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Live from the lawn of the White House.
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Yes.
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WWE.
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America.
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America.
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Drop your stocks and grab your cocks.
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It's biting all the apples.
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We're ladies.
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We're ladies, and we're gonna sit down.
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I have a decorum.
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Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me and JV.
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Yes.
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Hi, hello, and welcome to Biting All the Apples, the podcast where the power of 10,000 aunties meets 10,000 book clubs in a small Midwestern basement.
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I'm Sarah Kay, and I'm Joanna V.
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And we are biting all the apples.
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All of them.
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That's right.
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We've averted nuclear war another day, so we are going to wrap up our thoughts, quote offs, and book-inspired tangents honoring the 1987 feminist classic The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Zhux and Barbara Moore.
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Awesome ladies.
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Mad respect.
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So um little recap.
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We chose this book to kick off season two because it challenges some core narratives that many Americans, Westerners, and Gen Xers like us have absorbed through education and culture and general bullshit.
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Living in the world.
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Just living.
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You know, things we may have just taken as like that's the way things are.
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And if there's one thing this podcast is about, it's about looking at the way things are and saying, wait, really?
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Yeah, because wait, really?
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The great cosmic mothers smashes narratives like the idea that monotheistic male-dominated religions are the only or natural form of spirituality.
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This book makes the case that goddess worship and earth-centered spirituality were actually the original human religions.
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And they make a great case for it.
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And maybe you picked up the idea along the way somewhere that spirituality is merely a private, intellectual, or non-political matter.
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Oh no, come on.
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Well, it's not.
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It's not.
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Knock it off.
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Well, just stop it.
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This is our podcast called Stop It.
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This is called Stop It.
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Listen to us.
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Yeah.
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Well, this text asserts that the spiritual, personal, and political are combined.
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I think women get this so much more than men, though, particularly because our bodies are legislated.
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So it's not like even possible to be like, I'm not political, because it's like, well, you as a woman are used for political fights and your freedom is up for debate regularly.
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So you better get it.
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Get political.
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The other cultural assumption that the great cosmic mother challenges is the idea that human history has been a steady march of progress.
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This book is like, hey, ew, wait a minute.
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That's actually not how things always go.
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And what actually happened was that a destructive patriarchal culture demolished a respectful, ecological, egalitarian, goddess-centered culture.
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And that is where we're picking up for this lively, ooh, shall we say, spirit chat about the final section of this book, section four, patriarchal culture and religion.
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Yes.
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And if you listened last week, you may already know how blown away we were by the this section of the book.
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Um, because I would say that we were quite effusive.
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Ooh, to say the least.
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Right.
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Like we need everyone to drop what they are doing and read section four of this book.
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Can you hear me?
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We're serious.
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Yes.
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Uh, but correction.
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We need everyone to listen to this podcast and then stop what they are doing and also read the book and make someone else read it.
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Yeah, and then have them make so this is a pyramid.
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This is a multi-level marketing podcast.
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And what you get?
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Freedom.
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Right.
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It's called multi-level feminizing feministism.
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I love it.
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Yeah.
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It's we're working out some of the we're trying to patent.
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So last week we talked about the first part of section four.
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It sets up the big shift from earth-centered, female-centered, also called gynocentric spirituality, to the worship of a cruel, jealous male god.
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I don't like him.
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I
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don't like him.
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Advancements in agriculture and metallurgy changed how men participated in these cultures.
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That led them to want more stuff.
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More stuff to own and to conquer.
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These changes meant that they needed a new male god that wasn't obliged to the earth or more importantly, no longer obliged to honoring women as life givers.
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That is the key.
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Women became a tool to be used.
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They had to make up a new dude god to make all of this agreeable.
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The cost for believing, you know, it's just our divine, innate human spirituality, creativity, and connectedness, nothing else.
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That's fine.
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Everything we're doing great.
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Yeah.
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So get ready.
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Today we are getting into the nittiest of gritties.
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Okay.
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The last few chapters where you and more outline the American split and subsequent spiritual deflation and the isolating effects of this on men and women in everyday life and in our interactions, in our work, everything and other stuff, everything.
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Keep listening.
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It is so mind-blowing that we regret ever calling something mind-blowing before.
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Yeah, true.
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I take it all back.
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Even that total eclipse.
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Well, actually, sorry, that is not a good example.
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No, no, no.
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Terrible example.
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So I just saw my memories, and that is still.
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That's wrong.
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I'll still do that.
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I'll put it up there though.
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It's pretty good.
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Ju and Moore make such a strong case, we'd even call it irrefutable.
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We'll do our best to convey some of the most affecting passages.
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But just know that this is only a sliver, a small apple slice, if you will.
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Oh much bigger apple.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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And finally, we can't stress this enough.
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Even if you are not religious, your life is directly affected by religion.
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And that is exactly what the great cosmic mother outlines in the most profound and poetic way.
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It is so much more than a book about the goddess.
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It is about the obliteration of earth-centered spirituality and the rise of monotheistic male religion, the same religious structure that dictates how the modern industrialized material world operates and oppresses to this day.
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To this day, so bad.
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So we're like so bad.
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So bad.
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Question for you.
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Is that heavy enough?
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You're oppressed.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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How's it going?
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Yeah, don't worry.
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We'll discuss.
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We'll make it fun.
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But first, we'll give you a sec to think about your oppression during this little musical break.
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You know what?
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That was such a powerful opener that I'm like, how do we even like get in there?
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We gotta get into the book.
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We gotta bite into it.
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I gotta I gotta quote.
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You got a quote?
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We would like to read you this whole book.
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Yeah, so we're gonna read you this whole book, block off 20 hours, I'm kidding.
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And join the revolution.
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We are more convinced than ever.
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Just look at what's going on in the world that all of this ties back to this patriarchal religion.
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All of it.
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Religion.
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All of it.
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Stuff.
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It's in the savory of our souls.
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Like when you read this, I don't know about you, but blood pressure raises.
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Like I'm just like, and this I think I it again, I probably sound like the same person when we did the woman's Bible, but like 1987.
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Like what have we been doing?
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I mean, I was in seventh grade.
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I'm glad you asked because there was a giant feminist backlash during that time.
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And if you look, it is so nuts to think about.
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So I think about like the 90s and the early 2000s.
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You know, we talked about like second wave, and there was like more acceptance of like the queer community and like girl power, sexuality.
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However, huge backlash.
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I just got two words for you limp biscuit.
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Okay.
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Remember that era?
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Just like creepy dude
era, girls gone wild, all of that.
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That happened after, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, you're right.
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That was a creepy dude era.
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Yeah.
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Limp biscuit.
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We're back.
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We actually are in a limp biscuit era, and that's why books like these vital are so vital.
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These are vital.
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This should not be sitting on a shelf anywhere.
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No, someone needs to be reading it.
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Should always be, yeah.
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Open.
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ABR.
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Always be reading.
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Oh, I love that.
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A BM ABR Girl.
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ABR.
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So even though I just said we're gonna get so we're gonna get into this book because we read the first couple chapters, we're talking about this last section, and we are right at the part where, so they already we told you last week how they're like, now we need a man god that we can tell everybody that's where life comes from.
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How do we get it?
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And we'll write it in a book, so then there'll be like this book that only certain authority figures can read.
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Yes.
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I mean, the whole thing.
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So they externalized everything that was inherently internally ours.
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Yeah, and they basically took away our life-giving goddess powers and made it disgusting.
