Work ethic.

So let's take that into account the next time you are tempted to say,

it's not my fault that I'm in this situation.

Everything sucks and it's everybody else's fault.

No.

Yeah, things are bad, but there's always been corrupt people and things have been bad.

So that's not an excuse for sloth.

And it's not an excuse to try to circumvent righteous ways of operating.

$70 reasons $5.

I'm looking to start my journey into orthodoxy.

I was Baptist, raised Baptist, Hellfire Brimstone.

Saw a lot of hypocrisy and it turned me off of religion.

35 years later, your debates and your content are opening my eyes. Thank you. Well, I'm glad to hear that. And yeah, I don't blame you. I think a lot of people kind of, especially if you grew up in the fundamentalist type stuff. As I did, you kind of have a phase where you're like, nah, this is stupid. And then usually you kind of, uh, you know,

gradually make your way back to more sensible historic versions of the religion.

Tara Michael, $2.00, do you experience cognitive dissonance? I'm sure everybody does, right?

Because ultimately we're all fallen and so we all don't want to be wrong, right?

Everybody wants to be right.

Nobody wants to be wrong.

So I'm sure that there are things that I don't know about that I haven't even noticed

that I have cognitive dissonance about.

But I would imagine that's true for everybody.

I think nobody in this life is going to be completely free from traits that characterize the fallen state.

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