Ep 32 | Dealing With Death & How to Build Your Own Culture of Life

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

Religion, Philosophy, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Why does the number of mentally ill individuals in America just keep climbing? Who said, “If you will not have God, you should pay your respects to Hitler and Stalin."? Let’s talk truthfully about mass shootings. First of all, unlike familicides or felony-related homicides, the perpetrators are almost always suicidal. Why are they also nearly always white men? Yes, they mostly involve firearms, but let’s seriously explore all the other commonalities they possess which are so very politically incorrect. When was anything the government banned removed from society? Alcohol during prohibition? No! Drugs for the past 40 years? No! But banning guns will work? Really? Have you heard of the famous Elephants’ Graveyard in Africa? Why is nature so private about death? Where are all the dead pigeons in New York? Is death a technical problem or a philosophical problem? Together, we discover the latest work being done to defeat death. Why exactly does death disturb us? How has growth in crime paralleled the growth in children born to single mothers that began…yes, that’s right: in 1962? More innocent people die violently in American road accidents every single day than have died in the last three mass shootings. Why does no one seem to care about them? More than 70 Americans die of homicides every single day. Again, doesn’t anyone care? Why do we seem to care more when fewer people die in what we call a mass shooting? Every month there is at least one mass killing carried out with knives or axes, rather than guns. Why don’t you hear about these events? Is it possible that America’s increase in abortion, both clinically and culturally, spreads a subconscious mood of death? Why is the number of people who’d mourn your departure so important? Eliminating cancer would add only 3.3 years to the average lifespan and eliminating heart disease would add only 4 years, so for people to reach 120 years or older would require a whole lot more. Will technology ever bring 300-year lifespans? Would that even be good for the environment? ...just kidding… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.
0:06.8	This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.
0:14.6	Welcome and thank you for being part of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show.
0:25.5	You know, ancient Jewish wisdom articulates a very specific piece of advice, and that is do not try and comfort people while they are still in the
0:34.9	throes of whatever loss is impacting them.
0:39.7	If somebody has just lost his business or lost their home or had a major financial setback,
0:49.2	and it's just happened, this is really not the right time to say to them, well, you know, this can be a
0:56.4	blessing in this guy. No, you know what? Your friendship is best just silent at that point.
1:02.8	There is nothing to say. There are no words that make the pain go away. And if somebody is a mourner,
1:09.7	if somebody has lost somebody, the language that is used is,
1:14.0	if they're dead still lies before them, don't try and comfort them. And so I've waited a little
1:23.4	while since the latest two mass murders to be inflicted on the United States of America, one in El Paso, Texas, and one in Dayton, Ohio.
1:38.2	But I do need to talk to you a little bit about death in general and perhaps about mass shootings in the
1:47.9	United States of America in particular. First of all, what I want to stress is that almost
1:57.9	everything one hears out there about these latest two horrible events is political
2:07.6	propaganda and is completely baseless and without any value to you at all.
2:16.6	You have heard political leaders. It's even silly to call these politicians
2:23.6	leaders. You know, a leader is defined very simply. A leader is somebody who if he looks back,
2:32.7	sees people following.
2:34.5	That's what a leader is.
2:36.5	Self-declared leader doesn't mean anything.
2:39.6	Hoping to become a leader doesn't mean anything.
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