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<v Speaker 1>This is a clip from Raised by Giants. You can

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<v Speaker 2>This is always going to struck me as odd. Why

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<v Speaker 2>is it only Abrahamic religions that deal with possessions and demons?

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<v Speaker 2>Why are their only Catholic exorcists? Right, You'd think that

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<v Speaker 2>if the Abrahamic religions were correct and true, why would

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<v Speaker 2>supposed demons only mess with the only group of people

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<v Speaker 2>that can cast them out. It really doesn't make any sense.

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<v Speaker 2>Have you ever heard of a Hindu having a demonically

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<v Speaker 2>possessed person that required the Catholic churches blessing for an exorcism?

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<v Speaker 1>No, but the hinders do have rituals where they enact

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<v Speaker 1>where they become the God or goddess. Right, I've seen him.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been there, and I've seen it. It's pretty dramatic.

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<v Speaker 1>But they are possessed by the God, but it's just

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<v Speaker 1>a short lived possession. During the ritual that it's over

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<v Speaker 1>and they're they're back to themselves, and they know that

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<v Speaker 1>they were acting it out and all that, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>because they studied the god that they were impersonating.

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<v Speaker 2>So No, and I wonder about what about Buddhism. I've

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<v Speaker 2>never heard of a Buddhists requiring the assistance of the

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<v Speaker 2>Catholic Church in regards to someone exercising demons.

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<v Speaker 1>Kind of laughable, actually, yeah. So my theory is that

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<v Speaker 1>the rituals of the Abrahamic religions open up the person

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<v Speaker 1>doing the rituals to demonic attack. I do believe that

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<v Speaker 1>is true. But also all three of these religions, I

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<v Speaker 1>hate to say it, but they're well well known for

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<v Speaker 1>sexual abuse of got people.

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<v Speaker 2>And that's my point, right, Okay, So when's the long

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<v Speaker 2>you heard a Catholic priest walk into a monastery and

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<v Speaker 2>exercise the possessed freaking shinto monk. Never so, you would think,

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<v Speaker 2>by the logic of the Church that the people that

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<v Speaker 2>aren't involved with or believe in the Abrahamic religions would

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<v Speaker 2>be the weakest, okay, in the furthest away from God.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, that's pretty much what all of Christianity is like.

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<v Speaker 2>Anybody that doesn't believe in Christianity isn't of goden and

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<v Speaker 2>is the farthest away of from God. That's why there's

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<v Speaker 2>all these people trying to convince others to go to

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<v Speaker 2>church and go to read the Bible. You know, why

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<v Speaker 2>isn't anyone else being possessed besides the believers in the

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<v Speaker 2>fundamentalist Abrahamic religions. And is it just a coincidence that

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<v Speaker 2>most sexual abuse scandals out of any religious institution ever

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<v Speaker 2>is the Catholic Church.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. The other two are pretty good too, man, don't

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<v Speaker 1>underestimate them. You know, the the video of the synagogue

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<v Speaker 1>in New York, the underground tunnels and all that.

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<v Speaker 2>So I think Judyism as a as an offset of Christianity.

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<v Speaker 1>It's it's still very similar. Yeah, uh, Christianity probably doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>worship the Yellow Him as much, but yeah, I would

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<v Speaker 1>say it isn't stilled from from the rituals and the

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<v Speaker 1>beliefs of those religions stemming down from the Elohim. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>because if you read the Old Testament, the Elohim who

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<v Speaker 1>made us, supposedly they're fornicators, they're alcoholics, they're I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, they're murderers, they go out with young women,

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<v Speaker 1>and so I don't know, they appear to me to

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<v Speaker 1>be not very nice. Whatever they are gods or people

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<v Speaker 1>or whatever. And I think that the three abraham religions,

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<v Speaker 1>which were created by them have the same predilections that

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<v Speaker 1>they have, and they're passing it down to their children.

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<v Speaker 1>And it would be interesting to see statistics on, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the number of sexually abused people around the world, and

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<v Speaker 1>see what religions that they come from. And I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>bet you they all come from this religion.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to bet that they all come from the

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<v Speaker 2>Abrahamic the three main Abrahamic religions. I mean, that's a

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<v Speaker 2>that's a given. I mean, I'm sure that we could

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<v Speaker 2>probably look it up really quickly and find that information. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>it's just incident that the religion that has the most

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<v Speaker 2>sexual abuse is also has the most demons possessing people

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<v Speaker 2>and has the only utricists in any religion, Like give

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<v Speaker 2>me a break.

