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Its fun to look at these old pictures once you know what they mean 00:00:01

y'know? at-at least that's what i come to understand 00:00:04

Once I kinda understand the 00:00:07

the underlying rationale for, i mean someone worked hard 00:00:09

on that, that's an engraving right? they took a long time making that picture 00:00:12

they're serious about it. 00:00:15

When you understand what it means 00:00:18

You know, all those people the-there 00:00:21

they're prostrate 00:00:22

at the revelation of the law, it's like well no wonder 00:00:26

It's like break the law! and see what happens 00:00:29

Break the Universal Moral Law man, and see what happens 00:00:32

you know i see people in that situation, well as you all do, all the time 00:00:34

Perhaps me more than you because I'm a clinical psychologist, y'know. 00:00:39

if the people I've seen haven't broken the Universal law 00:00:42

then you can bloody be sure the people around them have 00:00:45

It's No Joke! like you make a mistake and things 00:00:48

will go seriously wrong for you! 00:00:50

and so...it's no wonder you've been 00:00:53

Terrified 00:00:57

of the revelation of the structure that governs our being 00:00:58

one of the things that is so remarkable about the New Testament is that 00:01:01

this is a other thing Nietzsche commented on. 00:01:04

he was a real admirer of the Old Testament 00:01:06

Not so much of the New Testament 00:01:07

It was a sin for Europe to have glued the New Testament 00:01:09

onto the Old Testament, 00:01:12

'cause he thought the Old testament was a really accurate representation 00:01:15

of the phenomenology of being, its like (points finger up) 00:01:18

Stay Awake, speak properly 00:01:21

Be honest, or watch the Hell out! 00:01:23

Because things will come your way, 00:01:26

that you do just not want to see at all! And it might not just be you. 00:01:28

It might be everyone you know 00:01:31

and everything about your culture, that is demolished for 00:01:33

for generations after generations 00:01:36

Stay awake and be careful 00:01:39

And I think people only dont believe that when 00:01:42

they're being Hubristic 00:01:45

and i think that most people know that deep in their hearts, y'know 00:01:47

when you get high on your horse, that happens fairly often 00:01:50

If you have any sense, you'd think.. Jeez, well i'd better be careful 00:01:53

tap myself down a fair bit. 00:01:55

Because if I get too puffed up man somethings gonna come along 00:01:58

and take me out at the knees. And everyone knows that 00:02:01

Pride comes before a fall. Its like, if you have any- 00:02:03

that's why it says in the Old Testament 00:02:05

That the Fear of God is the Beginning of Wisdom 00:02:07

Its like, I've never in all my years as a clinical psychologist 00:02:10

And this is something that really does terrify me 00:02:13

I have never seen anyone ever get away with 00:02:16

anything at all, even once. 00:02:19

y'know theres that old Idea that God has a book, y'know? and 00:02:22

Keeps track of everything in Heaven, it's like okay, okay 00:02:25

Maybe its not a Book. 00:02:28

But that is a really useful thing to think about because, 00:02:32

and well maybe you disagree, and think that people get away with things all the time. well 00:02:35

I tell I've never seen it, what I see instead is that, 00:02:38

Thing happens, right? Someone twists the Fabric of reality. 00:02:41

And 00:02:44

they do it successfully because it doesn't snap back at them that moment. 00:02:47

And then like two years later, something unravels 00:02:49

and they get walloped, and they think, 'oh my god that's so unfair!' 00:02:52

And then we track it, it like well what happened before that and this? 00:02:55

Oh, oh this! Thats where it went wrong 00:03:04

Its this, because you can't twist the fabric of reality 00:03:07

without having it snap back at you 00:03:10

It doesn't work that way, and why would it? 00:03:13

Because what're'ye going to do? Twist the Fabric of reality? I don't think so 00:03:16

I think its bigger than you, and i think that one of the things that 00:03:19

really tempts people was the Idea that 00:03:22

'well i can get away with it' Its like, Yeah you try 00:03:25

see how well that works, its like you get away with 00:03:28

Nothing! 00:03:30

And that is the beginning of wisdom, 00:03:32

and its something that deeply terrifies me 00:03:35

Ever since last september (2017) when 00:03:37

i've come to a broader public attention One of the things 00:03:40

i've been terrified of making a mistake, because i certainly know im more then capable 00:03:42

of making a mistake, and thank God so far either 00:03:45

I've haven't made one or no ones found out about it 00:03:48

So, but its like y'know 00:03:51

we walk on a very thin and narrow edge 00:03:54

and we're very lucky when things aren't degenerating 00:03:57

into chaos or 00:03:59

rapidly moving to far too much order. 00:04:01

And its not a easy thing to stay on that line 00:04:04

and you can tell when you stand on that line 00:04:07

because things are deeply meaningful and engaging when you're on that line But if you're not existentially terrified 00:04:09

about the consequences of wavering off that 00:04:15

you are truly not awake! 00:04:17

and that's what I see in this picture 00:04:20

look out, man! Because there are rules and if you break them 00:04:23

god help you. 00:04:29