Speaker 1: Life audio on today's episode of Timeless Wisdom.
Speaker 2: The good urge cold a Hebrew Yates. The hutsov tove
Speaker 2: means good yeats, there is will, and the Yates are Hurrah.
Speaker 2: Hurrah means bad. So the bad Yates their and the
Speaker 2: good Yates their are in conflict right right, and we
Speaker 2: all have it every day it happens. In fact, this
Speaker 2: so shaped my life as a child when I learned it.
Speaker 2: I still think of it every day, all the time.
Speaker 2: This is what my good urge is saying, my good yeats, sir,
Speaker 2: This is what my bad yates are saying. It could
Speaker 2: It doesn't even apply just to It always applies to
Speaker 2: ethical issues, but it could apply to do I have
Speaker 2: that cheesecake? My bed yates? Their says, come on, what
Speaker 2: the hell do you live? Once it's delicious? You're a nut?
Speaker 2: How are you going to forego that cheesecake? The other
Speaker 2: one says, well, you're what, Dennis, Come on, Dennis, you
Speaker 2: know what you know, you know what the enough cheese
Speaker 2: cake's gonna.
Speaker 3: Do to you.
Speaker 1: That's coming off on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Welcome
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Speaker 2: Or not to be That is the question. Where was God?
Speaker 3: Isn't God supposed to be good love us?
Speaker 1: Does God want.
Speaker 4: Us to supper?
Speaker 2: Ten years?
Speaker 3: You're not Dennis yet?
Speaker 5: Why did you do it? Come here?
Speaker 2: Who are you?
Speaker 1: Ruce?
Speaker 2: I'm God? Bingo yazi?
Speaker 4: Is that your final answer?
Speaker 5: Our service has God.
Speaker 2: Bing ding ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 3: Well, it was nice to meet you God, Thank you
Speaker 3: for the Grand Canyon and good luck with the apocalypse.
Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, welcome to the Ultimate Issues Hour. I'm Dennis
Speaker 2: Praeger And every week at this time, the third hour
Speaker 2: of my three hour show and on Tuesdays is devoted
Speaker 2: to some great issue of life, and frankly, it's meant
Speaker 2: to deeply affect you. It's an issue that deeply affected me,
Speaker 2: and I'd like to affect you, touch you, influence you
Speaker 2: with some insight into some great issue of life. This
Speaker 2: one I completely owe to a man who has long
Speaker 2: since left this realm of reality. He died, oh boy,
Speaker 2: I'd say twenty five years ago. He was a distinguished
Speaker 2: rabbi in the United States name was Wolf Kellman, father
Speaker 2: of a good friend of mine, and he was a
Speaker 2: major rabbinic figure in the United States. I went to
Speaker 2: him in my late twenties for some advice, professional advice,
Speaker 2: as it turned out, I guess, partially personal, but it's
Speaker 2: hard to distinguish between the two sometimes anyway. I don't
Speaker 2: even remember why I went to him, but in other words,
Speaker 2: what the issue was. But I remember what he said,
Speaker 2: and I remember one thing that he said. It has
Speaker 2: stayed with me, and I have recounted it endless times
Speaker 2: in speeches and in personal conversation, said Dennis. And in
Speaker 2: order for me to explain this, you have to understand
Speaker 2: a basic Jewish concept. It's a very simple one, so
Speaker 2: you don't have to have any theological or Jewish background.
Speaker 2: But it's this Judaism holds that the human being is
Speaker 2: born with, as it were, two wills, two urges if
Speaker 2: you will, a good one and a bad one. The
Speaker 2: good one tells you, uh, I don't know, to give
Speaker 2: their right to give extra change back. If you've gotten
Speaker 2: too much change you got you got the wrong check
Speaker 2: you you return it the the batter, it says eh
Speaker 2: who's going to miss the money? You know, you're lucky.
