1 00:00:00,030 --> 00:00:04,470 Terrorism is cancel culture at scale. 2 00:00:06,540 --> 00:00:10,380 Hey, it's Lucas Skrobot, and you're listening to the Lucas Skrobot 3 00:00:10,380 --> 00:00:16,920 show where we uncover purpose, pursue truth and own the future episode 268. 4 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:22,020 It is January 27th, 2022. 5 00:00:23,570 --> 00:00:25,100 I'm glad that you're with me this morning. 6 00:00:25,490 --> 00:00:27,020 We are started streaming. 7 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,380 These shows live on YouTube. 8 00:00:31,220 --> 00:00:32,210 I will be honest. 9 00:00:32,210 --> 00:00:34,940 YouTube is not my favorite platform in the world. 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,620 I must, I much prefer just going straight audio, but I understand 11 00:00:39,620 --> 00:00:44,840 that in these times, times that we live in kids, can't just have audio. 12 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:46,910 You need all those other video components too. 13 00:00:46,910 --> 00:00:47,840 So if you're 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scale, it is cancer culture that has been. 26 00:01:36,255 --> 00:01:41,655 Given full, full birth to what cancel culture really is, which is 27 00:01:41,745 --> 00:01:43,665 a form of aggression and terrorism. 28 00:01:43,665 --> 00:01:52,395 Now we talked about, about cancel culture or revenge culture or terrorism 29 00:01:52,425 --> 00:01:58,815 all early on, early on, back in the days, uh, with that boxing match. 30 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:05,400 Uh, back on episode, I want to say episode 27, it could be wrong on that. 31 00:02:06,630 --> 00:02:11,730 I'll put the correct episode in the show notes, but cancel cold. 32 00:02:12,690 --> 00:02:17,250 Really comes from the root of shame and honor, and it 33 00:02:17,250 --> 00:02:19,110 comes from a root of revenge. 34 00:02:19,140 --> 00:02:22,770 It's saying, because I don't like you because I don't like what you're doing. 35 00:02:23,010 --> 00:02:25,950 I am going to seek to ruin your life. 36 00:02:25,980 --> 00:02:28,770 I'm going to seek to destroy your life terrorist. 37 00:02:29,305 --> 00:02:30,535 Works in a similar way. 38 00:02:30,535 --> 00:02:31,915 It's saying I don't like what you're doing. 39 00:02:32,125 --> 00:02:36,445 I'm going to use a form of guerrilla warfare to destruct your nation 40 00:02:36,445 --> 00:02:38,395 district strep your society. 41 00:02:38,605 --> 00:02:40,885 Cast fear into your hearts. 42 00:02:40,885 --> 00:02:43,765 Fear that your future might not be certain. 43 00:02:43,885 --> 00:02:45,265 You don't know what might happen. 44 00:02:46,255 --> 00:02:49,975 This is the same thing with cancel culture, just on a smaller level. 45 00:02:50,485 --> 00:02:51,235 Cancel culture. 46 00:02:52,620 --> 00:02:54,150 Hey, I don't like your stance. 47 00:02:54,180 --> 00:02:55,260 I don't like what you said. 48 00:02:55,260 --> 00:02:59,250 I pulled up a tweet back from 2010, and I found out that 49 00:02:59,370 --> 00:03:00,930 you really are a bad person. 50 00:03:00,930 --> 00:03:05,400 So I'm going to threaten you by boycotting you as a person and going 51 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,460 to go to your employers and make sure that they don't work with you. 52 00:03:08,460 --> 00:03:10,950 I'm going to go to your friends and make sure that they don't 53 00:03:10,950 --> 00:03:12,300 become friends within you anymore. 54 00:03:12,329 --> 00:03:15,210 I'm going to make sure that anyone that associates with you. 55 00:03:15,795 --> 00:03:22,395 Is shamed associated with you and suffers consequences associating with you? 56 00:03:22,395 --> 00:03:26,965 Well, this is what we are seeing, but at a geopolitical. 57 00:03:28,140 --> 00:03:32,400 And it's a picture perfect case when it comes to the versus 58 00:03:32,429 --> 00:03:33,959 the United Arab Emirates. 59 00:03:33,959 --> 00:03:40,560 We discussed this, uh, slightly last week of how the United Arab Emirates 60 00:03:40,590 --> 00:03:46,680 have been bombed, uh, by a drone and by a ballistic missile from Yemen by the 61 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,950 who Thies thanks to our friends in Iran. 62 00:03:49,980 --> 00:03:50,280 Right. 63 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,859 This is a, this is a proxy. 64 00:03:54,030 --> 00:03:58,620 Between Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE in Yemen. 65 00:03:59,100 --> 00:03:59,400 Yep. 66 00:04:00,030 --> 00:04:06,360 Iran is backing who Thies and because of this conflict, ongoing conflict. 67 00:04:07,620 --> 00:04:12,060 Yemen is in one of the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. 68 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,560 Right now we've spent a considerable amount of time speaking about 69 00:04:16,829 --> 00:04:21,180 the crisis that has happened and continues to happen in Afghanistan. 70 00:04:21,810 --> 00:04:26,730 But we, I can quickly forget about the ongoing crisis right next door. 71 00:04:27,424 --> 00:04:34,354 In Yemen with 18 million people on the brink of starvation now, right before 72 00:04:34,354 --> 00:04:38,465 president Trump left office in 2021. 73 00:04:39,750 --> 00:04:42,840 He put the who theories on the terrorist list. 74 00:04:43,410 --> 00:04:49,050 Right after president Joe Biden came into office, he took the who Thies off the 75 00:04:49,050 --> 00:04:53,370 terrorist terrorist list saying putting them on a terror terrorist list really 76 00:04:53,370 --> 00:04:59,490 doesn't help anything because if they are on a terrorist watch list, Or list in 77 00:04:59,490 --> 00:05:02,070 general, then we can't get aid into Yemen. 78 00:05:02,070 --> 00:05:07,080 And there's millions of people who are dying, not only at the hands of who these, 79 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:13,590 but at the hands of, of no food of lack of trade of no water have no energy. 80 00:05:13,979 --> 00:05:18,000 Um, so the U S administration. 81 00:05:18,870 --> 00:05:21,780 Made the point of saying, putting them on a list, really isn't 82 00:05:21,780 --> 00:05:24,810 going to help anything because we're not going to get aid to the 83 00:05:24,810 --> 00:05:26,610 millions of people that need it. 84 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,270 We're not going to be able to come to an agreement with the who these, if they're 85 00:05:30,270 --> 00:05:35,400 on this list, but taking them off the list then puts it at a place where. 86 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,300 We can still treat them as a bad organization, but we 87 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:40,440 can get aid into the country. 88 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:45,599 Well, now the who, these are continuing to push forward and they sent just two 89 00:05:45,599 --> 00:05:49,740 days ago, another missile into the UAE. 90 00:05:49,740 --> 00:05:50,909 That's the image. 91 00:05:50,909 --> 00:05:55,920 If you're streaming on a pod cast, 2.0 certified app, you'd be able to 92 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:57,539 look down at your telephone right now. 93 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:01,950 Hopefully not while you're driving, but you'd be able to see a picture of 94 00:06:01,950 --> 00:06:05,270 a down ballistic missile that was shot. 95 00:06:06,315 --> 00:06:10,845 Reportedly by, uh, us air defense, um, technology that 96 00:06:10,845 --> 00:06:13,845 the UAE is thankfully deploying. 