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Well, good morning and happy 
Easter to the Christian world. 

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It's crystal clear that hosts 
more morgalons. 

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A lot of people view Morgellons 
as a spiritual war, which is 

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funny because I actually view 
all of life as a spiritual war, 

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A test and an experiment. 
Even though it's Easter, I kind 

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of have to say I like to hang 
out in the Old Testament. 

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The Hebrew Bible is really 
useful as a thinking tool. 

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See the Old Testament, it kind 
of operates in this world where 

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relationship between human 
beings and the divine is, how do

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I put this? 
It's more transactional, 

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conditional, even adversarial. 
There's no guaranteed rescue. 

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The covenant is a contract, and 
contracts get broken. 

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So, being dogmatically 
irreverent here on Easter, I'm 

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reading the Old Testament today 
because I think of it as like a 

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manual for a world in which any 
motherfucking thing can happen, 

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and does. 
Ecclesiastes especially. 

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Everything is temporary, nothing
is fair. 

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Do your work. 
Anyway, that's the message I 

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get. 
All right, so it's going to be 

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like that. 
At least I got the manual. 

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It's a pretty good map on to 
investigative work. 

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Like I'm not waiting for an 
institution to validate what 

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I've found. 
I'm just building this case in a

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world that's indifferent at best
and hostile at worst, and 

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definitely shadow banning me, 
right, Right. 

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We've been exiled, we've been 
marginalized, we've been 

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stigmatized, we've been defamed,
we've been dismissed. 

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But we have not been erased or 
destroyed. 

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We're still here because we 
found the strength to do it. 

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All right, Here's the greatest 
hits for me right now in the Old

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Testament. 
Joseph Genesis 37 through 50. 

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That's the definitive story of 
somebody being systematically 

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erased. 
But then it fails. 

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Like his brothers sell him, he 
gets framed, that other dude 

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forgets him. 
Cut bearer. 

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Every power structure, 
institution he touches tries to 

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annihilate him, and he just 
keeps on going, just keeps being

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competent, keeps being useful, 
until the outline of his own 

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persecution has to come. 
Ask him for help. 

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He never raises an army. 
He just doesn't stop being good 

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at what he does. 
Amen to that. 

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Keep being good at what y'all 
do. 

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And there is so much we can do. 
There is so much that that we 

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are doing. 
Here's the other thing I'm 

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thinking about. 
What makes Joseph different from

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a revenge story? 
Because he does come up, you 

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know, he could have been like, 
oh, y'all need something from me

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now, huh? 
But he's not like that at all. 

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There's no revenge. 
There's none of that forgiveness

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and love, he cries. 
You meant it for evil, but God 

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meant it for good. 
You meant it for evil, but God 

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meant it for good. 
That is exactly what comes to my

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mind when I think about 
Morgellons. 

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And that's not forgiveness as 
weakness. 

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Uh, uh, no. 
That's the recognition that his 

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integrity was the mechanism by 
which their attempts to destroy 

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him failed. 
Y'all feel me? 

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He can't be erased because he 
keeps being true. 

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He keeps doing work, and he 
keeps doing it out of love. 

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Ecclesiastes. 
I can't say that word. 

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Ecclesiastes. 
I like this line. 

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Whatever your hand finds to do, 
do it with your might. 

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Oh, trust me, I will. 
And not 'cause you'll be 

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rewarded. 
Not 'cause you'll be liked. 

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Not because you'll be popular. 
Not because it's fair. 

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Not because of anything except 
for the fact that doing the work

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itself is the point, and the 
work is whatever you know in 

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your heart needs to be done for 
yourself and your community. 

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Preachers already told you 
everything is vapor and then 

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says do it anyway. 
Remember Camus and Sisyphus who 

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was courage by the guys and he's
rolling the rock up and down the

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mountain. 
Do it anyway then. 

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OK, Jeremiah, God tells him up 
front. 

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You will speak and they will not
listen and it's going to suck. 

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Jeremiah's response is 
basically, I tried to stop and I

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couldn't. 
It was like fire in my bones, he

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says. 
I got fire in my bones and a 

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whole bunch of other shit in my 
body you don't even want to know

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about, and yet I keep talking 
about it. 

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And then OK, and then and then 
Psalms. 

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I just almost said palms because
that's like how scholarly I am. 

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No, but I do love Bible stories.
Psalms 2710. 

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It says when my father and my 
mother forsake me, then the Lord

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will take me up. 
And that's not a rescue fantasy.

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No, that is the claim that when 
every human around you, every 

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human structure of protection 
fails, something still holds. 

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No, like the ground beneath you 
still holds. 

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We are part of the creation. 
There's an essence there that is

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immutable. 
Everything else can be changed, 

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but that cannot be touched, 
can't crack the foundation. 

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Have faith that the foundation 
ain't going nowhere. 

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Oh, psalms, psalms, psalms. 
I'll have the salmon and the 

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Psalms. 
It doesn't for me matter what 

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frame you put on it, whether 
it's a biblical frame or 

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mythology. 
You know, like the Sisyphus 

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story. 
It doesn't. 

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To me the dogma is not that 
important, but the stories do 

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contain wisdom. 
So sorry Jesus, I know it's your

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day and all, but since you're 
God too, I'm sure you're not 

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offended by this homage. 
Brief homage to your Old 

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Testament. 
All right, this was a bonus 

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episode. 
I'm praying for y'all. 

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I'm sending out all of my 
strengths, my love, and my 

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gratitude. 
Thank you for listening, Stay 

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tuned.