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The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Unpacking the Israel-Palestine Conflict with Calev Myers—Lawyer and Civil Rights Activist

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9756 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the last few weeks, tensions between Israel and Palestine once more erupted into armed conflict. While a ceasefire has been signed, this topic remains as charged as ever. Calev Myers, a lawyer and civil rights activist, helps us unpack this oftentimes confusing conflict with level-headed clarity (and even reasons for hope). 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Brian.

0:07.0

Welcome to another episode of the aggressive life.

0:11.4

The aggressive life is meant to bolster those of us who don't want life to accidentally

0:17.4

happen to us, but we actually want to take control of our life.

0:20.7

We actually want to decide what we want to do and actually do it.

0:25.7

We want to actually decide what to feel and actually feel it.

0:30.0

I know it's crazy.

0:31.4

You actually can't control your emotions.

0:33.8

All the passive weenie boys and weenie girls who think just emotions happen to you,

0:38.5

no, you actually can control your emotions it's being aggressive aggressive life is about thinking the things that you want

0:46.1

to think the bible tells us to take every thought captive so i had this thought going across my mind

0:53.8

i'm supposed to grab it and look at it

0:55.5

and before it kicks into my emotions and start before it kicks into my actions. I say, what do I think

1:00.5

about this thought? Do I like it? Do I not like it? That is a long, rambling introduction to a

1:07.7

political topic we're going to talk about today. Political topic? Oh, my gosh, politics.

1:13.1

I don't come to the aggressive life for politics.

1:15.8

Well, I know you don't.

1:17.6

I know you don't.

1:18.5

But, you know, it is called the aggressive life.

1:20.1

So mark this up as me being aggressive to bring an issue to us today

1:25.1

that I don't hear a lot of level-headed talk about.

1:28.7

What we're going to talk about today, the most important political issue in our time.

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