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Speaker 2: This is the Ultiminisher's Hour on the Dennis Prager Show.
Speaker 2: Every week at this time, an hour devoted to some
Speaker 2: great question of life, and this one I feel I
Speaker 2: will have something to bother everybody listening. But here goes hi, everybody.
Speaker 2: This is Dennis Prager the Ultimate Issues Hour. And you
Speaker 2: could title this one. Life is messy because it is,
Speaker 2: and the human being has a deep, deep urge to
Speaker 2: believe that there is one answer that will or one solution,
Speaker 2: not answer, forget that word, there's one solution to life's problems.
Speaker 2: If we can just get that one, then by golly,
Speaker 2: everything will follow from it. The secular have this, the
Speaker 2: religious have this, and a combination of both have this.
Speaker 2: It is the deepest human drive to want to believe
Speaker 2: that there is out there a single solution to life's problems,
Speaker 2: because everybody has problems and for everybody life is a
Speaker 2: great challenge, so that there is understandably the deepest desire
Speaker 2: to believe there's one solution out there. Now there are,
Speaker 2: in fact many solutions, but there isn't one. That's my
Speaker 2: argument on this edition of the Ultimate Issues Hour. Let
Speaker 2: me give you some examples, because otherwise it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2: I remember a girl. We still use the word girl
Speaker 2: to describe somebody who was still eleven. I'll never forget.
Speaker 2: There was there was a book on a feminist reading list,
Speaker 2: and it was a book of poems by an anonymous
Speaker 2: five year old woman. That's what I was talking. But
Speaker 2: when when I was at college graduate school, we still
Speaker 2: referred to the females as girls. Anyway, there was a
Speaker 2: girl that I was dating in graduate school, and I
Speaker 2: liked her a lot, but I have to say this
Speaker 2: phone call pretty much made it clear that we weren't
Speaker 2: going to have a permanent future. We were talking on
Speaker 2: the phone, and she was she was raised in a
Speaker 2: in a you know, modern religious home, but to hear
Speaker 2: she was at graduate school and of all things psychology.
Speaker 2: And she said to me on the phone, I obviously
Speaker 2: you know I I love this phrase. I will never forget.
Speaker 2: We obviously have never forgotten, so of course we won't
Speaker 2: as of tomorrow. I won't forget, but I have never
Speaker 2: forgotten this, and I have forgotten a lot. That's why
Speaker 2: I wish I had kept a diary. She said to me, Dennis,
Speaker 2: I am convinced that all of life will be understood
Speaker 2: through psychology. We don't have all the answers yet, but
Speaker 2: psychology will explain all human behavior, and we will have
Speaker 2: the answers therefore to all of human problems through psychology.
Speaker 2: And she believed this, and I remember thinking, well, what
Speaker 2: happened to all of the religious education she had, And
Speaker 2: the answer was it had been subverted at the secular university.
Speaker 2: She later went back to it, and she would laugh
Speaker 2: at this notion today, but in any event, that is
Speaker 2: what she believed. And a lot of people in the
Speaker 2: secular world, and I will give you a critique of
Speaker 2: the religious world in a moment, but a lot of
Speaker 2: people in the secular world have believed that that ultimately,
Speaker 2: psychology really does explain everything. And if you want your
Speaker 2: problems solved, then go to therapy. Now, remember I am
Speaker 2: pro psychotherapy. When there is a good psychotherapist, which is
Speaker 2: not the majority of the time. It's the minority of
Speaker 2: the time. And that's a very very big problem. But
Speaker 2: not for this show, not for this hour. It is
Speaker 2: for this show, but not for this hour. Remember, I
Speaker 2: have to keep repeating this. To say that something is
Speaker 2: not the single solution is not to say that it
Speaker 2: cannot contribute to helping solve life's problems. There is a
Speaker 2: huge difference between a single solution and one of a number.
