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Honestly, going back to basics doesn't mean to completely rejecting everything that came

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It means to stop and take stock of where you are and to remember why you're on this journey

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in the first place.

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Because it is easy to become so fixated on the ideal that we forget the idea.

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And in this season finale we're looking at a character who sought to create his ideal

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world by rejecting the old one.

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And that character is the strongest high school primate Tsukasa Shishio.

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Hey what's going on guys my name is Nate and you're listening to the Otaku Liberation,

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a show where we help you break the chains that are holding you back in your life by

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connecting some biblical principles with themes from your favorite anime.

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And without further ado, let's get right on into it.

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And we're going to go right into the verse today which is Romans 12 chapter 2 which says

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do not be conformed to this age but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may

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discern what is the good, pleasing and perfect will of God.

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And what does all that mean?

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Don't worry I hear you in the back.

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Basically what it means is don't be conformed to this age.

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Don't be so caught up in the world that you become a part of it.

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But renew your mind, steal it.

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Steal it from all the craziness that is out in the world.

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That influences the things that you know wouldn't really vibe with you, wouldn't please you

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and definitely wouldn't please God.

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And essentially just try to remain as pure as you possibly can and to seek out his will

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and to do what is pleasing to him.

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Basically just do the thing that he told us to do.

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Because God told us to be in the world but not of the world.

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We're here, we got things to do and this is our world but we're not meant to be here the

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entire time.

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And I know it's a little, but trust me, stick with me, we're going to get through this together

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and I was a little kind of meta to think about what, trust me, Sukasa is my boy and he's

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going to get us through it.

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And speaking of Sukasa, so for those who don't know by now, which if you don't, you've obviously

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skipped the other five episodes of the season so go back.

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But Sukasa is the, he was the main antagonist for the first two seasons of Dr. Stone, right?

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He was one of the modern day kids, if you can call them that, that were, that was petrified

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all those years ago, centuries ago, right?

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And he wants to essentially create a morally pure world or as I put in the point here is

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just rejection of the past.

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And basically what that means for him is he wanted to create a world in which modern day

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corruption, you know, money, drugs, guns, chemical warfare, things like that, where

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it doesn't exist and he will go to any lengths to see this vision fulfilled.

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So the kind of breakdowns, cause to understand how he got to that point, you kind of understand

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his past and how he grew up.

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So Sukasa has a younger sister.

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Her name is Mirai, I believe, hopefully I'm saying that right.

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And she has, she basically has some type of illness that put her in a coma and their parents

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weren't around.

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And so it was just him and her for the majority of their lives, right?

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And the adults in Sukasa's life wouldn't, wouldn't help, right?

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I mean, her hospital bills were racking up, the treatments weren't really working and

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he was at a loss, but no one would help him out because they didn't really see any benefit

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in it for them.

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And so Sukasa did what he had to do.

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He joined like the MMA circuit, you know, winning fights and things like that to help

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provide for her sister.

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But it was during that whole timeframe that his worldview got warped and shifted into

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what it is that we see in the, in the, in the anime is that he sees just adults as the

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root of the corruption of the, just the evil, the morally corrupt things in the world.

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And now that essentially the world has started over, he wants to ensure that those things

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don't come back, that they don't come back, that nobody else has to suffer the way that

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he and his sister did.

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And like when I said, he'll be willing to go to any length is because he is, when he's

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destroying these stone statues, he's actually killing people.

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Yeah, that's, that's the, that's what he's doing is not just him destroying a fine piece

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of art.

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You know, these are people's lives that he's ending because he's so fixated on his quote

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unquote ideal world that he's willing to just destroy anything that has anything to do with

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the past.

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Again, personally, I can't really speak to this aspect from a personal standpoint, but

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I have known people who that based on their living conditions, you know, the way they

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grew up and how their parents grew up and things like that, they want to basically just

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do a complete one 80 from their situation and just in, in doing so, just reject everything

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else that just came before them because they don't want to go back to how they were living

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beforehand.

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Which I mean, I get, and I completely understand in that aspect, you always want to do better

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than even those who came before you.

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and then then even what they're doing now.

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And so that is fine.

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I get that.

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When you get so caught up in just trying to do better and be better and you don't take

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stock of the past, like you don't learn from whether it is your own mistakes or the mistakes

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and the trials that the people who came before you that they've gone through with your parents,

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your grandparents, your teachers, your mentors, your the old guy at the bus station, you know,

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whoever, if you just reject the past completely, then you, you can be hard pressed to even

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get to the future that you're envisioning because you're not going to be equipped for

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it.

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You're just not.

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And, and, but the, the key, kind of key part I want to dive into is that, you know, in

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the case with Sukasa is that, you know, his methods are very extreme, just way out there.

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His intention just resonates with the concept of going back to a simpler and more morally

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upright state.

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So it, it's kind of like, like Thanos from, you know, from the MCU, right?

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What he sought to do inherently wasn't a bad idea.

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You know, basically stabilize the world because of me, the, the universe is running out of

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resources and things like that.

