The most important thing is to keep up with the meditation on a consistent basis through thick and thin. It has an amazing long term cumulative effect.

Tom

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Thanks for the response. Men can and do argue over what is right and wrong, but reality dominates in the end. We as a nation are broke. Money is a simple means of value transfer. Take money out of the equation, and we have people that work, producing real goods and services, and people sitting around producing nothing, living off of the pile of stuff that has been produced. Man\'s broken system has ended up idling too many hands leaving too many people sitting around consuming yet producing nothing. This is the reality, and reality dominates in the end.

I make simple observations, not arguments. We are here as individuals to experience where sin leads. We are born in sin, meaning we are born with a bit of a distance between us and the identity that God offers. Every creature in this world but man has it\'s natural identity, but they are slaves of those identities. Man is free to choose. In a sense we as human beings are born with the wrong identity because our ancestors made the wrong identity choice. Salvation consists of us as individuals genuinely realizing where sin leads and crying out to God to save us from the wrong choice.

We play god in our own minds by judging, or resenting, literally a \"puffing up\" of the ego. We attempt to murder in our minds by hurling mental thunderbolts. This resentment/judgement process literally separates us from the individual unique identity that God offers us. The next step towards self-degredation is to start making excuses to Conscience for judgement, and to try to become proud of the resulting externalized identities. Thus, we end up with various sorts of \"pride\" marches -- for example, a \"pride\" march to show \"pride\" in killing babies via abortion.

Group identities result from commonly shared resentments. People who resent work end up in labor unions.

The more separated we are from reality, the more absurd and dysfunctional we become.

The only hope one has of seeing these things for oneself is to give up judgement/resentment. At that point the individual man or woman can see these things for themselves. In the end, individuals must see these things for themselves. Taking someone else\'s word for anything is ultimately meaningless.

The entire point of our existence revolves around us as individuals being able to find the truth. We aren\'t here to pleasure ourselves or have maximum prosperity, nor are we here to lie to each other as a means of bolstering each other\'s excuses. There are no mechanical man-made rules that guarantee salvation.

If you continue to listen perhaps you can begin to understand where I\'m coming from.

Thomas R. Wiles
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Why are you so angry? Is your anger and slurry of foul words going to convince me of anything other than your apparent lack of stability?

Calm down. Why are you so threatened?

If something as trivial as this upsets you to this degree, then what's going to happen when we hit $7 or higher gasoline prices, you lose your job and can barely feed yourself?

Glad you are enjoying the podcast!

I agree, America is in great danger and has been for some time. It's easy to blame people like Obama, but the real problem is moral/cultural decay/rot that has infected our country like an invading fungal blight. I believe one of the biggest problems that has lead to the precarious position in which we find ourselves is a large percentage of children born outside of marriage and in many cases not knowing who the Dad is. Kids born into that sort of environment are far more suggestible, and are therefore more easily scammed by lying politicians -- dangerous enemies begin to look like friends, and friends like enemies. Even if we turn things around in the short term we've still got the major problem of over 50% of all kids born in America being born outside of marriage. Those kids are fodder for a future dictatorship. Their parents threw their kids futures away for a few seconds' worth of pleasure.

Have you tried the voice recognition that is embeded in the keyboard by clicking on the microphone icon? The voice to text is amazing!!! TOM

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All memorable TV shows, movies, etc. invariably are morality plays -- The Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, The Matrix, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone and even Leave It To Beaver among many others. Like it or not, well-executed morality plays stand a much better chance of making for great, even ground-breaking content. Hollywood and the TV networks would do well to remember this in light of their current ratings woes.

Movies and TV shows with great special effects, but no "moral to the story" can have wonderful ground-breaking special effects, but are eminently forgettable. The movie "Twister" comes to mind as a poster child for the mindlessly empty modern movie, devoid of meaningful content. "Twister" had wonderful special effects, but alas no moral to the story, thus quickly relegated to the celluloid rubbish heap.

I uploaded a video of Las Vegas that you might also enjoy.--TOM