IFS, his drive theory.


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[Assistant] Was highly influential and pessimistic about human nature.


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[Assistant] It asserted that beneath the mind's surface lies selfish, aggressive, and pleasure-seeking instinctual forces that unconsciously organize our lives. Dutch historian Rutger Bregman summarizes these underlying assumptions about human nature here.


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[Assistant] The emphasis on willpower and self-control permeates American culture. We think we should be able to discipline our primitive, impulsive, sinful minds through willpower. Countless self-help books tell us it's all a matter


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[Assistant] Of boosting our ability to control ourselves and develop more discipline.


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[Assistant] The concept of willpower too has historical roots.


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[Assistant] Namely, in the Victorian era with its Christian emphasis on resisting evil impulses.


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[Assistant] The idea of taking responsibility for oneself and not making excuses is as American as apple pie.


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[Assistant] Sadly, our worship of willpower has been used by politicians and pundits to justify increasing levels of income disparity.


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[Assistant] We're taught that people are poor because they lack self-control, and that rich people are wealthy because they have it, despite research to the contrary.


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[Assistant] Studies show, for example, that lower income people become empowered and productive once they are given enough money to cover their basic survival needs. However, the very real fact


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[Assistant] Especially considering the economic effects of the current pandemic.


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[Assistant] Is that the rug could be pulled out from under most of us at any moment, and that threat keeps the survivalist parts of us humming.


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[Assistant] Because this willpower ethic has become internalized, we learn at an early age to shame and manhandle our unruly parts. We simply wrestle them into submission.


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[Assistant] One part is recruited by this cultural imperative to become our inner drill sergeant and often becomes that nasty inner critic we love to hate.


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[Assistant] This is the voice that tries to shame us or attempts to outright get rid of parts of us that seem shame-worthy. The ones that give us nasty thoughts about people, for example, or keep us addicted to substances.


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[Assistant] We often find that the harder we try to get rid of emotions and thoughts, the stronger they become.


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[Assistant] This is because parts, like people, fight back against being shamed or exiled. And if we do succeed in dominating them with punitive self-discipline, we then become tyrannized by the rigid controlling inner drill sergeant.


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[Assistant] We might be disciplined, but we're not much fun. And because the exiled, binging, raging, hypersexual, etc. parts will seize any momentary weakness to break out again and take over,


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[Assistant] We have to constantly be on guard against any people or situations that might trigger those parts.


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[Assistant] Jonathan Van Ness tried and failed at drug rehab several times.


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[Assistant] growing up around so much 12 step and seeing so much abstinence preached in rehab and in church I started to take on an idea that healing had to be all or nothing


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[Assistant] Which has really not been my truth. I was trying to untangle sexual abuse, drug abuse, and PTSD, and it was something that for me wasn't conducive to a never, ever smoking weed again approach.


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[Assistant] I don't believe that once an addict, always an addict.


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[Assistant] I don't believe that addiction is a disease that warrants a life sentence. If you ever mess up or can't string a couple of months together without a slip-up, you're not ruined, unquote.


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[Assistant] There are 12-step approaches that aren't so locked into the rigid beliefs that Van Ness encountered, and the groups can be a wonderful context for people to be vulnerable and receive support.


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[Assistant] Also, the 12-step admonition to give everything up to a higher power can often help inner drill instructors lighten up or even surrender.


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[Assistant] The larger point I want to make here is that any approach that increases your inner drill sergeant's impulse to shame you into behaving, and make you feel like a failure if you can't, will do no better


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[Assistant] In internal families than it does in external ones in which parents adopt shaming tactics to control their children.


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[Assistant] Don't think that this critique of willpower reveals that there's no room for inner discipline in IFS. Like children in external families, we each have parts that want things that aren't good for them.


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[Assistant] And use the part's impulse as a trailhead to find what is driving it that needs to be healed.


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[Assistant] The mono-mind paradigm can easily lead us to fear or hate ourselves because we believe we have only one mind.


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[Assistant] Full of primitive or sinful aspects that we can't control.


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[Assistant] We get tied up in knots as we desperately try to, and we generate brutal inner critics who attack us for our failings.


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[Assistant] As Van Ness notes, quote, I spent so much time pushing little Jack aside. Instead of nurturing him, I tore him to pieces. Learning to parent yourself with soothing, compassionate love. That's the key to being fulfilled. Unquote.


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[Assistant] Since most psychotherapies and spiritual practices subscribe to this mono-mind view, their solutions often reinforce this approach by suggesting we should correct irrational beliefs or meditate them away, because those beliefs are seen as obstacles emanating from our one mind.


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[Assistant] Many approaches to meditation, for example, view thoughts as pests, and the ego as a hindrance or annoyance, and practitioners are given instructions to either ignore or transcend them.


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[Assistant] In some Hindu traditions, the ego is viewed as working for the god Maya, whose goal is to keep us striving for material things or hedonistic pleasures. She is considered the enemy, a temptress much like the Christian Satan, who keeps us attached to the external world of illusion.


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[Assistant] Buddhist teachings use the term monkey mind to describe how our thoughts jump around in our consciousness like an agitated monkey.


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[Assistant] As Ralph de la Rosa notes in The Monkey is the Messenger, quote,


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[Assistant] Is it any wonder that the monkey mind is the scourge of meditators across the globe?


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[Assistant] For those trying to find respite in contemplative practice.


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[Assistant] Thoughts are often regarded as an irritating nuisance, a primitive agitator sneaking in through the side door


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[Assistant] In meditation circles, some unintended consequences of the monkey metaphor prevail.


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[Assistant] That the thinking mind is a dirty, primitive, lower life form of no real value to us. It's just a bunch of garbage on repeat. Unquote.


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[Assistant] De La Rosa is one of a number of recent authors who challenge the common practice in spirituality of vilifying the ego.


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[Assistant] Nasty, super, unspiritual, ignorant little person living inside.


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[Assistant] And causes us to act in really unevolved ways creating unending messes in our lives and getting in the way of our progress on the path. It is something to be horribly ashamed of.


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[Assistant] And the more spiritual we are, the more we will strive to


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[Assistant] Get rid of it. Transcend it, or enter into imaginary spiritual wars with it.


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[Assistant] If we look carefully, we may see that if the ego is anything, it is likely those very voices that are yelling at us to get rid of it. Unquote.


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[Assistant] The collection of parts that these traditions call the ego are protectors who are simply trying to keep us safe and are reacting to and containing other parts that carry emotions and memories from past traumas that we have locked away inside.


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[Assistant] Later, we'll look more closely at some of the ways people practice spiritual bypassing, a phrase coined by John Wellwood in the 1980s.


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[Assistant] Jeff Brown explores the phenomenon in depth in his film, Carmageddon.


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[Assistant] In fact, one central message in the canonical story of the Buddha's awakening is that thoughts and desires are the primary obstacles to enlightenment.


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[Assistant] As he sat in meditation beneath the Bodhi Tree, the Buddha was assaulted by a series of impulses and urges, lust, desire, fulfillment, regret, fear, insecurity, and so on, and it was only by ignoring or resisting them that he was able to attain enlightenment.


