You guys will play all the Wii games. From like the 2000 and eight 2010, like Smash Bros Brawl on the Wii or our melee on the Playstations on the on the 64 system, the game Cube. There was this boss called the Master Hand. He was like a gloves white hand and he was like a boss and he was like this. That's what you see. You put strings on the end of like a puppet master who's doing a marionette play. That's how the world works in my opinion. Get the people with big money pulling the strings of people who have taken the money in exchange for their souls. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Shared Podcast. I'm your host, Austin Creed. My friends. Today I want to visit a topic that I think is extremely important due to the season we are in with all the politics ramping up all the propaganda at a fever pitch because of Joe Biden dropping out and come all up potentially getting the nomination and Trump. Getting his. Getting it potentially assassinated. Ohh. By the way, if you actually looked it up on Google, you won't really find anything. Which is ironic, isn't it? But I'm going to back up a little bit back. Up a. Little bit how you doing today. Is everything going OK? Everything all right? Good. I'm glad. And if it's not, well, I'm sorry, I'll, I'll try to help you, but there's not much I can do then we need. To discuss power. And how it poisons the mind or how it can poison the mind. You know. I think two of the strongest pillars of power are religion and politics, and the reason so many people can get consumed by either one of these is arguably, arguably, because they go so hand in hand. They're so intertwined. And a lot of people get really passionate about things that they can't really control. And. You know as much as I like to. Plug. My passion project, which is Biblical, Bachelor of the book. It's not just a book, it's a lifestyle. It is a philosophy through which you build the lifestyle that you want. You question the norms of reality and you through that you discover truths about yourself and about the universe. Let me tell you something, if you. Believe. What you hear 99% of what you hear? You take the inverse of that. You're getting real a lot closer to the actual truth. Let me tell you right now, if you believe half the stuff you read, see, hear or anything else, you're really asleep. I'm not just talking about politics, not just talking religion. We're talking about the entire society in general. You. I'll tell you a little story. You walk down, I walk through the mall. I like to go and I like to write in coffee shops. Why? Because, I mean, I could write in this room I'm in right now, and sometimes I do for, like, homework and. Stuff like that, but. You need to enlighten your mind. You need to go out and need to go and places. And create a little bit of go work area, a play area A didn't have like this. I think they call it temporal placement. I think that's. What they call it. I'm sorry if I seem a little tired, I'm not really tired. I'm more just. I'm over all of the complications in the world. I'm over feeling like I'm crazy because I see things for how I really are and I have the guts to say it. I know a lot of you are in the same boat as me. In fact, if you look at if you can look in my ear, I'm actually listening to synth wave. I love synth wave music. Fantastic. You know, I prefer like. Music that's instrumental only. I don't like to hear a lot of the voice is distracting to me. I like to hear music that doesn't tell me what I should be thinking about. Women, trucks, beer. Breakups. Taylor Swift. You name it. I don't like it when people tell me what to think. But it's like a form of mini meditation. When you sit back and you listen to music that's instrumental, it take you to a whole other place. And to me, that's a form of power that's influence over your mind, because your mind is where the battle is fought, my friends, your thoughts become actions. Your actions become behavior. Your behavior becomes habits. Make no mistake. You think it's a one off, right? You think? Ohh, it's not gonna affect me often. You know. It's just one thing. It's just one indulgence. It's just one action. No, it might start that way. Not gonna stay that way. No, it won't. And so when we get to this room of power and how it could poison your mind. The greatest power we can have, in my opinion, is over oneself, because it's so easy when we don't have power over our our lives where we live, what we do for work. How our friends or the world? Seize us and we don't have the amount of money that we want to have, we. Don't have the body. We want to have. It's really easy for us to, instead of turning inward, to turn outwards and say, you know what, it's their fault. If only I can control how people think about me. Boy, I could control the world only I control politics. When I control Pastor and Imam or rabbi, that my life would be better, my life would everything would be better if I control everything outward because we're free to. Turn inwards. And I know I'm. Gonna sound all hokey and like I'm spiritual guru on TikTok. Now I can't. Stand those types of people by the. I. I can't stand people who go on like TikTok and are like 45 and they're it's like being a 45 year old divorced woman talking about how to succeed in a relationship when you can't even. Make a marriage work. And like 90% of the problems, you won't have sex. With your husband. I'm getting. I'm getting totally off track here. It's a stream of consciousness. If this is your first time listening to the show, you don't know what I'm talking about. You think this is disorderly? And then I'm all over the place when I'm not. This is a stream of consciousness. The dead art in the media today. You can get people with a black board. You can get people with great graphics and they can talk about one topic for three hours or they can get. Some. Know nothing. ****** on their shows. We talk about. Really. Idiotic bull crap and they laugh at them. That passes for entertainment and comedy. No, no, no, no, I'm not. What? We need to, we need to do better than that. 

