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(Auto-generated)Hello all you wonderful, wonderful people that matter so very, very much.

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I'm Will Help.

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For those of you who didn't come here from my YouTube channel called Could Help, yeah,

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my name is Will.

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On the channel I go by Will Help as in, Hi, I Will Help and this, Could Help.

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And as you might suspect, and Will Soon Learn.

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That's not my real last name.

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It fit the motif of the show and so I ran with it.

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So I made the YouTube channel because I was trying to figure out the best way to show

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the world what I had discovered ten and a half years ago.

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And primarily that's to be a book, which I've just finished this month.

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Yes, thank you.

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And that's a good feeling.

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So it's been in the works for a long time now because I'd been researching and writing

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the book for several years and was having a really hard time figuring out how best to

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arrange it.

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So what I did is what I always do when I'm stuck on what I should do next.

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I started talking about it.

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I started explaining the concepts to other people and I stuck it up on YouTube.

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And I noticed that in thinking about what I was going to talk about in the next episode,

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I was coming up with possible A to B to C narrative paths, ways that I could lay out

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the book.

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And in the process of talking about it on the show, the final piece of reorganization

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occurred to me and it was a big one.

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It's actually kind of funny because you can you can literally watch me realize on camera

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that I had to reorganize the entire show, the entire book and rewrite roughly a quarter

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of the book.

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And you just you see it happen literally on camera.

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It's it's episode three.

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The theories around the five minute mark, I've watched it a few times now.

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I'll throw the link in the description.

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We watched it the night I decided to make the audio version of the book into a podcast.

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That's right.

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This what you're listening to right here.

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This is the laughing matters by yours truly.

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Lucky person you are.

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But yeah, the music was a huge get on that.

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If you do the right music at the right time, it would act like an amplifier.

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It really helps to drive points home.

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And let's face it, it just generally makes a room feel less empty and makes a recording

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of someone speaking more full.

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And it helps the emotional response that one has to what is being said, not just get coaxed

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out of them a tad easier, but to stay out and maybe feel some more.

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You know, to not need to be coaxed out each time, not just to hear, but to feel what I

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have to share with you.

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Because when I'm about to share with you is man, I really, really hope you guys keep listening

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after this episode.

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The stuff I'm going to be telling you, it's not really, it's not a weird saying it, but

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it is not really arguable.

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I know that seems like a bold claim, but I'm not proposing theories on most of this.

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I'm pulling it up and out from where it's laid hidden for so long and placing it in

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your laps.

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It's it's night and day stuff.

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You know, I say it's non arguable because most of them are obvious when you see them,

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when I point them out.

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They're like stating some people say the color of the sky is blue.

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These are pretty plain as the nose on your face things.

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And you know, some of them you may have noticed in your time here on earth.

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So without further ado, I give you The Laughing Matters by W.S. Walker, copyright 2020 by

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William S. Walker.

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These pages are dedicated to my parents, my father Jeff, who didn't always know what I

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was doing, but gave me the support and benefited the doubt to help me do it.

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And my mother Jean, who stood ever vigilant in her beliefs and who I aspire to match in

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strength of love and spirit one day.

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Preface.

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A.K.A. here's what I've got to say before I say what I came here to say.

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Here we go.

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So when I was much younger, I was told an anecdote that has stayed with me ever since.

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There's this Western philosopher.

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He's considered wise by all his peers.

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One day that philosopher begins to hear murmurings of an Eastern philosopher, this monk who has

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several new ideas and approaches to questions that mankind has always asked.

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The meaning of life, why do bad things happen to good people?

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Is there a plan or is it free will, etc.

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So the Western philosopher decides to make the journey overseas so he can converse with

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this monk and learn from him and hopefully further validate his own arguments.

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After a long journey, the philosopher finally arrives at the monastery and he's ushered

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in to meet the monk.

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They seat themselves at a small table and after some pleasant small talk, the philosopher

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starts engaging the monk in headier subjects and he starts asking some of the more profound

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questions that he traveled so far to have answered.

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As the monk begins to speak, the Western philosopher spots two inconsistencies what he himself

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knows to be true.

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At the appearance of the second one, he interrupts the monk as politely as possible.