97 00:06:14,415 --> 00:06:20,115 Now, this was in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi heading for, uh, the city of Abu Dhabi. 98 00:06:20,205 --> 00:06:20,655 I don't know. 99 00:06:21,015 --> 00:06:25,035 We don't know exactly where it was aimed, but. 100 00:06:26,430 --> 00:06:27,510 For suffers. 101 00:06:27,540 --> 00:06:33,750 I think we have to realize the severity and the shock of the situation, 102 00:06:34,110 --> 00:06:38,460 especially in the fact that it doesn't seem, it doesn't seem like 103 00:06:38,460 --> 00:06:44,010 there is, uh, a lot of international upward roar or concern over this. 104 00:06:44,910 --> 00:06:49,560 Imagine Magid for a moment that a ballistic missile 105 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,780 was shot down over Paris. 106 00:06:52,770 --> 00:06:56,580 Imagine for a moment, a ballistic missile being shot down over 107 00:06:56,580 --> 00:07:00,930 London, over Tokyo, over Moscow. 108 00:07:01,620 --> 00:07:05,160 Imagine a ballistic missile being shot down over New York 109 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:07,500 or LA or Seattle, Chicago. 110 00:07:08,070 --> 00:07:12,540 What would, what would the status of the world beat the major 111 00:07:12,540 --> 00:07:14,460 headlines all over the place. 112 00:07:14,490 --> 00:07:17,490 Ballistic missiles shot down over New York city. 113 00:07:18,570 --> 00:07:19,020 It would be. 114 00:07:20,534 --> 00:07:22,125 Now I agree with it. 115 00:07:22,485 --> 00:07:27,435 I understand why the UAE is downplaying this because it would be plain straight 116 00:07:27,465 --> 00:07:29,675 into the hands of the Northeast. 117 00:07:29,675 --> 00:07:35,775 But we've been seeing this for months, ballistic missiles flying and being 118 00:07:35,775 --> 00:07:41,265 shot down over re off explosions in the Southern part of Saudi Arabia. 119 00:07:42,450 --> 00:07:48,360 This is the reality that is happening in the Arab peninsula, which has been 120 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:57,599 downplayed because it is terrorism that is designed to build distress. 121 00:07:57,630 --> 00:08:02,310 It's designed to make people want to pull their investments out and not feel safe. 122 00:08:02,310 --> 00:08:06,390 So they're not playing into it with that. 123 00:08:06,630 --> 00:08:07,230 I do want the. 124 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:13,620 I believe, and this is, you know, reading the tea leaves, so to speak it. 125 00:08:14,250 --> 00:08:16,979 But it's truly not a, you don't have this. 126 00:08:16,979 --> 00:08:17,909 Isn't a dumb moment. 127 00:08:17,969 --> 00:08:19,739 This isn't a, oh, of course. 128 00:08:22,620 --> 00:08:24,870 Neil I'll phrase it the other way actually. 129 00:08:24,870 --> 00:08:25,440 And misspoke. 130 00:08:25,710 --> 00:08:27,960 This is kind of what I'm about to say. 131 00:08:28,169 --> 00:08:31,349 It's like, of course you can see it in the writing is on the 132 00:08:31,349 --> 00:08:35,850 wall, but we are in the middle of seeing and we'll continue to see. 133 00:08:37,319 --> 00:08:41,039 Uh, social geopolitical changes here in the region. 134 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:44,339 And I believe in the region, I mean that the middle east, and I believe 135 00:08:44,339 --> 00:08:49,170 that we're only seeing the beginning of, of what is going to be unfolding 136 00:08:49,170 --> 00:08:50,160 over the next couple of years. 137 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,680 We've already seen it with Regina changes. 138 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:57,959 We've seen it with, uh, the passing away of, uh, national leaders 139 00:08:57,959 --> 00:09:00,420 and the insane of new leaders. 140 00:09:01,560 --> 00:09:03,780 And so it doesn't necessarily, when I say that there's going 141 00:09:03,780 --> 00:09:04,949 to be massive social change. 142 00:09:06,060 --> 00:09:08,910 It doesn't mean that it's going to be all bad. 143 00:09:09,060 --> 00:09:12,329 It doesn't mean that it's going to come from some social uprising, but 144 00:09:12,329 --> 00:09:16,770 I do think that we are about to see a major shift in the middle east, 145 00:09:16,770 --> 00:09:22,680 especially when it comes to us policy as us policy is shifting in the globe 146 00:09:23,910 --> 00:09:28,829 that is going to outplay into different positionings that we see in the middle of. 147 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,530 And I think we're beginning to see the tip of the iceberg here in the conflict 148 00:09:34,830 --> 00:09:44,070 between Iran and the Gulf nations with missiles being shot over Abu Dhabi. 149 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:53,730 So this is the, this is why this is why the are attacking, uh, Abu Dhabi and 150 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:58,350 the Emirates on the 27th this morning. 151 00:09:59,655 --> 00:10:02,745 Oh who these military spokesperson, I guess it's probably happened on the 152 00:10:02,745 --> 00:10:06,495 26th, but you know, the article came out this morning, a military spokesperson 153 00:10:06,495 --> 00:10:11,925 for the who Thies said that his group could attack expo 2020 in a tweet. 154 00:10:12,015 --> 00:10:13,275 He wrote expo. 155 00:10:13,755 --> 00:10:15,375 You may not win with us. 156 00:10:15,375 --> 00:10:20,204 We advise you that you change your location, who these under secretary 157 00:10:20,204 --> 00:10:25,185 of ministry of informant information, ministry, excuse me, NASA Dean 158 00:10:25,185 --> 00:10:27,224 Amir tweeted that the forces. 159 00:10:28,020 --> 00:10:33,330 Have what is worth displaying at the Dubai expo, referring to the ballistic 160 00:10:33,330 --> 00:10:37,890 missile that the group claims to have manufactured and used during the attacks 161 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:43,860 on the UAE saying, Hey, you should display what we are able to do at the expo. 162 00:10:43,890 --> 00:10:48,090 You should be a freight, their entire strategy. 163 00:10:48,510 --> 00:10:53,580 The entire strategy of the right now is to cast 50. 164 00:10:54,585 --> 00:10:58,095 Into the UAE, essentially playing into cancel culture, saying we 165 00:10:58,095 --> 00:11:00,944 are going to destroy your tourism. 166 00:11:00,944 --> 00:11:03,915 We are going to destroy your business investment. 167 00:11:03,915 --> 00:11:08,595 We are going to disincentivize people from investing in a very safe nation, 168 00:11:09,045 --> 00:11:13,665 a very prosperous nation, the United Arab Emirates, because once people see 169 00:11:13,665 --> 00:11:18,525 that missiles are flying over the nation and that it's a war torn nation, who's 170 00:11:18,525 --> 00:11:20,295 going to want to go there on vacation. 171 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:27,569 Tourism makes up for 12% of the GDP in the United Arab Emirates. 172 00:11:29,459 --> 00:11:31,170 This is no different than cancel culture. 173 00:11:31,740 --> 00:11:36,060 This really is absolutely no different than council culture 174 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:37,589 that we're seeing in the west. 175 00:11:37,589 --> 00:11:41,459 And we're seeing here it is terror. 176 00:11:41,490 --> 00:11:43,260 Cancel culture is terrible. 177 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:48,689 The thought behind cancel culture is if I can put terror into your heart. 178 00:11:48,689 --> 00:11:48,930 So. 179 00:11:50,795 --> 00:11:54,545 That you will change your stance, that other people won't want to do 180 00:11:54,545 --> 00:11:57,485 business with you, that other people will break contracts with you. 181 00:11:57,485 --> 00:11:59,465 That other people won't be your friend. 