Lessons on Family, Home Life and Civilization

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Well, it's good to have you
back.

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Welcome to another edition of
the Arrancha Radio Podcast.

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It's where we talk about the 5th
Epochal Revelation.

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My name is Jim.
I'm a long time reader and

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student of the Arrancha book, so
I love sharing all kinds of

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anecdotes and topical studies of
the revelation and what it

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teaches us.
And I'm so thrilled to have you

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with me.
In a moment, we're going to be

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talking specifically about
marriage and family life and why

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it's so important.
And there's a lot that we'll

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talk about, a lot that we'll
cover, and it will be

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interesting to you.
And I think that you'll really

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appreciate even more so if
you're a new reader to the

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Uranche book, or even if you're
not a reader at all.

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We welcome people from all
faiths and from people from no

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faiths.
This is an educational

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experience and hopefully
spiritually uplifting to you as

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well.
So in light of a lot of the

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troubles that are going on in
the world today, we are going to

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focus specifically on marriage
and family life and I think

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it'll be a good journey.
I also want to mention that

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there's an upcoming session
that's going on that's caught my

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eye, thanks to the folks over at
the fellowship.

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There's a Urantia study session
coming up July 24th through the

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27th.
It will be at Unity Village in

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Missouri or Missouri as they
say.

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And if you go to
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out more information and you can
register, find out all about the

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accommodations and what it's all
about.

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I'll even give you a phone
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It's 303-467-7858.
That's again 303-467-7858.

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Or you can go to the website
yourrancherradio.net and look up

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the connections and you'll find
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It's coming up in July, and it
should be a lot of fun.

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It's about how to share the
teachings and the truths of the

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Urantia Book.
And I know a lot of Urantia book

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readers.
It's it's it's not as easy as it

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sounds.
And the first urge I had when I

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started reading The Urantia Book
was that I wanted to tell people

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about it.
And so imagine you'll go to a

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study session and talk to all
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through that same experience,
and there's going to be some

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sharing of knowledge, I'm sure.
Should I give out the number

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again?
OK, it's 303-467-7858 and we'll

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get underway with our topic of
discussion, which is marriage

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and family life.
This time up on the Urantia

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Radio Podcast.
Well, I hope you got yourself a

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nice cup of coffee or some tea,
and let's delve right into our

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topic of discussion this time
up.

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It's about marriage and family
life, something that I've

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learned a lot in reading the
Arantia book.

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And this particular series of
papers talks about the

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importance of family.
Many of our current social

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problems we'll never, ever get
fixed if we don't first address

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the breakdown of the family.
In Western civilization, this is

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an important topic.
Broken homes, materialism,

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Whatever the social disease,
anything that tampers with or

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thwarts the institutions of
marriage will ultimately

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threaten society.
We know this to be true, but

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let's see what our revelatory
Commission has delivered into

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our hands on this specific
matter.

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And this is just one of many
illustrations of what the

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Urantia Book offers to humanity.
Frank statements we should

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consider and learn from in the
Urantia Book.

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Now the author of this paper,
and I think it's important to

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note the author author because
it gives you a little bit of

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background as to what their
source of knowledge is.

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And it's interesting, if you
ever want to do it as an

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exercise, when you read the any
paper in the Urantia Book,

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whoever the author is, do a word
search and and read up on what

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that author author's background
might be.

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So, for example, in this
particular paper that we're

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about to explore, it was written
by a chief of Seraphim of our

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planet.
So this is an actual Angel who

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wrote, it's not just an Angel,
it's the chief of all the

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angels.
And he was, he was asked by

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Gabriel and the errant,
revelatory Commission, hey, you

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have all this information about
how marriage evolved over the

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thousands of years, all the
different phases that it went

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to, the nature of the
relationship between men and

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women, evolutionary men and
women, and all the customs.

