June 4, 2023
Pride
Pride has grown into an Ideology. But is it good for society? In this episode, we look at what The Urantia Book says about pride and the destructive consequences that lie in this dangerous human tendency.
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What's this about aliens
visiting Earth?
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Wait to hear about this one?
Plus we're going to talk about
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Pride this time up on the
Rancher Radio podcast.
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What's a beautiful Saturday
morning in June?
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And I hope that wherever you are
listening to this podcast, you
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are doing good doing well and
that the spirit is blessed, you
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and I thank you so much.
For joining me on the ranch
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Radio podcast as you may or may
not know this is a podcast
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dedicated to the teachings of
the ranch of papers.
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And every week we try to do at
least one good episode taking
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into account.
Some element of the book that I
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just love to share.
I've been reading the book now
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for over 40 years since back in
1982 and boy I still remember
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that first time where it took me
a couple of days after I picked
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it up and I started reading it
and I had some time on my And it
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just, it hit me like a ton of
bricks.
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I mean, there was something that
happened when I started reading
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this book, that never happened
to me before, and I had read a
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lot of books.
I was a curious young fellow and
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the the feeling remember that
feeling you had when you first
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realize that you may just have a
revelation in your hands and how
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much you wanted to share it with
other people.
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Sometimes over the years Utah,
you tend to forget that and I
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don't want to forget that.
I try to explain to people if
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you want to know about the ranch
a book, I want you to just
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visualize a flat line that moves
from left to right.
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If you can imagine a line that
you draw the goes from left to
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right and where you start, and
where your finger ends, the left
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is God and everything.
After that, as far as that line
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can go It, Go for Infinity.
And that's the Rancho book.
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It starts in the beginning and
works its way outward and upward
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and that's how I explain it.
If you want to go back in time
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and try to understand what God
was thinking, when he put all of
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this in a motion, it's an
intelligent approach to
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understanding an enlarged
universe.
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And that's what I try to tell
people and not try to get bogged
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down with details about, you
know, it's got this many
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chapters and there's this many
segments and this part is About
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this, as I find that, the more
detail you give the less people
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are prone to be curious.
You just want to give them
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enough say, you know, if you
really want to get a better
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perspective of what the universe
is all about, I urge you to pick
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up the book.
Find a find a chapter in there
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that you are interested in and
go for it, you know, that's what
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I did.
I started with Adam and Eve and,
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and start bouncing around, and
kind of look red different
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things.
And then when it really dawned
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on me, was the first five papers
and it was that point I really
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grasp the conceptual importance
of what was being presented.
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So anyway, we're gonna have a
good program.
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Today we're going to talk about
Pride.
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I have a take Con Pride because
it's pride month and it's a
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cultural phenomenon.
And I wanted to share some
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thoughts about it.
Some serious thoughts about it
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because you know you know and I
know we're all going through an
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ideological struggle.
And you know, we have to be
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careful about the steps that we
take.
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I think the Rancho book warns
us, you know, we're going to try
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new things.
But, you know, we have to be
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careful not to go too fast
because if we do it becomes
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destabilizing and I think a lot
of what we're seeing now in the
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world today is destabilization.
You know, this is an
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experimental Planet, a decimal
world.
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And so things are not in the
usual order and we know that
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anyway.
So we'll get to some of that.
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I looked up the word pride, in
the Rancho book, it appears 58
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times. and I want to go through
some of the references that it
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makes to it and see if you can
agree with me, that we need to
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be very careful about those
ideologies that we take at face
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value and not think about the
implications But before we get
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to that, I do want to talk about
this article, I read it was in
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one of my regular Reeds and it's
written by a guy who calls
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himself Sovereign man, and he's
pretty good writer.
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He writes a lot about current
cultural streams and how they,
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you know, how they mesh with,
you know, Western Society.
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So he's always got some insight
that I enjoyed and it's all
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about how problematic it would
be if we ever had contact with
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intelligent life.
So he says, okay, well, let's
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take a look at the future.
Let's say it's June 2nd 20:28,
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and then he and then it's a
brief story, but it's an
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interesting story.
He says worldwide hopes for
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friendly relations with our
extraterrestrial.
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Visitors vanish this morning
when the aliens climb back
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aboard, their spaceship and flew
away.
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After nearly three weeks of
failed talks with senior US
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government officials.
