1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:19,200 Welcome back, welcome back, you wonderful people who matter so very, very much. 2 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:20,200 I'm W.S. 3 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,840 Walker and you're doing really great so far. 4 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:31,320 And so it's time once again for us to empty our cups, to mull over the riddle, what is 5 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:36,240 the instinctual sound that we make when we love, plug in what I have to say today and 6 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:37,880 see if my tea has worth. 7 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,880 Now we went over the cacophony, right, and how much we affect each other. 8 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,840 And today we're going to talk about two more ways that we're linked, though I could see 9 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:52,000 some seconders arguing that it's just the one with two different names. 10 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:58,560 But we're also going to delve into a problem that has plagued our kind, trying to humanize 11 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:03,760 God, you know, bring him into our terms and our concepts. 12 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:09,320 And we're going to jump into something kind of mind blowing there. 13 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:13,800 Anyways, empty your cups, everybody. 14 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,560 Let's go in. 15 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:24,360 Chapter three, how God gods. 16 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,760 Now we've spent a fair amount of time talking about, well, time. 17 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,920 And I believe that most people's perception of time gets in the way of them being able 18 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:40,840 to relate to how God does what God does, or how God gods, if you will. 19 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:48,360 If God created all of this, then God would not be subject to the laws of all of this. 20 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:53,920 I think that far too many people without really thinking about it, place God in a position 21 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:58,600 in which he exists in the same way that we do within time. 22 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:04,680 Well, it's far more likely that God would exist outside of time. 23 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:09,840 From what I've seen, God likely makes small adjustments to the past to become help in 24 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,280 the present. 25 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,920 Have you ever had help come from an unexpected place? 26 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:24,520 Sure, it almost never arrives when we expect it to, which is right now would be good about 27 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,640 90% of the time. 28 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:30,200 But when we ask for that help, it comes when and where it's needed. 29 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:35,520 And you'll never see what the first domino tipped by God was that led to the domino you 30 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:41,800 actually needed landing in your lap exactly when you needed it to. 31 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:47,160 Now this typically wildly differs from what our idea of the help we needed was. 32 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:53,120 Well, God knows what opportunities are ahead in every single decision you could make. 33 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:58,480 He knows which ones are ultimately bad ideas, though they seem like good ideas at the time. 34 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:00,520 He knows the roads available. 35 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:01,760 He knows where they lead. 36 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:08,560 He knows what could guide you, and he knows what will help and when it will help. 37 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,720 And not every time is right this moment. 38 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,320 I think another hurdle that gets in the way of belief is the argument slash paradox of 39 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,960 free will versus God's plan. 40 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:26,520 The argument essentially boils down to if human beings have free will and can choose 41 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:32,440 to do whatever they want, how could God possibly have a plan? 42 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,520 If God does have a plan, then aren't we adherent to it? 43 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,680 And do we even have a choice? 44 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:44,780 Well, I think it's the word plan that people get hung up on. 45 00:03:44,780 --> 00:03:50,480 What if we gave God a little more credit and say it's probable that he doesn't have to 46 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,740 plan like we plan? 47 00:03:52,740 --> 00:03:57,920 That each of the possibilities that we get to decide on with our free will is a path 48 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:04,000 and an infinitely complex plan that includes all paths available. 49 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:09,800 We have the ability to choose which route we take as each fork in the road occurs. 50 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:15,840 And God, who built the paths in the first place, has likely bottlenecked certain paths 51 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:21,360 to arrive at things that we need to happen as a whole, specific choices that we need 52 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:26,400 to come to in our own individual lives, and events that we need to happen in the course 53 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,520 of human history. 54 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,320 In this way, there is no paradox. 55 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:37,400 God designed the possible paths and we choose which ones we take. 56 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:44,600 And you can ask for directions, literally any time, from the greatest navigator in the 57 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:45,600 world. 58 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:52,520 But just don't expect to get them until you need to turn. 59 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:58,800 Now it's rather humbling to realize and understand that we're typically kind of wrong when it 60 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:04,000 comes to knowing what it is we want in life. 61 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,120 How many parents have told the tale of how from a very specific moment of interacting 62 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,480 with their child, they realized that they would do anything for this child, that family 63 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:19,440 is everything and everything else is just noise? 