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So if you start reading the
first couple of papers on this

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paper 83 and 84, you really get
a historical knowledge of how

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how this whole institution
evolved and what purpose it

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serves in in society and
particularly in advancing

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civilization.
So these are important lessons

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and I'll get, I'll leave it to
you to read, but I just want to

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share some highlights with you
because I even think from this

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brief sort of cherry picking,
there's a lot to be learned.

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So let's get through some of it.
So first of all, in paper 83, it

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starts with this statement.
Marriage is enduring.

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It is not inherent in biological
evolution, but it is the basis

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of all social evolution and is
therefore certain of continued

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existence in some form.
Marriage has given mankind the

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home institution, and the home
is the crowning glory of the

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whole long and arduous
evolutionary struggle.

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In Paper 83, it says the high
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fantastic romance entering into
courtship is largely responsible

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for the increasing divorce
tendencies among modern

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Occidental peoples, all of which
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women's greater personal freedom
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Easy divorce when the results of
lack of self-control or failure

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of normal personality adjustment
only leads directly back to

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those crude societal stages from
which men has emerged so

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recently and as a result of so
much personal anguish and racial

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suffering.
So even in 1934 and 1935, this

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the Seraphim is pointing out
that there's a problem starting

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to emerge in the Occidental
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and romance.
Entering into courtship is also

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setting up a sort of a red flag,
because if people engage in

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marriage simply for romance and
courtship, then it doesn't have

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that undergird of strength.
And so that's what's leading to

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divorce.
It's this illusion or

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disillusionment.
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just so long as society fails to
properly educate children and

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youth, so long as the social
order fails to provide adequate

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premarital training, and so long
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idealism is to be the arbiter of
the entrance upon marriage.

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Just so long will divorce remain
prevalent.

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So we in the in our society.
I interpret that to mean that we

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have to take a look at what it
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and why are we entering into it.
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reason the divorce is so high is
because many people are entering

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into it under false pretenses.
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explains why we're having the
breakdown.

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I mean, I I read 50%, maybe 60%
of all marriages in America end

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up in divorce.
So that tells you that there's

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there's, there's a something
that we're not taking into

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account when we enter into the
idea of marriage.

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From a paper 82, it says while
religious, social and

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educational institutions are all
essential to the survival of

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culturalization, the family is
the master civilizer.

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A child learns most of the
essentials of life from his

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family and the neighbors.
Today, the human race or races

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possesses a rich social and
cultural heritage, and it should

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be wisely and effectively passed
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The family, as an educational
institution, must be maintained

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also from paper 82.
Hybridization of superior and

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dissimilar stocks is the secret
of the creation of new and more

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vigorous strains, and this is
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human species.
Hybridization augments vigor and

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increases fertility.
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superior strains of various
people greatly increases

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creative potential, as is shown
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United States of North America
from paper 82, that same

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section.
Race blending greatly

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contributes to the sudden
appearance of new

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characteristics, and if such
hybridization is the union of

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superior strains, then these new
characteristics will also be

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superior traits.
For the past 100 years, more

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racial hybridization has been
taking place on Urantia than has

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occurred in thousands of years.
The danger of gross disharmonies

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as a result of crossbreeding of
human stocks has been greatly

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exaggerated.
The chief troubles of half

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breeds are due more so to social
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From Paper 83, marriage has been
many times in jeopardy and the

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marriage mores have drawn
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religion for support.
But the real influence which

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forever safeguards marriage and
the result in family, is the

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simple and innate biological
fact that men and women

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positively will not live without
each other, be they the most

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primitive savages or the most
cultural mortals. 83 it reads.

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The family, which grows out of
marriage, is itself a stabilizer

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of the marriage institution,
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More potent factors in marriage
stability are pride, vanity,

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chivalry, duty, and religious
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Marriage is an institution of
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church.
True, religion should mighty

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mightily influence it, but
should not undertake exclusively

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to control and regulate it, the
chief of Seraphim writes in

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Paper 83, Section 6.
Monogamy is monopoly.