Now, remember this is satire The
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aliens had known of Earth's
existence for centuries, but
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they deliberately avoided our
planet in their Interstellar
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travels because they viewed
human civilization as to
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underdeveloped.
Like make that bigger however,
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after monitoring NASA's first
ever public hearing on UFOs,
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which took place five years ago
today, Mark, May 31st 2023,
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which by the way did happen, the
aliens decided to initiate first
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Contact Their journey to Earth
took several hours and when they
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arrived last month, a collective
sigh of relief.
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Could be felt around the world
when the aliens came bearing
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gifts.
Their initial contact with our
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planet seemed expertly planned
to calm our nerves as they
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distributed miracle, cures for
viruses, parasites, and even
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cancer.
And as they spent the entire
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Journey learning our language,
they were easily able to
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communicate the first world
leader of the aliens met with
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was US president Kamala Harris.
And they showed her a small
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metallic box, which they had
said will provide Limitless free
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energy to the world.
However, relations with the
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alien visitors quickly, took a
turn for the worst when the
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president began talking about
science.
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According to several observers
at the meeting, President Harris
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explained to the aliens that
basic principles of biology,
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like, sex and gender are myths
and that are rooted in violent.
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Heterodoxy, at which point the
space diplomats appeared to
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burst out laughing.
Of course, president Harris and
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her scientific advisors found
the reactions, deeply offensive,
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and they try to explain that the
aliens were displaying
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problematic colonizer attitudes.
Federal officials have spent the
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last several years, trying to
re-educate.
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The aliens about science leading
to strayed relations between our
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species.
The aliens countered by
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producing thousands of holograms
worth of data disproving the
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Americans claims data, which the
White House called ignorant and
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defensive.
Finally the aliens in apparent
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exasperation grab their energy
Cube and stormed out their ship
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was observed leaving with
Earth's atmosphere this morning
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and there has been no contact
since despite the loss of
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revolutionary alien technology
top officials say they don't
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regret the outcome as president
Harris told reporters this
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morning, frankly, there's no
room on Earth or anti-science
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hate speech, whatever the
species.
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In other news pharmaceutical and
energy stocks which initially
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plunge to near zero value.
Amid alien, contact have
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rebounded in to record highs, I
kind of have to laugh.
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That's a good.
Good story, he who has an ear.
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Let him hear boy, that's but
doesn't that tell you something?
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When I first read that article,
I said you know that there's a
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metaphor there and the metaphor
for me being a student of the
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Rancher Revelation as did.
It kind of helped me understand
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why people are indifferent to
the teachings of the Urantia
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book.
In this age, they're not
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politically correct.
Now, they may have been at the
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time that the book was written.
But you can you can see how much
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culture has changed in the last
100 years.
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And at this point, many people
today, unlike in my generation
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before who had some majority of
us were somehow influenced by
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basic Christian or judeo.
Christian theology right now.
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That is not a true statement. so
consequently as a result of
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that, many people don't have the
foundation or the construct in
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which the Urantia book would fit
because if you study the ranch
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attacks, it definitely presents
itself along judeo, Christian
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ideological lines but not
because it's a judeo Christian
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book but rather because judeo
Christian theology has a
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timeline that dates back to the
beginnings of the Revelation the
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actual first Revelation when
caligastia came and in
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subsequent Adam and Eve and
Jesus and Melchizedek, those are
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all Revelations that are tied to
the same story storyline for the
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same story book.
So it's a matter of truth that
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the Canaanites who studied under
Melchizedek, for example, would
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carry the teachings of
Melchizedek 800 years later to
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where Moses would inherit those.
And then go on to be credited
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with the first five books of the
Torah which was influential to
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no end.
So you can see that the what I'm
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trying to say is it without that
pre knowledge without that
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foundational without the soil.
You're not going to produce very
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good.
Figs.
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And, and right now, we're also
wrapped up in political
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correctness and pronouns, and
everything else that we're not
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paying attention to the real
story, which is that humanity is
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in very deep doo-doo.
If we don't come up with some
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ideological equilibrium And so
on that note, I want to
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transition and I've given a lot
of thought to this and it is not
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my intent for me to caused any
offense to anyone who might be
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part or a member of the lgbtq
community because I have too
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much respect for people's
individual freedoms and rights
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to even there.
Go there.
