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You're listening to KFI AM six forty
on demand. Gary. Welcome to the

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Jesus Christ Show. Oh Hi,
Hey Gary, thanks for being so patient.

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Welcome. Hi. A theological question, Okay, got a suicide?

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Okay? Is there ever a good
reason, for example, when it benefits

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short immediate family? No? Right, No. Now, there's some people

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that might say, well, there's
time the instances of martyrdom or things like

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that, to murder, to murder
yourself, which is what suicide is,

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is never going to be condoned by
God. And some people might split theological

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hairs and say, well, martyrdom, if you know they're going to kill

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you, is it okay? Things
like that. That's not what people are

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asking, And it's not what you're
asking. Most people are asking and looking

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for excuses to do so or to
okay someone else doing so. And there

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is all kinds of arguments about quality
of life. And I want this point

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to hit home that it is a
misnomer. Is humanity keeps pushing this quality

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of life issue and they pull on
heartstrings because it's ugly to watch somebody in

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pain, in any type of pain, whether it's financial pain, emotional pain,

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physical pain. It's so ugly,
that the world has become conditioned by

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that that it's okay to put people
out of pain, and that's not always

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true. It's not always a good
thing to put someone out of pain.

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And to say the term quality of
life is to point to the fact that

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life inherently has value and quality unto
itself. Otherwise you couldn't say that if

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it was lacking something, the quality
was changed. For instance, if something

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you wouldn't see, say something is
that is wrinkled by name, nature has

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lost its quality if it's wrinkled more
because it's just it's wrinkled by nature.

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It's something that is not wrinkled.
When wrinkled, you say, well,

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the quality is changed. But it
has to have value inherently in itself to

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even know or to care whether there's
damage to it. So life precedes the

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quality of life because life is more
important than the quality of life. And

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people don't get that. They kind
of dance around and say, well,

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but quality. If life really sucks
to have, then it's of no value.

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Well, a life to a baby
may not be like much to a

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baby, or you know, the
baby's going Hey, people have to feed

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me, people have to bathe me. And then someone might say, well,

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it's about the hope that the baby's
going to grow into an adult and

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have a better life. Well,
it's the same with heaven. It's the

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same with with the the hope for
the things not seen, the belief in

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those things that God spoke about.
That there is a time for that and

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pain. Some pain is necessary for
growth in an understanding. So there's I've

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heard people ask about, Well,
and this may be the path you're going

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down, Gary, about if I
commit suicide, there's a clause that will

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give money to my family. Your
family doesn't care about money. Nobody cares

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about money, even as much as
they complain about it. No child ever

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knows the bank book of their parents. As an adult, you have no

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idea how much money your parents had
in their bank book. None, even

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in the best of times. Even
in the worst of times, you might

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notice a certain change of food or
fighting patterns, argument patterns, whatever it

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might be, but the children don't
know. And so the attitude that you're

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going to make things better by applying
money to it is ridiculous. So a

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lot of the things that humans tend
to think are are the salvation or this

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is going to make it all they
all we need. How many times you

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hear this in a relationship, All
all I need is for him to do

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this, or all I need is
for her to do this. No,

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that's not necessarily true. Or all
we need to be happy is to have

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a house, or all we need
to be happy is to have more money

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or more things, or whatever it
might be. And that's not true.

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Those things don't bring happiness. The
whole purpose of all those things is to

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have interaction. Is the way you
interact with one another. It's all about

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communion and experiencing humanity one another,
having relationships is what it's about. It's

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not about the other things, all
the accouterment, all the It's like saying

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that clothes are important. The body
is not. Clothes are there for the

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body and make no sense and have
no purpose outside of the body. And

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so when you get caught up in
the world about the accouterment and that it

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will be happier if you do this, no, it's about you. No

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one is happier when someone else is
gone. The pain still exists and gets

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pushed on to someone else. And
that that notion that it's loving or somehow

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the kind thing to do. No, now may may there be exceptions to

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that rule. You go through scripture
and you go point to the Martyrhm thing.

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Again, there are specifics to those, but the notion that I've heard

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a lot and even seen ugly examples
of in the past couple of years because

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of finances and the like, and
this may or may not be where Gary

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was going. But for you,
I want you to understand that this that's

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not a real solution. That it's
not a solution to eliminate all solutions.

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It's not a not a choice to
eliminate all choice, which is what you

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do. Suicide. It's the ultimate
act of freedom that abolishes all other acts

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of freedom. It in itself is
so destructive it can't ever bring good.

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And by doing that, by by
making those decisions and putting that on to

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other people, it's not as noble
as it sounds. It's not taking a

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bullet for your family. It's not
protecting them truly, because there's other options.