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It is good for those who attain
the desirable state, but it

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tends to work a biological
hardship on those who are not so

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fortunate.
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effect on the individual,
monogamy is decidedly best for

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the children, and it kind of
goes into this paper 83, Section

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6.
And even though they don't

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properly identify it as we would
today, what would include the

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LGBTQ community?
You can sense from the chief of

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Seraphim that that he's
addressing that there are

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certain people in society, for
whatever reason, don't fit.

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And I take that to mean that
they're talking about people who

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might have sexual dysfunction,
people who are emotionally

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dysfunctional, people who come
from horrible backgrounds, and

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they just can't connect
emotionally with other human

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beings.
And so they addressed this issue

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head on.
And I think it's bolded in many

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ways, even far, far advancing.
It's thinking because it's

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addressing some of the issues
that we're having today in

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society with all these different
kinds of family units.

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So the writer writes, while
pursuing the mono monogamic goal

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of the ideal parent
paramarriage, which is after all

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something of a monopolistic sex
association, society must not

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overlook the unenviable
situation of those unfortunate

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men and women who failed to find
a place in this new and improved

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social order, even when having
done their best to cooperate

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with and enter into its
requirements.

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Failure to gain mates in the
social arena of competition may

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be due to insurmountable
difficulties or multi to Dunatus

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restrictions, which are the
current mores and what they have

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imposed.
Truly monogamy is ideal for

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those who are in, but it must
inevitably work great hardship

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for those who are left out in
the cold of solitary existence.

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Monogamy is the art stick which
measures the advance of social

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civilization as distinguished
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Monogamy is not necessarily
biologic or natural, but it is

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indispensable to the immediate
maintenance and further

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development of social
civilization.

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It contributes to a delicacy of
sentiment, a refinement of moral

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character, and a spiritual
growth which are utterly

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impossible in polygamy.
From Paper 83, Section 8, The

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Ideals of Marriage have made
great progress in recent times.

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Among some peoples, women enjoy
practically equal rights with

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their consort.
In concept at least, the family

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is becoming a loyal partnership
for rearing offspring

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accompanied by sexual fidelity.
But even this newer version of

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marriage need not presume to
swing so far to the extreme as

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to confer mutual monopoly of all
personality and individuality.

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Marriage is not just an
individualistic ideal.

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It is the evolving social
partnership of a man and a

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woman, existing and functioning
of the current mores, restricted

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by the taboos and enforced by
the laws and regulations of

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society.
So it's here.

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Remember, this book was written
in 34.

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Again, they're forecasting that
marriage is going to start

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evolving.
It used to be based on tradition

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and all kinds of tribal mores
and taboos, but now it's what is

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it becoming?
It's becoming a true partnership

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between a male and a female
who've chosen to go through life

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together and have a family and
produce a family of children who

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learn from that parental
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Here, they write in Paper 83,
Section 8, paragraph. 920th

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century marriages stand high in
comparison with those of past

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ages notwithstanding, if the
home institution is now

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undergoing a serious testing
because of the problem so

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suddenly thrust upon the social
organization by the precipitate

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augmentation of women's
liberties and rights so long

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denied her in the tardy
evolution of the mores of past

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generations.
So what's challenging the home

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institution are all these rights
now and it's causing a shift in

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in the dynamics of the male and
the female in the in the

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relationship and they're saying
though that marriage stands in

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high comparison but well now we
need new tools.

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We need a new attitude.
We need a new perspective and

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understanding what that what
that relationship entails when

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when now you have women and men
who have all of these these

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rights that have suddenly been
thrust upon them.

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So in 80 paper 84 it writes the
modern idea of sex equality is

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beautiful and worthy of an
expanding civilization but it is

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not found in nature.
When might is right, man Lords

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over women.
When more justice, peace, and

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fairness prevail, she gradually
emerges from slavery and

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obscurity.
Women's social position has

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generally varied inversely with
a degree of militarism in any

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nation or age from Paper 84 or
Section 5.

