1 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:25,820 Speaker 1: Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of 2 00:00:25,860 --> 00:00:29,340 Speaker 1: hours of Dennis's lectures, courses in classic radio programs, and 3 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:39,940 Speaker 1: to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles, go to Dennisprager dot com. 4 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:42,740 Speaker 2: This is the Ultiminisher's Hour on the Dennis Prager Show. 5 00:00:42,780 --> 00:00:45,220 Speaker 2: Every week at this time, an hour devoted to some 6 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:50,659 Speaker 2: great question of life, and this one I feel I 7 00:00:50,659 --> 00:00:57,180 Speaker 2: will have something to bother everybody listening. But here goes hi, everybody. 8 00:00:57,220 --> 00:01:02,300 Speaker 2: This is Dennis Prager the Ultimate Issues Hour. And you 9 00:01:02,340 --> 00:01:08,740 Speaker 2: could title this one. Life is messy because it is, 10 00:01:09,460 --> 00:01:14,700 Speaker 2: and the human being has a deep, deep urge to 11 00:01:14,820 --> 00:01:19,540 Speaker 2: believe that there is one answer that will or one solution, 12 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:24,940 Speaker 2: not answer, forget that word, there's one solution to life's problems. 13 00:01:24,940 --> 00:01:29,260 Speaker 2: If we can just get that one, then by golly, 14 00:01:29,460 --> 00:01:34,060 Speaker 2: everything will follow from it. The secular have this, the 15 00:01:34,660 --> 00:01:39,180 Speaker 2: religious have this, and a combination of both have this. 16 00:01:39,420 --> 00:01:42,940 Speaker 2: It is the deepest human drive to want to believe 17 00:01:43,860 --> 00:01:49,580 Speaker 2: that there is out there a single solution to life's problems, 18 00:01:50,340 --> 00:01:56,260 Speaker 2: because everybody has problems and for everybody life is a 19 00:01:56,380 --> 00:02:00,940 Speaker 2: great challenge, so that there is understandably the deepest desire 20 00:02:00,980 --> 00:02:05,740 Speaker 2: to believe there's one solution out there. Now there are, 21 00:02:05,940 --> 00:02:10,220 Speaker 2: in fact many solutions, but there isn't one. That's my 22 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:14,180 Speaker 2: argument on this edition of the Ultimate Issues Hour. Let 23 00:02:14,180 --> 00:02:17,660 Speaker 2: me give you some examples, because otherwise it doesn't make sense. 24 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:21,940 Speaker 2: I remember a girl. We still use the word girl 25 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:28,260 Speaker 2: to describe somebody who was still eleven. I'll never forget. 26 00:02:28,300 --> 00:02:31,540 Speaker 2: There was there was a book on a feminist reading list, 27 00:02:31,780 --> 00:02:35,139 Speaker 2: and it was a book of poems by an anonymous 28 00:02:35,140 --> 00:02:41,260 Speaker 2: five year old woman. That's what I was talking. But 29 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:44,180 Speaker 2: when when I was at college graduate school, we still 30 00:02:44,220 --> 00:02:47,860 Speaker 2: referred to the females as girls. Anyway, there was a 31 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:53,180 Speaker 2: girl that I was dating in graduate school, and I 32 00:02:53,340 --> 00:02:55,580 Speaker 2: liked her a lot, but I have to say this 33 00:02:55,740 --> 00:03:00,020 Speaker 2: phone call pretty much made it clear that we weren't 34 00:03:00,060 --> 00:03:03,380 Speaker 2: going to have a permanent future. We were talking on 35 00:03:03,420 --> 00:03:06,740 Speaker 2: the phone, and she was she was raised in a 36 00:03:06,860 --> 00:03:11,020 Speaker 2: in a you know, modern religious home, but to hear 37 00:03:11,060 --> 00:03:14,060 Speaker 2: she was at graduate school and of all things psychology. 38 00:03:15,220 --> 00:03:18,700 Speaker 2: And she said to me on the phone, I obviously 39 00:03:20,300 --> 00:03:22,420 Speaker 2: you know I I love this phrase. I will never forget. 40 00:03:22,660 --> 00:03:26,060 Speaker 2: We obviously have never forgotten, so of course we won't 41 00:03:26,660 --> 00:03:30,940 Speaker 2: as of tomorrow. I won't forget, but I have never 42 00:03:31,020 --> 00:03:33,740 Speaker 2: forgotten this, and I have forgotten a lot. That's why 43 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:36,220 Speaker 2: I wish I had kept a diary. She said to me, Dennis, 44 00:03:38,340 --> 00:03:43,940 Speaker 2: I am convinced that all of life will be understood 45 00:03:44,260 --> 00:03:48,660 Speaker 2: through psychology. We don't have all the answers yet, but 46 00:03:48,860 --> 00:03:55,700 Speaker 2: psychology will explain all human behavior, and we will have 47 00:03:55,780 --> 00:03:59,740 Speaker 2: the answers therefore to all of human problems through psychology. 48 00:04:00,940 --> 00:04:06,340 Speaker 2: And she believed this, and I remember thinking, well, what 49 00:04:06,500 --> 00:04:09,500 Speaker 2: happened to all of the religious education she had, And 50 00:04:09,540 --> 00:04:13,220 Speaker 2: the answer was it had been subverted at the secular university. 51 00:04:13,260 --> 00:04:15,940 Speaker 2: She later went back to it, and she would laugh 52 00:04:15,980 --> 00:04:19,299 Speaker 2: at this notion today, but in any event, that is 53 00:04:19,339 --> 00:04:22,179 Speaker 2: what she believed. And a lot of people in the 54 00:04:22,219 --> 00:04:24,380 Speaker 2: secular world, and I will give you a critique of 55 00:04:24,420 --> 00:04:26,700 Speaker 2: the religious world in a moment, but a lot of 56 00:04:26,740 --> 00:04:30,659 Speaker 2: people in the secular world have believed that that ultimately, 57 00:04:30,860 --> 00:04:35,979 Speaker 2: psychology really does explain everything. And if you want your 58 00:04:36,219 --> 00:04:40,820 Speaker 2: problems solved, then go to therapy. Now, remember I am 59 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:44,420 Speaker 2: pro psychotherapy. When there is a good psychotherapist, which is 60 00:04:44,740 --> 00:04:47,020 Speaker 2: not the majority of the time. It's the minority of 61 00:04:47,060 --> 00:04:49,500 Speaker 2: the time. And that's a very very big problem. But 62 00:04:49,540 --> 00:04:51,700 Speaker 2: not for this show, not for this hour. It is 63 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:54,660 Speaker 2: for this show, but not for this hour. Remember, I 64 00:04:55,180 --> 00:05:00,460 Speaker 2: have to keep repeating this. To say that something is 65 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:03,860 Speaker 2: not the single solution is not to say that it 66 00:05:03,940 --> 00:05:09,100 Speaker 2: cannot contribute to helping solve life's problems. There is a 67 00:05:09,180 --> 00:05:13,860 Speaker 2: huge difference between a single solution and one of a number. 