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The monk sits quietly and he's listening to the philosopher as he explains why he believes

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the opposite to be true.

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Once the philosopher finishes, the monk thanks him for sharing his understanding of the truth.

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He tells him that he'll meditate on that which the philosopher has proposed.

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So rather gracefully, the monk picks right back up where he left off and not too long

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after that, the philosopher starts clearing his throat with a finger raise.

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Ah, but have you consented what G.E.

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Moore said about?

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Again, the monk listens carefully and after a few moments of consideration, he thanks

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the philosopher for sharing such an interesting take on things.

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The monk promises to add this viewpoint to his daily meditations and then he, with a

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slight knowing smile, picks right back up where he left off.

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And it's a few more minutes before the monk spots a furrow in the visitor's brow and

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another objection rising to the lips of the westerner.

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So this time, it's actually the monk that interrupts.

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You have traveled a long way.

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Would you like tea?

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The philosopher nods and thanks him.

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And have your cup and water.

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The philosopher raises an eyebrow, but he hands over the cup and the canteen from his

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backpack without comment.

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And the monk walks over to a small kitchen area of the room where he pours the water

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from the canteen into the teapot and he begins to boil it.

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So they start talking in the kitchenette while waiting for the whistle of the steam.

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And when it comes, the monk pours the philosopher's water into the philosopher's cup and he sets

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that aside.

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And then the monk pours water from his own stores into the empty kettle and begins to

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boil that while he takes down his own cup from the cupboard.

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The philosopher can't figure out if this is a deliberate insult or a quirky custom,

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so he decides to let it go.

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And as their talks deepen, the Westerner barely notices the monk is adding tea leaves to the

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boiling water in the kettle.

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The monk lifts the kettle before it screams and pours his own cup full of the freshly

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made tea.

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And then he brings the kettle over to the Westerner's cup and he starts to pour.

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And the cup, already pretty much full of boiled water, is only able to receive a little bit

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of tea before threatening to overflow.

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The monk passes the philosopher's cup to the now annoyed Westerner who remarks,

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And why have you poured me such weak tea?

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Well, the corner of the monk's mouth drew slightly up into that same small smile and

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he lifts the cup from the philosopher's hand.

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You are like this cup.

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So full of your own ideas and context.

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You are surrounded by your own context.

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And I cannot show you the context of that which I find to be truths, if you are preoccupied

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with using your own.

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Anything I offer will only dilute in your mind and vanish, torn apart by your understanding

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of the world before you have even heard half of what I would say on the matter.

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The monk starts to pour out the contents of the cup to the drain.

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If you truly wish to know what it is I have found, whether you wish to live your life

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by way of these truths, or you simply want to see if what I have to say is true, you

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must empty yourself of what you already believe to be true.

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This is a requirement for gaining understanding.

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One cannot remain full and yet take on something else in its entirety.

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Ah!

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He smiles and glances down at the water running down the drain.

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Now the cup is useful to us again.

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As the monk sets down the philosopher's now-empty cup in front of him and starts to pour the

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tea in, once you have set aside that which you are already full of, only then can you

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truly decide if my tea has worth.

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I love this story, and now that I have something of worth to offer the world, I understand

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the importance of this story's message far more fully.

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During my journey to discuss the truths I have found, I have sometimes found people

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arguing against what they believe to be what I am proposing, before I have even proposed.

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And most of the time, if the argument is about something covered in the book, they are either

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in opposition of something that they think I am getting at, or are arguing something

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that has little to no bearing on the part of the topic that I brought up to explain

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a point.

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And I used to have a good humor about it.

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I did.

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Like living with a quirky but loved elderly person that waves off half of what you say

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and argues the other half for seemingly no reason.

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But this is problematic here.

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In this particular setting, because what I'll be proposing here is a giant interconnected

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series of concepts that support each other, but not in a linear A to B to Z fashion.

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It kind of takes all of it to support all of it.

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And what you're listening to now is an attempt to walk people through these concepts, but

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the only way that this will work is if you're willing to make a deal with me.

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For the duration of this book, I'm asking you to set aside your current beliefs on these

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matters, whatever they may be.

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It's okay.

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You can pick them back up after.