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So he sought to rectify that in some, some form of fashion, right?

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It was going to be the, to get more resources or whatever, however, just to basically allow

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people to survive.

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But how he went about it was all wrong.

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It was completely and utterly just wrong.

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And the same thing with Sukasa here, him wanting to create a morally pure world, a world that's

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free of corruption or as free as it can be and where people don't have to suffer the

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way that he did.

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That's, I mean, that's, that's a genuine real goal that I think we should strive for, you

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know, in our own world, in our own society.

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But the methods that he used isn't, aren't the way to go about it.

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And kind of just kind of the question I want to pose to you guys while you're listening

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to this is just because you don't like how something turned out, does that mean that

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nothing positive can come out of it?

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So just think about it for a second.

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So if something that, if something doesn't turn out the way that you wanted it to, like

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you, let's say you didn't get the promotion, you didn't get the girl or the guy, right?

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They rejected you, whatever the case may be.

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Does that mean nothing positive came out of it?

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Because sometimes, in all honesty, the best thing we can get is a no, because now that

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puts us on a path that for even better opportunity later down the road, right?

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Or it may not, you know, nothing, nothing is, is for certain, but just to have the opportunity

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to have a better outcome on the other side of a no.

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I mean, I think me personally, this is kind of outlook I have on life now is just that,

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okay, hearing no or being rejected isn't the end of the world and whatever scenario it

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may be.

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It just means you've got to go back to the drawing board and you got to pivot, you know,

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back to the whole thing of being flexible.

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And again, there was this whole season about is going back to the basics, just going back,

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taking stock of what you have and say, okay, how can I move forward with the knowledge

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that I just, with the new knowledge that I just got and how can I apply it?

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That's kind of how this whole thing just ties in.

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And Tsukasa was missing that piece of seeing the good in what modern, what modern day society

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had to offer, which is, you know, essentially everything else that Senku was doing, right?

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Senku was bringing back the science and the modern day inventions to make, that made life

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easier for the humans back then.

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But Tsukasa in his narrow view, wanted to reject that as well.

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He wanted to reject the good with the bad instead of just rejecting the bad.

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And I don't want you to get to that point.

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I don't want you to get so narrow minded that you just reject everything that was or that

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can possibly be a benefit to you because it just happens to be with something else.

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You know?

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So this leads to what's known as the stone war and Dr. Stone because of Senku and Tsukasa's

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warring ideals, right?

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Senku who embraced the past, embraced the modern day technology and inventions that

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he wants to revive and bring back.

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And Tsukasa who wants to reject everything that has to do with modern day society.

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Those two went at odds.

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And this clash of ideologies essentially forces us to consider the balance between preserving

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valuable aspects of the past while embracing necessary advancements.

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And it essentially raises this question.

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So how can we integrate the wisdom of the past into our future endeavors?

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How can we bridge the gap?

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How can we bridge the gap between tradition and innovation?

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What can we do to combine both aspects?

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Because I've talked about it a couple of times before about the whole idea of the older generations

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over the people who came before us, our parents, grandparents, things like that.

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And the younger generation are the ones who are coming up, like my generation or even

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those who are younger still who are coming up.

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How can we bridge the gap between the two so that we can learn from each other and just

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help society as a whole kind of grow, right?

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From a personal standpoint and as a community, as a society, as a people, how can we bridge

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that gap and just grow together?

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Because again, not everything from the past was glamorous and glorious, but there are

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things that are of benefit today.

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And a lot of things set the foundation for the things that we're doing today.

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And not everything new is coming up is crazy or stupid.

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A lot of it is.

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I'll be honest, let's be honest.

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A lot of it is.

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But there are some things that are coming up that are going to change the world 10 times

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over in less than half the time than some of the inventions from before.

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And it's really just about just sharing that knowledge, sharing that wisdom and being open

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and listening to each other, listening to both sides of the argument and seeing if there's

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a middle ground and if there is, how can we get there?

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Because I'm just a big believer, a big advocate of finding that middle ground.

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And it's just when you can.

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Because sometimes there's just, there can be some arguments that, you know, hey, you

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got your one side, you got the other side and there's really no ground to be made in

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the middle, right?

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You're just, you're either you're for or against.

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But for the vast majority of concepts and things that I believe, there's a middle ground.

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We can come to a solution, an agreement that is just going to benefit everybody.

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Because again, what this whole podcast is about is about us just bettering ourselves

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and bettering each other.

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So let's not fight.

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You know, let's not fight over just the nonsense and over different things.

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You can believe what you believe.

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I can believe what I believe.

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But at the end of the day, we're both just trying to get through this life, right?

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So let's just come together and really just just willing, willing to hear each other out.

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And that's exactly what Sukasa and Senku did.

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Because Sukasa was willing to have a truce after being offered a chance at reviving his

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sister, which, you know, she was his reason for fighting in the first place.

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And the chance for revival is because Senku had recaptured the cave with the revival fluid.

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And he made a deal with Sukasa, say, hey, you know, let's have a ceasefire until I can

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revive.

