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You're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand. The concept of of pilfing

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from the Bible. The Bible is
a powerful book. It's over two thousand

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years old. It was written in
its entirety over a span of about fourteen

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hundred years around forty authors in three
languages, on three different continents, in

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times of peace, in times of
war, by kings and peasants alike.

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It's a powerful book. It's a
book, regardless of your religious beliefs,

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that people read all the time just
for the historical content. Archaeologists use it

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every single day. It is one
of the single most utilized books of antiquity

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used for archaeological study to this day. And yes, Hollywood even takes bits

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and pieces of it and uses it
because it works and it's good and it's

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interesting. But does that mean that
they're going to give credit to scripture?

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Does that mean that they're pointing towards
the Gospel, the good News? No,

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because even when there are films that
are made about religion, they usually

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have a spin on them as if
as if someone in Hollywood could put a

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better spin on scripture than God himself, so would And the Bible have an

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odd relationship it is. It is
the breast from where everyone feeds, but

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yet nobody gives credit. That's just
the way it works. It's like television

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and I Love Lucy. Watch an
episode of I Love Lucy if you haven't

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a long time, and you'll go, oh, my goodness. Every single

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show that has been made since the
time of I Love Lucy and now is

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a direct ripoff of I Love Lucy. And the Bible has been a source

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of creative inspiration for many, and
I think people are compelled to go towards

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and to read and to consume scripture. But there are those that refuse to

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see it as the word of God, but also still see the brilliance in

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it, and they battle with that, and it gets made into certain concepts

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get placed into film, and every
once in a while you'll go, oh,

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Just like there's common phrases in modern
speech that some know come from scripture

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and some don't. Scapegoat some know
come from scripture, some don't. Good

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Samaritan some know comes from scripture,
some don't. Prodigal Son again, over

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and over all these concepts, and
they many of them have been used in

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film. But that's really about the
state of humanity that humans like to pick

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and choose. It's one of the
scariest parts of about Christianity is to see

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it as in its entirety and as
a whole, to consume it a lot

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of the modern type religions or as
they would claim, non religions, or

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really about just taking what you want, and it's all about you and how

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you're going to achieve happiness, and
you're going to achieve a level of christ

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consciousness, and it's all about you
and about the things you're going to receive.

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Scripture is not about that. Scriptures
about God and why you should have

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a relationship with God because it's righteous, not because it's necessarily going to make

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things work out even on earth.
It's about doing it because it's true and

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it's right. And having Hollywood consume
that is not always that as easy as

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it may sound. People want to
reject things. People love law enforcement when

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they come to protect them. People
hate law enforcem when they come to correct

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them. And it's the same way
with scripture. People love it when it's

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on their side. People love it
when it's something they're already doing and they

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could say, see this proves it. But if it is used to correct,

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or to guide, or to teach. Is when people start to wrestle

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with it and say, oh,
you know what, that scripture it's too

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oppressive, you know what, so
embraces but they're oppressive for a reason,

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to help guide back the crooked teeth
into their proper spacing and placement. Freedom

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is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
The abuse of freedom is the most ugly

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thing. And so the Bible will
continue to be a resource for writers and

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filmmakers who want inspiration because the concepts
in it are timeless and ever teaching,

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they're profound, and more importantly,
they're true. But people don't want to

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deal with religious things because oh,
well, you know, organized religion and

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all that, and so people run
from it and they take concepts because the

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Bible continues to be compelling, filled
with what some may see as only stories

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that others will see our life changing
and inspiring and educational towards how to use

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this body of yours like a love
letter and an instruction manual all together rolled

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up into one. But people will
continue to quote things and misquote them and

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even think that there's some things that
are in scripture that are not or that

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they've heard something so that they believe
it to be true, and it goes

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on and on. That is the
cycle of this fantastic book that has inspired

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many and continues to do so for
those that actually pick it up and read

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it, not just in bits and
parts, but truly read it. Try

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to understand the chronology and what took
place when and why, and the history

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and who these people were and why
they mean something to the church, what

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they had to go through or what
they did to perpetuate this book, these

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concepts, these ideas to help people
understand, to help people see the truth.

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Often people died just for proclaiming what
is in this book that's true.