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[Assistant] That being said, the ubiquitous Buddhist-derived practices of mindfulness are a step in the right direction. They enable the practitioner to observe thoughts and emotions from a distance and from a place of acceptance rather than fighting or ignoring them. For me, that's a good first step. Mindfulness is not always pleasant, however.


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[Assistant] Researchers who interviewed experienced meditators found that substantial percentages of them had disturbing episodes that sometimes were long-lasting. The most common of those included emotions like fear, anxiety, paranoia, detachment, and reliving traumatic memories.


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[Assistant] From the IFS point of view, the quieting of the mind associated with mindfulness happens when the parts of us usually running our lives, our egos,


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[Assistant] Relax, which then allows parts we have tried to bury, exiles to ascend.


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[Assistant] Bringing with them the emotions, beliefs and memories they carry. Burdens. That got them locked away in the first place.


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[Assistant] Most of the mindfulness approaches I'm familiar with subscribe to the mono-mind paradigm and consequently view such episodes as the temporary emergence of troubling thoughts and emotions rather than as hurting parts that need to be listened to and loved.


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[Assistant] Why would you want to converse with thoughts and emotions? They can't talk back can they?


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[Assistant] I started out like everybody else thinking the mind is unitary and I trained as a family therapist for years. In fact, I have a PhD in the field.


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[Assistant] As family therapists, we didn't pay much attention to the mind at all. We thought the therapists who mucked around in that inner world were wasting their time because we could change all that simply by changing external relationships. The only problem was the approach didn't work.


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[Assistant] I did an outcome study with bulimic clients and discovered with alarm that they kept binging and purging, not realizing they'd been cured.


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[Assistant] When I asked them why, they started talking about these different parts of them. They talked about these parts as if they had a lot of autonomy. As if they could take over and make them do things they didn't want to do.


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[Assistant] At first, I was scared that I was looking at an outbreak of multiple personality disorder, but


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[Assistant] Then I started listening inside myself, and I was shocked to find that I had parts too.


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[Assistant] So I started getting curious. I asked the clients to describe their parts, which they were able to do in great detail.


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[Assistant] Not only that, but they depicted how these parts interacted with each other and had relationships. Some fought, some formed alliances, and some protected others. Over time, it dawned on me that I was learning about a kind of inner system, not unlike the quote-unquote external families I was working with. Hence the name. Internal Family Systems.


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[Assistant] For example, clients would talk about an inner critic who when they made a mistake attacked them mercilessly.


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[Assistant] That attack would trigger a part that felt totally bereft, lonely, empty, and worthless.


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[Assistant] Experiencing that worthless part was so distressing that almost to the rescue would come the binge that would take clients out of their body and turn them into an unfeeling eating machine.


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[Assistant] Then, the critic would attack them for the binge which re-triggered the worthlessness and they found themselves caught in these terrible circles for days on end.


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[Assistant] At first, I tried to get clients to relate to these parts in a way that would shut them out or get them to stop. For example, I suggested ignoring the critical part or arguing with it.


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[Assistant] This approach just made things worse, but I didn't know what else to do than encourage them to fight harder to win their inner battles.


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[Assistant] I had one client who had a part that made her cut her wrists. Well, I couldn't stand for that. My client and I badgered the part in one session for a couple of hours until it agreed. Until it agreed not to cut her wrists anymore.


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[Assistant] I left that session feeling drained but satisfied that we had won the battle.


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[Assistant] I opened the door to our next session and my client had a big gash across her face. I collapsed.


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[Assistant] Emotionally, at that point, and spontaneously said, I give up, I can't beat you at this. And the part shifted too, and said, I don't really want to beat you.


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[Assistant] That was a turning point in the history of this work because I moved out of that controlling place and took on a more curious approach. Why do you do this to her?


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[Assistant] The part proceeded to talk about how it had needed to get my client out of her body when she was being abused and control the rage that would only result in more abuse. I shifted again and conveyed an appreciation for the heroic role it played in her life. The part broke into tears.


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[Assistant] Everyone had demonized it and tried to get rid of it. This was the first time it had the chance to tell its story.


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[Assistant] I told the part that it made total sense that it had to do that to save the woman's life in the past, but why did it still have to cut her now?


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[Assistant] It spoke of having to protect other highly vulnerable parts of her and it had to control the rage that was still there.


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[Assistant] As it talked about all of that, it became clear to me that the cutting part wasn't living in the present.


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[Assistant] It seemed frozen in those abuse scenes and believed that my client was still a child and in grave danger, even though she wasn't anymore.


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[Assistant] It began to dawn on me that maybe these parts aren't what they seem.


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[Assistant] Maybe, like children and dysfunctional families, they are forced out of their natural, valuable states into roles that sometimes can be destructive, but are, they think, necessary to protect the person or the system they are in.


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[Assistant] So I started trying to help my clients listen to their troublesome parts rather than fight them, and was astounded to find that their parts all had similar stories to tell of how they had to take on protective roles at some point in the person's past.


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[Assistant] Often roles that they hated, but felt were needed to save the client.


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[Assistant] When I asked these protective parts what they'd rather do if they trusted they didn't have to protect,


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[Assistant] They often wanted to do something opposite of the role they were in.


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[Assistant] Inner critics wanted to become cheerleaders or sage advisors.


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[Assistant] Extreme caretakers wanted to help set boundaries.


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[Assistant] rageful parts wanted to help with discerning who was safe. It seemed that not only were parts not what they seemed,


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[Assistant] But also they each had qualities and resources to bring to the client's life.


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[Assistant] That were not available while they were tied up in the protective roles.


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[Assistant] Now, several decades and thousands of clients later, and thousands of therapists doing IFS around the world, I can safely say that this is true of parts.


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[Assistant] They can become quite extreme and do a lot of damage in a person's life. But there aren't any that are inherently bad.


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[Assistant] Even the ones that make bulimics binge or anorexics starve or make people want to kill themselves or murder people. Even those parts when approached from this mindful place. This respectful, open, curious place.


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[Assistant] will reveal the secret history of how they were forced into the role they're in and how they're stuck in that role terrified that if they don't do it, something dreadful will happen.


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[Assistant] And that they're frozen in the past during the traumatic times when they had to take on the role.


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[Assistant] Let's pause here to explore the spiritual implications of this discovery. Basically, what I found is that love is the answer in the inner world, just as it is in the outer world.


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[Assistant] Listening to, embracing, and loving parts allows them to heal and transform as much as it does for people.


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[Assistant] In Buddhist terms, IFS helps people become bodhisattvas of their psyches in the sense of helping each inner sentient being, part, become enlightened through compassion and love. Or, through a Christian lens, through IFS, people wind up doing in the inner world what Jesus did in the outer. They go to inner exiles and enemies with love.


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[Assistant] Heal them and bring them home, just as he did with the lepers, the poor, and the outcasts.


