This is the Jocko Underground Podcast, number 216,

sitting here with Echo Charles.

We have some questions from the front lines

from where the rubber meets the road.

And we are going to offer some suggestions,

possibly some answers, and at a minimum,

some courses of action you can follow to navigate

the maze of life, as Echo Charles puts it.

It's true, that is correct.

And very helpful too, by the way, so thank you.

First question, I believe in science.

I work in the medical field, yet all my life

I felt that science alone will not suffice.

There's a spirit within us.

There's some divine beyond.

Call it what you may, God, or otherwise. I live in a war-torn part of the world.

Events of the last few years made me resent, even hate whatever God there may be. Not because

what happens to me, but because what happens to others and to others' children on both sides

of the conflict. My faith in the basic good nature of this life and world

is completely shattered.

What God can allow such things.

If this is the price of paradise,

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