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But man did not consciously or
intentionally seize women's

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rights and then gradually and
grudgingly give them back to

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her.
All this was unconscious and

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unplanned as an episode of
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When the time really came for
women to enjoy added rights, she

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got them and all, quite
regardless of man's conscious

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attitude.
Slowly but surely, the mores

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changed so as to provide for
those social adjustments which

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are a part of the persistent
evolution of civilization.

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The advancing mores slowly
provided increasingly better

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treatment for females.
Those tribes which persisted in

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cruelty to them did not survive
Paper 84 Science, not religion,

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really emancipated woman.
It was the modern factory which

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largely set her free from the
confines of the home.

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Man's physical abilities became
no longer a vital essential in

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the new maintenance mechanism.
Science so changed the

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conditions of living that
manpower was no longer so

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superior to woman.
Power.

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From Paper 84, Section 5,
paragraph 10, in the Ideals of

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Paramarriage, woman has finally
won recognition, dignity,

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independence, equality and
education.

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But will she prove worthy of all
this new and unprecedented

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accomplishment?
Will modern woman respond to

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this great achievement of social
liberation with idleness,

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indifference, barrenness and
infidelity?

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Today, in the 20th century,
woman is undergoing the crucial

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test of her long world
existence.

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You know, the Urantia Book, I
have to think less than a dozen

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times.
There are exclamation points,

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and there's an exclamation point
after that statement.

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Today, in the 20th century,
woman is undergoing the crucial

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test of her long world
existence.

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Exclamation point, Paper 84,
Section 5, paragraph 11, it

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reads.
Woman is man's equal partner in

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race reproduction.
Hence, just as important at the

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unfolding of racial evolution,
therefore, has evolution

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increasingly worked toward the
realization of women's rights.

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But women's rights are by no
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Women cannot thrive on man's
rights any more than man can

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prosper on women's rights.
These are very important

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statements that are being made
at a time when suffrage is was

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less than 20 years old.
Women having the right to vote

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and a lot of the tension going
on and the factions that go into

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the disintegration of marriage
and family life are being

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addressed in these in these
writings here from paper 84,

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male and female are practically
regarded 2 distinct varieties of

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the same species living in close
and intimate association.

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Their viewpoints and their
entire life reactions are

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essentially different.
They are wholly incapable of

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full and real comprehension of
each other.

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Complete understanding between
the sexes is not attainable.

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This is coming from a chief of
Seraphim, and they've seen a

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lot.
I'm sure that's what they do.

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They observe human behavior.
Paper 84, section Six Women seem

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to have more intuition than men,
but they also appear to be

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somewhat less logical.
Woman, however, has always been

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the moral standard bearer and
the spiritual leader of mankind.

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The hand that rocks the cradle
still fraternizes with destiny.

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The difference in viewpoint
between male and female persist

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even beyond the first life.
And throughout the local and

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super universe ascensions,
marriage is an institution

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designed to compose sex
differences, meanwhile affecting

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the continuation of civilization
and ensuring the reproduction of

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the race.
Paper 84, section 6, paragraph

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eight.
Marriage is the mother of all

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human institutions, for it leads
directly to the home founding

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and home maintenance, which is
the structural basis of society.

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The family is linked to the
mechanisms of self maintenance.

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It is the sole hope of race
perpetuation under the mores of

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civilization, while at the same
time it is most effectively

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provide certain high
satisfactory forms of self

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gratification.
The family is man's greatest

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purely human achievement,
combining as it does the

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evolution, the biologic
relations of male and female

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with the social relations of
husband and wife.

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The hunger of the soul cannot be
satisfied with physical

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pleasures.
The love of home and children is

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not augmented by the unwise
pursuit of pleasure.

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Though you exhaust the resources
of art, color, sound, rhythm,

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music, the dormant of person,
you cannot hope thereby to

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elevate the soul or to nourish
the spirit.