68 00:05:16,220 --> 00:05:20,339 Speaker 2: So in the secular world there has been a widespread 69 00:05:20,340 --> 00:05:27,500 Speaker 2: blofe that with the right therapy, the right psychotherapy, by golly, 70 00:05:27,740 --> 00:05:30,940 Speaker 2: you can more or less solve all your problems. Now, 71 00:05:30,940 --> 00:05:35,180 Speaker 2: it can't solve the problem obviously if you go death. 72 00:05:35,220 --> 00:05:37,780 Speaker 2: It can't solve the problem of your deafness, although it 73 00:05:37,820 --> 00:05:41,779 Speaker 2: could help you live with it, I guess. But I'm 74 00:05:41,820 --> 00:05:48,620 Speaker 2: not talking about physical problems now. I'm talking about the emotional, psychological, moral, 75 00:05:48,740 --> 00:05:52,540 Speaker 2: and other problems that people face on a daily basis. 76 00:05:54,020 --> 00:05:59,539 Speaker 2: There is, again, there is a very deep human desire 77 00:06:00,180 --> 00:06:06,740 Speaker 2: to believe that there is one solution. That's one example 78 00:06:07,220 --> 00:06:13,859 Speaker 2: of a secular explanation. Life can the problems of life 79 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:21,300 Speaker 2: can be solved through psycho a psychological awareness, psychotherapy, because 80 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:24,900 Speaker 2: that is that is what we are, psychological beings. You 81 00:06:25,060 --> 00:06:29,260 Speaker 2: get the right therapy, you win your problems. More or less. Now, 82 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:33,780 Speaker 2: the religious have a very similar take, except it's not psychology. 83 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:40,300 Speaker 2: It's religion or faith. Your problems end if you become 84 00:06:41,460 --> 00:06:45,300 Speaker 2: a believer, or if you become religious, whatever term, the 85 00:06:45,460 --> 00:06:51,060 Speaker 2: members of that given religion will will believe. There are 86 00:06:51,340 --> 00:06:55,140 Speaker 2: many millions, tens hundreds of millions of people who believe 87 00:06:56,060 --> 00:06:58,779 Speaker 2: that that is all that is needed. If you do 88 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:05,260 Speaker 2: the religion right, then you have ended your problems. You will. 89 00:07:06,420 --> 00:07:08,620 Speaker 2: If you do your religion right, you will not have 90 00:07:08,700 --> 00:07:11,660 Speaker 2: marital problems, you will not have problems with your children, 91 00:07:11,740 --> 00:07:14,660 Speaker 2: you will not have problems with your friends. You will 92 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:19,580 Speaker 2: not it will, It will solve basically all human problems 93 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:24,540 Speaker 2: if you just have the right faith or the right practice, 94 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:29,140 Speaker 2: whatever the given religion will offer. It's a very tempting belief, 95 00:07:29,460 --> 00:07:34,380 Speaker 2: and I understand it, being deeply religious, very tempting to 96 00:07:34,420 --> 00:07:37,340 Speaker 2: believe if you just do the religion right, by golly, 97 00:07:37,420 --> 00:07:41,940 Speaker 2: life's problems pretty much end. But that's not true either. 98 00:07:42,980 --> 00:07:48,740 Speaker 2: I believe that God and religion are indispensable to solving 99 00:07:48,860 --> 00:07:54,580 Speaker 2: life's problems, but not sufficient. It's a concept called necessary 100 00:07:54,660 --> 00:07:58,820 Speaker 2: but not sufficient. And I give you the greatest example 101 00:07:58,940 --> 00:08:03,220 Speaker 2: of this insight. It was actually offered by a Christian pastor, 102 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:06,300 Speaker 2: and it was one of the only fan letters I 103 00:08:06,380 --> 00:08:10,900 Speaker 2: ever wrote in my life to thank this pastor for 104 00:08:11,020 --> 00:08:15,020 Speaker 2: this insight that I had read Somewhere. He points out 105 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:20,340 Speaker 2: that in Genesis, God makes his first observation about human 106 00:08:20,340 --> 00:08:23,620 Speaker 2: life when he says, looking at Adam, it is not 107 00:08:23,780 --> 00:08:26,620 Speaker 2: good for man to be alone, and God makes him 108 00:08:26,660 --> 00:08:31,260 Speaker 2: a partner, whom he then calls. The partner is a woman, 109 00:08:32,140 --> 00:08:33,860 Speaker 2: and he then calls her Eve. And we know the 110 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:37,500 Speaker 2: rest of the story, at least many do, but not 111 00:08:37,579 --> 00:08:41,699 Speaker 2: if you went to college. But that's a separate story too. Now, 112 00:08:42,939 --> 00:08:46,500 Speaker 2: the point the pastor was making was, in my opinion, brilliant, 113 00:08:46,620 --> 00:08:50,580 Speaker 2: not a term I use often. What God was saying 114 00:08:50,620 --> 00:08:56,660 Speaker 2: there was I, God am not enough for a man. 115 00:08:59,460 --> 00:09:06,020 Speaker 2: After all, Adam knew God. So why would God say 116 00:09:06,060 --> 00:09:07,860 Speaker 2: then it is not good for man to be alone? 117 00:09:07,900 --> 00:09:13,900 Speaker 2: How could Adam wasn't alone? Adam had God. But this 118 00:09:14,060 --> 00:09:18,459 Speaker 2: pastor was making this brilliant point that God is saying, 119 00:09:18,660 --> 00:09:23,060 Speaker 2: even I God am not sufficient. The human being needs 120 00:09:23,140 --> 00:09:32,500 Speaker 2: a human partner, not just me. So even God, though 121 00:09:32,540 --> 00:09:37,540 Speaker 2: in my opinion, utterly necessary to solving humanities and the 122 00:09:37,580 --> 00:09:43,100 Speaker 2: individual humans problems, is not sufficient, Nor is any given 123 00:09:43,260 --> 00:09:48,820 Speaker 2: religion alone sufficient necessary when they are good religions and 124 00:09:48,860 --> 00:09:57,660 Speaker 2: they do good, but not sufficient. The human temptation is 125 00:09:57,740 --> 00:10:02,900 Speaker 2: to believe that there is somewhere a one solution, a 126 00:10:02,980 --> 00:10:09,100 Speaker 2: single solution to life's myriad problems. But there isn't. There 127 00:10:09,140 --> 00:10:14,500 Speaker 2: are many solutions, not one. I will give you another 128 00:10:14,580 --> 00:10:17,820 Speaker 2: example of a political one. I gave you psychology, I 129 00:10:17,860 --> 00:10:20,100 Speaker 2: gave you religion. I will give you a political one 130 00:10:20,740 --> 00:10:25,060 Speaker 2: that has existed for two hundred years. Your reactions on 131 00:10:25,140 --> 00:10:28,620 Speaker 2: this Ultimate Issues Hour are now welcome. One eighth Prager 132 00:10:29,220 --> 00:10:32,780 Speaker 2: seven seven six one eight p R A G e 133 00:10:32,940 --> 00:10:36,460 Speaker 2: R seven seven six. You are listening to the Dennis 134 00:10:36,460 --> 00:10:37,140 Speaker 2: Praguer Show. 135 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:41,820 Speaker 1: This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 136 00:10:47,380 --> 00:10:52,459 Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless Wisdom. 