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Sadly people still do today, not
in the United States at least not very

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often, but all over the world
people are persecuted for what's in this book.

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Hollywood, like everything else, will
continue to come to it as if

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it's a carcass for their picking.
And there are those that will do justice

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to it and those that will not, and those that will steal and put

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it in a film that has nothing
to do with God. Because the truth

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is there and that it has good
structure. But I fear not, God

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sees all and In the end,
the Bible has the most power in its

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entirety. Mark, Welcome to Jesus
Christia. Thanks for taking my calls.

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Jesus, would you please give me
some advice. I am one of your

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servants and I do love you with
all my heart. But I must be

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honest to say that I'd been having
a drug problem. And I know of

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your healing power, and I know
of your power of forgiveness, but I've

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been struggling. I feel sober bad
because I haven't been living up to my

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true pretend to the question is,
Jesus, what can you tell a person

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like myself or any others that this
to help them ready rid this problem and

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live out, live out up up
to my full potential. Well, people

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do it, Mark, people do
it all the time. What particular drug

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is your fancy? Now, it's
not the time to lie, absolutely honesty,

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it's the best policy, okay.
And how long have you been doing

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crack off and off for like seven
years? And have you ever tried to

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work a program or go into a
program that can help you and what happens?

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What's your downfall? Basically just not
being able to find an opinion and

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just a weakness on my on my
behalf. You say not being able to

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find a companion, now's not the
time for a companion. You're trying to

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you're trying to polish yourself and remove
this from your life so that your companion

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worthy. You don't need somebody a
companion for that. As a matter of

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fact, I would scrape all of
that off of your life and focus solely

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on this concern, and that is
that this is something you invited into your

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life and you continue to invite in
your life. And now there's you know,

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addiction is involved in it, and
that's going to take medical help as

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well. But you have to take
it incredibly serious and you have to,

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you know, jump into it completely
and wholeheartedly to make it happen. It's

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not about forgiveness. There's nothing to
be forgiven for yet because you're you're there's

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no repentance, you're not having it
removed from your life in any way,

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shape or form. You're continuing doing
it. Now. You can beat yourself

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up over doing it, or you
can get real help that removes you from

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the process. It's not about companionship, it's not about any of those things.

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Something drove you to this particular drug
that's highly addictive, and you continue

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to use it every day, And
the key is to not use it every

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day. That's the simple truth.
Find new ways, whatever they may be,

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each and every day mark to not
use That's what you have to do.

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And you're going to need help in
doing that because doing it alone is

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going to be too large of a
task. Diane, Welcome to the Jesus

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Christ Show. Hi, Hi Diane. How can I help you? I'm

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dealing with as how long ago was
this? What if? Osternal souls with

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your father? You have to trust
that God has a way of working through

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these things and that it's not for
you to necessarily know, but you should

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have peace that God works all things
out to his glory. Well, why

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didn't take my business? Do you
know why your son took himself? Why

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wasn't shop inspiritors? The holy spirits? There hep deal with? If you

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even know what day it is?
Most of the time, you remember when

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I hate to last. My own
wife is fractured. But how do you

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think that that honors your son by
not eating or not knowing what day it

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is? How does that honor his
life? Yeah, it seems like you're

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giving reverence to his death, but
not to his life. I just miss

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him so much, of course you
do. He was such a good boy,

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who was such a good person.
He loved everybody. He didn't have

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any friends, he only had adopted
brothers and sisters. Did he leave a

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note? Did he leave a note? No? No, no, no

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later, no email, nothing.
So that that makes it that much more

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difficult to not as to why he
did what he did. I know he

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was planning it for a long time. How do you know that? Because

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he would go on hikes with his
brother and they would find he would stop

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at places and kind of look around
and he'd say like, no, not

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here, not there, and then
he would find a place. Then he

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would have a place that he decided
to hang himself. And that's where he

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finally stopped winning on hikes with his
French and his brothers. So he would

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talk about where he would hang himself
when he would go on hikes. No,

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he didn't say I'm going to hang
myself. That it was like not

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here, not here, not there, not no, let's let's go.

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Did he have mental problems? I
don't. I know, it's hard.

