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Life is suffering,
right?

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Indisputable.

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What do you do about that?
You,

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you voluntarily accepted and then strive
to overcome the suffering.

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That's a consequence of that and you do 
that for you and you do that in a way 

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that makes it better for other people 
and then that works and one question 

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might be,
well,

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how well does it work?
And the answer is you're.

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The only way that you can find out is by
trying it.

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That's it.
That's the existential element of it.

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The proof is to be derived by the 
incarnation of the attitude in your own 

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life.
No one can tell you how it will work for

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you.
It's the thing that your destiny is to 

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discover that and you have to make.
You have to make the decisions to begin 

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with.
It's like because you can't do this 

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without commitment,
you have to commit to it first.

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That's the act of faith that the 
character guard was so insistent upon.

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You have to say,
I'm going to act as if being as good.

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I'm going to act as if truth is the 
pathway to enlightenment.

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I'm going to act as if I should pursue 
the deepest meaning possible in my life,

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and there's there's reasons to do none 
of those,

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their real reasons,
so it's really a decision,

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but you can't find out what the 
consequences of the decision is unless 

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you make the decision.
I think the same thing happens when you 

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get married.
By the way,

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if you think you might leave,
you're not married and then you think,

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well,
the marriage didn't succeed.

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It's like,
well,

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maybe you were never married because the
rule is you don't get to leave and 

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there's a reason for that rule.
Now I'm not saying that there aren't 

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situations where there should be 
exceptions made for that.

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That's not the point.
The point is that there's some games you

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don't get to play unless you're all in,
and the other thing that's so 

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interesting about being alive is that 
you're all in.

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No matter what you do,
you're all in.

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This is going to kill you.
So I think you might as well play the 

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most magnificent game you can while 
you're waiting,

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because do you have anything better to 
do?

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Really?
Why not?

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Pick the best thing possible that you 
could do.

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Why not do that?
Maybe you could justify you're wretched 

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existence to yourself that way I think 
you could.

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That's what it looks like.
You know,

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people find such meaning in the 
responsibilities they adopted,

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stops making them ask questions about 
what life is for.

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If you have a newborn child,
for example,

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like unless you're really in a bad way,
psychotically depressed or or maybe your

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personality really needs some retooling,
you stop thinking about

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anything but ensuring that that baby is 
doing well and if someone comes along 

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and asks you an existential question 
about your commitment to that,

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the right response is why are you asking
me such stupid questions when,

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when the,
when this,

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this is manifesting itself right in 
front of your eyes like how blind can 

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you be?
That isn't a time for,

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for questions about the meaning of life.
The answer is right in front of you and 

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if you can't see it,
it's not because life has no meaning.

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It's because you're blind mean.
That's what they image of the Virgin 

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mother and the child is all about.
It's like,

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what's the answer to the meaning of 
life?

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Here's an answer.
It's like,

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well,
I'm going to criticize that.

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Well,
go right ahead.

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You know?
It's like.

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It's like what?
What?

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You're.
You're like a,

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you're like a,
what do you call that?

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A termite.
Knowing on a temple,

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there's no,
there's no utility and that sort of 

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criticism.
It's blindness and it's the same thing 

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with regards to the path of the hero.
It's like it glistens in front of you 

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and you can criticize it.
It's like,

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fine.

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Put the cart before the horse and see 
how far you get.

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So I thought to bring full closure to 
the class,

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I was trying to solve this terrible 
puzzle that confronted me for and many 

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other people about how it was that human
beings got themselves in such a tangle 

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about what they believed,
such a tangle that we were pointing the 

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ultimate weapons of destruction at one 
another.

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Which by the way,
we are still doing.

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I thought,
okay,

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well I understand that we need their 
belief systems.

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They orient us and that means there will
be conflict between belief systems and 

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that can be a catastrophe and that's 
being played out everywhere.

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Again,
in very many ways.

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What's the solution to that?
Well,

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one possibility is there is no solution.
It's just mayhem all the way around 

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could be the case,
but it seemed to me as I delved into it 

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that the proper solution to that was to 
live properly as an individual because 

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you're more powerful than you think way 
more powerful than you think.

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I mean God only knows what you are in 
the final analysis.

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You're blind to your own weaknesses,
but you're also blind to your own 

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strengths and so then I think,
well,

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if you got your act together,
it'd be better for you and instantly it 

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would be better for your family.
Assuming they wanted you to get your act

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together and not everyone does,
but.

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And then it would be better for the 
community.

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It's like how far can you take that if 
you stopped wasting time and if you 

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start lying and if you oriented yourself
to the highest possible good that you 

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could conceive of and you committed to 
that,

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how much good could you do?
Well,

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I would say money.
Find out.

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So that's what I think you should do.
You should find out you don't have 

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anything better to do and there was 
nothing in it as far as I've been able 

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to tell.
There's nothing in it but good.

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So

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maybe you could sort yourself out so 
that you wanted nothing but the good and

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and then maybe you could help make that 
manifest in the world and maybe we 

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wouldn't have all these terrible 
problems.

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Then at least we'd have fewer of them 
and that would be a start.

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So it's the,
it's the,

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the answer to the problem of humanity is
the,

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is the,
is the integrity of the individual.

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That's the answer.
So and states that are predicated on 

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that realization are healthy.
So in states that aren't,

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are doomed to stagnation and 
catastrophic collapse and personalities 

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that are predicated on self tyranny.
And the tyranny of others are doomed and

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doomed to collapse.
So and then you think,

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well,
what's the barrier?

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The barriers are you willing to accept 
the responsibility and part of the 

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answer to that is reduced the damn 
responsibility until it's tolerable.

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You don't have to have to fix everything
at once.

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You could just start by fixing the 
things that you could fix or you could 

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even do it more.
You can do it with even less self 

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sacrifice.
You could start by fixing only the 

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things that you want to fix.
God,

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you can get a massive way that way.
So do it.

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See what happens.
That's what you should have been taught 

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in university right from the beginning.
It's like aim at the highest good tool 

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yourself into something that can attain 
it and go out there and manifested in 

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the world and everything.
That everything that comes your way will

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be

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everything that comes your way will be a
blessing.

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And so,
oh,

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you have to do is give up your 
resentment and your hatred.

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I know that's a hard thing to give up 
because he had plenty of reason for it.

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That's probably a good place to stop 
console.

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It was a pleasure.