137 00:10:52,580 --> 00:10:55,900 Speaker 2: Hi everybody, and welcome back. This is the Ultimate Issues Hour. 138 00:10:56,100 --> 00:10:59,300 Speaker 2: Twenty one minutes past the hour of the Ultimate Issues Hour. 139 00:11:00,620 --> 00:11:02,980 Speaker 2: Let's see how how many times I could say the 140 00:11:03,020 --> 00:11:07,100 Speaker 2: word hour. I'm Dennis Prager. An hour devoted each week. 141 00:11:10,300 --> 00:11:17,100 Speaker 2: That was inadvertent. That was a fine, It's so silly. 142 00:11:17,780 --> 00:11:20,819 Speaker 2: It's an hour devoted each week. That's what happened is 143 00:11:20,820 --> 00:11:23,140 Speaker 2: when you concentrate on one where you can drive yourself 144 00:11:23,140 --> 00:11:28,900 Speaker 2: out of your mind, all at an hour devoted each 145 00:11:28,940 --> 00:11:31,100 Speaker 2: week to some great issue of life. And this one 146 00:11:31,179 --> 00:11:34,380 Speaker 2: is the human desire to find one solution to all 147 00:11:34,420 --> 00:11:37,900 Speaker 2: of life's problems. And it doesn't exist. There are many solutions. 148 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:41,180 Speaker 2: That's why in my book on Happiness, for example, I 149 00:11:41,179 --> 00:11:44,660 Speaker 2: write a chapter where I commend both psychotherapy and religion. 150 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:48,100 Speaker 2: A lot of religious people think that psychotherapy is not 151 00:11:48,220 --> 00:11:52,740 Speaker 2: necessary because after all, their their believers or their religious 152 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:56,579 Speaker 2: in whatever way the religion wants, so that should answer 153 00:11:56,620 --> 00:12:00,100 Speaker 2: their problems. And there are people in the secular world 154 00:12:00,140 --> 00:12:02,540 Speaker 2: who think, oh, they don't need God or religion, they'll 155 00:12:02,580 --> 00:12:05,540 Speaker 2: just go to therapy and that'll answer all their problems, 156 00:12:06,340 --> 00:12:08,900 Speaker 2: and and and and both are wrong. It doesn't work 157 00:12:08,940 --> 00:12:12,860 Speaker 2: that way. There is no one solution. And this is 158 00:12:12,940 --> 00:12:18,500 Speaker 2: hardly a critique of the excellence of some of these things. Now, 159 00:12:18,540 --> 00:12:21,100 Speaker 2: there are some things that are offered as a solution 160 00:12:22,420 --> 00:12:28,580 Speaker 2: that are actually just harmful. For example, I said there 161 00:12:28,620 --> 00:12:31,220 Speaker 2: would be a political one. I gave you a psychological one. 162 00:12:31,220 --> 00:12:33,860 Speaker 2: I gave you the religious one. There's a political one. 163 00:12:34,220 --> 00:12:37,900 Speaker 2: The belief that emanated from Marx in the nineteenth early 164 00:12:38,020 --> 00:12:43,500 Speaker 2: nineteenth century, that the great problem was inequality, and the 165 00:12:43,540 --> 00:12:47,860 Speaker 2: world will become a beautiful place where everybody will just 166 00:12:47,980 --> 00:12:51,700 Speaker 2: love beautiful music and write poetry and be kind to 167 00:12:51,780 --> 00:12:55,260 Speaker 2: one another, as soon as you abolish all economic inequality 168 00:12:55,980 --> 00:12:59,620 Speaker 2: that still pervades a great part of the political spectrum 169 00:13:00,179 --> 00:13:04,340 Speaker 2: to this day. If only we get rid of inequality, 170 00:13:04,420 --> 00:13:06,780 Speaker 2: then then we will get rid of crime. We will 171 00:13:06,780 --> 00:13:09,260 Speaker 2: get rid of jealousy, we will get rid of envy, 172 00:13:09,380 --> 00:13:12,380 Speaker 2: we will get rid of cruelty, we will get rid 173 00:13:12,420 --> 00:13:16,180 Speaker 2: of corruption, we will get rid of theft, if just 174 00:13:16,380 --> 00:13:19,260 Speaker 2: everybody had the same to each according to his needs, 175 00:13:19,260 --> 00:13:22,740 Speaker 2: from each according to his abil as the Marxist phrase went. 176 00:13:23,420 --> 00:13:28,220 Speaker 2: So that was their belief in one solution, and there 177 00:13:28,220 --> 00:13:31,780 Speaker 2: are others. If you have examples of the one solution idea, 178 00:13:32,060 --> 00:13:34,340 Speaker 2: I'd be happy to hear from you one eighth Prager 179 00:13:34,940 --> 00:13:37,740 Speaker 2: seven seven six, And now I will take your calls. 180 00:13:38,260 --> 00:13:40,900 Speaker 2: Does this trouble you? Did you think, for example, your 181 00:13:40,940 --> 00:13:44,340 Speaker 2: religion answers all issues and you need nothing else in life. 182 00:13:45,220 --> 00:13:47,860 Speaker 2: That's why I gave you the brilliant comment of that 183 00:13:47,940 --> 00:13:51,180 Speaker 2: pastor that even God was not enough when God, and 184 00:13:51,220 --> 00:13:53,340 Speaker 2: God said that, when he said, it is not good 185 00:13:53,340 --> 00:13:56,340 Speaker 2: for man to be alone. God needs a woman. That 186 00:13:56,500 --> 00:14:00,620 Speaker 2: God alone is not even sufficient. And there are religious 187 00:14:00,620 --> 00:14:03,579 Speaker 2: people who think I don't need people, I just need God. 188 00:14:05,260 --> 00:14:07,300 Speaker 2: What That's not the way we were made. It's not 189 00:14:07,380 --> 00:14:10,660 Speaker 2: the way God made us any more than we only 190 00:14:10,700 --> 00:14:13,540 Speaker 2: need people and we don't need God, or we only 191 00:14:13,580 --> 00:14:17,980 Speaker 2: need great art and we don't need people. We need 192 00:14:18,020 --> 00:14:20,620 Speaker 2: a lot of things. That's the way God made us. 193 00:14:20,780 --> 00:14:25,340 Speaker 2: One to eight Prager seven seven six And we go 194 00:14:25,420 --> 00:14:28,660 Speaker 2: to Ethan in ogden Utah High Ethan. This is Dennis Prager. 195 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:29,380 Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. 196 00:14:30,260 --> 00:14:34,060 Speaker 3: Dennis. I have to disagree with you the religion part. 197 00:14:34,060 --> 00:14:36,580 Speaker 3: And I think one thing that you're not considering the 198 00:14:36,620 --> 00:14:41,260 Speaker 3: possibility of a religion to encompass all all things. I mean, 199 00:14:41,660 --> 00:14:46,940 Speaker 3: in my faith, for example, we don't have that discrepancy 200 00:14:46,940 --> 00:14:51,620 Speaker 3: on the psychotherapy and religion. We re embrace all the sciences. 