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In fact, many people, I love
family, members included are a
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member of the LGBT community, so
I'm not talking to them.
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I'm talking to people who have
taken the pride.
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The pride flag The Pride symbol,
and I want to expand upon it
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because pride, in and of itself,
most people understand is not a
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good thing for a lot of reasons.
And I thought we could gain some
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knowledge of it by finding how
it's referred to in the Rancho
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book and see what we can.
And some of this, by the way,
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I've discussed in previous
podcast so it's nothing new
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here.
But I did find it interesting
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that the ranch a book mentions
Pride 58 times and I want to go
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through some of them.
Not all of them, but enough.
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If of them so we get a sense of
the dangers and the subtleties
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of Pride and because it is pride
month with better time to do it,
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right.
So let's go back to the
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beginning.
The first time, the word pride
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is mentioned in the ranch, a
book is a paper, 53 section 2,
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in reference to Lucifer's pride
in self deception and believing
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his rebellion was actually good
for the universe.
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The second reference comes in
paper 66 again, but this time in
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reference to caligastia
rebelling alongside Lucifer.
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The author comments on the
planetary, Prince, siding with
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Lucifer, quote, I did not.
Then so fully understand the
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subtleties of Personality Pride
Then again, in paper 68, in
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reference to the fact that both
Lucifer and caligastia have been
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warned by their superiors quote,
respecting their critical
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Tendencies and subtle
developments of their pride of
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self, and its Associated
exaggeration of the feelings of
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self-importance.
See, so, now in this third
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reference to it, it's talking
about how Pride leads to this
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exaggerated feeling of
self-importance.
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Paper 68 section 2 paragraph 11.
It says, as a factor of social
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progression, quote, vanity
contributed mightily to the
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birth of society.
But at the time of these
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Revelations, the devious
strivings of a bain, glorious
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generation threatened to swamp
and submerge.
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The whole complicated structure
of a highly specialized
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civilization.
So the time of the revelations
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are they referencing this new
community of people who have
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great pride, what would they be
referring to?
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But at the times of these
Revelations, the devious
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strivings of a vein, glorious
generation threatened to swamp
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and submerge the whole
complicated structure of a
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highly specialized Civilization.
Now I could also take that to
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mean that It was just at the end
of The Roaring 20s and the
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Roaring 20s was a very
materialistic age, lots of
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drunkenness and there was well
it was the age of Gatsby.
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It goes on to say pleasure want
has long been as long since
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superseded hunger want the
legitimate social aims of
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self-maintenance are rapidly
translating themselves into base
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and threatening forms of
self-gratification
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self-maintenance.
Build Society.
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Unbridled self-gratification
unfailingly destroys
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civilization.
All right, so we move along on
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the subject of Pride.
What else can we learn from the
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ranch papers?
Well, I'm a contact of the human
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Paradox where it talks about our
human cells that are spiritual
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cells and sort of that battle
that takes place in our material
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life.
It reads of all the dangers was
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which beset Mortals man's nature
and jeopardizes.
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His spiritual Integrity pride is
the greatest courage is velours
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and but egotism is vainglorious
and suicidal.
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Reasonable self-confidence is
not to be deplored.
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Man's ability to transcend.
Transcend himself is the one
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thing which distinguishes him
from the Animal Kingdom, but
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then in the next paragraph pride
is deceitful, intoxicating and
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sin breeding whether found in an
individual, a group or race or a
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nation.
It is literally true Pride goes
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before a fall.
So they're, they're even
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borrowing from a new testament
quote, or an Old Testament
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quote. this is in reference to
Judaism as preserved by the key
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nights, which we mentioned
before, it was a small group of
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students of Melchizedek during
Abraham's time, the key nights,
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there are mentioned in the Bible
and they were the ones that pass
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that those, those principles
those teachings on to Moses
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parents, who themselves were of
keen-eyed ancestry and so From
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paper 131, it reads.
God has made, man, a little less
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than Divine and has crowned him
with love and mercy.
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The love knows, the Lord knows
the way of the righteous, but
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the way of the ungodly Shall
Perish.
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The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom.
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The knowledge of the Supreme is
understanding, says, the
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almighty God walk, before me and
be perfect for getting off the
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pride.
Goes before, destruction and a
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haughty spirit before a fall he
who rules his own.