Speaker 2: So in the secular world there has been a widespread
Speaker 2: blofe that with the right therapy, the right psychotherapy, by golly,
Speaker 2: you can more or less solve all your problems. Now,
Speaker 2: it can't solve the problem obviously if you go death.
Speaker 2: It can't solve the problem of your deafness, although it
Speaker 2: could help you live with it, I guess. But I'm
Speaker 2: not talking about physical problems now. I'm talking about the emotional, psychological, moral,
Speaker 2: and other problems that people face on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: There is, again, there is a very deep human desire
Speaker 2: to believe that there is one solution. That's one example
Speaker 2: of a secular explanation. Life can the problems of life
Speaker 2: can be solved through psycho a psychological awareness, psychotherapy, because
Speaker 2: that is that is what we are, psychological beings. You
Speaker 2: get the right therapy, you win your problems. More or less. Now,
Speaker 2: the religious have a very similar take, except it's not psychology.
Speaker 2: It's religion or faith. Your problems end if you become
Speaker 2: a believer, or if you become religious, whatever term, the
Speaker 2: members of that given religion will will believe. There are
Speaker 2: many millions, tens hundreds of millions of people who believe
Speaker 2: that that is all that is needed. If you do
Speaker 2: the religion right, then you have ended your problems. You will.
Speaker 2: If you do your religion right, you will not have
Speaker 2: marital problems, you will not have problems with your children,
Speaker 2: you will not have problems with your friends. You will
Speaker 2: not it will, It will solve basically all human problems
Speaker 2: if you just have the right faith or the right practice,
Speaker 2: whatever the given religion will offer. It's a very tempting belief,
Speaker 2: and I understand it, being deeply religious, very tempting to
Speaker 2: believe if you just do the religion right, by golly,
Speaker 2: life's problems pretty much end. But that's not true either.
Speaker 2: I believe that God and religion are indispensable to solving
Speaker 2: life's problems, but not sufficient. It's a concept called necessary
Speaker 2: but not sufficient. And I give you the greatest example
Speaker 2: of this insight. It was actually offered by a Christian pastor,
Speaker 2: and it was one of the only fan letters I
Speaker 2: ever wrote in my life to thank this pastor for
Speaker 2: this insight that I had read Somewhere. He points out
Speaker 2: that in Genesis, God makes his first observation about human
Speaker 2: life when he says, looking at Adam, it is not
Speaker 2: good for man to be alone, and God makes him
Speaker 2: a partner, whom he then calls. The partner is a woman,
Speaker 2: and he then calls her Eve. And we know the
Speaker 2: rest of the story, at least many do, but not
Speaker 2: if you went to college. But that's a separate story too. Now,
Speaker 2: the point the pastor was making was, in my opinion, brilliant,
Speaker 2: not a term I use often. What God was saying
Speaker 2: there was I, God am not enough for a man.
Speaker 2: After all, Adam knew God. So why would God say
Speaker 2: then it is not good for man to be alone?
Speaker 2: How could Adam wasn't alone? Adam had God. But this
Speaker 2: pastor was making this brilliant point that God is saying,
Speaker 2: even I God am not sufficient. The human being needs
Speaker 2: a human partner, not just me. So even God, though
Speaker 2: in my opinion, utterly necessary to solving humanities and the
Speaker 2: individual humans problems, is not sufficient, Nor is any given
Speaker 2: religion alone sufficient necessary when they are good religions and
Speaker 2: they do good, but not sufficient. The human temptation is
Speaker 2: to believe that there is somewhere a one solution, a
Speaker 2: single solution to life's myriad problems. But there isn't. There
Speaker 2: are many solutions, not one. I will give you another
Speaker 2: example of a political one. I gave you psychology, I
Speaker 2: gave you religion. I will give you a political one
Speaker 2: that has existed for two hundred years. Your reactions on
Speaker 2: this Ultimate Issues Hour are now welcome. One eighth Prager
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Speaker 1: This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless Wisdom.