182 00:12:00,365 --> 00:12:01,985 If I can get you to change. 183 00:12:03,224 --> 00:12:07,395 The social positioning and support system around you, then you will be 184 00:12:07,395 --> 00:12:10,935 forced to come to your knees because of the terror that I have struck 185 00:12:11,265 --> 00:12:16,005 into your hearts, terrorism is just cancel culture, moved to the highest 186 00:12:16,185 --> 00:12:18,464 and furthest geopolitical movement. 187 00:12:18,464 --> 00:12:19,905 So what does that mean for our lives? 188 00:12:20,115 --> 00:12:25,214 As I said this year, I plan to and am going to work on being 189 00:12:25,214 --> 00:12:26,775 less reactionary to the news. 190 00:12:26,775 --> 00:12:30,824 I do think there's a lot of value in looking at current events and. 191 00:12:31,995 --> 00:12:35,085 Breaking down what has happening in current events, but I want to 192 00:12:35,085 --> 00:12:43,245 beat more proactionary or to build strong culture, to build strong 193 00:12:43,425 --> 00:12:45,915 communities, to build strong families. 194 00:12:46,125 --> 00:12:50,625 Because I believe that really, when it comes to a lot, like these geopolitical 195 00:12:50,625 --> 00:12:55,635 things that are happening in UAE and Yemen or what we're seeing in Ukraine 196 00:12:55,635 --> 00:12:58,065 and Russia, which we're probably going to be touching on a little bit next. 197 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:01,310 We don't have any power. 198 00:13:01,550 --> 00:13:03,470 We don't have any say we don't have any control. 199 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:04,580 It's just clickbait. 200 00:13:05,060 --> 00:13:09,500 It's just, who's in Haas and who arrives and it gets us all up into. 201 00:13:10,650 --> 00:13:12,600 But it doesn't really affect our personal lives. 202 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:18,990 And I, as a person, I want the things that I do to impact the quality of my life. 203 00:13:19,020 --> 00:13:20,310 Not just make me more informed. 204 00:13:20,550 --> 00:13:25,640 So how does this not only inform what's going on in the world, but 205 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,820 how does it inform how I ought to walk out and live in the. 206 00:13:30,695 --> 00:13:34,145 Well, that comes back down to cancel culture on a small scale. 207 00:13:34,385 --> 00:13:37,055 What happens when someone wants to cancel you? 208 00:13:37,235 --> 00:13:39,605 What happens when you want to cancel someone? 209 00:13:39,785 --> 00:13:47,315 Now, there are many instances where I have seen boycotts or cancel 210 00:13:47,315 --> 00:13:52,235 culture used in probably what would be considered a positive way. 211 00:13:52,355 --> 00:13:54,515 I don't think it's all negative. 212 00:13:55,455 --> 00:13:59,955 I don't think it's strong to vote with your wallet to say, Hey, I really 213 00:13:59,955 --> 00:14:01,655 don't like what this organization is. 214 00:14:02,670 --> 00:14:04,740 I don't like the supply chain of this organization. 215 00:14:04,740 --> 00:14:07,350 I don't like what this organization represents. 216 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:08,760 They're not part of my tribe. 217 00:14:08,790 --> 00:14:11,820 I'm going to bring my dollars in, spend it elsewhere. 218 00:14:11,820 --> 00:14:13,470 I don't think there's anything wrong with that. 219 00:14:13,890 --> 00:14:18,180 We've seen many people do that with what's happening in China with the 220 00:14:18,180 --> 00:14:22,800 weaker people saying we are not going to support this ongoing genocide 221 00:14:23,010 --> 00:14:24,750 in China with the weaker people. 222 00:14:25,020 --> 00:14:26,730 I think that's a good thing. 223 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,280 So it's not all. 224 00:14:31,215 --> 00:14:35,204 But there is an aspect of cancel culture when it moves beyond 225 00:14:35,204 --> 00:14:40,064 just boycotting and raising awareness awareness about an issue. 226 00:14:40,425 --> 00:14:46,454 And it moves to threatening individuals, uh, ability to make a living for 227 00:14:46,454 --> 00:14:49,454 themselves ability to survive. 228 00:14:49,875 --> 00:14:53,415 And, and this is where even in my mind, I'm a little bit of a Fox in this way. 229 00:14:53,415 --> 00:14:55,665 I can see things from both sides. 230 00:14:56,055 --> 00:14:56,795 When I think about. 231 00:14:57,645 --> 00:14:58,035 Issue. 232 00:14:58,035 --> 00:15:01,995 I can see things from both sides as if someone is committing genocide, 233 00:15:02,175 --> 00:15:07,635 or if someone is full-blown sex trafficker and their company is 234 00:15:07,995 --> 00:15:10,995 dealing with a slave child labor. 235 00:15:11,025 --> 00:15:13,155 Well, yeah, I want them to go out of business. 236 00:15:13,185 --> 00:15:15,675 I want them to stop what they're doing. 237 00:15:16,005 --> 00:15:20,805 And this is a similar tactic that the, who these are making, 238 00:15:20,805 --> 00:15:23,145 saying you are bombing our nation. 239 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:26,020 Which is being disputed. 240 00:15:26,020 --> 00:15:32,890 If the who the, as a militant group, really, if Yemen belongs to them and 241 00:15:32,890 --> 00:15:34,810 if they're the best leadership for you. 242 00:15:36,245 --> 00:15:38,165 But they're saying you are attacking us. 243 00:15:38,165 --> 00:15:39,215 We want to make you stop. 244 00:15:39,245 --> 00:15:43,235 But here's where it becomes terrorism on an international level. 245 00:15:43,565 --> 00:15:48,095 They're bombing civilians, they're targeting civilian forces. 246 00:15:48,125 --> 00:15:50,135 They're targeting airports. 247 00:15:50,165 --> 00:15:51,755 They're targeting oil tankers. 248 00:15:51,785 --> 00:15:53,975 They're not targeting military personnel. 249 00:15:59,825 --> 00:16:03,095 When we are building our families. 250 00:16:03,365 --> 00:16:04,535 When we're building our. 251 00:16:07,765 --> 00:16:14,815 We must do so from a place of, rather than seeking revenge and rather than trying to 252 00:16:14,815 --> 00:16:21,325 manipulate and control other people, we should create an environment where people 253 00:16:21,325 --> 00:16:24,285 are welcomed in to see a better way to. 254 00:16:25,655 --> 00:16:30,935 The antidote and the antithesis of cancel culture is forgiveness. 255 00:16:30,935 --> 00:16:36,875 Culture is a culture of grace is a culture of understanding is a culture of saying, I 256 00:16:36,875 --> 00:16:38,945 understand that we see things differently. 257 00:16:39,725 --> 00:16:41,765 Let's not resort to violence. 258 00:16:42,245 --> 00:16:43,895 Do you settle our disputes? 259 00:16:44,975 --> 00:16:47,075 Even though there are for sure. 260 00:16:48,270 --> 00:16:52,890 When there is just war or when someone should be brought to a court of law and, 261 00:16:52,949 --> 00:16:58,860 and suffer punishments for their crimes, but let's on a person to person conflict, 262 00:16:58,860 --> 00:17:01,589 a conflict level, individual to division. 263 00:17:03,834 --> 00:17:07,825 Let's meet and talk at a table and let's extend an olive branch 264 00:17:07,915 --> 00:17:09,055 of forgiveness to one another. 265 00:17:09,055 --> 00:17:13,014 And we can begin to model that in our families, we can begin 266 00:17:13,045 --> 00:17:15,115 to model that with our children. 267 00:17:15,115 --> 00:17:18,655 We can begin to model that with the way that we interact with people who 268 00:17:18,655 --> 00:17:21,555 don't think like us, which brings us to. 269 00:17:22,234 --> 00:17:23,314 Our next segment. 