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[Assistant] The big conclusion here is that parts are not what they have been commonly thought to be. They are not cognitive adaptations or sinful impulses. Instead, parts are sacred, spiritual beings and they deserve to be treated as such.


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[Assistant] This has been part one of chapter one of No Bad Parts, Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, written by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD.


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[Assistant] Read by Sen Naomi Kier Schultz. Stay tuned for part 2.


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[Assistant] He also told me that he saw you killed by a Jap at the Old Mill Hot Springs. You don't look very dead to me.


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[Assistant] She certainly doesn't want me. Or the boy.


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[Assistant] I guess I'll have to have him adopted. I can't look after him, I know that.


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[Assistant] If he isn't guilty. Oh. Why did he run? He hasn't got a black eye.


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[Assistant] Emily, I'm a super, super fan of yours. I love how you write. I love your music. I love your voice. I love your style. I love your energy. I love who you are as a human. And you know, I even covered one of your songs, Ocean Eyes. I know!


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[Assistant] You know, I couldn't figure it out, it was totally trippy, uhm, so I think I felt probably close to how you feel, you know, sorta nervous, really excited, a little bit of like that protection mechanism that you just wanna like kinda protect yourself in some strange way, you know.


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[Assistant] But basically there are certain activities that are done regularly in various traditions. So what are rituals, what is their significance and what


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[Assistant] What has happened as society has progressed or developed or modernized in terms of rituals?


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[Assistant] And what do, what do we in the bhakti tradition offer to modernity, offer to people today?


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[Assistant] So for example, if the national anthem is being sung.


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[Assistant] And like you talked about, the Republic Day Parade.


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[Assistant] But not only patriotism but also respect for one's country or...


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[Assistant] Confidence about one country's defense capacity or whatever. If that emotion is to be triggered, the appropriate externals are required.


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[Assistant] So now those specific externals may be different in different situations.


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[Assistant] And rituals in many ways serve that purpose.


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[Assistant] Now if I have the external but not the internal, then what I have is hypocrisy.


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[Assistant] Can you explain that? How come hypocrisy? Hypocrisy means somebody is pretending to be okay. So from their side, it's hypocrisy. From my side, it's, uh, I get cheated. Correct. Oh, the word would be not so much hypocrisy. It would be deception. I'll be deceived. Yeah. Deception.


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[Assistant] Okay, so if you put this this way, then, then, so if there are no rituals in society, then people just don't know what to expect.


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[Assistant] Now they don't know whether they should shake hands with a monk or they should fold their hands or what should they do. So if there is no guidance,


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[Assistant] So it's uh, it's just anarchic if there is no structure in society for interactions.


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[Assistant] So now when we want to shake hands, the idea is we want to express some cordiality, some friendliness, just a gritty. So the shaking hand is a ritual.


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[Assistant] But if we have no shared rituals, then we just don't know what to do.


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[Assistant] Now somebody might be shaking hands, but in their mind they are thinking that the first opportunity I am going to backstab this person. Then is deception.


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[Assistant] So this is more in terms of time and transition through time, but there are rites of passage and they are meant to symbolize things. Psychologists have found one interesting thing that, you know, we humans,


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[Assistant] Need symbols as anchors for thought, anchors for emotions, anchors for memory.


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[Assistant] Do I remember its national anthem? Do I remember the father of the khan nation? Or what do I remember? We need something tangible to be, are you there? Yeaah. So we need something tangible, so in one sense rituals link the


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[Assistant] Rituals can refer to at one level manners when I talked about it initially.


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[Assistant] There are religious practices, that's the most common word people associate with. And there are, we could say...


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[Assistant] Okay, we could put it this way. Interpersonal manners.


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[Assistant] If you want to take it further, this is. So all of these can be rituals.


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[Assistant] In modern times, as rituals, as far as some basic manners, that is still there in society today.


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[Assistant] How do we greet each other? We might shake hands. Some people might hug each other. Some people might bow from their waist. So whatever.


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[Assistant] Now rituals in terms of religious practices, which is where we use the word rituals quite often. Well, some people practice it. And, uh, rituals in terms of social occasions.


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[Assistant] So if the favorite team loses, sometimes the riots break out between opposing team's fans.


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[Assistant] Sometimes if your favorite team loses, people might just burn things. And so in that sense,


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[Assistant] When we talk about rituals, are we including all these three or are we going to focus on something particular?


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[Assistant] So in the inner world, it's difficult for us to differentiate where an emotion is coming from.


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[Assistant] Then there is a reasonable possibility that the emotion it awoke, awakens is, is divine. So if somebody goes to a temple.


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[Assistant] That I'm entering a sacred space. Let me awaken, let me become alert now.


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[Assistant] That, it said that the sound of a bell, there is a whole form of, uh, it's, I thought it was a Tibetan Buddhist meditation.


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[Assistant] Uh, they take a bowl and they move a handle along the bowl and they just move round and round and round and round and round.


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[Assistant] The word ritual itself has acquired a negative connotation nowadays. You are just being ritualistic. So I think ritualistic has that connotation even more. Now when we say it's a ritual,


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[Assistant] And uh, a society that is without rituals, like going back to the earlier point of.


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[Assistant] Not having many holidays, not having many occasions for people to bond together, then that could be one reason why modern and postmodern societies are so lonely. Because there are hardly many occasions when people can come together and bond. I was talking with one American friend.


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[Assistant] I met him in some program and we stayed in touch. So he told me that we go to bars not to drink, we go there to bond.


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[Assistant] Yes. So many people drink because they are what is called social drinkers. Not because they are interested in drinking but they are interested in bonding. So there are not many places


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[Assistant] Uh, rituals or occasions or celebrations or festivals, whatever word you want to use, because they have been lost, so society has become quite lonely.


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[Assistant] To help them, not internet, technology, digital technology, to help them find their, uh, find, to find them dating partners.


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[Assistant] That means you give a set of your interests and an app will tell you.


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[Assistant] For directing our actions, for directing our interactions, for directing our life at large.


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[Assistant] And without those, we end up, uh, one psychologist has called this as the, the burden of choice or the paradox of choice.


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[Assistant] The paradox of freedom is that freedom becomes a burden. When you have too many choices, it just becomes unmanageable.


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[Assistant] There is an increasing number of people who want to be spiritual but not religious.


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[Assistant] So, people want to be guided. Okay, close your eyes, take a deep breath, visualize this.


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[Assistant] So, we again need some guidance. So if we consider the religious rituals,


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[Assistant] Not exactly as guided meditations, but something similar over the


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[Assistant] Feel the right emotion in appropriate situa- in a particular situation. But if there are rituals, okay, this is how things are done.


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[Assistant] Then that creates some pattern in life. Okay, if you go in front of the temple, go in the temple, you do this, this, this, or you do this kind of prayers or whatever. So in some, now, in some ways, when we say the external and internal are together, so rituals could be


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[Assistant] Excavate or activate the internal when it is not present.


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[Assistant] So in that sense, in the ritual, external-internal, sometimes internal may come first and the external later or the external may come first and the internal later.