201 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:56,180 Speaker 3: One of our early leaders, Brigham Young, stated that all 202 00:14:56,220 --> 00:14:58,660 Speaker 3: of the science and arts belonged to the Saints. That 203 00:14:58,700 --> 00:15:02,420 Speaker 3: we're supposed to pursue. The glory of God is intelligence. 204 00:15:02,460 --> 00:15:05,740 Speaker 3: Basically that it's kind of an all encompassing thing that 205 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:08,980 Speaker 3: as we pursue knowledge and answers in all areas that 206 00:15:09,180 --> 00:15:10,300 Speaker 3: that is our religion. 207 00:15:12,940 --> 00:15:16,420 Speaker 2: Well, we're not saying different things here. The fact that 208 00:15:16,460 --> 00:15:20,300 Speaker 2: the religion embraces all these different things is a great 209 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:23,780 Speaker 2: credit to your religion and to you. But it doesn't 210 00:15:23,820 --> 00:15:28,500 Speaker 2: in any way Negate when I'm saying that that the 211 00:15:28,580 --> 00:15:32,740 Speaker 2: religion acknowledges, what it's saying is the religion acknowledges that 212 00:15:32,780 --> 00:15:35,980 Speaker 2: there are a number of things necessary for a good life. 213 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:39,860 Speaker 2: The religion alone is not sufficient. Well, but I mean, 214 00:15:39,860 --> 00:15:44,460 Speaker 2: you're obviously LDS and and the church does not. I 215 00:15:44,500 --> 00:15:47,940 Speaker 2: don't think makes the claim that there there is nothing 216 00:15:48,020 --> 00:15:53,380 Speaker 2: except a church attendance or a religious life. Now you'll say, well, 217 00:15:53,420 --> 00:15:57,220 Speaker 2: a religious life encompasses the arts. Yeah, but it's encompassing 218 00:15:57,260 --> 00:16:01,300 Speaker 2: the secular arts. It's it's not encompassing just a religious 219 00:16:01,420 --> 00:16:05,500 Speaker 2: art let alone, just LDS art and are you allowed 220 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:06,860 Speaker 2: to go to Are you allowed to go to a 221 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:08,220 Speaker 2: therapist who was not a Mormon? 222 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:14,300 Speaker 3: It's uh, I think no, no. 223 00:16:15,140 --> 00:16:17,500 Speaker 2: Wait wait, please answer that. If you don't know the answer, 224 00:16:17,580 --> 00:16:21,180 Speaker 2: that's okay, I'm not I said yes, okay, then then 225 00:16:21,220 --> 00:16:24,180 Speaker 2: that's my point. Then clearly that that therapist is not 226 00:16:24,220 --> 00:16:28,940 Speaker 2: within the confines of LDS theology or religiosity. And so 227 00:16:29,060 --> 00:16:32,900 Speaker 2: the church is wisely saying there are things that are 228 00:16:32,980 --> 00:16:36,100 Speaker 2: good for you in making a better life that are 229 00:16:36,140 --> 00:16:38,420 Speaker 2: not under the domain of the. 230 00:16:38,420 --> 00:16:43,180 Speaker 3: Church, well, not not owned or specifically dictated by the church. 231 00:16:43,220 --> 00:16:47,780 Speaker 3: But it's saying that since all all things from God, 232 00:16:48,460 --> 00:16:48,980 Speaker 3: I mean. 233 00:16:49,660 --> 00:16:52,100 Speaker 2: Yes, I think all things are from God, just like 234 00:16:52,180 --> 00:16:55,980 Speaker 2: you do exactly. But but hear me through Ethan all 235 00:16:56,060 --> 00:17:00,380 Speaker 2: things are from God. I believe that totally. But that 236 00:17:00,460 --> 00:17:04,499 Speaker 2: is but that that's not relevant to the argument that 237 00:17:04,540 --> 00:17:08,100 Speaker 2: I'm making, because you can it is possible for you 238 00:17:08,179 --> 00:17:12,180 Speaker 2: to get good therapy from a secular therapist. It is possible, 239 00:17:16,139 --> 00:17:19,140 Speaker 2: I think secular is I think that often a religious 240 00:17:19,179 --> 00:17:21,939 Speaker 2: therapist will do will do better for the religious person 241 00:17:22,139 --> 00:17:25,739 Speaker 2: in having sympathy. But not necessarily you can. You can 242 00:17:25,780 --> 00:17:29,739 Speaker 2: go to an atheist surgeon. We all recognize that a 243 00:17:29,820 --> 00:17:32,219 Speaker 2: surgeon might be an atheist. He might be even anti 244 00:17:32,300 --> 00:17:34,820 Speaker 2: religious and be the best heart surgeon in one city. 245 00:17:37,060 --> 00:17:39,419 Speaker 2: All right. Anyway, It's an important call because because the 246 00:17:39,500 --> 00:17:43,340 Speaker 2: distinction may be subtle. Steve in Minneapolis, Dennis Prager, thank 247 00:17:43,340 --> 00:17:43,939 Speaker 2: you for calling. 248 00:17:44,939 --> 00:17:49,139 Speaker 4: Hi, Dennis, thank you. I just wanted to bring up 249 00:17:49,139 --> 00:17:55,739 Speaker 4: a point of clarification. Earlier, you were claiming that religion 250 00:17:56,100 --> 00:17:57,539 Speaker 4: offers the one solution. 251 00:17:58,780 --> 00:18:03,899 Speaker 2: No, no, not the religion some religious people. Oh okay, 252 00:18:03,979 --> 00:18:06,859 Speaker 2: I never said the religion does I said religious people. 253 00:18:07,859 --> 00:18:10,219 Speaker 4: Well, then there it is. I wanted to defend Christianity 254 00:18:10,260 --> 00:18:11,060 Speaker 4: at least with yeah. 255 00:18:11,139 --> 00:18:14,659 Speaker 2: Yeah, that I'm very I'm very clear. Ninety nine percent 256 00:18:14,699 --> 00:18:16,820 Speaker 2: of the time I choose my words. Well, one percent 257 00:18:16,859 --> 00:18:20,139 Speaker 2: I didn't, and I got clobbered. But it's another issue. 258 00:18:20,659 --> 00:18:25,379 Speaker 2: But this is very important. I don't think there are 259 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:28,059 Speaker 2: I think there are religions that may claim there is 260 00:18:28,100 --> 00:18:31,859 Speaker 2: nothing outside of the religion that is necessary. I think 261 00:18:31,899 --> 00:18:35,139 Speaker 2: that there are elements today, I think, but they I 262 00:18:35,139 --> 00:18:37,459 Speaker 2: don't know if it's the religion or it's the elements 263 00:18:38,260 --> 00:18:41,139 Speaker 2: of people. In other words, the elements of the religion 264 00:18:41,179 --> 00:18:44,259 Speaker 2: is constituted by you know, some of the people, like 265 00:18:44,340 --> 00:18:48,379 Speaker 2: those who say within the Islamists, who will say, I 266 00:18:48,379 --> 00:18:53,659 Speaker 2: think anything outside of that is probably considered, you know, 267 00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:58,580 Speaker 2: not acceptable. I don't know the position of Islama. You know, 268 00:18:58,619 --> 00:19:01,780 Speaker 2: I never, in any event assess religions. I assess practitioners. 