270 00:17:26,614 --> 00:17:26,854 Yeah. 271 00:17:26,854 --> 00:17:27,544 That makes sense. 272 00:17:27,544 --> 00:17:31,475 In a post-truth society where you've exchanged true through flies and 273 00:17:31,475 --> 00:17:34,205 reason for postmodern irrationality. 274 00:17:34,715 --> 00:17:38,165 The absorb absurd finally makes sense. 275 00:17:38,165 --> 00:17:42,425 Well, this cancel culture theme carries on in a thread into this next. 276 00:17:43,530 --> 00:17:47,610 There are two things that happened, I think are particularly outrageous. 277 00:17:47,940 --> 00:17:52,590 Uh, maybe not particularly outrageous, but definitely a, we 278 00:17:52,590 --> 00:17:54,480 have lost our way as a society. 279 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,460 Where, where are we going? 280 00:17:56,460 --> 00:17:58,920 Have we lost our bearing and how do we find it? 281 00:17:59,310 --> 00:18:01,620 Uh, there's two things that happened this week. 282 00:18:01,620 --> 00:18:08,070 First, the Pope came out and told parents that if their children 283 00:18:08,220 --> 00:18:11,550 are gay, that or come out as gay. 284 00:18:13,170 --> 00:18:16,740 Parents should not condemn them, but offer them support. 285 00:18:17,130 --> 00:18:17,640 He spoke. 286 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,190 This is from Reuters he's quote. 287 00:18:20,340 --> 00:18:24,150 He spoke in unscripted comments at his weekly audience ref referencing 288 00:18:24,150 --> 00:18:27,660 the difficulties that parents can face in raising offspring. 289 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:33,030 He said those issues include parents who see different sexual orientations in 290 00:18:33,030 --> 00:18:37,410 their children and how to handle this and how to accompany their children and not 291 00:18:37,590 --> 00:18:40,680 hide behind an attitude of condemnation. 292 00:18:41,310 --> 00:18:41,460 Now. 293 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:49,440 This is a very controversial subject when it comes to the monotheistic religions, 294 00:18:49,470 --> 00:18:54,420 both Judaism and Christianity in the Catholic church and Islam, all three 295 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:59,760 strictly condemn, homosexuality as a sin. 296 00:19:00,150 --> 00:19:08,640 Uh, we, we know that when people deny truth, when people deny that there is a 297 00:19:08,820 --> 00:19:10,920 God who created the heavens and the earth. 298 00:19:11,669 --> 00:19:17,939 It opens, it opens the reality up to the fact that, or to the belief that 299 00:19:17,939 --> 00:19:19,649 it's not a fact, but to a belief. 300 00:19:20,550 --> 00:19:25,350 Well, if there is no creator and we are just a bunch of determinist 301 00:19:25,830 --> 00:19:31,860 sacks of chemicals, there is no divine moral order or law, then why 302 00:19:31,860 --> 00:19:37,740 not do whatever satisfies my flesh ender were given over to darkness. 303 00:19:37,770 --> 00:19:42,360 Humans are given over to darkness because we much rather hide in 304 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:44,880 darkness than come to light. 305 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:46,110 So this is. 306 00:19:47,804 --> 00:19:55,125 We clearly see in these monotheistic faiths that we do not stand by homosexual 307 00:19:55,125 --> 00:20:00,975 relations while at the same time, at least in, in Christianity, Islam functions a 308 00:20:00,975 --> 00:20:04,004 little differently and believe Judaism functions a little differently, but I 309 00:20:04,004 --> 00:20:06,945 can speak from my point of view of faith. 310 00:20:09,554 --> 00:20:12,165 We should not seek to control other people. 311 00:20:12,764 --> 00:20:14,804 If someone doesn't believe in my faith. 312 00:20:17,570 --> 00:20:24,170 I should not be able to push my beliefs externally it, because external 313 00:20:24,740 --> 00:20:31,460 measures do not create internal morals it by and large do to some degree. 314 00:20:31,460 --> 00:20:31,940 It does. 315 00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:36,050 For instance, when it comes to abortion laws, having a law that says thou 316 00:20:36,050 --> 00:20:41,060 shalt not kill your unborn baby in the womb, but actually does lead to. 317 00:20:41,985 --> 00:20:43,665 Innocent children not being murdered. 318 00:20:43,665 --> 00:20:48,165 So there is a place where we have to take the plumb line of morality 319 00:20:48,165 --> 00:20:50,325 and apply it to law and justice. 320 00:20:50,985 --> 00:20:58,395 While at the same time, I don't think that if a child or if my child, 321 00:20:58,395 --> 00:21:04,005 or if your child came out under a different sexual orientation that 322 00:21:04,005 --> 00:21:09,645 we should condemn them, shamed him, that we should throw them into. 323 00:21:11,195 --> 00:21:15,995 'cause and, and here's, here's why, because I don't think that that would 324 00:21:15,995 --> 00:21:19,085 lead to an outcome that is right. 325 00:21:19,925 --> 00:21:23,885 I don't think that would lead them to an outcome that we want to see happen. 326 00:21:24,395 --> 00:21:26,705 And this is, I believe is what the Pope is saying. 327 00:21:28,235 --> 00:21:34,955 He's also made it clear that the Pope in recent years, that he 328 00:21:34,955 --> 00:21:37,805 does not support gay marriage. 329 00:21:38,504 --> 00:21:42,435 But he has said, if there's a homosexual couple, they should be able to have a 330 00:21:42,435 --> 00:21:46,995 civil union and that civil union should provide them tax write-offs, et cetera. 331 00:21:47,264 --> 00:21:48,195 I'm fine with that. 332 00:21:48,584 --> 00:21:49,695 I'm fine with it. 333 00:21:49,725 --> 00:21:53,834 And this is why, because marriage ought to be a religious institution. 334 00:21:54,104 --> 00:21:57,284 And the moment that marriage became a state institution, instead of a 335 00:21:57,284 --> 00:22:01,365 religious institution, it blurred the lines of what marriage is. 336 00:22:01,784 --> 00:22:03,705 If you want to get married, you should go to your. 337 00:22:04,310 --> 00:22:10,310 Your Moolah, your priest, your, your local Hindu temple, and have that 338 00:22:10,790 --> 00:22:18,110 religious man create a religious union beat as a covenant between you and God. 339 00:22:18,110 --> 00:22:20,570 It's not a covenant between you and the state. 340 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,860 So the Pope has, he does have a good argument and he does continue 341 00:22:24,860 --> 00:22:28,250 to say that by just condemning. 342 00:22:29,235 --> 00:22:31,725 Children, it's not helping the issue. 343 00:22:31,725 --> 00:22:36,105 We actually have to show them love and it's through love that they're then 344 00:22:36,105 --> 00:22:43,814 drawn in, hopefully to see another light, to see another truth, to understand 345 00:22:44,145 --> 00:22:48,405 and gives you the parents space to understand what might be going on. 346 00:22:48,405 --> 00:22:53,745 Is there something underlying in this issue that needs to be 347 00:22:54,135 --> 00:22:58,004 healed or solved at the end of it? 348 00:22:59,024 --> 00:23:05,024 The Pope said, the church treats teaches, excuse me. 349 00:23:05,024 --> 00:23:08,235 The church teaches that gays should be treated with the respect that 350 00:23:08,235 --> 00:23:12,855 while same sex acts are sinful, same sex tendencies are not. 351 00:23:14,325 --> 00:23:19,485 For instance, with this breaks down in means, is that same sex acts? 352 00:23:19,514 --> 00:23:24,405 Just like if a person is having adultery, they're in their marriage 353 00:23:24,585 --> 00:23:27,165 and they're having an affair that is. 354 00:23:29,115 --> 00:23:34,215 Just as if someone's single and they're sleeping around the Christian Church, 355 00:23:34,335 --> 00:23:41,655 the Muslim faith, the Jewish faith, they all believe that that is sinful. 