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So I look today and these lectures have now been watched by, they've been viewed a million

times.

So that's pretty amazing, really.

Or they've been, they've been glanced at a million times.

That's also possible.

All right.

So well, let's get right into it.

So last week, I think was mostly remarkable for the absolute dearth of content that was

actually biblically related.

So that was, I'll just recap what I laid out so that it sets the frame properly for

what we're going to discuss tonight.

I presented you with an elaborated description of this diagram, essentially, which I spent

quite a lot of time formulating probably about 25 years ago, I guess, which kind of accounts

for its graphic primitiveness, I suppose.

I was really pushing the limits of my 486 computer to produce that, I can tell you.

So it's a description, a representation of the archetypal circumstances of life.

And the archetypal circumstances are the circumstances that are true under all conditions

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