269 00:19:02,219 --> 00:19:04,260 Speaker 2: If you want to, if you want to respond, please 270 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:06,780 Speaker 2: stay on Steve. But I'm saying that they are religious 271 00:19:06,780 --> 00:19:11,419 Speaker 2: people who say that back in a moment, this is 272 00:19:11,459 --> 00:19:13,699 Speaker 2: the Ultimate Issues hour on the Dennis Prager Show, and 273 00:19:13,739 --> 00:19:16,179 Speaker 2: it's thirty four minutes past the hour in this hour, 274 00:19:17,859 --> 00:19:21,499 Speaker 2: and I think that Allan says this is really important. 275 00:19:21,580 --> 00:19:23,699 Speaker 2: He doesn't say that all the time. He thinks that, 276 00:19:23,859 --> 00:19:27,340 Speaker 2: but he doesn't say it and thinks that it'll really 277 00:19:27,379 --> 00:19:30,540 Speaker 2: make people think, and it should. It's very it's very 278 00:19:30,619 --> 00:19:33,700 Speaker 2: helpful to you if you think this through and you're 279 00:19:33,739 --> 00:19:37,699 Speaker 2: open to what I'm saying here. I'm talking to you 280 00:19:37,739 --> 00:19:42,459 Speaker 2: about the belief that many people have, secular and religious, 281 00:19:42,540 --> 00:19:45,899 Speaker 2: that something is the one solution. If just this happens, 282 00:19:46,899 --> 00:19:51,340 Speaker 2: or if people just embrace this thinking or this whatever, 283 00:19:51,739 --> 00:19:56,219 Speaker 2: then the life's then my problems are over. I'm thinking 284 00:19:56,260 --> 00:19:58,699 Speaker 2: of three. There are religious people who say this, not 285 00:19:58,899 --> 00:20:04,139 Speaker 2: religions that I know of religious people. And there are 286 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:09,780 Speaker 2: secular people who say it about therapy, about psychology generally. 287 00:20:11,060 --> 00:20:14,739 Speaker 2: And there he is a political ideology that if we 288 00:20:14,939 --> 00:20:18,619 Speaker 2: just get rid of inequality, then overwhelmingly people will be happy. 289 00:20:18,899 --> 00:20:24,820 Speaker 2: There will be no envy, jealousy, urder, crime, rape, all 290 00:20:24,899 --> 00:20:28,539 Speaker 2: the things that afflict humanity. This will, this will just 291 00:20:29,060 --> 00:20:33,419 Speaker 2: equality will more or less solve it. There are many, 292 00:20:33,419 --> 00:20:36,459 Speaker 2: many solutions to life's problems, and not all of life's 293 00:20:36,459 --> 00:20:39,299 Speaker 2: problems are even solvable in any event. And that's what 294 00:20:39,419 --> 00:20:42,660 Speaker 2: a mature person has to recognize at some point. And 295 00:20:42,699 --> 00:20:45,939 Speaker 2: I say this as a deeply religious person who does 296 00:20:45,979 --> 00:20:49,419 Speaker 2: believe that without God, it is very hard to find 297 00:20:50,100 --> 00:20:53,859 Speaker 2: any of these answers. One eighth Prager seven seven six, 298 00:20:54,340 --> 00:20:59,139 Speaker 2: And we go to Bloomington, Illinois and anup Hello, anoop, 299 00:20:59,219 --> 00:20:59,900 Speaker 2: Dennis Prager. 300 00:21:00,859 --> 00:21:04,020 Speaker 5: Sure, it's a it's a pleasure to get an opportunity. 301 00:21:04,219 --> 00:21:09,060 Speaker 5: Dot you uh, thank you, an honored thanks. I would 302 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:12,660 Speaker 5: like to point out that I'm a Hindu basically, and 303 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:15,939 Speaker 5: you know, I agree to all most of what you say, 304 00:21:16,020 --> 00:21:20,379 Speaker 5: but sure I have to disagree because I think religion 305 00:21:20,419 --> 00:21:24,099 Speaker 5: has the answer basically, at least Hinduism. I think has 306 00:21:24,139 --> 00:21:27,100 Speaker 5: an answer the way God has pointed out to us. 307 00:21:27,139 --> 00:21:30,859 Speaker 5: You know, I think that in today's world, every human 308 00:21:30,939 --> 00:21:34,820 Speaker 5: being here, they just you know, the way it's being 309 00:21:34,899 --> 00:21:38,659 Speaker 5: presented to them. It's like everything is an answer. We 310 00:21:38,739 --> 00:21:42,020 Speaker 5: want an answer right away, and it's readily available in science. 311 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:44,859 Speaker 5: You know, I agree. I mean, I'm an elexical engineer, 312 00:21:44,899 --> 00:21:47,899 Speaker 5: so I know science. But but you know, I'm very, 313 00:21:48,020 --> 00:21:50,819 Speaker 5: very religious. The way we have been gotten. It's like, 314 00:21:51,300 --> 00:21:54,179 Speaker 5: if we have patience, we rely on God and we 315 00:21:54,379 --> 00:21:59,019 Speaker 5: meditate for a problem, the answer will come to us eventually. 316 00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:00,419 Speaker 5: It's like we need patience. 317 00:22:00,459 --> 00:22:05,859 Speaker 2: That's all. Well. In other words, with patience and meditation, 318 00:22:06,060 --> 00:22:11,500 Speaker 2: you're a proper proper patience, proper meditation. Within a Hindu framework, 319 00:22:12,060 --> 00:22:14,619 Speaker 2: all of life's problems will be solved. I don't mean 320 00:22:14,659 --> 00:22:17,420 Speaker 2: the problem of a broken leg, but but, but all 321 00:22:17,459 --> 00:22:22,019 Speaker 2: of life's emotional psychological problems. Let me ask you a question. 322 00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:27,580 Speaker 2: What if you were you were abused by your father 323 00:22:27,899 --> 00:22:34,019 Speaker 2: or your uncle when you were five, sexually abused, do 324 00:22:34,139 --> 00:22:38,179 Speaker 2: you feel that a therapist can in no way help you. 325 00:22:39,540 --> 00:22:43,100 Speaker 5: Well, here's the thing. Just in India apart from where 326 00:22:43,100 --> 00:22:45,539 Speaker 5: I am, because I you know, I grew up in 327 00:22:45,540 --> 00:22:47,459 Speaker 5: India and then I came here to get a job 328 00:22:47,500 --> 00:22:49,820 Speaker 5: because I got a job and everything else. What I'm 329 00:22:49,859 --> 00:22:52,100 Speaker 5: saying is, in India we never had a problem like 330 00:22:52,139 --> 00:22:55,939 Speaker 5: sexual abuse. At least it's not as profound as it's here, 331 00:22:56,139 --> 00:22:58,219 Speaker 5: you know, So it's something well, I don't know. 332 00:22:58,300 --> 00:23:00,420 Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true. I don't know if 333 00:23:00,419 --> 00:23:03,220 Speaker 2: it's as reported I mean, you know, there were there 334 00:23:03,219 --> 00:23:05,619 Speaker 2: were other problems with the cast system that did not 335 00:23:05,739 --> 00:23:06,619 Speaker 2: exist in the West. 336 00:23:07,260 --> 00:23:09,859 Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely, I agree to that, there's no doubt about it. 337 00:23:09,899 --> 00:23:11,979 Speaker 2: Well, it's hard to believe. It's hard to believe that 338 00:23:12,020 --> 00:23:14,419 Speaker 2: the underclass was never sexually abused. 