356 00:23:41,715 --> 00:23:47,715 Likewise, if you're have same-sex tendencies and you're sleeping 357 00:23:47,715 --> 00:23:49,544 around that, that is sinful. 358 00:23:49,544 --> 00:23:56,235 It is the act that is sinful at the same time within the Christian faith. 359 00:23:57,225 --> 00:24:00,254 It moves beyond just do what you do, but it's what you think. 360 00:24:00,465 --> 00:24:07,574 And if you are a person who is continually bound up in pornography or bound up in, 361 00:24:09,344 --> 00:24:14,475 in sexual fantasies about other people, it is the same as if you have gone out. 362 00:24:15,705 --> 00:24:22,905 That's act well, this plays into another thing that is happening in the middle 363 00:24:22,905 --> 00:24:28,545 east right now, and Netflix, which Netflix came out with their very first 364 00:24:29,115 --> 00:24:32,325 Arab, uh, production Arabic production. 365 00:24:34,035 --> 00:24:38,895 And it is a, a spinoff of a Western film. 366 00:24:40,335 --> 00:24:43,335 And the, the Western film is called perfect strangers. 367 00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:44,655 The idea of. 368 00:24:45,705 --> 00:24:47,175 Show of this movie. 369 00:24:47,385 --> 00:24:52,065 Instead, there's a bunch of people at a dinner party, someone's phone rings, and 370 00:24:52,065 --> 00:24:53,295 they're like, Hey, I have a good idea. 371 00:24:53,685 --> 00:24:57,645 Let's for the span of our dinner party, put our phones on the table. 372 00:24:57,645 --> 00:24:59,805 And any phone call that we get, any text message. 373 00:24:59,805 --> 00:25:01,965 We get any email that comes in. 374 00:25:02,445 --> 00:25:05,264 We, everyone gets to see it and read it. 375 00:25:05,895 --> 00:25:10,725 And we get to know the truth of what's happening via everyone's phones. 376 00:25:11,175 --> 00:25:14,534 This film is called, um, a sob will lie. 377 00:25:17,645 --> 00:25:25,024 And the film goes on to reveal shocking truths of infidelity, premarital, sex, 378 00:25:25,205 --> 00:25:33,125 adultery, and homosexuality, normalizing, celebrating, and exposing things 379 00:25:33,125 --> 00:25:39,365 that are happening in, in communities already across the, across the world. 380 00:25:39,365 --> 00:25:42,875 Not just the Arab world, not just the Western world, but the world Atlas. 381 00:25:43,980 --> 00:25:48,689 I can testify that living in the middle east I've had guys make passes at me 382 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:54,450 numerous times, numerous times, talk to my cousins in south side of Chicago. 383 00:25:55,020 --> 00:25:58,260 They have guys making passes, passes at them numerous times, 384 00:25:59,580 --> 00:26:01,320 but Egypt is in an uproar. 385 00:26:01,620 --> 00:26:03,480 And I think really rightly so. 386 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:04,020 There's. 387 00:26:04,905 --> 00:26:10,065 There that Netflix is creating a war on morality. 388 00:26:10,065 --> 00:26:13,575 One lawyer argued and that the film promotes homosexuality. 389 00:26:13,815 --> 00:26:17,145 While another said it seeks to destroy family values as a part 390 00:26:17,145 --> 00:26:19,185 of a systematic war on morals. 391 00:26:19,845 --> 00:26:22,695 Uh, ho where have we heard this before? 392 00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:26,805 We've been saying this, that out of Hollywood, out of the west, 393 00:26:26,835 --> 00:26:30,705 out of media, that there is a war against family violence. 394 00:26:31,710 --> 00:26:39,750 Now family values is a broad term because outside of outside of modern 395 00:26:39,750 --> 00:26:49,020 recent history, these values 2,003,000 years ago, the values of being able to 396 00:26:49,020 --> 00:26:51,720 have pure miss promiscuous lifestyle. 397 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,520 Whether it's homosexual or non homosexual, they're just sleeping around. 398 00:26:56,820 --> 00:27:00,510 When you look at the Greeks in Play-Doh, when you look at their writings, they 399 00:27:00,510 --> 00:27:07,050 were living just rampant, flesh based, homosexual, sleeping around lifestyle. 400 00:27:07,784 --> 00:27:09,615 Well, at the same time, very oppressive to women. 401 00:27:09,885 --> 00:27:14,024 Women even had one sip of wine and a husband smelled it. 402 00:27:14,264 --> 00:27:15,225 He could have her kill. 403 00:27:15,225 --> 00:27:17,385 That's where kissing on the cheek comes from. 404 00:27:17,385 --> 00:27:19,844 The husband would come home and kiss his wife on the cheek 405 00:27:19,844 --> 00:27:21,284 to smell if she had any wine. 406 00:27:21,495 --> 00:27:24,764 Because the presumption was that if a woman has even one sip of wine, 407 00:27:24,975 --> 00:27:29,925 she's for sure going to commit adultery and women couldn't sleep 408 00:27:29,925 --> 00:27:31,814 around, but men could sleep around. 409 00:27:31,814 --> 00:27:34,334 So very much a double standard, even when it goes all the way. 410 00:27:35,475 --> 00:27:38,565 To hundreds, thousands of years ago. 411 00:27:38,805 --> 00:27:42,855 But when we, when we talk about family values, it's where, where do 412 00:27:42,855 --> 00:27:44,715 we get this idea of family values? 413 00:27:44,715 --> 00:27:48,945 And really those these come from these monotheistic faiths that 414 00:27:48,945 --> 00:27:50,655 say, you shouldn't sleep around. 415 00:27:50,685 --> 00:27:51,705 You shouldn't have adultery. 416 00:27:51,825 --> 00:27:55,215 And homosexuality beastiality is, is sinful. 417 00:27:55,245 --> 00:27:55,965 It's wrong? 418 00:27:55,995 --> 00:27:56,595 It's bad. 419 00:27:56,625 --> 00:27:57,525 She'd be punishable. 420 00:27:58,965 --> 00:28:00,825 So the way. 421 00:28:02,129 --> 00:28:04,620 Progressivism Marxism socialism. 422 00:28:04,620 --> 00:28:05,399 We've talked about this. 423 00:28:05,399 --> 00:28:08,550 They've realized that if they could. 424 00:28:09,149 --> 00:28:19,320 So in, so in, um, immorality to a culture that if they could destroy 425 00:28:19,350 --> 00:28:24,000 family values in a culture that they could break the line of inheritance, 426 00:28:24,149 --> 00:28:25,770 they could keep people in poverty. 427 00:28:26,625 --> 00:28:30,824 They could keep families broken and in poverty and reliant on the steak and 428 00:28:30,824 --> 00:28:37,304 fade would then be able to come in, see an uprising and take power because it's 429 00:28:37,455 --> 00:28:40,395 the family values that hold together. 430 00:28:40,485 --> 00:28:43,155 Society, families hold together. 431 00:28:44,250 --> 00:28:48,840 If you can destroy that, you can see a revolution, a colored 432 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:50,699 revolution in any nation you want. 433 00:28:50,939 --> 00:28:54,479 I've been saying, we've been saying we've been seeing it for years now 434 00:28:54,750 --> 00:28:59,669 that these ideologies are not just something that's happening in the west. 435 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,000 They're not just something that's happening in Europe, but they are 436 00:29:03,090 --> 00:29:05,850 coming to every part of the world. 437 00:29:06,810 --> 00:29:08,129 They're coming here to the middle east. 438 00:29:08,250 --> 00:29:10,290 They're coming to the global south. 439 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:14,790 They're coming to across India and the central Asia. 440 00:29:14,940 --> 00:29:16,620 They're coming to Afghanistan. 