Episode 120: What is SIN? PLUS The Bible Code & 666!

and your needs. You had ready to find the ward of weird. This is Strange Things. I am Joshua pe Warren, and each week on this show I'll be bringing you brand new mind blowing content, news exercises, and weird experiments you can do at home, and a lot more on this edition of the program. What is Sin? Plus the Bible Code and yes, that infamous number six six six? What is the truth about these topics? Now, let me say right off the bat, Look, these are tricky and

uncomfortable and complicated subjects, which is why I am tackling it. Okay, not because it's easy, because it's hard, and I know that I can never really properly tackle this subject because it's it's too vast and complex and meaningful and even controversial to so many people. So let me ask you right up front here to just forgive me as I fumble through this. I'm just thinking out loud here. I am speaking off the top of my head. I have

no particular expertise in this stuff. I'm not some kind of religious scholar, so you know, please just bear with me and let me try to speculate with you as we look at this stuff and try to determine what the truth may or may not be. And I also want to point out that in some of my recent podcast I've talked about things that some people have felt might be kind of a downer. I talked about me reproducing the Mussroo Emoto water crystal experiment and not getting

much of a result. And then I talked about how that this big grand announcement about fusion energy producing more output than was input. I explained, well, that isn't exactly correct, that it took a lot more energy two to put that whole system in place. And then I talked about, of course Ralph Lell's Brown Mountain alien mummy, and I said, it turns out that's just a fake, a gaff, a phony. And um, I know that the great Mark Twain said, uh, never let the truth stand in the way of a

good story. But you know what, we we live in a world where people have taken imagination a little too far in some cases and are deluding themselves, and therefore, um, we have to to look at all things with a sense of moderation. And I hope that's one of the things that you respect about this show that I'm not always say in here just trying to sensationalize everything and

look for the most fantastic explanation. I'm also trying to look at a reasonable logical approach to trying to get to the bottom of some of these mysteries that can

become a confusing hall of mirrors out there. You know, I'm going to talk about a variety of religions in this podcast, not just religions based on the Bible, but you know, obviously that will be the most prominent one because I live here in the United States of America and there are plenty of people who question every day how much of the Bible is fact versus fiction because it has been interpreted so many different ways and published

in so many different editions. I mean, these are good questions, you know, dal Alan Hoffman brought up these sort of inconsistencies. But as I was doing research for this particular podcast, I was kind of surprised because when you start looking at, uh, the latest opinion here on something like the existence of Jesus. I remember, you know, for a large part of my life, there are always people who are like, look, there's no way that we will know for sure that Jesus even existed.

Jesus could have been some type of of a representative character based on other earlier traditions from Egypt, etcetera. I mean, you hear these things, right, But I read this article, and I read a number of these. But here's a good example. It's just the Wikipedia article on the historicity of Jesus. You know what histericity is. That means the historical authenticity. So this is something that is supposed to look at this from a rational, practically an atheistic point

of view. And this says what so many others say, UH, with a lot of footnotes, says virtually all scholars of antiquity except that Jesus was a historical figure. Okay, that's the latest. Did you know that virtually all scholars of antiquity now except that Jesus was an historical figure and dismissed denials of his existence as a fringe theory. While many details like his alleged miracles are still subject to debate,

of course, but nobody is doubting that he existed. In fact, one expert pointed out that even back in the days like right after Jesus, you know, practically right after he was killed, when Christians were being terribly persecuted and executed, even then, people who were critics of Christianity, who were writing about that and talking about all the reasons they

didn't believe in it. Even they never brought up the well, by the way, Jesus wasn't real, you know, they even they never talked about that as a possibility that never occurred to him. Um. And if you look at all these scholars, they've come to the conclusion that we know, uh, let's see, I think it's like eight, as they call literally indisputable facts about Jesus's biography. Here are those facts that all the scholars are agreeing upon. One, Jesus was

a Galileean preacher. To his activities took place in Galilee and Judea. Three he was baptized by John the Baptist. Four he called disciples. Five he had a controversy at the temple. Six Jesus was crucified by the Romans near Jerusalem. And seven after his death, his disciples continued, and then eight some of his disciples were persecuted. So that's what is agreed upon by scholars. So you know, from there

again you can you can argue whether or not. Um, you know, he did the things that are attributed to him. But that's interesting. It shows you how some of that changes. And and you know, right now, UM, as we learn more in our technology advances and we become better informed beings thanks to computers and such, um, some things, especially some of the weirder, more mysterious things that were written in the Bible that used to seem only metaphorical, are