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It's hard to say because he was
thirty, so I couldn't like and have

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him go see a counselor or be
hospitalized or put on some kind of medication,

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or he was too old. I
see, but did you see any

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signs of it? As a mother, I know, it's kind of difficult,

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you know, hindsight being twenty twenty, I would say, yeah,

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but I but no one knows why
with no note, nothing left behind,

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no one really knows why he did
what he did. Yeah, you know,

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I don't have any cruise about why
he actually did what he did.

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And now he's gone, and I
can't even, you know, slap him

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because I'm so mad at him for
doing that. Oh, I'm sure,

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you know. And I just I
I can see now, you know.

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I would do things like say he
would sleep all day and I which is

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usually a sign of depression. Yeah, And I would say, and I

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would come home and I would or
leave for work, and I would say,

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if you could be up in the
morning or up in the afternoon when

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I get home from work, I'll
take you down and get your license.

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So I'll take you down and get
the registration for your car. Or I'll

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take you down and we can get
insurance. And he keeps saying no,

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Mom, No, Mom, because
she didn't want me to spend the money

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on things that he wasn't going to
use. And I see that now.

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Is there any drinking or drug use
in the house by you or anyone else?

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No, I'm little drinking. Maybe
put no drugs and he didn't drink

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at all, gotcha? But you
do, I do a little bit.

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You know, I haven't talked every
time before you admit? Has that progressed

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it all afterwards? No? Okay? Well, the pain of losing someone

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in so called normal circumstances is bad
enough. When you come across the situation

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where someone takes their life and they
especially don't leave any sort of closure.

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People make the mistake of thinking that
committing suicide ends the pain, and it

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doesn't. It passes it on to
your loved ones and those that are still

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living, and so you are the
recipient of that. But you can choose.

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You can choose you are alive,
Diana, and you can choose to

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remember the loving person that he was
and the things that he did, or

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you can focus in on his death
and the ugly way that he died,

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and that can haunt you and that
can rule your life and the things that

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you do. Obviously it is now
if it's keeping you from eating and you

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don't know what day it is,
and it's you know, the Sunday after

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Thanksgiving, it's a fairly easy one
to remember with her, to realize you

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can't live this way, and that
doesn't that doesn't do anything to honor his

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life. It puts all of that
on hold. It's like you've packed away

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his entire life, only focusing on
his death, and that's all anyone will

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know or experience of him. And
then sooner or later people don't want to

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come around you or want to spend
time with you because as much as they

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would like to talk maybe about him, they certainly don't want to focus in

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on the death. Okay, he
lived for thirty years, that had nothing

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to do with his death, and
to wrap that up in one ball as

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one ugly exit is not healthy for
you and really adds nothing to him.

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And you're his mom. You're the
one that can teach people about the way

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he laughed or the things that he
did do that we're loving and kind and

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human. And if all you,
as the now curator of his museum,

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if you're only focusing on the death, that's all anybody's going to know.

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And that's all anybody's going to see
on your face. Okay. And it's

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not that you shouldn't mourn, you
should, but there's a time for morning,

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Scripture says, and there's a time
for joy. And if you stay

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in this state of mourning, all
you're going to do is augur yourself.

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You're going to spin out of control, and people are going to fear being

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around you and trying to connect with
you. And I don't think that this

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would be the goal of your son, do you. No? He was

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You would if you know him at
all. He's had a good, kind,

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general loving spirit. He loved everybody
he had. Like I tell people

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when I talked about him, he
had no friends. She only had brothers

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and sisters. And did he get
along with his brothers and sisters? Not

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his real brothers and sisters, but
the one she adopted. His brothers and

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sisters, his biological brothers and sisters
very basically abandoned him and didn't do anything

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for him or to help him.
Why do you think that? Huh?

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Why do you think that's the case? Because I know I was there,

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No, But why do you think
they would do such a thing? Oh,

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they thought he was a He wouldn't
get a job and they so they

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berated him all the time. They
never invited him for a dinner or stay

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over, never sent him a birthday
car or a Christmas card, So he

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was ostracized quite a bit from the
family. Could set apart and me,

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he and I. They would go
off for some big family dinner or something,

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and he I wouldn't be invited.
It would be just him and I

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together. Why do you think they
treated you that way? I because my

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youngest daughter has hated me from day
she was born. Well that's odd.