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Good spirit is mightier than he
who takes a city. the same
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paper, but this time on Shin to
now we're talking about the
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conception of Judaism and that
was a reference to Judaism a
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teaching in Judaism And from the
same paper on the world's
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religions and the use of Pride.
Now we learned from Shin to was
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his shin to have to say about
Pride Shin-Soo is an East Asian
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religion.
From paper 131 every time, man
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yields to anxiety.
He takes one step away from the
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leading of the spirit of his
heart Pride.
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Obscures God, if you would
obtain Heavenly helped put away
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your pride, every hair of Pride
shuts off, saving light as it
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were by a great Cloud.
If you are not right on the
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inside, it is useless to pray
for that, which is on the
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outside.
If I hear your prayers, it is
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because you come before me with
a clean.
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Heart, free from falsehood and
hypocrisy with the soul, which
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reflects truth, like a mirror.
If you would gain, immortality
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forsake, the world and come to
me, For paper 141, in reference
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to Jesus.
As he's beginning his new period
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of public teaching.
He says, Jesus portrayed
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conquest by sacrifice the
sacrifice of Pride and
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selfishness by showing Mercy.
He meant to portray spiritual
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deliverance from all grudges
grievances angers and the lust
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for selfish power and revenge.
This was during the initial days
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of when Jesus is public
teachings began and of the 70 or
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those among his early followers
who went about teaching Jesus,
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truth to the masses and upon
their Victorious returns, he
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speaks to them.
So this is from paper, 163
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paragraph. 6 section 6, the next
day being the Sabbath.
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Jesus went apart with the 70 and
said to them.
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I did indeed Rejoice with you
when you came back During the
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Good Tidings of the reception of
the Gospel of the Kingdom.
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By so many people scattered
throughout Galilee Samaria and
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Judea.
Why were you so surprisingly
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elated?
Did you not expect that?
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Your message would manifest
power in its delivery.
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Did you go forth with so little
faith in this gospel that you
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come back and surprised at its
Effectiveness?
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And now while I would not quench
your spirit of rejoicing I would
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sternly warned you against The
subtleties of Pride, spiritual
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Pride, if you could understand
the downfall of Lucifer, the
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iniquitous one, you would
solemnly shun all forms of
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spiritual Pride.
From The Last Supper, when Jesus
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and forms the apostles, one
among them is considering
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betraying the master that very
night from paper 179, paragraph,
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4 section 2.
He says, while it is necessary
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that I go to the father, it was
not required.
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That one of you should become a
traitor to fulfill.
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The father's will.
This is the coming to Fruit of
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the concealed evil in that heart
of one who failed to love the
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truth with his whole heart.
And so how deceitful is the
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intellectual Pride that precedes
the spiritual downfall?
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My friend of many years who even
now eats my bread will be
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willing to betray me.
Even as he now dips his hand
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with me in the dish.
And of course, referring to
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Judas.
And this is why I have often
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times said the pride flag.
While I certainly understand the
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social statement and makes about
inclusion.
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I think it's also a subtle
disguise for his flagrancy
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against those standards that
make for a real stable Society.
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And recently by the way, in
reference to this, I read an
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article that states the
separation of church and state
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has created a vacuum.
That must be filled by something
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man, is naturally a religious
person and this is maybe our
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biggest Folly humans are not
capable of not having religious
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impulses, but through
secularization and resistance to
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religion itself humans.
Now take up new causes whether
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they be for social injustice or
supposed human rights to
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privilege.
It was only natural for a
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humanistic religion of the
exalted self that would come
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along and seek to replace God.
And I think that's where we are
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today.
And I think it's worth
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mentioning and having a
discussion about it, so I hope
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that you gain something from
that and certainly with the
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Rancho book had to say, was
quite revealing about the
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different kinds of Pride and so
we leave it there but I do want
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to make one final comment,
disregarding the your Rancher
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Radio website.
We are now streaming 24 hours a
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We can a couple times.
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We have to upgrade our
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you go to your answer radio
dotnet, we have a streaming
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And we put up old articles, you
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old podcast old interviews and
we just let them ride.
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So anytime you need that, you
know, your Ranch is sound going
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in the background, while you're
doing other things, you can
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enjoy the stream, the live
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Until next time, this is Jim
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Thanks again for stopping by
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What's this about aliens
visiting Earth?
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Wait to hear about this one?