Speaker 2: You you got it. Seemi film, by the way, one
Speaker 2: of the videos that I made. In fact, that's how
Speaker 2: Alan and I met h called For Goodness Sake and Alan,
Speaker 2: wherever I go in the country, somebody tells me they've
Speaker 2: used it in schools or whatever. And Uh, anyway, Uh,
Speaker 2: you should you should see For Goodness Sake, the best
Speaker 2: film on goodness I've ever seen. Uh, and uh. In it,
Speaker 2: there was a great scene with Jason Alexander where he
Speaker 2: is getting uh, you know, some electronic device at a
Speaker 2: store and the guy gives him guy is the clerk,
Speaker 2: is is harried, and he gives Jason Alexander the top
Speaker 2: model when he didn't pay for the top model. He
Speaker 2: paid for the middle of my And there were two
Speaker 2: voices in Jason Alexander, one saying, come on, man, you
Speaker 2: didn't pay for that. You just you have to return
Speaker 2: it for the one you paid for, and the other
Speaker 2: voice saying, what don't you an idiot? Who's gonna know
Speaker 2: the difference? And anyway, they made the mistake. You didn't,
Speaker 2: you didn't steal it. That's a perfect example of the
Speaker 2: good urge called a Hebrew, yeatesh huts ov tove means
Speaker 2: good yeats. There is will and the yeats are hurrah.
Speaker 2: Hurrah means bad. So the bad yatesah and the good
Speaker 2: yeats their are in conflict right right, and we all
Speaker 2: have it every day it happens. In fact, this so
Speaker 2: shaped my life as a child when I learned it.
Speaker 2: I still think of it every day all the time.
Speaker 2: This is what my good urge is saying, my good yeats, sir,
Speaker 2: This is what my bad yates are saying. It could
Speaker 2: it doesn't even apply just to it always applies to
Speaker 2: ethical issues, but it could apply to do I have
Speaker 2: that cheesecake? My my bed yates? Their says, come on,
Speaker 2: what the hell you live? Once? It's delicious? You're a nut?
Speaker 2: How are you going to forego that cheesecake? The other
Speaker 2: one says, you're what, Dennis? Come on, Dennis, you know
Speaker 2: what you know? You know what the enough cheesecake is
Speaker 2: going to do to you? Right? I mean that it's
Speaker 2: it's we have it. I think it's a terrific way
Speaker 2: to raise a kid. By the way, tell them that
Speaker 2: they have these two voices in them at all times,
Speaker 2: and they are at all times over every issue, absolutely
Speaker 2: every issue personal and ethical and uh and moral, you
Speaker 2: name it. It's these are two competing things, all right, That,
Speaker 2: by the way, is worthy of another ultimate issues hour
Speaker 2: how important it is to go through life because if
Speaker 2: you can distinguish the two voices, you know, you won't
Speaker 2: always listen to the right one, but you will you
Speaker 2: will be cognizant of that battle in yourself. And it's
Speaker 2: a very good thing to raise a child with. What
Speaker 2: does your bead, your bad side say, what does your
Speaker 2: good side say? Okay? Fine? Having said all that, on
Speaker 2: behalf of understanding existence through the prism of the good
Speaker 2: yates air and the bad yates there. This is what
Speaker 2: this Rabbi Kellman said to me when I was twenty
Speaker 2: seven years old. So, Dennis, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: By and large, I have my bad yates their under control.
Speaker 2: And most good men, most mature men or women do,
Speaker 2: by and large, we do have our bad yates are
Speaker 2: under control. And you know, whether it's sexual matters, or
Speaker 2: it's financial matters, or what have you. I believed him.
Speaker 2: He you know, he was a good man. Everyone who
Speaker 2: knew him felt that. So here's what he said, my friends,
Speaker 2: And this is the lesson for today, which is overwhelming
Speaker 2: in its significance both macro and micro. Said Dennis, by
Speaker 2: and large, I have my bad Yates air under control.
Speaker 2: It's my good Yates hair that always gets me in trouble.
Speaker 2: That is the subject for today's Ultimate Issues Hour. That
Speaker 2: it's your desire to do good and our collective desire
Speaker 2: to do good that gets us often into more trouble
Speaker 2: and does more harm than our bad desires. And that
Speaker 2: was a statement of great wisdom. The fact that your
Speaker 2: good nature or the good side of your nature wants
Speaker 2: to do something doesn't make it right. The fact that
Speaker 2: it comes from the good urge and not the bad
Speaker 2: urge doesn't mean it's good. This is where life's problems start.
Speaker 2: They're not because we listened to the bad urge. That happens.
Speaker 2: Of course, that happens. There is evil that has done,
Speaker 2: bad things that people do that emanate from their bad desires.
Speaker 2: But more likely and certainly on a macro level, it's
Speaker 2: the stuff that comes stuff that comes from the good
Speaker 2: desires cause more harm and more devastation and more evil
Speaker 2: even than the stuff that comes from the bad desires.
Speaker 2: The number of people slaughtered, tortured, and enslaved in the
Speaker 2: twentieth century on the basis of values or systems that
Speaker 2: appealed to the good side. To the good yeatsir is
Speaker 2: far greater than that which appealed to the bad yatesir.