441 00:29:17,490 --> 00:29:18,240 There are you here? 442 00:29:20,260 --> 00:29:26,169 So the question is, and I don't think I have a clear answer on it today. 443 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:28,690 Maybe I do. 444 00:29:31,430 --> 00:29:34,580 How do you stand for what you believe? 445 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:41,190 Stand firm for what you believe while not entering into that cancel 446 00:29:41,190 --> 00:29:47,850 culture while not seeking to censor and silence your opponent while not 447 00:29:47,970 --> 00:29:53,910 seeking to condemn those who think differently than you to condemn those 448 00:29:53,910 --> 00:29:56,100 who have a different point of view. 449 00:29:56,879 --> 00:30:02,040 How do you love those people that you see to directly threatened 450 00:30:02,310 --> 00:30:03,580 everything that you stand for? 451 00:30:06,754 --> 00:30:11,315 And that is a hard question, but I think that is something that must be done. 452 00:30:12,514 --> 00:30:16,955 We must be able to say, this is right and this is wrong. 453 00:30:16,985 --> 00:30:21,754 And here's why we must be able to say, this is our moral plum line. 454 00:30:21,905 --> 00:30:23,195 This is what we stand on. 455 00:30:23,315 --> 00:30:24,455 This is what we believe. 456 00:30:24,455 --> 00:30:26,855 This is how we ought to walk out our life. 457 00:30:27,245 --> 00:30:31,395 And I've gotten a lot of, a lot of kickback and flack from this, especially. 458 00:30:32,385 --> 00:30:36,285 Listeners in the west, when it comes to anything about the trans agenda of saying 459 00:30:36,315 --> 00:30:40,514 this, this is it's really a delusion. 460 00:30:41,565 --> 00:30:45,195 You want to meet, you use your pronouns, it's a delusion. 461 00:30:45,675 --> 00:30:48,615 You might think that you are the strongest person on earth. 462 00:30:48,795 --> 00:30:51,825 You might think that you're handsome, beautiful, gorgeous, 463 00:30:51,855 --> 00:30:53,985 whatever, but you can not. 464 00:30:54,225 --> 00:30:55,155 Compulse me. 465 00:30:56,205 --> 00:30:58,245 Do you refer to you as handsome? 466 00:30:58,245 --> 00:30:58,725 Every time I see. 467 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,740 Or beautiful every time I address you, that is your opinion. 468 00:31:04,740 --> 00:31:11,040 And I do not have to enter into that delusion of your biological gender or sex, 469 00:31:14,260 --> 00:31:15,280 but in getting kicked back. 470 00:31:15,580 --> 00:31:16,480 So often people. 471 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,420 I don't, you know, if, if someone from the LGBT plus Q community 472 00:31:21,420 --> 00:31:24,780 listened to your stuff, would, would they find it being welcoming? 473 00:31:24,780 --> 00:31:28,080 And it's a challenging thought and it's like, well, really that's not 474 00:31:28,350 --> 00:31:32,640 the audience that I'm speaking to, but I do want to be respectful and 475 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,500 kind while still speaking the truth. 476 00:31:34,530 --> 00:31:37,740 But the truth is this, it truly is a delusion. 477 00:31:37,830 --> 00:31:44,015 If some, if an adult wants to do that, Fair and adult, they can figure, refer 478 00:31:44,015 --> 00:31:48,425 to themselves any way that they want, but that does not mean that as society 479 00:31:48,455 --> 00:31:51,875 we need to affirm that does not mean that as society, we should go along 480 00:31:51,875 --> 00:31:55,415 and be like, oh yes, you are a Korean. 481 00:31:55,415 --> 00:31:55,835 For instance. 482 00:31:56,985 --> 00:31:58,725 That you identify as Korean. 483 00:31:58,755 --> 00:31:59,205 Okay. 484 00:31:59,475 --> 00:32:00,735 You identify as a tree. 485 00:32:00,735 --> 00:32:01,245 Okay. 486 00:32:01,605 --> 00:32:03,795 I'll identify as you as that too. 487 00:32:03,945 --> 00:32:06,945 We do not need to go along with that delusion. 488 00:32:07,095 --> 00:32:12,255 We should still be able to objectively say actually, no, that's not true. 489 00:32:12,885 --> 00:32:13,575 Likewise. 490 00:32:13,755 --> 00:32:18,915 We ought to be able to say, this is what we believe when it comes to our. 491 00:32:19,995 --> 00:32:23,445 When it comes to the way, the moral code that we have been given of 492 00:32:23,445 --> 00:32:25,875 how we should live out our life. 493 00:32:26,295 --> 00:32:29,895 However, I'm going to have friendship and I'm going to 494 00:32:29,895 --> 00:32:31,725 love the person in front of me. 495 00:32:31,725 --> 00:32:34,005 And we've done that even here. 496 00:32:34,005 --> 00:32:36,255 I've done that and demonstrated that to you on the show, even with 497 00:32:36,285 --> 00:32:41,025 Derek Khan, who, who passed away from complications with COVID in 498 00:32:41,025 --> 00:32:47,625 2000 and, uh, 21, quite tragically and sadly, but he was a friend of. 499 00:32:48,405 --> 00:32:49,605 We'd have him over for dinner. 500 00:32:50,805 --> 00:32:52,905 Sit at their dinner table with our family. 501 00:32:52,905 --> 00:32:53,355 We'd laugh. 502 00:32:53,355 --> 00:32:57,075 We told jokes, go out and spend time with them. 503 00:32:59,005 --> 00:33:00,585 Uh, a lovely person. 504 00:33:01,125 --> 00:33:02,865 Funny, great to be around. 505 00:33:02,925 --> 00:33:03,915 Had him on the show. 506 00:33:08,425 --> 00:33:11,605 Do I agree with his lifestyle? 507 00:33:11,905 --> 00:33:14,255 No, but he's also not a follower of my. 508 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,010 How can I put on him? 509 00:33:17,310 --> 00:33:23,250 The beliefs of my faith, all I can do is follow the tenants of my faith, which 510 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:27,000 also say to love him, to be kind to him. 511 00:33:28,810 --> 00:33:35,730 We can do that while still maintaining our moral code, our moral basis of saying, 512 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,520 this is what we believe is right or wrong. 513 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,399 That doesn't mean you have to believe that, but this is what we believe. 514 00:33:42,180 --> 00:33:43,860 So where it comes back to. 515 00:33:45,754 --> 00:33:50,615 And the, the outrage that people are seen insane. 516 00:33:52,385 --> 00:33:57,365 I do think that the normalization of homosexuality, the normalization 517 00:33:57,574 --> 00:34:00,245 of the trans agenda, I do think that it's dangerous. 518 00:34:00,274 --> 00:34:06,455 And the reason I think it's dangerous is because it is, it's what we've seen 519 00:34:06,455 --> 00:34:10,895 happen in the west through sitcoms, through shows like friends through shows. 520 00:34:12,989 --> 00:34:16,530 It wasn't quite Seinfeld, but two and a half men through Hollywood. 521 00:34:16,770 --> 00:34:20,400 It has normalized, normalized. 522 00:34:20,429 --> 00:34:27,690 Promiscuity is normalized in morality, and that has led to the part of 523 00:34:27,690 --> 00:34:33,509 the things that are leading to the downfall of Western society in America. 524 00:34:36,509 --> 00:34:38,489 The community ought to be outraged. 525 00:34:38,489 --> 00:34:40,380 The community ought to stand up. 526 00:34:40,529 --> 00:34:45,150 However, we must also realize that this is a depiction of what's happening. 527 00:34:45,389 --> 00:34:46,799 People are having affairs. 528 00:34:47,219 --> 00:34:49,949 People are having premarital affairs. 529 00:34:49,949 --> 00:34:55,440 People are having homosexual affairs across this region, hiding it and 530 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,630 pretending like it doesn't exist. 531 00:34:58,140 --> 00:35:02,190 Isn't the way forward, how we find that way forward. 