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If I can revive your sister, then, you know, we're going to have a ceasefire ambient and

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have a truce.

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And Sukasa agreed because again, his whole reason for doing all of this to try to create

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this ideal world was for his sister, essentially, or the memory of her because he wasn't sure

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she was still alive at this point or not.

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And that is what drove him.

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So now he's being offered a chance to essentially reconnect with her, to revive her and have

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her there with him in this in this new world without all the nonsense that the modern day

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world brings.

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I mean, he jumped for he jumped right on it.

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begins to change.

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He still believes in having a morally pure world that doesn't exploit the innocent, but

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he no longer feels as if killing all the adults and not advancing society is the answer.

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He's not an extremist anymore when it comes to he still believes in what he believes in.

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But now he is open to other avenues of thinking.

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And it's kind of draws a parallel to some other favorite characters I've already covered

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on the podcast before, Vegeta and Baro.

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Both of them are very prideful characters, right?

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And Sukasa not so much, but they both are very prideful characters and who had very

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strong beliefs in themselves and of their own abilities.

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And they had the mindset that if anybody who wasn't them was just less than right.

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But after they were humbled by their respective protagonist, they they were able to grow in

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the sense that they held on to their ideas or ideals.

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They know that they believe that they still believe that they are the best, but they don't

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look down on other people anymore.

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And they are open to the idea that other people are just as good as them.

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So that means they have to work harder to still claim to be the best type thing.

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Right.

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It's a subtle shift, but it's a big one because just like just like with Sukasa, they still

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believe in what they believe in.

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Right.

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But they don't take it to the extreme.

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They are willing to at least entertain other people's opinions and ideas.

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And that's kind of the key thing I want us to kind of take from this from this point

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of, you know, reformation is to just because you entertain someone else's idea doesn't

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mean to make sure it's invalid.

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It doesn't mean it makes you less than or things like that.

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And doesn't even mean that they're trying to change your opinion.

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Because they're just voicing their own and in today's world, we're voicing your own

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opinion is very taboo.

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You get canceled quickly by just having a different opinion than the mass is.

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I think we just need more.

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We need more tolerance in the sense that we can have a conversation, you know, like just

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because I don't believe in what you believe in doesn't mean I'm attacking it.

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Doesn't mean I'm attacking you is just it's just not for me.

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Right.

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And we can agree to disagree or we can, like I said earlier, find that middle ground where

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we can agree on this.

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But it all stems from just being open enough to entertain the other ideas.

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It again goes back to Sarkaz's whole thing of being able to entertain the good things

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that modern society brings with the technology and the advancements that it has while still

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believing in his ideal world of being morally pure in that where the innocent aren't exploited.

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So it's all from full circle.

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It's all about being flexible, just being flexible.

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And as I say here, Sarkaz embraces the ideas of the past while embracing his own beliefs

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on how the future should be.

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So he doesn't completely reject it anymore, but he still wants to pursue his own his own

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thing.

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And it just helps helps to remind us that embracing the lessons and experiences of the

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past can simply just shape our faith and path going forward, even as we strive for improvement.

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Right.

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Because everything that's happened for a reason is you can learn from your previous trials

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or previous seasons in your life and see what you can bring into the next one.

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So overall, Sarkaz's journey in Dr. Stone highlights the complexities that come with

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going back to the basics, explores the tension between rejecting certain aspects of the past

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while also embracing the wisdom that it can potentially hold.

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So it helps us to examine our own values, consider the consequences of our choices and

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actions and try to find a balance between preserving what is valuable in the past while

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helping shape our future that's aligned with our own vision and goals.

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And also just take it all in stride.

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Take it, join it, find a way to bridge it.

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And yeah, just really just don't be a psychopath that goes around killing people.

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I guess it's the moral of this story.

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No, I'm kidding.

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But seriously, is, you know, whatever you believe in, the things that you hold dear,

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the values that you have, right, continue to believe in it, continue to strive into

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them, but in doing so, don't reject everything that doesn't align with that.

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And in the sense that, you know, just in the sense that saying everything that doesn't

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align with that is bad, you just have to be able to discern which ones are worth considering.

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And that's on a personal, person by person basis.

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Only you can figure that out.

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And I just encourage you to take the time to reflect on it.

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So hey, this marks the end of season five, man.

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Man, I can't believe it's been that long already.

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I just want to thank you all for tuning into each week to each week to hear me talk about,

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you know, anime and God and life, random stuff, you know, again, thank you guys so much and

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come back for next season because I'm going to cover a series that it really highlights

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the internal struggle that I think we all go through when it comes to our personal growth

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and what that means and what it looks like.

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And that anime is Mob Psycho 100.

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So again, thank you guys for tuning in to today's episode.

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I pray that you got what you needed out of it and hopefully you learned something new

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about yourself.

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Feel free to subscribe to the podcast, leave a review.

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And as always, remember, you are the main character of your story and that story doesn't

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end until he says so.

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All right, be blessed.