now becoming scientifically relevant. You're starting to look at them differently. For example, in the First Murder in the Bible, when Kane kills his brother, Abel has this scene where you know, Kane is he's ashamed, he knows he's done something wrong, and so God pops up and says, hey, where's your brother? And uh and and God says, um, yeah, God says, what have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out

to me from the ground. Okay, that's Genesis f T. What a weird thing for Good to supposedly say, what have you done? I hear your brother's blood crying out to me from the ground. Now you think to yourself, well, you've seen blood before. It doesn't cry out from the ground. It doesn't literally make any noise. You can't take that literally. But now we have d n A and you know that was written thousands of years ago. Now we have this thing called d n A, which is literally like

the blood is speaking for the victim. You know, that's that's the thing. It's like, you go to a crime scene, what are you looking for? You mainly want to get some d NA here because it's gonna tell you who is there, and every little bit of you is reproduced in your DNA. It's it's astonishing. Maybe that is an explanation that would have never occurred to people if we didn't know about that. Or also, like this other part in The King and the New King James version, it

says something to the effect Luke eight seventeen. He's talking about the future. For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. Um, Now, you could think to yourself in the old days, if you commit a murder or whatever and get away with it, well who cares,

It's like it never happened, right. But now look, not only do we have DNA, but we have cameras all over the place, and cameras are now making it less and less likely for you to do something that will not be revealed. Politicians are finding that out the hard way. And you know, as technology advances, we're just gonna have more and more cameras everywhere and so and not that,

not to mention the possibility of time cameras. That somebody in the future has invented a camera that can look back and see the past, and we are all currently being observed right now by people in the future. I mean, like we could really go down that rabbit hole. But anyway, look, when we come back from this break, now that I've

made my point, let's get into this topic alright. What supposedly is sin not just in the Bible, but within the context of other religions let's look at what everybody's sort of saying as sin is and see if we can find a common denominator and figure out what that is. And then we're gonna take it a step further and we're gonna see how much literal programming might be in the Bible. And is there anything to some of the

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What is sin? Well, if we go to the Wikipedia page, it says, in a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law, okay, and so divine law is law that God or some godlike force hands down and somebody has to get that message and turn around and tell you about it. And it says each culture has its own interpretation of what it means to commit a sin. Okay, So that means a sin is whatever somebody tells you it is. Well, we solve that mystery. Thanks for tuning

in on our next show. Just kidding, just kidding. I think I think we can dig a little deeper. Let's let's see. It says what while sins are generally considered actions. Any thought, word, or act considered immoral, selfish, shameful, harmful, or alienating might be termed sinful. Okay, so right off the bat, you see here that we are going to have to to look at this through the lens of many different kinds of cultures and perspectives to see what

we can find in common here. Alright, so let's it's here's a list of just different religions, h philosophies, whatever you want to call them. One of them is behid. I don't have time to explain what each one of these religions is about. You can look that up. But it says behi Um considers humans to be naturally good, fundamentally spiritual beings. Human beings were created because of God's

immeasurable love for us. However, the BEHINDH teachings compare with the human heart to a mirror, which, if turned away from the light of the Sun, that is God, is incapable of receiving God's love. It is only by turning unto God that spiritual advancement can be made. In this sense, sinning is to follow the inclinations of one's own lower nature, to turn the mirror of one's heart away from God. Okay. So um, the lower nature in humans is symbolized as Satan,

the evil ego within us, not an evil personality outside. Okay, so that's what they believe. And by the way, I don't know if I'm saying behid properly, but you probably know what I'm talking about. Like I said, I'm just a dude with a microphone, all right, I'm not a scholar. Next we go into Buddhism. Uh. There are a few differing Buddhist views on sin. American Zen author Brad Warner states that in Buddhism there is no concept of sin

at all. The Buddha Dharma Education Association also says, quote the idea of sin or original sin has no place in Buddhism. In quote that sounds nice, doesn't it. Uh. It goes on to say here in Buddhist thinking, the whole universe, men as well as God's are subject to a reign of law. Every action, good or bad, has an inevitable and automatic effect, and a long chain of causes an effect its independent of the will of any deity.