532 00:35:03,299 --> 00:35:03,660 You know what? 533 00:35:04,170 --> 00:35:04,980 I'm really not sure. 534 00:35:06,615 --> 00:35:11,025 Well, this show is brought to you by listeners like you. 535 00:35:11,025 --> 00:35:15,795 This is a value for value podcast, which means that we don't have big sponsors. 536 00:35:15,795 --> 00:35:17,955 You're not seeing how much of ads on the show. 537 00:35:20,515 --> 00:35:24,325 It's through support of thousands of people 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00:36:10,290 --> 00:36:13,440 We'll be right back with our closing Weaver and moon second. 550 00:36:21,740 --> 00:36:25,340 Welcome back to Weaver Luma, part of the show where we take ancient wisdom 551 00:36:25,340 --> 00:36:29,210 and we weave it in with our everyday lives so that we can own our future. 552 00:36:29,210 --> 00:36:32,510 And we've our destinies. 553 00:36:34,410 --> 00:36:41,930 I mentioned that last year I was canceled, uh, canceled by a number 554 00:36:41,930 --> 00:36:43,040 of people, especially when it came. 555 00:36:44,250 --> 00:36:48,720 The issues surrounding the Palestine Israel conflict. 556 00:36:49,589 --> 00:36:50,819 I was very adamant. 557 00:36:50,819 --> 00:36:58,200 I spoke out a lot about where I saw the conflict going, which again, echoed 558 00:36:58,649 --> 00:37:06,359 the, the political stances of the many nations in the Arab Gulf, which is 559 00:37:06,359 --> 00:37:08,759 that Hamas is a terrorist organization. 560 00:37:11,165 --> 00:37:13,895 Palestine and Israel should work out there. 561 00:37:14,375 --> 00:37:15,035 They're junk. 562 00:37:15,635 --> 00:37:19,985 And we need to figure out how to make peace between the two. 563 00:37:20,735 --> 00:37:22,775 But bombing is not the answer. 564 00:37:23,345 --> 00:37:24,065 Bombing is not the. 565 00:37:26,830 --> 00:37:32,800 Well, people did not like the fact that I had any sort of semblance of a pro Israel 566 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,930 side and they proceeded to cancel me. 567 00:37:35,230 --> 00:37:39,580 It wasn't just that they said, Hey, I don't like what you think it was. 568 00:37:39,820 --> 00:37:47,200 People going out of their way to find people who were friends with. 569 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:52,319 Who are standing in relationship with me, not even about anything political, 570 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,060 but just had association with me. 571 00:37:54,060 --> 00:37:58,020 And it caused me to lose a number of friendships and that's fine. 572 00:37:58,020 --> 00:37:59,279 That's, that's their choices. 573 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,000 They're able to do that, but it was canceled culture. 574 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,439 It was painful. 575 00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:06,089 It hurt to lose some of these friends. 576 00:38:06,450 --> 00:38:07,620 It didn't really make any sense. 577 00:38:10,220 --> 00:38:14,689 But from that, I realized that some people really don't like me. 578 00:38:16,695 --> 00:38:18,645 I've been promised that people won't like me. 579 00:38:18,645 --> 00:38:21,525 If people, if everyone likes you, you have a problem. 580 00:38:22,575 --> 00:38:23,535 You have a real problem. 581 00:38:23,535 --> 00:38:24,495 If everyone likes you. 582 00:38:25,634 --> 00:38:28,935 So I took it with a, in stride and celebrated that. 583 00:38:28,965 --> 00:38:29,295 Okay. 584 00:38:29,625 --> 00:38:31,545 At least I'm saying what I believe. 585 00:38:31,634 --> 00:38:36,645 At least I have the courage to say what I believe to say what I think, and that 586 00:38:36,645 --> 00:38:42,345 I'm not hiding in the shadows when it comes to some of these important topics. 587 00:38:43,530 --> 00:38:47,460 Well, the, the fallout of that, I realized I had some different 588 00:38:47,460 --> 00:38:52,020 businesses, uh, opportunities in projects with a number of people. 589 00:38:53,430 --> 00:38:58,680 And I didn't want them to pay a consequence for associating with me. 590 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,730 So I reached out to a number of people had really great conversations saying, Hey, 591 00:39:03,090 --> 00:39:06,780 just so you know, you might've seen that people have been counseling me online. 592 00:39:07,290 --> 00:39:08,400 You've seen it on the Instagram. 593 00:39:10,595 --> 00:39:13,805 I just want to let you know, I don't know where you stand on all this, 594 00:39:13,805 --> 00:39:15,125 but I just want to make you aware. 595 00:39:15,395 --> 00:39:16,385 This is my stance. 596 00:39:17,105 --> 00:39:21,425 I'm fine if you think differently, but I don't want you to be put in a place 597 00:39:21,425 --> 00:39:25,355 where people are attacking you because what I believe, so I'm willing to limit 598 00:39:25,355 --> 00:39:30,755 my association with you because I care about my, my professional relationship 599 00:39:30,755 --> 00:39:32,285 with you and business relationships. 600 00:39:32,525 --> 00:39:33,695 I had to say that to a number of people. 601 00:39:36,785 --> 00:39:40,025 This all comes around to today where I'm launching. 602 00:39:40,355 --> 00:39:45,665 I've been launching a new business here in the region, and I have been wary. 603 00:39:45,725 --> 00:39:50,555 I have been hesitant to connect my name to this project. 604 00:39:51,365 --> 00:39:51,965 I haven't announced. 605 00:39:52,845 --> 00:39:54,375 I haven't talked about it. 606 00:39:54,795 --> 00:39:56,715 It's being kept very secret. 607 00:39:56,715 --> 00:40:01,215 It's kept very much on the hush hush, and here's why it comes. 608 00:40:01,485 --> 00:40:03,735 It comes back to the quotes today. 609 00:40:03,735 --> 00:40:07,455 The ancient quotes from Debbie Suleyman from king Solomon 610 00:40:08,205 --> 00:40:10,275 from thousands of years ago. 611 00:40:10,275 --> 00:40:15,195 So it really is ancient wisdom wisdom, but there's two conflicting quotes. 612 00:40:16,185 --> 00:40:16,575 Here's the. 613 00:40:18,154 --> 00:40:24,814 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. 614 00:40:24,814 --> 00:40:30,544 That comes from Proverbs 22, verse three, this prudent sees danger and hides. 615 00:40:31,115 --> 00:40:31,745 That's what I did. 616 00:40:31,745 --> 00:40:34,504 I said, okay, well, I see a bunch of danger right now. 617 00:40:34,984 --> 00:40:37,714 I don't want to put others in danger. 618 00:40:37,834 --> 00:40:39,754 I'm going to hide myself even right now. 619 00:40:40,024 --> 00:40:43,384 It's saying, okay, I'm launching this, this new business. 620 00:40:43,535 --> 00:40:45,154 It's in the infant tile stage. 621 00:40:45,154 --> 00:40:46,205 It is just an embryo. 622 00:40:47,190 --> 00:40:48,780 It's not even fully launched yet. 623 00:40:50,430 --> 00:40:55,350 If I opened this up to you soon, if I share too soon, I see the danger. 624 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,380 I see that people could mobilize against me. 625 00:40:58,380 --> 00:41:04,530 I see that just one or two people could ruin things for me in a significant way. 626 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,010 So I'm going to, I'm going to be quiet about it because it hasn't 627 00:41:08,310 --> 00:41:11,160 been brought to fruition yet. 628 00:41:11,580 --> 00:41:12,720 Here's the next quote? 629 00:41:14,115 --> 00:41:17,235 Proverbs 22 verse 13, just 10 verses later. 630 00:41:17,235 --> 00:41:21,165 It says the Slugger says there's a lion outside. 631 00:41:21,375 --> 00:41:23,715 I shall be killed in the streets. 632 00:41:24,134 --> 00:41:26,205 The Slugger says there's a line outside. 