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And now a ministering third eyedrops.

Welcome back to the mind meld my friends. Stellar to be among you as always. After finishing

the recording on this one, it occurred to me that for all of our nearly infinite differences

of opinion, we do share something in common collectively as humans. We all want to make sense of

things. We all want to make phenomena harmonize come together, form some kind of appealing

whole that makes some sensical picture, right? But when it comes to doing the work necessary

to actually tune that harmony, I think most people tend to shy away. We get abstract. We get

philosophical. We make excuses or bypass so we can free ourselves of the work and blame that

really needs to be done. I mean, if you look at the problem of evil in general as a classic example,

our minds just kind of bristle when they learn of horrific things, right? The ego just kind of

rushes to diminish them or distance itself from them or bypass them completely with magical thinking

or God works in mysterious ways or maybe somehow these people deserve this thing, this disease or

tiger attack or whatever it is. And we do it because it allows us to offload our responsibility

and the terrifying uncertainty and complexity that's really governing what's going on, you know?

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