Even though this may leave no room for the concept of sin in the sense of an act of defiance against the authority of a personal god. Buddhists speak of sin when referring to transgressions against the universal moral code. Okay, so whoops, it looks like there is uh some sin in here somewhere, And in fact, it goes on to say, as a matter of fact, there is this part of Buddhism it has five sins. So you see, there's always

variety even within a certain faith or philosophy. Uh. One of them is killing your mother, the other one is killing your father. One of them is injuring a Buddha, which is, you know, an enlightened person. One of them is killing uh. I guess they call it an art art it's it's it's one. It's one of the spiritual leaders or creating a schism, a problem in their society. So they have you know, so even there are some

things there that are considered sins. But all right, Christianity, of course, Christianity, that's that's the major leagues of sin right here. You know, now we're getting to to the big stuff and Christianity. You know, what's interesting is Christianity

often relies on this concept of original sin. And here's what that means, Um, best I can tell here, original sin is the belief that humans were automatically born into uh a sinful state of mind, and that UH, for example, it says, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, death came to all people because all sinned. UH. And this is best represented by the story of the Garden of Eden. Uh. Behold, I was brought forth an iniquity, and then send my mother conceived me.

So what they're doing is they're talking about the fact that we were born as sinners, and which is why that uh. You know, Adam and Eve gave in to temptation. And since you were born as center, well you know, it's it's a pessimistic point of view. You were born a center. So what you're doing is spending this whole life trying to learn how to not sin. So you're kind of screwed from the moment you entered this world. From a Christian point of view, Um, you're always fighting

against your nature. Your nature is to sin and to be like an animal. I guess that's how you can can to define it without me giving you some kind of sermon here with all these biblical quotes and everything, but then of course you have specific things which are which are considered sins. And you know, the Bible is interesting because there are a number of religions and faiths and philosophies that all rely on the Bible, but they view it differently. You know. Obviously the two big ones

are are Judaism and then you know Christianity. But you have a lot of sex within Judaism that that disagree, and a lot of sects within Christianity that disagree. And then you have other religions that rely on the Bible that don't view it the same way. But anyway, Uh, the most famous examples, of course would be like the Ten Commandments, and I'm not going to read all of them to you, but you know it says thou shalt not kill. Well, again, that can't be taken literally because

you have to kill something in order to survive. You have to kill a plant or an animal in order to eat something. I mean, so like again, it's like you have to interpret this stuff. And then it's like thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's uh house or wife or or anything you know that he has. And you know, remember the Sabbath, keep it holy.

You know, those are things. A lot of it has to do with just like minding your own business though, and not being jealous of what your neighbor's got and not wanting what what your neighbor has, which is a very practical way of looking into life if you don't want to cause problems with your neighbor. But did you know, uh, and this was kind of a surprise to me that when it gets down into um to Judaism, it says Judaism regards six hundred and thirteen commandments as a sin.

Now you're really screwed if that six hundred Did you know that? Sure enough? I have a list right here, six hundred and thirteen commandments. So some of them are just like, uh, you know, fear God, and then it's you know, and then it's stuff like show love towards converts. Do not hate fellow Jews, Do not embarrass others, Do not oppress the weak, Do not take revenge, do not bear a grudge, do not curse God. Do not worship idols. Uh, do not make an idol for yourself. I mean, and

you know, it's just like it's interesting. Do not inquire of spirits, do not consult magicians or seers. Um, do not plant a tree in the temple courtyard. And I mean like six hundreds of six hundred and thirteen, Like I guarantee you you've you've violated one of these. Um. That's interesting, isn't it. You should go read the six and thirteen things that they say you're not supposed to do. Uh. And then of course we have an Islam sin as

an important concept in Islamic ethics. Muslims see sin as anything that goes against the commands of God Allah, a breach of the laws and norms laid down by religion. Islam teaches that sin is an act and not a state of being uh. That it is believed that God weighs an individual's good deeds against his or her sins on the day of judgment and punishes those individuals whose

evil deeds outweigh they're good deeds. So it sounds like it's a little different than the Christian the Christian perspective of original sin uh. And then listen to this Shinto um. Let's see the Shinto concept of sin inexorably linked to concepts of purity and pollution. Shinto does not have a concept of original sin, instead believing that all human beings are born pure. Sin also called sumi, is anything that

makes people impure, anything that separates them from the commie. However, Shinto does not believe this impurity is the result of human actions, but rather the result of evil spirits or other external factors. Isn't that interesting? Sin can have a variety of consequences in Japan, including disaster and disease, and because of this, purification rituals are viewed as important not just the spiritual and physical health of the individual, but to the well being of the nation. Wow, this is

this is fascinating, isn't it all? Right? When we come back, I'm gonna I'm gonna look at all this stuff and I'm gonna find what I think is the common denominator to help us figure out, like, okay, let's simplify this. What is sim But then we're gonna go back to this most influential book, the Bible. Some people say that there's a code in there that really spells things up for you. Is that true? I'm Joshua pe Warren, and you're listening to strange things on the I Heart radio