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They made it disgusting.
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That's the short version.
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That's it.
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But what's the the craziest thing?
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That's what Dwayne and I are talking about, is people yeah, because America, even though we're like, oh, there are like the evangelicals are very prominent, but for the most part, there's a lot of people that aren't particularly religious.
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No.
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It is hard to get people to care because I'm like, whether you like it or not, this religion spirituality stuff is tied to the material world, it is tied to capitalism, is tied to industry.
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Yeah.
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That this is the mechanism.
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The machine.
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It is the machine, and that is actually the title of one of the chapters.
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So this first chapter, it's actually the first chapter we're discussing today.
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It's like the third chapter in the section.
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Whatever.
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You'll get it.
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Show notes.
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Check them out.
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Check them out.
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It's called The American Split.
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And Joanna has been sitting here like, let me just read this.
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Come on, they need to know about the split.
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Okay.
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Because you need to know what it is.
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The American split in raw terms is this nominal freedom without real life ecstasy or nominal epiphany without real life freedom.
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Such a split is always the result when life is fed into the patriarchal, dualistic grinding machine, which turns out globs of white fat or pours runnels of blood, which turns out tasteless hamburger, or the red screams of the butchered, which grinds out always one disconnected fragment or another, but never the whole feast.
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Never holism.
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Never the living, gratified flesh of true spiritual vision.
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Oh, there that's it.
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There you go.
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Yeah.
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It's like you can have all this.
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You can have all the excess.
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You can have all the burgers you want.
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You can have all this.
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But it'll never it'll never fulfill you.
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You can have the whole meal.
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You'll never be fulfilled.
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Also, you need more than a meal to live.
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It's true.
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You need ecstasy.
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You need like Molly?
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No.
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Oh, okay.
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Sorry.
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Oh, you're you're like, no, like true.
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True internal ecstasy and happiness.
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You and Moore would be like, read the book.
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Read the book.
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They're like, your drug joke.
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Not funny.
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She's like, that's part of the machine.
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Yeah.
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You bring it.
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Yeah.
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So the American split, that's when this chapter.
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So she's bringing she, I say more, it's two writers.
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They're bringing us to America, and America taking this religion to go.
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Yeah, because it they had already now really so But they had to do their own thing.
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Right.
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So it really starts Rome, right?
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And then we have Europe that's it's spread Christianity spread really far, fast.
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All of those religions.
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Because all the leaders took it.
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Yeah.
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Because they're like, this is very useful.
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Yeah.
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What I didn't know was that most of our founding fathers did not want a part of that.
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They came here to look for a fresh perspective, open land, back to nature.
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They felt well, at least for them.
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Like I'm still.
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Their version of it, yeah.
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They were and she even says at least for uh white white men.
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Yeah.
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Like they wanted it all.
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They wanted all that thing for white men.
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I don't know about the women.
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They were like, well, actually, that woman thing gotta use.
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Well, let me read this before you read the Founding Fathers thing.
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Americans are free.
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You're like, can you read?
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I don't know.
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Americans are frequently told, especially with the resurgence of television evangelicalism and fundamentalist politicians, that America is a Judeo-Christian nation founded on biblical principles.
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Such a statement easily passes by all those Americans who don't know much about our own history.
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And most of us don't.
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We don't, because by design.
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Yeah, totally by design.
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The English Puritans who first arrived to colonize America were highly biblical people.
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So what I know about the Puritans, remember I did the little special Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote a story about the Puritans selling or celebrating Christmas on the Mayflower.
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Yes.
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And it is entirely inaccurate because the Puritans were actually nutters.
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And like they're like, you do not sell, you don't give gifts, you don't celebrate Christmas.
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They were they focused on the resurrection.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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I think they're that they're yeah.
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This Puritan ethos worked its way into fundamentalist belief and Protestant capitalism in general, a profound conviction that the political establishment of America and later its political economic hegemony over the entire hemisphere, perhaps someday of the entire world, were manifestations of God's will and divinely mandated national destiny.
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Puritans.
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I know.
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Yeah.
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I don't think that was that.
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I'm sorry, tangent.
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Just read the founding fathers thing.
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This is what we need to.
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This is I'm like, everybody's like, who cares?
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Puritans.
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Well, it w but it to think about our founding, we knew that it was religion, right?
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We've always been told what that why did they come?
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They wanted what?
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Religious freedom, right?
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Right.
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That's what we were told.
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We were told that.
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And then if you look at modern politics, you're like, wait, wait, you've always told us You've always told us this thing, and now you're saying this thing.
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Now you're saying the Catholics can't come to the prayer meeting.
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So weird.
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So what the ladies say is that when they came religious, was religion was pretty much Puritan religious power was broken in 1800 by the second major influence on American life, the secular power.
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And who and what was the secular power?
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It was the Founding Fathers.
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Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, Ben Franklin, et al.
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Keep going.
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The men who wrote the documents and espoused the ideas leading to the break with Britain and the American Revolution, the men who wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and in general established the legal, political, ideological matrix that became American government and American ideals of freedom and independence and thought of behavior were not Christian.
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They were deists.
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Deism was an eighteenth-century rationalist philosophy emerging from European enlightenment.
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Deists understood God to be the principle of organization and intelligence in the universe.
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And that's kind of where I am.
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I'm with the founding fathers.
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We are of the universe, right?
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We are the universe.
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And that is what they believed.
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Deists considered themselves to be
decent and spiritually devoted men, but when they said God, they referred to cosmic law, not the God of the Judeo-Christian Bible.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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So One Nation under God, all that.
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Did those guys even write one nation?
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They added God like in the 40s or something.
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I was going to say, I'm like, I know my history.
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So and some deists, including the American deists, spent a good amount of time and energy criticizing and refuting the superstitions.
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I always call Christianity superstitious, dogmas and rituals of the organized Christian churches, both Catholic and Protestant.
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Isn't that insane?
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Right.
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Did you know that?
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I could read everybody this whole chapter.
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I know.
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I would be just the taster.
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No, no, no.
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This this quote is my favorite.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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I gotta do this.
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So the Christian religions say there's original sin.
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That's our fault because we're Eve, right?
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And they believe in salvation through faith.
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Like you, if you're good, you will be saved.
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If you're if you don't believe, you won't go, right?
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But instead, our founding fathers, the deist, espoused the 18th century philosophy that defined human beings as one, essentially good, and two, capable of progress through knowledge, reason, justice, and liberty.
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Deists denied the dogmas of the virgin birth, the divinity of Christ, the concept of heaven and hell, and all ideas of damnation and redemption.
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Deism was in fact the origin of what is now called secular humanism.
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And it was the practicing philosophy of the men who conducted and won the American Revolution and became the founding fathers of the American government.
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And we're just tossing them to the wind?
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Is that what we're doing?
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And they invoke them all the time.
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It makes me they're just shaking in their graves.
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The first American secular humanists, the founding fathers.
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By the way, I I choke on those words.
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I hate that phrase.
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The founding fathers.
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Where I'm like, we don't need to call, you can just call them the founders.
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By the way, the women were probably right there.
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Look at Caesar Schaff as a loser now.
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Exactly.
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The founding fathers.
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The founding fathers, and in particular, Payne, Jefferson, and Madison saw this problem very clearly because they were children as well as students of European history.
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They were also children and students of American colonial history and had observed how quickly the old inquisitional mind had flared up in the New World, in the habits of the Puritan.