Speaker 2: More people have been murdered by people thinking they were
Speaker 2: doing something good than by people who were just sadistic
Speaker 2: and cruel. You hear me. More damage has been done
Speaker 2: by idealists than by selfish bad types. There were a
Speaker 2: lot of idealistic communists. There were a lot of idealistic Nazis,
Speaker 2: people who thought they were doing good for the fatherland
Speaker 2: or the motherland, or the or equality or the working class.
Speaker 2: The fact that's something, the fact that something emanates from
Speaker 2: the good part of you, the sincere idealistic good part,
Speaker 2: doesn't mean manure from cheyenne. It means nothing in terms
Speaker 2: of whether it really will do good. Nothing. I'm told
Speaker 2: all the time, for example, that my generation, the baby boomers,
Speaker 2: you know, they were very idealistic. As if that means anything,
Speaker 2: so what so what? I will give you example after example,
Speaker 2: both in the way we raise children, in the way
Speaker 2: we act in our daily lives, and in the way
Speaker 2: we construct social policy, all of which come from the
Speaker 2: good yates air, which are bad news do bad. This
Speaker 2: is life changing stuff. One aide Praeger seven seven six
Speaker 2: The Ultimate Shoes Hour on the Dennis Prager Show.
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Speaker 2: Dennis Prager here the Ultimate Issues Hour. Every week at
Speaker 2: this time I devote an hour to some great subject.
Speaker 2: If you actually take the conclusions that I will draw
Speaker 2: seriously from this, it will it will be life changing,
Speaker 2: unless you've already come to these conclusions, in which case
Speaker 2: it's just reinforcing. But most of us had to learn this.
Speaker 2: I did. I had to learn this. I was lucky
Speaker 2: that I learned it early. And it was this comment
Speaker 2: made to me, and I explained the context that most
Speaker 2: of the trouble in this world doesn't come from the
Speaker 2: will to do bad, but from the will to do good.
Speaker 2: Good intentions don't mean anything. This. We live in the
Speaker 2: age of reliance on the heart, and that is part
Speaker 2: of the reason that we that I am not optimistic
Speaker 2: for the world, because heart based stuff is a is
Speaker 2: a problem. Now why is it? Now? Let me let
Speaker 2: me talk to you about what the conclusions need to
Speaker 2: be I'll give you examples. This is so important. I
Speaker 2: would say that most of you get in more trouble
Speaker 2: from not all of you, most of you from your
Speaker 2: will to do good than your will to do bad.
Speaker 2: An example there are. It's both micro and mackerel. Start
Speaker 2: with the micro the personal parents who give their kids
Speaker 2: a lot, who make no demands on their kids, who
Speaker 2: say yes far more often than they say no. It's
Speaker 2: often out of love, it's often out of feeling I
Speaker 2: want my kids to have what I didn't. That's part
Speaker 2: of the reason the Baby boomers grew up so spoiled,
Speaker 2: because the parents who lived through World War Two, their
Speaker 2: motto was I want to give my kids everything I
Speaker 2: didn't have. They grew up in the depression, they grew
Speaker 2: up in World War Two, so they were they were
Speaker 2: preoccupied with giving their children an effortless childhood, and they
Speaker 2: often spoiled them. Rotten and so and so the kids
Speaker 2: grew up that is my generation a lot terribly foolish,
Speaker 2: terribly destructive in their in their values. But they're all
Speaker 2: meaning well, you know they if they'd say make love
Speaker 2: not war, they thought that they were genius. You seek
Speaker 2: the people with a bumper sticker. You know, war is
Speaker 2: not the answer. You think they mean what bad. They
Speaker 2: don't mean bad, they mean good good. You know they
Speaker 2: hate war, they hate the suffering that war entails, the
Speaker 2: staggering amount of death. Of course they mean well, but
Speaker 2: it's a it's aarticularly foolish, particularly foolish comment. Yeah, war
Speaker 2: is not the answer if the question is what is
Speaker 2: the square root of ten? But if the question is
Speaker 2: how do you get rid of a lot of evil?
Speaker 2: War is the answer. And so this is a problem
Speaker 2: that confronts people. I was just mentioning, in fact, in
Speaker 2: a different context, how important the word no is to
Speaker 2: raising children. It's more important than the word yes. But
Speaker 2: it's hard because our will to do good, it'll be loved,
Speaker 2: and to love tells us say yes, give in to
Speaker 2: your kid. If that doesn't come from the remember this
Speaker 2: division that I'm making that I got from Judaism, this
Speaker 2: division of dividing between the goodwill and the bad will.
