Suffering (Part 1)

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The Liturgists

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 1 November 2016

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This is the first in a three part series dealing with suffering: what is it, how do we cope with it, and how can we address it? Please consider joining with us to help provide clean drinking water to every person on this planet. Learn more at http://theliturgists.com/water

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0:00.0	Welcome to the liturgist podcast, everyone.
0:05.3	I'm Science Mike and today we're talking about suffering.
0:09.7	What is it exactly?
0:11.7	How should we think about it?
0:13.7	What can we do to alleviate it?
0:16.2	And how do we suffer well?
0:18.8	To get things started, let's consider what it means to be a human being on planet Earth
0:23.5	today.
0:25.2	If you have economic means to listen to this podcast through a computer or a phone or
0:30.4	a tablet or whatever you use, you're likely among the richest and most privileged human
0:35.1	beings to have ever lived.
0:37.5	You most likely have running water, a toilet that flushes, clean water to drink.
0:45.6	You most likely have a bed to go to sleep in, or roof over your head.
0:51.6	You most likely will eat more than one meal today.
0:55.8	Think about it before modern times, even royalty didn't have a lot of the luxury and convenience
1:03.0	that we have today.
1:04.6	Think about Advil.
1:07.8	What do you think an emperor of Rome, for instance, might have given for a bottle of Advil?
1:13.6	Let's take a minute and consider what it's like to be a human being somewhere else on
1:19.6	Earth right now.
1:26.6	About a year and a half ago, I was really in a place where I needed to reconnect with
1:32.3	a mission on a personal level.
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