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What is Mota? A Superior Philosophy

What is Mota? A Superior Philosophy
What is Mota? A Superior Philosophy
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What is Mota? A Superior Philosophy

This episode is about a superior philosophy known as Mota, from Paper 48 in the Urantia revelation.

Mota is a form of spiritual philosophy that encompasses the spiritual life that exists within physical creation. In the Morontia life, we will gain Mota insight.

"The highest attainable philosophy of mortal man must be logically based on the reason of science, the faith of religion, and the truth insight afforded by revelation. By this union man can compensate somewhat for his failure to develop an adequate metaphysics and for his inability to comprehend the mota of the morontia." 103:6.15

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He heard all the time.
People say what is true?

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That what is truth?
Anyway.

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Yeah truth is what you make.
It truth is relative.

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Is there anything such thing as
truth?

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I came to the conclusion.
The one thing that can be

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verified by two separate
individual Minds as an

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experience to me that
constitutes truth.

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If two people can recognize the
same physical event as

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recurring.
Exactly.

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As it did.
In that, that moment, that's

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truth.
But you know what?

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That's, that's just a philosophy
of truth.

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It's a way of trying to Wrap our
minds around this idea that the

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Universe has value and meaning
and that our minds are

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constantly trying to find Value
and meaning trying to solve that

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puzzle.
And that's where Mirage shimoda

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comes in and Mota is to
philosophy.

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I guess what you would say
morality is to religion, that's

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I'm making that up, but that's
the correlation Mota, is to

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philosophy.
What morality is to religion.

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So contemplate, that as we
explore, Louder this time up on

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your rent.
Radio the podcast.

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I'm so glad you could join me.
Mota is a superior philosophy.

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It is to philosophy as to eyes
are two one.

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It has a stereoscopic effect on
meanings and values material,

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man.
Sees the universe as it were

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with.
But one, I flat Mansion World

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students achieve Cosmic
perspective, depth by

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superimposing, the perceptions
of the morontia life upon the

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perceptions of the physical
life.

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Pretty interesting.
Think about that for a moment

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and they are unable to bring
these material and Mirage.

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All viewpoints into true Focus.
Largely through the untiring

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ministry of their seraphic
counselors who so patiently,

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teach the Mansion worlds
students.

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And the Mirage, regressors many
of the teaching counselors of

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the Supreme order of seraphim
began their careers, as advisers

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of the newly liberated, Souls of
the Immortals of time paper, 48

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6.
As Mortals.

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So have these angels been
father, too many disappointments

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and so they will point out that
sometimes your most

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disappointing disappointments
have become your greatest

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blessings.
Sometimes the planting of a

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seed, necessitates its death,
and the death of your fondest,

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hopes, before it can be reborn
to Bear the fruits of new life

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and new opportunity.
And from then you will learn to

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suffer less through sorrow and
disappointment first by making

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fewer personal plans concerning
other He's very key.

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And then by accepting your lot,
when you have Faithfully

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performed your duty, you will
learn that.

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You increase your burdens and
decrease the likelihood of

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success by taking yourself too
seriously.

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Nothing can take precedence over
the work of your status, fear

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this world, or the next, very
important, is the work of

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preparation for the next higher
higher sphere.

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But nothing equals the
importance of the work of the

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world in which you are actually
living.

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But though, the Work is
important.

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The self is not.
When you feel important, you

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lose energy to the wear and tear
of ego dignity.

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So that there is little energy
left to do the work

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self-importance, not work
importance, exhaust immature

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creatures.
It is the self element that

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exhausts not the effort to
achieve you can do important

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work.
If you do not become

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self-important, you can do
several things as easily as one,

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if you leave yourself out.
Variety is restful.

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Monotony is what where's and
exhausts day after day is alike,

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just life or the alternative of
death?

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What is more on shimoda paper
48?

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71 the lower planes of miranshah
mota.

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Join directly with the higher
levels of human philosophy on

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the first Mansion world.
It is the practice to teach the

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less Advanced students by the
parallel technique that is in

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one column are presented.
The more simple concepts of

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mode.
Meanings and in the opposite

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column.
Citation is made of analogous

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statements of moral philosophy,
not long.

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Since while executing an
assignment on the first Mansion

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world of see Tanya I had the
occasion to observe this method

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of teaching and though I may not
undertake to present the Moda

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content of the set of the
lesson.

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I am permitted to record the 28
statements of human philosophy

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which this miranshah instructor
was utilizing as illustrative.

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Material designed to assist
these new mansion worlds

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sojourners in their early
efforts to grasp, the

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significance, and meaning of
Moda.

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These illustrations of human
philosophy were a display of

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specialized skill, does not
signify possession of spiritual

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capacity.
Cleverness is not a substitute

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for true character.
Few persons, live up to the

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faith which they really have
unreason.

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Fear is a master intellectual
fraud practiced upon The

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evolving mortal soul.
I actually thought about that

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for a long time.
And what I realized that the

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first sentence is basically, in
complete alignment with the

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second sentence even though they
seem to be almost diametric

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diametrically part.
The meaning of that few persons

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live up to the faith, which they
really have unreason.