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But empty your cup so that you can reach the end and judge for yourself whether or not

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there's validity to what I've actually shared with you.

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To see what I'm proposing as it is, and not as the knee-jerk reactions would have it.

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Now, as you've probably already suspected at some point or another, part of this book

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is rooted in the belief that there is a God.

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And by that, I mean something that's bigger and more complex than we have a frame of reference

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for and that life was intentional.

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And that's pretty much as far as the definition that I'm going to ask you as a favor to accept

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as a probability.

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I say as a probability because having spent years studying the patterns that emerge across

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history, religions, science, physics, mathematics, the existence of some deliberate creative

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force seems to be the safe money bet.

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Just about every tribal people that we have a recorded history of, even though they were

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on separate continents, separated by oceans, didn't have the internet, y'all.

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And they never interacted.

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They all believed that there was something that fell within that simple definition, mostly

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in the form of gods.

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Me personally, I only use the term God because that's the name that I became accustomed

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to through my early years in Catholic upbringing and my early love for Greek mythology.

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So I want you guys to know that if I do reference a religious text or ten, and don't worry,

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I usually only bring up when I have a cool kind of twist to throw on it.

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The definition of God that I use is not tied to any religion.

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Religion is mankind's interpretation of prior interactions with God.

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And no group could ever know everything that there is to know about God or what God wants.

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That's part of the reason that at an early age, I set out from Catholicism to find the

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truths that other religions might offer.

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I was barely a teenager when I left the church, admittedly, so I did lack the depth needed

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to truly explore these very beliefs.

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So yeah, I also tended to steer away from rituals and religions.

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They provide comfort for some, but I still wonder how much of it is more for each person

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as a sentimental tone, striking a nostalgic chord in the place where one formed their

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relationship with God growing up.

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For me, it was that heavy emphasis on the rituals and Catholicism that ultimately led

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to my absences from Sunday Masses.

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I felt no real personal connection to the rituals because I didn't feel they furthered

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my connection to God.

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So yeah, when I left the church, I was still pretty sure there was something out there.

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I turned to several religions for a more satisfying answer, but I never really found what I was

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looking for.

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Yes, there were a lot of truths in each, and often accompanied with powerful wisdoms and

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meditations, but I couldn't find one that had all the answers I was looking for.

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I was pretty sure I'd know it when I saw it, because truth is truth, right?

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That's why it's so hard to unsee something once it comes into the light.

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One of the big reasons that I always felt that there was some kind of God was born out

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of my time fascinating over some of the brilliant finds we'd made in the fields of science

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and physics.

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I could blame my teachers for my love of those fields, but I think the initial blame goes

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to my father's subscription of Popular Mechanics during my adolescence.

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And my favorite discoveries were always those in which the patterns in multiple fields of

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study would either line up or overlap in critical ways, forming systems.

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And yes, as a science slash physics nut, I considered the possibility that all of this

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existence was born out of unintentional chaos, or as I would come to call that theory later,

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the what a crazy random happenstance theory.

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But the longer you look, the systems are just too precariously balanced.

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To ever make creation by chaos a serious consideration for the explanation of all things, that chaos

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model happens only once in an uncountable number of scenarios.

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It just wasn't statistically viable enough to remain in the running.

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And the more I studied the natural and physical sciences and the fundamentals of mathematics,

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mathematics of course being the language of all sciences, the more that I believed that

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there was something bigger than us.

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And I'm not alone on this either, nor does it revoke my membership to the world of the

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scientifically minded.

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In one of his later interviews, Albert Einstein stated plainly, the more I study the natural

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sciences, the more I believe in a God.

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And then he would later clarify that he didn't mean a religious God, but an abstract creator

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and designer of everything.

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And when he was questioned about the interview in which he said this, Einstein wrote, everyone

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who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit

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is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.

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There seems to be this weird misconception out there that either science is right or

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religion is right.

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And I have never understood this argument.

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Now I can say that I believe, I can't say for certain, but I believe that a great deal

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of why some scientists have issues with religions is that the people in them have a more restrictive

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and detailed vision of what God is.

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And I can safely say that most scientists and physicists that I've worked with believe

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that there's probably something that designed it all.

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Robert Griffiths, the Heinemann Prize winner in mathematical physics said, if we need an

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atheist for a debate, we go to the philosophy department.