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Reason why I I love going back to college after I left the military was I got to explore philosophy. And the reason I'm philosophy interesting is not because you get to study the great the minds of great men. Which? Isn't of itself interesting and beautiful, but it's about understanding that this pursuit of truth, which is what the red pill is red pill, stands for it. And I'm sure all of you know this already, but I'll catch those of you up to speed who don't know it's a reference from the matrix. Where Neo is handed a red pill and a blue pill. He has to decide which one he wants to take. Do you wanna take the red pill of reality? Or do you want to stay in the fantasy? And. Take the blue. Everybody who's fed the blue from default. There are blue pill distributors that you'll find who are exuding their influence of power over you in their attempt to create a mindless drone slave. And in my opinion, they are not in not particular order. By the way, no particular order. There is the church, there is. The education system, the entertainment system. Social media. And I can go on and on. It all goes back to money every time. Everything is about money, my friends and. I could get really animated and really worked up right now and and you know what I actually. Did. It earlier I had a conversation. I went to church this morning. And I was listening to him talk and you guys will not believe it. See, this is the kind of stuff I talk about power and how it poisons people. Sometimes when you have power, whether it's over a congregation over an entire Congress, an entire region like. In Africa, it doesn't matter. When you have power, you tend to not follow the words of Roger Kipling, Roger Kipling said. If you can keep the common touch. While rubbing shoulders with kings, then you will be a man, my son. If you can keep your head while all those around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you will be a man. My son. That's what Richard Kipling said. But a lot of people, they can't do that. They can't even keep the common touch because they don't want to almost make dirty themselves. They'd rather have this ideal version of the world that doesn't exist, that exists only in the minds of people who have all these ideals, but they don't know the truth. There's this dichotomy between truth and ideals that's been explained from everything from philosophy to Pokémon. Thing. Well, they've explored this idea of the truth versus ideals. Which one is correct? And I would argue. That the truth lies the truth. You could argue it goes towards the middle, which is not an A false assessment. But we need to 1st define what the truth is. We need to see reality for the harshness it is and find a way to cope, which I did. I did. I'm doing a show on that or come out after this one coping with reality. The problem is my friends, a lot of us, we don't understand where power comes from, where it stems from and how it's exerted against us. To make us slaves in plain English, you know. You. I can take this all the way back to the KGB in Russia or back to the Bolsheviks like Trotsky, Lenin and you can go all the way down. But I think I want to focus instead on a more modern. Simple. Let's go to Captain America in the Marvel Universe, I know a real big jump cut, right? Well, let's go there to The Winter Soldier. There's a man named Zola who worked for the Red Skull, which was not a vision of the Nazis in the Marvel Universe. And what's interesting is I've played this on the show before. I almost got the copyright, but luckily I didn't. I played this clip that talks about. How power is exuded? Not directly because then it could be confronted, but instead it's gone through the side door through the back door. So that you can't say no to it. It's passive. It's not a, it's not aggressive, it's passive. So you're gonna accept it in the same way that you might accept slogans that have everything to do with positivity. At least on the face of it, till you see it's actually negative. You see, it's actually quite damaging and dangerous, but you had to go a little, dig a little deeper to see that you, you had to fully understand the context to see it. And so when we talk about power, we talk about how. It is used against us in almost you guys ever played old Wii game? Teams. From like the 2000 and eight 2010, like Smash Bros Brawl on the Wii or our melee on the Playstations on the on the 64 system, the game Cube. There was this boss called the Master Hand. He was like a gloves white hand and he was like a boss and he was like this. That's what you see. You put strings on the end of like a puppet master who's doing a marionette play. That's how the world works in my opinion. Get the people with big money pulling the strings of people who have taken the money in exchange for their souls and exchange for influence. And that's why you see a very eerily similar story almost across the entire media landscape. You see stereotypes within the political realm. You see consistency within the religious realm and the charities and all that kind. You see similarities that are eerie, that they shouldn't be there. There should be a diversity of. Thought it naturally comes from the different world views the different experiences of people. Instead, you see almost exactly the same version of the same. It's the same thing, maybe in different flavors. Oh, ice cream. Maybe it's vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream, strawberry ice cream. But it's all ice cream. There's no, there's nothing else there. You see how that works? I'm I'm not making sense. I hope I am. Because that's how power is exuded over you. You take the sayings like for example, you use the Palestinians, saying that they're using now against the Jews to pretend like they're not a bunch of not, you know, Hitlers and