339 00:23:15,780 --> 00:23:18,259 Speaker 5: Well they did, they were abused. But what I'm saying is, 340 00:23:18,379 --> 00:23:21,379 Speaker 5: I mean, religion is the answer. I mean, these people 341 00:23:21,419 --> 00:23:24,980 Speaker 5: they're criminals. You know. Here's the thing, you know, here's 342 00:23:25,139 --> 00:23:29,020 Speaker 5: what I believe. All right. What I think is science 343 00:23:29,179 --> 00:23:34,500 Speaker 5: is continually revolving. I mean, the psycho, the psycheaprist, they 344 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:37,219 Speaker 5: were there, like one hundred years ago. They would have 345 00:23:37,419 --> 00:23:39,259 Speaker 5: if they were there, they would have had a different 346 00:23:39,540 --> 00:23:42,020 Speaker 5: point of view to problem. 347 00:23:42,179 --> 00:23:44,700 Speaker 2: Yeah. But I'm not saying that science is this nobody, 348 00:23:44,979 --> 00:23:47,340 Speaker 2: very few people. There are some people who say science 349 00:23:47,379 --> 00:23:50,459 Speaker 2: is solution, but it's as absurd what scientific discoveries are 350 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:54,019 Speaker 2: not going to solve the problems that afflict people emotionally. 351 00:23:54,060 --> 00:23:54,699 Speaker 2: Are you married? 352 00:23:55,379 --> 00:23:56,020 Speaker 5: Yes? I am? 353 00:23:56,300 --> 00:23:59,619 Speaker 2: And and do you believe that it is possible for 354 00:23:59,780 --> 00:24:02,659 Speaker 2: two good Hindus to have a bad marriage or is 355 00:24:02,699 --> 00:24:03,419 Speaker 2: that impossible? 356 00:24:04,179 --> 00:24:06,100 Speaker 5: Oh? Absolutely, anything is possible. 357 00:24:06,139 --> 00:24:08,179 Speaker 2: Well then well but but if Hindu, wait, but if 358 00:24:08,260 --> 00:24:11,980 Speaker 2: Hinduism is the answer. How could two good Hindus I'm 359 00:24:11,979 --> 00:24:14,300 Speaker 2: talking about good Hindus have a bad marriage? 360 00:24:14,619 --> 00:24:17,060 Speaker 5: Well, it depends on what you call it, would I mean? 361 00:24:17,619 --> 00:24:19,139 Speaker 2: Right now? All right, well then I'm no, no, Well, 362 00:24:19,139 --> 00:24:23,060 Speaker 2: I'm asking you the best. Okay, Well, look that's the 363 00:24:23,179 --> 00:24:26,700 Speaker 2: question that I pose. It is inconceivable to me that 364 00:24:26,780 --> 00:24:28,899 Speaker 2: it is impossible for two good Hindus to have a 365 00:24:28,899 --> 00:24:30,819 Speaker 2: bad marriage. We'll be back in a moment. Thank you 366 00:24:30,859 --> 00:24:31,659 Speaker 2: for your call on hope. 367 00:24:31,659 --> 00:24:36,019 Speaker 1: We continue this episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right 368 00:24:36,060 --> 00:24:47,499 Speaker 1: after this. Now back to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless Wisdom. 369 00:24:47,780 --> 00:24:50,779 Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, you're listening to the Ultimate Issues Hour on 370 00:24:50,820 --> 00:24:53,540 Speaker 2: the Dennis Prager Show. Forty four minutes past the hour. 371 00:24:55,340 --> 00:24:59,179 Speaker 2: There is such a widespread human urge to believe that 372 00:24:59,219 --> 00:25:02,340 Speaker 2: there is one solution to life's problems. I gave you 373 00:25:02,419 --> 00:25:09,739 Speaker 2: three examples. Those who believe that psychology and psychotherapy ultimately 374 00:25:09,899 --> 00:25:15,179 Speaker 2: will solve life's problems, those who believe religion alone, those 375 00:25:15,219 --> 00:25:19,500 Speaker 2: who believe equality. And I'll give you a fourth example. Love. 376 00:25:20,699 --> 00:25:26,780 Speaker 2: All you need is love, that's it. That's a big one. 377 00:25:27,020 --> 00:25:30,820 Speaker 2: In contemporary life. All you need is love, that's it. 378 00:25:30,939 --> 00:25:33,899 Speaker 2: That ends the problems. Make love, not war. Ten On, 379 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,379 Speaker 2: everybody goes home. We all make love, and life's problems 380 00:25:37,379 --> 00:25:41,259 Speaker 2: to solved. No more war, and no more hatred, and 381 00:25:41,340 --> 00:25:45,499 Speaker 2: no more bad and no more hurting and no more pain. 382 00:25:48,780 --> 00:25:53,939 Speaker 2: Love isn't even enough for marriage, let alone for people 383 00:25:53,979 --> 00:25:58,739 Speaker 2: you're not married too. It's not enough to raise a 384 00:25:58,820 --> 00:26:06,059 Speaker 2: child just with love. Love is terrific. Love is another 385 00:26:06,179 --> 00:26:11,139 Speaker 2: example of necessary but not sufficient, like all the other 386 00:26:11,260 --> 00:26:17,540 Speaker 2: examples that I gave, And this is a substitute for 387 00:26:17,939 --> 00:26:26,979 Speaker 2: rigorous thinking. This notion is that there is one solution. Okay, 388 00:26:28,260 --> 00:26:31,419 Speaker 2: let's go to San Diego and Gail. Hello, Gail, Dennis 389 00:26:31,419 --> 00:26:33,419 Speaker 2: Praeger him glad to talk to. 390 00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:37,499 Speaker 6: I have thought of one that I certainly bought into 391 00:26:37,699 --> 00:26:41,179 Speaker 6: as the child of the sixties, and it helped me 392 00:26:41,179 --> 00:26:43,899 Speaker 6: to motivate me to become a teacher. And that is 393 00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:48,139 Speaker 6: I thought that fundamental to a person's enjoyment of many 394 00:26:48,179 --> 00:26:53,940 Speaker 6: of the psychological health, and political enfranchisement and economic prospect 395 00:26:53,979 --> 00:26:57,420 Speaker 6: it was certainly education. That if we just educate everyone, 396 00:26:57,859 --> 00:27:00,580 Speaker 6: then of course they would be happy. And that was 397 00:27:01,219 --> 00:27:04,060 Speaker 6: to me it appeared the singular solution, or at least 398 00:27:04,219 --> 00:27:05,379 Speaker 6: a fundamental solution. 399 00:27:06,219 --> 00:27:09,619 Speaker 2: Gail. It is really a shame that you cannot see 400 00:27:09,659 --> 00:27:14,820 Speaker 2: the smile on my face. You deserve. On the old 401 00:27:14,820 --> 00:27:17,379 Speaker 2: Groucho Mark Show for a magic word, you got one 402 00:27:17,419 --> 00:27:20,500 Speaker 2: hundred dollars. The bird came down. I had to think 403 00:27:20,659 --> 00:27:22,219 Speaker 2: of one hundred and then I mean that was that's 404 00:27:22,260 --> 00:27:26,019 Speaker 2: like a thousand today that, Gail, you hit it well. 405 00:27:26,459 --> 00:27:28,899 Speaker 6: I've been listening to long enough to be able to 406 00:27:28,939 --> 00:27:29,499 Speaker 6: think clearly. 