As this ever happened to you, you have some really important cool thing happen in some

little niche thing that you follow, or maybe you run into some really important, famous

person who you think is really cool, and then you go to somebody you care about, and

you're like, you all believe what just happened.

This thing just happened.

I played this game, and I won it the last minute like this, I was in a hotel, and I stepped

into the elevator and I met this important person, and then the other person's like, I'm

glad you're happy.

I don't understand any of the things you're saying, I don't know who that is, I don't know

why any of that matters.

I'm going to play fantasy football, but I'm super glad that a neat thing happened for you

and you're like, well, okay, it matters because, never mind, if you've ever experienced

that before, then you understand the reality that not everything has currency everywhere,

not everything has purchasing power everywhere.

Not everything means everything to everybody, but it is really jarring when you run into

somebody after being in the bubble for a long time, who's not being a jerk, they just

got a bigger perspective and outside perspective, and they're just not naturally inclined to

value the currencies that your social circle trades in at the same level that you value those

currencies.

Likewise, in Matthew chapter 22, that is exactly the kind of stunning upside down weird

confusing scenario that we're running into as the Herodians and the underlings from the

Pharisee party come to Jesus and try and trap him with this question about paying taxes

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