Plus we're going to talk about
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Pride this time up on the
Rancher Radio podcast.
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What's a beautiful Saturday
morning in June?
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And I hope that wherever you are
listening to this podcast, you
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are doing good doing well and
that the spirit is blessed, you
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and I thank you so much.
For joining me on the ranch
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Radio podcast as you may or may
not know this is a podcast
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dedicated to the teachings of
the ranch of papers.
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And every week we try to do at
least one good episode taking
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into account.
Some element of the book that I
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just love to share.
I've been reading the book now
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for over 40 years since back in
1982 and boy I still remember
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that first time where it took me
a couple of days after I picked
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it up and I started reading it
and I had some time on my And it
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just, it hit me like a ton of
bricks.
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I mean, there was something that
happened when I started reading
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this book, that never happened
to me before, and I had read a
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lot of books.
I was a curious young fellow and
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the the feeling remember that
feeling you had when you first
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realize that you may just have a
revelation in your hands and how
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much you wanted to share it with
other people.
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Sometimes over the years Utah,
you tend to forget that and I
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don't want to forget that.
I try to explain to people if
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you want to know about the ranch
a book, I want you to just
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visualize a flat line that moves
from left to right.
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If you can imagine a line that
you draw the goes from left to
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right and where you start, and
where your finger ends, the left
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is God and everything.
After that, as far as that line
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can go It, Go for Infinity.
And that's the Rancho book.
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It starts in the beginning and
works its way outward and upward
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and that's how I explain it.
If you want to go back in time
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and try to understand what God
was thinking, when he put all of
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this in a motion, it's an
intelligent approach to
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understanding an enlarged
universe.
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And that's what I try to tell
people and not try to get bogged
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down with details about, you
know, it's got this many
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chapters and there's this many
segments and this part is About
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this, as I find that, the more
detail you give the less people
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are prone to be curious.
You just want to give them
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enough say, you know, if you
really want to get a better
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perspective of what the universe
is all about, I urge you to pick
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up the book.
Find a find a chapter in there
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that you are interested in and
go for it, you know, that's what
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I did.
I started with Adam and Eve and,
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and start bouncing around, and
kind of look red different
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things.
And then when it really dawned
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on me, was the first five papers
and it was that point I really
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grasp the conceptual importance
of what was being presented.
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So anyway, we're gonna have a
good program.
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Today we're going to talk about
Pride.
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I have a take Con Pride because
it's pride month and it's a
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cultural phenomenon.
And I wanted to share some
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thoughts about it.
Some serious thoughts about it
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because you know you know and I
know we're all going through an
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ideological struggle.
And you know, we have to be
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careful about the steps that we
take.
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I think the Rancho book warns
us, you know, we're going to try
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new things.
But, you know, we have to be
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careful not to go too fast
because if we do it becomes
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destabilizing and I think a lot
of what we're seeing now in the
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world today is destabilization.
You know, this is an
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experimental Planet, a decimal
world.
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And so things are not in the
usual order and we know that
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anyway.
So we'll get to some of that.
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I looked up the word pride, in
the Rancho book, it appears 58
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times. and I want to go through
some of the references that it
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makes to it and see if you can
agree with me, that we need to
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be very careful about those
ideologies that we take at face
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value and not think about the
implications But before we get
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to that, I do want to talk about
this article, I read it was in
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one of my regular Reeds and it's
written by a guy who calls
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himself Sovereign man, and he's
pretty good writer.
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He writes a lot about current
cultural streams and how they,
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you know, how they mesh with,
you know, Western Society.
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So he's always got some insight
that I enjoyed and it's all
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about how problematic it would
be if we ever had contact with
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intelligent life.
So he says, okay, well, let's
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take a look at the future.
Let's say it's June 2nd 20:28,
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and then he and then it's a
brief story, but it's an
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interesting story.
He says worldwide hopes for
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friendly relations with our
extraterrestrial.
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Visitors vanish this morning
when the aliens climb back
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aboard, their spaceship and flew
away.
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After nearly three weeks of
failed talks with senior US
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government officials.
Now, remember this is satire The
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aliens had known of Earth's
existence for centuries, but
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they deliberately avoided our
planet in their Interstellar
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travels because they viewed
human civilization as to
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underdeveloped.