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Coast to Coast DAM dot com is where you to be. You're listening to the Heart Radio and Coast to Coast day M Paranormal Podcast. Welcome back to Strange Things all the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast I am Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua Pete Warren, and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. You know, having read all this stuff and studied it best I can, I I'm looking at you know, what is the common denominator here? That maybe because every everyone is is different

and they all have their own specific, detailed rules. But I kind of think that maybe behi and I looked it up. I am pronouncing it correctly. I believe Behi. I think that Behi probably does the best job of reducing it right down when it says the lower nature in humans is symbolized as satan, the evil ego within us, not an evil personality outside. And I say that because that, Um, how often have you seen some demon running around with a forked tail and uh and horns and all that?

Probably not very often, But how often have you seen people do evil things? It's unfortunate that that, you know, they're on the news every day. And maybe what we can do here to sort of just reduce this down to why all these things have in common is that ultimately evil. Let me put it this way. Sin. Sin is absolute selfishness. And where does that come from. Selfishness comes from ego and narcissism and lack of humility and arrogance.

And so whether or not you believe in a higher power, whether you're an atheist or a believer in God or you're an agnostic, if you are arrogant um and you are egotistical, and you are selfish, then you, I believe are What we can say is the type of person who is given to sin, which leads in many cases to evil acts. I don't think it always does, because again it depends on what you define as as a sin, and that varies a little bit from culture to culture.

But I think if you give into that ultimate selfishness, though, eventually it's going to leads you to acts that you will regret. So what is sin? Sin is utter selfishness. In my opinion, I think that's what they all have in common here, and so how do you combat that? Well, look at what all or many of these different religions and philosophies say. It's the golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That's the biblical concept spoken by Jesus in Luke and in Matthew

um here's another version of it. So and everything due to others what you would have them do to you. For this sums the law and the profits end quote. That's Matthew seven. And then when you start looking at some of the the Hindu stuff and things that were related to you know, Buddhism or that part of the world, Well, karma plays a royal karma in the Sanskrit, and karma is the same thing. It's the idea that if if you're selfish, well there's you're throwing off the balance. It

can't be all about you, okay. Uh, you have to give and be open and humble and understanding of others. That's karma. But if you're just a strict materialistic, rationalistic scientists and you don't even believe in spiritual stuff, all you believe is what you can measure and put under a microscope pill. Now we have Newton's third law for you in physics. For every action, there's an opposite but equal reaction. You see, that's the common thread behind all

these things. Sin is selfishness, and selfishness comes from narcissistic, arrogant ego and lack of humility. So if you do your best to open your mind and not be selfish, which is animalistic, if you open your mind to try to be to not be selfish, and then you also are always considering doing into others as you would have them do unto you. I think that no matter what religion or philosophy you you find solacen, you're gonna be okay. I think that's what we can learn from studying all

these different things. So, now, like I say, there are people, however, who say, hey, dude, you're talking about the Bible, and yeah, you've you've got some lessons. Good job, good jobs, Mr smarty pants. You have figured out the duh here it's the golden rule. But you don't realize there is an actual mode. There's coded information that was put into the Bible like a big puzzle. It's like a big computer program, the Bible Code, and it will tell you literally what's

going on here and even predict the future. I've heard about this for decades. I even read the book The Bible Code when it first came out a long time ago. When was that? Uh, looks like all right, So here's what it says if you look at the Bible Code. The Bible Code, also known as the Torah Code, as a purported set of encoded words within the Hebrew text of the Torah that, according to proponents, has predicted significant

historical events. The statistical likelihood of the Bible Code arising by chance has been thoroughly researched, and it is now widely considered to be statistically insignificant, as similar phenomena can be observed in any sufficiently lengthy text. Although Bible codes have been postulated and studied for centuries. The subject has been popularized in recent times by The Bible Code and

the movie The Omega Code. Okay, so what they're saying right off the bat, it's like, look, you can take any long book and you can start finding patterns in it that you start pushing into, uh explanation. So but how do they do this? Okay? They use what is called the equidistant letter sequence method. Now, if this doesn't make total sense to you, don't worry. Uh. The primary method, which purportedly excuse me, by which purportedly meaningful messages have