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[Assistant] Then that discipline itself is an indication of one's seriousness, one's commitment.


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[Assistant] And in that sense, rituals which are connecting us with the Divine, with some manifestations of the Divine in this world, they can help us advance spiritually. Because they create a pattern of regular connection with the Divine.


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[Assistant] About rituals being uh, like they are adjustable according to time, place, circumstance.


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[Assistant] That is very important because in some ways,


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[Assistant] Might itself create so much antagonism or struggle that it might make that particular practice impossible. We see this, uh, now I'm generalizing, but broadly, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, he had followers in Mayapur, in Vrindavan and in Puri, Uttakaldesh.


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[Assistant] Uh, apart from the big temple that have been recently built and the Mayapur Chandra temple we are building, there are no major temples there.


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[Assistant] There are many holy places with great saints from our tradition. There are no temples.


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[Assistant] So, Nawab Hussain Shah and his associates were quite relatively intolerant.


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[Assistant] Cause the idea was that he was just starting the Swaraj and


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[Assistant] He needed resources to defend himself for his campaigns and other things. So there is a certain amount of flexibility.


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[Assistant] A bit, uh, with the awareness of time and place about which rituals are to be emphasized and which to be de-emphasized.


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[Assistant] Niyamagraha, we could read it in two ways, two meanings.


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[Assistant] That we say that there's absolutely no need for the envelope.


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[Assistant] But then how do you send the letter? The letter might get spoiled on the way, it might get lost on the way.


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[Assistant] Can we also, going back to the earlier point you mentioned about somebody who has transcended rituals, we could even have different hierarchies of rituals, rather than saying that rituals are rejected.


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[Assistant] So devote, so there could be rituals which are, say, at a preliminary level required, and those may not be required at a higher level. But then maybe something else is required at a higher level. So, a devotee might give up the rituals of Karma Kanda.


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[Assistant] Or we have Sanatan Goswami, even in old age, wanting to circumambulate Goverdhan. And then the Lord creating, Lord providing him a small Sheela. You circumambulate around him.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. That means we could put it this way that


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[Assistant] There is a purpose and there is a process or a path and each process or each path will have a set of rituals associated with them.


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[Assistant] As the most people whose security check you do, most of the time you don't find anything objectionable.


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[Assistant] Probably it's, uh, maybe one in a thousand you find some, or one in a much more you might find something. But it has to be done.


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[Assistant] So the rituals will be associated with each particular path.


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[Assistant] So I thought of just one thing, one way to depict this is that nowadays there is this


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[Assistant] Either we relativize everything or we absolutize everything. So if we have a pendulum and then we have something in between.


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[Assistant] So each of, we have to know why we are doing the particular ritual. So if I absolutize it, then sometimes I might defeat the purpose. But if I relativize it, oh you know, I don't need this. Well, don't just say that this is, don't just dismiss it by calling it relative. We have to see what purpose it is having and then serve it.


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[Assistant] And if it is serving the purpose, then it is not only essential, it is not only important, it may be indispensable.


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[Assistant] So one of my favorite metaphors for spiritual growth is that it's like we are trying to go up a mountain. Now if you want to go up a mountain, on one side of the mountain it might be


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[Assistant] And I might need other kind of support equipment. But the idea is, my purpose is to get to the top of the mountain.


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[Assistant] Now, if I use the gear, which is meant to go from the slippery side up the mountain, for the time when I am going up the rocky side, it will be a disservice for me.


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[Assistant] So we need to understand the process that we are following and then see how the rituals


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[Assistant] Then the following of the rituals becomes empty. And perhaps the best example of this could be the, uh, are you there?


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[Assistant] Uh, the Yajna Brahmanas and their wives.


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[Assistant] They were so strictly following the rituals that they forgot the purpose of Krishna.


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[Assistant] And uh, people create their own rituals. So for example, people who don't believe in God, they have, like we're talking about social bonding, there is, there are these Comic Con festivals.


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[Assistant] Comic cons they call it, comic hero conventions.


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[Assistant] Their need for community, for belonging, for bonding.


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[Assistant] And if those rituals are within a spiritual context, then they will, they will serve the all round purpose of society, of people. Not just their physical and emotional needs, but also their spiritual needs.


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[Assistant] Uh, saluting the flag is how I get it. We discussed the four quadrants.


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[Assistant] If there's no internal, no external, then it's a problem. Then it's complete unpredictability and chaos. I don't know what, it's anarchy, I don't know what to do, what I should not do. If I meet someone and there's no way to greet them.


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[Assistant] That cop is there competent enough to protect, but I don't know he's a cop. So I don't, I still feel worried. So then external but no internal.


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[Assistant] But the cop has no, actually the cop is a thief or the cop is a pathetic and is not going to protect me. Then I feel deceived by that. There is external and internal, then there is proper security.


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[Assistant] So then, uh, we discussed after that about rituals as, let me, three things with respect to manners at a individual, interpersonal level. Then rituals as religious practices.


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[Assistant] And in the modern industrial society, for financial purposes,


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[Assistant] Don't relativize simply saying that I don't need it because it's just your thing. Don't absolute saying that it's for everyone. It's utilized. See what is the purpose. So there is a purpose to go up the mountain and then find out what gear helps me to go up the mountain. And then lastly you conclude that some people may transcend the rituals and you give the beautiful example that


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[Assistant] But they do need to follow the rules of helicopter traffic.


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[Assistant] Awaken knowledge, awaken, meditate, activate, cultivate meditation, ultimately express devotion through those rituals.


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[Assistant] So rituals if they are, they are going to be there in society.


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[Assistant] So thank you very much for your attention and for your participation. Thank you.


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[Assistant] Sarah, Sarah come here, come on. Come here, come on Sarah, come on.


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[Assistant] They're all hidden back there in the bushes. Now she's got her three older kiddies from January and three little babies and all without a dad.


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[Assistant] He made her pregnant again just before he died.


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[Assistant] When the father was still alive, the mother would take a break after birthing. She'd go over to the other pond with the newborns, and dad would stay here with the older offspring. After three days, if the youngsters were fit, she'd come back.


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[Assistant] This time there is no dad, which is why she's staying here. You can do it without a dad. You're a good mother. Forty times over.


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[Assistant] Okay, Masha, a throw in. Off you go.


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[Assistant] Bears are excellent swimmers. It's no problem for them to swim distances of 30 to 40 kilometers. They manage that with ease, for example when they're crossing a channel.


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[Assistant] In general, bears are fairly relaxed animals. They like to sleep for around 16 hours at a stretch. If they've had a day with lots of visitors and lots to see and different sounds and so on, they're exhausted after all the day's impressions and look forward to their dinner and their bed.


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[Assistant] They've been playing like mad and after a swimming day they're exhausted and they get all whiny just like little kids.


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[Assistant] Dear oh dear, listening to you lot suffering is almost unbearable. But I'll be finished in a minute, honest.


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[Assistant] Right, all the children are in bed, now I can go home too.