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Vanity and fashion cannot
minister to home building and

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child culture.
Pride and rivalry are powerless

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to enhance the survival
qualities of succeeding

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generations.
Paper 84, Section 8, paragraph

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5.
Advancing celestial beings all

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enjoy rest and the ministry of
the reversion directors.

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All efforts to obtain wholesome
diversion and to engage in

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uplifting play and sound
refreshing sleep, rest,

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recreation at all pastimes which
prevent the boredom of monotony

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are worthwhile.
What they're saying here in

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these two paragraphs is
addressing what's happening.

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I think in culture today people
are narcissists.

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They're completely self
absorbed.

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Everything is centered around
vanity and and often I was

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telling my son this, you'll hear
this often all the time.

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Empowerment, self empowerment,
to the degree where basically it

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becomes the obsession of self,
That's what they're that's what

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they're saying here is that all
of these things work against the

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family.
If they are distracting people

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from the importance of family
life and the satisfaction that

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you get out of family life, and
then all these other things are

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attempts to have that same
satisfaction, but they only

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serve to undermine the integrity
of the family unit.

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I think that's what they're
saying.

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And then they go on to say that,
you know, even in celestial

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life, we're all entitled to
rest.

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We're all entitled to reversion,
recreation, refreshing sleep.

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But they're not intended to take
the place of the real

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achievements that are that are
accomplished in family life.

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And, and this is an important
thing too, from Paper 84, let

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man enjoy himself.
Let the human races find

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pleasure in 1001 ways.
Let evolutionary mankind explore

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all forms of legitimate self
gratification, the fruits of the

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long upward biological struggle.
Man has well earned some of his

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present day joys and pleasures,
but look you well to the goal of

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destiny.
Pleasures are indeed suicidal if

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they succeed in destroying
property, which has become the

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institution of self maintenance.
And self gratifications have

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indeed cost a fatal price If
they bring about the collapse of

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marriage, the decadence of
family life, and the destruction

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of the home, man's supreme
evolutionary acquirement and

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civilization's only hope of
survival.

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I'll close with this.
AUS Congressman made a salient

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point recently at a nationally
televised conference, and he was

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talking about the current state
of family in the United States.

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And he said that no one comes
from a perfect family, but it

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shouldn't mean the family
shouldn't be preserved as an

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important institution of
society.

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It's where all the great lessons
come from, and no other

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institution can better prepare
men and women for the long

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journey ahead in this world and
the next.

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Indeed, the Holy Trinity of the
deities is really the First

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Family.
It is the model of existence.

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We also see it in the Creator
Son and the Divine Spirit and

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the Jubilee of Jubilees.
And we're learning here from

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this Chief of Seraphim that
those societies that treat

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family as being precious and
worth preserving endure far

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longer than those societies that
do not.

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There is no way the Western
society can survive unless we

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change course and fight to
preserve family, not only in the

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United States, but the entirety
of Western culture.

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And that's where we'll leave it.
Any comments that you have

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Urantia Radio, I'm always happy
to hear from you and I thank all

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those people and I always try to
respond the e-mail address

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urantiabookradio@gmail.com and I
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segment of the Urantia Radio
Podcast.

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Until next time, thank you for
stopping by.

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If I were a Carpenter, you were
a lady.

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Would you marry me anyway to
have my baby?

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The tinker were my train.
Would you still find me carrying

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pots of me?
Fall behind me.

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Save my love through loneliness.
Save my love through smile.

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I give you my holiness.
Give you to my If I were my

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hands and would oh would you
still love me.

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Answer me babe.
Yes, I would.

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I put you for.
Me.

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There's nowhere on my train out
of new wheel grinding.

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Would you miss your color box?
Oh, you're such a shining.

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Save my love through loneliness.
Save my love through sorrow.

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I'll give you my own name.
Come give me your tomorrow.