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And now, the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show.

The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Appen on demand, on the Blaze Radio Network.

Greetings to you, you happy warrior, and welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show where I, your rabbi, am devotedly committed to revealing how the world really works.

And one of the ways that the world really works is that it consists of humans and all other species.

That's right. There's two types of life on this planet, humans and everything else.

And unfortunately, the culture in almost every Western-leaning country around the globe

pushes towards the idea that there really is only one form of life and that everything is just

one variation or another on animals and that humans are just animals. But that isn't true. And

there are a lot of reasons for that. One of them is that human beings can laugh, animals don't

laugh, human beings can speak, animals cannot speak,

they can communicate, but they cannot construct abstract thoughts and certainly not communicate

them. We are capable of recognizing our consciousness and probing into ourselves, which animals do not do.

You might ask, how do I know that animals are not aware of their consciousness?

And the answer is, I'll tell you one day.

But for now, one of the ways that I want to focus on today on how we can tell

that humans are a unique species on this planet is that only humans, that's you and me,

are tormented by the idea of today's show. Why aren't you where you want to be? And yes, we're all

tormented in that each and every one of us has goals and dreams and desires and yearnings and

aspirations and we're not there. And in many ways, we are tormented by it, and perhaps we're

even meant to be tormented, because otherwise, what would be the drive to try and repair that?

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