Speaker 2: This stuff all comes from the good side, the good willed.
Speaker 2: I want to love my kid, I want my kid
Speaker 2: to feel loved, and so on. Are those people who
Speaker 2: enable a spouse, or enable a child, or enable a friend,
Speaker 2: giving money to people, to to your your adult kid
Speaker 2: who has no job and doesn't seek one. You don't
Speaker 2: do that out of the bad side of your of
Speaker 2: your of your conscience, or of your mind or your heart.
Speaker 2: You do it out of out of love and out
Speaker 2: of the good side. Therefore, since good can lead to
Speaker 2: so much, good intentions lead to so many lead to
Speaker 2: so many bad things. The number one number one, you
Speaker 2: can't rely on good intentions for good results. You can't.
Speaker 2: So just know that at the outset, the fact that
Speaker 2: you mean well doesn't ensure anything anything. It doesn't ensure
Speaker 2: what matters, which is good results. So there are two.
Speaker 2: There are two spectacularly important conclusions to draw from what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. Number One, you know something is good by
Speaker 2: its results, not by its intentions. Okay, that's number one.
Speaker 2: I much prefer here. For example, I'll give you a
Speaker 2: guy who I'll give you an example of somebody who,
Speaker 2: even from perhaps selfish motives, does a lot of good.
Speaker 2: Let us let us say that somebody wants to get
Speaker 2: the Nobel Prize in medicine, and that is the primary
Speaker 2: thing that motivates him, and he discovers the cure for
Speaker 2: pancreatic cancer. Do you give a hoot that he was
Speaker 2: motivated by selfish desire for the Nobel Prize in medicine? Right,
Speaker 2: You couldn't care less your loved one has pancreatic cancer.
Speaker 2: You bless this guy, who may be a true a hole.
Speaker 2: You don't give a hoot what you care about. What
Speaker 2: you care about is did he do good? Not did
Speaker 2: he mean good? You don't have to marry him. You
Speaker 2: just have to take his men us And for pancreatic cancer.
Speaker 2: What if somebody gives money for some for hospital wing
Speaker 2: to be known? Primary desire is to be known. That's
Speaker 2: why I've always i've always, always always had no patience
Speaker 2: for those who argue, oh, I'm against all these people
Speaker 2: naming having these things named after themselves. You know, the
Speaker 2: this wing or this this hall or this building. Oh
Speaker 2: really well, if it weren't for that person's desire to
Speaker 2: have their name on that building or that wing, you
Speaker 2: wouldn't have that building or that wing. Idiot. If if
Speaker 2: I am peeing at at the you know, the the
Speaker 2: O'Brien urinal I bless O'Brien, I just I can't. I
Speaker 2: don't understand it. It's all part of this nonsense that
Speaker 2: intentions are what we judge and results. I bless everybody
Speaker 2: who has donated a building to a hospital, a wing,
Speaker 2: a toilet. I bless them, and God blesses them. The
Speaker 2: last thing I have an intention to do, desire to do,
Speaker 2: is measure their intention that they want to be in.
Speaker 2: First of all, I don't know they want to be known.
Speaker 2: Maybe there was their way of saying to the world, look,
Speaker 2: this is what you should do with your money, build
Speaker 2: hospital wings. How do we know? How do we know
Speaker 2: what their intention? We don't know. First of all, let
Speaker 2: me tell you something about why it is so bad
Speaker 2: to measure intentions. There's no way to know them. In
Speaker 2: most cases, you don't know your own I don't know
Speaker 2: my own all the time. That's why people go to
Speaker 2: psychotherapies to figure out what's going on inside of them.
Speaker 2: We don't even know our own intentions all the time.
Speaker 2: We are going to now start measuring other people's intentions.
Speaker 2: Intentions don't matter, They do not matter. What matters is
Speaker 2: the results of what you did. That's what's what matters.
Speaker 2: There is a second conclusion from all of this, the
Speaker 2: utter irrelevance by and large of intentions, and I will
Speaker 2: tell you what that is when we come back on
Speaker 2: the Ultimate Issues Hour on the Dennis Prager Show.