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In a bullet situation, it's gonna
be the only option. If it's

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not the only option, then you're
being a fool. And it's never the

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only option. There is always another
exit, but usually it's more difficult strangely

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as that sounds that you'd look at
something, you'd go gosh, it's much

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easier. That's why people refer to
it as coward is. That's why it

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gets that that moniker, because it
is the easier way out, pull the

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plug rather than living, learning and
understanding even through the ugliest of times.

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It's like closing your eyes and plugging
your ears and putting your head in the

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sand in hopes of it all going
away, and it doesn't. Sadly,

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it moves on to the other people
you love. Tom, Welcome to the

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Jesus Christ Show morning, sir.
Just to have an odd ball question.

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Okay, I'll give you an oddball
answer. How about that? And it

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was actually regarding tattoos, and okay, I consider myself a Christian and I

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do what I can, But I
was wondering about getting tattoos actually in religious

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tattoos, you know, crosses and
stuff like that, and if that's against

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the Bible or Christianity in general.
Okay, well, well, the key

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is the content of the tattoo.
Obviously, if you get something disgusting or

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vulgar or demonic or something like that, there'd be problems with it. However,

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what happens is a lot of people
misquote or misunderstand Leviticus nineteen and Leviticus

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nineteen, particularly verse twenty eight,
it says, you shall not make any

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cuts in your body for the dead, nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves.

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I am the Lord. Unfortunately this
is translated tattoo, but it's really

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not talking about the tattoo that you're
talking about. This particular concern was dealing

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with the Pagans of the day that
were doing things under the dead, practices

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under the dead. Now, if
this wasn't talking about that, then even

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an earring a woman wearing an earring, or any piercing to the body would

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be a problem of any kind.
Also, if you look at verse twenty

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seven, it says you shall not
round off the side growth of your heads,

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nor harm the edges of your beard, And if you shaved, you'd

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be committing the same sin. So
this is these are religious rites that are

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specifically That's why it says unto the
dead or for the dead after each one

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is because as they were a practice
of the Canaanites or the Pagans that were

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doing things that the our Jewish brothers
and sisters thought were inappropriate and wanted to

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set themselves apart by doing things differently
than that. So as it stands in

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the modern times, No, there's
no problem with you having a tattoo as

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long as it's not crude or vulgar
and you're of age. Norman, Welcome

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to the Jesus Christ Show. Thank
you for taking my college. Jesus,

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my pleasure, thank you for being
so Patientuation is that I am recovering alcoholics

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twelve years sobriety of recovering homosexual three
years if non homosexual activity, and I

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get on my hands meads every day
and do thanks to you for giving me

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one more day of life. I'm
fifty six years old. I call it

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my business up two years ago because
it was just a plity cost prohibited for

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me to maintain and keep it up. I got five dogs in my life

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with your rescue animals. I'm trying
to keep these dogs for the last two

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years. Right now, I'm version
on uh the borderline homeless person, as

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well as struggling to hang on to
these animals, which I love with more

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than life itself. My question to
you is is there any any light at

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the end of the tunnel. I
just don't see it. I keep praying

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and I keep and I've recently actually
contemplated suicide for the first time because I'm

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it's like every time I take a
step forward, to take two steps backwards,

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and I honestly don't know what the
answer is. I'm trying to live

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a whole hearted life. I'm trying
to be cognizant and a good person.

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I've had two situations that were I've
had to go to situations where people find

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with finances and stuff where it just
don't see why where I'm at and don't

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understand it, and and I've probably
explained to them that it's because of the

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bad decisions I've made in my life. And one of the bad decisions will

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to make sure I had someplace else
to move to when I close my business

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up, because I've always had these
animals with me in my business, and

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my business now being gone, you
can say i lost not only a business,

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that I lost a home, and
I've been finding it very, very

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difficult to find some place to live
that is conducive to maintaining and keeping the

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dogs and which dolls. One has
to be very careful because they are they

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are God's creatures. And they are
sure there there. They are unpredictable well,

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and I have very I've had very
many close calls with dolls and some

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human beings, and I found that
being as far away from human human beings

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is the best thing for me.
However, I need human beings in my

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life in order to generate income.
And we'll see, Norman. Actually you're

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pointing out some things, and you
know, for the sake of all the

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limitations we have on the program,
I want to focus on that. By

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it's wonderful that you have animals,
but you have made an agreement with those

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animals that you're going to take care
of them. And when you can no

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longer take care of them, part
of that will be to part with them

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and give them a home where they
can be taken care of. And it's

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imperative that they have that opportunity.
And then you need to see why you

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push away from people. Pushing away
from people, it can be a problem.