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The physics department isn't much use.

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If they disbelieve or argued against anything, it was by far and away the specific beliefs

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of various religions, or some of the actions made by said religions, followers or leaders,

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and definitely that all too common mentality of if you believe some of what this religious

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sect believes, then it is of the utmost importance you get to work on believing the rest of what

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we believe too.

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And this is the opposite philosophy to actual science, which has very few laws, but a whole

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lot of theories.

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They search for the truth in hidden and obvious places, and they make every effort to recognize

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it and value it for what it is, regardless of which field of study or sect it was found

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in.

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Truth is truth.

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Yes, that can be kind of heady.

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And your first time feeling the cleverness of peeking behind the curtain of the universe,

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it can make somebody arrogant in their view, but eventually you start to understand just

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how delicately everything behind the curtain has been put together, or I guess more distinctly

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put by Werner Heisenberg, the father of quantum mechanics himself.

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The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the

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bottom of the glass, God is waiting for you.

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Okay I'm almost off the point, but I do want to remind those that are uncommensed, that

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are sciences everything, and if you can't prove God, I want to remind people that mathematics,

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physical, natural, and especially theoretical sciences, they're all rooted in the observation

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of patterns.

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The theories and the laws are written, but these fields are at their core, the observation,

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recording, questioning, predicting, and testing of repeating phenomenon.

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At their base level, these fields of study break down to do it, and this happens.

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Do it again, this happens again.

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Okay, well what if we do it like this?

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Well, this happens.

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Does it happen again, and again, and again like that?

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The world happens first, the studies happen second.

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They are predictive systems of study, but we'll get to that later on.

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My point is, if you reverse your view on these studies, and look in the other direction,

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you might find yourself wondering how is it these laws came to be immutable?

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How is it that these patterns came to repeat in the first place?

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Science does not inform our existence on how to operate.

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It's the study of how it is already operating.

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Or to put it my favorite way, science may inform the whole world, but it is the world

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that informs science first.

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I bring up all of this because I'm asking you to accept that it's possible that there

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is something for the duration of the book.

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And for the people that already believe that there's something, I'm asking you to let

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go of the governing aspects that you believe of God or gods.

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Because if I start explaining the concepts that are detailed in these pages, and the

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reader holds onto a belief that God does not exist, or God does not exist like that, the

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connections will not form between these concepts for the reader.

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Not the way they need to.

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You see, the brain actually responds to large potential changes and what one believes to

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be true, much the way that it responds to physical threats, the same areas of the brain

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light up with activity.

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Again, I'd rather just hear out what I have to say, the way I'd say it, before you pass

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your final judgments on the material.

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A lot of the crisscrossing supports of the structure these concepts form aren't detailed

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till the last third of the book.

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So to that point, I offer one last word of warning.

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We're about to start, I promise.

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Most of the chapters are primarily laying out several different concepts that at the

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time of reading them, they may seem disjointed, unconnected, or unrelated.

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In the last few chapters, and even as we journey along the chapters of the book, we'll begin

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to gather them up and fit them together.

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The first two thirds of the book are the pushpins, and the last third, the strings.

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The best I can do now is to lay out each individual piece on the table, explain what each piece

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is, and then assemble them together in front of you.

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For the too long, did not read version, you're not going to understand what I'm saying until

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I'm done saying it.

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So hang in there, and empty your cup before you go in.

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And I solemnly promise you this.

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If I've written it in the book, it's been put into the book because it is important

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to the total understanding of what I've found.

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This book does not include one single unnecessary word.

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And that is it.

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Uh, yeah, thank you so much for listening in, and uh, I'll, you know, I'll usually,

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I'm trying to cut down the intro, I don't know, I'll try to make it more entertaining

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or something.

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It only gets better from here, folks.

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And uh, you should have the chapter one in your hands soon.

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You guys have some big stuff coming.

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Make sure you hit subscribe for the podcast so you're notified when the new one comes

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And uh, please, please come back and hear more.

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I only just prepped you for the ride.

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You're just getting locked in.

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Chapter one's where it all kicks off.

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Come back with an empty cup and see if my tea has worked.

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So, bye.

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you