Speaker 2: Hi everybody, and welcome back. This is the Ultimate Issues Hour.
Speaker 2: Twenty one minutes past the hour of the Ultimate Issues Hour.
Speaker 2: Let's see how how many times I could say the
Speaker 2: word hour. I'm Dennis Prager. An hour devoted each week.
Speaker 2: That was inadvertent. That was a fine, It's so silly.
Speaker 2: It's an hour devoted each week. That's what happened is
Speaker 2: when you concentrate on one where you can drive yourself
Speaker 2: out of your mind, all at an hour devoted each
Speaker 2: week to some great issue of life. And this one
Speaker 2: is the human desire to find one solution to all
Speaker 2: of life's problems. And it doesn't exist. There are many solutions.
Speaker 2: That's why in my book on Happiness, for example, I
Speaker 2: write a chapter where I commend both psychotherapy and religion.
Speaker 2: A lot of religious people think that psychotherapy is not
Speaker 2: necessary because after all, their their believers or their religious
Speaker 2: in whatever way the religion wants, so that should answer
Speaker 2: their problems. And there are people in the secular world
Speaker 2: who think, oh, they don't need God or religion, they'll
Speaker 2: just go to therapy and that'll answer all their problems,
Speaker 2: and and and and both are wrong. It doesn't work
Speaker 2: that way. There is no one solution. And this is
Speaker 2: hardly a critique of the excellence of some of these things. Now,
Speaker 2: there are some things that are offered as a solution
Speaker 2: that are actually just harmful. For example, I said there
Speaker 2: would be a political one. I gave you a psychological one.
Speaker 2: I gave you the religious one. There's a political one.
Speaker 2: The belief that emanated from Marx in the nineteenth early
Speaker 2: nineteenth century, that the great problem was inequality, and the
Speaker 2: world will become a beautiful place where everybody will just
Speaker 2: love beautiful music and write poetry and be kind to
Speaker 2: one another, as soon as you abolish all economic inequality
Speaker 2: that still pervades a great part of the political spectrum
Speaker 2: to this day. If only we get rid of inequality,
Speaker 2: then then we will get rid of crime. We will
Speaker 2: get rid of jealousy, we will get rid of envy,
Speaker 2: we will get rid of cruelty, we will get rid
Speaker 2: of corruption, we will get rid of theft, if just
Speaker 2: everybody had the same to each according to his needs,
Speaker 2: from each according to his abil as the Marxist phrase went.
Speaker 2: So that was their belief in one solution, and there
Speaker 2: are others. If you have examples of the one solution idea,
Speaker 2: I'd be happy to hear from you one eighth Prager
Speaker 2: seven seven six, And now I will take your calls.
Speaker 2: Does this trouble you? Did you think, for example, your
Speaker 2: religion answers all issues and you need nothing else in life.
Speaker 2: That's why I gave you the brilliant comment of that
Speaker 2: pastor that even God was not enough when God, and
Speaker 2: God said that, when he said, it is not good
Speaker 2: for man to be alone. God needs a woman. That
Speaker 2: God alone is not even sufficient. And there are religious
Speaker 2: people who think I don't need people, I just need God.
Speaker 2: What That's not the way we were made. It's not
Speaker 2: the way God made us any more than we only
Speaker 2: need people and we don't need God, or we only
Speaker 2: need great art and we don't need people. We need
Speaker 2: a lot of things. That's the way God made us.
Speaker 2: One to eight Prager seven seven six And we go
Speaker 2: to Ethan in ogden Utah High Ethan. This is Dennis Prager.
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling.
Speaker 3: Dennis. I have to disagree with you the religion part.
Speaker 3: And I think one thing that you're not considering the
Speaker 3: possibility of a religion to encompass all all things. I mean,
Speaker 3: in my faith, for example, we don't have that discrepancy
Speaker 3: on the psychotherapy and religion. We re embrace all the sciences.