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Speaker 2: All right, everybody, you're listening to the Dennis Prager Show,
Speaker 2: the Ultimate Issues Hour. Good intentions generally mean nothing, and
Speaker 2: it's good results that matter, good actions that matter, not
Speaker 2: good intentions. And often selfish intentions end up or sometimes
Speaker 2: they can end up with better results, like the selfish
Speaker 2: scientists who just wants awards and ends up finding a
Speaker 2: cure for some illness. We have been led astray by
Speaker 2: idealism in our lives. Don't say no to your children
Speaker 2: because you just want them to enjoy life and to
Speaker 2: hurt them in the process. The trick in life is
Speaker 2: to know what is good rather than to intend to
Speaker 2: do what is good. And it is hard to know
Speaker 2: what is good. That takes wisdom. There is no wisdom
Speaker 2: at our universities, at our high schools. There are courses,
Speaker 2: and there is a tremendous emphasis on feelings, but there
Speaker 2: is precious little wisdom, and that's why we are in decline. Alrighty,
Speaker 2: let me now take some of your calls here. And
Speaker 2: by the way, that's why we have started Prager University,
Speaker 2: and I beg you to go there. It's free. Our
Speaker 2: motto is, you give us five minutes, we'll give you
Speaker 2: a semester. And the intent is to give out wisdom.
Speaker 2: So there were two videos out now, one on America's
Speaker 2: values and the other on happiness. We have more being
Speaker 2: made and that's our intent with Prager University. Okay, since
Speaker 2: I started with a rabbinic quote, I'll go to a
Speaker 2: rabbi calling in from San Diego. It's Ysrael. How do
Speaker 2: you do Rabbi Hi.
Speaker 6: Dennis, thank you for taking my call. I agree with
Speaker 6: most of what you said, but I'd like to give
Speaker 6: a quote from Rabbi Schneerson, the Levavice Rebi, and I'd
Speaker 6: like to say he writes the Yates a horror. The
Speaker 6: evil impulse is called an animal soul, not because it's
Speaker 6: necessarily a brute animal, maybe a fox, but it may
Speaker 6: close itself in the garb of an earnest, straightforward, humble,
Speaker 6: righteous person, possessing fine traits of character. In other words,
Speaker 6: this desire of idealism is not from the good inclination,
Speaker 6: but it's from the evil inclination.
Speaker 2: Oh very good, so well, and.
Speaker 3: There's not my words, and God bless you for quoting him,
Speaker 3: but this is the the I did make that point
Speaker 3: in a different way by saying that we don't even
Speaker 3: know our real intentions.
Speaker 2: So it's even sillier to rely on intentions because I
Speaker 2: don't know what I think is a good intention may
Speaker 2: in fact be selfish.
Speaker 6: So here the rebe says, a culte like this. Take
Speaker 6: this as a general principle, and remember it always any
Speaker 6: matter that is effective towards or actually leads to actual service,
Speaker 6: good service, and is confronted with opposition of any sort,
Speaker 6: even the most noble. That opposition is the scheming of
Speaker 6: the animal soul. There you go, and he adds off
Speaker 6: by saying, until then, I had not known that there
Speaker 6: could be a pious animal soul, let alone, even a
Speaker 6: Hasidic animal soul.
Speaker 2: Right, a pious one. Excellent, thank you. We are in
Speaker 2: complete agreement, as it happens. And that's why I said.
Speaker 2: It's another reason that intentions should not be judged. I mean,
Speaker 2: there were times you have to you know, an attempted
Speaker 2: murder or whatever I mean I'm not talking about courtrooms,
Speaker 2: but in our lives intentions. You know, as this rabbi
Speaker 2: correctly points out, the bad urge may cloak itself is
Speaker 2: a good urge. So we don't know. We don't know.
Speaker 2: That's why good is what is done. It is what
Speaker 2: is achieved, not what is intended. You mean well with
Speaker 2: your social policy X or social policy Y. I don't
Speaker 2: care if you mean well. I want to know if
Speaker 2: it will work. Will it work? That's the only moral question.
Speaker 2: Does it increase goodness welfare of the human being on earth?
Speaker 2: That is what matters. Does it sound good or what
Speaker 2: have you? San Antonio, Texas, Patrick Dennis Prager, Oh.
Speaker 7: How are you doing good?
Speaker 2: Thanks?
Speaker 7: Good? I would just like to say, well, I'm coming
Speaker 7: from the perspective of a Christian, and I would say
Speaker 7: that listening to your comment that good intentions don't amount
Speaker 7: to the will of beings they don't mean anything, would
Speaker 7: be misleading, at least coming from a Christian, because they
Speaker 7: do have incredibly significant significance, has great significance as to
Speaker 7: whether a person would be saved or not. A person
Speaker 7: could do all the good in the world and have
Speaker 7: bad intentions, could have self righteous intentions and ungodly intentions,
Speaker 7: and all the good at that person does does not
Speaker 7: amount to anything as far as that person salvation. It
Speaker 7: might amount too good for the world.