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The Constitution and the Bill of Rights were their attempts to save America from becoming one more God-centered tyranny ruled by holy men with a terrible bloodlust.
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We failed.
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That's it.
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The experiment failed.
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I love this because I did not know Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, right?
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I will refer to Hamilton all the time because the lady says, I read Thomas Paine.
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But he spent a good part of his adult life fighting the Bible, its God, and its ideas.
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This is what he said about it.
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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God.
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Dang, pain is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
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And for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.
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Except slavery.
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Yeah.
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Why do I always gotta why do they I don't know it was pain?
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I know that Jefferson Madison was quite butt.
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Oh Lord.
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First of all, they they were all like scoundrels.
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They're totally I love scoundrels.
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Um and uh listeners, in case we didn't mention this before, Thomas Jefferson took the Bible and cut it up and created his own, and it's available in the Library of Congress.
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Yeah, yeah.
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He was like, This ain't this is the Bible.
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These are the nice things.
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All of the bloviating we hear from our modern politicians.
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Bloviating.
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Do you like that?
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Thank you.
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That just came to me.
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Must have been the mints.
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It's the mints.
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So I mean obviously Joanne and I are very locked into this.
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This is like our wheelhouse.
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Since we spent, I mean, the la we spent like almost 30 episodes just going through, combing through where we're I mean, Elizabeth Katie Stanton spent a lifetime for women's rights, for suffrage.
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She, you know, was an abolitionist.
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At the end of her life, what was her project?
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Trying to get people to realize the Bible is the problem.
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That's what that's the conclusion she came to.
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And I think you ever think about how downplayed that is?
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If you had another professional, like if you had a man that spent like 50 fucking years publicly.
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That was like 50 years publicly, and at the very end they were they were like, I've come, you know, actually this.
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But because she was a woman, they're just like, whatever.
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Whatever.
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Dainty woman.
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This is if you're listening to this, you're looking for answers, I'm certain, because that's I mean, that's why we're baiting all the apples.
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Because we are also looking for answers.
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How did we get here?
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Well, my goodness, if you want to talk about, we said in the beginning we avoided nuclear war for the other day.
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But even it ties to like Nazi Germany saying, you know, Hitler was led by a he was a crazed necrophiliac um who proclaimed he was finishing the work of the Lord, a work of mass extermination.
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We see contemporary Iran, 1987.
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Iran, where are we right now?
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Ruled by holy men who are executing seven-year-old children and lining their streets with the hung bodies of traitors against God.
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It is never to God, but to men's ideas of God and to the swollen egos of God's self-appointed policemen on earth that millions and millions of human beings have been torturously sacrificed in all the God-centered societies of the past 4,000 years of the patriarchal earth.
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It's just the truth.
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It's just unlike the simple truth.
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We have death stats that are directly related to this bullshit.
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Yes.
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And wrapping up this chapter a little bit is the effects of this.
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That when we were talking about how they replaced a very connectedness of between people and the earth and our life forms, and where in you're most connected to people when you respect where life comes from, which is the female body.
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And then even when they wrap up this chapter talking about and like what are the effects of this?
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And I love this is just again a little taste.
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For generations, many people have felt they stood in a very dry, pragmatic wasteland, secular America, with no genuine tradition of spiritual celebration, of communal epiphany.
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Americans long for this more than they know.
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The Ursatz results are orgies of patriotism and game fever at parades and in football stadiums.
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But never quite the real thing, at least not as in a communal experience.
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I never even thought about that.
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Like that, so we do seek that out.
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Yes.
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And but we've been told because when they took, when they created the you know, angry male god, the jealous god, they took it as a separate thing that is like above us that we have to like die to achieve.
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Yeah instead of being like you have this here, and it does create this isolation and no there's no like national spirituality.
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And that may cheese somebody out to say like spirituality, but if you think about it, if I were to ask any American, like, where do you think this country, like what's our thing?
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Where are we going?
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Yeah, where's our progress?
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Yeah, or not even progress, but like what's our like motivation?
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What's what drives like America?
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If someone's like, what's our vision?
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We don't have like a national vision.
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We do not.
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We just work for the man.
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People are just like, well, it's money.
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I'll work or whatever.
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But there's no like I mean, I don't know what other countries are doing, but I know that I read Norway is like all up to like 90% renewable energy, the entire country.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm like, so they probably had a national vision, like, hey, we should take care of each other.
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We should take care of each other and use like our smarts for the greater good instead of sending Elon to Mars.
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Yeah.
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Or, you know.
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Anyone.
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So like, or helping one another.
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And actually, even less so like I almost, you know, there was like America Pride before, but now you're like, I don't even what is the goal to get Donald Trump or Yeah, because we're just helping everybody that has more money than us.
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There is no um, and like and while you're looking, I'll read this here.
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And this is the final word.
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So it's a great chapter talking about how America split and took it this almost to like a new level.
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Because it always seemed kind of like we look at the Western world, and I know some of the, at least from American point of view, like the Muslim countries were always like, look at them, and they're so like repressive to women.
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Like meanwhile, here in America.
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But the cost they they really talk about here, because things weren't, I mean, they were pretty bad in the 80s, but they weren't like I mean, now it's so crazy.
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But the cost is this idea that we're all isolated, we're not connected to anything, and Americans left their home country.
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Yeah.
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Now we have a God.
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We have got daddy God in the sky, miraculous birth, all of these things.
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So I do good here, I get my riches when I'm dead, right?
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But good is defined by these men that are in charge.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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You're born with sin, right?
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So like you're always just trying to get rid of the sin.
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The Christian dream has already been written from beginning to end.
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And it says that only one life was worth living, and it's already been lived, and it was his.
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Damn.
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The best believers can hope for is an imitation of Christ.
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Christianity promises to save the human soul, but in fact, Christianity exists by saving humans from the experience of our own souls.
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That got me.
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That gets me.
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If we will forfeit our own mystical journeys through the world, if we will give up the dangerous adventure of discovering and creating our own consciousness in evolution, Christianity will give us in return a script about Jesus.
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And this is the only choice Christian ontology offers.
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The tragedy of Christianity is that it has kept untold millions of human beings from sinning, i.e., from knowing their own souls.
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I love that.
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For it is life that Christianity promises salvation from, from life directly experienced for the first time, without the stale safeguards and blinders of the prefabricated script.
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What else do you need to know?
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Right?
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And I'm excited by this.
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I are you excited by I this I love reading.
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Yeah, we're like, I don't know why you're listening to this podcast.
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Just get the book.
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Um this The Divine, I don't know why they named it that.
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I don't even feel like reading it.
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But I know So the next chapter is called The Divine Homosexual Family, and Joanna and I joke, we're like, this is the most 80s part of the whole.
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But because I don't when they say homosexual family, and they talked earlier.
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It's the Trinity, right?
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That's what they're saying.
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The father, the son, yeah, the it's an all-male trinity.
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Yeah.
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The one thing that I love, or that I I don't know if I love this, but I love it.
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I love I love this.
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Women's natural religious impulse and capacity has kept patriarchal churches in business for so long.
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It's true.
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The female gift for spirituality, into which under patriarchy we pour so much repressed sexual energy, is used and turned against us by the male hierarchies of the male god churches.
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They cleverly keep women on their knees, scrubbing and scrutinizing the sacred floor, while they, a few select princes of the churches, rise upwardly in lofty clouds of worldly power and luxury.
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Religious women think they are worshiping God.