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There are some pay that gets so
wrapped up in animals that they have

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no more social skills, and that
that has become detrimental to you, which

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has now become detrimental to the animals. We need to get you focused back

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on that hang on the line,
because I want to talk to you off

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the air, because it can take
longer than the time that we have now.

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Oh Norman talking with Norman off the
air. A sweet, sweet man

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who was in a very lucrative industry
and he is now knocking on the door

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of homelessness. And I want you
to hear this story. Norman's not on

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the air with us. We spoke
off the ear as well, and as

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I feared, the time was not
going to allow us what we needed.

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But he has five dogs. These
dogs are his life. As we talked

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on the phone, it turns out
that these dogs have also been part of

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the problem. That he was bringing
these dogs to work and they became a

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liability. And so now he's not
called anymore for that line of work.

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And I know that you love animals, and loving animals is a wonderful and

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noble thing, and you're commanded to
do so in scripture. But there's a

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point where you have too much or
you're doing it. It's a perversion of

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what you're called to. And now
unless you do one thing and that has

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changed the entire trajectory of your life
and say I'm no longer to do this.

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I'm going to get in a business
where I can make money taking care

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for dogs, loving them, whether
it's walking other dogs, whether it's watching

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them, whatever it might be,
working at a kennel, working in a

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humane environment for animals, whatever it
is, then then you have to shift

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yourself because if it's almost like you
know, alcoholism or something else, when

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it starts to impede on your life, that should be a queue. When

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it starts to erode the very foundation
of of you know, how people live

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in society, then there's a problem
with whatever it is. And if you

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love animals, but now you've become
the weird cat person, or you see

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these things on the news where someone
their house exudes such a horrific odor that

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they call the police, please come. And there's cats everywhere, and what

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seems like a noble thing to take
in these strays and to protect them has

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now become putrid and vulgar, and
cats laying next to dead carcasses of cats.

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It's no longer loving. And when
you have too many dogs that you

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or too many animals of any kind
for you to take care of, that's

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no longer okay. You need to
find ways to make sure they get into

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good homes. And if it's become
a problem with your job, now you've

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lost your job. You're not doing
them any good. And the image of

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the monkey reaching in the you know, the candy jar, and the concept

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of grabbing so much everything you can
grab and then trying to bring your hand

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out and you can't because you're making
a fist. Now that's filled with stuff,

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and now you're going but I want
it, and I don't want to

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let go. If I don't let
go, I'm not going to be able

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to have just one. In Scripture, it says there is he who gathers

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yet scatters, and he who scatters
yet gathers in proverbs, and really the

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imagery there is that there are those
that hoard everything in life and get nothing.

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It's like everything you're gonna get,
you've got, now that's it.

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The monkey, all he has is
the grip of those candy, those cookies,

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whatever they may be, in his
hand, that's it. He can't

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bring it out of the jar when
they filled his grip. And likewise,

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there are things that you hold on
to in life that will just become a

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detriment, will pull you down.
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wrong to have dogs, but when
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when they become so prominent in your
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job or not. Now that a
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rest of society as you go on
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Now it starts to affect everyone because
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And hear these words correctly. I
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that I'm telling you it's wrong to
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That is not my point. There
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And when you take on too many
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or you can't properly give them the
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not love. And I was so
saddened to hear what Norman's going through,

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and what a sweet man and sweetheart, and his desire was to be

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with these dogs, but you know
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his job. Too many, too
much, and not the wherewithal to take

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care of them, and it ended
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to hear his situation. I told
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for him to work with dogs.
If he loves them so much that he

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was willing to give up his work
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to work that into who you are
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life in a different way. Because
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can't bring five dogs with you to
work every day and assume that. No,

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you know, no one's going to
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the problems that surround that. Can't
put that on them. Nicholas, Welcome

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to the Jesus Christ Show. Yes, all right. I had a question

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about if there was any recorded history
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Jesus is God, the Father's son, if they had a sense of

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humor, sure, I mean,
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good example. I mean that's a
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you look at scripture, yes there
is times. Unfortunately, Nicholas, when

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people read scripture, they kind of
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it slows down the narrative. It
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if you've ever read an email from
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or someone smiling or what have you. Then sometimes you read it you

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go are they being serious or are
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the same thing with scripture. I
think a lot of times they'll read something

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that inherently has humor in it,
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So, for instance, there's a
story of I'm sure you've heard many

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times Matthew nineteen twenty four where it
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Heaven? And I say this exact
line, I say to you, it's

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hard for a rich man to enter
the Kingdom of Heaven. Goes on,

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and again I say to you,
it is easier for a camel to go

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through the eye of a needle than
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of God. Now, when you
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oh, wow, is that profundity? Is that just being profound and deep?