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[Assistant] I think I know who it could be. Why don't you thought about going to Fiona's?


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[Assistant] David, we have to face it. You're going to Sydney tomorrow. Why not call in on Fiona Thompson?


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[Assistant] Why don't you, uhm, clear a few things up for yourself too?


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[Assistant] Sugar Ray Leonard was one of the leading boxers in the world in the 1970s and 80s.


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[Assistant] In 1979, Sugar Ray's most impressive performance to date took place when he knocked out Pete Ranzani in four rounds to win the North American Boxing Federation Welderweight Championship.


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[Assistant] It was a battle of the unbeaten when Sugar Ray Leonard, an Olympic gold medalist, challenged Wilfredo Benitez for the WBC Welterweight Championship on November 30th of 1979.


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[Assistant] You would have knocked out Floyd Mayweather Jr. in his prime.


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[Assistant] Go to Portland where she's lived all her life.


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[Assistant] Frightened enough now without having private dicks trailing her around. Frightened? Why?


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[Assistant] Very funny. Now tell me where you wanna go. What's the trouble?


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[Assistant] Brother, that address hasn't meant anything for five, six years now.


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[Assistant] Hello, darling. I knew you couldn't go 24 hours without calling me.


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[Assistant] I, uh, I did have one idea though.


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[Assistant] Well, I thought that, uh, maybe if you decided to stay here, that, uh, we might get married.


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[Assistant] I want to marry you, Lee. I wanted to ask you for a long time, but I've been afraid that if I did and you said no, that things wouldn't be the same afterward.


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[Assistant] I thought about it from your point of view. I thought you have your work, possibly a very distinguished career.


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[Assistant] Then too, I figured you'd want to start at the beginning. Have your own home. Your own family.


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[Assistant] It's splendid. Splendid. Well, this is my daughter, Patricia. She's fallen in love with you sight unseen.


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[Assistant] And you were afraid he'd been kidnapped. How'd you talk Miss Lewis into that?


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[Assistant] No, no, I did not receive her telegraph.


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[Assistant] I studied with your father at Leipzig. He is my teacher of philosophy. And not only in the lecture room.


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[Assistant] Wait a minute, Engel. Miss Richards is Jewish.


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[Assistant] You see, intuitively, we agree on everything. We think alike, feel alike.


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[Assistant] I may keep it up the next 20 or 30 or 40 years, telling you every day how I feel about being your husband.


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[Assistant] We're going to be married in about two weeks. That's alright with you.


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[Assistant] You were interested in this telegram, Herr Bruckner. I'll read it to you.


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[Assistant] Emil Bruckner, arriving by plane, 11.30 a.m. You have my deepest sympathy. Sign Ruth Lewis. Perhaps you want it, for Herr Gabel's file.


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[Assistant] Very well. Tell me this. What did you hope to accomplish by wearing that uniform? Is that being a clever spy?


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[Assistant] Well, since you find death so pleasant, I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll kill you first and beat you afterwards. Okay?


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[Assistant] How would you know what's a lie and what's the truth? You've been drugged. You've been poisoned. We've got the antidote. We can cure you.


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[Assistant] Now listen to me, in America we don't torture little boys, we reason with them. That's our secret weapon. Can you understand that?


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[Assistant] I'll go upstairs and take off that uniform and put on your other suit. This afternoon we'll buy you those long trousers. Go on. Very well then, stay here if you like. If you can't sit down to lunch with us until you take off that uniform. Come on then.


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[Assistant] Oh, he'll be glad to know, too. Thank you, darling.


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[Assistant] Oh, you can't expect much the first week. After all, he's getting the right treatment, good food, happy home, mixing with our kids, bound to have an effect on him.


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[Assistant] That's a lot of advance. What's up, pal? You in a jam?


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[Assistant] Okay, problem child. You can mow the lawn. We're making a dollar and a half. It's a big lawn and you're a big problem.


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[Assistant] You see, Emil, you're more than just my exasperating nephew. To me, you're also a test case. I'm an optimist about the German people. Your father was an optimist too. He believed that human nature can be changed. And he's the time we sat together dreaming up a brave new world.


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[Assistant] When Pat makes me a promise, I know it's a contract. We can shake hands on it because we trust each other.


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[Assistant] You just feel discouraged right this minute. Actually, on the whole, I think the kid's improving.


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[Assistant] Darling, he's just a child. You've handled problem children before.


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[Assistant] You can't expect me to say yes to anything you want, whether I agree with it or not. Remember, I'm responsible for that, boy. Much more than you are.


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[Assistant] Apparently you're willing to exercise your winning ways on your Aunt Jessie. Why can't you try them on Miss Richards?


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[Assistant] Police department. Hello, Sergeant Thompson, please. Michael Frame.


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[Assistant] Even if they have nice manners. Even if they say the things you want to hear.


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[Assistant] He's well enough to tell me why it happened. You can explain to the police what you plan to do with my keys.


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[Assistant] What? Hello. Hello, Sergeant. This is Michael Fram speaking. The boy's here. That's right, here in my house. That's why I'm calling you. The sooner the better. Good.


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[Assistant] Are you crazy? That's a fine thing coming from you.


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[Assistant] I'm also thinking about you. Because if you can forgive me for being a blind idiot, I want more than anything else in the world to marry you.


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[Assistant] Lee, we've got our own lives to lead. We haven't got room for Emil Bruckner, too.


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[Assistant] Because I don't think there's any hope for you. You lost. They did their job too well, the Nazis. That's true, isn't it? You still believe you're a superior martyr.


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[Assistant] Give us that record about your father again. In 1918, Carl Bruckner, how did it go?


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[Assistant] Why were the Nazis afraid of Karl Bruckner? Why, Emil? Why? You're right to ask that. Every time anybody tells you anything, you've got to ask why.


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[Assistant] That's the difference between us and the Nazis. We want people to ask questions. But get this straight, Emil. What happens is really up to you.


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[Assistant] It's about time that you and your people in Germany woke up to the fact that we can be just as tough as you can. And a lot tougher.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's too bad you do not like me because I like you.


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[Assistant] There, it is all forgotten. He can shake hands on it. You have promised not to tell Uncle Michael.


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[Assistant] It's a nice room. Sure, it's a nice room. It's a nice bed. I slept like a log in that bed. That's an idiom. And you are such an idiot.


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[Assistant] The doctor, usually such a friendly man, seemed so angry that the servant stared at him open-mouthed.


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[Assistant] The doctor gave them no time to think and went on fiercely.


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[Assistant] Three men, see a boy, for about a second in the dark, in the middle of a lot of smoke and noise.


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[Assistant] A boy comes to the same house the next day and because one arm is injured, they think he must be the robber.


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[Assistant] Are you going to swear that this is the same boy? Well, what do you say? He finished impatiently.


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[Assistant] Und es geht auch aus Notizen ganz klar hervor, dass die Untersucher dieser Fälle ein herausgehobenes Interesse an weiteren, zum Beispiel Befragungen von Zeugen hatten.