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In truth, under patriarchal religion, women believers exist only to service and inflate the institutionally ordained egos of very mortal men.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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And they talk and you know, that's what Elizabeth Cady stands on.
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That's how I see the cross over there so much.
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So much cross.
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And it is I mean, to this day, you look at all this, I'm like, churches run on women.
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Uh absolutely.
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So do political movements.
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Everything.
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Or I mean, I should say leftist ones.
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I don't know.
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Organize, we know how to bring people together.
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It's like a natural.
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We're just good at it.
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And it is yeah.
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I mean, I wonder how much food women have like cooked for churches.
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Yeah.
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Like so.
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Like at the universe size.
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Bazillion.
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Bajillion tons of tons.
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So they got rid of the importance of Mary by making her be a virgin birth, like the Holy Spirit touched her, right?
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Right.
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So that was the big push behind that.
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And because they did that, it has affected us through these thousands of years because we have to repress our sexuality, which is a it's a big deal.
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Um, like men can do whatever they want, but women are supposed to be proper, supposed to do that.
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And it really they tie it to the story of Mary.
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It's like just makes sense.
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:28.559
It does connect.
00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:38.400
Mary, the only female now left on this divine scene, has nothing of the primal creatrix about her.
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:50.400
She is a mere, lowly mortal woman, lifted up by Yahweh's divinely disembodied attention, impregnated by it, in fact, without ever seeing or touching a man.
00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:54.880
In the New Testament tale, there is no sex whatsoever.
00:32:55.119 --> 00:33:04.400
It is to a divine absence that Mary acquiesces with vapid humility, an absence that uses her without even having to touch her.
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:09.680
And Mary, in our eyes, doesn't even gain the simple strength of struggling or choosing.
00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:16.160
She has no identity except for passive acquiescence to an absence.
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:23.759
And this is how Christ is Christ was conceived in both his physical conception and in our conceptions of him.
00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:36.799
It is also fastidious, so non-textural, so celebral, cerebral, sorry, and unreal, so bordering on the sexually pathological in fact.
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:39.599
So like it just doesn't make sense, right, to anybody.
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:42.720
And it's just like, oh, but it's just, it's all in our mind.
00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:44.079
Like you just have to believe it.
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:56.079
You just have to And that's why they're also like weirdly repressed and like weird, sexy time stuff and obsessed with like women's vaginas and wombs and stuff.
00:33:56.799 --> 00:33:56.880
Yeah.
00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:58.480
So look at Christy Gnome's husband.
00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:00.240
She he just wanted to wear our boobies.
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:02.880
Which everybody, I'm like, go
ahead, but wear your boobies.
00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:03.279
Go ahead.
00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:04.799
Stop it and get your boobies on.
00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:06.880
But leave the women alone.
00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:13.840
So and yeah, in this chapter, they talk a lot about women's labor and contributions.
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:19.280
There's a great paragraph that's like the burning question asks, like, women, why are you, you know, why are you giving all this?
00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:27.760
And the I thought it was interesting, and they were talking about how much energy has been extracted from women to have these churches thrive.
00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:40.480
And in earlier centuries, where all the options for women were terrible, it was often a liberation for creative, independent women to enter a cloister instead of being forced into what usually amounted to brutal marriage and eternal childbearing.
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:45.519
Many of the great women artists and poets of the Middle Ages and Renaissance were nuns.
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:47.679
Oh, ooh.
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:48.639
Yes.
00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:50.079
Interesting.
00:34:50.559 --> 00:35:00.800
Under patriarchal religion, maleness is made, invented, mass-produced, while femaleness is unmade, de-evolved, extincted.
00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:09.199
For over 2,000 years, Western biblicized women have been undergoing conditioning out of our natural powers and wisdom.
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:15.360
We grew up learning to disregard the effects of our own rhythms, which are cyclic, like the moon, the tides, and the seasons.
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:16.559
That whole paragraph.
00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:36.320
I can go, but so no, but we learn habits of ignoring them, denying them, trying to forget or overcome them as we live under the rule of man who conceives of time as something that can be ordered and processed in a mental mechanical category, regardless of the body's or earth's phases.
00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:42.800
Which if you think about the way we grew up, did you ever learn about your body's phases or what they were going through?
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:43.760
And I don't even think about it.
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.760
My mother because I like You looked it up.
00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:47.440
Yeah, I would like to go to the library all the time.
00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:48.639
So I had no idea.
00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:52.880
And my mom, it's not anything my mom would think of because she had church, right?
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:53.679
You had to go to church.
00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:56.559
It's conditioning.
00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:58.239
We conditioned.
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:05.280
By the way, listeners, our parents weren't exactly like super conservative repressed.
00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:05.840
No, no.
00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:06.639
And they didn't like it.
00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:09.599
Even though we just told a story that sounds very used birth conditions.
00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:21.360
But I do just yeah, I just think about if that was our experience, imagine some of these kids coming up in like evangelical homes and I mean you're afraid of your own thoughts.
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:23.039
That's that has to be insane.
00:36:23.760 --> 00:36:27.920
It has to be really, really mind uh messing up.
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:35.679
Like what but in bringing back to the theme of how this directly affects the material world, there were laws.
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:41.360
I think it wasn't I mean, that's what um is it Margaret Sanger?
00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:47.119
Women weren't even allowed to like it was a law against knowing about your menstrual cycle.
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:49.440
Yeah like distributing information about that.
00:36:49.599 --> 00:37:06.239
There were laws about so again, it goes I'm just punching this thing, but again, it goes with like if you think religion just because you're not religious, if you think it's not affecting you, this is like literally this this entire this whole globe running on it, y'all.
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:08.559
Get hip and get pissed off about it.
00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:10.639
Get pissed and learn the language of it.
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:13.280
So you can be like, naturally, yeah.
00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:15.760
I have a little quote for you.
00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:16.239
Yeah.
00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:18.000
You're like, actually, and here's a good one.
00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:18.480
Just kidding.
00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:23.199
So in talking about this, you know, the stuff you read about Mary, I mean, these are all so good.
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:25.679
Imagine we're just reading you a few little tidbits.
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:26.400
Little bits.
00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:29.280
These chapters are like holy crap.
00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:31.519
They're just filled with holy crap moments.
00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:38.480
Like literally, like where you're like, oh yeah, actually, I don't I didn't even listen to my body, right?
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:41.679
So like we got to change things for our next generation.
00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:42.320
That's our job.
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:56.159
Well, we talked um recently a couple episodes ago, how the like the first thing that happens when you're a girl and you're going through puberty, it's not people coming up to you being, you know, helping you or talking with you, questioning you.
00:37:56.239 --> 00:37:58.559
They're like, put a fucking shirt on.
00:37:58.719 --> 00:37:58.880
Yeah.
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:00.159
Don't wear a tank top.
00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:00.480
Yeah.
00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:08.800
It's all about it's all you are told right away, like this is your whole body, your whole thing has nothing to do with you.
00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:09.440
Yeah.
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:10.800
Has nothing to do with you.
00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:11.840
Think about it.
00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:13.360
It's so fucked.
00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:14.400
It's so fucked.
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:24.480
So the female body, in other words, is politically subversive or has a lurkingly treasonous potential.
00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:27.920
All patriarchy is structured always.
00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:32.719
They like bold that in militant reaction to this potential.
00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:34.719
Militant.
00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:36.159
That's what's happening right now.
00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:37.679
Look at it.
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:38.400
Look at it.