633 00:41:26,565 --> 00:41:28,035 I shall be killed in the streets. 634 00:41:28,154 --> 00:41:29,355 How do these two connect? 635 00:41:30,075 --> 00:41:35,505 Well, it's sometimes very hard to determine between I'm just afraid. 636 00:41:35,955 --> 00:41:40,185 I'm afraid someone could be out there and get me the big, bad cancel culture. 637 00:41:40,185 --> 00:41:41,025 The big, bad Wolf. 638 00:41:42,254 --> 00:41:44,084 I'm going to hide in the streets. 639 00:41:44,145 --> 00:41:52,055 I'm going to capitulate to the fears that I have, or should you be bold 640 00:41:52,115 --> 00:41:52,924 and go on and say, you know what? 641 00:41:53,734 --> 00:41:55,024 There might be a lion out there. 642 00:41:55,444 --> 00:41:58,955 I might be killed in the streets, but I'm going to go forward regardless, 643 00:41:59,734 --> 00:42:05,044 just like going back to the first quote, the prudent sees dangers and hide the 644 00:42:05,044 --> 00:42:06,814 simple, go on and suffer it for it. 645 00:42:07,145 --> 00:42:10,055 How do you determine, how do you decide when. 646 00:42:10,980 --> 00:42:16,470 Something is worth facing the danger because you know what, you might be 647 00:42:16,470 --> 00:42:21,660 killed, but that's life, but it's not out of laziness that you're hiding, 648 00:42:22,650 --> 00:42:26,910 but it's out of prudence that you're hiding will in many ways, that goes 649 00:42:26,910 --> 00:42:32,310 back to what we're seeing with the UAE to bring this full circle with 650 00:42:32,310 --> 00:42:38,400 the UAE, they're saying, Hey, it's gon it's prudence to hide this conference. 651 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:45,780 Between the who these and Abu Dhabi and the Emirates, because as 652 00:42:45,780 --> 00:42:50,730 I said, what would we do if there were ballistic missiles being shot 653 00:42:50,730 --> 00:42:56,070 down over New York city or over Miami, the world would freak out. 654 00:42:57,300 --> 00:43:00,660 So they're, they're hiding that they're concealing that they're being 655 00:43:00,810 --> 00:43:02,370 strategic about how to communicate. 656 00:43:03,555 --> 00:43:06,585 While at the same time, they're not capitulating and saying, ah, 657 00:43:06,734 --> 00:43:07,964 there's a line in the streets. 658 00:43:08,145 --> 00:43:09,105 We might be killed. 659 00:43:09,194 --> 00:43:11,174 We better cave to Yemen's demands. 660 00:43:11,174 --> 00:43:12,484 We better Cape 92 Yemen city, man. 661 00:43:12,484 --> 00:43:13,694 I said, who these demands? 662 00:43:14,685 --> 00:43:17,924 Likewise, in my situation, there's a mix of saying, well, 663 00:43:18,015 --> 00:43:18,944 I'm going to move forward. 664 00:43:19,035 --> 00:43:20,835 I'm going to build this business. 665 00:43:21,015 --> 00:43:22,065 It's going to succeed. 666 00:43:22,185 --> 00:43:23,205 It's going to be amazing. 667 00:43:24,915 --> 00:43:28,095 However, I am not going to share too early night. 668 00:43:28,125 --> 00:43:31,125 Talk about this in my book, anchored the discipline to stop drifting. 669 00:43:31,125 --> 00:43:32,174 I talk about. 670 00:43:34,510 --> 00:43:41,230 Not sharing your dreams until you've done them or being very selective of who you 671 00:43:41,230 --> 00:43:43,900 share your dreams to, because there's a number of things that can happen first. 672 00:43:44,770 --> 00:43:49,750 If you share your dreams too soon and just say, I'm going to do this, this, this 673 00:43:49,750 --> 00:43:54,310 I'm going to climb the tallest mountain, build the best tech company, write a 674 00:43:54,310 --> 00:43:57,640 book, make an album, start a podcast. 675 00:43:58,360 --> 00:43:59,800 People say, oh yeah, there's so much. 676 00:44:00,885 --> 00:44:01,755 So awesome. 677 00:44:02,655 --> 00:44:04,095 It's going to be the best thing ever. 678 00:44:05,055 --> 00:44:09,165 And then you feel full, you feel like, yeah, you feel that praise, you feel 679 00:44:09,165 --> 00:44:15,685 that satisfaction as if you've already done it, but you haven't yet, but you 680 00:44:15,685 --> 00:44:19,045 do need to share it with a small group of people, a small group of people 681 00:44:19,195 --> 00:44:22,795 who will give you critical feedback, who will encourage you, but who won't 682 00:44:22,975 --> 00:44:25,555 kill your dream before it is born. 683 00:44:27,175 --> 00:44:27,415 And then. 684 00:44:28,350 --> 00:44:33,330 Is the, the application point from this segment, be careful 685 00:44:33,330 --> 00:44:35,310 who you share your dreams with. 686 00:44:36,330 --> 00:44:41,339 Don't be the sluggard who hides and doesn't do the dream, but do 687 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,460 lay the foundation for your dreams. 688 00:44:44,670 --> 00:44:49,080 Lay the foundation for your dream of losing weight and getting, 689 00:44:49,589 --> 00:44:50,700 getting healthier, getting straight. 690 00:44:51,465 --> 00:44:54,675 Start working out, do it in secret, do it every day. 691 00:44:55,095 --> 00:44:59,475 So that people then come and look, did you say like, Hey, what what's different 692 00:44:59,475 --> 00:45:00,945 about like, what's different about you? 693 00:45:00,945 --> 00:45:02,595 What's this thing that's going on here? 694 00:45:02,595 --> 00:45:03,405 And you're like, oh yeah. 695 00:45:03,825 --> 00:45:05,325 I started working out six months ago. 696 00:45:05,325 --> 00:45:07,035 They're like, oh, you didn't tell me like, yeah. 697 00:45:08,175 --> 00:45:11,535 And, and people see the fruit of your action rather than 698 00:45:13,095 --> 00:45:15,135 sharing a dream too soon. 699 00:45:15,255 --> 00:45:17,595 And the praise or the negative. 700 00:45:18,450 --> 00:45:23,340 Or the cancel culture or the haters effectively killing and aborting. 701 00:45:23,340 --> 00:45:27,630 The very thing that you want to see come to fruition. 702 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:33,390 Sometimes our words it's speaking forth of that vision before its time 703 00:45:33,540 --> 00:45:37,890 before it's ready, we'll kill the very thing that we seek to build. 704 00:45:37,890 --> 00:45:44,880 Well, speaking of speaking, if you want to get more out of the show, 705 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:51,195 more out of this podcast, You can do that by giving to your community. 706 00:45:51,195 --> 00:45:55,065 And one of the best ways to give is by sharing this podcast. 707 00:45:55,065 --> 00:45:58,515 Whenever someone shares a podcast with me and they text it to me or 708 00:45:58,515 --> 00:46:01,695 WhatsApp it to me, I feel so loved. 709 00:46:01,695 --> 00:46:08,625 So Texas podcast, this episode, or any of the other episodes to one of your 710 00:46:08,625 --> 00:46:12,615 friends and say, Hey, I listened to this episode, tell me what do you think. 711 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,050 Also, if you have a question for me, you can WhatsApp me a 712 00:46:16,050 --> 00:46:19,960 plus 1, 2 0 2 9 2 2 0 2 2 0. 713 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:25,350 I'm going to be happy to answer the question even here on the show. 714 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:33,180 Finally, you, you are someone who does not hide in the darkness, but 715 00:46:33,180 --> 00:46:37,650 you are someone who pursues light, who pursues truth, who is willing to 716 00:46:37,650 --> 00:46:39,510 stand up and say what you believe. 717 00:46:40,435 --> 00:46:44,335 While at the same time, not feeling like you have to take vengeance on 718 00:46:44,335 --> 00:46:46,075 those who don't believe like you do. 719 00:46:46,075 --> 00:46:50,965 And that ladies and gentlemen is how you and I can own the future.