Speaker 3: One of our early leaders, Brigham Young, stated that all
Speaker 3: of the science and arts belonged to the Saints. That
Speaker 3: we're supposed to pursue. The glory of God is intelligence.
Speaker 3: Basically that it's kind of an all encompassing thing that
Speaker 3: as we pursue knowledge and answers in all areas that
Speaker 3: that is our religion.
Speaker 2: Well, we're not saying different things here. The fact that
Speaker 2: the religion embraces all these different things is a great
Speaker 2: credit to your religion and to you. But it doesn't
Speaker 2: in any way Negate when I'm saying that that the
Speaker 2: religion acknowledges, what it's saying is the religion acknowledges that
Speaker 2: there are a number of things necessary for a good life.
Speaker 2: The religion alone is not sufficient. Well, but I mean,
Speaker 2: you're obviously LDS and and the church does not. I
Speaker 2: don't think makes the claim that there there is nothing
Speaker 2: except a church attendance or a religious life. Now you'll say, well,
Speaker 2: a religious life encompasses the arts. Yeah, but it's encompassing
Speaker 2: the secular arts. It's it's not encompassing just a religious
Speaker 2: art let alone, just LDS art and are you allowed
Speaker 2: to go to Are you allowed to go to a
Speaker 2: therapist who was not a Mormon?
Speaker 3: It's uh, I think no, no.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, please answer that. If you don't know the answer,
Speaker 2: that's okay, I'm not I said yes, okay, then then
Speaker 2: that's my point. Then clearly that that therapist is not
Speaker 2: within the confines of LDS theology or religiosity. And so
Speaker 2: the church is wisely saying there are things that are
Speaker 2: good for you in making a better life that are
Speaker 2: not under the domain of the.
Speaker 3: Church, well, not not owned or specifically dictated by the church.
Speaker 3: But it's saying that since all all things from God,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think all things are from God, just like
Speaker 2: you do exactly. But but hear me through Ethan all
Speaker 2: things are from God. I believe that totally. But that
Speaker 2: is but that that's not relevant to the argument that
Speaker 2: I'm making, because you can it is possible for you
Speaker 2: to get good therapy from a secular therapist. It is possible,
Speaker 2: I think secular is I think that often a religious
Speaker 2: therapist will do will do better for the religious person
Speaker 2: in having sympathy. But not necessarily you can. You can
Speaker 2: go to an atheist surgeon. We all recognize that a
Speaker 2: surgeon might be an atheist. He might be even anti
Speaker 2: religious and be the best heart surgeon in one city.
Speaker 2: All right. Anyway, It's an important call because because the
Speaker 2: distinction may be subtle. Steve in Minneapolis, Dennis Prager, thank
Speaker 2: you for calling.
Speaker 4: Hi, Dennis, thank you. I just wanted to bring up
Speaker 4: a point of clarification. Earlier, you were claiming that religion
Speaker 4: offers the one solution.
Speaker 2: No, no, not the religion some religious people. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: I never said the religion does I said religious people.
Speaker 4: Well, then there it is. I wanted to defend Christianity
Speaker 4: at least with yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that I'm very I'm very clear. Ninety nine percent
Speaker 2: of the time I choose my words. Well, one percent
Speaker 2: I didn't, and I got clobbered. But it's another issue.
Speaker 2: But this is very important. I don't think there are
Speaker 2: I think there are religions that may claim there is
Speaker 2: nothing outside of the religion that is necessary. I think
Speaker 2: that there are elements today, I think, but they I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's the religion or it's the elements
Speaker 2: of people. In other words, the elements of the religion
Speaker 2: is constituted by you know, some of the people, like
Speaker 2: those who say within the Islamists, who will say, I
Speaker 2: think anything outside of that is probably considered, you know,
Speaker 2: not acceptable. I don't know the position of Islama. You know,
Speaker 2: I never, in any event assess religions. I assess practitioners.