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:44.239
Yeah, it's it's getting crazy in here in the in the US as a of A's.
00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:45.760
Oh my gosh, so good.
00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:47.440
Oh, and you already read the Marrying the Machine.
00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:51.039
So that's, I mean, scooted through that, but let me tell you what.
00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:52.159
It's not done.
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:53.280
We got so much more.
00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:54.000
We got so much more.
00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:54.559
Oh my god.
00:38:55.519 --> 00:39:05.840
Yeah, so the so we now know the basis, how we're stuck in this rut of thinking there's a savior outside of us.
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:18.159
So that chapter sets up how the how the like body, how the female body is seen and used and situated within this the what do they call it, the homosexual family.
00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:18.559
Yes.
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:19.760
Okay, whatever.
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:22.639
I'm just I'm just reading what is written here, okay?
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:32.960
And so bringing together, this is a whole theme of what we're talking about, bringing together what that means for economy and production.
00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:47.039
And let me tell you all the first method of control of the economy, you know, of capitalism, patriarchy, very first method of control is women's reproduction.
00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:48.079
Thank you very much.
00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:54.159
So let me just tell you about the machine.
00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:55.039
Let me tell you.
00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:58.000
So we're in the chapter called The Machine.
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:00.639
Welcome to the machine.
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:03.840
So this is about the modern world.
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:04.239
Yeah.
00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:06.800
How does it affect how it has affected industry?
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:13.360
For over 4,000 years now, female reproduction has not been an autonomous function of women.
00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:14.159
It has not.
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:17.760
But an auxiliary function of patriarchal systems.
00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:27.840
And for the same time period, worker production has functioned as part of the same patriarchal, hierarchical, wealth-producing machinery.
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:29.599
Can you guys get this?
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:30.719
You're in the machinery.
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.159
Are you do you get it?
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:32.880
You're a car.
00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:38.559
Here's the thing:
everybody's in the machine, but women are a machine.
00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:39.440
You know what I mean?
00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:40.960
Like we're like part, we're the tool.
00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:42.559
Instead of being a miracle.
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:54.559
Both female production and worker production being rationalized and reified by God as subsidiary and inferior functions that of the wealth producing system.
00:40:54.719 --> 00:41:02.719
They're subsidiary and inferior functions in the sense that they are disempowered, many controlled by the system to the benefit of the empowered few.
00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:13.039
As far as wealth production or actual value goes, females and workers are, of course, not subsidiary or inferior in any way, but primary producers of all wealth.
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:14.800
Primary producers of all wealth.
00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:25.360
In both cases, worker production and female reproduction, wealth is produced for the dominant males or the dominated male system with its auxiliary wives.
00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:28.239
Because this hat Yeah, we talk about auxiliary wives.
00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:37.840
Well, because again, we talk about when you hear people, if you're like, there are no female leaders, they're like, well, so-and-so had a woman president.
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:42.480
I'm like, it doesn't work like they're still in a patriarchal male-dominated system.
00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:43.119
Yes.
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:43.599
Yeah.
00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:45.039
The big the big system.
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:45.519
Yeah.
00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:54.159
By organizing what was once organically rooted sexual spiritual activity into coerced, mechanical, reproductive activity.
00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:54.960
Yeah.
00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:55.679
Yeah.
00:41:56.000 --> 00:42:02.320
Um, and they they go in through this chapter, they even talk about, you know, basically we have a lot of science now.
00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:04.559
And you could have a baby.
00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:08.000
And I'm sure in the 80s it was when they were calling them test two babies.
00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:08.400
Remember that?
00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:08.800
Oh, yeah.
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:10.000
All the test two babies.
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:21.599
So, I mean, they even go deep in here and they're like, you know, if they could get rid of us all together and they could just produce the perfect human without a woman, they would try to do that.
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:24.079
That would be perfect for them.
00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:39.199
Or they'll just in the meantime treat us as a receptacle for their divine human fluid that they shoot to the womb and we grow it.
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:49.440
It's the the the dichotomy of um how how do they separate their sperm from our eggs?
00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:57.920
And um so if if our egg and we don't control our egg, um we're bad, right?
00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:03.920
But men can just spread their seeds all over and waste them and not have a problem.
00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:06.960
Like I don't know, I don't know how they fix that in their head.
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:08.159
Like with the Bible.
00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:10.400
With the Bible, but that's how they fix it.
00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:13.920
If anything doesn't make sense, just be like, well, well, it must must be Jesus.
00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:15.599
Must be Jesus.
00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:23.840
I found this chapter sad and also just a lot of truths that we're living is the truths.
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:29.679
That idea, this really does like hit there's a ton about uh reproductive.
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:31.760
And yeah, controlling reproductive.
00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:42.880
So like some countries they're like, ooh, we need less babies, so they the government controls it but via religion and and just ridiculous patriarchal thoughts.
00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:45.199
Or like we need more, so have 'em.
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:48.960
Or in China we need just girls or just boys, and we'll control it.
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:54.320
So it's instead of if it's like a it's the Rouge factory down the river.
00:43:54.719 --> 00:43:54.800
Yeah.
00:43:55.039 --> 00:43:55.360
Exactly.
00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:56.800
Yeah, like we can just do that.
00:43:56.880 --> 00:43:59.199
Like we just need to make babies like this.
00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:02.800
And That is exactly their point in this book.
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:06.639
How they're like, we took all of this, you know, and took the magic out of it.
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:09.039
And I have, I mean, I do have more quotes, but did you have one?
00:44:09.440 --> 00:44:13.360
Um, fundamentalist fatherhood, how did how do they get it wrong?
00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:27.119
Um, when they tell us from the Bible's pages or the church pulpits that human sex is sacred only if it tries to make babies, and that otherwise the act reduces us to the level of beasts.
00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:30.559
How could they have got it all so mixed up so backwards?
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:52.079
When the preachers of all of preachers of all time denounce Eve and through her all women for our innately devilish sexuality, how is it that they make the horrible mistake of confusing what demonizes us with what humanizes us?
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:58.559
The answer is one, because the Bronze Age priesthoods were members of the pastoral tribe.
00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:19.599
Because of the assholes and their new patriarchal ideas of God and human intercourse derived from cattle breeding, and two, because female sexual uh autonomy represented the ancient Neolithic goddess religion, which these priesthoods had set out to demonize and destroy.
00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:31.199
The biblical god was indeed a jealous god, and it was precisely the goddess, her woman, and human pleasure that he was so jealous of.
00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:34.000
So they're like, you can't have it.
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:34.559
Right.
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:38.320
You're having fun, you're enjoying it, it looks magical.
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:42.480
I will create a god that needs you not.
00:45:43.760 --> 00:45:46.400
Why am I laughing when I'm like, this is horrible?
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:48.400
Need you not.
00:45:56.320 --> 00:46:00.559
So that's what this chapter makes the case where they're like, that's not a separation.
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:10.639
Like workers being exploited by the wealth class is no different than women than w women's wombs being exploited by the work.
00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:11.360
Yeah.
00:46:11.519 --> 00:46:12.880
I mean, I'm simplifying that a lot.
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:14.960
But so here's my quote.
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:15.920
That makes sense.
00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:40.000
In the present situation, if males do not join with women workers to fight for female reproductive autonomy along with workers' rights, then males have no other place to go except to join the National Guards, the SWAT teams, the goon squads, gearing up everywhere to help colonize and exploit their own country women as slave workers and breeding machines.