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Yeah, no, no, I
mean that's odd. That's for everything in

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her life. She lost three babies, that was my fault. She couldn't

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go to school when she turned five
because there's no midterm. That was my

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fault. She anything that happened bad
to her was my fault. Always met,

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she hates me? Where was dad? And all of this? Uh

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kind of around but divorced? Now, why did you guys divorce? I

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didn't want to live like that anymore? And what was living like that with

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somebody who was cold or unemotional and
involved with my kids? Controlling? Why

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did you choose someone like that to
be their parent. Why would you choose

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someone like that to be your partner
and their parent. I didn't know that

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he would be turned out to be
that way. When I first married him,

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he wasn't that way, but he
turned out to be his mother.

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I see. Well, it sounds
like there's a lot more to this on

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as far as family dynamics. Sounds
like there's kind of a mess there,

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wouldn't you say? Oh yeah,
stepmother, Matthew's death at her at her

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feet? Why would you do such
a thing? She beat him, she

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made him into when she was he
was there, she made him into like

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a little slave out there waiting her
vegetable patch and put him in the basement.

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Now, why why would she spend
time there? How come he wasn't

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with you? Oh? I mean, I'm on an alternate weekend. Well,

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there's there's there's something, Diane,
There's something here that's outside of the

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scope of the time that we have, that's for sure. But there's a

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lot of a lot of knots in
that rope. And there's so much more

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than just the pain that he was
going through and the pain that you're going

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through. And there's a lot of
pain obviously with his passing, but there's

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other pain there too. There's remnants
of other things that I'm not sure about

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unless we talk for more. Unfortunately
we don't have that kind of time,

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but I would suggest that you find
someone that does that. You find a

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professional that can listen, a pastor
if you have a church, a priest,

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or someone that you can talk to, because there is a lot that

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went into that particular death and all
the surrounding things with you. And I'm

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sorry that you're in pain, and
I'm sorry for your loss, and you

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need to trust that God has dealt
with that. But you need to focus

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on finding your life and your voice
again without him here, so that you

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can move on, because there's no
glory or no gain by being in that

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state of sadness to a point where
you're ruining yourself. And I'm concerned about

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the drinking, honestly, and I
would look into those things and see what

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are the demons that you need to
deal with yourself. John, Welcome to

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Jesus CHRISTO. Yes, I was
wondering about the after life. Okay,

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before life, well that would be
this life before life. Oh after life

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is this life? Well? No, after life would be after this life?

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Oh, after this? See how
that works? After life? That

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would be after this physical life.
I say there is no before this physical

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life. No, there's some that
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No, not in that sense.
The Plato postulated that there was pre

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souls and pre incarnate souls and things
like that, but most Christians don't believe.

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How about him? Did you think
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you? As sir, well,
I read it in a book. You

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read it in a book? In
which book was that? Let me see?

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I got right here. It's called
The Pleasures of Philosophy by William Durant.

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Oh, I see well. As
far as the comparisons between Plato and

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Socrates, there are similarities, as
there are with all teachers and students,

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but there are differences as well.
So is your curiosity just philosophical or is

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it theological? A little bit of
both. Does this pertain to you directly?

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Are you concerned that there won't be
an afterlife for you? No,

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I'm not really concerned for myself.
I don't really know. I'm an agnostic.

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I don't really know. Okay,
do you think that there's a way

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to know it? All, or
do you think it's just empty faith?

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Well I did say it was empty
faith? Is pace empty? Well?

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It depends who you ask, really, Okay, But as far as you're

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from your own standpoint, do you
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or you just won't know until you're
there. I don't know how you could

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know unless you have experience. Oh
so you can only know things through your

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own experience, well experience talents,
of course it does. But you can't

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experience everything yet. There are many
things that you know that you take based

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on faith that someone else experienced them. Well, I have I have an

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axiom like one equals one. I
believe that's kind of true. Yes,

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one does indeed equal one. Okay, I might point my point being that

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there are lots of things that you
will come to learn or come to understand

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in life that aren't from your own
experiences but from other people's experiences. And

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and that's a good thing as well. It kind of goes hands in hand

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in hand. There kfi AM on
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