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And I've been contemplating in these times that we're in what we need to get through.

Back in 2019, there was a mass shooting in New Zealand.

And there were some people using this white power symbol

that people tried to say wasn't a white power symbol. And I think we need to call a thing a thing,

but more importantly, we need to ask why. We need to ask people questions about what they're doing.

And we need to, because it's an important process for your brain to come up with an answer.

So I wanted to share with you a conversation I had with myself around the Socratic method

and why it's so important that we ask questions and that we stay in community around

what needs to happen next as well. That's just my thought. What do we need to do? Well, stay tuned.

So those of you who know, you know Socrates, right? The great philosopher, Socrates.

He was convicted, 2,500 years ago, convicted and sentenced to death, his crime, his crime.

And I thought it was interesting. He was found guilty of corrupting

the minds of youth of Athens. And he was also found guilty of impiety, which is not believing in the

gods of the state because he was fostering the notion that perhaps these multiple gods, perhaps

the worship of multiple gods is not necessarily rooted in

anything sound or foundational.

Maybe it's not even correct.

In many ways, he and then later Plato were credited with this notion of one God.

And it was the thing that sent him to his death. He was convicted, sent us to death,

poisoned by hemlock. And I think about that today because truth, facts are problematic for a lot of

people. Truth, facts, problematic. And I was thinking about ways in which this family, our family,

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