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<v Speaker 1>And back when I was young, which was about the

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<v Speaker 1>time the Extorcist got made, I'm very I learned a

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<v Speaker 1>long time ago that when I was around adults when

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<v Speaker 1>I was a kid, to just be quiet and listen

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<v Speaker 1>to him. I could learn a lot more just by

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<v Speaker 1>listening to him and not saying anything. And so I

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<v Speaker 1>would kind of disappear, becoming visible in the room of adults,

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<v Speaker 1>and so I would hear them say stuff. At the time,

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<v Speaker 1>I was six or seven and quite understand what I

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<v Speaker 1>was listening to. But as I got older, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>like ten or twelve, I started realizing that my parents' generation,

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<v Speaker 1>the males in my parents' generation, they made jokes about

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<v Speaker 1>having sex with children all the time. I mean all

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<v Speaker 1>the time. It was. It was an ongoing joke. And

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<v Speaker 1>I remember talking to a member of my parents' generation

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<v Speaker 1>and he told me that it was his right. He said,

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<v Speaker 1>right now. He was like, he was a businessman, salesman,

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<v Speaker 1>lived down the street from me. I was talking to her,

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<v Speaker 1>like ten eleven years old. He said, it's my right.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, what's your right? I said, she's my daughter,

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<v Speaker 1>it's my right. And you know, it really shook me

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<v Speaker 1>up at the time, and I thought, wow, So I

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<v Speaker 1>think it's actually more prevalent than we can imagine. And

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<v Speaker 1>maybe not so much now because it's become taboo, thankfully,

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<v Speaker 1>but in the old days, I think it was maybe

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<v Speaker 1>like higher than fifty percent maybe of the of that generation,

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<v Speaker 1>and and it was taken for granted. And I also

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<v Speaker 1>remember again when I was maybe fourteen years old, I

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<v Speaker 1>was watching TV. It was a congressional hearing for something

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<v Speaker 1>my mom was watching it because she was really into politics.

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<v Speaker 1>And I heard, Remember all of Congress were all men

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<v Speaker 1>in those days. All the senators were all men, right,

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<v Speaker 1>there weren't any women maybe one. And guy got up

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<v Speaker 1>and made a joke about you know, old enough to

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to say it knocked old enough? Do

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<v Speaker 1>you know what? Old enough to? You know what? Right?

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<v Speaker 1>And it was and everybody laughed, it really laughed. The

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<v Speaker 1>whole Congress thought it was the funniest joke of all.

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<v Speaker 1>And he was making a joke about having sex with

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<v Speaker 1>you know, prepubescent teams essentially, and it was. It was

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<v Speaker 1>so so what I'm saying, it was in the light

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<v Speaker 1>of The Exorcist coming out, we had an underground in

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<v Speaker 1>our society going already. Right, and I'll even go one

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<v Speaker 1>step further. I want to disturb everybody, but I think

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<v Speaker 1>these things have to be said. The Boomers my generations,

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<v Speaker 1>the biggest generations ever lived on earth. Okay, we I

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<v Speaker 1>think it was eighty five million of us in America

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<v Speaker 1>born between nineteen forty six and nineteen sixty four and

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<v Speaker 1>or forty five to sixty four. And the generation had

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<v Speaker 1>just our parents' generation. The men had just come back

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<v Speaker 1>from a two front war of absolute horror, especially the

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<v Speaker 1>Japanese part where my dad was at absolute horror, I

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<v Speaker 1>mean really horror. And so they were coming back from

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<v Speaker 1>horror they were. And when they came back, they came

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<v Speaker 1>back to wealth. Because America started growing really rapidly and

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<v Speaker 1>millions and millions of young people everywhere everywhere, they had

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<v Speaker 1>to change Daylight savings time was created right in there

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<v Speaker 1>for us, so we could go to school in the

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<v Speaker 1>daylight my generation. So all sorts of societal things happened

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<v Speaker 1>because there were such a gigantic generation. Schools were being

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<v Speaker 1>built like everywhere because there was too many kids being born,

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<v Speaker 1>and everything was just flooding over and in the middle

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<v Speaker 1>of all this, so let's say the baby boomer started

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<v Speaker 1>in nineteen forty five. In nineteen sixty six, a song

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<v Speaker 1>came out and it was written by John Phillips, the

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<v Speaker 1>singer of the Laurel Canyon band Mama's in the Papas,

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<v Speaker 1>and he was sung by his best friend, Scott mackenzie,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was a gigantic, huge hit in America at

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<v Speaker 1>the time, and it was a very melodic song and

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<v Speaker 1>it was called San Francisco, and it was basically saying

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<v Speaker 1>to all the kids in America that you all come

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<v Speaker 1>to San Francisco because you're going to meet a gentle

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<v Speaker 1>people there that are waiting for you. Well, it's a

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<v Speaker 1>given kind of in in certain circles where an adult

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<v Speaker 1>will tell a child, don't worry, I'll be gentle with you.

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<v Speaker 1>And this song was completely blatant and nobody saw it.

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<v Speaker 1>And so what happened is all the runaways, all the

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<v Speaker 1>kids without any parents,