00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:46.559
These are the only two options left for political men or in a totally politicized world for all men.
00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:50.880
This is where I get sad because I feel like we lost already.
00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:56.960
First of all, life is we're we're on a spiral, nothing's done.
00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:57.360
Okay.
00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:06.639
So but it's so long as governments can control female reproduction in any way, the workforce can be equally controlled.
00:47:06.960 --> 00:47:08.559
I'm gonna repeat that.
00:47:09.679 --> 00:47:20.320
So long as governments can control female reproduction in any way, the workforce can be equally controlled.
00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:27.440
No one can be free unless females are free to control our own sex and our own reproduction.
00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:36.639
If we don't control our own bodies, they are controlled by the boss, and that keeps the boss in power forever.
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:39.599
Forever.
00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:44.079
I have nothing else to say except for a lot more.
00:47:44.400 --> 00:47:44.719
A lot more.
00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:45.360
I'm just kidding.
00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:49.599
But that really is that's all that's the my takeaway from Okay, you're right.
00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.000
What is that just your face?
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:52.719
You just look at it.
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:56.480
I think I just caused I just caused clinical depression right in front of my face.
00:47:57.199 --> 00:48:02.239
Because I get I cross between like we can change things and then it's too late.
00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:03.599
Uh no fucking way.
00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:04.559
So deep.
00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:10.079
And I can be like like depressed, but I also am like, I just it's not over.
00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:15.119
What just because some like some like douchebags are in charge for a bit?
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:15.599
Come on.
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:16.320
I know.
00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:19.760
I guess it would be better if it wasn't almost every country.
00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:21.119
But yeah, that is hard.
00:48:21.280 --> 00:48:22.159
It's a global situation.
00:48:22.480 --> 00:48:28.960
Makes a little So this is my question for you now that I've depressed you with that passage.
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:30.400
Yes, thank you so much.
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:42.400
But after reading these chapters, and yes, it does feel like it's an entire global creep on this patriarchal machine, all of that.
00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:49.440
But doesn't it give you more insight into how desperately they are trying to cling on to this?
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:56.880
Because if you think about your everyday life and the women you know, we're not nobody's having any of this shit.
00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:02.000
I mean, yes, there's a few, like you Yeah, there's gonna be a few and the ultra religious.
00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:08.800
And I I think I mean it is gonna have to be women that like lead the way, right?
00:49:08.960 --> 00:49:09.679
There's no other way.
00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:16.960
But if labor and you know the left do not align with women, that we will forever be fucked.
00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:26.239
Yeah, and that for some reason And they don't take it as much of a like they don't take it, even though it's half the population, a hundred percent of them came from women.
00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:26.719
Right.
00:49:27.039 --> 00:49:33.440
And I still do not make this like a major issue, like a top issue.
00:49:33.679 --> 00:49:34.000
Yeah.
00:49:34.159 --> 00:49:34.639
Mm-hmm.
00:49:35.920 --> 00:49:39.679
Yes, because they benefit from it in the teeniest, you know, in the teeniest way.
00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:46.480
Like we read about like we will abuse, you know, the overlords will abuse you, but we'll let you beat your women.
00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:47.280
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:47.440 --> 00:49:48.800
You'll get to be in charge of your house.
00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:52.320
It's a nuclear family, like, but you'll get to be in charge of your house.
00:49:52.400 --> 00:50:03.119
Like, so men are always by default leaders, so they have so much, they feel like they have so much to lose by by breaking down the patriarchy because they don't know anything else.
00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:06.480
But they just what they need is a nature bath.
00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:08.239
I thought you were gonna say something.
00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:11.840
I was like, what they need is a nature bath.
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:23.679
Basically, we've been all men have been colonized by priest ideology, right?
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:24.719
It's where we are.
00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:25.760
I love that phrase.
00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:29.360
That's the phrase of the book, like by priest priest ideology.
00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:30.159
Yes.
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:33.360
We are all repressed, all of us, right?
00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:35.840
We're like you're oppressed and repressed.
00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:37.360
Welcome to this fun podcast.
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:42.639
And like she even goes into like the repression causes all these other weird things to pop up, right?
00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:44.480
And I and I agree with that.
00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:45.199
Okay.
00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:56.320
Because it's all this um demonetization of females feeling sexual and and what what the priests have told us, like, um, don't enjoy this.
00:50:56.400 --> 00:50:57.840
This is just for making babies for me.
00:50:58.079 --> 00:50:58.159
Okay.
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:01.760
I know it's gross.
00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:02.719
It's so weird.
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:03.840
And we were raised like that.
00:51:04.079 --> 00:51:05.599
I know, it's really weird.
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:06.880
It's gross.
00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:10.159
Um and it's like literally is just like in your cult.
00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:11.760
It didn't even like so weird.
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:15.519
You might not even have gone to church and you would still be like, oh yeah, yeah.
00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:16.559
Gotta be married.
00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:18.159
They gotta be married before they do that.
00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:18.800
Exactly.
00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:46.400
The wreckage it has produced is all around us today, the results of generations of male hostility to the female, still manipulated and orchestrated by holy men of all patriarchal systems, reproduction-oriented sex, prohibition of birth control, the demonization of female sexual pleasure and autonomy, the inoculation of lifelong guilt and perpetual fear surrounding the act of sex itself.
00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:54.400
We know that all this has done nothing to improve the relationship of women and men, or women and women, or man and man.
00:51:54.559 --> 00:52:11.760
On the contrary, it has created a bitterly deformed and deprived, repressive, repressed machinery which functions as the mechanical, pathological energy source for all of our larger human conflicts.
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:32.000
Perpetual seething rage and continuous violence, a world always and always at war is the inevitable result when men are told over and over from the beginning of their consciousness that the very source of their being is evil.
00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:33.039
Damn.
00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:35.440
Let's go to war.
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:36.400
Exactly.
00:52:36.559 --> 00:52:38.000
Oh my god, you guys.
00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:39.199
Let's pray for war.
00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:41.360
They're praying for war now, you know.
00:52:41.760 --> 00:52:42.960
Are they praying for war?
00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:46.000
Oh, yeah, they pray to annihilate people.
00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:51.840
Yeah, didn't you see them all in the in the Oval Office laying their hands on the man because he's the chosen man?
00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:54.159
Oh, I thought that was an old picture.
00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:54.719
I didn't know.
00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:56.880
Oh no, no, this is for this war.
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:02.719
I have just two short things.
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:19.280
Patriarchal men have tried to pretend that males can be free while females can be dominated and enslaved, just as white imperialists have pretended that they can be independent and soulful beings, soulful beings in private life while publicly colonizing and brutalizing darker people.
00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:25.920
Now we see that everyone involved in a dominating machine is dominated and mechanized by it.
00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:39.360
And now we can also see that after 4,000 years of systemic physical and ideological domination of the female sexual and reproductive processes by men, there is no free man left on earth.
00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:40.000
No.
00:53:40.639 --> 00:53:42.960
So I have to read this real quick.
00:53:43.199 --> 00:53:48.719
What I was gonna say is some of these quotes, I'm gonna ask Joanna for them because we're already, we're like, whatever time.
00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:49.360
Woo-hoo.
00:53:49.599 --> 00:53:55.679
But um, I think, and we'll put some of these in the show notes, and I'll even put it up on the site because there's so many that I love.
00:53:55.840 --> 00:54:03.440
But I have to say, I wonder what our gals would think of AI now after reading this little section.
