Hi, everybody. I'm pleased to let you know that we're going to release a lecture a week from my extensive tour archive beginning this Sunday and then repeating every Sunday after that.

This allows me to do something interesting and useful while I'm otherwise incapacitated.

My health is such at the moment that I can't really

return to podcasting or public lecturing. But we recorded these with the express intention of

preparing them for release. And we've all determined that this is a very good time to do that.

So that's what's going to happen. I hope you find them useful and compelling.

They'll be particularly attractive to those of you who liked my early YouTube work that was

very lecture focused. It's a return to my roots, I suppose, in some ways. And I'm as happy as I

can be under the current circumstances, given my ill health, to suppose, in some ways. And I'm as happy as I can be under the current circumstances,

given my ill health, to be participating in this process and to have these lectures prepared

for release. Thank you very much for your continued interest and support.

There's no adventure without trouble. And the greatest adventure has the most trouble. And if you took on the full trouble of your life, unstintingly, you'd have an adventure that would justify the misery. Why do you need a why? Have you tried making your way forward without meaning? What are you going to do? You're going to work with no purpose? You're going to sacrifice with no purpose. You're going to suffer with no purpose.

Present or absent, we wrestle with God. And that's human destiny. All aimed at answering the same question.

On what principle is the world founded? And on what principle should the world be founded? If you gaze upon all the

things that terrify you simultaneously, then you become who you could be.

And that would be the spirit that could withstand death at hell and yet prevail.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

So I was sitting backstage trying to figure out how I would open this, 50 city tour, new tour.

And a phrase came into my mind, and that was present or absent, we wrestle with God.

And that reminded me of an interview I did a while back

with a very urban and sophisticated English actor, Stephen Fry.

And I did a debate with Stephen.

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