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[SPEAKER_00]: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast from Denison Forum.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's Monday, November 2nd, 2026.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is an automated reading of today's Daily Article, authored by Dr. Jim Denison.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Today's article is titled, Pentagon prepares bases to operate autonomously for 90 days.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In light of tomorrow's midterm elections, many are wondering what comes next.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. has told several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a short, intense military campaign after the elections.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stocks were down significantly last Friday, but could rally after the elections.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the election results will definitely affect the last two years of the Trump administration and the next congressional session.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some are worried that dire threats could be on the horizon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fears fueled by news that the UK launched its B-Ready campaign on October 22nd, encouraging households to stockpile three days of drinking water, non-perishable food, cash, and other emergency essentials.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Closer to home, the Pentagon is preparing U.S. bases to keep operating for at least 90 days without outside support.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The British effort is the first stage of a three-year campaign to help households be prepared if everyday services are temporarily disrupted through events such as severe weather.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Pentagon, by contrast, is preparing for the possibility of a major war that could cripple power grids disrupt supply chains and threaten critical infrastructure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever happens tomorrow, at least you gained an hour of time yesterday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: unless you live in Hawaii, or the part of Arizona not inhabited by the Navajo Nation, or Puerto Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Islands.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can thank or blame Congress, which decreed that we would move our clocks forward one hour on the second Sunday in March, and then move them back on the first Sunday in November, both a two-kind-on-pile-tech-dem-local time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We humans are fond of imposing our will and preferences on nature in this way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We name everything we can, from stars in the sky to insects in the ground.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We devise names or numbers for each year, season, month, day, hour, minute, and second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is motivated in part by pragmatism.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to watch my grandson play little league baseball if I don't know what day and time his game begins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but it's also an expression of our will to power.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure why I feel more empowered by knowing the name we have arbitrarily assigned to a tree, flower, or star, but I do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Except for pets we train to respond to the sounds we speak that constitute their name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The rest of nature doesn't seem to notice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It does what it does apart from our attempts to name and thus control it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is because the universe already has a controller.
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[SPEAKER_00]: toward the end of the first century, Pope St. Clement I described God's work in our world.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Quote, the heavens revolving under his government are subject to him in peace.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Day and night run the course appointed by him in no wise hindering each other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The sun and moon with the companies of the stars roll on in harmony according to his command, within their prescribed limits and without any deviation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The fruitful earth, according to his will, brings forth food in abundance at the proper seasons, for man and beast and all the living beings upon it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Never hesitating, nor changing any of the ordinances which he has fixed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter peacefully give place to one another.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The winds in their several quarters fulfill at the proper time, their service without hindrance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All these, the great creator and Lord of all, has appointed to exist in peace and harmony.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And quote, a skeptic might reply that science now explains all of this without the need for a creator, to this assertion, the Thayologian and novelist Frederick Beckner responds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Quote, science is the investigation of the physical universe and its ways and consists largely of weighing, measuring, and putting things in test tubes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To assume that this kind of investigation can unearth solutions to all our problems, is a form of religious faith whose bankruptcy has only in recent years started to become apparent, end quote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bookner explains, quote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The conflict between science and religion is like the conflict between a podiatrist and a poet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One says that Susie Smith has fallen arches.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The other says she walks in beauty like the night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What is at issue is the kind of truth you're after?"
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[SPEAKER_00]: End quote.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our problems come when we pursue the wrong truth, naming and seeking to control God's creation as a means to being our own God.
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[SPEAKER_00]: God's people are not exempt as the Lord lamented.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My people have committed two evils.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have forsaken me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The fountain of living waters and hewed out systems for themselves, broken systems that can hold no water.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is vanity and a striving after wind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: David, therefore prayed, oh God, you are my God.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eernously I seek you, my soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints for you as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus later announced, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever believes in me as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water, welling up to eternal life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now we must choose between the broken sisters we make for ourselves, and the spring of water the living Lord Jesus gives to all who submit their lives fully to him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How fully will your soul be at rest today?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to the Daily Article Podcast.
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