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[Assistant] Earth to earth. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust.


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[Assistant] Ensure uncertain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, who are Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change the body of our lowest state, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working.


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[Assistant] Whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.


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[Assistant] You owe me three dollars for the jar. Don't leave time before you pay me.


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[Assistant] He can jet as many skins as he likes. He will always be Snake.


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[Assistant] What they want to know and what they should know are two different things. How could I give you a chance?


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[Assistant] Where? You yanking my chain, Charlie?


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[Assistant] The described and captioned media program provides services designed to benefit students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind. These services include


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[Assistant] A library of free loan described in captioned educational media.


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[Assistant] A clearinghouse of information related to educational media access. A gateway to internet resources related to accessibility.


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[Assistant] And a center for training and evaluation of any service provider desiring to appear on the DCMP's approved lists of description and captioning service providers. There are no user registration or service fees.


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[Assistant] Visit the DCMP at dcmp.org.


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[Assistant] The DCMP is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the National Association of the Deaf.


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[Assistant] Because we have heard about the yellow fever epidemic in New York.


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[Assistant] A very wealthy and influential family, but no one senora can avoid the law, and the law demands quarantine. I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Too much self-centeredness to get as private as he is.


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[Assistant] The Yankees just left home plate-shaking a hit. Uh, I don't think they had seen anybody pitch like that.


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[Assistant] Cindy and I had a great friendship. Uh, it wasn't off the field, it was only on the field. I never saw him away from the ballpark.


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[Assistant] When you have a corner on the market, and I think it was the first step.


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[Assistant] President Putin's official income is around $100,000 a year. And yet he lives like the super rich.


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[Assistant] And then he started winning championships. And all of a sudden he's winning a lot of money. Dad gone, he's got a beautiful wife, and he's got a deck of Learjet, and look at that motor coach, and he's driving a Corvette. Why, I don't think I like this guy.


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[Assistant] The first year that Jeff won the 600 over here was 94. And he cried in victory circle. And Earnhardt wore that poor kid out.


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[Assistant] Saying that we don't cover terrorism, that's just false. Sprays of falsehoods coming from the White House. How about the President's statements that are false? Falsehoods? False. False.


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[Assistant] There were people out there to get Jeff Gordon. There were people out there making shirts up.


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[Assistant] People were literally planning things on the internet and the worst part was people would read it instead of just laughing about it. People were going, is this true?


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[Assistant] When Jeff was winning 10 races in a year,


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[Assistant] He was hard to talk to. He was always in his motor home, would never come out and hang out.


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[Assistant] There isn't a new Jeff Gordon, there's just Jeff Gordon that used to be. Now you can see him down at Daytona hanging outside his motorhome talking to people and actually having a good time laughing.


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[Assistant] As soon as I got the other ostrich I was like, there's no way I could let this happen. And it happened.


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[Assistant] He's still out.


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[Assistant] Good word grotesque.


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[Assistant] The reason that the president acting in so many of the ways that he has with executive order and otherwise are because he cares about making sure that we don't have attacks in this country. What we need to do is to remind people that the earth is a very dangerous place these days.


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[Assistant] We're rolling. Uh, okay. Which word? Okay, well. Yeah, number one for sure. French is bourgeoisie. Uh, 90s horror film.


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[Assistant] Mattress is Simone. It's a joke about how she spills things on her mattress.


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[Assistant] It's an age, it could be middle, it could be senior, it could be, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, try that. Uh, yeaah, sorry, sister. Stepbrother. Uh, Keeperzoo.


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[Assistant] Navel and star? Yea, you can navigate by the stars if you're a sailor.


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[Assistant] And then, alright, don't miss it. Star? Shooting star?


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[Assistant] Marky Mark every day, he wakes up, somebody posted his schedule online, he like wakes up at like 4am, he works out like 5 times a day, and one of the things he does is cryotherapy, which is just essentially being put in an insanely cold room for a brief period of time.


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[Assistant] I guess. That's good for you. I guess. Station? Uh, who gave the clues on this round? Jenna? Okay. Yeah. Central Park station.


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[Assistant] Oh shit, okay, give us five seconds to commit. Uh, uh, Alana, you make the call. Okay.


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[Assistant] It's like fake, it's like, it's, it's like, it's, it's, it's, it's for emphasis, it's silly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they've, they've, they've, unless they really juke us on this one, we'll be.


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[Assistant] Shape? Yes, I think you're right. Slope. Yeah, it's a, it's a.


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[Assistant] Okay, cool. They're geometry, technically, but yeah, they're similar. I'm gonna submit that. Okay. Jesus Christ, we're too good at this!


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[Assistant] Ooh, very good. Alright, steel round. Blue team, let's start.


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[Assistant] You should have seen her. I bet she let herself get- What's going on? She's having his baby, alright? Who's Jill?


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[Assistant] Just dumb, I guess. I wanted to sort things out with him.


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[Assistant] Well, I guess that's all, Mrs. Nelson. I just wondered if there was anything I could do.


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[Assistant] Must be tough on a young wife. Baby. I haven't thought about it. Call me if there's anything I can do, please.


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[Assistant] Look honey, what could I offer you as the wife of a soldier? A home? Any kind of life together? Just the right to write me letters. You have that now.


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[Assistant] Oh look, that would be the romantic thing to do. Fellas all over the country, all over the world, marrying just as they get into uniform.


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[Assistant] As Johnny Jones, Private Citizen, yes. I'm Corporal Jones.


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[Assistant] For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health. For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health.


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[Assistant] Correctly, one inch over the right eye. Where's your tie?


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[Assistant] I was a farmer, potato and bomber, they took me away from the plow.


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[Assistant] Chapter 2 Burtwick Park


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[Assistant] I was beginning to grow handsome. My coat was fine and soft and was a shiny black. I had one white foot and a pretty white star on my forehead.


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[Assistant] When I was four years old, Mr Gordon came to look at me. He looked closely at my eyes, my mouth, and my legs.


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[Assistant] My master liked to train his horses himself before selling them. And the next day my training began.


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[Assistant] With that she ran angrily out of the palace and happened to meet Hera and Demeter. What good luck to meet you here, Aphrodite said to them.


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[Assistant] Would you please use your powers to help me find this girl's psyche?


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[Assistant] You are the goddess of love. How can you deny lovers' pleasures of your own son?


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[Assistant] You are his mother and a reasonable woman. Do not spy on him so closely or blame him too much for behaving as lovers always do.


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[Assistant] Must he always give love to others and never have any for himself?


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[Assistant] Just think a little, how are young women and to find husbands accepted with your son Eros's help?


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[Assistant] But Aphrodite was so angry that she did not realize that Hera and Demeter were trying to give her good advice. Instead, she thought they were making fun of her and her difficulties.


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[Assistant] I would describe Copenhagen Cowboy as fantasy, horror, and adventurous.


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[Assistant] He's very a family-oriented guy, but you know, Liv has just been reading the scripts and me and my sister have been kind of...