Like make that bigger however,
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after monitoring NASA's first
ever public hearing on UFOs,
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which took place five years ago
today, Mark, May 31st 2023,
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which by the way did happen, the
aliens decided to initiate first
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Contact Their journey to Earth
took several hours and when they
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arrived last month, a collective
sigh of relief.
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Could be felt around the world
when the aliens came bearing
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gifts.
Their initial contact with our
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planet seemed expertly planned
to calm our nerves as they
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distributed miracle, cures for
viruses, parasites, and even
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cancer.
And as they spent the entire
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Journey learning our language,
they were easily able to
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communicate the first world
leader of the aliens met with
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was US president Kamala Harris.
And they showed her a small
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metallic box, which they had
said will provide Limitless free
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energy to the world.
However, relations with the
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alien visitors quickly, took a
turn for the worst when the
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president began talking about
science.
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According to several observers
at the meeting, President Harris
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explained to the aliens that
basic principles of biology,
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like, sex and gender are myths
and that are rooted in violent.
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Heterodoxy, at which point the
space diplomats appeared to
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burst out laughing.
Of course, president Harris and
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her scientific advisors found
the reactions, deeply offensive,
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and they try to explain that the
aliens were displaying
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problematic colonizer attitudes.
Federal officials have spent the
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last several years, trying to
re-educate.
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The aliens about science leading
to strayed relations between our
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species.
The aliens countered by
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producing thousands of holograms
worth of data disproving the
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Americans claims data, which the
White House called ignorant and
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defensive.
Finally the aliens in apparent
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exasperation grab their energy
Cube and stormed out their ship
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was observed leaving with
Earth's atmosphere this morning
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and there has been no contact
since despite the loss of
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revolutionary alien technology
top officials say they don't
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regret the outcome as president
Harris told reporters this
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morning, frankly, there's no
room on Earth or anti-science
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hate speech, whatever the
species.
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In other news pharmaceutical and
energy stocks which initially
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plunge to near zero value.
Amid alien, contact have
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rebounded in to record highs, I
kind of have to laugh.
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That's a good.
Good story, he who has an ear.
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Let him hear boy, that's but
doesn't that tell you something?
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When I first read that article,
I said you know that there's a
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metaphor there and the metaphor
for me being a student of the
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Rancher Revelation as did.
It kind of helped me understand
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why people are indifferent to
the teachings of the Urantia
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book.
In this age, they're not
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politically correct.
Now, they may have been at the
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time that the book was written.
But you can you can see how much
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culture has changed in the last
100 years.
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And at this point, many people
today, unlike in my generation
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before who had some majority of
us were somehow influenced by
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basic Christian or judeo.
Christian theology right now.
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That is not a true statement. so
consequently as a result of
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that, many people don't have the
foundation or the construct in
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which the Urantia book would fit
because if you study the ranch
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attacks, it definitely presents
itself along judeo, Christian
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ideological lines but not
because it's a judeo Christian
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book but rather because judeo
Christian theology has a
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timeline that dates back to the
beginnings of the Revelation the
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actual first Revelation when
caligastia came and in
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subsequent Adam and Eve and
Jesus and Melchizedek, those are
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all Revelations that are tied to
the same story storyline for the
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same story book.
So it's a matter of truth that
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the Canaanites who studied under
Melchizedek, for example, would
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carry the teachings of
Melchizedek 800 years later to
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where Moses would inherit those.
And then go on to be credited
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with the first five books of the
Torah which was influential to
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no end.
So you can see that the what I'm
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trying to say is it without that
pre knowledge without that
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foundational without the soil.
You're not going to produce very
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good.
Figs.
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And, and right now, we're also
wrapped up in political
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correctness and pronouns, and
everything else that we're not
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paying attention to the real
story, which is that humanity is
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in very deep doo-doo.
If we don't come up with some
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ideological equilibrium And so
on that note, I want to
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transition and I've given a lot
of thought to this and it is not
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my intent for me to caused any
offense to anyone who might be
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part or a member of the lgbtq
community because I have too
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much respect for people's
individual freedoms and rights
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to even there.
Go there.
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In fact, many people, I love
family, members included are a
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member of the LGBT community, so
I'm not talking to them.
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I'm talking to people who have
taken the pride.
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The pride flag The Pride symbol,
and I want to expand upon it
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because pride, in and of itself,
most people understand is not a
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good thing for a lot of reasons.
