Distressing

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The news is distressing. But we can’t look away from truth. We have to acknowledge and analyze problems to solve them. Giving in to despair is the easy way out… Schools are withholding merit awards to protect the feelings of those who didn’t receive them. How does that help students? The ones who succeed? Or the ones who have come up short? As counter intuitive as it sounds, do you have to fail multiple times in life to be happy? Is this especially true when you’re young? Did you parents teach you how to deal with failure? Callers weigh in. Per usual, callers set the agenda. Issues raised include: New Zealand passed a bill banning tobacco to anyone under 14, what are your thoughts; Is systemic racism really true; what is the best way to study classical music and the composers; she was told that in Judaism life does not begin until the first breath is taken; Trump said Jews are disloyal because they didn't vote for him; what is your biggest takeaway from the Exodus sessions with Jordan Peterson?
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0:14.1	And a good Friday to you, my friends, I'm Dennis Prager.
0:21.2	I'm laughing because I'm trying to put myself in your shoes,
0:28.2	or more precisely in your ears and minds, with regard to, not regards incidentally,
0:37.9	regardless, if you see my mom, give her my regards. It's a losing battle, but I wage it
0:44.1	nevertheless. Anyway, I was on the road to saying that there is so much that is
0:55.5	distressful. And my point is to motivate you not to stress you. There's a very big difference.
1:06.4	And what is it I had? I didn't come up with this phrase, but I discovered it in a
1:12.1	one of the Bible, many Bible commentaries I read in writing my own.
1:19.5	It's, I'll tell you the story, so you'll have the context in the fourth book of the Bible and
1:23.7	numbers. Moses sends spies into Canaan, the promised land, to see how to best attack it
1:33.8	in the war that is upcoming. And he had already received God's promise that the Israelites would
1:44.4	be victorious. His reason for sending the spies was to recogniter the land to figure out what is the
1:56.0	best way to achieve that victory. It was not whether or not there would be a victory. And they
2:03.9	came back 10 of the 12 for the 12 tribes. 10 of them came back with a negative report. We can't
2:11.2	do it. They're stronger than us. We look like grasshoppers compared to them. And in fact,
2:19.2	we are grasshoppers compared to them. And that's when this commentator wrote, despair is a sin.
2:31.4	Good line. I love good lines to summarize life in a sentence or one life's of insights. You can't
2:38.8	summarize all of life in one sentence is a gift which I have sought to achieve in the course of my
2:46.9	life. So I don't tell you these things for you to despair if you do. It's, it's bad for you and
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