All right. Hey, everybody, Stephamnallany, free domain.

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and got a bunch of questions. Not sure how many I will get through today of these questions,

but they are very, very deep. So we'll take some time. Hi, Stephanie, I need to reach out to you

because of a very complicated situation I find myself in. First and foremost, there are almost no complicated

situations in life. Just want to tell you that straight up front. There are almost no complicated

situations in life. There are temptations to avoid principles, and those

temptations to betray our principles to betray virtue and honesty and integrity. We call those

complicated. But that's just a matter of, yes, we're susceptible to temptation, all of us, and then

we say, and one of the ways that temptation

gets us is it says, ooh, this situation is so complicated, it's so difficult, it's so complicated,

no, situations are almost never complicated, it's just a matter of whether you stick to principles

or not. Should I have told the truth about controversial topics when I was on top of the world.

Oh, it's complicated.

You've got to not talk about this, but you've got to balance things with that.

It's like, no, it's just you're tempted to lie.

So you call it complicated.

You know, should you cheat on your wife?

Well, it's complicated.

You know, we don't have much affection and there's this other woman and

she could be better, but it's like, no, it's not, it's not complicated. So when people say the

situation is complicated, what I hear, and, you know, I'm not saying this is 100% of the time,

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