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[Assistant] So I think he's always used to looking outwards and finding people outside of his family compared to this time where he kind of looked inward and saw what the family could do.


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[Assistant] And he came in one day and since my mom had been helping on the show, I just thought he wanted my help to see an outside view of someone who does have no idea what's going on.


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[Assistant] And I acted out a couple of lines, which was Raquel's lines, and he was like, oh, great thanks, and I was like, you're welcome.


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[Assistant] You know, I really liked you for the part, would you wanna play her? And I was like,


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[Assistant] Everyone knows he's obsessed with movies. I don't think that's a secret. And his brain just never stops. So when we're in the car, and even on set, he plays music. And he plays different music to get different feelings out of the different characters. And I think music is a big part of him relaxing and being able to think.


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[Assistant] So we would play a lot of music, and it would either be kind of a horror,


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[Assistant] I've always had an open mindset on putting all my chips on something new. So yeah, it's not the first time that I just went out and did something mad that I didn't know anything about, but I just wanted to go a hundred percent on it.


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[Assistant] I got the opportunity to try out playing as an actor with my role, Niklas.


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[Assistant] I decided to say fuck it and just go. Within two weeks or something like that, I've gotten the job and started filming. So it was uhm...


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[Assistant] To the law and to the testimony. If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8 verse 20.


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[Assistant] The people of God are directed to the scriptures as their safeguard against the influence of false teachers and the delusive power of spirits of darkness. Satan employs every possible device to prevent men from obtaining a knowledge of the Bible.


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[Assistant] For its plain utterances reveal his deceptions.


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[Assistant] At every revival of God's work the Prince of Evil is aroused to more intense activity.


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[Assistant] He is now putting forth his utmost efforts for a final struggle against Christ and his followers.


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[Assistant] The last great delusion is soon to open before us.


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[Assistant] Those who endeavor to obey all the commandments of God will be opposed and derided. They can stand only in God. In order to endure the trial before them, they must understand the will of God as revealed in His word. They can honor Him only


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[Assistant] As they have a right conception of his character, government and purposes, and act in accordance with them.


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[Assistant] The decisive hour is even now at hand.


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[Assistant] Are our feet planted on the rock of God's immutable word? Are we prepared to stand firm in defense of the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus? Before his crucifixion, the Savior explained to his disciples that he was to be put to death and to rise again from the tomb.


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[Assistant] And angels were present to impress his words on minds and hearts.


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[Assistant] But the disciples were looking for temporal deliverance from the Roman yoke, and they could not tolerate the thought.


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[Assistant] That he in whom all their hopes centered should suffer an ignominious death.


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[Assistant] The words which they needed to remember were banished from their minds. And when the time of trial came, it found them unprepared.


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[Assistant] The death of Jesus has fully destroyed their hopes as if he had not forewarned them.


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[Assistant] So in the prophecies, the future is open before us as plainly as it was opened to the disciples by the words of Christ.


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[Assistant] The events connected with the close of probation and the work of preparation for the time of trouble are clearly presented.


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[Assistant] But multitudes have no more understanding of these important truths than if they had never been revealed.


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[Assistant] Satan watches to catch away every impression that would make them wise unto salvation, and the time of trouble will find them unready.


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[Assistant] When God sends to men warnings so important.


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[Assistant] that they are represented as proclaimed by holy angels flying in the midst of heaven


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[Assistant] He requires every person endowed with reasoning powers to heed the message.


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[Assistant] The fearful judgments denounced against the worship of the beast and his image.


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[Assistant] Should lead all to a diligent study of the prophecies to learn what the mark of the beast is and how they are to avoid receiving it.


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[Assistant] But the masses of the people turn away their ears from hearing the truth, and are turned unto fables. The apostle Paul declared, looking down to the last days, the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. 2 Timothy 4, verse 3. That time has fully come. The multitudes do not want Bible truth.


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[Assistant] Because it interferes with the desires of the sinful, world-loving heart, and Satan supplies the deceptions which they love. But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible and the Bible only.


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[Assistant] As the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.


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[Assistant] The opinions of learned men, the deductions of science, the creeds or decisions of ecclesiastical councils as numerous and discordant as are the churches which they represent, the voice of the majority,


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[Assistant] Not one nor all of these should be regarded as evidence for or against any point of religious faith.


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[Assistant] Before accepting any doctrine or precept, we should demand a plain, thus saith the Lord, in its support.


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[Assistant] Satan is constantly endeavoring to attract attention to man in the place of God. He leads the people to look to bishops, to pastors.


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[Assistant] to professors of theology as their guides instead of searching the scriptures to learn their duty for themselves.


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[Assistant] Then, by controlling the minds of these leaders, he can influence the multitudes according to his will.


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[Assistant] When Christ came to speak the words of life, the common people heard him gladly, and many, even of the priests and rulers, believed on him.


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[Assistant] But the chief of the priesthood and the leading men of the nation


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[Assistant] We're determined to condemn and repudiate His teachings.


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[Assistant] Though they were baffled in all their efforts to find accusations against him


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[Assistant] Though they could not but feel the influence of the divine power and wisdom attending his words.


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[Assistant] Yet they encased themselves in prejudice.


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[Assistant] They rejected the clearest evidence of his messiahship.


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[Assistant] That our rulers and learned scribes do not believe on Jesus.


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[Assistant] Would not these pious men receive him if he were the Christ?


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[Assistant] It was the influence of such teachers that led the Jewish nation to reject their Redeemer.


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[Assistant] The spirit which actuated those priests and rulers


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[Assistant] Is still manifested by many who make a high profession of piety.


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[Assistant] They refuse to examine the testimony of the scriptures concerning the special truths for this time.


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[Assistant] They point to their own numbers, wealth and popularity.


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[Assistant] And look with contempt upon the advocates of truth as few, poor and unpopular, having a faith that separates them from the world.


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[Assistant] of exalting human authority to rule the conscience.


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[Assistant] Which has been so terrible a curse to the church in all ages.


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[Assistant] And his fearful denunciations of the scribes and Pharisees


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[Assistant] And his warnings to the people not to follow these blind leaders.


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[Assistant] were placed on record as an admonition to future generations.


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[Assistant] The Roman Church reserves to the clergy the right to interpret the Scriptures.


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[Assistant] Yet the self-same principle, which was maintained by Rome, prevents multitudes in Protestant churches from searching the Bible for themselves.


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[Assistant] They are taught to accept its teachings as interpreted by the Church.


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[Assistant] And there are thousands who dare receive nothing, however plainly revealed in scripture, that is contrary to their creed or the established teaching of their church.


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[Assistant] Notwithstanding, the Bible is full of warnings against false teachers.


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[Assistant] Many are ready thus to commit the keeping of their souls to the clergy.


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[Assistant] There are today thousands of professors of religion.


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[Assistant] Who can give no other reason for points of faith which they hold.


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[Assistant] than that they were so instructed by their religious leaders.


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[Assistant] They pass by the Savior's teachings almost unnoticed.