been extracted is the equidistant letter sequence. So letters are selected based on a starting point and counting every innth letter based on a given skip number in a certain direction. So, for example, taking every fourth letter in a phrase. It's almost like doing a cross word kind of thing, where you you just start with the letter and you just start skipping around until you find uh, other letters that

form a word. And so the problem is like you might go in there and find the word tower t O w R and be like, ah, the twin towers, we're just uh, you know, attacked. And then you go back and then you try to to fit that into and retrospect some kind of a prediction, Whereas again they're saying that this can be done with with any text. I love the the idea of this, but here, here's the problem. Here's the reality. Okay, we're talking about real stuff here on this podcast. The reality is what version

of the text has got the code in it? Okay, these religious texts were written by human beings, and they were interpreted and retranslated and republished and edited, all this stuff so many times over. Even if you went back and got the original version of it, that's still a version that a human wrote. And humans are fallible. It's

not like God handed this to you. So I don't think there's any way that you can take something that a fallible human hand rights and say this is the code here that we can go into and definitively interpret as a message from from the Lord. It's like, really, do God's trying to make it that hard? God's trying to make us solve puzzles and stuff. I mean, do you if God helped to encode something in writing to that degree? Do you? Then you would need an absolute

original copy from the original source. And if that does exist, you don't have any way of of separating it from other versions. There's so many versions, so many edits that you can call all together. I don't think God was giving us an Agatha Christie novel to solve here. Why would God believe it or not? Life is actually not that complicated. I think God was just trying to give us lessons to ultimately express the Golden Rule. And this Bible code thing is most likely another example of what

we call paradoia. All right, So paradoia it is the tendency for a human perception to impose a meaning, a meaningful interpretation on random, nebulous stimuli or okay, so again, this is the this is the tendency that you have to make sense out of chaos. I show you a bunch of random stuff, and you look at it, and your brain tries to make sense out of it and

turn into something familiar. And this is a big, big enemy of research, especially when it comes to paranormal stuff, because people start trying too hard and they open their brain. They they open their their they open their minds so so much their brain falls out. This is like looking at the moon and seeing the man in the moon and being like, that's a big dude up there, because you can clearly see the face. We do this all

the time. We are designed to look for meaning magicians, and I'm talking about like stage magicians here in Las Vegas. They take advantage of this by trying to, uh, to fool you because they know what you're expecting to see, and so they turn the tables on you. And that's

how they use that weakness to trick you. And I just think that, uh, if there is a message of some kind that is encoded in one of these old religious texts, then the whole system is so complicated and convoluted that there is no way for you to be able to distinguish that from Paradoia, even if it's not Paradoia. And I'm totally wrong about that. I don't think you could tell the difference. When you can, you can use the same technique on other text and get a similar result.

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Radio and Coast to Coast am Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to the final segment of this edition of Strange Things on the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast a M Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host, Joshua pe Warren. Six six six. The number of the Beast is associated with the Beast of Revelation in chapter thirt verse eighteen of the Book of Revelation. In most manuscripts of the New Testament and in English translations of the Bible, the

number of the Beast is six hundred sixty six. But you know what's interesting is that says here in ancient sources, like the Codex if from me rescript Us. Huh, it actually is translated into six one six, not six six six. I was like, what is the codex of from me rescript Us. I'm from western North Carolina. Fox Um says here, this is um. It's an old Greek manuscript. Um, let's see on parchment and anyway, it's got a different, slightly different interpretation of things, and it says six one six

instead of six six six. But what we all know, what we all know and love is that quote that says in the Bible here in the End Times quote and that no man might buy or sell saved he had the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that have understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. And his number is six six six. Wow, what does that mean? You know? We we live in this uh and this age of

computers and numbers, and what could it mean? Lots of people try to figure that out every single day. Did you ever hear this story that passed around a long time ago that Hey, it turns out barcodes, every single barcode out there has got six six six encoded and

within it, and that this makes perfect sense. That what they're talking about is that they're gonna they're gonna give us a barcode or some kind of r F I D chip or some kind of technology like this, and it's gonna have six six six as a reference point, and that's what this is gonna mean. Well, you know what, maybe that's gonna happen, But what I can tell you is that barcodes, as it turns out, don't actually all