407 00:27:30,219 --> 00:27:33,540 Speaker 2: Oh, that's a beautiful compliment. But I want to tell 408 00:27:33,580 --> 00:27:36,820 Speaker 2: you I thank you, Gail. You hit it on the nose. 409 00:27:36,899 --> 00:27:39,739 Speaker 2: That was the next example that I hadn't thought of. 410 00:27:40,060 --> 00:27:45,579 Speaker 2: You are right. Education that'll end everything, That'll end all 411 00:27:45,619 --> 00:27:49,059 Speaker 2: our problems. People will come out, there will be no 412 00:27:49,179 --> 00:27:52,979 Speaker 2: more bigotry, no more hatred, no more ignorance. Isn't ignorant. 413 00:27:52,979 --> 00:27:55,340 Speaker 2: Ignorance is the source of all our problems. If you 414 00:27:55,459 --> 00:27:58,820 Speaker 2: just educate people, and you know who believe that only 415 00:27:58,899 --> 00:28:04,179 Speaker 2: the well educated. They've been brainwashed into believing that getting 416 00:28:04,219 --> 00:28:06,979 Speaker 2: a PhD makes you in some way more capable of 417 00:28:07,020 --> 00:28:11,300 Speaker 2: handling life's problems than by golly, a college dropout or 418 00:28:11,340 --> 00:28:15,659 Speaker 2: even a high school dropout. That's why you should know, 419 00:28:15,780 --> 00:28:20,060 Speaker 2: my friends, you should just know how. There is no 420 00:28:20,300 --> 00:28:25,979 Speaker 2: relate relationship, none whatsoever, between higher education and any good 421 00:28:26,219 --> 00:28:30,179 Speaker 2: thing about life except making money. The only thing that 422 00:28:30,260 --> 00:28:32,419 Speaker 2: you are more likely to have if you get a 423 00:28:32,459 --> 00:28:37,139 Speaker 2: higher education is a slightly elevated income. That's it. You 424 00:28:37,179 --> 00:28:39,459 Speaker 2: are not more wise, you are not more happy, You 425 00:28:39,500 --> 00:28:42,420 Speaker 2: are not more healthy, you are not more you are 426 00:28:42,459 --> 00:28:47,660 Speaker 2: not more emotionally together, you are not more stable. Nothing, nothing, 427 00:28:47,940 --> 00:28:53,460 Speaker 2: It gives you nothing because it is not wisdom education. 428 00:28:53,940 --> 00:28:57,420 Speaker 2: It's just facts education, and frankly, you're not even getting 429 00:28:57,459 --> 00:29:00,540 Speaker 2: many facts. Now. As I told you, I would bet 430 00:29:00,580 --> 00:29:04,660 Speaker 2: you large sums of money the average a college graduate 431 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:09,819 Speaker 2: could not identify correctly Joseph Stalin, I would bet you. 432 00:29:10,180 --> 00:29:16,660 Speaker 2: I would bet you that's correct. There's the solution. Education 433 00:29:17,140 --> 00:29:22,820 Speaker 2: education what rubbish, rot rubbish. I wish it were true. 434 00:29:23,380 --> 00:29:26,540 Speaker 2: I wish love were true. I wish religion were the 435 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:29,980 Speaker 2: where the the one answer, because I'm religious. There isn't 436 00:29:30,020 --> 00:29:37,580 Speaker 2: one solution. That's the point. Life is messy. That was great, Gail. 437 00:29:39,020 --> 00:29:48,140 Speaker 2: I think I think we should give her a hand. Yeah, yeah, 438 00:29:48,219 --> 00:29:52,499 Speaker 2: well done, well done. Indeed, alrighty, and let's go to 439 00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:56,380 Speaker 2: Isabelle in Denver. Hello, isabel Dennis Prager thank you for calling. 440 00:29:57,020 --> 00:30:00,660 Speaker 7: Oh hello, Dennis, I love your shore. I learned a lot. 441 00:30:01,060 --> 00:30:02,259 Speaker 2: Thank you. That's very kind. 442 00:30:03,260 --> 00:30:05,779 Speaker 7: I just want to say that I do think my 443 00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:09,780 Speaker 7: religion is the answer to all problems because I think, 444 00:30:09,820 --> 00:30:13,500 Speaker 7: you know, God is omnipotent. But that that doesn't mean 445 00:30:13,540 --> 00:30:15,979 Speaker 7: and it never says that. I believe in the Bible 446 00:30:16,780 --> 00:30:20,380 Speaker 7: that we will not have problems. We will have a 447 00:30:20,420 --> 00:30:21,380 Speaker 7: lot problems. 448 00:30:21,459 --> 00:30:23,859 Speaker 2: Okay, So it doesn't solve all the problems, that's all 449 00:30:23,900 --> 00:30:24,380 Speaker 2: I'm saying. 450 00:30:24,620 --> 00:30:27,700 Speaker 7: Well, it doesn't solve them in this life. 451 00:30:27,459 --> 00:30:30,019 Speaker 2: On this Okay, that's the this is the only planet 452 00:30:30,060 --> 00:30:30,860 Speaker 2: I'm talking. 453 00:30:30,540 --> 00:30:33,259 Speaker 7: About now, Okay, all right. 454 00:30:33,140 --> 00:30:36,860 Speaker 2: That's important, Isabelle, because I do believe it solves problems 455 00:30:36,860 --> 00:30:40,260 Speaker 2: in the next life. I do, but right now I'm 456 00:30:40,260 --> 00:30:43,100 Speaker 2: talking about this one and and God bless you, Isabelle. 457 00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:46,979 Speaker 2: I thank you. One eight to Praeger, seven seven six 458 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:53,060 Speaker 2: is the number. The examples I gave have been equality, love, 459 00:30:53,900 --> 00:31:02,739 Speaker 2: now education, so correctly, religion, God and equality things that 460 00:31:02,780 --> 00:31:07,340 Speaker 2: people offer as the one solution to life's problems. And 461 00:31:07,340 --> 00:31:12,020 Speaker 2: that's why you hear so often. For example, people say 462 00:31:12,060 --> 00:31:15,740 Speaker 2: that if if two religious people get married the same 463 00:31:15,820 --> 00:31:20,420 Speaker 2: exact religion, both absolutely committed. Many people in the faith 464 00:31:20,459 --> 00:31:23,900 Speaker 2: are convinced it's impossible for them to have insoluble problems. 