00:54:03.679 --> 00:54:04.079
Oh man.
00:54:04.320 --> 00:54:12.400
In the continuous spiraling of evolution, deevolution, biology is a spiritual process, and spirit is a biological process.
00:54:12.639 --> 00:54:20.079
Spiritual energy fuels our biological organisms, and biological energy fuels our spiritual experiences.
00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:37.119
Biology and spirituality, sexuality and spirituality cannot be separated without destroying the living holism and producing dead mechanism, robot sex, robot piety, robot labor, robot existence.
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:38.400
I love you.
00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:39.920
Let's make a baby.
00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:41.199
Look where we are right now.
00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:41.840
I know.
00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:43.199
That's exactly where we are.
00:54:43.519 --> 00:54:46.480
People are killing themselves over their AI girlfriends.
00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:48.239
Yeah, you're right.
00:54:48.480 --> 00:54:49.440
Oh my god.
00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:50.880
Trip out on that, y'all.
00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:58.239
Oh, I don't like tripping on the I wanted to read this last paragraph and then wrap up.
00:54:58.480 --> 00:54:58.719
All right.
00:54:58.960 --> 00:54:59.519
Is that okay?
00:54:59.760 --> 00:55:00.320
Yeah.
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:02.480
I'm just I'm so there's so many.
00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:03.840
I'm like churning and so.
00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:06.000
Oh no, because I read that thing about the labor.
00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:11.599
And then I and then I
accidentally said failed when I was looking for a word about unions, and I didn't mean failed.
00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:15.440
I'm trying to be uplifting, and we're ending religion.
00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:17.840
Yo, this is hard work.
00:55:18.159 --> 00:55:20.159
And I need uplifting.
00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:21.920
I hope this quote is uplifting.
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:22.639
Yes.
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:23.760
Is it going to be?
00:55:24.079 --> 00:55:24.639
This one?
00:55:24.800 --> 00:55:25.199
Yes.
00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:25.840
Is it?
00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:26.880
Yeah, I double checked.
00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:28.159
It's up uplifting.
00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:30.960
Up it is up something.
00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:32.079
I'm kidding.
00:55:32.159 --> 00:55:33.760
No, this is this is hey.
00:55:34.079 --> 00:55:34.880
This is three.
00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:36.079
So this is hey.
00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:38.880
So this is our the last little bits.
00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:41.280
And I know this episode was like a quote off.
00:55:41.599 --> 00:55:45.280
It was a quote off because there's like this is everything.
00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:46.960
Like this just made so much sense.
00:55:47.039 --> 00:55:51.039
And like it's a quote off because there's and we didn't even read all our quotes.
00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:52.079
Didn't read all our quotes.
00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:53.280
We want to read you the whole book.
00:55:54.159 --> 00:55:55.199
We want to read you the whole book.
00:55:55.519 --> 00:55:55.840
I do.
00:55:56.079 --> 00:55:57.679
But because Sandra can do it for you.
00:55:58.159 --> 00:56:05.280
But overall, that's we can describe, you know, the American split and then the divine homosexual family.
00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:07.039
Family, I can't even tell you.
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:08.159
The American exclit.
00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:17.199
And then so women were excluded from the religion, but then used for to support the divine homosexual family.
00:56:17.280 --> 00:56:18.960
And that'll be the last time I ever say that.
00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:21.039
It's weird.
00:56:21.119 --> 00:56:21.519
I didn't make up.
00:56:21.840 --> 00:56:25.679
Not only support it, like be the founding rock of it.
00:56:26.079 --> 00:56:29.039
And then in the machine, it talks about how we're placed.
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:36.639
So and I know I focus a lot on women, but I did read that quote where so women become, I mean, we're all part of the machine.
00:56:36.719 --> 00:56:41.760
And then men, like they said, you just be you can like kill for the wealth class if you want.
00:56:41.920 --> 00:56:42.159
Yeah.
00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:43.039
You can be a soldier.
00:56:43.199 --> 00:56:43.599
Yeah, do it.
00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:44.320
That's about it.
00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:47.039
Your reward is you get to like be mean and control your wife.
00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:49.199
And then later nobody else go to heaven.
00:56:49.280 --> 00:56:49.440
Yeah.
00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:51.199
But you get to control your wife.
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:51.760
Yep.
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:53.039
So here you go.
00:56:53.119 --> 00:56:54.480
This I hope this uplifts.
00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:55.840
I need to save Joanna.
00:56:56.000 --> 00:57:02.239
We either re become children of the great mother or we remain children of the machine.
00:57:03.039 --> 00:57:08.400
The opposite of life is not death, but to become a mechanism.
00:57:08.880 --> 00:57:10.000
That just got me.
00:57:10.239 --> 00:57:11.760
That means we're the walking dead.
00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:12.239
Yeah.
00:57:13.119 --> 00:57:19.679
So we are now already quasi-mechanisms living within a world machine.
00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:22.559
We must extricate ourselves from the machinery.
00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:23.760
Let's ext let's do it.
00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:24.079
I know.
00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:25.599
See, I told you we're already pumped up.
00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:26.079
Let's go.
00:57:26.239 --> 00:57:27.119
This is a good clause.
00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:32.960
Which is not truly either life or death, but the absence and travesty of both.
00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:34.559
Politics is important.
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:37.360
Social and cultural activity is important.
00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:42.079
Everything that can be done should be done to change our situation.
00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:50.320
But these activities cannot extricate us from the machinery if they are still conducted in the terms of the machinery.
00:57:51.199 --> 00:57:58.159
Ontological evolution and revolution must be conducted in the mode of biology and the dream.
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:01.679
This is the mode into which the machinery cannot exist.
00:58:02.000 --> 00:58:03.760
Only living beings can.
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:07.840
Oh, we need to take the world back.
00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:08.639
Take it back.
00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:10.079
Take it back.
00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:11.440
And then take it.
00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:13.280
Oh my gosh.
00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:14.400
We're gonna take it back.
00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:17.199
And we're gonna this is revolutionary.
00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:18.639
This is revolutionary.
00:58:18.880 --> 00:58:21.039
The only thing I realized it was in 87.
00:58:21.440 --> 00:58:23.039
And that had like a sense of urgency right there.
00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:26.079
She was like, we must- She's like, we're like, we can act on this now.
00:58:26.320 --> 00:58:29.440
Although, you know, in geologic times, like 30, 40 years is not.
00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:30.960
It really isn't, I know.
00:58:31.199 --> 00:58:33.199
So but it was it was bad in the 80s.
00:58:33.360 --> 00:58:35.440
The 80s is when the pro-life movement came out.
00:58:35.679 --> 00:58:38.639
Oh, yeah, there's lots of stuff about abortion that is killer.
00:58:39.119 --> 00:58:42.639
And they're trying to warn us, they're like, if you don't know, and we already are.
00:58:42.800 --> 00:58:44.320
That's a little sad in
here.
00:58:44.639 --> 00:58:47.679
Because they were like, if you don't, and I'm like, oh, but we did.
00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:49.199
I know, but we already did.
00:58:49.360 --> 00:58:52.320
But I tried not to, because I did work against that.
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:52.880
Anyways.
00:58:53.119 --> 00:58:53.760
Well, that's what you said.
00:58:54.000 --> 00:59:02.000
If it's if it is not to be too late for all of us women on a global scale, we have to do it now.
00:59:02.239 --> 00:59:03.760
And it that was 87.
