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And human beings,
our principal made in the image of that 

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logos and that's why we can speak things
into being and we do,

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and when you speak truth,
then you speak paradise into being and 

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when you speak falsely,
you speak.

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Helen's being and that's the truth,
and what that means is that with every 

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decision that you make,
you decide for yourself and for everyone

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else,
whether you're going to tilt the world a

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little bit more towards hell or a little
bit more towards heaven,

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and that's the burden you bear for your 
existence and the choices that you make 

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as you pass through life.
And it's the fleeing from that.

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That's at the bottom of the nihilism of 
postmodernism and the escaped into the 

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totalitarian certainties of idol 
worship.

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And none of this is fictional because 
we've seen the consequences.

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Jonathan said quoting,
I don't remember the source,

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that there could be no poetry after 
Auschwitz,

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but that's wrong,
but the poetry has to be about 

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Auschwitz.
The lesson for Marsh,

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which was never again and fair enough,
but

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you.
You can't

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decide not to repeat something terrible 
unless you understand it,

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and the way to understand it is that the
smallest things of each individual 

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culminate in a great sense of the state,
and so when you ask why terrible things 

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happened in the world,
the answer is quite simple.

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The answer is because you're not good 
enough and it's because you don't tell 

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the truth

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and you know it.

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Jonathan said something I thought was 
very interesting.

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It's something I've thought about,
but I haven't talked to him about it at 

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all.

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What happens as you move towards the 
truth and the answer is everything comes

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together.
It really,

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really is.
The answer is everything comes together.

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There's even a sexual element to that 
because of course,

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the highest element of sexual ecstasy is
to come together and around someone 

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who's telling the truth.
Everything comes together and that's the

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potential guests.
One of the world.

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It's something that you can partake in.
It's the calls.

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It's the call to the greatest adventure 
that there is.

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You can bring forth something akin to 
paradise by speaking the truth and you 

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can start in your own life and you can 
start in,

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in,
in the life of your own families,

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and these are people in principle that 
you love and so why would you do 

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anything to speak the truth to them,
to protect them from reality?

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There's no protecting from reality.
Reality just is you interact with it on 

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your terms.
Can you do that?

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My face get forthright and you do that 
by not shying away from the challenge.

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I spent a lot of time trying to 
understand the sermon on the mount.

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It's a very strange document.
I'm going to tell you what I think it 

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means.

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It means conceptualize the highest good 
that you town and so you might think 

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that would be the highest good for you 
and it would be the highest good for the

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family around you that you love and it 
would be the highest good that sound 

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like in the state and it would be the 
highest good for the state in the world 

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and that would be the highest possible.
Good.

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Even though even though you don't know 
how to that,

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make that what you want and then tell 
the truth and it's an adventure because 

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you don't know what's going to happen.
You have no idea because if you treat 

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things instrumental,
if you treat people instrumental,

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you use them as tools for your own 
desire and not.

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The problem with that is what do you 
know about what you designed?

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Many things that you chase will turn out
to be empty.

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Well,
what happens if you just tell the truth?

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Well,
the world will unfold around you in very

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strange and mysterious ways and there 
isn't anything that's more exciting to 

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now and it's perhaps something excited 
me enough so that suffering that's 

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attendant on being would redeem itself.
Why that adventure,

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and that's the call,
that's the western call to the 

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individual,
is suffering of being can redeem itself 

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through truth and it's not.
It's,

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it's not a rule.
It's not a proposition that you need to 

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adhere to like a good citizen.
It's,

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it's the proper way of winning your way 
through the terrible world without 

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making it worse than it already is.
But the possibility perhaps of making it

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better,
there's no more exciting possibility to 

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not a no higher moral demand.
The thing is is everyone knows that you 

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know when you lie according to your own 
conception of the truth,

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that there is some sheet,
something shameful and demeaning about 

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that and know that it hurts people and 
you think,

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well,
why do you do it despite all of that,

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in part because it's easy and partly the
you do it because there's a crooked,

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horrible,
hellish part of your soul that's more 

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than happy if part of what you do is 
make everything worse.

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The page for the sin of its existence.