Speaker 2: If you want to, if you want to respond, please
Speaker 2: stay on Steve. But I'm saying that they are religious
Speaker 2: people who say that back in a moment, this is
Speaker 2: the Ultimate Issues hour on the Dennis Prager Show, and
Speaker 2: it's thirty four minutes past the hour in this hour,
Speaker 2: and I think that Allan says this is really important.
Speaker 2: He doesn't say that all the time. He thinks that,
Speaker 2: but he doesn't say it and thinks that it'll really
Speaker 2: make people think, and it should. It's very it's very
Speaker 2: helpful to you if you think this through and you're
Speaker 2: open to what I'm saying here. I'm talking to you
Speaker 2: about the belief that many people have, secular and religious,
Speaker 2: that something is the one solution. If just this happens,
Speaker 2: or if people just embrace this thinking or this whatever,
Speaker 2: then the life's then my problems are over. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: of three. There are religious people who say this, not
Speaker 2: religions that I know of religious people. And there are
Speaker 2: secular people who say it about therapy, about psychology generally.
Speaker 2: And there he is a political ideology that if we
Speaker 2: just get rid of inequality, then overwhelmingly people will be happy.
Speaker 2: There will be no envy, jealousy, urder, crime, rape, all
Speaker 2: the things that afflict humanity. This will, this will just
Speaker 2: equality will more or less solve it. There are many,
Speaker 2: many solutions to life's problems, and not all of life's
Speaker 2: problems are even solvable in any event. And that's what
Speaker 2: a mature person has to recognize at some point. And
Speaker 2: I say this as a deeply religious person who does
Speaker 2: believe that without God, it is very hard to find
Speaker 2: any of these answers. One eighth Prager seven seven six,
Speaker 2: And we go to Bloomington, Illinois and anup Hello, anoop,
Speaker 2: Dennis Prager.
Speaker 5: Sure, it's a it's a pleasure to get an opportunity.
Speaker 5: Dot you uh, thank you, an honored thanks. I would
Speaker 5: like to point out that I'm a Hindu basically, and
Speaker 5: you know, I agree to all most of what you say,
Speaker 5: but sure I have to disagree because I think religion
Speaker 5: has the answer basically, at least Hinduism. I think has
Speaker 5: an answer the way God has pointed out to us.
Speaker 5: You know, I think that in today's world, every human
Speaker 5: being here, they just you know, the way it's being
Speaker 5: presented to them. It's like everything is an answer. We
Speaker 5: want an answer right away, and it's readily available in science.
Speaker 5: You know, I agree. I mean, I'm an elexical engineer,
Speaker 5: so I know science. But but you know, I'm very,
Speaker 5: very religious. The way we have been gotten. It's like,
Speaker 5: if we have patience, we rely on God and we
Speaker 5: meditate for a problem, the answer will come to us eventually.
Speaker 5: It's like we need patience.
Speaker 2: That's all. Well. In other words, with patience and meditation,
Speaker 2: you're a proper proper patience, proper meditation. Within a Hindu framework,
Speaker 2: all of life's problems will be solved. I don't mean
Speaker 2: the problem of a broken leg, but but, but all
Speaker 2: of life's emotional psychological problems. Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2: What if you were you were abused by your father
Speaker 2: or your uncle when you were five, sexually abused, do
Speaker 2: you feel that a therapist can in no way help you.
Speaker 5: Well, here's the thing. Just in India apart from where
Speaker 5: I am, because I you know, I grew up in
Speaker 5: India and then I came here to get a job
Speaker 5: because I got a job and everything else. What I'm
Speaker 5: saying is, in India we never had a problem like
Speaker 5: sexual abuse. At least it's not as profound as it's here,
Speaker 5: you know, So it's something well, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's as reported I mean, you know, there were there
Speaker 2: were other problems with the cast system that did not
Speaker 2: exist in the West.
Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely, I agree to that, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: Well, it's hard to believe. It's hard to believe that
Speaker 2: the underclass was never sexually abused.
Speaker 5: Well they did, they were abused. But what I'm saying is,
Speaker 5: I mean, religion is the answer. I mean, these people
Speaker 5: they're criminals. You know. Here's the thing, you know, here's
Speaker 5: what I believe. All right. What I think is science
Speaker 5: is continually revolving. I mean, the psycho, the psycheaprist, they
Speaker 5: were there, like one hundred years ago. They would have
Speaker 5: if they were there, they would have had a different
Speaker 5: point of view to problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah. But I'm not saying that science is this nobody,
Speaker 2: very few people. There are some people who say science
Speaker 2: is solution, but it's as absurd what scientific discoveries are
Speaker 2: not going to solve the problems that afflict people emotionally.
Speaker 2: Are you married?
Speaker 5: Yes? I am?
Speaker 2: And and do you believe that it is possible for
Speaker 2: two good Hindus to have a bad marriage or is
Speaker 2: that impossible?
Speaker 5: Oh? Absolutely, anything is possible.
Speaker 2: Well then well but but if Hindu, wait, but if
Speaker 2: Hinduism is the answer. How could two good Hindus I'm
Speaker 2: talking about good Hindus have a bad marriage?
Speaker 5: Well, it depends on what you call it, would I mean?
Speaker 2: Right now? All right, well then I'm no, no, Well,
Speaker 2: I'm asking you the best. Okay, Well, look that's the
Speaker 2: question that I pose. It is inconceivable to me that
Speaker 2: it is impossible for two good Hindus to have a
Speaker 2: bad marriage. We'll be back in a moment. Thank you
Speaker 2: for your call on hope.
Speaker 1: We continue this episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right
Speaker 1: after this. Now back to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless Wisdom.
Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, you're listening to the Ultimate Issues Hour on
Speaker 2: the Dennis Prager Show. Forty four minutes past the hour.
Speaker 2: There is such a widespread human urge to believe that
Speaker 2: there is one solution to life's problems. I gave you
Speaker 2: three examples. Those who believe that psychology and psychotherapy ultimately
Speaker 2: will solve life's problems, those who believe religion alone, those
Speaker 2: who believe equality. And I'll give you a fourth example. Love.
Speaker 2: All you need is love, that's it. That's a big one.
Speaker 2: In contemporary life. All you need is love, that's it.
Speaker 2: That ends the problems. Make love, not war. Ten On,
Speaker 2: everybody goes home. We all make love, and life's problems
Speaker 2: to solved. No more war, and no more hatred, and
Speaker 2: no more bad and no more hurting and no more pain.
Speaker 2: Love isn't even enough for marriage, let alone for people
Speaker 2: you're not married too. It's not enough to raise a
Speaker 2: child just with love. Love is terrific. Love is another
Speaker 2: example of necessary but not sufficient, like all the other
Speaker 2: examples that I gave, And this is a substitute for
Speaker 2: rigorous thinking. This notion is that there is one solution. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's go to San Diego and Gail. Hello, Gail, Dennis
Speaker 2: Praeger him glad to talk to.
Speaker 6: I have thought of one that I certainly bought into
Speaker 6: as the child of the sixties, and it helped me
Speaker 6: to motivate me to become a teacher. And that is
Speaker 6: I thought that fundamental to a person's enjoyment of many
Speaker 6: of the psychological health, and political enfranchisement and economic prospect
Speaker 6: it was certainly education. That if we just educate everyone,
Speaker 6: then of course they would be happy. And that was
Speaker 6: to me it appeared the singular solution, or at least
Speaker 6: a fundamental solution.
Speaker 2: Gail. It is really a shame that you cannot see
Speaker 2: the smile on my face. You deserve. On the old
Speaker 2: Groucho Mark Show for a magic word, you got one
Speaker 2: hundred dollars. The bird came down. I had to think
Speaker 2: of one hundred and then I mean that was that's
Speaker 2: like a thousand today that, Gail, you hit it well.