And I thought we could gain some
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knowledge of it by finding how
it's referred to in the Rancho
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book and see what we can.
And some of this, by the way,
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I've discussed in previous
podcast so it's nothing new
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here.
But I did find it interesting
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that the ranch a book mentions
Pride 58 times and I want to go
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through some of them.
Not all of them, but enough.
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If of them so we get a sense of
the dangers and the subtleties
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of Pride and because it is pride
month with better time to do it,
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right.
So let's go back to the
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beginning.
The first time, the word pride
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is mentioned in the ranch, a
book is a paper, 53 section 2,
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in reference to Lucifer's pride
in self deception and believing
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his rebellion was actually good
for the universe.
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The second reference comes in
paper 66 again, but this time in
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reference to caligastia
rebelling alongside Lucifer.
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The author comments on the
planetary, Prince, siding with
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Lucifer, quote, I did not.
Then so fully understand the
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subtleties of Personality Pride
Then again, in paper 68, in
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reference to the fact that both
Lucifer and caligastia have been
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warned by their superiors quote,
respecting their critical
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Tendencies and subtle
developments of their pride of
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self, and its Associated
exaggeration of the feelings of
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self-importance.
See, so, now in this third
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reference to it, it's talking
about how Pride leads to this
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exaggerated feeling of
self-importance.
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Paper 68 section 2 paragraph 11.
It says, as a factor of social
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progression, quote, vanity
contributed mightily to the
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birth of society.
But at the time of these
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Revelations, the devious
strivings of a bain, glorious
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generation threatened to swamp
and submerge.
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The whole complicated structure
of a highly specialized
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civilization.
So the time of the revelations
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are they referencing this new
community of people who have
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great pride, what would they be
referring to?
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But at the times of these
Revelations, the devious
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strivings of a vein, glorious
generation threatened to swamp
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and submerge the whole
complicated structure of a
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highly specialized Civilization.
Now I could also take that to
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mean that It was just at the end
of The Roaring 20s and the
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Roaring 20s was a very
materialistic age, lots of
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drunkenness and there was well
it was the age of Gatsby.
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It goes on to say pleasure want
has long been as long since
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superseded hunger want the
legitimate social aims of
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self-maintenance are rapidly
translating themselves into base
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and threatening forms of
self-gratification
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self-maintenance.
Build Society.
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Unbridled self-gratification
unfailingly destroys
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civilization.
All right, so we move along on
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the subject of Pride.
What else can we learn from the
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ranch papers?
Well, I'm a contact of the human
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Paradox where it talks about our
human cells that are spiritual
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cells and sort of that battle
that takes place in our material
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life.
It reads of all the dangers was
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which beset Mortals man's nature
and jeopardizes.
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His spiritual Integrity pride is
the greatest courage is velours
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and but egotism is vainglorious
and suicidal.
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Reasonable self-confidence is
not to be deplored.
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Man's ability to transcend.
Transcend himself is the one
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thing which distinguishes him
from the Animal Kingdom, but
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then in the next paragraph pride
is deceitful, intoxicating and
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sin breeding whether found in an
individual, a group or race or a
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nation.
It is literally true Pride goes
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before a fall.
So they're, they're even
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borrowing from a new testament
quote, or an Old Testament
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quote. this is in reference to
Judaism as preserved by the key
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nights, which we mentioned
before, it was a small group of
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students of Melchizedek during
Abraham's time, the key nights,
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there are mentioned in the Bible
and they were the ones that pass
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that those, those principles
those teachings on to Moses
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parents, who themselves were of
keen-eyed ancestry and so From
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paper 131, it reads.
God has made, man, a little less
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than Divine and has crowned him
with love and mercy.
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The love knows, the Lord knows
the way of the righteous, but
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the way of the ungodly Shall
Perish.
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The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom.
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The knowledge of the Supreme is
understanding, says, the
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almighty God walk, before me and
be perfect for getting off the
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pride.
Goes before, destruction and a
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haughty spirit before a fall he
who rules his own.
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Good spirit is mightier than he
who takes a city. the same
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paper, but this time on Shin to
now we're talking about the
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conception of Judaism and that
was a reference to Judaism a
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teaching in Judaism And from the
same paper on the world's
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religions and the use of Pride.
Now we learned from Shin to was
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his shin to have to say about
Pride Shin-Soo is an East Asian
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religion.