00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:06.880
My reaction is to laugh.
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:08.480
I'm like, okay, we're okay.
00:59:08.639 --> 00:59:09.280
Let's do it.
00:59:09.440 --> 00:59:12.239
I mean, what if you read this book in 87 and felt like us?
00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:12.960
What are you doing?
00:59:13.360 --> 00:59:13.599
We did.
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:13.920
I know.
00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:14.960
No, no, no, I know.
00:59:15.039 --> 00:59:18.000
Like women, though, like they're probably got their old torn-up cards.
00:59:18.159 --> 00:59:21.199
Well, that's why you go to any of these no kings and it's all a bunch of old ladies.
00:59:21.440 --> 00:59:22.079
Isn't that weird?
00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:22.880
No, it isn't.
00:59:23.119 --> 00:59:23.599
It's all old.
00:59:23.920 --> 00:59:24.400
You just asked.
00:59:24.480 --> 00:59:25.840
I was like, they're all this is what they're doing.
00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:26.320
They're pissed.
00:59:26.400 --> 00:59:27.840
They're like, we've already been through all this shit.
00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:28.320
Yeah.
00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:29.519
We tried to tell you.
00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:30.159
Dang it.
00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:30.639
I didn't think that's a good idea.
00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:42.079
And that's why I hate when I, you know, again, this is more of an online world, but like you see people like, these liberal white women at the that's the only people that go to the I'm like, what they are the ones that are doing stuff.
00:59:42.320 --> 00:59:46.719
Just like they were the ones that supported the church, just like they're the, you know, I'm like, yeah, no kidding.
00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:47.840
That's that's who does shit.
00:59:48.000 --> 00:59:48.480
It is true.
00:59:48.960 --> 00:59:50.800
That's who brings your orange slices, motherfucker.
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:53.440
So, ladies, you don't have to work in the church.
00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:55.519
You can actually work for the resistance.
00:59:55.679 --> 00:59:56.960
And we need you.
01:00:04.239 --> 01:00:11.599
So listen, listeners, if you stuck with us through this quote off, yeah, I'm dying to know what you got from that.
01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:16.880
And does it sound like when you're listening to it, does it sound as profound as feeling?
01:00:17.440 --> 01:00:22.079
So we set that up, and I depressed Joanna.
01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:22.480
Yeah.
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:24.320
And I'm not depressed because I'm pissed.
01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:34.400
But we won't leave you hanging, being like, and so that is we so next week, and this will be this will actually for real wrap up the great cosmic mother.
01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:39.440
And we're going to read the last two chapters, which really are more about like, and this is the vision.
01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:43.519
And it really is the last chapter, it is so beautiful.
01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:44.960
Oh, it is like a poem.
01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:45.920
It's really a liter.
01:00:46.320 --> 01:00:56.159
But as we're reading this, I'm like, if anybody is actively listening and has it's like, so how do we transfer this knowledge into a movement?
01:00:56.400 --> 01:00:57.599
Maybe it really is a movement.
01:00:57.760 --> 01:01:02.400
It really could go back to like 70s style consciousness raising groups.
01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:04.320
Just be like, we're book clubbing this.
01:01:04.559 --> 01:01:06.000
And be like, hey, guess what?
01:01:06.239 --> 01:01:08.000
10 ladies, I bought you a book.
01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:08.400
Yep.
01:01:08.639 --> 01:01:09.840
And we need a meeting weekly.
01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:12.159
We need to start putting these in the little free libraries.
01:01:12.400 --> 01:01:14.000
Oh little free libraries.
01:01:14.239 --> 01:01:16.320
I'm gonna put mine in them with all the sticky notes.
01:01:16.559 --> 01:01:25.920
But I'm gonna put a book cover on it and it'll just say, like, how to get rich, or what's we need some like cheesy, well, be like, you know, kale juicing for Oh yes.
01:01:26.159 --> 01:01:27.840
And be like, ooh, kale juicing.
01:01:28.000 --> 01:01:30.239
Or say like what Jesus really wants you to know.
01:01:30.400 --> 01:01:30.559
Ooh.
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:31.599
That'll be a good book cover.
01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:33.199
That'd be a good book cover.
01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:33.840
Yeah.
01:01:34.159 --> 01:01:36.559
What does Jesus really want you to know?
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:41.679
The title of the very, very last chapter, y'all, is called Respell the World.
01:01:42.079 --> 01:01:43.599
We're gonna bring the magic back.
01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:46.000
This is how to do it.
01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:47.840
Bring the magic back.
01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:48.880
And the last.
01:01:49.199 --> 01:01:50.159
And the power.
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:50.960
The magic.
01:01:51.119 --> 01:01:52.000
In the power.
01:01:52.239 --> 01:01:59.440
So I also want to know, you know, how are you listening to this podcast and what can make it better or more shareable?
01:01:59.679 --> 01:02:01.920
Should I do like, should I chop these episodes up?
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:07.519
I last season I took one of our episodes that was about, well, we did two episodes on Genesis.
01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:08.320
Oh yeah.
01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:12.000
And I'm like, and of course, they're brilliant because we're totally hilarious.
01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:21.519
But I chopped it way down into one shorter episode, like a 30-minute one, just because I'm like, this is if you want to just know like the stuff.
01:02:21.760 --> 01:02:22.079
Yeah.
01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:23.440
The nitty-gritty.
01:02:23.679 --> 01:02:24.480
The nitty gritty.
01:02:24.639 --> 01:02:25.440
The gritty nitty.
01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:28.079
And um I don't, yeah.
01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:29.360
Yeah, do it like videos.
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:31.760
I need to get back into making our short videos and all that.
01:02:32.159 --> 01:02:32.639
So tell us.
01:02:32.719 --> 01:02:35.760
I know it's since the Tic Tac, TikToks were so easy to share.
01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:36.480
They were so easy.
01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:38.480
You know, YouTube Shorts were on there.
01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:38.880
Okay.
01:02:39.199 --> 01:02:39.840
Yeah, I got it.
01:02:39.920 --> 01:02:40.960
Same with Blue Sky.
01:02:41.119 --> 01:02:45.519
So check us out on there, check our show notes, reach out to us.
01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:47.199
Send us a letter.
01:02:47.760 --> 01:02:48.719
With a stamp.
01:02:48.960 --> 01:02:50.239
We still have the USPS.
01:02:50.480 --> 01:02:50.880
All right.
01:02:51.039 --> 01:02:54.159
And maybe you have a book that you read that you're like, oh, they need to read this book.
01:02:54.320 --> 01:02:54.400
Right.
01:02:54.559 --> 01:02:55.840
Yeah, well, maybe we do.
01:02:56.000 --> 01:02:56.400
Maybe we do.
01:02:56.800 --> 01:02:58.079
We like to bite the apples.
01:02:58.480 --> 01:02:58.639
Okay.
01:02:59.039 --> 01:02:59.440
That's right.
01:02:59.599 --> 01:03:00.719
Send us your fruits.
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:01.280
Yes.
01:03:01.519 --> 01:03:01.840
All right.
01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:03.039
Have a wonderful week.
01:03:03.119 --> 01:03:03.920
Stay safe.
01:03:04.159 --> 01:03:04.960
Stay sane.
01:03:05.599 --> 01:03:07.199
I was just gonna say that too.
01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:08.719
Stay safe and sane.
01:03:09.039 --> 01:03:09.679
Safe and sane.
01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:10.639
We love you.