have six six six in them. Um. I looked up a number of explanations for this, and this is just one of them, Snopes, says um. The E A N barcode system is used in eight e A N thirteen barcode system is used in eighty five countries, making it the most popular product scanning system of its kind in the world. It works by representing numbers as a series

of seven vertical lines. Each of the seven lines is either black or white, and the sequence of lines forms a pattern which is recognized as a particular digit when scanned by a computer. Every product is assigned a unique thirteen digit number, ten digits for the product, a check digit, and a couple of flag characters to indicate the organization assigned the number. Contrary to popular myth, all barcodes do

not include the number six six six. This belief arose because the number six is represented by a pattern similar to that of the guard bars used to mark the beginning, middle, and end of every barcode. Since the guard bars always appear three times and a given barcode, people who mistakenly read them as six is claimed that the pattern six

six six was embedded in every barcode. However, if you look closely at the six and a barcode, you will see there is a wide white bar either to the left or the right of its pattern, which is not the case with the guard bars. The only numbers on the bar code which are scanned are those shown in the conventional numerals beneath it. So, okay, I don't know how much sense that made. This is a podcast, I'm short on time, but I don't believe that that is true.

And again you can look up other sources as well. It's not like that all bar codes have six six six in them, or is it six one six, again depending on the source. Okay, so what does this mean. Is is it possible sub kind of technology is going to come out that uh is central to tracking us and allowing us to conduct trade, and and that six six six will be a part of it. It is certainly possible. But for right now, what does it mean? Nobody knows. That is the answer to that question. Nobody knows.

And uh, it kind of it reminds me of all these people who have been predicting over and over throughout history that they know when Jesus is going to return, and they give a date, and they give a time, and all of their followers get together and they do insane things, and then then it doesn't happen, at least

not from the perspective of the rest of us. And and and it says even in the Bible and the Thessalonians about that, for you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the return of the Lord is coming, just as a thief comes unexpectedly in the night. No human being is supposed to have that knowledge. And I don't think, I mean, if you're gonna rely on this same source to get the idea that God's coming back and then that source tells you and by the way,

you're not gonna be able to know. Why would you believe part of it and not the other part. Why just say like, oh, it says he's coming back, and I get to know when that's gonna be. Despite the fact that it also says that you're not gonna be able to know people. They are very selective. I don't know what six six six means or six one six means. And I've studied, and I've done a lot more research than I have time to present on this podcast, and what I can tell you is that I don't believe

that anybody knows. So here's the lesson of this podcast. Follow the Golden rule and you really don't need to worry about anything else. How simple is that. But here is something to think about now, honestly, just just think

about it. The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro was stabbed to death in Peru in one and as he was on the ground bleeding out, the last thing he did was used his finger to draw across on the ground in his own blood as his consciousness was slipping away, and he said, Jesus, that's what gave him that last feeling of protection, that was his last impulse, what would be your very last act in the final seconds of your

life as it slips away. That may help you gain some perspective on what is important in your life right now today. And it may sound depressing to hear me put it that way, but actually it can give you great joy once you understand where your priority should lie, because things become fun when you understand what to value.

It's kind of a breakthrough in your life, and that understanding, once you pursue it, will start flooding your life with rewards and you might ultimately loosen up and become a nicer, humbler, more grateful person. In fact, you know how, when just to about anybody says I'm hoping for good luck. I want good fortune here, I'm crossing my fingers, you know where that comes from. Most experts say that that comes from the whole idea of Christianity, that you're forming a

cross with your fingers. Even whether you're religious or not, you're forming a cross with your fingers because you're associating that subconsciously with the idea of manifesting a miracle. Now, there are some other scholars who say, well, wait, wait, we have examples of that kind of thing even before Christianity, back in the pagan world. Find there are a lot of connections between the pre Christian world and the Christian world.

But there's something significant about this concept, isn't there of of of the cross crossing your fingers and and something simple about that that may symbolize some peace. But I have done the best I can do to explore this topic with you, and uh, hey, whether you whether or not you agree with some of my opinions, maybe at least I will have inspired you to go do some of your own research. And that is all I can hope for when I do a free podcast like this.

Here endeth the lesson. I have some very interesting audio of e v P that I planned to play for you. I don't have time to do it on this show, so I think I'm gonna play it for you on my next show. I don't play e v P very often, but I'm gonna play this for you and see what you think about it. But now it is time for us all to relax. If you can close your eyes, take a deep breath, and be exposed to the good fortune tone, that's it for this edition of the show.

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