From paper 131 every time, man
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yields to anxiety.
He takes one step away from the
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leading of the spirit of his
heart Pride.
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Obscures God, if you would
obtain Heavenly helped put away
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your pride, every hair of Pride
shuts off, saving light as it
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were by a great Cloud.
If you are not right on the
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inside, it is useless to pray
for that, which is on the
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outside.
If I hear your prayers, it is
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because you come before me with
a clean.
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Heart, free from falsehood and
hypocrisy with the soul, which
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reflects truth, like a mirror.
If you would gain, immortality
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forsake, the world and come to
me, For paper 141, in reference
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to Jesus.
As he's beginning his new period
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of public teaching.
He says, Jesus portrayed
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conquest by sacrifice the
sacrifice of Pride and
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selfishness by showing Mercy.
He meant to portray spiritual
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deliverance from all grudges
grievances angers and the lust
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for selfish power and revenge.
This was during the initial days
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of when Jesus is public
teachings began and of the 70 or
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those among his early followers
who went about teaching Jesus,
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truth to the masses and upon
their Victorious returns, he
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speaks to them.
So this is from paper, 163
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paragraph. 6 section 6, the next
day being the Sabbath.
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Jesus went apart with the 70 and
said to them.
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I did indeed Rejoice with you
when you came back During the
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Good Tidings of the reception of
the Gospel of the Kingdom.
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By so many people scattered
throughout Galilee Samaria and
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Judea.
Why were you so surprisingly
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elated?
Did you not expect that?
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Your message would manifest
power in its delivery.
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Did you go forth with so little
faith in this gospel that you
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come back and surprised at its
Effectiveness?
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And now while I would not quench
your spirit of rejoicing I would
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sternly warned you against The
subtleties of Pride, spiritual
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Pride, if you could understand
the downfall of Lucifer, the
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iniquitous one, you would
solemnly shun all forms of
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spiritual Pride.
From The Last Supper, when Jesus
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and forms the apostles, one
among them is considering
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betraying the master that very
night from paper 179, paragraph,
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4 section 2.
He says, while it is necessary
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that I go to the father, it was
not required.
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That one of you should become a
traitor to fulfill.
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The father's will.
This is the coming to Fruit of
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the concealed evil in that heart
of one who failed to love the
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truth with his whole heart.
And so how deceitful is the
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intellectual Pride that precedes
the spiritual downfall?
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My friend of many years who even
now eats my bread will be
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willing to betray me.
Even as he now dips his hand
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with me in the dish.
And of course, referring to
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Judas.
And this is why I have often
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times said the pride flag.
While I certainly understand the
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social statement and makes about
inclusion.
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I think it's also a subtle
disguise for his flagrancy
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against those standards that
make for a real stable Society.
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And recently by the way, in
reference to this, I read an
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article that states the
separation of church and state
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has created a vacuum.
That must be filled by something
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man, is naturally a religious
person and this is maybe our
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biggest Folly humans are not
capable of not having religious
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impulses, but through
secularization and resistance to
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religion itself humans.
Now take up new causes whether
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they be for social injustice or
supposed human rights to
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privilege.
It was only natural for a
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humanistic religion of the
exalted self that would come
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along and seek to replace God.
And I think that's where we are
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today.
And I think it's worth
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mentioning and having a
discussion about it, so I hope
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that you gain something from
that and certainly with the
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Rancho book had to say, was
quite revealing about the
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different kinds of Pride and so
we leave it there but I do want
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to make one final comment,
disregarding the your Rancher
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Radio website.
We are now streaming 24 hours a
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day is best.
We can a couple times.
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We have to upgrade our
programming but by and large if
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you go to your answer radio
dotnet, we have a streaming
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link.
And we put up old articles, you
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old podcast old interviews and
we just let them ride.
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So anytime you need that, you
know, your Ranch is sound going
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in the background, while you're
doing other things, you can
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enjoy the stream, the live
stream along with the podcast.
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And I would also add that if you
have something, you'd like to
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contribute to the Rancher radio
stream, send it to me.
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The email address your answer
book, radio at gmail.com, your
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Ranch a book radio at gmail.com
and always happy to hear from
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you.
You those who are enjoying and
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sharing the Rancher Radio
podcast.
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Until next time, this is Jim
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Thanks again for stopping by