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Fear is a master intellectual
fraud practiced upon the

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evolving mortal Soul.
What they're saying is it fear

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is what usually prevents people
from living.

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Going up to the faith that they
really have.

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Inherent capacities, cannot be
exceeded.

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A pint can never hold a quart.
The spirit concept cannot be

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mechanically forced into the
material memory, mold few

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Mortals ever, dare to draw
anything like the sum of

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Personality credits established
by the combined ministries of

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Nature and Grace.
The majority of impoverished.

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Souls are truly rich, but they
refuse to believe it

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difficulties May challenge
mediocrity and defeat the

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fearful, but they only stimulate
the True Children of the most

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highs to enjoy privilege without
abuse to have Liberty without

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Licence to possess power and
steadfastly refused to use it

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for self and grand grand Iseman.
These are the marks of high

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civilization, blind and
unforeseen accidents do not

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occur in the cosmos.
Neither do these Celestial

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beings assist the lower being
who refuses to act upon his

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light of Truth.
Ever does not always produce Joy

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but there is no happiness.
Without intelligent effort,

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action, achieves, strength,
moderation eventuates in charm

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righteousness strikes, the
harmony chords of truth and the

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melody vibrates throughout the
cosmos, even to the recognition

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of the infinite, the week
indulge in resolutions.

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But the strong act life is but a
day's work, do it?

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Well, the ACT is ours, the
consequences gods.

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The greatest Affliction of the
cosmos is never to have been

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Afflicted, Mortals, only learn
wisdom by experiencing

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tribulation Stars, our best to
stern from the lowly isolation

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of experiential depths not from
the illuminated and ecstatic

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mountaintops whet the appetites
of your Associates for truth.

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Give advice only when it is
asked for.

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A fact ation is the ridiculous
effort of the ignorant to appear

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wise the Tempt of the barren,
soul to appear Rich.

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You cannot perceive spiritual
truth until you feelingly

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experience, it.
And many truths are not really

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felt except in adversity.
Ambition is dangerous until it

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is fully socialized.
You have not truly acquired any

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virtue until your Axe make you
worthy of it.

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Impatience is a spirit poison
angers like a stone hurled into

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a hornet's nest.
Anxiety, must be abandoned.

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The disappointments hardest to
Bear are those, which never come

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only a poet, can discern poetry
in the commonplace pros of

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routine existence, the high
mission of any Art Is by its

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Illusions to foreshadow a higher
Universe reality to crystallize

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the emotions of time and to the
thought of Eternity, the

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evolving soul is not made / what
it does but by what it strives

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to do death added, nothing to
the intellectual possession or

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to the spiritual endowment, but
it Did add to the experiential

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status.
The consciousness of survival.

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The destiny of Eternity is
determined Moment by Moment by

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the achievements of the day.
By day living.

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The acts of today, are the
destiny of Tomorrow.

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Greatness lies.
Not so much in possessing

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strength as in making a wise and
divine use of such strength.

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Knowledge is possessed only by
sharing, it is safeguarded by

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wisdom and socialized by love.
Progress demands development of

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individuality mediocrity seeks
perpetuation and

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standardization.
The argumentative defense of any

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proposition is inversely
proportional to the truth.

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Contained Such as the work of
the beginners on their first

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match in Worlds.
While the more advanced pupils

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on the later, worlds are
mastering the higher levels of

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cosmic insight and more on
shimoda.

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And then finally there's this on
the philosophic coordination,

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it's a brief paragraph when the
philosophy of man leans heavily

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toward the world of matter, it
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naturalistic, When philosophy
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the spiritual level, it becomes
idealistic or even mystical when

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philosophy is so unfortunate as
to lean upon metaphysics, it

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unfailingly becomes, skeptical,
confused in past ages, most of

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man's knowledge and intellectual
evaluations have fallen into one

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of these three, distortions of
perception philosophy dare not

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projected to interpretations of
reality in the linear fashion.

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Of logic.
It must never fail to reckon

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with the elliptic symmetry of
reality and with the essential

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curvature of all relation
Concepts.

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And then finally, the highest
attainable philosophy of mortal

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man must be logically based on
the reason to science the faith

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of religion and the truth
Insight afforded by Revelation

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by this.
Union can man compensate

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somewhat for his failure to
develop an adequate.

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Six and for his inability to
comprehend the Mota of the

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miranshah.
So we'll leave it.

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There is lots to ponder the
philosophy of mortal man.

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Must be logically based on the
reason of science, the faith of

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religion and the truth Insight
afforded by Revelation.

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And when you have those three
that compensates for the

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failure, to develop an adequate
metaphysics, and for our

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inability to comprehend the Moda
aspect of reality, that's what

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they're saying and that's where
we'll leave it.

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So, thanks a For joining us to,
I've always wanted to do a

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episode on miranshah Moda and
bring out some of these gems.

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These true gems that just so
many times, I've used him and

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said them in so many ways just
drop them here and here and

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people really love these these
quotes.

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So, paper 48 is where you'll
find them Ron shimoda, until

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next time.
Thanks again for joining me on

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