64 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:26,640 Only God knows which great fulfilling paths are which, which ones are ahead, and how you 65 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,040 can get to them from wherever it is that you are. 66 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:36,440 He's the only navigator that knows what it is that you desire most, and likely you don't 67 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:38,440 even know it yet. 68 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:46,320 They may be your paths, but God put them there for you, literally shaped every single possible 69 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:48,120 path you can take. 70 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:53,600 And you, you get to choose how you choose them. 71 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:59,040 I can tell you for a fact that the absolute most cherished moments and people and accomplishments 72 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:05,480 that I've experienced, I had no idea that I had always wanted them more than anything 73 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:06,680 else. 74 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:13,000 I just didn't know about them until I traveled the paths that led to them, and the funny 75 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:19,320 thing about that is, the ones that led to the things that I treasured above all others, 76 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:27,200 were usually the result of acting with some form of love or kindness. 77 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:33,800 Quite a lot of this centers on the people around you, small interactions to large, we're 78 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:38,000 linked in so many more ways than we understand. 79 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:43,360 There seems to be some kind of network that links every person on the planet, and probably 80 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,680 any that are off of it at the moment. 81 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:51,680 After all, quantum networks care very little about things such as distance. 82 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:58,240 Let me ask you, have you ever heard of the hundredth monkey? 83 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:07,000 For anyone that hasn't, in 1953, five well-respected primatologists, meaning they work with primates, 84 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,440 were observing a troop on the Japanese island of Yoshima. 85 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:16,720 The monkeys were Japanese macaques and pretty bright, and after a while the observers decided 86 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:21,360 to help the monkeys with provisions and left wheat and sweet potatoes out in the open for 87 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:22,360 them. 88 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:26,580 One of the female young discovers that she can wash the dirt and grit off the potatoes 89 00:07:26,580 --> 00:07:31,320 by taking them down to the river, and her playmates and her mother soon learn the trick 90 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:32,320 from her. 91 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:37,280 Now, this was unique because when it comes to all matters of how to eat, it's typically 92 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:42,040 the elders that are the teachers and the young that are the students, and the only adults 93 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:47,320 that knew how to wash their potatoes were the ones that learned it from their young. 94 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:54,040 And then, one day, an adult learned the trick from a youngin, as per usual. 95 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:58,560 And suddenly, it was like a damn brook. 96 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:04,080 Every single monkey in the troop suddenly knew how to perform this washing. 97 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:10,620 Not only that, but the same behavior suddenly began to be recorded by other researchers 98 00:08:10,620 --> 00:08:16,680 on other islands watching other colonies, and it was even seen on the mainland performed 99 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:18,160 by a troop in Takasaki-ama. 100 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:24,920 Now, sadly, the resulting paper written on the phenomenon was immediately discredited 101 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:30,480 by peers that mainly attacked the author for his gung-ho-ness towards the idea that this 102 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,920 incident showed some kind of quantum interconnection. 103 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:39,320 There's an intangible network that links all things. 104 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,880 This network defies non-theoretical traditional physics. 105 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,540 It exists on a level that we can't see. 106 00:08:46,540 --> 00:08:51,960 It can only detect, and really only by way of its footprints, so to speak. 107 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:57,160 This network doesn't seem to be affected by distance or time because it operates free 108 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,400 of our limitations of space and time. 109 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,560 And we've seen countless amounts of evidence of this. 110 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:08,840 And recently, two brilliant men have stumbled across quantum networking happening in our 111 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:09,840 brains. 112 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:16,440 Sir Roger Penrose, a highly esteemed mathematical physicist, and Stuart Hameroff, a groundbreaking 113 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,280 neuroscientist. 114 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:23,440 These two gentlemen have noticed that when the human brain enters the thought process, 115 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:29,360 neural pathways line up, racing up and down one line over here, and then suddenly firing 116 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:37,240 a continuation over there, jumping from hemisphere to hemisphere instantaneously, with no indication 117 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:43,680 of having any kind of signal physically traveling from here to there to link them. 118 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:48,800 One moment it's over here, the next boom, over there, instantly. 119 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:53,600 There's no physical connection between the two pathways, and yet they fire in perfect 120 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:54,600 succession. 121 00:09:54,600 --> 00:10:01,960 Sure, it's less than a foot's distance, but literally nothing travels the distance. 122 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:09,760 They believe that there's this quantum mind that relays the signals. 123 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:17,000 On the morning of September 11th, 2001, take a look at the fluctuations of the magnetometers 124 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,640 that have been placed all over the world to measure any changes in the Earth's magnetic 125 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,320 field. 126 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:30,520 Around 8 to 10 a.m. New York time, you see this dip happen in the readouts, and then 127 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:33,440 you see this huge jump off. 128 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:35,880 An absolutely insane spike happened. 129 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:40,240 And what's even crazier is it happens on all of the machines. 130 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:49,000 They all register it, and then you see it reverberate downwards, and in almost all of 131 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:56,660 them, they have the exact same structure of the little dip, and even like the same kind 132 00:10:56,660 --> 00:10:59,360 of bumpy landscape. 