Speaker 6: I've been listening to long enough to be able to
Speaker 6: think clearly.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a beautiful compliment. But I want to tell
Speaker 2: you I thank you, Gail. You hit it on the nose.
Speaker 2: That was the next example that I hadn't thought of.
Speaker 2: You are right. Education that'll end everything, That'll end all
Speaker 2: our problems. People will come out, there will be no
Speaker 2: more bigotry, no more hatred, no more ignorance. Isn't ignorant.
Speaker 2: Ignorance is the source of all our problems. If you
Speaker 2: just educate people, and you know who believe that only
Speaker 2: the well educated. They've been brainwashed into believing that getting
Speaker 2: a PhD makes you in some way more capable of
Speaker 2: handling life's problems than by golly, a college dropout or
Speaker 2: even a high school dropout. That's why you should know,
Speaker 2: my friends, you should just know how. There is no
Speaker 2: relate relationship, none whatsoever, between higher education and any good
Speaker 2: thing about life except making money. The only thing that
Speaker 2: you are more likely to have if you get a
Speaker 2: higher education is a slightly elevated income. That's it. You
Speaker 2: are not more wise, you are not more happy, You
Speaker 2: are not more healthy, you are not more you are
Speaker 2: not more emotionally together, you are not more stable. Nothing, nothing,
Speaker 2: It gives you nothing because it is not wisdom education.
Speaker 2: It's just facts education, and frankly, you're not even getting
Speaker 2: many facts. Now. As I told you, I would bet
Speaker 2: you large sums of money the average a college graduate
Speaker 2: could not identify correctly Joseph Stalin, I would bet you.
Speaker 2: I would bet you that's correct. There's the solution. Education
Speaker 2: education what rubbish, rot rubbish. I wish it were true.
Speaker 2: I wish love were true. I wish religion were the
Speaker 2: where the the one answer, because I'm religious. There isn't
Speaker 2: one solution. That's the point. Life is messy. That was great, Gail.
Speaker 2: I think I think we should give her a hand. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: well done, well done. Indeed, alrighty, and let's go to
Speaker 2: Isabelle in Denver. Hello, isabel Dennis Prager thank you for calling.
Speaker 7: Oh hello, Dennis, I love your shore. I learned a lot.
Speaker 2: Thank you. That's very kind.
Speaker 7: I just want to say that I do think my
Speaker 7: religion is the answer to all problems because I think,
Speaker 7: you know, God is omnipotent. But that that doesn't mean
Speaker 7: and it never says that. I believe in the Bible
Speaker 7: that we will not have problems. We will have a
Speaker 7: lot problems.
Speaker 2: Okay, So it doesn't solve all the problems, that's all
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 7: Well, it doesn't solve them in this life.
Speaker 2: On this Okay, that's the this is the only planet
Speaker 2: I'm talking.
Speaker 7: About now, Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: That's important, Isabelle, because I do believe it solves problems
Speaker 2: in the next life. I do, but right now I'm
Speaker 2: talking about this one and and God bless you, Isabelle.
Speaker 2: I thank you. One eight to Praeger, seven seven six
Speaker 2: is the number. The examples I gave have been equality, love,
Speaker 2: now education, so correctly, religion, God and equality things that
Speaker 2: people offer as the one solution to life's problems. And
Speaker 2: that's why you hear so often. For example, people say
Speaker 2: that if if two religious people get married the same
Speaker 2: exact religion, both absolutely committed. Many people in the faith
Speaker 2: are convinced it's impossible for them to have insoluble problems.