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But now hear it this way,
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it's hard for a rich man to
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the crowd go allah, you know, the Johnny Carson Show, how hard

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is it, and then me coming
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is so hard. I'm not going
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It's easier for a camel to go
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for a rich man to enter the
Kingdom of God. Now that actually has

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humor in it. It's profound and
it gets the point across, and it's

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truth. Now, some people feel
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in scripture, that it degrades scripture. It doesn't. It shows it brings

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scripture to life, and really it
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on than meets the eye, and
you have to read it. So absolutely,

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there are times many times in scripture
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part of it to prove a point. Just as I used parables and stories

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to explain something or get a greater
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as well. There's nothing wrong with
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to use coarse jesting or ugliness.
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Now humor leads a lot to be
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that you know it wasn't exactly like
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waka or anything like that, or
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nothing like that. But it does
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there's nothing wrong with humor. Benjamin, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.

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Yes, Hi, Jesus, Hi
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Yes? I like to know the
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that when when someone knows the the
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they can truly know that person.
So I like to know what is

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the origin of your name? Because
this planet is in trouble. I mean,

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it's seriously in trouble, and I
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all of the truths that has happened
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were translated. So, oh,
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Okay? You know it's Do you
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What does it mean? It means
it just slipped your mind? Doesn't

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it like a middle name? From
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it's a middle name and Jesus and
you know it's Hebrew Bejamen Benjamin. It

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means uh, son of my right
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your name. It means like a
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is a little different the name Jesus, and scripture absolutely has importance. However,

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the word Jesus, the name Jesus
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because it's not a that's not a
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that's translated Jesus is actually Uh Yeshua. So that's the name. That's My

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actual name is Yeshua. It's pronounced
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that in a second. But the
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Yahweh is salvation. Now this Hebrew
name specifically given to me because it's referring

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to the fact that I will bring
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Okay. I got another question,
Yes, sir, and what is the

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Hebrew name for Joshua? Same thing. Yeah, Yeshua is Joshua. Here,

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here's why, here's why, here's
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little bit. Yeshua is the actual
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should be Joshua. However, in
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Actually that to make me stand out
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speaking about the Messiah and not just
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Jesus, which is a variation.
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that the scripture has been translated into
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Greek. So that's how you get
Jesus is kind of a modification of that,

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but ultimately it means the same thing, and the purpose is still there.

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It's just to make it stand out, similar to you know, in

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a household when you have a you
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imagine George Foreman's household. Oh boy, every single one of his children named

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George. They're they're bound to have
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everyone is. And Jesus ended up
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you knew that it was talking about
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to say something this comes up.
It's interesting. I usually mentioned this and

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didn't mention it this one time.
Inevitably, I leave something out due to

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time, someone will write or say, well what about this, And we

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get this a lot from skeptics.
You sit there with their pad and pencil

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that listened to the show and try
and nitpick. And I'm fascinated by the

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amount of garbage that still is out
there, you know, like people saying,

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oh, you know, the Red
Sea is mistranslated. It wasn't the

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Red Sea. It was the Red
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deep, and so the Red Sea
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that parted, and therefore it's not
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to which you pause and you go, okay, well, maybe it's

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not very miraculous for six inches of
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However, it is pretty miraculous to
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six inches of water. So now
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I was talking about the eye of
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Again. There are two other theories
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close in the original language to the
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the vowels and such, that it's
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saying rope. Doesn't say rope,
and it's not translated into rope for a

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reason. And then they'll say,
oh, but the eye of a needle

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is actually the gateway. And what
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and at a certain time of night
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only a small gateway that you could
get into after hours that was you know,

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manned at. They would try and
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the camels had to get down to
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and this was called the eye of
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Oukham's razor is the belief that you
don't overcomplicate something. If you hear

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hoof, you know, galloping outside, don't assume that's a zebra. It's

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probably a horse. Likewise, when
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the eye of a needle, it
shows the humor of things, and isn't

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You don't need to go running about
saying all these things. Even in early

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biblic Bible encyclopedias they print the alleged
eye of the needle gateway. It's all

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false, it's not true. And
this stuff continues to perpetuate today because people

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think it's interesting rather than seeing the
simple explanation, which is right there in

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front of you. I hope that
you enjoyed the show. Thank you for

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joining me every single Sunday. And
remember, more importantly are these words,

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