133 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:07,560 For reference, the first tower collapsed at 9.59 a.m. EDT, and the north tower collapsed 134 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:12,160 at 10.28 a.m. EDT. 135 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:16,960 Nearly everyone was watching at this point. 136 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:23,120 So when the first tower fell, a great swell of empathy twisted inside a huge portion of 137 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,400 the Earth's population. 138 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:30,840 The feeling of stepping in the dark through a stair that you thought was there was felt 139 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:37,840 by so many people at the same time, thanks to a near-instant global communications network, 140 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:45,600 and at least nine machines spread out all over the world felt it too. 141 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:51,720 With so many people's attention being so focused on one event, it reverberated through the 142 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:55,560 very fabric of reality. 143 00:11:55,560 --> 00:12:00,480 It rippled outward through something that was attached to everything without regard 144 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:03,200 for space or time. 145 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:09,700 We are all connected in ways that are not evident by way of the visible light spectrum. 146 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:15,680 This existence spreads out a lot deeper than we can imagine or detect, but you can get 147 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:20,400 a sense of it by the way our world interacts with it, much like you can't see the wind 148 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,840 with the naked eye, but you can get a sense of it by way of the debris caught up in it 149 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:29,320 and the movement of cloth, hair, and trees. 150 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:34,400 Physicists have seen countless examples of quantum entanglement in particles, atoms, 151 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,080 and electrons. 152 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:43,200 To simplify, if two particles are created at the same point in space-time, those particles 153 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,000 are really bizarrely linked. 154 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:54,360 So if you take one entangled quark to one end of the solar system and you flip its polarity, 155 00:12:54,360 --> 00:13:00,320 instantaneously the other entangled quark's polarity will suddenly flip, regardless of 156 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,000 its distance from its twin. 157 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:08,000 And there are countless accounts of people having connections to those that they deeply 158 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:09,000 care for. 159 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:14,060 I have definitely read all that I am ever going to want to read about the eerie connection 160 00:13:14,060 --> 00:13:16,160 between twins. 161 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:20,400 Seriously, do not google spooky twins connection after sundown. 162 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,640 That is not a good time. 163 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,560 But it makes sense though, doesn't it? 164 00:13:25,560 --> 00:13:33,400 Every atom in these bodies shared the same point in space-time a long, long time ago. 165 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:34,400 What am I talking about? 166 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:40,200 Well, the Big Bang Theory is currently the widely held belief in the scientific community 167 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,280 as to how all of this got into motion in the first place. 168 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:49,000 There was this singular object in the middle of nothing. 169 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:57,280 And then quite suddenly, the universe blew outward in every direction from that one object, 170 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:58,720 that one thing. 171 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:05,160 And within that singularity, an explosion was every single bit of energy that will ever 172 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:10,040 use and every atom that will ever exist. 173 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:16,480 So in a different way of saying it, we are all pieces of the same whole. 174 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:22,540 Everything that we are made up of, every single molecule, element and subatomic particle is 175 00:14:22,540 --> 00:14:25,680 from one single source. 176 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:31,700 That makes sense that we would be otherwise linked on levels outside our ability to physically 177 00:14:31,700 --> 00:14:33,600 detect our measure. 178 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:37,760 Several religions follow the belief that God created everything that we have a frame of 179 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,160 reference for. 180 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,880 So let's overlap those a bit. 181 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,680 What if we substitute God for singularity? 182 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:51,920 In the beginning, there was God and nothing. 183 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:59,400 So we give the singularity a name, just for the moment, and in this view, what is it that 184 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,720 we would all be made of? 185 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:11,520 What is everything that has ever existed made of? 186 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:12,520 Is it made of nothing? 187 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:19,520 Or, as we're calling the singularity, God? 188 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:24,840 The core law of our universe is that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, and I would 189 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:37,720 mark it pretty unlikely that we are made of nothing. 190 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:46,780 And that is chapter three, so try to understand that you can't understand and go out and say 191 00:15:46,780 --> 00:15:50,160 hello to the rest of God. 192 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:57,560 And maybe, just maybe, treat them as such. 193 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,120 So that's it for me. 194 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:01,200 Thanks for coming to my reading. 195 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:06,760 Come talk about this stuff, ask questions, or hear what others think at reddit.com slash 196 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:09,920 r slash The Laughing Matters. 197 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:15,800 And you can head out to the laughing matters.com for more from the show, including the book. 198 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,960 You can check out the YouTube channel at youtube.com slash could help. 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because they matter to you. 209 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:16,800 Be sweet. 210 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,240 Bye everybody.