Speaker 2: After all they have they they have the same faith,
Speaker 2: and that the same God, and the same Bible and
Speaker 2: the same everything. As if there aren't extra biblical problems,
Speaker 2: problems that can afflict somebody. I mean, what if the
Speaker 2: husband or wife had been abused as a child and
Speaker 2: brings that abuse into the bedroom in an incapacity to
Speaker 2: respond or an incapacity to to to function in a
Speaker 2: normal way. All right, final segment coming up. Try to
Speaker 2: get in one eight Praguer seven seven six. You are
Speaker 2: listening to the Ultimate Issues Hour on the Dennis Praguer Show.
Speaker 1: This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's Timeless wi.
Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, welcome. Fifty five minutes past the hour. This
Speaker 2: is the Ultimate Issues Hour. There is not one solution.
Speaker 2: There is no single solution to your problems in life.
Speaker 2: That's what this Ultimate Issues Hour has been about. And
Speaker 2: people have offered all sorts of single solutions their religion
Speaker 2: or faith on the religious side. On the secular side,
Speaker 2: we have a whole host of things. Love will solve everything.
Speaker 2: All you need is love, make love, not war. That's it.
Speaker 2: Love will solve all issues. Equality will. That has been
Speaker 2: a major All of the offshoots of Marxism have offered.
Speaker 2: Equality end the inequality, you end. The vast majority are
Speaker 2: just about all of life's problems and whatever it is.
Speaker 3: Love.
Speaker 2: Education has been offered, therapy has been offered, Psychology has
Speaker 2: been offered as the sole solutions. We go over to
Speaker 2: with Chicago and James. Hello, James, Dennis.
Speaker 3: Prager, Hi James, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: Thank you, James, you're James. I'm Dennis. But don't worry
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 8: Okay, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I have no problem. I don't mind being
Speaker 2: called James.
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Okay, yes, I just I couldn't help but
Speaker 8: think about something that I remember reading about, and that
Speaker 8: is that most humans usually want more of everything and
Speaker 8: therefore never satisfied because there's always something else to acquire,
Speaker 8: whether it's.
Speaker 3: More knowledge or more money, or more love or even.
Speaker 2: That's correct, that's that's a basis of my book, that
Speaker 2: humans have insatiable natures.
Speaker 8: Okay, So I don't know, I guess if it's if
Speaker 8: it's in your nature. Can you get rid of it?
Speaker 2: No, you can't, and that's why I have it. I
Speaker 2: may have a are you a Buddhist? No, but I
Speaker 2: have read about Yeah. Well let me let me just
Speaker 2: say a word about this is a great example. Thank
Speaker 2: you for it, because it's another good one. That's the
Speaker 2: Buddhist answer. The Buddhist solution has been due to have
Speaker 2: any desires. If you desire nothing, then how can you
Speaker 2: have disappointment and pain? But I don't accept that answer.
Speaker 2: I desire many things, and many of the desires I
Speaker 2: have are wonderful. I desire children, I desire I desire health,
Speaker 2: I desire love, I desire intellectual stimulation. I desire friends
Speaker 2: and my God. I have a mass number of desires,
Speaker 2: and they're very they're very honorable. I also have desires
Speaker 2: that are you know. I desire beautiful fountain pens. But
Speaker 2: so what now? Here is my answer to this, and
Speaker 2: that belongs to the Happiness Show. But I have to
Speaker 2: give it to you now, and I did give it.
Speaker 2: This is what I said to the Indiana Medical Association,
Speaker 2: to all the doctors at they're convention. You have to
Speaker 2: distinguish between dissatisfaction and unhappiness will always be unsatisfied. The
Speaker 2: answer is not to get rid of desires. It's not
Speaker 2: to allow dissatisfaction to me make you one happy William, Emma, Jason,
Speaker 2: and the others whose names I don't see. I'm sorry
Speaker 2: I didn't get to you, folks. There is no single solution.
Speaker 2: Life is messy. But what a wonderful, beautiful challenge it
Speaker 2: is to find the various solutions that there are. This
Speaker 2: has been the Ultimate Issues hour of The Dennis Prager Show.
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