headscarves, in my opinion. But what they're doing is they're using slogans from the from the KGB. Oh, you didn't know that that it was created by the USSR? Of course you didn't, because they sound positive. Like. Zionism is racism, or from the river to the sea. Objectively, those don't sound negative until you dig deeper and you realize what they're talking about. It's much more malicious, it's much more nefarious and evil when you break it down. Now that might be an extreme example. Once you understand that power is used through the side window in the back door and not through the front because then you can confront it. You realize how they're conditioning you, you realize how they turn you. Into an ally of the very people who are exploiting you. Whether it be the financial Titans, whether it be the political structure, whether it be relationship dynamics, whether it could I can go down. The list. All of it is structured around the idea of exploiting you without you knowing these people's names without you knowing how they're doing it, why they're doing it. That they're even doing it in the first place. And I think it's important for us to use analogies for us to use modern pop culture references to number one, make it digestible and #2 to help you understand and paint you a parallel picture, because a picture is worth 1000 words. And so, for example, when I use a Game of Thrones font for the title of the of today's show, it's the show you that that's exactly what's happening in front of your eyes, except instead of the Iron Throne you have. The resolute desk instead of the Iron Throne. And you have all the people standing around and vying for the throne and of the big, you know, the big families with the big sigils, you have parties, the political. Parties, that is. With their corporate donors, the big sponsors who sit behind them, who tell them what to say, what they should care about, where the big money wants them to go, is where they go. And when you step out of line. You tend to fall off the map. And that, my friend, is why we see the structure we see and then religion is not much different. That's why a lot of them, they pretend like it's not about money in the in church today when I was listening to the pastor who's talking about urging young men, men in general, but especially young men, to volunteer in the church to be in the church, be more active than I laughed. I laughed out loud when I. Heard. It because I thought to myself, it's no wonder that a lot of men are checking me out of church because they're treated like second class citizens. You don't care about them. They think that drinking beer and and having a wife makes them an alpha. I think having a an out of shape wife drinking beer and going and having a pickup truck makes them makes them an alpha. That does make you alpha. I mean, if you really want to get into it, you can read Song of Solomon and and Ecclesiastes where you say everything is vanity. But at the end of the day, it's all about the power, right? It's about the money, right? Because. Money is a form of power. My friends let me know what you have to say about all this. Do you think that I'm reading into this too much? Am I too cynical for you? I don't think so. I think I'm. I'm holding back. Frankly, I think. But at the end of the day, my friends, what do you think? How are some ways in your life you've seen the hands behind the scenes playing with your life, playing with your finances, playing with your social circles? How have you seen this play out? How scared are you? Of what you see and you're afraid to tell people because, number one, they won't believe you. Or number two, you're afraid that they're not going to understand, and that they're going to blame it on you because you're shattering this snow globe. They call it a worldview. What do you have to say? I think it's important for us to discuss this, but all of us are gonna have different views. We have different opinions. I think it's important for us to share our notes because at the end of the day, we all live in probably different areas of the country. We all live in the United States, which I doubt, and if we all have a similar experience and there has to be an underlying truth to what we are. Discussing. I learned in. I think it was what 6th grade about the the common denominator, lowest common denominator, and if we solve for that. It's got to be there. So my friends, when we get into power and how it can poison your mind against yourself and against your natural allies, meaning those of us who pursue the truth is with. You. We need to ask ourselves how we're being exploited in this way. How do we set ourselves up and how do we avoid it? How do we get people to not only how do we not just expose it to them, but? We get them to ask questions that they then have to answer for themselves, almost like inception. How do we incept the idea and the people we care about? That's a tough question. How do we incept in our own minds, accomplish the things we want to get the results and the goals that we want? It's a hard question. But I think it's important for us to ask it all the same so we can find an answer to it. It's not simple, it's. Going to be hard. But it's important for us to ask these questions so that we can then are forced to find a solution. We're forced to figure it out for ourselves. Otherwise, we live with unanswered questions, like an unclosed circuit. That won't generate electricity. We have to close it, let the circuit run. Even if it hurts you. They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. My friends encourage you to compare notes, ask questions, never just take what you hear for granted. Let these people know out here who are curious and they're hungry for knowledge. Reward them closed, closed mouths. Do not get fed. My friends, take care. See you next time out here. Peace.