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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks. |
0:05.0 | Where we connect the Bible to your life |
0:09.0 | in the time it takes to get to work. |
0:11.0 | I'm Tanya Wilmoth. |
0:17.0 | Jealousy can make you do crazy things, can't it? I mean, have you ever said something embarrassingly bragodious |
0:20.0 | because you were feeling jealous of someone else's success? |
0:23.0 | Or have you bought something outrageous or unimportant to you because someone else had it and you wanted something better? |
0:31.0 | Or have you said something embarrassingly regretful to put someone else down |
0:36.1 | because you were feeling jealous. Whether we're aware or not we live in a world |
0:40.5 | orchestrated by jealousy it It's called advertising. People pay other people to make us |
0:46.3 | feel jealous so we will do something about it. Let's look an example. Matrices. If you Google mattress right now, you will find that there are over 14,000 mattress stores |
0:58.6 | in the US alone. |
1:00.4 | That's crazy. |
1:01.6 | There are more Matress stores than McDonald's. But they are also online mattress stores. |
1:06.7 | And the way these stores work is they have, quote, people review their mattresses and tell us how amazing they are. |
1:14.0 | If we want to sleep as good as Oprah, we need to buy this mattress. |
1:19.0 | Now the problem with this is that the mattress companies are just paying PR firms to buy these |
1:26.0 | reviews and make up these reviews so that we'll buy their mattresses. But how can |
1:31.2 | we from our view be the only people in the world that aren't currently sleeping |
1:36.2 | on that amazing mattress out of a box? We must be crazy, or at least totally missing out. |
1:42.4 | Now, not only of these campaigns meant to make us jealous, |
1:45.0 | but they're put on by people who are trying to take business from other people. |
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