Speaker 2: Well I'm okay, but I'm only talking from a worldly
Speaker 2: point of view. I never I'm not talking theology. I'm
Speaker 2: talking practical goodness and ethics. The scientist who finds a
Speaker 2: cure for cancer, who I assume you rather go to
Speaker 2: a physician who was an atheist, but who was if you,
Speaker 2: God forbid your wife, if you're married, had cancer. I
Speaker 2: suspect you would choose the atheist who was a genius
Speaker 2: at surgery than the believer who was mediocre at surgery.
Speaker 7: Well, that is true. I would rather go to a person, yeah,
Speaker 7: who has qualified him with That's right exactly.
Speaker 2: So I'm only talking about from an earthly perspective, how
Speaker 2: God judges us as God's business. I've always said that,
Speaker 2: and I do feel that because God knows things about us.
Speaker 2: First of all, the person who claims belief that would
Speaker 2: qualify him for salvation, you have no idea. You don't
Speaker 2: have a clue whether it's a sincere statement, And in fact,
Speaker 2: from a Christian point of view, you only have a
Speaker 2: clue as to his sincerity by his works. By his
Speaker 2: works is his faith known? So even there, even just
Speaker 2: speaking salvifically, you're back to what does the person do
Speaker 2: except for God, who knows the heart. And that's God's business.
Speaker 2: We'll be back in a moment. Ultimate Issues Hour at
Speaker 2: Dennis Praeger Show.
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Speaker 2: The uh the the reason I worry about America in fact,
Speaker 2: and worry about child wearing, worry about everything for the
Speaker 2: future is that so many people don't know what was
Speaker 2: said this hour that intentions don't matter. What matters is
Speaker 2: good action and which means good results. That's what matters.
Speaker 2: And that's why it is far more important to know
Speaker 2: what is good than it is to intend to do
Speaker 2: what is good? Okay, which brings me to Downy, California
Speaker 2: and Kathy, Hello, Kathy, Dennis Prager.
Speaker 4: Yes, or I agree one hundred percent with what you're saying.
Speaker 4: To know what's good and you have to show your actions.
Speaker 4: What I think people are missing is they're not taught
Speaker 4: to think through their intentions.
Speaker 2: That's correct.
Speaker 4: What are their actions going to be?
Speaker 2: That's it?
Speaker 4: How is it going to affect people?
Speaker 2: That's it. That's it, Kathy, exactly. That is why I
Speaker 2: am so worried about this feelings based generation that has
Speaker 2: been raised in mind and the next generation. It's all feelings.
Speaker 2: How do you feel about right and wrong? How do
Speaker 2: you feel about this or that and so all that.
Speaker 2: Like the Swedish woman I interviewed, and my interview with
Speaker 2: her is available on a download or CD from Dennispraguer
Speaker 2: dot com. And I said, you don't believe in God.
Speaker 2: You don't believe in religion, How do you know how
Speaker 2: do you derive your notions of right and wrong from
Speaker 2: my heart? And of issue? It's all heart based, It's
Speaker 2: all feelings based. I just gave a very big talk
Speaker 2: on that very subject on how I believe that overwhelmingly
Speaker 2: left wing ideas are feelings based? And is it now available? Really?
Speaker 2: Where is it to be found at Dennispraguer dot com.
Speaker 2: What's it titled? Something about feelings in the left. It's
Speaker 2: really one of the most important lectures of my life.
Speaker 2: It was a lifetime of thought. In that hour hour
Speaker 2: and a half. Feelings have been substituted. Because if you
Speaker 2: feel that you mean well, make love not war. War
Speaker 2: is not the answer, nuclear disarmament. They also they feel good,
Speaker 2: but they don't do good. Steven new Jersey, John California,
Speaker 2: Dave Kansas Winning California. Wish, I really wish I could
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Speaker 2: Is it better for husbands and wives to spend a
Speaker 2: lot of time together, in fact, nearly all time together.
Speaker 2: Or is it better to have a distance hours apart
Speaker 2: each day or even sometimes days apart, because absence makes
Speaker 2: the heart growth fonder.
Speaker 8: But I kind of disagree with you on this one
Speaker 8: in that I think there's a big difference between not
Speaker 8: wanting to be with your partner and just needing a
Speaker 8: little alone time.
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