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[Assistant] How can we trust our souls to their guidance unless we know from God's word that they are light-bearers?


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[Assistant] A lack of moral courage to step aside from the beaten track of the world leads many to follow in the steps of learned men, and by their reluctance to investigate for themselves


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[Assistant] And they feel the power of the Holy Spirit attending its proclamation.


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[Assistant] Yet they allow the opposition of the clergy to turn them from the light.


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[Assistant] Though reason and conscience are convinced, these deluded souls dare not think differently from the minister, and their individual judgment


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[Assistant] Their eternal interests are sacrificed to the unbelief, the pride, and prejudice of another.


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[Assistant] Many are the ways by which Satan works through human influence to bind his captives. He secures multitudes to himself.


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[Assistant] By attaching them by the silken cords of affection to those who are enemies of the cross of Christ. Whatever this attachment may be, parental, filial, conjugal, or social, the effect is the same.


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[Assistant] The opposers of truth exert their power to control the conscience.


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[Assistant] And the souls held under their sway have not sufficient courage or independence to obey their own convictions of duty.


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[Assistant] The truth and the glory of God are inseparable. It is impossible for us, with the Bible within our reach, to honor God by erroneous opinions.


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[Assistant] And we neglect to improve the privilege of hearing and seeing it. We virtually reject it. We are choosing darkness rather than light.


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[Assistant] There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Proverbs 16 verse 25.


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[Assistant] We may become acquainted with its teachings and know for ourselves what He requires of us.


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[Assistant] When the lawyer came to Jesus with the inquiry, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?


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[Assistant] The Savior referred him to the Scriptures, saying, What is written in the law? How readest thou?


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[Assistant] Ignorance will not excuse young or old, nor release them from the punishment due for the transgression of God's law.


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[Assistant] Because there is in their hands a faithful presentation of that law and of its principles and claims. It is not enough to have good intentions.


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[Assistant] It is not enough to do what a man thinks is right or what the minister tells him is right. His sole salvation is at stake, and he should search the scriptures for himself.


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[Assistant] However strong may be his convictions, however confident he may be that the minister knows what is truth, this is not his foundation.


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[Assistant] He has a chart pointing out every waymark on the heavenward journey, and he ought not to guess at anything.


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[Assistant] It is the first and highest duty of every rational being to learn from the scriptures what is truth.


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[Assistant] And then to walk in the light and encourage others to follow his example. We should day by day study the Bible diligently, weighing every thought and comparing scripture with scripture.


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[Assistant] With divine help we are to form our opinions for ourselves as we are to answer for ourselves before God.


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[Assistant] The truths most plainly revealed in the Bible have been involved in doubt and darkness by learned men, who with a pretense of great wisdom,


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[Assistant] Teach that the scriptures have a mystical, a secret, spiritual meaning not apparent in the language employed.


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[Assistant] These men are false teachers. It was to such a class that Jesus declared, You know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God. Mark 12 verse 24.


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[Assistant] The language of the Bible should be explained according to its obvious meaning, unless a symbol or a figure is employed.


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[Assistant] If men would but take the Bible as it reads.


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[Assistant] If there were no false teachers to mislead and confuse their minds, a work would be accomplished that would make angels glad.


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[Assistant] And that would bring into the fold of Christ thousands upon thousands who are now wandering in error.


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[Assistant] We should exert all the powers of the mind in the study of the scriptures and should task the understanding to comprehend


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[Assistant] As far as mortals can, the deep things of God. Yet we must not forget.


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[Assistant] That the decility and submission of a child is the true spirit of the learner.


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[Assistant] Scriptural difficulties can never be mastered by the same methods that are employed in grappling with philosophical problems.


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[Assistant] We should not engage in the study of the Bible with that self-reliance with which so many enter the domains of science, but with a prayerful dependence upon God and a sincere desire to learn His will.


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[Assistant] We must come with a humble and teachable spirit to obtain knowledge from the Great I Am.


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[Assistant] Otherwise, evil angels will so blind our minds and harden our hearts that we shall not be impressed by the truth.


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[Assistant] Many a portion of scripture which learned men pronounce a mystery, or pass over as unimportant, is full of comfort and instruction to him who has been taught in the school of Christ.


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[Assistant] One reason why many theologians have no clearer understanding of God's Word is they close their eyes to truths which they do not wish to practice.


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[Assistant] An understanding of Bible truth depends not so much on the power of intellect brought to the search as on the singleness of purpose, the earnest longing after righteousness. The Bible should never be studied without prayer.


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[Assistant] The Holy Spirit alone can cause us to feel the importance of those things easy to be understood.


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[Assistant] or prevent us from resting truths difficult of comprehension.


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[Assistant] It is the office of heavenly angels to prepare the heart so to comprehend God's word that we shall be charmed with its beauty.


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[Assistant] Admonished by its warnings, or animated and strengthened by its promises.


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[Assistant] We should make the Psalmists petition our own.


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[Assistant] Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119 verse 18.


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[Assistant] Temptations often appear irresistible because, through neglect of prayer and the study of the Bible, the tempted one cannot readily remember God's promises and meet Satan with the scripture weapons.


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[Assistant] But angels are round about those who are willing to be taught in divine things. And in the time of great necessity, they will bring to their remembrance the very truths which are needed.


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[Assistant] The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name.


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[Assistant] He shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. John 14 verse 26


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[Assistant] But the teachings of Christ must previously have been stored in the mind


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[Assistant] In order for the Spirit of God to bring them to our remembrance in the time of peril.


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[Assistant] Thy word have I hid in mine heart, said David, that I might not sin against thee. Psalm 119 verse 11.


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[Assistant] All who value their eternal interests should be on their guard against the inroads of skepticism. The very pillars of truth will be assailed.


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[Assistant] It is impossible to keep beyond the reach of the sarcasms and sophisms.


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[Assistant] The insidious and pestilent teachings of modern infidelity.


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[Assistant] Satan adapts his temptations to all classes. He assails the illiterate with a jest or sneer, while he meets the educated with scientific objections and philosophical reasoning.


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[Assistant] Even youth of little experience presumed to insinuate doubts concerning the fundamental principles of Christianity.


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[Assistant] And this youthful infidelity, shallow as it is has its influence.


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[Assistant] Many a life that promised to be an honor to God and a blessing to the world has been blighted by the foul breath of infidelity.


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[Assistant] All who trust to the boastful decisions of human reason.


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[Assistant] And imagine that they can explain divine mysteries and arrive at truth unaided by the wisdom of God are entangled in the snare of Satan.


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[Assistant] We are living in the most solemn period of this world's history.


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[Assistant] The destiny of Earth's teeming multitudes is about to be decided.


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[Assistant] Our own future well-being and also the salvation of other souls depends upon the course which we now pursue. We need to be guided by the Spirit of Truth.


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[Assistant] Every follower of Christ should earnestly inquire, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?


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[Assistant] We need to humble ourselves before the Lord with fasting and prayer.


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[Assistant] And to meditate much upon his word, especially upon the scenes of the judgment.