465 00:31:24,020 --> 00:31:29,739 Speaker 2: After all they have they they have the same faith, 466 00:31:29,739 --> 00:31:32,299 Speaker 2: and that the same God, and the same Bible and 467 00:31:32,340 --> 00:31:37,299 Speaker 2: the same everything. As if there aren't extra biblical problems, 468 00:31:37,459 --> 00:31:41,940 Speaker 2: problems that can afflict somebody. I mean, what if the 469 00:31:42,020 --> 00:31:44,180 Speaker 2: husband or wife had been abused as a child and 470 00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:49,860 Speaker 2: brings that abuse into the bedroom in an incapacity to 471 00:31:49,940 --> 00:31:54,380 Speaker 2: respond or an incapacity to to to function in a 472 00:31:54,420 --> 00:32:00,459 Speaker 2: normal way. All right, final segment coming up. Try to 473 00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:03,020 Speaker 2: get in one eight Praguer seven seven six. You are 474 00:32:03,060 --> 00:32:07,020 Speaker 2: listening to the Ultimate Issues Hour on the Dennis Praguer Show. 475 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:11,779 Speaker 1: This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 476 00:32:17,340 --> 00:32:20,499 Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless wi. 477 00:32:23,180 --> 00:32:26,219 Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, welcome. Fifty five minutes past the hour. This 478 00:32:26,380 --> 00:32:29,660 Speaker 2: is the Ultimate Issues Hour. There is not one solution. 479 00:32:30,060 --> 00:32:33,580 Speaker 2: There is no single solution to your problems in life. 480 00:32:34,300 --> 00:32:37,539 Speaker 2: That's what this Ultimate Issues Hour has been about. And 481 00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:42,180 Speaker 2: people have offered all sorts of single solutions their religion 482 00:32:43,060 --> 00:32:47,140 Speaker 2: or faith on the religious side. On the secular side, 483 00:32:47,180 --> 00:32:49,940 Speaker 2: we have a whole host of things. Love will solve everything. 484 00:32:49,979 --> 00:32:52,620 Speaker 2: All you need is love, make love, not war. That's it. 485 00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:56,540 Speaker 2: Love will solve all issues. Equality will. That has been 486 00:32:56,540 --> 00:32:59,860 Speaker 2: a major All of the offshoots of Marxism have offered. 487 00:32:59,860 --> 00:33:04,299 Speaker 2: Equality end the inequality, you end. The vast majority are 488 00:33:04,459 --> 00:33:08,900 Speaker 2: just about all of life's problems and whatever it is. 489 00:33:09,540 --> 00:33:09,820 Speaker 3: Love. 490 00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:14,100 Speaker 2: Education has been offered, therapy has been offered, Psychology has 491 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:17,940 Speaker 2: been offered as the sole solutions. We go over to 492 00:33:18,060 --> 00:33:20,620 Speaker 2: with Chicago and James. Hello, James, Dennis. 493 00:33:20,340 --> 00:33:22,580 Speaker 3: Prager, Hi James, thanks for taking my call. 494 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:26,180 Speaker 2: Thank you, James, you're James. I'm Dennis. But don't worry 495 00:33:26,180 --> 00:33:26,580 Speaker 2: about it. 496 00:33:26,940 --> 00:33:28,180 Speaker 8: Okay, you're right, you're right. 497 00:33:28,180 --> 00:33:30,140 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I have no problem. I don't mind being 498 00:33:30,140 --> 00:33:30,620 Speaker 2: called James. 499 00:33:30,660 --> 00:33:35,299 Speaker 8: Go ahead, Okay, yes, I just I couldn't help but 500 00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:40,019 Speaker 8: think about something that I remember reading about, and that 501 00:33:40,180 --> 00:33:44,299 Speaker 8: is that most humans usually want more of everything and 502 00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:47,860 Speaker 8: therefore never satisfied because there's always something else to acquire, 503 00:33:47,940 --> 00:33:48,780 Speaker 8: whether it's. 504 00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:51,860 Speaker 3: More knowledge or more money, or more love or even. 505 00:33:52,300 --> 00:33:54,860 Speaker 2: That's correct, that's that's a basis of my book, that 506 00:33:54,979 --> 00:33:57,100 Speaker 2: humans have insatiable natures. 507 00:33:57,620 --> 00:34:01,579 Speaker 8: Okay, So I don't know, I guess if it's if 508 00:34:01,620 --> 00:34:03,340 Speaker 8: it's in your nature. Can you get rid of it? 509 00:34:03,620 --> 00:34:05,900 Speaker 2: No, you can't, and that's why I have it. I 510 00:34:05,940 --> 00:34:09,219 Speaker 2: may have a are you a Buddhist? No, but I 511 00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:11,739 Speaker 2: have read about Yeah. Well let me let me just 512 00:34:11,780 --> 00:34:14,180 Speaker 2: say a word about this is a great example. Thank 513 00:34:14,219 --> 00:34:16,299 Speaker 2: you for it, because it's another good one. That's the 514 00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:20,900 Speaker 2: Buddhist answer. The Buddhist solution has been due to have 515 00:34:20,980 --> 00:34:24,860 Speaker 2: any desires. If you desire nothing, then how can you 516 00:34:24,940 --> 00:34:30,020 Speaker 2: have disappointment and pain? But I don't accept that answer. 517 00:34:30,060 --> 00:34:32,419 Speaker 2: I desire many things, and many of the desires I 518 00:34:32,420 --> 00:34:36,900 Speaker 2: have are wonderful. I desire children, I desire I desire health, 519 00:34:38,100 --> 00:34:44,460 Speaker 2: I desire love, I desire intellectual stimulation. I desire friends 520 00:34:45,020 --> 00:34:47,460 Speaker 2: and my God. I have a mass number of desires, 521 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:50,499 Speaker 2: and they're very they're very honorable. I also have desires 522 00:34:50,540 --> 00:34:54,219 Speaker 2: that are you know. I desire beautiful fountain pens. But 523 00:34:54,339 --> 00:34:57,660 Speaker 2: so what now? Here is my answer to this, and 524 00:34:57,700 --> 00:34:59,739 Speaker 2: that belongs to the Happiness Show. But I have to 525 00:34:59,739 --> 00:35:01,339 Speaker 2: give it to you now, and I did give it. 526 00:35:01,380 --> 00:35:04,620 Speaker 2: This is what I said to the Indiana Medical Association, 527 00:35:05,219 --> 00:35:08,259 Speaker 2: to all the doctors at they're convention. You have to 528 00:35:08,339 --> 00:35:16,219 Speaker 2: distinguish between dissatisfaction and unhappiness will always be unsatisfied. The 529 00:35:16,299 --> 00:35:18,859 Speaker 2: answer is not to get rid of desires. It's not 530 00:35:18,940 --> 00:35:24,460 Speaker 2: to allow dissatisfaction to me make you one happy William, Emma, Jason, 531 00:35:24,540 --> 00:35:26,739 Speaker 2: and the others whose names I don't see. I'm sorry 532 00:35:26,779 --> 00:35:29,380 Speaker 2: I didn't get to you, folks. There is no single solution. 533 00:35:30,060 --> 00:35:33,660 Speaker 2: Life is messy. But what a wonderful, beautiful challenge it 534 00:35:33,739 --> 00:35:36,620 Speaker 2: is to find the various solutions that there are. This 535 00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:39,259 Speaker 2: has been the Ultimate Issues hour of The Dennis Prager Show. 536 00:35:46,739 --> 00:35:51,060 Speaker 1: This has been Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. 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